Pats are not all that good - for now

[ghz in pittsburgh]

Under Belicchick, they always get better when the season rolls on. But right now, I just can't put them down as an elite team. They have Brady and Gronk, that's it.

The Steelers has a potent offense, but they missed two big pieces last night and still rolled NE up and down the field in NE.

Frankly I'm more optimistic about the Bills chances 9/20 than before. Steelers' D is not nearly on the same level as the Bills' and NE scored 28 at home in all charged up environment. I feel the Bills D at home can hold them to about 20 points and I actually believe we can score 20 on them, too.

Of course if Tyrod and company come out lay a big egg Sunday, I may sing a different tune ...

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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True, the Steelers may be missing two big pieces but the two biggest pieces they still had are far better than anything we can roll out. It was comforting to see New England get run on, though.

Hopefully our D has a plan for when Gronk lines up wide other then "Hide and hope Brady doesn't notice us."

[Novacane]

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I don't know. They still won. It's going to take a few weeks to know but I'd say it looks like the same old same old to me. We write them off and they find a way to win.

[bleve]

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Gronk.


Grrrrr

Two words:

Torell Troup

Thanks Buddy!

[Buffalogic]

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Their defense is going to be terrible all year. We just have to slow that offense down just a little because we can score on that crappy group they are rolling out.

[ghz in pittsburgh]

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I admit I'm kind of old schooled in that I believe a strong offense must have a strong running attack. Personally I believe the Steelers did a great favor to NE last year by giving them Blount. Likewise in my opinion, the Steelers have Ben forever, and various top shelf receivers forever, but they become top dog offense after Bell came onto the scene.

I don't see that guy in NE right now. I'm not completely sold on NE's two guards - people talk about Steelers' secondary being bad, can you name any of Steelers' D linemen? As it is now, NE can't run on Steelers' in the middle. We'll see how NE interior O-Line fare against Bills Dareus and company on pass rush as well.

[TacklingDummy]

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New England just showed that you don't have to be able to stop the run to win.
You need the Quarterback.
Sure am glad Buffalo just wasted $100 million.

[Buffalogic]

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^ lol what a dumb post. Steelers d was terrible and they have a qb and still lost.

Brady also made the steelers miss two field goals.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

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Brady also made the steelers miss two field goals.

And false start inside the 1. And not cover Gronk repeatedly.

[ghz in pittsburgh]

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Speaking about Gronk, I actually thought about having Gilmore cover Gronk one on one all game. To me Gilmore is best matching against a big physical receiver, not water bug type of receivers. Well NE has only water bug type of receivers.

[POTLAND PSILBYLO]

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New England just showed that you don't have to be able to stop the run to win.
You need the Quarterback.
Sure am glad Buffalo just wasted $100 million.

Should we go for big Ben?

[justasportsfan]

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New England just showed that you don't have to be able to stop the run to win.
You need the Quarterback.
Sure am glad Buffalo just wasted $100 million.

When you don't have a qb, you have make it up in some other area. In our case, we need the D to keep the game close enough that we can pull a win out of our butt until we get a qb .

[DynaPaul]

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Who cares about talent on defense when you have video tapes?

[trapezeus]

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New England just showed that you don't have to be able to stop the run to win.
You need the Quarterback.
Sure am glad Buffalo just wasted $100 million.

if only the bills had you, we would have picked matt barkley in the first round to only see him get picked in the 4th round and then traded for a 6th rounder.
quite a lot of success you have as a qb picker as well, if i recall correctly.

[LVGrown]

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The way that the Steelers blew coverage on Gronk time after time was flat out ridiculous. There defenders were starring at him standing alone and nobody thought, " hmmm ... I should cover that guy." I never get annoyed watching other teams play, I was pretty annoyed watching the Steelers " I dont give a **** about covering one of the best weapons in the league" attitude.

Agree ... put Gilmore on him all day. Even if he kicks his ass Ill feel better that we tried.