steelersfan412

Was saying exactly that well before, and during the game. It didn't happen though. The play calling from the start was terrible, and once you're in that hole its hard to justify changing to a quick slant from the bunch or screen playbook, but its what they needed to do and didn't. It looked like Kitchens' prep for this week was "it worked against the ravens, it'll work again".

On the nose man. Analytics must have predicted the O line to be better on paper, and the moneyball said they needed to free up cap space to fit in OBJ. I told Gip the other day that I didn't see the Browns WRs having much of an impact in this game for the simple fact that Mayfield wouldn't have the time to get the ball to them. The talent the Browns have on WR only makes a difference against teams with a mediocre or average D and Mayfield has time to stand and find the ones who get open.

The Steelers have one of the better O lines in the league, the matchup disparity in that category wasn't as significant. O lines seem to be underrated, but it really shows when you're up against a team with a fast and powerful D line. The Steelers also have a healthy secondary. Once the Browns get some CBs back they should be able to bring a little more LB pressure forward to the line to stop the run. Thats what really hurt them tonight. The Steelers also put more pressure on Garoppolo, which the Browns probably would have been able to do had there been more secondary coverage, but that all falls back to the injury problem. The defense looked almost as off-kilter as the offense did, safety's pushing up because of the run, and LBs hanging back afraid of the pass.

Cap it off with a fumble on special teams to end it.

one of those times was pretty fluky... should have come away with 7. Just bad luck there. I don't think the play calling was inconsistent, rather, consistently bad. Kitchens wanted to develop the run game to open up the passing game. He should have been calling screens and short crossing routes to back the D off and open up the running game.

Its hard to look better than average when you've got no time to throw and you're flushed out of the pocket or, worse, sacked every time you play against a decent defense. This problem starts with the O line.

He wanted to spend the $ to get Mayfield some weapons, at the expense of protection. It's showing here. But I fully expect Dorsey to make some trades to try to mitigate this.

9ers front 4 are winning this. They're dropping the backs into coverage. Mayfield's first read isn't open. His second, if he has time, isn't open. Need some more screens and shovels to Chubbs.

Well, the positive out of that TD run is that it leaves 1:54 on the clock for the browns to bring it back the other way. I didn't think the 9ers O would be having this much success

It was a little low and a little behind. But not enough to make that much of a difference for a professional NFL receiver.

Games not over yet. They can turn it around.

It hit him. Baker could have put it 12 more inches forward, but that should have been a catch all day.

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Gotta see more of that to get the 9ers D to back off a bit.

He doesn't have the sheer size and strength Lemieux had, but he definitely works hard enough to make it almost appear like he does. But, maybe his size has something to do with him staying healthy.