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NFL 2008
- Thread starter TigerForce
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elliot said:
The Hun's already started with a 'Bad Luck Ben' title making it look like he was in the core of the game. Please media no more Ben Graham.
This match has rekindled my interest in the nfl a bit , used to watch it back in the don lane days but never really had a team..
Had a soft spot for the broncos when elway was around so perhaps i should go for them..
The steelers are yellow and black but for some reason i don't like them plus following them
would make me a bandwagoner..Perhaops i will just pull a name out of a hat!
Had a soft spot for the broncos when elway was around so perhaps i should go for them..
The steelers are yellow and black but for some reason i don't like them plus following them
would make me a bandwagoner..Perhaops i will just pull a name out of a hat!
elliot said:
Don't worry about bandwagoning.
I took up with the Steelers in the early '70s because they were yellow & black and they were great.
I wouldn't have seen them on Australian TV in the early 70s unless they were a top side.
Now I'm a near 40 year supporter.
Come on board the Steelers. For the last 25 years, they've given me far more joy than the Tigers have.
Thank you Steve Young and Tom Jackson. They have vindicated my comments this morning/afternoon about the Cardinal offense and how to a large degree, this loss is on them on account of not trying hard enough to get the ball to their gun receivers in the first 3 quarters and relying way too much on running the ball. The game only came alive in that last quarter when they started attempting to throw it more.
FFS, Fitzgerald and Boldin have 3,000 receiving yards between them this year. Warner is ranked second in passing yards. To make a measly 7 or 8 dinky attempts to those two receivers in the first 3 quarters, and only a couple to Fitzgerald in particular, is a joke. They carved up the Eagles secondary easily enough which is ranked ahead of Pittsburgh, so why they were so reluctant to take them on is bewildering.
Pissweak coaching by Haley. Pissweak.
FFS, Fitzgerald and Boldin have 3,000 receiving yards between them this year. Warner is ranked second in passing yards. To make a measly 7 or 8 dinky attempts to those two receivers in the first 3 quarters, and only a couple to Fitzgerald in particular, is a joke. They carved up the Eagles secondary easily enough which is ranked ahead of Pittsburgh, so why they were so reluctant to take them on is bewildering.
Pissweak coaching by Haley. Pissweak.
Phantom said:
I was watching Richmond before that miracle pass from Roethy. Leading all day and losing in the last few minutes.
Red blames the Cards coaching, I somehow question our coaching. Why the hell use Polamalu as a 'tagger' on Fitzgerald in first 3 quarters, and, where was he in the last quarter?
Roethy seriously needs to lose weight and move faster because he was close to copping a few sacks.
TigerForce said:
Dunno if you can say Polamalu was "tagging" Fitzgerald as such. As a strong safety you dont play hard one on one with receivers. That's the cornerbacks jobs. A strong safety sits way back in the secondary and more sweats on them and acts as the last - or as the name suggests - safety stop.
Fact was, Haley was too scared to let Warner throw it deep enough to their gun receivers and take the deep safetys on.
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Redford said:
Yeah maybe not exactly 'tagging', but from what I noticed, Polamalu covered Fitzgerald quiet well through the first three quarters. Safety and Cornerbacks are virtually the same in Defensive back positions.
Redford said:
Agree entirely. Especially when your running game is as average as the Cards. Edgerrin James is a shadow of his former self and Tim Hightower is not an every down back. An incredible passing offense with a gun QB, 2 elite WR's and a very handy 3rd WR have got them this far and then they abandon it for much of the game??? I also thought that Warner looked in Boldin's direction too often rather than Fitzgerald, until the last quarter.
Did anyone else think that the ref's went soft on some plays too? I thought that the Steelers got by far the best run from them. I couldn't believe how soft one roughing the passer penalty was and the roughing the holder, even though they are a protected species, was weak too.
Finally, I'd like to thank Foxtel as I recorded the game on IQ only to have a bunch of mates come around and watch the entire thing until the recording stopped with 35 seconds to go, at the climax where I was hoping that Arizona would come back for a miracle win. Geez, that frustrates me. Lucky another mate taped it on Channel 10 so we all went to his place to watch 35 seconds of Football.
jayfox said:
Agree on those ref calls. A lot of them were soft.
During the game I said to my mate watching it with me that Warner's pass attempt with seconds left was an incomplete pass and that his arm went forward. The refs in the booth called it a fumble but now that there's been ample reviews of it, there's a broad train of though that his arm did in fact go forward. That would have left the Cards with one more attempt to win the game. Why the on-field refs didnt do a review is very strange.
Cards definitely got the rough end of the stick with the calls by the refs. Having said that, I have no probs with how the Steelers won.
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