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It's unreasonable for us to find out about it in a press conference haha

That's kind of true with post-game pressers in general...its kind of a silly process. Teams go to great lengths to not give away a single thing...its like a political debate 🤣

He thought he had a free play on that one...steelers were Offside and got away with it

I think if he was being honest he wouldve said 'the steelers late shifts on defense completely caught us by surprise and destroyed our presnap reads completely and we will do our best to be better prepared' but we don't want to advertise that to every team in the league 🤣

Yep he could have done a better job at that no question

This was another one of those things I've commented in 40 threads so I might have said this here before lol but our receivers were all seriously injured for the playoffs so I'm not sure what the steelers did and what was happening to our offense in the playoffs is the same

Yea I think we get a lot of information presnap by spreading out the d with 4 wr sets and Josh just wasn't getting enough time to go through progressions...the optimist in me wants to say the steelers unveiled something that caught us by surprise that we will be ready for in the future and we still couldve had the win despite that

Gotta think the late shifts the steelers were doing were messing with his presnap reads...which is the brilliant plan the steelers defenders were tweeting about leading up to this game lol

Yea having a defense that can actually get a stop once in awhile will make a huge difference compared to last year lol I do understand people thinking the bad offensive is a trend when looking at some of the playoff games last year though

Yep it's the common denominator in all the losses. He doesn't typically force the ball into tight coverages anymore except on those few times he thought he had free plays but he will pass up some 4-5 yard gains looking for more and teams rely on him doing that to win. Cowboys had a similar strategy of completely foregoing the run against the bucs to not play to the strengths of their front 7 but dak did a better job of taking what he was given

Exactly and 4 wide and 5 wide sets created tons of mismatches today we just couldn't execute on the field. You still have a threat to run with allen which is why you see the qb designed runs. Just a bad game I don't think the team is broken. If the pit dbs were stacked and the front 7 was shaky I think you would've seen more balance. Reminded me of the cowboys gameplan against the bucs but dak took more of the underneath stuff and didn't push as hard for the deep ball. They were a BS pushoff away from winning that game I dont think 20 more Elliot carries for 3 ypc or less wouldve helped their chances

Honestly allen shouldve been more check downy and we win that game...guy is trying to hit a home run every play. He's so used to having to put the team on his shoulders and play out of his mind to win but the defense had his back today

This is a joke but I think he has too many weapons 🤣 seems like he diagnoses oh man I'm gonna have diggs or Davis or sanders etc open on this deep cross if I just buy myself another split second and passes up a lot of the underneath stuff that would move the chains in a couple games every year

Haha you could be right it's too early to tell anything about any team. Seems like there's a lot more good defensive linemen are coming into the league than offensive linemen so more and more teams with pocket passers are struggling. Brady is an absolute freak of nature at diagnosing the plays so he totally can't be used as evidence 🤣 Idk where everyone was getting these super lofty expectations from as far as regular season record goes...the division is def gonna be tighter and that was reflected in our season wins over/under total.

How do you separate what the qb should get credit for from what the OC should get credit for though especially in a game like today. Really everyone excels against bad competition and struggles against better defenses lol that's what makes them statistically good defenses.

Oh yea I agree I dont really care who anybody blames for the loss 🤣 I just think the evidence shows this game is more likely to be an outlier than anything. This whole 'the other team knows we're running 4 wr sets' thing is going overboard though because there are tons of options out of even an empty set with a mobile qb This is def true...at least it looked like he only forced balls into double coverage when we shouldve had free plays but he goes for the home run when there's receivers open for modest gains pretty often

The scheme worked josh just had a bad game...idk if that makes people feel better or worse 🤣 there were open receivers all game that either dropped the ball or were overthrown or he just straight up didn't see

A couple of those stupid decisions were blown calls to be fair... that 4th and 8 bomb should have been a free play the later play where he thought he had too many men on the field on a first down play was a little closer No respect for Cole beasley huh lol those guys that can settle in the gaps of zone defense are the unsung heroes of an offense and we struggled a bit when he was playing on one leg in the playoffs

Trying to catch them off guard... also you figure you need the stop anyway so they were probably trying to make sure they ended up with the last possession too where a score wins the game. 6 minutes or so with 3 timeouts is plenty of time

An underthrow could be an absolute disaster though too depending on how the DB has it played...an overthrow is much safer usually on a deep ball. I think most of that was not having the game reps with sanders yet...Josh probably got the ball where he wanted it

I think daboll is the punching bag because of the horrible 4th down call. Offense was sloppy all game...the plays were there...the scheme was working fine. I've probably said this 14 times in this thread because I've lost track of what threads I'm respond to 🤣 but the chiefs defensive 'performance' in the afc championship anz the game earlier in the year was nonsense. No idea why the refs were fine with it that week and not having it in the super bowl but reverse those two officiating crews and maybe we win a shootout. Probably not cuz our defense was dreadful but you never know

Haha I mean I'm sure it effects their analytics on a 50+ yard fg...going for a fg and missing is just as bad as throwing it into double coverage on 4th and 8 because you think you have a free play 🤣 it's just so easy for us to criticize with the power of hindsight...If they kicked the fg and missed we'd all be saying they should've gone for it lol

They were clearly Offside...do qbs usually wait to see the flag come out before they throw it deep in situations like that? I'm not sure

Slants are manbeaters and teams do not play man against us except for the dolphins who we have roasted every time haha chiefs did too but they played suspiciously good man coverage 🤣

How bad was the wind...that was into the wind I think