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Post by roundabout on Sept 14, 2020 21:15:57 GMT -5
He said he was thinking of taking a game off, well he showed us he wasn't messing around he meant business tonight
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Post by GMenNY21 on Sept 14, 2020 21:17:30 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH
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Post by roundabout on Sept 14, 2020 21:22:08 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH How about his blitz pickups? dropped passes..Was that do to the Oline??
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Post by DJones19 on Sept 14, 2020 21:23:32 GMT -5
I thought Barkley put in a great effort. I don't think his hurdling defenders is needed and might get him hurt but he does it anyway.
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Post by GMenNY21 on Sept 14, 2020 21:26:27 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH How about his blitz pickups? dropped passes..Was that do to the Oline?? Touche. His blitz pickups tonight were horrendous and those drops did hurt
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Post by titowooten on Sept 14, 2020 21:26:49 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH the OL is garbage. we get it. there are plenty of teams that have mediocre OLs with 3rd and 4th rd RBs averaging 5 yards a carry. look at snell tonight. our D isn't that great sure but the steelers OL isn't incredible and he averaged 6 yds a carry. it's exactly how it was last year too. tons of negative yardage runs and a handful of dynamic plays in space. certainly not worth the 15 million a year he's going to want to get paid after his rookie contract is up. draft someone like kareem hunt or CEH in the 3rd round and show him the door. if he changes my mind at some point this season great. i certainly am not rooting for him to fail but he does not look like a canton bound player at this point does he?
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Post by gmen21 on Sept 14, 2020 21:27:37 GMT -5
He said he was thinking of taking a game off, well he showed us he wasn't messing around he meant business tonight Honesty matters. I respect that.
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Post by lexington11 on Sept 14, 2020 21:29:57 GMT -5
He said he was thinking of taking a game off, well he showed us he wasn't messing around he meant business tonight just plain dumb,,how many plays straight up the middle into the teeth of that D? only one pass to the outside which he broke for a long gain? yep it was barkley, smh.
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Post by lexington11 on Sept 14, 2020 21:30:32 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH the OL is garbage. we get it. there are plenty of teams that have mediocre OLs with 3rd and 4th rd RBs averaging 5 yards a carry. look at snell tonight. our D isn't that great sure but the steelers OL isn't incredible and he averaged 6 yds a carry. it's exactly how it was last year too. tons of negative yardage runs and a handful of dynamic plays in space. certainly not worth the 15 million a year he's going to want to get paid after his rookie contract is up. draft someone like kareem hunt or CEH in the 3rd round and show him the door. if he changes my mind at some point this season great. i certainly am not rooting for him to fail but he does not look like a canton bound player at this point does he? look at the plays called for snell, big difference.
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Post by titowooten on Sept 14, 2020 21:33:25 GMT -5
so jason garrett and pat shurmur both can't seem to find a scheme that works for a generational talent at RB? funny.
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Post by giantlegacy on Sept 14, 2020 21:36:08 GMT -5
He said he was thinking of taking a game off, well he showed us he wasn't messing around he meant business tonight just plain dumb,,how many plays straight up the middle into the teeth of that D? only one pass to the outside which he broke for a long gain? yep it was barkley, smh. Don't bother with any form ot logic here Unfortunately this is exactly what I thought would happen,the Steelers gameplanned to take away Barkley,a lot of run blitzes against an O line that looked like it went straight from the OTA workouts (which in effect our preseason was just this with getting even together)straight to week 1 against an elite front 7 And there were fans that wanted us to run it first and 2nd and make Jones a game manager tonight And they are the ones that act surprised about this
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Post by ThatGuyRich on Sept 14, 2020 21:36:37 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH How about his blitz pickups? dropped passes..Was that do to the Oline?? He actually picked up some blitzes in the 2nd half. He had somewhere around 70 yds receiving tonight. And if you don't like him fine, but his pathetic performance rushing tonight did have an awful lot to do with the performance of the OL. Barkley was hit 7 times in the first half behind the LOS. Dupree was a one man gang for Pitt. He wasn't even touched at least 3 times.
Our OL has a lot of work to do. The right side of our line was overmatched and wasn't even competitive at times. #75 Fleming was totally lost. And if Gates is calling the blocking assignments he also had no idea what to do.
But the Pitt defense is terrific and their DL is a total beast. And we will improve I feel but were going to be facing just about every real good DL this year. The Wash. DL should eat us alive.
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Post by titowooten on Sept 14, 2020 21:39:55 GMT -5
just plain dumb,,how many plays straight up the middle into the teeth of that D? only one pass to the outside which he broke for a long gain? yep it was barkley, smh. Don't bother with any form ot logic here Unfortunately this is exactly what I thought would happen,the Steelers gameplanned to take away Barkley,a lot of run blitzes against an O line that looked like it went straight from the OTA workouts (which in effect our preseason was just this with getting even together)straight to week 1 against an elite front 7 And there were fans that wanted us to run it first and 2nd and make Jones a game manager tonight And they are the ones that act surprised about this yeah ok, get back to me in 5 weeks when he's still averaging 2 yards a carry. you don't think teams game plan against mcaffrey or michael thomas or ezekiel elliott? lol? they still get their numbers pretty much every week. it's the same group that would never blame eli for anything. now they've moved on to saquon. it's always somebody else's fault. while it's true the OL STILL SUCKS and probably will never get better like i said before there are a lot of teams that have mediocre OLs and productive RBs. he looked tonight exactly like he did last season when people said it was just his knee.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 21:41:52 GMT -5
He said he was thinking of taking a game off, well he showed us he wasn't messing around he meant business tonight Haha. Great Post
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Post by TheAnalyst on Sept 14, 2020 21:43:00 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH If he needs the Cowboys OL, he shouldnt have been picked #2 over all. There was plenty of fault on him tonight that had nothing to do with the OL.
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Post by TheAnalyst on Sept 14, 2020 21:43:28 GMT -5
He said he was thinking of taking a game off, well he showed us he wasn't messing around he meant business tonight Running back lives matter....
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Post by giantlegacy on Sept 14, 2020 21:43:46 GMT -5
Don't bother with any form ot logic here Unfortunately this is exactly what I thought would happen,the Steelers gameplanned to take away Barkley,a lot of run blitzes against an O line that looked like it went straight from the OTA workouts (which in effect our preseason was just this with getting even together)straight to week 1 against an elite front 7 And there were fans that wanted us to run it first and 2nd and make Jones a game manager tonight And they are the ones that act surprised about this yeah ok, get back to me in 5 weeks when he's still averaging 2 yards a carry. you don't think teams game plan against mcaffrey or michael thomas or ezekiel elliott? lol? they still get their numbers pretty much every week. it's the same group that would never blame eli for anything. now they've moved on to saquon. it's always somebody else's fault. while it's true the OL STILL SUCKS and probably will never get better like i said before there are a lot of teams that have mediocre OLs and productive RBs. he looked tonight exactly like he did last season when people said it was just his knee. How was that even remotely a mediocre O line tonight? A mediocre O line would have been a vast improvement over this
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Post by Kruunch on Sept 14, 2020 21:47:49 GMT -5
yeah ok, get back to me in 5 weeks when he's still averaging 2 yards a carry. you don't think teams game plan against mcaffrey or michael thomas or ezekiel elliott? lol? they still get their numbers pretty much every week. it's the same group that would never blame eli for anything. now they've moved on to saquon. it's always somebody else's fault. while it's true the OL STILL SUCKS and probably will never get better like i said before there are a lot of teams that have mediocre OLs and productive RBs. he looked tonight exactly like he did last season when people said it was just his knee. How was that even remotely a mediocre O line tonight? A mediocre O line would have been a vast improvement over this When is Barkley held accountable for his play? The line was a joke today, but Barkley played like Charles Barkley tonight. -9 yards at the half is laughable. “Touched by the hand of God, Gold jacket player.” All of these comments are directed at him. Lofty expeditions from the GM. I’m not here to rip the kid a new asshole. I’m also not here to sugar coat a shitty performance. Barkley is supposed to be our best player, our captain, the player who’s supposed to lead us out of the cellar. He needs to play better regardless of how bad our line is.
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Post by titowooten on Sept 14, 2020 21:48:43 GMT -5
yeah ok, get back to me in 5 weeks when he's still averaging 2 yards a carry. you don't think teams game plan against mcaffrey or michael thomas or ezekiel elliott? lol? they still get their numbers pretty much every week. it's the same group that would never blame eli for anything. now they've moved on to saquon. it's always somebody else's fault. while it's true the OL STILL SUCKS and probably will never get better like i said before there are a lot of teams that have mediocre OLs and productive RBs. he looked tonight exactly like he did last season when people said it was just his knee. How was that even remotely a mediocre O line tonight? A mediocre O line would have been a vast improvement over this jones only got sacked one more time than roethlisberger and he had 9 more passes. the steelers OL isn't that much better. meanwhile Snell a 4th round pick from last year looked like a greek god while our generational first ballot HOFer averaged 0.4yds per carry.
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Post by SG88 on Sept 14, 2020 22:04:38 GMT -5
Again, another thread that blames our players without giving credit to the opposing team.
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Post by giantlegacy on Sept 14, 2020 22:12:36 GMT -5
Again, another thread that blames our players without giving credit to the opposing team. Its what the usual suspects that only post after losses do Complain about our players ignorantly And conveniently forgetting how much of a disadvantage this team was facing early in the season with this new staff and no offseason going against teams in the sams systems for years.
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Post by PennState1 on Sept 14, 2020 22:32:34 GMT -5
Saquon Barkley was hit behind the line of scrimmage on 11 of his 15 attempts. That's 73% of his rushes. That's beyond awful. The line should be ashamed.
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Post by DandyDon on Sept 14, 2020 22:38:46 GMT -5
Saquon Barkley was hit behind the line of scrimmage on 11 of his 15 attempts. That's 73% of his rushes. That's beyond awful. The line should be ashamed. Yup, hit behind the Los constantly. Same old, different year. I liked the defense stuffing the run and flying around. But our ol still stinks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 22:40:11 GMT -5
SB new things were falling apart fast. Every time he touched the ball, particularly when he was hurtling over players, you could tell he was thinking he was touching the ball for the last time. He knew there was nothing he could do with that shitty line. He was not the problem tonight and it was real obvious.
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Post by roundabout on Sept 14, 2020 22:45:34 GMT -5
Saquon Barkley was hit behind the line of scrimmage on 11 of his 15 attempts. That's 73% of his rushes. That's beyond awful. The line should be ashamed. Blame the line yes to an extent I agree but his blitz pickups were awful and a dropped pass...would expect more from 2nd overall pick wouldn't ya say?
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Post by GMenNY21 on Sept 14, 2020 22:49:00 GMT -5
How about that run blocking eh? They just opened up SO MANY holes for Barkley and he just couldn't find them SMH If he needs the Cowboys OL, he shouldnt have been picked #2 over all. There was plenty of fault on him tonight that had nothing to do with the OL. Who said the cowboys line? I think a line that can hold their blocks for at least a second isn't too much to ask . Their dline practically lived in our backfield. There is no back that can overcome a blocking performance that bad, yet we know what Barkley can do when he just gets a sliver of day light from decent blocks.
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Post by PennState1 on Sept 14, 2020 22:50:08 GMT -5
Saquon Barkley was hit behind the line of scrimmage on 11 of his 15 attempts. That's 73% of his rushes. That's beyond awful. The line should be ashamed. Blame the line yes to an extent I agree but his blitz pickups were awful and a dropped pass...would expect more from 2nd overall pick wouldn't ya say? Yes, I saw 2 missed blitz pickups (along with some good ones) and 1 dropped pass. You are right, a 2nd overall pick should be perfect, never make a mistake.
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Post by giants8493 on Sept 14, 2020 23:35:30 GMT -5
Yo how on earth is this dude still getting hit behind the line of scrimmage so much?
That's rediculous and that blocking scheme needs to be cleaned up.
Also, if you fail to a legitimate PLAYMAKER the ball in space this is an epic fail by the offensive coordination. Regardless of what position rushing stats count for. You get a player with his ability the football whole he has room to work as many times as possible. If running don't work he needs to catching half back angle routes all day long. Screens too obviously
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Post by GameTime on Sept 14, 2020 23:40:30 GMT -5
the WHOLE run game sucked beyond belief.... Pointing fingers is a bullshit attempt to find individual blame. They ALL sucked.
Now the misses on the blitzes and dropped passes are all on him
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Post by smitty on Sept 15, 2020 0:44:08 GMT -5
Barkley is a bust. Try to trade him this season.
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