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He would’ve had a big year anyway if he didn’t hurt his thumb…looked like he had trouble catching for a few weeks after the thumb injury. Still a great rookie season nonetheless

Felt like mostly offensive line/wrs blocking related penalties that derailed us on offense in the preseason game. My only memory of that game was us having like a 3rd and 30 lol I think no watt and a whole season of the offensive line getting snaps will clean that up I remember being more worried about the defense after that one though…Steelers marched right down and scored back to back drives

They couldn’t run the ball at all until the passing game picked up…don’t think they’re really suited to be a one dimensional smashmouth team

Get used to it we’re gettin 3 in a row (maybe 4+ if they end up in Buffalo in the playoffs) lol

I’m seein a lot less wind in the weather sites I typically frequent 😂 guess we’ll see who’s right. weather.gov ain’t even calling it windy they went a notch below and called it breezy lol 28th ranked rush defense by what metric? 😂 Steelers are 1-6 as that big of an underdog and 1-10 without watt…that bodes pretty well

I thought we’d get in with 10 wins and we technically would’ve so I’m taking partial credit lol

People are still scarred by that pats wind game lol

Oh yea that goes without saying too…I just didn’t feel like going through the ‘but every team has injuries’ then ‘yea but not to their 3-4 best defensive players’ debate again haha that defense we fielded against the pats was garbage…no Ed no Daquan no Milano no white or Douglas yet

Looking back on it I feel like a small part of it was just catching teams at the wrong time. We def sucked too though no question lol. The jets weren’t a joke yet week 1 because their oline was still in decent shape, then we got jax who were waiting for us in London and Denver on a crazy forced turnover hot streak. We got the bengals with burrow when a lot of the other wildcard hopefuls got them without. Steelers got them without burrow twice. It’s just so much funnier because Miami just doesn’t beat winning teams. Like in what world did we not have a chance next week?

I can’t argue with that logic…that’s a way to look at it that actually scares me 😂

Our team seems to only play well when the pressure is at its absolute highest possible point these days lol this might have scared me more a few years ago. Spread is up to -10 despite the over/under dropping to account for the weather for all those wind doomers out there 🤣

Def hurts those outside runs and he randomly has a huge game but there’s a lot of mistakes in the josh/davis connection too

It’s really not that simple…if you can’t really attempt to pass,the run game suffers also if you can’t at least threaten that you’re two dimensional still. Yes there’s a point where there’s so much wind that neither team could pass but we are not near that level. The steelers run game is directly linked to how their qb is playing and it really didn’t pick up consistently until Rudolph started hitting passes downfield. A good chunk of the season the Steelers offense was an absolute disaster

I mean you’re both makin valid points but the Steelers are 1-10 without watt lol that seems pretty relevant and isn’t exactly a small sample size. They could still win sure but I think you are big time underselling how good watt is…its not far off from us missing josh nobody seems to care about defense when talkin about best players in the league but you could def argue watt is the best player in the league

I mean your logic is flawless when talking about playing football in a hurricane which will absolutely never happen lol. But in real life, most running football teams have to mix some passes in to keep safeties out of the box and struggle when they cannot do so. No one is taking mason rudolph seriously in 30mph winds and we will just load up against the run. With josh or mahomes etc you don’t have that luxury and the offense is still multi dimensional.

These weather talks always make me chuckle lol josh is literally the prototypical bad weather qb and I don’t even think it’s really debatable. You’re worried because his stats get worse in bad weather and won’t even consider what that weather is doing to qbs that can’t throw 60 yard ropes or run like a fullback? the turnover points I totally agree with obviously but my response was to ‘the wind doesn’t care if you have a strong arm’ lol the wind absolutely cares

Watt means more to the Steelers than all those guys combined mean to the dolphins…if people cared about defense when they handed out awards he’d be the mvp every year lol the dolphins d didn’t give us fits we gave ourselves fits with terrible execution once we hit the Miami 35 yard line…we marched up and down the field on them all night.

I mean I think you’re saying the wind does care by adding ‘to some degree’ at the end of that lol a weaker armed qbs ball is getting blown off course much much more than a strong armed qb. josh plays worse in bad weather it’s no surprise at all but that doesn’t mean the other guy he’s up against in that weather doesn’t play even worse than their normal compared to josh vs his normal. He also runs like a fullback which makes bad weather tilt games his way too.

I think people don’t really conceptualize point spreads that right way…they see the -9.5 on paper next to the smaller spreads for other games and theyre like oh wow the game won’t even be close but in reality you can have a 10 point game that’s really competitive the whole way to go a step further, -9.5 means they think they’ll get even betting between people thinking the bills win by more than 10 and people that don’t. It doesn’t really mean Vegas thinks we’ll win by 10. it’s a big spread by nfl standards but when you compare it to those ‘alright this one team doesn’t have much of a chance’ type college games that are usually in the 20s it isn’t anything like that

18/20 for 134 yards when one of those plays was a 71 yard td against the ravens is the most nonsensical stat line I’ve ever seen. Without that play (which assuredly would not have happened with Kyle Hamilton playing) he was 17/19 for 63 yards lol

They’re a 7 win team that was gifted 3 division games by outrageous good fortune and easily the weakest team in the afc playoff field without watt. Even with watt they’re probably the weakest but it’s closer. If we are worried about this game we would’ve been worried about every game lol Any boost Rudolph has brought over Pickett/trubisky is negated by not having watt and you’ve gotta wonder in the back of your mind why Rudolph was the last to get a shot of those guys lol

It really kind of did lol we were passing the ball into the wind without much issue late in that one to the point where I think even belichick was pretty shocked. Not sure why we didn’t attempt it sooner.

Idk that it does…Rudolph doesn’t have any zip on the ball and the Steelers rushing attack isn’t exactly otherworldly. They’ll be one dimensional all game. When we were weaker in the trenches on both sides this argument made more sense but I think bad weather favors Buffalo even more in this one

It could be McDaniel just not running it as well it’s tough for me to say without being in the organization haha but it’s so odd to me that it’s like the same two-three route combinations all day that tua is throwing in the same amount of time at the same location on the field. They’re never gonna consistently beat good teams this way it just isn’t possible. My suspicion based on seeing tua pre McDaniel is tua is the issue but there’s no way to know for sure. seeing McDaniel praised as some offensive guru kind of makes me chuckle honestly lol. They disguise it pretty well presnap and it will fool the bad teams but it’s just too predictable for the better DCs

I really don’t even think he’s a good qb for the mcdaniel/shanahan system either. Tua is holding the system back imo. Bills blitzed one time and gave tua plenty of time and he looked even more uncomfortable than usual which just can’t happen at an nfl level. Purdy runs it much better…he will at least hold the ball and attempt to make all the throws/give wrs a chance to adjust their routes. McDaniel seems like he has training wheels on the Shanahan system to baby tua along