(09-26-2019, 02:31 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-26-2019, 01:08 PM)Rico Wrote: You mean the 2017 when  they led the league in rushing and were 6th on total offensive yards?  That 2017?

If you're gonna make dumb comments, at least have some truth to them.

But that's not how today's football is played.  It's archaic!

It is archaic. They only managed to win 10 games with that approach and they were pulling special teams trick plays out of their [BLEEP] every other week to sustain the offense and give the defense a break. We had no Watson and Luck to deal with as well and there were several other teams on that schedule in 2017 that had injuries at the QB position or rookies or washed up veterans. 

And yet the tacks still managed to sweep them that year. They let Blaine Gabbert beat them in Arizona too and there was a handful of other games that they should have won but managed to give away because they simply could not get it done through the air when they needed to in order to compensate for being figured out on the ground. 

That conservative play calling [BLEEP] cost them a Superbowl trip. Period. They were lucky to beat Buffalo and they've historically always had Pittsburgh's number (they damn near let them comeback and beat them too). Buffalo was probably just as inept or boring on offense in 2017 with Tyrod Taylor at QB. Tired of seeing everybody on here hang their hats on 2017 like it's something to be proud of. They overachieved with an underachieving schedule due to injuries. 

Go back and look at the QB's they faced in 2017. It was pretty favorable for this team in general.

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