Quick thoughts Steelers edition.
 

Great great win first of all. Thats a good team we beat.

Colts came out with attitude and took it to Pittsburg early. I love to see that.

Bortolini was absolutely nasty on that first drive. He disappeared a little after that but he’s a helluva lot better than Danny Freaking Pinter.

Nick Cross is the best tackler on the team.

EJ Speed and Zaire Franklin came to play today, especially early.

JT is really good but sometimes I think he’s to hesitant. Sometimes he just needs to hit the hole and get what he can. Hope he’s not hurt to bad.

Great game from Pitt. Really a classic Pittman performance.

I LOVE Josh Downs. He’s a chain mover. The quintessential slot reciever.

Now, as for AR, he might be the most unique player I’ve ever seen. He’s a unicorn. He’s the anti Gardner Minshew. He’s ALWAYS looking to throw it deep and that puts an INSANE amount of pressure on the defense. He’ll sail a throw in the flat 10 yards out of bounds but then hit a dart to Pittman for 40 yards like he did early in the game.

I absolutely LOVE watching him play, even if he drives me nuts a lot of the time.

However, the play he got hurt on will be the end of his career if he doesn’t learn to GET THE FUCK DOWN!!! Every time he takes off, that’s what I’m yelling at the television. This is the NFL. These guys will take his fucking head off if they get the chance. It’s SO frustrating.

Every one is bitching about the RPO that was the one play he came back in for but that’s on him. He needed to just hand that ball off no matter what. I don’t blame Steichen for that.

Now, on to our annual ass kicking in Jacksonville.

Also, kudos to old man Flacco for gutting it out today. He made some clutch throws and didn’t do anything stupid.

Oh, and it’s time we either replace Matt Gay or stop depending on him to hit long field goals.

We need to get his ass out of here. He just misses way too damn many kicks. He literally scares the hell out of me even on short FG's.

AR Post Presser; and it is confusing!:

I'm sore. I think I could have went back out there

On the play after you came back in you kind of gave yourself up, but you still got hit, do you think it should have been flagged?

No, not really concerned with that, its football

But you did give yourself up was that an attempt to not get hit again?

No, I just couldn't really accelerate like I wanted to so I just went down instead

When you came back from the locker room you said you thought you could go, was it the coaching / trainers decision that you didn't

We all kind of talked and I told them how I felt and not being able to push off like I wanted to so we decided it would be best to just not go back in

So are you going to be playing next week?

Not sure, it depends on what they see

Do you think you should slide more when you are running and not get hit

I don't know, some people say I do, some say I don't, it's just football so I just try to do things to help the team

***So the depends on what they see would seem to indicate an MRI is in his near future***

***Seems as though he himself is conflicted about what this injury looks like***

Hips can be really fucking tricky- Dwayne Allen as an example.

I think they were trying to teach AR a lesson today, get the fuck down or stop taking hits and if you take a hit stop whining and rubbing where you got hit like a fuckin cry baby

Manning took a shot to the chin that required dental repair — stayed in and finished the game

Luck took a hit and was pissing blood— still finished the game

If there’s one thing Irsay doesn’t like to see it’s a whiny ass QB, just ask Brissett

Yeah that Steichen "he got hit, he's out" statement seems to have some of the above to it.

Dude is a monster, play like it. Big Ben was in the building today, should have asked to talk to him to get some pointers on just being big and tough period. Hate him for who he is, but you can't deny the man was a warrior at the QB position.

In AR’s defense, the Colts were better off without him if he wasn’t 100 percent.

If the threat of him running is removed, he’s not a better option than Joe Flacco, because he’s not as good throwing the ball.

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In all of the years in which I have been watching football (from the early 1970's through the present), Ben Roethlisberger is the toughest son-of-a-bitch that I ever saw play quarterback.

Tom Brady is the 2nd-toughest that I ever saw play the position.

I think that Brady is overrated because many people have the notion that he was necessarily the greatest quarterback ever to play the game, but I think that his toughness was underrated ...... when Brady was 42 years-old in 2019, I saw him dive over the pile at the 1-yardline, head-first, on a crucial 4th down for the touchdown in a regular season game in 2008.

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You don’t muck around with the health of your franchise Quarterback when you have a 17 point lead.

Two weeks in a row AD Mitchell has shown alligator arms. Reggie needs to have a come to Jesus meeting with that guy!

The example in this game was especially bad. He pulled back like 5 yards away from contact. At least try to make the catch...

Bullshit a 17 point lead is nothing in the NFL

If that’s the case get a lead and pull him out every fuckin game

He’s had enough starts I don’t care how young he is, there’s so much I have to say about this but I’ll keep it short.

1. If you’re running in the middle of the field get the fuck down period, you had the first down and the lead early in the game wtf are you doing

2. If you’re gonna try and run with authority down the middle of the field when you get to the 3rd level PUNISH those little ass DBs you’re 6-4 250

3. Hold on to the fuckin ball, he fumbles or gets hurt half the time he gets tackled that’s ridiculous. I believe that’s why he oversold the injury because he knew he fucked up fumbling

4. You’re the leader of the team fuckin act like it! I don’t give a fuck they should have to drag you off the field! That’s how teammates lose faith in your youngass real quick

Minkah Fitzpatrick is a dirty player. Rightfully got flagged on the helmet to helmet hit on Mitchell and should've been flagged for kidney shotting AR with his helmet.

Depth is getting tested early... again. Good to beat an undefeated team when...

-Your young QB shows flashes of a scary offense for less than a quarter, before watching from the sidelines... again.

-Backup QB has to do the lion's share... again.

-Your center/captain is out and your rookie backup plays his first pro snaps.

-Both your starting DE's are out.

-Your starting DT/best defender is out.

-Your top-2 CB's are out.


Not bad, I'd say. Just need AR to stop having hiccups and start stacking these reps/experience. He's got the offense roasting the #1 D on those first two drives. Running is good and helps open up JT's runs.

JT went from 6.1ypc the first two drives down to 3.0ypc the rest of the game. And, honestly, he broke a nice 21-yarder... besides that he was actually around 1.8ypc or something. Gotta do better than that even if the D sells out.

But AR has a real effect, even indirectly. And if he's hitting routine open throws on top of that... well, we saw it briefly.

It was only three completions, but the dart to Pittman was another wow throw. And after he sailed one over Pittman... he gave Pitt a good 15-yarder that he could run with for 28 yards, then gave Downs a good 8-yarder and led him upfield to make it 15 yards. Easy stuff and all of a sudden the offense looks great.

JT's running, AR's running, zones are open... And he's out of the game. Frustrating.

Less AD. More Dulin.


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can't recall a guy so afraid of contact. he won't last long like that

I guess you never saw Steve McNair play.

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I saw McNair Nair play. Roethlisberger and Brady were the toughest quarterbacks that I ever saw play.

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I grudgingly admit that McNair was tough rather than injury prone. Roethisberger was a bull. I'd include Favre in my list as well as Bradshaw. Bradshaw's toughness was cemented after Stan White broke his nose in a 78' preseason game. So much blood I thought he'd die on the field lol. Later said it was the hardest hit he'd taken in his entire career.


Brady was a pussy.

My problem with McNair was not with him or his play or his toughness. It was with the media. The media often calls tough players WARRIORS

There is not a single player in the NFL in the last few decades that is a warrior and I refuse to use that terminology in that context.

Probably the toughest player I’ve ever watched overall was Marion Barber.

That dude was FEARLESS.

Toughest QB I’d have to go with Big Ben

Toughest player had to be Marshawn lynch

Well, Jack Youngblood is undebatably the toughest NFL player ever. He played 3 NFL playoff games with a broken leg.

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He actually broke his leg late in the 4th quarter of the divisional playoff game against the Cowboys. It was a key tackle that helped preserve the Rams' 19-14 upset win. He then played the NFC Championship game and the Super Bowl on that broken leg.

I remember all of that happening, when I was in 9th grade.

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Or Unitas.

Pat Tillman would beg to differ.....if he had survived.

But, I get your point.

Having been in the military, that term is WAY overused to describe athletes.

Colts cut Spencer Shrader from the practice squad. Cut the wrong kicker.

Bet he'll be signed within the month if not the week.

I’d like to add, the colts coaches throughly out coached the Steelers. Steichen had to throw out all the stuff for AR and go with stuff that would work for Flacco on the fly. And they kept trying to take away Downs and he kept scheming him open. Even Gus screwed up the Steelers with designed blitzes and looks. He went conservative the second half. But man the first completely confused them.

In number 1, you tell us that he should get down in order to avoid injury; then, just a paragraph later, you suggest that he should run with authority and use his size to punish would be tacklers.

I find myself agreeing with you, but, then again, disagreeing with what I assume is your alter ego.

If the Colts are ever going to contend for a return to prominence, Anthony Richardson needs to figure out two things…how to play without some gladiator mentality, and how to complete a ten yard pass in the flat. He can’t do that from IR.

I’m saying he needs to get down,

the other statement is another option if he wants to continue this running style I’d rather him deliver punishment instead of always being on the wrong end of it because he’s dancing around.

He’s that big yet runs like Paris Campbell in the open field looking to dance and juke his way around smaller DBs.

So for the record I’m saying get down in the middle of the field. Unless you’re at the goal line.

I get it he’s a young guy and still trying to prove himself and a big run where you run over a DB can energize the entire team, but he has to have game to game situational awareness.