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Guys, you all need to calm down. Indianapolis is no push over. As for those of you comparing this game to 06 and 09, the difference is that the Steelers found a way to win, whereas in those years, they found a way to lose. Do you all not forget they were one Steve Johnson drop from losing to the Bills last year? Part of it is the fact they were playing on the road. It's said that if you win all of your home games and half of your road games, you are a good team. It's pretty rare you walk into someone's stadium and just blow them out. Not to mention Indianapolis has LOADS of talent. Yes, their missing piece is QB, but they still have maybe the best DE combo in the NFL (who faced maybe the worst OT combo in the NFL), a very good WR corps, and a very good OL. Yes if Manning would've played, it would've probably been a different story, but come on! They have been to the playoffs 9 yrs in a row for a reason. Also I think the Steelers should go to about 70-30 passing. Ben and the receivers are looking pretty spectacular lately and I am tired of hearing people complain about the Steelers needing to be a run-first team, I guess because they've happened to have a few HOF runningbacks? What happened from 1933-2010 doesn't matter to me. The Steelers have a HOF QB and a group of amazing receivers- they need to air it out.

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i agree with you on most points except the 70-30 pass ratio. we need to be a little more balanced because if ben drops back 70% of the time he's going to get killed before the season is over. even in history's most prolific passing games, the key to its success is still having a solid enough running game to mix it up. even the greatest show on turf's success, a lot of the credit had to be attributed to having marshall faulk in the lineup

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I agree, even though we *should have* steamrolled them, it was a sight for sore eyes to see us be "clutch" when crunchtime came around again rather than keep rolling over and letting them win.

I don't agree about the passing thing, we need to be balanced. I do think if the run game is completely nonexistent like it was last night, we need to ADJUST (something Arians doesn't do often) and pass more, but we shouldn't come into a game with that mentality.

And although Indy's looked awful the first 2 weeks, Peyton Manning is not their whole team, honestly I think they had more of a mental problem than a talent problem and they overcame that last light. Freeney, Mathis, Bethea, Wayne, Clark, Garcon, and Addai are all legitimate, talented players that should be able to get them a few wins no matter who's behind center.

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It didnt seem that hard for the Browns to take advantage of them....:noidea:

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60-40 would be good. The reason being is that great teams can do both. Right now we can't run on anyone and that sucks.

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The Texans disagree.

In 2006 they found ways to win 8 games, also.

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They have 2 good DEs, 1 good WR who can catch, and another good WR who can't catch. Their offensive line ain't that good, actually. I don't know where you got that idea. And, they are so bad a quarterback they called Kerry Collins off the couch.

C'mon. This team sucks. The Colts are the worst team in the league.

And now you can see why Manning won so many MVPs during his career.

:doh:

Mike Wallace has looked good.......other than that, I have no idea WTF you're talking about.

Whether or not Ben will make the HOF, he has absolutley not even looked like an above average quarterback this season. I don't care how many Super Bowls he managed to win by free-loading off a Dick Lebeau defense, he cannot even carry this team to victory against the Colts without counting on TP to bail him out.

They're only shot on offense is to learn to run left every once in a while, give the ball to Redman, and pass off of play action.

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antonio brown looked good as well. he had a few big first down grabs, and some really good punt returns (which our offense did a bad job of capitalizing on)

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He looks good on special teams. I do recall him dropping a pass, though.

I would love more than anything to see him get the ball on those bubble screens instead of #86. Let's get Hines to 1000 catches and then put him on the bench and get Brown on the field.

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i thought he had a good outing as a WR too. 4 catches for 75 yards, and I think every reception resulted in a 1st down.

agree with the bubble screen though. ward is our best blocking WR, maybe sstill the best blocking WR in the NFL. use him where he's best (blocking), and throw it to our best open field runner, which might be brown.

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And after every first down catch it resulted in Brown channeling Santonio Holmes and pointing forward:chuckle: I wish Tomlin would tell him to lose that

I agree with those who say Brown should pass Sanders (who had a drop on the first drive and screwed up by leaping over the DB after the late first half INT by Ben) on the depth chart