How to find a new Bruce Arians

[Fire Arians]

Originally Posted by FanSince72

And yet, despite all of that, we STILL had five straight winning seasons, we STILL had a .688 winning percentage and we STILL went to the Super Bowl twice and won one of them.


Did that not happen?

trent dilfer is also a super bowl winning qb, would you ever want him on your team?

[MasterOfPuppets]

Originally Posted by FanSince72

Yeah, we don't need another loser who could only manage five straight winning seasons, a measly .688 winning percentage and go to the Super Bowl twice and win only one of them.


Man, what a nightmare THAT was!


(Sorry, I couldn't resist)

and the defensive coordinator of the 31 st ranked pats went 13-3 and is going to the superbowl .. maybe the steelers will fire lebeau and hire him ...

[FanSince72]

Originally Posted by Rockonsteel

Of course it did. And you worded it perfectly. The Steelers have been successful despite BA's ineptitude. As in, in spite of. I'm not sure if you watched any of those games, but the offense struggled mightily in a large percentage of thoes games. The offense was putrid in '08 and the rode the defense to the SB. Yeah, the offense drove down the field for the game winning TD. But, they managed to score only 16 pts. on offense to that point against a team that gave up a ton of points in the NFC playoffs. Arians is lucky to have been part of a team with a good enough defense to mask his ineptitude. But, PLEASE stop giving credit for the Steelers success to Bruce Arians. The Steelers won a SB before BA was OC, or do we conveniently forget that? Why do people think they can't win one without him?

Rockon

I never said we couldn't win a SB without BA.

I like that BA went more towards a passing game, but even I will admit that he went too far with it and wasn't able to make it into whatever he thought it could be. But by the same token I think he WAS on the right track.

But all that aside, the thing I can't figure out is the abject hatred that so many here have for Arians. I mean, the way people talk around here it would seem as if Arians was in charge of an offense that went absolutely nowhere and never produced a winning season or even a touchdown.

Maybe he could have done better, but it also could have been a lot worse.
And it certainly wasn't so bad as to justify the venom that's being leveled at him as if he molested your children or ran over your dogs.

I can understand someone saying that he was not right for this team or that his ideas weren't really working out and we can do better. But the contempt and hostility is what I don't get - especially when I consider the relative success we've had with him here.

I don't think I could ever hate anyone as much as many of you seem to hate this man - especially a man that no one actually knows.

I mean, maybe he's a bad coach but does that justify all of the viciousness?

[BKAnthem]

Originally Posted by FanSince72

I never said we couldn't win a SB without BA.

I like that BA went more towards a passing game, but even I will admit that he went too far with it and wasn't able to make it into whatever he thought it could be. But by the same token I think he WAS on the right track.

But all that aside, the thing I can't figure out is the abject hatred that so many here have for Arians. I mean, the way people talk around here it would seem as if Arians was in charge of an offense that went absolutely nowhere and never produced a winning season or even a touchdown.

Maybe he could have done better, but it also could have been a lot worse.
And it certainly wasn't so bad as to justify the venom that's being leveled at him as if he molested your children or ran over your dogs.

I can understand someone saying that he was not right for this team or that his ideas weren't really working out and we can do better. But the contempt and hostility is what I don't get - especially when I consider the relative success we've had with him here.

I don't think I could ever hate anyone as much as many of you seem to hate this man - especially a man that no one actually knows.

I mean, maybe he's a bad coach but does that justify all of the viciousness?

I don't think the hate is for Bruce Arians the person on this board...it's more for Bruce Arians, the unimaginative, stubborn OC...

[Fire Arians]

Originally Posted by BKAnthem

I don't think the hate is for Bruce Arians the person on this board...it's more for Bruce Arians, the unimaginative, stubborn OC...

yep

[FanSince72]

Originally Posted by BKAnthem

I don't think the hate is for Bruce Arians the person on this board...it's more for Bruce Arians, the unimaginative, stubborn OC...

If you say so...

[Kanata-Steeler]

The point is, needles to say, is that Bruce the Goose was very "quickly" retired / retarded, if we know what we mean (hint, hint, nod, nod, ...), and obviously so, 'cause we ain't got no OC yet, now do we ?
We will be ok, It's gawd-awful right that Arians' is gone.
But now, it's a matter of TOMLIN showing his real "cahoonas", by getting a good OC for the Steelers'.
...that's all that matters right now.

[StainlessStill]

Originally Posted by FanSince72

Yeah, we don't need another loser who could only manage five straight winning seasons, a measly .688 winning percentage and go to the Super Bowl twice and win only one of them.


Man, what a nightmare THAT was!


(Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Haha, right. Now, here's something to really mind-f*ck you! Over the years, it's said that Ben Roethlisberger is AT HIS BEST at extending plays. We've seen it since 2004. Now, with that in mind, that 2 time Super Bowl Champion Quarterback, who's been to the Super Bowl 3 times, plays his best on the move. TRANSLATION: Ben's at his best when the play BREAKS DOWN. After the play breaks down, that's all on Ben and the wideouts improvising, which means Arians's offensive scheme is basically SHIT at that point.

So, putting two and two together, you have a QB who plays best when the play breaks down, so in reality, the majority of our "winning two Super Bowl's under Arians" came within the confinements of broken plays and Ben running for his life so how much DID Arians have to do with our offensive success?

[FanSince72]

Originally Posted by StainlessStill

Haha, right. Now, here's something to really mind-f*ck you! Over the years, it's said that Ben Roethlisberger is AT HIS BEST at extending plays. We've seen it since 2004. Now, with that in mind, that 2 time Super Bowl Champion Quarterback, who's been to the Super Bowl 3 times, plays his best on the move. TRANSLATION: Ben's at his best when the play BREAKS DOWN. After the play breaks down, that's all on Ben and the wideouts improvising, which means Arians's offensive scheme is basically SHIT at that point.

So, putting two and two together, you have a QB who plays best when the play breaks down, so in reality, the majority of our "winning two Super Bowl's under Arians" came within the confinements of broken plays and Ben running for his life so how much DID Arians have to do with our offensive success?

That's been my point all along!!!

Everyone wants Arians out but if Ben is allowed to play to his strength (running around, extending the play), then there really isn't ANYONE who could game plan with him. The best offensive architect in the universe could draw up the finest plays ever put to a whiteboard but none of that matters once Ben starts moving around.

So the best anyone could hope for would be to point him in a particular direction and see what happens. "OK Ben, let's try Red Right Slot 50 'X' and once you start running around you can figure out the rest"

How can anyone "plan" that way?

The only way to change any of that is to change Ben and good luck with that!

[StainlessStill]

Originally Posted by FanSince72

That's been my point all along!!!

Everyone wants Arians out but if Ben is allowed to play to his strength (running around, extending the play), then there really isn't ANYONE who could game plan with him. The best offensive architect in the universe could draw up the finest plays ever put to a whiteboard but none of that matters once Ben starts moving around.

So the best anyone could hope for would be to point him in a particular direction and see what happens. "OK Ben, let's try Red Right Slot 50 'X' and once you start running around you can figure out the rest"

How can anyone "plan" that way?

The only way to change any of that is to change Ben and good luck with that!

The Rooney's understand what needs to be changed. I'm sure Ben is at the point to where he understand he HAS to limit the sacks and a good offensive coordinator can bring consistency to this problem. After the Titans game, Ben PUBLICLY came out and said how refreshing it was to have outlets for him to work within' the pocket.

We saw the same thing against New England, a dominating offensive performance (for the most part) only to never see it return for the rest of the season with the quick outlets and hot-reads to help with our offensive weapons.

Behind an ILL offensive line, Arians REFUSED to implement the type of game plan to help his QB. In San Francisco, we saw more of the same shit that ultimately HURT our chances of what kind of state we were in. We saw WR's running 15-20 yards down field with a hobbled QB and even a WORSE offensive line. We need an offensive coordinator in here that can make the necessary adjustments and put our best players (Ben) in a chance to win. Mike Wallace's stats sunk dramatically because BONEHEAD still had him running streaks when it was OBVIOUS Ben couldn't push the ball downfield and missed him on EVERY occasion since his ankle injury.

Ben is at the point to where he is willing to implement the no-huddle (even Arians held him back from that most of the time as well) and he runs for his life for a reason & that's Arians's bonehead offensive scheme that TAKES TIME to develop. Unfortunately, he didn't know his personal up front to adjust on the fly, because it finally got him FIRED.

On a side note, I started hating on Arians (at times, I liked what he has done this season) when asked about the injury's to Sam Shields & Charles Woodson in the Super Bowl when he said "We don't attack players. We attack scheme." I about shit. That was the beginning of the end for me with that idiotic way of thinking in football.