They were only down by 7 at one point

​@@jordellfreshbreeze7133did you see how they were playing though?

I haven't watched a Steeler game since the DISGRACEFUL Tunnel Incident of 2018 when they threw Villanueva ( a 4 tour of duty in Iraq Army Green Beret under the bus and then made him apologize for being a God Respecting Patriot because he was the only one that possessed a ball sack big enough to represent the entire team when he took his helmet off and proceeded to sing OUR National Anthem outside the tunnel word for word. Up until that point, his t-shirts were flying off the shelves but, Tomlin made that come to a screeching halt immediately. I made a promise to myself to not watch another Steeler game until they got rid of Tomlin. It's been 6 years and, I'm still keeping that promise.😁🤘

Thank you!

Alex, love yalls pod.. how do we move forward? We're stuck in mediocrity, year after year after year.. I just wish I could hear a plan to have hope it'll ever get better..

@@steeler4life it's a lot to consider and take on. We'll have lots of time to talk about it

@@Alex_Kozora Try looking into the ineptitude of our run game inside the redzone/goal to go. With our steady diet of run, run, dump to rb, and at no time have the big three in on a play action on 1st or 2nd down. Bottom third of the league in efficiency. It would be a good place to start. (But we love our ball control game plan. /s)

Or #29

I think Peterson gets too much hate. He's had some good games. The rest.... Out the door

Add Dan Moore to that list please

Remember Braden Mann, the punter, who looked so much better than Harvin, and let go... yeah, he is on Philly and is ranked 7th in the NFL. Harvin is 32nd. Who kept Harvin?

@@alexm2889 Pat P looked good when he played the Safety position. At CB, he looked bad. Who kept putting Pat P at CB?

Tomlin is still the coach, playoff L, everything else is secondary

Because of guess who

@@Gungadin0112 Tomlin!

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Almost as bad as my fantasy football team. 0-6 since 2015 🤦🏽‍♂️ I hate football sometimes

There are rumors that Tomlin makes a lot of the defensive calls. Wouldn't be surprised.

No kidding.

Appreciate you, Austin!

IMO, -Tomlin released Braden Mann, who was clearly better, and kept his buddy Harvin. Mann, picked up by PHI, ranked 7th in the NFL this year yds per punt. Harvin is 32nd. - IDK game prep on the details non-existent again? - Because we stink on Goal To Go running the ball, in case you blocked it out of your memory...even with Mason. Bottom 3d in the NFL. We can run between the 20's, but not RZ or G2G. On rare occasion we score a rush TD, but after how many 'turnover on downs' or FG's inside the RZ cuz of run run dump pass to RB, we stink. - I couldn't call it 'got drilled', but should have gotten a flag. My issue was Allen getting the flag when he slid, yet when Rudolph slid and got hit...nada. - Minkah, nah, he laid a great hit earlier, but that one just got away from him...where was the rest of the D? Swarm to the ball we are not. coaching. - Doesn't surprise me from a coached team such as our. Our middle was abused all day, except for that one nice almost pick by Rowe.

Bingo! Once I saw them come out hell bent on running the ball and short sit routes, I knew what to expect and the 21-0 lead did not surprise me in the least. When we came out short passing in the 3d qtr, and it got us down to the BUF 23, I said to my group, 'if they run on 1st and 2nd, we're kicking a FG" sure enough

Not if major changes arent made.

Alex doesn't address real problems. He is excellent in what he covers but will cover only the symptoms if it's negative.

Hopefully this week

Hopefully, after we hire a new HC.

Minkah didn't play that great either...

Yea Pat P, Mitch, Dan Moore, big Press all need to go

They had PatP playing corner, and Kazee was free safety. Kazee looked bad. PatP came here to play Safety. We should have drafted C Tyler Linderbaum at #20 in 2022. If we have a chance at Jackson Powers-Johnson (C) out of Oregon, or Joe Alt (T) out of Notre Dame, or both. Rooney's hardon for Tradition (smashmouth) means rebuild the OLine first. Everything else is secondary.

@@mc1993 still mad we didn't take Creed Humphrey

@@facelessman5362 I knew they were going to pick Najee in the 1st, I too was thinking Humphrey in the 2nd. Surprised they picked Muth, as he isn't a run blocking TE, with Rooney making his 'get back to running the ball' mandate.

Thanks so much!

I wonder how much a change in defensive scheme would make? Agree with ur take 100 tho!

They won't win with Coach T. The game is passing him by before our eyes. Defense used to win championships. I hate to say it but I can't belive that anymore.

It's not about who is the starting QB, but what offensive philosophy we go with. Since Rooney owns the team, it won't matter who is QB.

@@mc1993 You couldn't see the difference between Rudolph and Pickett and Trubisky then ?

@@davidpollard4051 Mason has far better fundamentals. He's been here since 2018 and understands our stupid philosophy of not aggressive passing, but passing to move the chains as an extension of the run game. Ball Control. Tradition. That is dictated by Art Rooney II. Only when the game is on the line, do we go aggressive. Kenny & Mitch don't 'understand' that they are being forced into game managers and each one falters due to their own issues. For a minute forget individual play, and look at game plan. Preseason, we used aggressive route tree and they all looked good. Start of the season, Ball control running and short sit/sideline outs route tree, 4th QTR comeback wins was nothing but aggressive route tree for receivers and a "normal game plan of passing to score, not to move chains while dominating time of possession". There is a reason we hire within. There is a reason Canada said "this offense isn't built to come back from big leads" and he was here for 3 years with Rooney's blessings. Sure, remove Canada, go aggressive passing w/aggressive route tree vs Cincy and Pickett looks good again, just couldn't get TDs. VS Arizona... back to ball control, Pickett 1 intermediate/deep pass the entire half before injured. Trubisky is a risk taker, and will always stink in our Ball Control game manager offense, because it's risk adverse. Trubisky also throws anticipation passes. We don't use that. Mason did that to DJ in the endzone on the quick comeback. Interception. Never throw a pass like that to DJ unless he is looking at the QB...like his TD. Sorry for the longwinded reply. *tldr;* It's the mandated offensive philosophy of Rooney, and how any QB can cope within. Mason understands that better, and can work within.

I hear what you say. Out of interest, what do you think of Minkah Fitzpatrick ? I think he's massively overrated and is a poor tackler. I know he's been injured a lot this season but I thought he was poor even before the injury.@@mc1993

@@davidpollard4051 I didn't see your reply because youtube hid it. At first I thought they hid one of my comments again. I had to backdoor it just to see it. I don't think Fitz is highly overrated, I tend to give a pass on dudes coming back from injury. Like Cam Heyward looked 50% at best when he came back. Minkah does deliver shots. Over the years, Fitz is always near or at the top in solo tackles, and I think injury + all those ridiculous roughness/roughing flags he's been getting + all of the injuries to our inside LBs and defensive backs has the whole D riding the edge of always bend, try not to break. definitely has him getting smoked sometimes, but I still think he's solid. Now with JPJ, and Rowe, and hoping Cory Trice & Keanu Neal live up to expectations next year...and better coaching, could be much better.

But why are playoff games seemingly different than regular season games

@@Lew2000 for years our Defense is bend but don't break, and relies on splash plays. Poor between the 20's, strong against scoring. Our offense is Rooney mandated run game first, aggressive splash plays here and there. The reverse of our Defense, strong between the 20's and poor in redzone/goal to go TD scoring...we are bottom third of the NFL. Then there is coaching. All this can win in the regular season vs lesser teams (aka winning ugly), but in the playoffs, we're playing top teams in all-around endzone to endzone Defense & Offense, and coaching, which leads us to be outscored 122-40 in the first halves of the last 5 playoff games. Also, with the injuries, it reduced our splash play takeaway differential.

You mean turning the ball over?

@@justsayin7314 yes. They have the record in negative turnover differential in their last 5 playoff games.

A whole lot of air went out of the balloon after that defeat. Tomlin is not an Xs and Os kind of guy he is a palsy walsy Jimmy and Joes kind of guy. He forms relationships with bum punters like Harvin and burnt out vets whose best years are behind them. Time for Tomlin to go to the bright lights of network television of like Cowher and live the good life and get on with his after football life. They will love his schtick.

Absolutely

He is the only reason the game was even close.

@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 yep I mean come on and what three or four games as a starter he only had one interception. Dude, earned the starting job in my opinion.

@@Jesse.George You're in the minority. Everyone thinks they are going to find a QB that can do better than 239 yds per game, 1.25 TD per game, and .25 interceptions per game, and a 109 passer rating over 4 games, without a first round draft pick, while paying a first round draft pick, and the most expensive defense in the league.

@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 I know. It’s crazy. Like we have a guy that we actually developed. And they wanna just let him go. I would sign him to a 2-3 year deal 10+ million per year and let him start most likely. Can still draft a QB as well and have Kenny. Then you have 3 capable guys with Mason obviously being the best with a Kirk Cousins level ceiling which he’s currently at. He’s big and strong he’s perfect above average QB in my opinion.

@@Jesse.George 100% agree. Although I kind of hope Rudolph takes another contract, because any time he makes a single mistake, fans will be screaming to get a different QB.

Hey Eric! That's simply not accurate. I don't hate the team. Or Mike Tomlin. And never called for the team to fire him.

He did play well outside of the first quarter. If you can't win with 239 passing yards, 2 TDs and 1 Int, then offense isn't your problem.

@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 garbage time stats. When they needed the momentum, he choked.

@@kylesmith8061 He led the offense to within 7 by the fourth quarter. The defense laid an egg. They were down 2 touchdowns before he threw the interception and they were getting desperate. Expecting any qb to play 4 perfect games while averaging 239 yds per game is asinine. Steelers don't deserve Rudolph. You deserve Kenny Pickett and Mitch Trubisky. Have fun with that.

@nonamnamrson8718 LMAO. Look at you in your feelings! "How can you expect to be perfect", "the Steelers don't deserve Rudolph" Go glob on his knob already LOL. He led a flat-footed offense throwing balls that had 0 chance at anything. He couldn't keep up offense vs. offense, plain and simple

@@kylesmith8061 Enjoy 3 more years of 7-10, which is what the steelers would have been without Rudolph. On the bright side, maybe you will be bad enough next year to get a first round draft pick. With coaches that thought Trubisky was better than Rudolph, it will most likely be another bust.