Ya I think the problem with Fields (like I said, I don't watch much of Kyler) is that the floor is abysmal. Yes, his top plays are as good as anyone's. Literally, he is fantastic when he's good. But his bottom plays he looks worse than Kenny: can't read the field, bad mechanics, poor accuracy, steps into pressure. The hope was that he could just improve on those bad plays a tiny bit so they don't kill you as much. But in reality, it's probably very, very hard to improve on the fundamentals of QB if you don't have them.
That was a totally predictable question, he had to know it was coming at some point. He just did not care to figure out how to answer it.
The throw took forever to get there. That ball needs to be fired in there on a rope.
You don't have to wait for the playoffs. TEs tear it up all over the league all season, at least in comparison to our TEs.
Not sure what that has to do with it.
So the question that should be asked is whether the Steelers should move Watt. I think you can still get a very nice haul for him at this point, but waiting another year is probably a year too long.
Tomlin had to know that someone was popping that question the minute they were done and a simple, "I'll have a conversation about my future with the right people when everyone thinks that needs to happen," or some corny version of the same and that would have been the end of it.
I didn’t watch the whole presser -
His dead cap goes from $18.7mil to $9.4mil in his last year
For you. He did what he would have done. When you coach the Steelers do you and we'll discuss it on message boards.
I am no fan of DJ by any means, but watching that play from the snap, the DB let him past him and trailed him from the very beginning, I assume because he knew what the route was going to be.
The DB let him past him and trailed him from the snap, to me looked like he knew what the route was going to be. I am no fan of DJs at all, but that one wasn't on him, imo. DB had position to get to it all along.
Every coach gets asked the question. Every player near the end gets asked the question. MCCarthy was asked. The coach in Philly was asked. Cam Heyward was asked about his situation. Every one of them took the questions gracefully and in stride. Why the most articulate man (Tomlin) in the industry chose not to answer the question was very peculiar to me.
Actually I saw stats that said Allen’s stats are no better but he’s turning the ball over less
Yep. The guy is prepped by Burt Lauton. He also knows what questions are going to be asked before the Steeler PR team preps him. And he’s no dummy or a spring chicken. Take the time he was asked about “boo city” after Narduzzi botched his answer about the fans. Tomlin gave the most brilliant answer anyone could give.
Yeah for a guy who has the gift of bullshit that was odd. However in the end it’s much ado about nothing because mediocre Mike still has the national media fellating him
Honestly, I think some of the media like to see the Steelers where they're at and play up the "accomplishments" so it's unpopular to question Tomlin's playoff failure. Kind of like we root for other schools to hold on to a coach that can't win big games. Feels very similar.
LOL, his momentum was carrying him to the sideline and the ball was thrown low and inside. There isn't anyone alive who can change directions like that. Even if he could, it would have been OPI to "seal him off" from behind because he would have had to go through the defender to do that.
If you want to argue it was a poor route, that's fine. It's been an issue at times.
That throw has to be on a rope. There's no other option. There's no room, or time, to hang a lollipop out there. It was mostly on Rudolph, and the other blame goes on the guy asking him to throw that pass.
First the route was an outside hitch, so his momentum was moving outside. But, even if he was superhuman enough to completely change his momentum 180 degrees in a split second, he still wouldn't have been able to get to the ball because the db was between him and it.
Not sure how you blame Johnson on this one. It would have been tough for sure to break up.
