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No Romo is a great color guy. The best
I don’t care one way or another...I just think it’s funny to see posters complaining about calls when it was completely lopsided in their favor.
More penalties being called on the Patriots is not evidence of the officiating going in the Steelers favor. That’s just lazy analysis. I think the patriots got hit with one questionable PI in the first half. Other than that, what calls on the Patriots were wrong and what no calls were there on the Steelers? I mean, at least 4 of the penalties on them were cut and dry false starts and illegal formations
Let's see...Lose to the broncos...check.
Lose to the raiders...check
Beat the pats....huh!!
Lose to the raiders...check
Beat the pats....huh!!
From what I saw they could have been called for even more.
Their OL and DB's are very, very grabby.
Total domination for 5 weeks now. Amazing how it comes down to the wire each week. Amazing how they play to their competition.
that was one of the best NFL regular season games I've watched in several years. I watched almost no NFL last year. But several the years before. Romo's analysis of the chess game played by the Steelers Defense and the Pats O was awesome. He was genuinely entertained as well. Great game, great outcome.
Sorry he is better then Sims, but Romo is so over the top on what he would call. He isn’t a coach, just talk about what happened. Not what you would have done.
No, it’s proof that fans see calls the way they think they should be called. 14 to 4 in penalties, regardless of what they were, shows at a minimum no favoritism toward NE and at worse shows some home cooking for the Steelers. The argument about uncalled penalties against NE implies that the Steelers had nothing they could have been called for. It’s ridiculous. I’ll bet the NE fans think they got screwed just like Pitt fans would think they got screwed if the penalty totals were opposite.
It’s amazing that this team is 4-5 plays from being the 1-2 seed. Why I don’t think they will be a pushover in the playoffs.
And Pittsburgh was flawless and couldn’t have possibly been called for anything. Funny how that works.
Insert any running back in this offense and they are awesome. Levon bell can take a flying leap.
Sorry, Nate, but I have to disagree.
When Romo starts talking about what Brady is looking at in his pre-snap, I think any football fan would enjoy that.
Romo says the safeties for Pittsburgh have to stay inside and not fly back so they can cover Gronk up the seam. I found myself watching the safeties to see what they were doing.
Romo’s commentary is very interesting for a fan of the sport.
I enjoy listening to him.
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Check out the penalties last week for both teams against the Raiders. And the Steelers lost.
his analysis of the defenses and how they are playing the formations are really good. He was talking about how the Steelers beat the Pats with no-back formations and Ben threw to the one-on-one wideout three plays in a row. He also talked about how the Steelers double covered Gronk and the Pats counter with running RB under the Gronk double teams. And how the Pats exerted the running game with opened crossing and dig routes behind the LBers now cheating up to plug holes in the running game. He also talked about how the Steelers single covered Gronk and then changed it up after the timeout.
BTW, genius move to throw a challenge flag on a play that could not be challenged when the Pats ran up to the line to take advantage of the Steelers complaining to the Refs about the early whistle. I am not a big Tomlin fan but credit where it is due. He got his timeout, without having to spend one.
I find it funny to hear Steelers fans complain about officiating....that would be like Notre Dame fans complaining about officiating.
Lot of talk about penalties, but it was an interesting game to watch. IMO the keys were:
- Steelers ability to run effectively
- Patriots failing to score on two late trips into the red zone -- a combo of subpar play by Brady and good defense by Steelers
Romo is excellent, one of the best I’ve heard in many years. He gets it and is a natural , not too serious but very informative, what else could anyone want? He shares his opinions and isn’t Captain Obvious all day, I like it
Exactly. For most teams, the standard defense is a cover 2. 4 DL, 3 LBs, 2 corners and 2 S. They may go 4-3 or 3-4. The key is to break that defense and make the S commit to helping the corners (pass) or LB (run). The means the split and go back to help the pass and come together and push up to support the run. If you can get them cheating one way, that opens up the game. Then D's have to run or pass blitz, which causes the Corners to have to single cover. So D's, then, play man or zone. They blitz or play cover. But they have to cover up any areas of weakness, which exposes a different weakness. The cat and mouse is the adjustments the D makes. then the O changes. Then the D changes. Bernie Kosar, if you can get passed the marble mouth, is also excellent. He'll often state the play and the targeted WR seconds before the ball is snapped. He used to just kill the Steeler's blitz game and I can now see why.
Callahan used to dissect these as well.
I fortunately did not watch the prior three debacles by the Steelers. But, I listened while driving today to parts of the game.
I am not normally one to get all over kickers. I supported Sam Ficken despite the start he had. But, if Kris Boswell is on the team by next week, it will be a travesty of coaching.
Cut Bait Now.
There must be fifty guys sitting at home that are better than Boswell at this point. Fifty!
Where is/was all the outrage for him today???
I am not normally one to get all over kickers. I supported Sam Ficken despite the start he had. But, if Kris Boswell is on the team by next week, it will be a travesty of coaching.
Cut Bait Now.
There must be fifty guys sitting at home that are better than Boswell at this point. Fifty!
Where is/was all the outrage for him today???
I agree...that short kick he missed was really bad. Then he hit the long one (48 yards?) which was as good a kick as anyone can make. Risky to bring in anyone else at this point because it is really easy to make kicks in practice but more difficult in a big game. Boswell is a proven commodity. And, can they even add players not on the roster at this point?I fortunately did not watch the prior three debacles by the Steelers. But, I listened while driving today to parts of the game.
I am not normally one to get all over kickers. I supported Sam Ficken despite the start he had. But, if Kris Boswell is on the team by next week, it will be a travesty of coaching.
Cut Bait Now.
There must be fifty guys sitting at home that are better than Boswell at this point. Fifty!
Where is/was all the outrage for him today???
You will never see me complain about calls. I'm old school....its part of the game. As far as I'm concerned the NFL can abolish the challenge and the reviews.
Steelers offense needs to mix it up more. That 4th and 2 call with no running back in even as a diversion was ridiculous. They had been getting 2-4 yards each carry. The Steelers offense has to start going and score points. Second half last 4 games has not been very good. Other teams defense makes adjustments that the offense cannot overcome. They must get better because it still came down to the wire.
Yep, if Romo would quit all the "I would have done...." babble I would actually listen to the broadcast.... Just too many of the current "color" guys seem to believe they get paid by how many words they sprew.... But maybe they do!
Interesting....I don't recall him doing that too much. But I kind of don't listen until the offense is at the Line of Scrimmage. It is so easy to second guess that, to me, its worthless. I do like Romo's analysis of the defense as the offense gets to the LOS, goes into motion and analyzes their options. The one example I used what that the Steelers lined up with no RB and Romo kept talking about the wide out being one-on-one (twice was Juju). Romo said the Steelers were going to keep running that play until the Pats adjusted. Juju was having a great game. Then the Pats adjusted. You heard very little of Juju after that, and the Steelers didn't run that set anywhere near as frequently after the Pats adjusted. On the other side of the ball, the Steelers doubled Gronk and the Pats ran under that (ran Gronk deep then ran a RB or slot under that coverage in a crossing route or dig). Steelers adjusted and Gronk started catching balls. Awesome game.
Yea, I'm not saying he doesn't have a good idea of what's going on. It's just that after watching football for 50 years I don't need him to point out every formation and play for me. If that's his job, so be it. But I tend to put the volume down low and just watch the game myself, without the constant chatter. More relaxing way to watch it. Same reason that I don't answer my wife's questions about the game during the game (and she ends up going upstairs and half watching the game while flipping to a movie or something)......
Because hindsight is always 20-20 ...
Steelers won because they got a whole bunch of yards running the football. Massive credit to the OL (thanks Mike Munchak) but it leads me to ask where the running game was last week at Oakland and against Denver.
Steelers won because every time the Patriots were threatening, the Patriots shot themselves in the foot with a false start, illegal alignment or offensive holding. Even Tom Brady (a Michigan man who I truly dislike, but must respect because he is really really good) can't save the day from continual 1st and 15, 1st and 20 etc. Those Patriot offensive linemen just killed the Pats.
Steelers won because Patriots abandoned their running game at crunch time. Seemed to me that the one guy was running like he was still at Nebraska and the other guy like he was still at Georgia (sorry, I forget their names), both getting big chunks of yardage. Of course if I was a Patriots coach, I'd put the ball in Brady's hands too .... every time.
Just my opinion, but Brady was looking to Gronkowski maybe just a bit too often down the stretch. While it appeared that the final 4th down pass was to Edelman, Gronkowski was almost right there (playing for a deflection???).
So the Steelers won a contest that maybe they were "lucky". Maybe they won because they played better than the patriots yesterday, the stars aligned and they scored 2 touchdowns while the patriots only scored one and they just couldn't get close enough to play their "kicker advantage" card often enough.
This was really a fun game to watch, but I am certain that if I lived in New England, I wouldn't be saying that.
Steelers won because they got a whole bunch of yards running the football. Massive credit to the OL (thanks Mike Munchak) but it leads me to ask where the running game was last week at Oakland and against Denver.
Steelers won because every time the Patriots were threatening, the Patriots shot themselves in the foot with a false start, illegal alignment or offensive holding. Even Tom Brady (a Michigan man who I truly dislike, but must respect because he is really really good) can't save the day from continual 1st and 15, 1st and 20 etc. Those Patriot offensive linemen just killed the Pats.
Steelers won because Patriots abandoned their running game at crunch time. Seemed to me that the one guy was running like he was still at Nebraska and the other guy like he was still at Georgia (sorry, I forget their names), both getting big chunks of yardage. Of course if I was a Patriots coach, I'd put the ball in Brady's hands too .... every time.
Just my opinion, but Brady was looking to Gronkowski maybe just a bit too often down the stretch. While it appeared that the final 4th down pass was to Edelman, Gronkowski was almost right there (playing for a deflection???).
So the Steelers won a contest that maybe they were "lucky". Maybe they won because they played better than the patriots yesterday, the stars aligned and they scored 2 touchdowns while the patriots only scored one and they just couldn't get close enough to play their "kicker advantage" card often enough.
This was really a fun game to watch, but I am certain that if I lived in New England, I wouldn't be saying that.
Its going to be interesting.
Ravens play at SanDiego or LA or wherever the Chargers are and then back home against Cleveland.
I think they lose to the Chargers which then makes the Cleveland game HUGE, for both teams.
Steelers have to play the Saints and then Bengals.
Depending on how much the Saints have to play for it might be advantage Steelers.
They beat the Bengals.
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