New Lipstick. Same Ole Hog

[VirgilTibbs]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

You make some good points most other skins fans have as well. But we are moving in the right direction and I would take 9-7 and a chance in the playoffs every year.

The progress and process is there. Frustrating that Run D was not improved but we have a pretty good roster and are moving in the right direction.

Playing well coached teams expose our weaknesses.

Yeah, I agree we are moving in a direction, but I can't necessarily determine if it's the right one or not. Some probably say "be patient, Scot hasn't had a time to rebuild, he hasn't even been here three years!!". Well, the limited amount of time he's been here and what he's done with it hasn't really instilled any confidence any me. Even read that outside of hitting it big with Justin Smith in San Fran, he really doesn't have a clue about drafting Dlineman. He passed over Leonard Williams for Brandon Scherff. Williams would have been more important to the impact of this teams success. Sure, Scherff is a good solid guard but you don't pass up on a potentially game changing elite talented Dlineman like Williams (2.5 sacks on Sunday) for a solid guard you can find elsewhere.

There were also other solid defensive players in the draft this past year available that would have helped immediately over selecting the WR Doctson who would be playing behind Jackson, Garcon and Crowder anyway.

Pittsburgh wasn't necessarily well coached on Monday night. Just sensibly coached. They weren't doing anything special to make us look bad, just that our coaching was below average. Gruden punting the ball on 4th and 1 in Pittsburgh territory and then going for it on 4th and 6 later in the game in the same situation.

We get the ball back before halftime with 30 seconds to go and timeouts. Pittsburgh receives the ball first before halftime. We are behind. We don't even attempt to get in field goal range but are content waltzing into the locker room.

Joe Barry not allowing your 75 million dollar lock down corner cover the leagues best WR Antonio Brown.

Just a few things that are "common sense" which players around the league and the media have found as hilarious. An opposing coach only has to be average to out coach this team.