I suggest people watch the last 6 or 7 games this year

[feltdizz]

I suggest people look at the records of the teams and their starters we played the last 6-7 games.

doesn’t matter. Even when we beat Cincy it was a fluke.

[WindyCitySteel]

Do you work for Steelers PR? You're literally selling optimism based on highlights of narrow wins over bad teams and explicitly telling us "not to watch full games". I guess if we watched full games we wouldn't have seen an offense that scored 6 vs. the Raiders or 9 vs. the Ravens in 58 minutes.

You've outdone yourself with this one.

[WindyCitySteel]

But they always lose to bad teams according to some posters. But they didn't.

Strawman argument - they play down to teams as heavy favorites, something that has been documented over the years. They weren't heavily favored in any game this year.

[WindyCitySteel]

Don't let Dizz fix you up on a blind date, gents.

"Don't look at the whole picture, just take a quick glance at her face with one eye closed and the other squinting."

[Chucktownsteeler]

Truth be told the reason we didn’t make the playoffs was the 3 interception performance (2 in the red zone) by Tribisky, and the blocked FG against the Ravens. We lost 16-14.

Facts matter.

[feltdizz]

Do you work for Steelers PR? You're literally selling optimism based on highlights of narrow wins over bad teams and explicitly telling us "not to watch full games". I guess if we watched full games we wouldn't have seen an offense that scored 6 vs. the Raiders or 9 vs. the Ravens in 58 minutes.

You've outdone yourself with this one.

I mean.. if you have time to watch full games have at it.

[WindyCitySteel]

Truth be told the reason we didn’t make the playoffs was the 3 interception performance (2 in the red zoned ) by Tribisky, and the blocked FG against the Ravens. We lost 16-14.

Facts matter.

Negates the first game of the year, which was the flukiest win a team could have. They missed the (expanded) playoffs. End of story.

[feltdizz]

Don't let Dizz fix you up on a blind date, gents.

"Don't look at the whole picture, just take a quick glance at her face with one eye closed and the other squinting."

if that’s what it takes for dude to score then sure..

[NorthCoast]

Truth be told the reason we didn’t make the playoffs was the 3 interception performance (2 in the red zone) by Tribisky, and the blocked FG against the Ravens. We lost 16-14.

Facts matter.

Wasn't one of Boz's better seasons. Hoping it was a one year slip and he's back to self this year.

[Blitzer]

If we are that bad of a team, how are 9 other teams that we beat considered worse than us?

[Northern_Blitz]

Strawman argument - they play down to teams as heavy favorites, something that has been documented over the years. They weren't heavily favored in any game this year.

I think it will be interesting to see how many of the trends we have stick.

For such a long time we had the same GM, same QB, and same HC.

Now two of those guys are gone.

So we may get at least some information about relative importance.

Personally, I have always thought that Ben was the most important of the three (and that it probably wasn't that close).

[T.Ferguson]

If we are that bad of a team, how are 9 other teams that we beat considered worse than us?

I mean have you watched the NFL? Lot of bad/mediocre teams, I would argue there are some in the playoffs as well. I think winning 9 games is above what a lot of people thought was possible though but I also think some teams were worse than people thought they would be like Tampa Bay and Ravens without Lamar.

During that 7-2 streak the Steelers beat ONE team with a winning record who was without their starting QB and it still took a KP last minute drive to win. It took KP to win another game in the last minute, etc.

This season is honestly the worst kind of finish in some ways, it gets fans like felt pumped up but the reality is the team isn't really progressing. It's Steelers purgatory the next chapter.

[Captain Lemming]

Not the full game but compressed games or mic’d up game highlights.

Maybe its why I’m optimistic? I don’t spend my days reliving losses
from 2007, 2017, 2020 or 2021.

Its 2023.. come back to the future, lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g4T9UxvVhSk

Why would anyone do that... you might end up feeling ... dare I say:
HOPEFUL, POSITIVE even GOOD?

Why would someone do that to themselves when it is so much more enjoyable to wallow in hopeless misery.

THIS POV below?
Now THAT is what I aspire to feel.

This season is honestly the worst kind of finish in some ways, it gets fans like felt pumped up but the reality is the team isn't really progressing. It's Steelers purgatory the next chapter.

Woe is me!
I am cursed with a positive nature robs me of that kind of joy.

[Captain Lemming]

The future?
So we won’t be hearing about tomlins record or our Super Bowl wins?

I am perfectly good looking forward 100 percent.

Are you?

[WindyCitySteel]

I mean have you watched the NFL? Lot of bad/mediocre teams, I would argue there are some in the playoffs as well. I think winning 9 games is above what a lot of people thought was possible though but I also think some teams were worse than people thought they would be like Tampa Bay and Ravens without Lamar.

During that 7-2 streak the Steelers beat ONE team with a winning record who was without their starting QB and it still took a KP last minute drive to win. It took KP to win another game in the last minute, etc.

This season is honestly the worst kind of finish in some ways, it gets fans like felt pumped up but the reality is the team isn't really progressing. It's Steelers purgatory the next chapter.

Worse yet, they see Miami hang with the Bills with their backup QB, something they did a month earlier after beating them earlier in the year, and believe the Steelers could have done the same.

Sneaking in to the playoffs would have meant a severe beatdown in Buffalo that would have tempered expectations, instead the homer dreams of miraculous playoff wins fuel misguided optimism for 2023.