Bronco Billy Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Let's see what's wrong with this picture: PIT Rush O: #2 in NFL in Yards per game #2 in NFL in Attempts per game #6 in NFL in Yards per carry DEN Rush D: #32 in NFL in Yards per game #31 in NFL in Attempts per game #31 in NFL in Yards per carry Number of carries by RB vs DEN so far this year: BUF 22 OAK 33 JAX 33 IND 33 SD 33 PIT 23 Could Tomlin have done any more to hand the game to DEN than by not getting his RBs at least 30 carries, and probably should have been closer to 35? We sincerely appreciate your amazingly stupid game plan that called for you to take your overwhelming strength, which completely over matched DEN's biggest glaring weakness and downplaying it to the extreme. Nice game plan, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Dick Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I was thinking that myself last night. Made no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbarton11 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I really liked his plan last night, I was playing against Parker with a slim lead and was able to keep it and win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco Billy Posted October 22, 2007 Author Share Posted October 22, 2007 I really liked his plan last night, I was playing against Parker with a slim lead and was able to keep it and win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grits and Shins Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Yup ... I made that comment several times last night. Tomlin clearly over thought the game plan hoping to "trick" Denver by throwing the ball. Pittsburgh's strength is running the ball Denver's weakness is defending the run. A complicated or tricky game plan was not needed. Run the damn ball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menudo Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 Let's see what's wrong with this picture: PIT Rush O: #2 in NFL in Yards per game #2 in NFL in Attempts per game #6 in NFL in Yards per carry DEN Rush D: #32 in NFL in Yards per game #31 in NFL in Attempts per game #31 in NFL in Yards per carry Number of carries by RB vs DEN so far this year: BUF 22 OAK 33 JAX 33 IND 33 SD 33 PIT 23 Could Tomlin have done any more to hand the game to DEN than by not getting his RBs at least 30 carries, and probably should have been closer to 35? We sincerely appreciate your amazingly stupid game plan that called for you to take your overwhelming strength, which completely over matched DEN's biggest glaring weakness and downplaying it to the extreme. Nice game plan, Mike. I do have to agree that they out-thought themselves. Tomlin even said in his post-conference presser that he knew the Broncos were going to come out with as many as 9 in the box, desperate to stop the run. He said he felt that they would need to have some success in the passing game in order to open up the running game. Then, by over-thinking themselves, they quickly found themselves down 14 points, and their opportunity to take advantage of the biggest weakness on the Broncos side was gone. Oh well, Tomlin is a rookie coach, and, hopefully, he will learn from this. I will say this though, when the Steelers did run, with the exception of 4 or 5 runs, they did a good job against the running game. I still, like you are insinuating, think that if the Steelers would have come out and pounded them over and over, they would have broken some more big runs. Oh well, the game is over, and despite the disgusting, uninspired first half play, I'm not too down, as I thought the Steelers showed some heart in the 2nd half. I also think that the Broncos finally showed some of the potential that they do have on offense. Cutler still makes mistakes, but, he is getting better and better. When Walker gets healthy, they have a nice receiving corps with Walker, Marshall, & Stokley. Congrats on the win, and hopefully Tomlin will learn to not out-think his gameplan in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 He only did it because he heard I'm playing aginst Roethlisberger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiebones Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 When we got down by 14, we stopped running, so those numebrs are skewed. Had we been up 14 for instance, we might have run closer to 40 times. Read the entire game in context. The defense could stop Denver's intermediate passing game. They were hitting 15-25 yarders all night. Maybe we could have run 3-5 more times in the first half, but that's not so sizable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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