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You're right, somehow that game is erased from my memory. Weird, 5 points for the Steelers in the fourth quarter.
Metacritic is probably the most useful, since it includes all of the major media outlets, sites, papers, reviewers, etc. They currently have it as a 46.
Great to review Brady’s dominance historically speaking, but I’ll feel a bit better once we start to go through the individual breakdowns and specific matchups. I think that Pittsburgh played a fair amount of zone coverage in the past, and all I’ve heard since January here in every barbershop, bar, etc was how they were dedicating their offseason to attempting to matchup better with NE. I think they’ve at least narrowed the gap with additional speed and higher quality secondary players. Burns (1st rounder) and Davis (2nd rounder) add a lot to the acquisition of Joe Haden, and Mitchell isn’t great but he’s definitely serviceable as a hard (dirty) hitting safety.""I guess I just find it ironic that the “we own Pittsburgh” (except for 2004, 2008, and 2011) argument somehow holds water here, but people chose to totally ignore the historic struggles of going to Mile High, saying that each year is different. You can’t really have it both ways.""
Come on Sup, I know you aren't new to reading NFL fan posts and the long standing tradition of wanting it both ways
((assuming this stat page was correct))(not counting the Cassell game)
8-2 under Brady, 4-0 at home, 4-2 at Pitt.
Since Tomlin(07) as the head coach it's 6-1
Brady's stats (final score)(def ranking PA) against Tomlin's Steelers:
12/9/2007: 32 of 46 for 399 yards, 4 TDs 0 INTs, 125.2 passer rating (23-13)(2)
11/14/2010: 30 of 43 for 350 yards, 3 TDs 0 INTs, 117.4 passer rating (39-26)(1)
10/30/2011: 24 of 35 for 198 yards, 2 TDs 0 INTs, 101.8 passer rating
(25-17)(1)
11/3/2013: 23 of 33 for 432 yards, 4 TDs 0 INTs, 151.8 passer rating (55-31)(14)
9/10/2015: 25 of 32 for 288 yards, 4 TDs 0 INTs, 143.7 passer rating (28-21)(11)
10/23/2016: 19 of 26 for 222 yards, 2 TDs 0 INTs, 124.2 passer rating(27-16)(10)
01/22/2017: 32 of 42 for 384 yards, 3 TDs 0 INTs, 127.5 passer rating (36-17)(10)
I can't speak for others and winning or losing the next game isn't determined by last year's stats. But it is a fair reading that BB and TB have notable success when playing a Pitt team that otherwise beats most of their opponents, no?
The stat that looks to be a good thing for the Steelers: last time they had the #1 D and faced the Patriots is the last time they beat the Patriots (they had one seriously stingy D in 2011, 14 points per game, 271 yards per game, lead almost every category).
Even though I never claimed otherwise, I’m not as sure about that as you seem to be. I had assumed that like any other team, they played a mix of zone and man coverages dependent upon various factors, but that isn’t even the point. What I said was that they changed their personnel in an attempt to be able to play Brady/NE better, by bringing in more man coverage players, which they certainly have.
Haden is something to keep an eye on, but all of the initial reports stated that they expected him back in about 3-4 weeks (edit: now could be 4-6) since it was just a hairline fracture.
The Steelers scored first and never looked back. If I recall correctly, had it not been for a Gary Guyton red zone INT the game would’ve been much worse. It would’ve been 24-7 or at least 21-7 at the half. The Steelers were up double digits to start both halves. They were actually up 23-10 with about 2:00 minutes remaining, but we scored a garbage time TD with about 2 mins left, so the score appears to be closer than it was.
it seems as the winner against Brady is the "Houston" or before that it was the "Baltimore". Satisfactory run D/keeping downs and distances in the middle or above range, overfill the middle/passing lanes with a zone using a minimalist pass rush that still collapses the pocket in a relatively reasonable amount of time. ((again just based on my recollection -- not stats based)). A team can do that and it's uphill for our offense to thrive. Otherwise the offense sufficiently thrives the vast majority of the time (an outright poor OL performance helping to explain many).
As stated by others, Haden is expected to be back by the beginning of December, while the Patriots game isn’t until 12/17. But who cares about Haden when you have Burns (first rounder) and Davis (second rounder) to pair with him. The decision to play more man coverage was also the reason why they retained Mitchell and moved on from ****rell. Brady and company may once again prove how much better they are, but there shouldn’t be much debate about Pittsburgh improving their secondary.
I’m going with Dr.Chao’s opinion, which is in the 4-6 game timeframe. The game is still about a month away, so there’s another 4 weeks right there. Everyone here in town seems to be very optimistic about him returning, so we’ll have to see. The popular thought seems to be that it was just a hairline fracture. The initial diagnosis was that he could be back in 3-4 weeks, although that seemed to be wishful thinking for Steelers fans, to me.
