Game day: Steelers vs. Bills

[Eich]

So far, it looks like we have 2 QBs who's former teams didn't want them.... for a reason. Hoping one of them can turn it around. Soon, defenses will actually be game-planning against this mess. Yikes.

But I do agree with the comments about the OL. It needs time to gel and that will make a big difference for any QB out there.

[NorthCoast]

So far, it looks like we have 2 QBs who's former teams didn't want them.... for a reason. Hoping one of them can turn it around. Soon, defenses will actually be game-planning against this mess. Yikes.

But I do agree with the comments about the OL. It needs time to gel and that will make a big difference for any QB out there.

You can add WRs to the list of ails on offense. I can't tell you how many times I heard Batch comment "really no one open to throw to on that play".... Roman Wilson better be the second coming of AB!

[feltdizz]

If our offense keeps playing like it did tonight, fans will be screaming to bring Kenny back

lmao.. I do find it funny how fans trashed Kenny?s performance last game when the Eagles OT?s were a turnstile and then we see Fields and Wilson look even worse when the OT?s are turnstiles last night.

Can?t push the ball downfield when you are running for your life and get happy feet.

Its preseason but if we start the season slow and Wilson is trying to tell us things are pretty when they are butt ugly, fans will turn on him just like in Denver.

[NorthCoast]

Offense < JV, Yikes?!?....

Instant Analysis: Steelers Starting Offense Even Worse Than ?JV? This Time
Story by Alan Saunders, Steelers Now ? 14h ? 2 min read

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin called his first-team offense?s first performance of the preseason ?junior varsity,? when the Steelers had two fumbled snaps and gave up two sacks against the Houston Texans last Friday.

His might need to find a lower level of football to compare Saturday?s outing against the Buffalo Bills to. Maybe junior high. Or pee-wee.

Tomlin said that he intended Russell Wilson and his starters to play four series in his game. He sent them out there for a fifth before giving up and going to the backups.

The first unit was completely ineffective.

In 20 plays, Wilson?s unit gained 19 yards. That?s impressively poor. They also took two penalties, a false start by Calvin Austin III and a holding penalty by Darnell Washington.
Wilson was sacked three times, with Broderick Jones getting tossed aside like a rag doll by Greg Rousseau, who had 2.5 sacks. On the half, Ed Oliver was given the other half as the Steelers statistical staff scrambled to figure out which of the half-dozen Bills that surrounded Wilson deserved credit for the sack.

Wilson finished an better-than-it-looked 8 of 10 for 47 yards. One of his incompletions his Van Jefferson in the hands. The other, George Pickens was out of bounds by millimeters, if that, and a faulty camera angle negated Tomlin?s attempt at a challenge. The paucity of offense wasn?t necessarily the quarterback?s fault.

It was the mistakes and the negative plays adding up for the second straight game that were attention-grabbing. Each of the five drives had a sack, penalty, or a negative play.

It?s almost impossible to evaluate the offense at large in those conditions. Najee Harris looked solid, running four times for 17 yards ? a 4.3 yards per carry average. Jefferson got the half with three catches for 19 yards.

Obviously, new Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith is not trying to give away much of his newly installed offensive scheme in this setting. The offense just struggling could be explained away.

But shooting itself in the foot for a second straight game? That?s unacceptable. We?ll see what Tomlin calls it this week.