How hard is it to watch this offense? Man I thought last years was hard. This reminds me of watching Nebraska offense last year but this is with professionals playing. Man they make everything soooo damn hard...geez
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OT: Steelers fans..
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Right now they don’t, but at least 40% of the fans here in Chicago wanted to keep him and trade that pick. Luckily, fans are dumb and cooler heads prevailed in the front office.
Steelers need to mail it in, start thinking about the draft and their next QB. Historically, offensively speaking more than maybe some people realize, but they actually draft OK offensive guys, they just whiffed on Pickett and haven't recovered. ,
Crazy as it sounds Fields doesn't bother me much. I didn't have any wild thoughts about him. I think he's actually been OK. Not nearly as bad as he was with the Bears. I'm starting to lean towards Tomlin. It really hasn't mattered who our OC and who our QB was outside of about 3-4 games last year we have been trash offensively.
Tomlin has his finger print on everything there and I'm starting to think he's part of the problem.
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The problem is winning 9/10 games every year. Your not really a threat to do anything meaningful in the playoffs because of the offensive ineptitude. But you aren't in position to draft any of the top QB picking where we normally do. That's how you end up reaching on a Pickett.
At some point we probably need to go 2-15 lol.
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Kinda the same. I mean we typically win our share of games and it's hard in the NFL but at some point something has to change. I "like" Tomlin I don't "love" him but it's hard watching this year after year. Even Big Ben's last couple years it was ugly. It's about 5 years now.
As I complain and we have a 29-7 lead and still haven't looked good offensively.
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Agreed. It all feels very stale over the past few years. he needs to figure out how to inject some fresh air into the team. That’s what I like about the Chiefs. Reid is the coach and 100% in charge of the offense with the help of his assistants. I feel like he let his defensive coordinator completely own that side of the ball.
But when you have a defensive minded coach, and the offense isn’t performing, the head coach can’t help but meddle, and that never goes well
Watching them play is painful. Offensive identify is on the side of a milk carton.
This is a testament to their head coach
Who is unquestionably in the top 10 of his profession
I wish the Steelers would just go 2-15 one year and draft a good quarterback. It beats being stuck in perpetual 9-8 hell. Too good to be bad, too bad to be good.
Well putting in Rustle feels like a mistake. He’s a bozo
Well, let's think about it. Last year, the offense was horrible. They were still invested in a 1st round pick who was not panning out. They were not going to trade the farm to draft another QB. They brought in two QB castoffs from two of the worst offenses in the league, but those QBs are both still perceived as upgrades over Pickett. I think we are about where we thought we would be realistically as far as offensive production. I heard an offensive stat this week- points scored, yards per play, I can't remember which is was but it was a major stat- that had this offense going from 29th in the league to around 15th. Bottom line, is we are better.
I like Justin Fields. But he's missing open receivers. He can't see them. Pickens isn't doing anything. Supposedly, Arthur Smith can scheme him open. The coaches saw how the offense operated with both guys in the off-season. I think they are going with Wilson to give that a try. He out performed Fields in practice when he was healthy. I think it's a ballsy move. Most coaches don't have the job security to make such a move. It's especially gutsy when you consider that the offense may only be slightly better and that the Steelers will be facing better competition.
Much has been made about the lack of a #2 WR but I think that is blown out of proportion. I'm glad they didn't trade draft capital to get Adams or Aiyuk. This offense has more problems than that. Mainly at QB and injuries in the offensive line.
In a nutshell I couldn't agree more with what you said. Fields hasn't been bad. He just hasn't done anything that would keep a starter off the field. We lose his legs but hopefully Russ can hit those open guys he misses every game and the net opens up the RB run game a bit more.
I'll admit though I'm not sold on Smith as an OC but I'll see how he looks wit Russ .
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