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calia · 11-04-2008, 01:16 PM

Hard to quibble with the fact that the Steelers played a solid game defensively. I cannot understand why we kept blitzing Letfwich on 3rd and long when he kept burning us. Drop into coverage and play the pass; don't go for the sack. It worked against Roethlisburger but not agaist Leftwich. That killed us.

Having said that, our D was very good, and we asked way too much of them as a result of not being able to sustain drives. We cannot have the kind of field position that we got in the first quarter and fail to score a TD against a team with a D like the Steelers like that and hope to win. JC didn't look sharp at all -- even the very best QBs will have a game like that, so no need to panic. But at one point when they showed the stats for hurried, knocked down, sacked, INTs, and number of pass plays, I noticed it was something over 50% of the time he was being smacked around. I hope our O-line was embarassed and pulls it together in the second half of the season. The only solid effort I thought was Randy Thomas (who in my view is completely unheralded and deserving of mention).

11-04-2008, 01:16 PM	#830
calia Playmaker Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Woodside, CA Age: 57 Posts: 3,756	Re: Redskins vs. Steelers Gameday thread Hard to quibble with the fact that the Steelers played a solid game defensively. I cannot understand why we kept blitzing Letfwich on 3rd and long when he kept burning us. Drop into coverage and play the pass; don't go for the sack. It worked against Roethlisburger but not agaist Leftwich. That killed us. Having said that, our D was very good, and we asked way too much of them as a result of not being able to sustain drives. We cannot have the kind of field position that we got in the first quarter and fail to score a TD against a team with a D like the Steelers like that and hope to win. JC didn't look sharp at all -- even the very best QBs will have a game like that, so no need to panic. But at one point when they showed the stats for hurried, knocked down, sacked, INTs, and number of pass plays, I noticed it was something over 50% of the time he was being smacked around. I hope our O-line was embarassed and pulls it together in the second half of the season. The only solid effort I thought was Randy Thomas (who in my view is completely unheralded and deserving of mention).