jletha

How do you do it? I even edited mine from "X" to "twitter"

https://twitter.com/wbutterspgh/status/1719408311236239471?s=20 Levi traded to Washington Apparently its not true, I was misled by Jeremy White. Blame him

Do you watch the other 31 teams? Why isnt the wizard Shanahan adjusting?

Im interested to see our dime package with Po as the box safety against Cincy. Seems like a good counter against their WRs. But as you say the key will be winning at the LOS. If we can do that consistently and force some longer 3rd downs I think we can get to them. Im also hopeful for a well-times blitx here and there that McD has shown thus far. The D was really rattled after the injuries but its inevitable that improve with more time to as a unit. They looked much better against TB than they did against NYG and NE, which were worse offenses. Cincy looked dominant last week but they have shown flashes of their "true form" a couple times this year only to then revert the next game. I am really optimistic that the offense will continue to look good.

Its not that bold. Even if you focus on the last 4 weeks we are the better offense. There is almost no stat the Bengals/Burrow are better at even in the limited set of last 4 games. This is why you cant just extrapolate out of one game. The Bengals were BAD against the Seahawks. After the Miami I thought we might never lose again...things change. Now this doesnt mean Im guaranteeing a win but we have been the better offense to this point in the season.

Yea Im anxious as well. being 6-3 in the log-jam AFC will help tremendously. I think we are the better team. We are the better offense pretty much across the board. Cincy played great on Sunday, lets see if they can continue it.

Its also only one game. They have looked downright bad many times this season, including one week prior. Much worse than Buffalo. We will see Sunday.

Cincy looked like most expected them to look all season yesterday. But this was FAR and away their best game of the year. This is a week to week league. Our offense looked unstoppable against Miami and quite good leading up to that, and then sputtered. A lot of teams can look great for one week and then not the next. Cincy is absolutely stoppable. Will we stop them? Who knows. But to imply its a foregone conclusion seems silly. And our should continue to improve on what we established Thus.

two weeks ago someone called in saying we needed to trade Diggs so we can spread the ball around more.

The offense played much better, it was obvious to anyone that watched. Im a big proponent of EPA/play but it doesnt encapsulate the EPA that was generated in-structure vs out of structure and how the offense looked overall. Everything against NE felt hard. The entire offense was Josh beating a rushing, rolling right and looking for someone downfield. Yesterday was executed much more in structure. Yes the second half wasnt great, drives stalled. But the offense played better than they had in the last three weeks. Now... I do think the offense played better against NE than people want to admit. So while they played better it may not be *that* much better.

might be interesting to Joe, that they leave a rookie thats been starting inactive. Its a bit interesting that they wouldnt want to even have him learn from experience.

He didnt say it would be surprising, just interesting.

lol so many people jumping to Gabe and a pending trade in the replies. I think its going to be much more mundane and DWill is my guess too. But whoever it is I would bet it is not anything that groundbreaking

Last year we kept waiting for the "get right" game and it never happened. Only difference is we were winning games. This year, I am not expect that to change. We will continue to struggle unless something of significance changes. That needs to come from Josh, Dorsey or McD.

Ive been saying this to all my friends and coworkers. Go get Suh. He came in last year for Philly and was good, and cheap.

They wont if the offense (that is not at all injured) scores points like the can and should.

Bass was 11-16 at 50+ over his career before the game. Much better odds than 50/50. Weather plays a role for sure but it was very uncharacteristic to miss both.

If we cant beat the Pats, even without Ed, then were in trouble. They went 10 straight quarters without a TD.

I remember having this same thought almost every week last season. "This is the get-right game!" and then it never came. I am not down on Dorsey overall because this season is more than just the last two games, but if 2 games becomes 3, 4, 5 then it is the same cycle as last year. Start hot and then the offense stalls and becomes a slog every game. Dorsey needs to show that the ship can be righted.

Josh leads the league in total TDS and total EPA

Felt like the offense and defense werent in sync. When the offense finally started to get going the defense started to let them move it and score. This game was just a few plays here and there from being a win. This game wouldnt be so bad, given the circumctances, if we had just beaten the Jets week 1.

uhhh except the Pats

I was watching some highlights from old games we won and now I cant help but notice how tentative he looks. Its such a stark difference between him and Bernard being instinctive.

And look at 18:52 here.

Im hoping that Miami can beat KC for us and then we beat them as well to help secure the #1 seed. Obviously we will need other things to work out for us down the stretch.