tony hipchest
11-21-2010, 12:05 AM
i have watched panic set in steelernation this week. the sky is falling, the steelers are suddenly grossly flawed, and many think the playoffs are a distant dream.
nothing has changed from when we were the media darlings and atop the power rankings 2-3 weeks ago.
even the beatdown the pats gave us is the "same ol shit, different day".
belichick did what he always does. find a teams weaknes, or most vulnerable point in experience, and exploit it.
he did it to william gay. he did it to anthony smith. he even did it to troy polamalu in '04.
if you listen to frustrated steelerfans, these players completely suck and were the downfall.
fans of a team that refuses to adapt and forulate an unorthadox gameplan based around the specific weaknesses of each and every opponent would think as much.
what belichick did to the steelers he is doing to the league. the greatest thing about belichick (other than being the most adept at stealing signals, and raping other teams in trades) is being ahead of the curve in X's and O's and influencing how teams and the entire league adapts.
the weaknes point of the league is that so many teams have scrambled to find 3 cb's to cover the 3 wr sets that are in vogue (the teams set up to stop the power run game are still behind the curve).
teams are building to stop brady-welker-moss-stallworth-gafney
or manning-harrison-wayne- stokely- clark
in the meantime, bill is exploiting teams adjustments by dumping watson and moss, and drafting 2 early pick TE's.
steelerfans still scoff at the drafting of spaeth cause they had miller. the patriots dumped their miller and drafted 2 spaeths( who are now a central point of their offense).
as sal palantonio said on thursday, belichick has realized that the TE is the "queen on the chess board" of todays nfl.
this was proven last sunday. time to learn our lessons and move on and realize we still got a pretty damn good team.
if we meet the patriots again, we will see how good.
nothing has changed from when we were the media darlings and atop the power rankings 2-3 weeks ago.
even the beatdown the pats gave us is the "same ol shit, different day".
belichick did what he always does. find a teams weaknes, or most vulnerable point in experience, and exploit it.
he did it to william gay. he did it to anthony smith. he even did it to troy polamalu in '04.
if you listen to frustrated steelerfans, these players completely suck and were the downfall.
fans of a team that refuses to adapt and forulate an unorthadox gameplan based around the specific weaknesses of each and every opponent would think as much.
what belichick did to the steelers he is doing to the league. the greatest thing about belichick (other than being the most adept at stealing signals, and raping other teams in trades) is being ahead of the curve in X's and O's and influencing how teams and the entire league adapts.
the weaknes point of the league is that so many teams have scrambled to find 3 cb's to cover the 3 wr sets that are in vogue (the teams set up to stop the power run game are still behind the curve).
teams are building to stop brady-welker-moss-stallworth-gafney
or manning-harrison-wayne- stokely- clark
in the meantime, bill is exploiting teams adjustments by dumping watson and moss, and drafting 2 early pick TE's.
steelerfans still scoff at the drafting of spaeth cause they had miller. the patriots dumped their miller and drafted 2 spaeths( who are now a central point of their offense).
as sal palantonio said on thursday, belichick has realized that the TE is the "queen on the chess board" of todays nfl.
this was proven last sunday. time to learn our lessons and move on and realize we still got a pretty damn good team.
if we meet the patriots again, we will see how good.