(11-03-2019, 08:40 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I gotta tell you, if the Steelers have a winning season or even win this damn division when Pig Ben spots them an 0-2 record before being out for the year...I just don't know.  I mean, we at least always had this notion that Ben would retire or start to stink and it would be "our time" to take over but here we are.  The Steelers and Ravens aren't great but they're reloading and competing for the division while we muddle about in our version of winless win-now football and vow to get 'em next year while we also hope the Browns don't figure out how to be decent.

(11-03-2019, 10:33 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Not if the Bengals also had the Steelers D and offensive line. 

(11-03-2019, 11:14 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: The Steelers have had injury share too too. Shazier is an obvious one several years ago, but they traded up to address that. Brown gone. Bell gone. That's 3 stars.

Take their win today:
Roethlisberger was out.
Conner was out.
Tuitt is out for the year.

At parts of the year, they were playing without Mason Rudolph. They traded their 3rd string QB...so they were down to 4th String QB.

We hear about the Bengals Tackle situation...but the Steelers played with a 4th string QB for several weeks...and WON some!

Yet here...we get a couple injuries and it's a license to go 0-8.

(11-03-2019, 11:30 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Your wind just changed direction.

Directly to your point, the Steelers have an elite Oline and a good defense that's holding teams to 21 pts a game. Their oline is opening holes for whoever runs the ball and they can protect the QB well enough to have him be Captain checkdown and still win close games. That's how they're winning with those guys. 

The Bengals are plenty bad enough in plenty of different ways. You don't need to invent scenarios where they would also be bad, if they weren't hypothetical. 

(11-03-2019, 11:36 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I'm more making the point that some people (not you) think that losing a couple players is enough to derail the season.

We've cited plenty of examples on the board of teams dealing with major injuries that still win. The Steelers are one such example.

Interestingly, the Steelers kept DeCastro while the Bengals passed on him in the draft and took Zeitler then let him go.

I guess it's all about what position groups teams value...but the Steelers draft well too.

Their trade for Fitzpatrick looks great too. At 4-4, it's not like they traded a Top 5 pick now. They ended up likely winning that trade.

(11-03-2019, 11:09 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Tomlin and company are actually good coaches. In Pittsburgh, he gets blamed for everything.

So we know the Bengals are bad this year. But, the good coaching staffs analyze our weaknesses...on defense they use misdirection and run outside on us and adjust their gameplan accordingly. Other teams just know they'll beat us so they use their same gameplan.

The Steelers installed Wildcat just for us.

(11-03-2019, 11:14 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: .but the Steelers played with a 4th string QB for several weeks...and WON some!


Yet here...we get a couple injuries and it's a license to go 0-8.