Steelers @ Patriots: Official Game Thread

Well Moncrief is about to play himself off the team...drop number 3? Guess the bright side is they can only go up from here? At this point, give me something positive to give me a glimmer of hope. A turnover, a touchdown...a freaking stop, something!

 

Moncrief is coming off that bad finger injury no?
Maybe that’s contributing to the drops.
Wheaton part 2

 

Switzer was open on the pick...Single high safety went for Washington, Switzer was on the other side and beat his man

 

Why is ben still in the game? Why ws brady still in the game?

 

Why is Tomlin still the HC?

 

Always nice to be embarrassed on national tv...

 

Honestly stopped watching at half. We've seen this movie ten times over the last 15 years and it seldom ever changes. On defense we constantly sit back on our heels instead of attack. Only rush base 3 or 4 on every passing play, give 5-7 yard cushions for easy out routes or slants. Don't come up and play press so they can just run those rub routes and pick plays all they want. Allow Brady to get in a rhythm early and for the Pats to run it just enough to keep the D honest, hit us with a trick play early to really confuse us, and then we're eaten alive by play action all night long. Do nothing......no adjustments, just keep playing the same old D..........nickel zone with some man underneath sprinkled in. The secondary is NO BETTER the last two years. It may FEEL that way to some, but vs top teams and good QBs..........still a big liability. And they didn't even make an ATTEMPT to try and sign Earl Thomas in free agency, and being high on him before the 2010 draft. Well he looks back to Pro Bowl form (he was last year too before friendly fire ended his season) with the Ravens and made an INT on Miami's first possession today. Guess we'll keep rolling with the likes of Cam Kelly and Sean Davis. The deep TD to Dorsett tells you all you need about this secondary and our defensive coordinator. Things will never change vs top competition.

On offense.........nice job Ben. I realize there were some drops, but 3rd and 4th and 1s for this team should be automatic. If we're not going to go power run on short yardage plays, then why is Nixie on the team making $3-4 million/yr? I'm not you HAVE to run it in those situations 100% of the time, but the other team should at least THINK that's what we want to do. You can't beat any good team on the road sputtering early, not moving the sticks and keeping possession. And against the Pats...........every single possession has to be treated like your final possession of the game. You can't go into Foxboro planning to win a tight 20-14 game. You have to try and score 30+.

Just so sick of this every time we play them.

 

Nice detailed post blackngold,
They seem to play better at home against them though. Not sure why the “deer in the headlights” syndrome hits this team when they play at NE.

 

Multiple people I work with told me "they didn't look they were even trying" regarding our beloved super steelers, who apparently could not care less about us or winning last Sunday night.


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Quoting from the above article which was the number one thing that came up when I googled "NFL sports entertainment":

"Let’s say you were given an endless “Get Out of Jail Free” card. What would you do with it? Would you commit crimes? Steal? Kill somebody? Try to rule the world? Would you settle for, say, $14 billion a year?

That’s the luxurious position the NFL finds itself in when it comes to its court-granted right to fix the outcome of professional football games. There is no question the NFL has the legal right to fix a game. Any game, including the Super Bowl.

So, then, the real question becomes: Does it?

Just so we’re clear: In 2007, the New England Patriots were caught cheating, videotaping opponents’ formations and coaching signals — even with evidence destroyed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Turned out they’d been doing it for 10 years. A Jets fan and season-ticket holder, Carl Mayer, sued the Patriots, asking for reimbursement to all Jets fans who went to those games. He lost.

But why did he lose?

If you read the brief one-paragraph explanation that ran in The New York Times on May 19, 2010, you’d only learn that “Mayer failed to prove any legal right to damages.”

OK, but why not? Google and Bing your way around the internet and you’ll find explanations hard to come by from any sports, business or legal reporter. But at least the court decision is online, and you can read it for yourself.

Since you probably won’t, here’s the tl;dr: The NFL argued, and the court agreed, that people who buy tickets to an NFL game have the contractual right to a seat to watch two teams play each other, and nothing else. The court even quoted Mayer’s ticket stub, which reads: “This ticket only grants entry into the stadium and a spectator seat for the specified NFL game.” (emphasis added)

If the Patriots cheated to win that game, well, tough. Legally extrapolate that and it means: If any NFL outcome is fixed, well, tough.

Also in 2010, in a separate court case against the NFL over branded items like hats and shirts, the league presented itself not as 32 separate teams, but as one singular business “unit in the entertainment marketplace.”

Throughout that case, the NFL repeatedly positioned itself legally as a “sports entertainment” business, not a genuinely contested “sport.” College football, for example, is legally classified as a “collegiate sport.” The only other “sports entertainment” businesses are professional wrestling and roller derby."