Stealers Game Day Thread Part 1

[|BlackJesus|]

The loss ruined what would have been this iconic poster moment ...

 

[T-Dub]

55 minutes ago, BlackJesus said:

The loss ruined what would have been this iconic poster moment ...

 

 

 

What more does he have to do?  Maybe he can be the GM and also call plays for the defense when he's on the sideline

[Cat]

I don't know how you locals feel about Mo Egger, but I always try and listen to the "Tony and Mo Football Show" on Mondays - I find Tony Pike's venom very cathartic.

[|High School Harry|]

 

Referee explains lack of penalty on controversial pick-six

Sunday's game got off to a bad start for the Pittsburgh Stealers. On the team's first offensive drive, quarterback Russell Wilson threw a pick-six and spotted the Cincinnati Bengals.

However, on the play, Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt appeared to pull Stealers wide receiver George Pickens down by the helmet before the ball got there, allowing for the interception. It definitely seemed there should have been a flag thrown but there wasn't.

After the game, referee Shawn Hochuli addressed the play and offered a pretty flimsy excuse for the no call.

“We ruled the receiver stumbled right off the line and then there was incidental contact that brought him down," Hoculi said. "If there was a potential grab or hold, that was at an angle that we wouldn’t have seen. But our ruling, again, was that he stumbled off the line and then incidental contact occurred.”

Not sure if anyone buys this but ultimately it didn't impact the outcome of the game.

 "When a Stealer cries, an Angel gets its wings"

[T-Dub]

That's their M.O., complain about the officiating while playing dirty. All about controlling the narrative.

[Cat]

God how I loathe them. I saw one play where Chase Brown ran and got tackled near the sideline and the stealer celebrated his tackle by aggressively taking Brown's leg's and throwing them off to the side. Ref looked right at it and didn't say shit. Why are they all such bitches, generation after generation?

[Griever]

15 hours ago, BlackJesus said:

The loss ruined what would have been this iconic poster moment ...

 

Sucks, just like last year the Texans loss ruined Burrow's sick Bow and Arrow celebration

[Shebengal]

3 hours ago, High School Harry said:

 

Referee explains lack of penalty on controversial pick-six

Sunday's game got off to a bad start for the Pittsburgh Stealers. On the team's first offensive drive, quarterback Russell Wilson threw a pick-six and spotted the Cincinnati Bengals.

However, on the play, Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt appeared to pull Stealers wide receiver George Pickens down by the helmet before the ball got there, allowing for the interception. It definitely seemed there should have been a flag thrown but there wasn't.

After the game, referee Shawn Hochuli addressed the play and offered a pretty flimsy excuse for the no call.

“We ruled the receiver stumbled right off the line and then there was incidental contact that brought him down," Hoculi said. "If there was a potential grab or hold, that was at an angle that we wouldn’t have seen. But our ruling, again, was that he stumbled off the line and then incidental contact occurred.”

Not sure if anyone buys this but ultimately it didn't impact the outcome of the game.

 "When a Stealer cries, an Angel gets its wings"

I would rather they explain the false start on Cappa that should have been encroachment that would have given us a first down. 

[KA14_HOF]

I would like to take a minute to say that I hope every single Stealers player, coach and team executive is perfectly fine and unhurt in the plane crash I hope they have on their next road trip.

[sparky151]

19 hours ago, T-Dub said:

 

And we want the media to ask better questions...  Be glad they're not rolling in the aisles after that line.

 

I want the Bengals beat reporters to go to the other team's locker room. Instead of getting standard quotes from Taylor and Anarumo, let's hear the other team boasting about what they spotted on film or how the Bengals gave up or whatever. 

[LostInDaJungle]

The Bengals defense made sure that the grass didn't gain a single yard all game long. Heck, the grass barely even saw the ball or got targeted. Mission accomplished.

I'd also like to point out that during this AMAZING play, we rushed three and dropped Jay Tufele into coverage. That's the kind of 5D chess Lou is playing here people.

[LostInDaJungle]

3 minutes ago, sparky151 said:

 

I want the Bengals beat reporters to go to the other team's locker room. Instead of getting standard quotes from Taylor and Anarumo, let's hear the other team boasting about what they spotted on film or how the Bengals gave up or whatever. 

Hard knocks is going to be fun tonight!!!

I can't wait to see the look on Lou's face when Mikey suggests moving Tanner McLaughlin to DE.

[LostInDaJungle]

3 hours ago, Cat said:

God how I loathe them. I saw one play where Chase Brown ran and got tackled near the sideline and the stealer celebrated his tackle by aggressively taking Brown's leg's and throwing them off to the side. Ref looked right at it and didn't say shit. Why are they all such bitches, generation after generation?

All the more disappointing that in 50 years we haven't managed to shut their mouths. Because, unfortunately, they're very successful bitches. And if the Kardashian family has taught us anything....

[T-Dub]

37 minutes ago, LostInDaJungle said:

Hard knocks is going to be fun tonight!!!

I can't wait to see the look on Lou's face when Mikey suggests moving Tanner McLaughlin to DE.

 

You know what I'm looking forward to?

 

 

 

 

 

[KA14_HOF]

That game had me so disgusted I had to do a post-mortem to quantify just how awful our defense was.

 

On Sunday, our D gave up completions of 17-or-more yards 12 times. Nine of those were for 20-or-more yards. Pittsburgh didn't have a single scoring drive where we didn't give up at least 1 of these big plays.

 

Drive 1 - CTB's pick-6

Drive 2 - TD (completions of 25 & 17 yards)

Drive 3 - TD (comps of 21 & 23 yds)

Drive 4 - TD (comp of 20 yds + 2 personal fouls)

Drive 5 - FG (comp of 29 yds)

Drive 6 - FG (comp of 17 yds)

Drive 7 - blocked FG (comps of 18 & 36 yds)

Drive 8 - TD (comps of 23 & 25 yds)

Drive 9 - punt

Bengals fumble - TD

Drive 10 - FG (comp of 43 yds)

Drive 11 - end of game

 

In the first half, Pittsburgh ran 20 first down plays. Not counting the first one where we conceded a 23-yard pass interference penalty, they gained an average of 8.7 yards on the other 19 first down plays. Fifteen of those went for 6-or-more yards. Thirteen of them went for 7-or-more. Not counting a 5-yard penalty that was immediately wiped out by an 8-yard completion, they didn't suffer a non-positive play on 1st down until Wilson threw an incompletion with 3:51 left in the 2nd Quarter.

 

Through the first play of the 3rd quarter, Wilson was 11-of-12 for 142 yards on 1st down alone.

 

After that first play of the 2nd half, Pittsburgh only passed on first down 3 more times the rest of the game, resulting in 1 sack (-1 yard) and 2 incompletions.

 

On the ground, up until they were in burn-clock mode late, they averaged 4.9 YPC on first down runs. The entire game, we kept them from rushing for positive yardage 1 time on first down. (a 3-yd tackle for loss in the 3rd Qtr)

 

So if it felt like the Stealers were always in 2nd-and-short, it's because they were.

[|SF2|]

1 hour ago, KA14_HOF said:

That game had me so disgusted I had to do a post-mortem to quantify just how awful our defense was.

 

On Sunday, our D gave up completions of 17-or-more yards 12 times. Nine of those were for 20-or-more yards. Pittsburgh didn't have a single scoring drive where we didn't give up at least 1 of these big plays.

 

Drive 1 - CTB's pick-6

Drive 2 - TD (completions of 25 & 17 yards)

Drive 3 - TD (comps of 21 & 23 yds)

Drive 4 - TD (comp of 20 yds + 2 personal fouls)

Drive 5 - FG (comp of 29 yds)

Drive 6 - FG (comp of 17 yds)

Drive 7 - blocked FG (comps of 18 & 36 yds)

Drive 8 - TD (comps of 23 & 25 yds)

Drive 9 - punt

Bengals fumble - TD

Drive 10 - FG (comp of 43 yds)

Drive 11 - end of game

 

In the first half, Pittsburgh ran 20 first down plays. Not counting the first one where we conceded a 23-yard pass interference penalty, they gained an average of 8.7 yards on the other 19 first down plays. Fifteen of those went for 6-or-more yards. Thirteen of them went for 7-or-more. Not counting a 5-yard penalty that was immediately wiped out by an 8-yard completion, they didn't suffer a non-positive play on 1st down until Wilson threw an incompletion with 3:51 left in the 2nd Quarter.

 

Through the first play of the 3rd quarter, Wilson was 11-of-12 for 142 yards on 1st down alone.

 

After that first play of the 2nd half, Pittsburgh only passed on first down 3 more times the rest of the game, resulting in 1 sack (-1 yard) and 2 incompletions.

 

On the ground, up until they were in burn-clock mode late, they averaged 4.9 YPC on first down runs. The entire game, we kept them from rushing for positive yardage 1 time on first down. (a 3-yd tackle for loss in the 3rd Qtr)

 

So if it felt like the Stealers were always in 2nd-and-short, it's because they were.

Well, this makes me feel better.