people make way too much of the Ben vs Todd stuff.
The main problems with this team are several different factors.
1. Major bad decision making by Ben. Witness the should have been pic int in the 4th q red zone during this raiders game that just ended. Any other top notch QB in the league would have thrown the ball away. I have watched him make bad decision after bad decision many times. There are many checkdowns that he ignores all cause he wants to make a big play. I think next year the steelers will be better off getting a different QB.
2. Injuries this team just seems to be cursed. Johnson and Decrastro I believe from last year and then poucey this year. The OL just can't keep themselves healthy. We need to draft OL next year and several of them and hope to possibly keep our center and move him to another position.
3. Dropped passes - and turnovers. Simply put this team is not very good.
4. Way too many mental mistakes. Pls someone teach Jarvis Jones and worilds how to rush while maintaining outside leverage and thus keeping containment. They gave up way too many plays today.
Ben and sanders need to spend a LOT more time together going over situational football. Too many times Ben misses Sanders when he is wide open.
bad play calling not sure who calls a slant pass toward the middle of the field with 13 sec left in the 1st half no timeouts even if you make the pass we are going to be short on time to spike the ball. Doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm expecting too much.???
Need to have a blocking back for Bell. Anytime #46 blocks (will johnson) bell does a lot better. Bell certainly is a keeper that is for sure. his being injured during the 1st 4 games really hurt us big time.
Paulson can catch but he can't block pls put someone better on punt protection that was pathetic he just got pushed backwards.
ZOlten mesko has been a major disappointment lots of 30 yard kicks and then when he has a long field
he punts it 60+ yards and into the end zone. Bad bad pickup I think.
5. Did anyone notice how easily T prior went down in the last quarter. Makes me think that there is someone going to make some nice $ during the next contract since they basically let the steelers get a TD and a 2 pt conversion. The NFL is all about $ and if you watch a lot of games you can pretty much predict what is going to happen. A LOT of $ is transferred out in the dessert when certain teams win.
6. In the two games we won jets and the ravens. GO back and look at the tape and notice how a couple of times each of the jets and the ravens got WR's behind our DB's for easy TD's and the opposing QB's missed their guys both times. we got lucky on those plays.
I had hope after last week but today on the very first play when our safety our OLB and our LB all go for a fake like that on the games 1st play I knew we were doomed.
Keep in mind we've been to the SB 3 times in the last 10 years winning 2 and losing 1 that is a lot more than most teams can say. This is not our year for sure.