It's quite obvious that this is the achilles heel of the team. They as a unit suck, Cromartie was beaten and beaten badly all day. Wilson is constantly out of position. Walls wouldn't start on 75% of the teams in this league and Milliner.... is he even on the team? If the DL is supposed to help out the secondary how bad woudl our unit be if we had a terrible DL? Throw in we are relying on undersized guys like Trufant to make plays, you have admire his heart but he isn't the guy we should be counting on to make stops on 3rd down. Did one of our safetys make a tackle at all today? The blueprint is there to beat this team is there and next week could be really bad as the Jets likely won't have the added benefit of new Pats WR's learning the system and bad weather. The Jets have an amzing DL but they can't make stops all game long, all it takes is your OL holding up for a few possesions and you will move the ball against this team. I don't care how much Jim Nantz and Bill Cowher talk up the Steelers they are a bad football team and we allowed them to come into our house and bitch slap us all over the field.
1. Cro is playing hurt. I don't think Milliner played today. 2. Like I said, it is the depth issue. As long as you concentrate your team value at the starting players, you will see these results over and over again. 3. Trading up for a few prospects year after year, and giving out multiple bank breaker contracts will easily do that. For that, you should thank Tannenbaum before blaming the secondary. I am getting sick and tired of pointing this out.
Well the offense is clearly the achilles heel of this team and I dont see how anyone can say otherwise. Secondary is the biggest problem with our D for sure.
Because its his job to play and if he's healthy enough to be out there he will be out there. Do you not understand the different between 100% and still playing?
Cro was kind of bad 'before' this game too (Vincent Jackson burning him up and down in Week 1 for starters), but yeah with our ****ty secondary him on one leg is better than anyone else on two.
Because playing injured, chancing aggrevating the injury, and playing like a high schooler makes sense to you?
If he had a chance to further his injury he wouldnt have played. Its possible to play through an injury and playing wont risk further injury. He had a bad game but its still better than seeing Trufant play a starting role. Is this really that difficult for you to understand?
be interesting to see what happens with him after this season - he is a $9m cap saving if cut next year. all I do now is look at the potential savings ($8.3m for Sanchez; $8.2m for Holmes and maybe $9m for Cro) and looking to spend them!
no plays from safeties and imo cro does PI every play he is just overated, and walls well cant ask much from the dude.
1) Cro was healthy enough to play so I'm not buying the excuse oh well he gets a pass because he was hurt. It's not like his assignment was to cover Brandon Marshall, Megatron or Fitz. He was asked to cover a good but not great WR and was beaten nearly every play. The only reason he didn't give up a 2nd TD was because Brown dropped it. 2) I'd buy this response if the Steelers were playing above average guys, Miller is old, Brown again is a good but not great WR and Sanders is average at best. 3) Or Rex is a defensive guy, he should know defensive players, how about whiffing on Wilson big time and at least early on with Milliner as well. No one is expecting Idzik to work miracles overnight but Rex's decisions to bring 7 guys on 3rd and knowing he has trash in his secondary needs just as much blame as Tanny throwing money around.
Well that's true. A coach would never let an injured player play and watch him get hurt even more. Remind me what happened to RG3 last year?
I agree, 2 very solid players. Cromartie is a walking penalty and is terrible at times with his technique.
