The Official ? Monday Night Football Cleveland Browns at Pittsburgh Steelers Thread ? Sept 18

FALCON7

I fear that he may never play again, he tore that same knee up in 2015.

syd

FUCK

The Cysko Kid

@falcon7 said:

I fear that he may never play again, he tore that same knee up in 2015.

Don't you put that kind of evil on him Ricky Bobby.

Dutch Oven

Jesus, that half mentally felt like three games.

hoorta

@dutch-oven said:

He was excellent in Houston. There is no denying that.

He's looked like an absolute shell of that here. I gave him leeway at the end of last season, but this can't go on forever. He looks so damn robotic. Nothing looks natural with him with the Browns.

If you watched the Dolphins Patriots game the difference between Watson and Tua is night and day . Tua BOOM, the ball is out . Desean is indecisive, and his accuracy is suckfull. Without Chubb, we're screwed.

The Cysko Kid

Do any of the old timey historians here know if there's more leg injuries on average in today's NFL than in the old days when they could hit differently?

syd

NATIONAL BROADCAST I just saw Nick go down. was it a cheap shot ?

D Bone

Do we ring up Hunt's phone?

The Cysko Kid

@hoorta said:

If you watched the Dolphins Patriots game the difference between Watson and Tua is night and day . Tua BOOM, the ball is out . Desean is indecisive, and his accuracy is suckfull. Without Chubb, we're screwed.

I was pretty impressed with Tua. I had not paid much attention to him up until that game yesterday.

D Bone

@syd said:

NATIONAL BROADCAST I just saw Nick go down. was it a cheap shot ?

No.

The Cysko Kid

@syd said:

NATIONAL BROADCAST I just saw Nick go down. was it a cheap shot ?

I don't think it was.

The Junkyard Dog

I love how dramatic fans on social media are being saying season is done if Chubb is done for the season(Which 99 percent chance he is). Hunt is out there, hell even somehow get Taylor if we can. Sucks for Chubb, but with that kind of thinking, might as well not watch us the rest of the season.

tiamat63

Coaches don't want to run inside with Ford, because they don't trust his hands or vision. Immediately negates our best advantage with Chubb out.

Dawand winning a couple, losing a big few. Wills also more of the same against HighSmith. The empty sets are difficult to keep up with when the Steelers are using their 5 under, flashing the willingness to invert their safeties and you can't pass pro long enough to drive the ball down field to attack the latter.

Interesting zone rotations from PIT. Those looks are throwing off the post snap sight adjusts. I like using Moore off the line, but unless the routes are positive breaks, you're struggling to get him going on the perimeter. Have to get him more to a classic 'Z'.

I'll have to see what the defensive bust was when the film is out tomorrow night, maybe Wednesday morning. Delpit had the blown coverage on the first 3rd down conversion, I hope it wasn't him.

Bryant has to be the #3 out there, Adkins needs to be on the field. Especially with the connection he has from his time in HOU with those post snap rotations I mentioned.

Just sloppy football from both sides, difficult to watch. Then you toss in the injury to Nick from an emotional perspective and just... dear God. An absolute gut punch.

Neo

They need to take those new helmets and burn them. Those things are cursed.

I literally can't think about anything else other than Chubb. As soon as I seen it I thought about that injury he had in college. Just fucking terrible!!

The Cysko Kid

@d-bone said:

Do we ring up Hunt's phone?

I don't know. Is he the best guy available? What happened to that third string back we had a year or two ago? He looked pretty solid.

D Bone

@the-junkyard-dog said:

I love how dramatic fans on social media are being saying season is done if Chubb is done for the season(Which 99 percent chance he is). Hunt is out there, hell even somehow get Taylor if we can. Sucks for Chubb, but with that kind of thinking, might as well not watch us the rest of the season.

I have a hard time believing that anyone in the front office thinks Ford can be the lead back. Those self proclaimed smart dudes are going to have to earn their money and soon.

FALCON7

@d-bone said:

Do we ring up Hunt's phone?

Why, does he know of a Decent QB?

Dutch Oven

@the-cysko-kid said:

Do any of the old timey historians here know if there's more leg injuries on average in today's NFL than in the old days when they could hit differently?

I have a hard time believing players lead with their heads like Fitzpatrick did before facemasks.

Plus there probably is a lot more muscle tears because of how muscular players are now, almost to a fault.

SdBacker80

I’d say simplify the offense but I think some of these “routine” throws aren’t where they need to be.

Say a prayer for Nick Chubb.

bjh2130

@hoorta said:

If you watched the Dolphins Patriots game the difference between Watson and Tua is night and day . Tua BOOM, the ball is out . Desean is indecisive, and his accuracy is suckfull. Without Chubb, we're screwed.

That isn't always on the qb. The dolphins run a ton of rpo and quick passes so it's going to come out faster. The dolphins have a west coast style passing offense.

Stefanski does not call very many of those types of passes. It's 5 step drops play action with deep drops. He's going to need to adapt his game plan without chubb. We shall see if he can