The yards per play allowed before we let them waste time is a telling difference of how the unit performed vs. previous seemingly close wins. The game was never close.
The yards per play allowed before we let them waste time is a telling difference of how the unit performed vs. previous seemingly close wins. The game was never close.
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Exactly why some of our “close wins” aren’t actually that close
Good stuff. Let’s hope this becomes a trend
But I was told we barely scraped out a 7 point win. You mean to tell me we actually dominated defensively until it was out of reach?
Anybody that actually watched the game knows it was never close. Our defense stepped up big and shut down the best offense in the league.
u/ayo_nick
This is relevant to your complaints from earlier…
Box score watchers see a 7 point win and think it was close when it wasn’t at all
#5 made the WRs know he was coming with the bill.
I said this after the game too. It wasn’t close. Once it was out of reach, guaranteed Mike was telling the defense to slow them down, keep it in bounds and don’t get hurt
Roman Wilson’s fumble was the only thing keeping this from looking like a bigger blowout than it was. They were going to drain that clock and get 3 or 7 there. So it likely would’ve ended up +13 or +17 instead of +7.
Moot point if Wilson isn’t a dumb shit and fumbles.
First down inside the 15 yard line. They run three times in a row to milk the clock, kick a FG and go up by 13 with a few minutes left.
And they can’t kick a FG late to make it a one score game. Game over.
Saying we “traded yards for clock management” just means the offense couldn’t put the game away in the 4th.
The last thing we’d want to do in the playoffs is to keep giving the other team the ball back. Luckily Daniel Jones played like Daniel Jones.
That yards per play average against Indy’s offense is staggering.
I think the game was closer than anyone wants to admit and further out of reach than anyone wants to admit as well. Letting them gain yards for clock management sounds like copium to me, but freaking out over 7 points is a bit much too.
I just love the fairweather fans and media after this win. ”The colts barley lost” ”Steelers got lucky” ”Colts still the better team” Like take ur L humbly this is why i hate the colts they are so delusional. We dominated you fair and square as we should. You dont pay a defense that much to play like they have been playing and to be frank im not one bit scared of daniel derp we will get our first playoff win if we end up facing indy in the playoffs.
It really annoys me when teams do this. It’s one of the things about football I really don’t like. You have you foot on their throat the whole game when let them come back and maybe gain momentum for no reason. This game wasn’t as close but when they do this in other games and it almost costs them it’s very frustrating
Still concerning the game was determined by splash plays instead of 3 and outs.
Yes this was indeed a bigger blowout than the stats say. But regarding the turnovers: at the end of the day, protecting the football is something a team can emphasize and simply not allow. I just don’t buy that we can play shoddy defense and then just happen to generate turnovers consistently, especially against elite QBs. It feels backwards; the turnovers should be the byproduct of playing great defense. Being opportunistic is great and all, but I just get this vibe from our defense that they pretty much wait until they smell blood in the water and then clamp down instead of dog walking offenses
This is something that nobody wants to talk about. The Colts were never in that game and they just made the game seem closer than it actually was. I don’t like seeing half ass playcalling and our game breakers still in there. We should have sat a lot of our older vets once we started calling a soft game-plan.
Final score never tells you the tale of the game, fuck I’m getting old.
Something that has been very consistent though is we are god awful on 3rd down and 10+. It’s honestly astounding how often teams are converting on us. On that same note have we stopped a single 4th down attempt this season?
Still, too many 4th quarter snaps by Rodgers with 8+ seconds on the play clock for a team trying to milk the clock.
Don’t give me this shit. We play around too much. This is why we lose in the playoffs because you fuck around like this with clutch players like Mahomes, and you lose. Put the team away, so it’s not even a question. We just can’t do it.
This win was the most Steelers thing ever. We beat teams we should lose against, and we lose to teams we should beat.
The best sign from this game is how our defense played on first down. The second best sign was that it seemed like we played more zone coverage. Sometimes the turnovers happen, but the defense depends on them too much.
Can we go toe-to-toe with KC? Buffalo? They’re not going to give those games away like the Colts.
It was a fun game to watch, but I tend to agree with those who say, “5 turnovers and still a 1 score game?” Don’t try and put lipstick on this pig. We should have won by AT LEAST 2 scores.
It’s like if you get a bunch of takeaways, you have a good shot at winning the game. But then if you don’t get a bunch of takeaways, it’s a lot harder to win the game.
It was an excellent defensive performance, coaching and execution. They stopped the run, which was huge, and something nobody has done against the Colts this year, and played tight zones that seemed to confuse Jones with the pressure. You can call turnovers “luck” but when you get that kind of pressure, you are going to likely force turnovers. The game was over by the fourth quarter, everyone knew that.
Only thing you can hit them on is not stopping the third/fourth down conversations. Yeah, that’s still a problem. But like they said, the defense was still getting off the field with the turnovers, and crushing the Colts momentum as well.
Great game from them, credit where it is due, they showed how good they can be. They need consistency though.
We saw the most dominant defensive display of the year, vs the #1 O, no less.
Just amazing.
I still wish the Steelers would just keep scoring on these teams. Stay aggressive.
The defense was outstanding no question but this doesnt explain the horrible clock management by the Steelers in the final 6 minutes when they had the ball
1. Around 6 min left up 24-10 have 3rd and 15 at Ind 29 already clearly in Boswell range Indy has 1 timeout left you clearly run the ball and make them use final timeout. Instead they throw an incomplete pass 3 yards down the field and stop the clock. Awful.
2. Up 27-17 just over 3 min left we have 2nd and 2 and decide to throw again and R. Wilson fumbles. Warren ran for 8 yards the previous play. Just run the freaking ball. Its 2nd and 2. Awful.
3. Up 27-17 with 2 min left Indy out of tineouts we have 3rd and 11 Rodgers drops back to throw again and thank God he has a brain and took a sack so the clock kept running. Just run the ball and take 40 seconds off the clock and punt with 1:15 left. Not hard. Commom sense.
Taking the delay of game right after that before the punt and giving them 5 free yards when you had 2 timeouts didnt make a lot of sense either but that didnt bother me nearly as much as the other 3. I have no idea what Tomlin and Smith were thinking on those last few possessions
Only thing that kept it from being a true blowout was us not scoring after the muffed punt and Roman Wilson coughing the ball up with under 4 minutes left in the game.