Please fire Matt Canada
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His brain was working pretty well
In 2016. So was his offensive line. That Steelers O line would make any playcaller look bad.
Agree it's the line, mostly. But he needs to adjust to the fact that he doesn't have the old gimp back there anymore. Trubisky can buy some time.
I didn’t see anything but the overtime. But just in looking at Trubisky’ stats it would appear that the dink and dunk is alive and well. I could be wrong and I’m sure someone will correct me if so. But if I’m right, someone better check on @Fk_Pitt.
Trubisky played below average for an NFL QB. he was fortunate on about 4 passes not to throw the pick, perfect example was one of his last passes over the middle, right to one of their players while two more surrounded the receiver. I was not even sure that Pickett should go in the first round, but now I believe he is the best QB on this team.
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I saw but I was at a get together so I didn’t know the details and don’t know the reasons for the abysmal offensive performance. Not sure I’ve ever seen a team lose that was +5 in the turnover battle. That would have been historic.
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He’s been fired everywhere in college and nobody wants him after his scorched earth approach .
He’s a position coach at best in the nfl
His play calling sucks balls and our receiving tree routes with tons of talent is Terrible
I thought he did well with the total lack of talent available to him.
I just watched the Cardinal game. It looks just like the Steelers. A bunch of fat slobs on the OL and a bunch of athletes at the skill positions with zero intelligence or toughness. Man, did Conner look lousy.
I just watched the Cardinal game. It looks just like the Steelers. A bunch of fat slobs on the OL and a bunch of athletes at the skill positions with zero intelligence or toughness. Man, did Conner look lousy.
All I’m saying is he coached the offense for one year, set the school single season scoring record and hung 43 in a road win over the best team in the country with essentially the same group of players the guy before him had. The players that remained reverted to mediocrity or worse the following year. Maybe you forgot about that. Or more likely you have some contrived rationale for it.
Yeah, he may not be worth much now but for 1 year Imhe oversaw what I think was the best offense I recall seeing at Pitt in a long long time. And I think he did it with less talent at his disposal than Whipple last year.
You have a stud RB that takes 3 guys to bring him down that struggles to get more than 2 yds a carry and Qb that would be in intensive care if he took deep drops . Until the Steelers address their O line you could have a Bill Walsh clone running the offense and they’d struggle . The guys responsible for this mess isn’t named Canada .
From what I saw he had a couple ill-advised throws that should have been picked. I still can’t believe this team won that game. Probably should have lost it to be honest because it came at a cost and it’s now a throw away season if the guy that sucks up a huge % of your defensive cap $ is now dead money.
He's not an NFL OC. Seems abundantly clear to everyone but Tomlin.
Probably my biggest beef with Tomlin is his assistant coaching selections.
and as far as Canada, I don’t know why they don’t take more shots down the field and let their athletes make plays. This is a terribly thrown ball here, and Trubisky would have averaged about 4 yards per attempt if not for this incredible effort by The receiver.
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Trubisky isn't the most accurate QB but he's definitely an upgrade due to having adequate arm strength and good escapability. Steelers definitely made the right decision signing him behind their OL.
If I'm them, I stick with Trubisky as the starter for the full two years of his contract if the line shows no improvement.
If I'm them, I stick with Trubisky as the starter for the full two years of his contract if the line shows no improvement.
I posted this elsewhere, but I don't know how say Alabama has hired Bill O'Brien as a "consultant" or Penn State has Ken Whisenhunt as a "consultant" and they don't have real offensive coordinator jobs? I don't get it.
Well my guess is that they are still getting paid by their former employers (at least in BOB's case). If they take a real job, then they have to forfeit the income from the former employer.
i wasnt too upset about Canada yesterday to be honest. We cant run block and when we do, najee seems to dance for some weird reason. Maybe with him out a week or two, we'll see our backup actually hit a hole and maybe that will help.
I do feel like we need at least a few more shots downfield though but i feel like we used Mitch ok.
I do feel like we need at least a few more shots downfield though but i feel like we used Mitch ok.
In the offseason, there was some film posted of Najee's interior running skillset and it wasn't very good. It was something you can't really diagnose during a game. But, it was about a 10 minute tape of endzone film where he really displayed poor vision and/or decision making. It really reminded me of KiJana Carter and Saquon Barkley's issues in the NFL.
Can we switch over to the defense for a sec? The defense was great. We know that. The stars were stars. But it seemed to me that the defense as a unit was improved. Bush had a decent game. If that’s the case, I’m just wondering (small sample size) if we are going to see Brian Flores’ worth over the season as a whole.
bush looked good, edmunds looked good, my man Highsmith was a beast. Minkah was insane, sutton played well. yes indeed, a really good defense and mixon did ok but not great against us too.
Bush moved sideline to sideline and played downfield -
Was a very welcome development
the Defense was also stout against the run- which was also a huge improvement
I love Brian Flores and you can tell the players all listen and respect him
So many storylines from yesterday so the Flores/Bush/Defense isn’t going to get much play. I haven’t seen it or heard it mentioned yet and just thought it’s an interesting thing to keep an eye on moving forward. Obviously those ILB are critical to the run defense. Can’t wait to watch next week and key on Bush like I did in the preseason. He didn’t look good even 3 weeks ago.
Honestly - cam Sutton is my defensive mvp -
To even keep chase somewhat contained with his speed is terrific
I’m sorry, but blaming the OC when your o-line is a gigantic liability is just plain lazy analysis. And, when you factor an average at best QB into the equation, the scheme and playcalling fall far down on the list of problems. It’s the NFL. If the talent isn’t there, defenses can easily shut an offense down.
To be honest, given the OL he has here and the coaching/roster in Chicago, I think it's premature to call Trubisky average at best yet. I was moderately impressed with what he was able to do yesterday under extreme duress in his first game as the starter.
I’ll stick with it because the play calling was bad , conservative , and frankly didn’t play to the strength of our offense - Mitch’s mobility and our receiving group
You can disagree - but these are the same things we saw last year , too
Defense generated 5 turnovers , scored a TD, and we should have lost the game if cincy executed a PAT
Or challenge an obvious touchdown. What was that ref looking at? He was in perfect position.
I didn’t see that at all. I saw it live, and then saw a couple still photos today. I don’t think it was particularly close. The Cincy HC had a horrible game. Just horrible. He should have challenged that and then the punt at the end of the game he punted with 15 seconds left on the play clock…which were the 15 seconds the Steelers used to get into FG range.
They have a healthy defensive line this year. It was a huge difference playing with two backups alongside Heyward. Now you have him with Alualu and Ogunjobi and it made all the difference. They held Mixon in check outside of one run and allowed the linebackers to work. With all the pressure from the front seven, the DBs thrived. Just an all-around terrific effort.
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