You're delusional if you think a professional football team is going to use a "segment" of a NFL Network tv show as bulletin board material...is that better? These two stating that the Browns could sweep the Steelers for the first time since 1988 will definitely not be the reason it happens or doesn't happen.
See that’s what you don’t get...pride factor...you may think it’s small but like I said you can bet Tomlin, captains, etc will show this when there is a sluggish practice leading up to week 1 or concentration level drops and they need a pick me up...it’s not about who said it but it’s bout that they said it
Oh, I get it...I'm just saying that it won't effect enough professionals to be the difference in a NFL game. When you are talking two perennial playoff teams that butt heads every season, that's one thing. Enough Steelers won't be effected by this to make it happen or not happen. For that matter, the Browns could use it as an inspirational piece in training camp... "See guys, everyone feels that we have improved so much that"... It's a two way street when you are talking about a team that has won 4 games in 3 years.
It wouldn't surprise me at all...Of course, I never would have dreamed we'd have played Jabril Peppers at Free Safety all year, but that happened, so.... FWIW, I think we are in much better shape in the defensive secondary than we have been in a long time....So I'd put my best guy on Antonio, and that's #21 Denzel Ward.
I'm a big Ward fan but no one can cover AB one-on-one. The last time I can recall a team trying to do that was the Broncos with Chris Harris. He hadn't given up a TD in two years and AB lit him up for 14-164-2. The only way to slow AB down is to double and triple him.
When Ben is in a zone teams should just play cover zero and get their offense back on the field. If AB plays the Browns twice he will have 300 yards and five TDS. No rookie or nobrookie is shutting him down.
I smell an AVI bet!!! What say you Gidion, if AB at starts both games against the Browns and reaches 300 yds receiving + 5 (offensive) TDs, I will change my pic to one of your choosing, if he fails, you change yours to Denzel Ward in a Browns uni.
I don’t know how Ben will play. We don’t even know if Ben and Brown will dress for the final game of the season because we will have wrapped up home field advantage.
The Browns will beat the Steelers in week 1, Sept 9th and week 8, Oct 28th in 2018. My guess is that if the Browns pull off this feat, there will be NO home field advantage for the Steelers, in fact they may be watching the playoffs from home..
If Brown puts up those numbers on you guys, an avatar bet will be the least of your problems. I'd be interested in seeing a bet. Maybe you give Gidion slightly more reasonable numbers, Dogside, considering the exceptional hubris fans of each team have shown - meet in the middle, see who wins.
There's no meeting in the middle. He set those numbers up there, I simply said put your money where your mouth is. Only thing I changes is "starts" we can play semantics all day long regarding playing time being adequate. So I say: IF HE STARTS 2 GAMES REGARDLESS OF ALL OTHER VARIABLES, I WILL CHANGE MY AVI TO A PRO-STEELERS PIC OF GIDION's CHOICE AS WELL AS FLY A STEELERS BANNER TILL NEXT SEASON as long as the same is on the line for him.
He can also put up those kinds of numbers and lose. I seem to recall them lighting up the Jags and getting swept at home, so its not necessarily the same thing. ::EDIT:: Also, if he is the greatest WR in the league, he doesn't need Ben to be "on his game" or whatever the verbiage was. He should simply need to lace it up. At 40 Jerry Rice took a pass from 37 yr old Rich freaking Gannon 75 yards. If he is the best, then he is the best, not "he is the best*". *when everything goes right, the running game dominates, the TEs play lights out, and the QB is locked in
