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It's been against bad teams so far, but when you're a good team, you're supposed to dominate bad teams and we have so far. The next couple weeks will be a much better gauge to see where we are at. As good as this defense has been, they haven't been able to stop the Chiefs at all the last couple years. The thing is, I am actually more concerned about the coaching against the Chiefs than the actual players. The last couple of game plans have been awful against their skilled players and until they can actually do it against the Chiefs, the questions will always remain. For me, it's pretty simple......I'm bracketing Kelsey and Hill and forcing their other players to beat us. If they can do it, more power to them, but I am not letting those guys do it.

All week this is what I wanted to happen. I wanted Brown at RT and Williams at G. To me, it's about getting your best 5 on the field and Brown has been playing like one of the best 5 in the opportunities he's had. I am not sure Williams will be a great G, but I think he will be a big upgrade over Ford who I have thought was a terrible pick from the beginning. I think if you give Brown and Williams a few games together, they will settle in a bit. Mongo isn't the greatest, and I wish we could upgrade that G spot as well, but he's serviceable for now, I guess. But, if I'm Beane, I'm trying to trade for a G to upgrade the line. But, for this game, I was happy to see the put Brown on the field and I hope they continue to do so with Williams inside to see if they can get that side solidified.

At this point, the biggest thing I want Beane to be doing is finding upgrades on the offensive line. Even though I am not a fan of Levi, the defense has been good and, if they can play like they are against good teams and good QBs, they will be good enough to win a Super Bowl with. The O-Line, especially at G, are our weakest link at this point and may be the thing that keeps us from winning the whole thing. Mongo and Ford, as much as I don't want to say it, are not good enough, especially when facing good interior lineman. They are serviceable enough to get by against bad teams, but we've already seen on multiple occasions that teams can wreck our offense, no matter how good we are everywhere else, with interior pressure. We're good enough to win the Super Bowl this year. Not a doubt in my mind. I'd just hate for everything to go to waste because we can't give Allen time to throw and give him pressure in his face as soon as the ball is snapped when it counts the most. I want Beane to be exploring the trade market for at least 1 really good guard. There are going to be some teams out of the running sooner than later and if we have a chance to pluck a guard that is a huge upgrade, I want to be doing that ASAP. Draft picks are nice, but this team should be going all in to win the Super Bowl this year.

Last I checked, Allen had 4 passing TDs and a rushing TD in that game. Two to Sanders, 1 to Moss, and 1 to Knox.

I honestly believe the Bills would have had a shot at the all time sack record for a game if Tua stayed in. I think eventually he would have been out of the game no matter how you slice it.......wither by another injury or by being pulled. The game would have been more lopsided.

There are a lot of things you can point to as the reason we lost this game. But, honestly, I think you're overthinking it if you go too far beyond the LOS. It's been proven time and time again that no matter how good an offense is, if you can get pressure with only 4 (sometimes it was only 3 yesterday), and can stop the run with that same 4 more often than not while dropping everyone else into coverage, you can stop virtually any offense. It happened to the Cheats in the Super Bowls against the Giants and the Chiefs just last year against the Bucs. It's what every defense aspires to be able to do. It's what we're trying to do on defense as well. The problem is, not many teams can do it week in and week out. But, yesterday, the Steelers manhandled our O-Line and got pressure all day with 4 and sometimes 3. I don't care how good your WRs are because if there is 7-8 men back in coverage, the 3 or 4 WRs in a pattern aren't going to find much room to work, especially in 2-3 seconds. The only way to combat that is to be able to run the ball effectively and get them to have to leave some LBs up close to the LOS to help the line and the Steelers D-Line was just too much for our offensive line to move yesterday even if it was 5 on 4 or 5 on 3 yesterday. Yes, there were bad play calls. Yes, there were drops, Yes, Allen wasn't as sharp as he could have been yesterday. Yes, the coaching was terrible at times. There were a lot of things wrong with yesterday, but not being able to block their front 3 or 4 consistently all day was the primary reason for it.

Yup. It's a talent issue for sure. They aren't good enough there so it's about finding an answer. Since there isn't a good idea out there on the streets, and a trade most likely difficult and unlikely right now, the Williams move may be the only card we will have to play because the players we have aren't talented enough at that position.

Our G play was atrocious today. While I am not ready to pull the trigger in this yet, if the awful play continues, I am slipping Williams inside to G and I'm letting Brown work at RT. I think he is one of our best 5 lineman and should be on the field, but he's too tall to play inside. I think Williams could do real well at RG and I would be banking on Brown's natural ability and athleticism to pick up the NFL speed sooner than later. Again, I am not ready to do it yet, but if our guards continue to get manhandled up front, I will be ready to try this.

I need a flag count.....This is brutal.

Why did it look like Haack took forever to try and kick that? Timing is off everywhere today. Outside of the defense, this team has been awful today.

These freaking refs are doing everything they can to help the Steelers win.

The play calling in the big moments today has been brutal.

Thank you Tomlin for not going for it!

We really need to dial up some more slants. They are there and we had some success with them in the first half.

Terrible phantom PI cost us points. Going to need the offense to step up here. The refs are keeping the Steelers in the game.

Welcome to the 21-22 Season, Mr. Allen. LET'S FREAKING GO!!!!

Allen not sharp yet, but man......you have to go for it there.

Oliver has played a great game so far.

Should have been a TD on the board. They'll hit that if they get it again. More worried about the holding calls. We can't be in the hole every series.

Thank you. I've seen this one a few times.

That was OPI, but I'll let it slide just this once because Godwin is on my fantasy team. But seriously, Brady always gets a call, or a no call in this case, to help him in these situations.

Going to dink and dunk it down the field. Cowboys will miss a turnover or a stop by a few inches that will come back to haunt them. Maybe throw in a phantom penalty to help Brady and a 30-some yard kick for the win.

Wait....what happened? I looked at this 20 minutes ago and the Bills were up by almost 4% and now they are losing? The Browns got like 3000 straight votes?

Then you haven't been paying enough attention to Dolphins fans lately....... I could understand NY (NJ) a little bit, but they are awful. Maybe next year for them if they improve. We already did New England and the other teams wouldn't care. Most other fan bases acknowledge us already. Dolphin fans are really annoying, especially the Tua die-hards.

Hey everyone! We're back in the finals this year and it's a close battle! We put the billboard in the middle of Cheats country last season and it's time to put one in the Fish's front yard this year! This will be extremely close and every vote will count! Get on over there and let them know who the Mafia is and defend our title!!!!