11-01-2015, 10:25 PM
(11-01-2015, 08:39 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: You *didn't* have a problem with allowing 6.1 yards per carry on the ground, or giving up 10/103 to a 33-year-old TE who only had 17/168 in the other SEVEN games this season?
I liked seeing Nelson hawking some balls and the Williams pick was impressive, but turnovers aside, it wasn't a pretty game. Didn't stop the run, didn't stop the TE, allowed 356 yards of offense. On average that'd be 16th in the league. There were long stretches of time when Ben had like 6-8 seconds in a clean pocket even though he was behind a Frankenstein O-Line.
Well since I doubt we can hold any team to zero yards I have no problem with a TE getting a few yards on us if it means we shut down the rest of the passing game. The Steelers only gained 240 yards on 48 passing plays. That is playing great pass defense. Doesn't matter if Ben had time to throw if we were shutting down his options down the field. We held Antonie Brown to just 47 yards.
The run D gave up one long run which up set me, but other than that the Steelers gained only 61 yards on 18 carries.
And, we held them to 10 total points.
This is a defensive performance that ant team would be proud of. I would have preferred that we did not give up one long run, but I am not going to ignore the rest of the game and cry about just one play.
