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It's not the first time Tomlin has threatened his team this year. Unfortunately it rings a little hollow because they don't have the depth. If Ike Taylor doesn't play they're not going to be bringing much on either side of the ball. Art Rooney the second declared a couple of years ago that they needed to get back to "Steelers " football, running the ball and playing defense. They got rid of Arians and went to Haley. The drafts under Tomlin have been uninspiring other than Timmons/Woodley who were in the bridge draft after Cowher. It's not like they haven't drafted in the trenches, they just haven't had big successes between health problems and lack luster play to replenish their front line players and they are also not hitting many in the later rounds. Their OT's are especially bad and I think we're going to abuse them. Maybe I'm a little jaded because I have lived here for a long time and I'm tired of hearing about the Steelers from their "fans", but I think we're going to take them behind the woodshed and give them a whooping. We are more physical on the lines and I hope we cram it down their throats and Kiko has a nice game. I'm not going to be surprised if we knock Ben out of the game. I'll be as happy as I was when I saw Frank Reich beat them in person at the 92 wildcard game.

Yeah, I'm going to say he's pretty well aware of that. I'l point to the decision to let Tjax walk so EJ could get more reps as evidence.

So he will take a beating and a booing?

Why stop there, how about Manuel? We can always get another QB in the 2014 draft and Manuel should fetch a first rounder even! /sarcasm

He cannot beat one on one blocks and make tackles, especially tackles for loss. Doesn't matter where you line up, if you can't do that you're not going to be good. He was the number 3 pick in the draft and has not played up to that pedigree. He has some more time, but that is quickly running out. I think he's been Buddy's worst pick given the draft position and his production. It's a shame because if he could play this defense would be outstanding with all the other talent that's been added.

There are a lot of excuses, not a lot of production. He was brought in to help the run d, he has not, at all.

Donte Whitner and Marshawn Lynch are better players/draft picks than Marcell Dareus.

I point more toward our olb, either getting washed out, not reading keys or just not talented enough.

I would have liked to see the offense get a first down or two from where they got the ball, giving us a little more breathing room. There was a breakdown in coverage, but even if that had been fair caught the ball would have ended up around the 50 yard line. They won the battle of field position in overtime and we paid for it with a loss.

With Stevie out, it seemed to me Hogan got most of the slot work in the 3 wide set and Graham/Woods handled the 2 wide sets. I think we would see more of Easley if Graham or Woods went down, I don't think he's much of a slot guy and more of an outside guy. I think/hope we will see more of Goodwin instead of Hogan in the 3 wide sets if Stevie is out, assuming Goodwin is healthy. I assume Goodwin wasn't ready this week just coming off the injury. Thad needs to find Chandler more often, he was getting open.

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P1 run stopping DL I'm tired of not seeing any tackles for loss P2 OG, M5 We need a starter and depth P3 OLB - See if we kind find someone maybe a little smaller who can be a force P4 cb, rb - age at rb; we already have 2 1's and 2 2's in the defensive backfield, we need to upgrade our depth (pending byrd). P5 - qb - We could use another qb to develop.

Yes, still in lockdown with his group.

My brother inlaw is in there also, a fine first day after making chief on Friday.

Seems like there won't be a concenses on this. It will be interesting to see what Chip Kelly does with his hurry up in a similar situation. On another note, did anyone else think the Bills started using their timeouts too late? Not that our D stopped them anyway, but I was expeting them to use the timeouts right after the 2 minute warning, especially after getting that penalty on NE*.

Point being the extra minute did not matter because they had the timeouts and would not have used them until closer to the two minute warning anyway. The only advantage of taking more time in this case was to help the defense recover. If NE* would have scored quicker we would have had more time at the end of the game. But they managed to dink and dunk the rest of the time off the clock. We needed to be two scores out before employing the slowdown against a good team.

Yes, because the Pats* still had their timeouts.

I agree with everything here except responsibility for the penalties. The Bills have had issues in the preseason also and he needs to get across to the players that they cannot win with that kind of play. That is on Marrone and his staff, they have to make the commitment during practice to stop those lapses.

Does anyone know of a site or other source that calculates the cash spend of a team as specified in the new cba?

+1 I liked the one sack we got against Det where he sent half the folks on the line but I don't think that was considered a blitz.

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How about Mark Asper?

It was a deep throw down the right, I didn't see the full route to say if it was a go route or whatever. The ball was short to the inside and Goodwin dove toward his left to try to catch it.

They may be trying to get a guard for Scott if Legursky's injury is as bad as it looked. I don't understand why the oline doesn't wear knee braces in these "meaningless" games.

Goodwin is not a player who you lead toward the defender, the ball needs to be thrown away from the defender. We'll just disagree on this one.