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That roughing the punter is about as bad as it gets. Such low probability of success in that play, and a huge risk. They need to weigh the utility of the conduct vs the magnitude of the risk. Just a lack of coaching, situational awareness was zero. Fucking bullshit, same Zac Taylor shit over and over. Glad he’s working cheap so Mike can pocket a few more million every year.

Play more disciplined football. I’m not happy with the way this team is coached right now. Inexperienced punt returner, roughing the punter, etc. Coaching needs to be better.

Rough loss. Those first two Steeler td drives were the killers. The method - super quick short passes. Negates our pass rush and our great d tackle, puts the onus on our linebackers to make plays. It really was a great game plan by them, put our weakest position group right in the middle of every play. Also, their run game exploited our d ends inability or unwillingness to set the edge. Really torched us a few times getting outside our ends. I imagine we’ll see more of the same until we figure a way to counter it.

This will be a real test. Our guys have undoubtedly reveled in all the praise they’re getting in the national media. Can they handle it? Or will they succumb to the all too common syndrome?- you get told how great you are and you got there expecting everything to go your way.

Been there, and I do not like watching games in airports. I can’t explain it, just doesn’t feel right.

I actually hold it against this kid, what his dad did in our playoff game. Not healthy, but there it is.

Well, your name is Prophecy.

It’s not working on me. I’m driving the bandwagon.

The Steelers are flailing about, and McCarthy is a great example of it. McCarthy is, above all else, a teacher of quarterbacks. His fingerprints are all over the development of the modern quarterback-centric NFL offense. He coached Joe Montana, Rich Gannon, Alex Smith, Brett Favre, Aaron Rogers, and Dan Prescott. So what do the Steelers do? They hire him into one of the most run and play defense oriented cultures in the NFL. Then they sign the one QB who is essentially uncoachable, and oh by the way, that uncoachable qb already worked with Mike in a situation that was described as toxic, and it is a known fact that Rogers thinks McCarthy has a low football IQ. So two games in and Rogers is already doing his “it’s my fault for not telling the coach what isn’t working” routine. The most passive aggressive bullshit ever. The obvious implication in that statement is that McCarthy is too stupid to discern what is happening on the field so he’s calling the wrong plays. All these years of Steelers bullshit. And finally, it’s the devil’s chickens coming home to roost.

So great. The Steelers think they’re special. Hey, you’re a Steeler for life! We drafted this legacy kid because Steelers. Then the kid turns into a diva locker room cancer. We couldn’t really ask for much more from the Steelers these days.

Agree 100%. And I think the league will respond this week with the kind of officiating that says one thing: don’t touch these quarterbacks. When they first implemented the new qb protections, they would call almost anything. Like if you bumped a QB’s facemask as he released the ball, they’d call it. But like a lot of the emphasis type call adjustments, the interpretations of these incidents relaxed and defenses got back to hitting QBs. I think you’ll see renewed emphasis this week on qb protections. It will work to our advantage, in my opinion.

Don’t want to jinx anything, but giving Roger’s his farewell tour year was a bit of a head scratcher. That’s Green Bay’s job, the Steelers don’t owe this blowhard anything. If they want their season to serve as Rogers’ swan song, so be it.

I attended the game, sat about 40 yard line. My impressions: 51 for them is on a Lawrence Taylor level. We ran away from him. He was a factor maybe every play he was in the game. We match that with Dexter. Different position but similar effect. We can suddenly stop the run, and the pocket was usually getting pushed into CJ’s face. Our kicker is a huge advantage especially in that indoor environment. Bengals defense is for real. Our offense is still our offense, OBJ is the possible upgrade position, just have to find the NFL Starting Left Tackle Tree and pick one off it. Reliant Stadium is a great place to watch a game. And the crowd was way different than an afc north crowd, in a good way, and that’s an understatement.

Can’t get lined up in time to kick a field goal. A lot of mistakes so far.

Shemar Stewart set to play in Sunday. I am not enthusiastic about this development. Hopefully he proves me wrong, but I envision him overrunning plays in his zeal to get it going, leaving wide open spaces for the Texans to run in, or throw little dump off passes to RBs.

Torbert and his crew have royally screwed the lions in this first half.

Bills look unstoppable tonight. Hopefully this is an aberration.

I didn’t notice on the tube but watching these highlights - Cook has really long arms for an nfl player.

Good read. In all the drama of trading Myles, trying to pick which inept QB to play, bribing Ohio legislators to just hand you Ohioans’ unclaimed funds, it is easy to forget that they pissed off Jim Schwartz so badly he just walked out without another job lined up. As Terry Pluto wrote, he decided to sit at home rather than work for the Browns. It’s truly amazing.

An observation about number 97: He had a huge impact on the two big turnovers early in the game. 1. On the scoop and score, while the ball was loose, a bucs lineman had a bead on it and was about to fall on it. Dexter couldn’t beat him to the ball but he sort of slide tackled/hip checked the dude out of the way, and the ball was immediately picked up by Demetrius Knight and run into the endzone. Without that backyard football play by 97 we probably don’t get that ball or those points. 2. On the Baker fumble into the endzone Dexter bullrushed bucs guard Ben Bredeson right back into Baker’s face, flushed him out of the pocket and Baker fumbled into the endzone. I would guess that replay will never show up in the Bredeson household, poor dude just got teleported backwards. We haven’t seen this kind of d line play since, well, when did we have a guy like this? I can’t recall.

Super encouraging to see the bengals win week 1 against a quality opponent. Admittedly the offense was not lights out. But our offense significantly improves over the first few weeks. Historically. If that holds true, good things lie ahead. Loved watching guys like Mafe show they are ready week 1. The additions, ie trade acquisitions, free agent signings, and draftees, all made significant contributions. Rose colored glasses still firmly affixed to face.

I’m laid up so I’m watching the Vikings packers game. Kyler Murray just slid and got a shot to the head similar to the one Burrow endured today. Murray did not endure it, clearly concussed.

Attention Bengal playcaller: Jamar Chase is on this team.

No clue what Burrow was seeing there. Trotter was just obviously there for the pick.

He’s unblockable one on one. All good from him, one funny note, Baker breaks out of the pocket and takes off, Dexter is closest, and he exhibits no desire to get into a footrace.