AFCC Championship Game

Finally calmed down enough to comment on the Steelers so-called AFCC game. What an embarrassment. Here's the rant:

The Steelers have equal or better talent than the Cheatriots, but that talent wasn't used properly by the coaching staff who remains unable to make in-game adjustments (like the Ravens game when he ran up the middle the entire game when it was clearly being shut down). Granted there were some TD drops by the receivers in the AFCC game, but the planning was atrocious and Bill Bellicheat made Tomlin and company look ridiculous.

Immature players who have to make the first down sign or celebrate a tackle when they're down by 21 points. That drives me nuts. Scoreboard,idiot! Maybe they're too busy on Facebook Live to care. And why does the coach put up with the juvenile antics? Bet you won't see that stuff from Belichick's team since it's not tolerated.

And let us not forget that a Hall of Fame QB's best years are being wasted by an OC and coach whose talent is suspect at this point. But Coach Cool Shades wears neat sunglasses, so there's that.

Starting a WR (Sammie Coates), who can't catch a cold since breaking his fingers or hands or whatever earlier in the year, over some impressive rookies or solid veterans (Heyward-Bey, for example). When WR is one of the deepest talent positions on the team, why start the crippled guy?

Then there's the best running back in the league who can't stay healthy (when he's not getting 4 game suspensions for wacky weed.) and said in a post-game media interview that he was hurt before the game. Smart move, dude. Another team just lost a 2nd round draft pick next year for not disclosing an injury. Go back to making your rap videos.

I'm especially disappointed that the team didn't win this one for their Hall of Fame 38 year old linebacker (who is still the biggest bad-ass on the field despite his age) who hopefully will come back for one more year.  His skill is rushing the passer, yet he gets put in coverage. What the heck were you thinking? Can we get a real Defensive Coordinator, please?

So to sum up, there were problems with execution by the players, especially the offense, but the coaching staff's job is to put players in the best position to win and they clearly didn't do that.  I mean, really, having your corners play 10 yds. off the receivers in a zone (with almost no blitzing) when you're being dinked and dunked to death? Why can a casual fan sitting at home see this but the professionals can't? Whatever happened to the smash mouth Blitzburgh defense of years past? How about man-to-man/press/bump and run coverage?  At least this way you're covering somebody instead of leaving opposing WRs alone in the end zone and giving their QB 8-10 seconds to throw the ball.

Rant over. There's plenty of time to heal and look forward to training camp next year (I mean the fans, not the players), but the window is closing fast for this team to win another Super Bowl. Go Falcons!