Alright, I think enough time has passed. I can talk about the loss on Sunday to the Ravens. Wow, where to start. First off, our defensive backs needs to get in the game. They play mediocre all game and then in the last quarter they go into a prevent defense. Horrible. It's as if their mind set is, "Well, if I play 10 yards off the receiver, once he catches it I'll be able to make the tackle." No, they need to keep all receivers on lock down. They need to watch the Jets/ Bills game from this week and watch Revis and how well he covered Owens. To continue on my rant about the defensive backs, I think it is completely unfair that the entire defense gets blamed for their faults. Our line backers are amazing. But, after a while of running the ball, the opposing team realizes that all they have to do is throw the ball up and their men will be wide open. O.K. I'm done with the defense. Moving on to offense. If you ask me, Dennis Dixon played a great game (considering the fact that his first start was against our greatest rivals, on their turf). But, the major fault of the offensive was Arians, our offensive coordinator. How is it that with 1:30 left on the clock and a first down that we were only able to waste away roughly 20-30 seconds of time? Poor play calling and clock management on his behalf. I hope the Steeler organization makes a few changes and fires him and hires Notre Dame's recently fired head coach. He would be an amazing addition to our team. I feel like the more I rant the more I relive the game. So, I'm going to stop here. One last final thought though. Did anyone else think the media turned the whole Hines/Big Ben argument into a complete mess just to make a good story?
That whole Ben - Hines arguement was blown way out of proportion. Here's another thing Ben needs to grow up.
ReplyDeleteIt was blown extremely out of proportion and I agree with you. But, it wasn't cool of Hines to call him out. Earlier in the season Hines agreed with Clark that he should sit out of the Denver game because he said ultimately, football second, health first. I just think he was frustrated because the Baltimore game was so huge and it hurt the team that he wasn't going to start. Hines should of said something to Ben rather than venting to the media. In all fairness though, Ben practiced all week and didn't show any signs of being inable to play, and, the team wasn't informed on him sitting out until that Saturday morning. Nonetheless though, it was something the media created to fill 10 minutes of their news cast.
ReplyDeleteI must agree with brain about the ben situation. It did not have to escalate like that, he could have had a bit more self control.
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