Who Is IOZ?: Steel Errs

Sunday, January 08, 2012

Steel Errs

Credit where due - Tebow, perhaps for the first time, but convincingly nevertheless, looked like a bona fide quarterback, and my Steelers made a lot of errors. Maybe the kid's got a future after all. Here is my pledge to yinz: if he beats Brady, which I sincerely doubt he will, but if he does, he'll make a fan out of me.

47 comments:

Anonymous said...: Last I check Brady doesn't play strong safety, nose tackle, or inside linebacker.

Barring an injury the Pats are going to shred the Broncos on their way to their fourth Lombardi.; 9:48 PM
Anonymous said...: He does just fine when nobody is covering his receivers. Some of the throws he makes into coverage are just bad (although Phil Simms would call them 'great throwaways')Palomalu looked like a clown on a couple of those play-actions. I gotta give the Tebow credit, he's a damned rookie under more scrutiny than anybody in the league. And not only that, he's taken the Tebowing stuff and other jokes at his expense like a good sport. Pretty tough to root for Roethlisberger anyway.; 10:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Troy Polamalu is a speedy klingon warrior; 10:21 PM
Anonymous said...: I never spell his name right on the first try.

Speedy came up as big as he did in the Super Bowl against Rodgers.; 10:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Tebow threw for 316 (3:16) yards.

u mad atheists?; 10:42 PM
Anonymous said...: He's not a rookie...; 10:52 PM
Jack Crow said...: To be fair, Fox ran more than just option tonight. And Demaryius Thomas put a whole of yard after the catch on more than one occasion.

Brady et al are probably going to bring Tebow back to earth, but Fox giving Tebow some room outside of the option offense was the right decision against the Steelers.; 10:58 PM
Aeolus said...: The Pats have an incompetent, porous, secondary, but their bigs are pretty good, so it's all about whether the Denver O-line can keep containment. Of course Denver can't stop Brady, so that may be more of a problem.; 11:07 PM
Anonymous said...: lol @ you brady trolls. there is a higher power at work.; 11:11 PM
rowan said...: what's a 3:16?; 11:39 PM
Anonymous said...: I meant to write playoff rookie. Thanks for the corr.

He's got God on his side to be sure. The weird part is.. who knew that God sucked so bad at passing a football? And that sore on his lip? Nigel, David & Derek would be proud of that monster.; 11:40 PM
Montag said...: i'm sorry for your loss, IOZ.; 12:21 AM
Anonymous said...: also threw for 31.6 yards per completion. LOL!; 12:32 AM
Montag said...: dear athetits....

if GOD dont exist s

how me a dog beated steelers?; 1:04 AM
ts said...: I think your initial impression of him being an mediocre qb is the right one.

Denver designed a clever offense that treats him as more of an extra running back than a thrower, and he runs it pretty decently and doesn't make stupid throws. He also tends to run rather than scramble and throw under pressure.

However, his accuracy is terrible and he winds up like a baseball pitcher, even to throw screen passes. You could see Denver's receivers being forced to adjust even when they were 10-yards wide open. The final throw to Thomas was behind him, but he had three steps on the entire Pittsburgh D, he had plenty of time to slow down and turn back for it, take three strides turn his body and then throw the stiff-arm.

The Steelers dug themselves a huge hole with a terrible first half, yet still only trailed by 14.

Then they seemed to play defense like they hadn't watched any game film. Harrison in particular was always going the wrong way on plays. The secondary didn't help each other out and got burned over and over. Polomalu was so focused on the run that he was invisible on pass plays.

They played terribly and Denver beat em deservedly. But now that I've seen Tebow for a full game I understand that he's a gimmick and not a great NFL quarterback.; 2:01 AM
Anonymous said...: Granted, the overall schemes were stubbornly ill-conceived, but it seemed less a series of unfortunate errors and more a case of simply being outplayed. (**coughTaylorcough**). And Roethlisberger's second INT didn't even count!

Legitimately, y'all been decimated by injuries, and I understand this was not the average year's model. But this team was simply not a team with heart. A deceptive 12-4, with a very weak schedule. Not really the kind of squad that comes through in the clutch and wins the big game to set up the feel-good denouement, isit?

And against the kid who is nothing but the living avatar of pure will and devotion? C'mon. A fitting end to a drag of a season. Draft or whatever. Cut out the weak links. Come back next year. We'll be waiting. (We're taking the crown again, BTW....unless we snag the trophy. In which case we may take a few games off.)

Much love and eternal respect from the land of pleasant living.; 4:46 AM
davidly said...: I think 3:16 goes, "Expose their secondary, not your rangamalang."

I can outdo alla y'alls on both matchup analysis predictions AND arbitrary fair-weather fandomness. To wit: Whoever wins TOP between the Horses and the Rubes goes to the AFC Champeenship game. No wait. Scratch that. Whoever scores the most.

My heart is for the team helm(et)ed by the former Boiler. How's that for arbitrary? No wait. Green Bay, cuz they're fan-owned. Are they still fan-owned?

I think I speak for everyone when I say: I just hope nobody gets killed (or sustains brain damage that leads either to their suicide or life eating nothing but Coco Wheats).; 5:54 AM
fish said...: Despite whatever weaknesses or problems the Steelers might have this year, I am much happier with the Pats lining up against Jesus than lining up against the devil. You never know which Steeler team will show up. Unless Tebow suddenly learns how to score 100 points per game, I like the Pats chances next week.; 6:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Rowan, that's John 3:16, which TBo used to put on is eyeblack, showing off his faith to all of us tuned in to the game. Sure had its effect on me.; 8:59 AM
PR said...: I,m no fan of Big Ben but he showed true grit and determination while playing seriously injured. Anyway, it's going to be great fun watching The Pack go back to back.; 9:12 AM
Anonymous said...: not only john 3:16, in college timmy would put a different scripture on eyeblack each week. often pauline ones about how god turns weakness into strengths lol; 9:38 AM
Anonymous said...: everyone knows that mammon is the god of football. (also, jesus died like 2000 years ago, so he has no effect on games.); 9:40 AM
IOZ said...: ts - I still think he's a mediocre quarterback, but he was, you'll pardon the expression, a passable one; mediocre in the true sense of the word.

Taylor and the rest of our pass defense definitely take a large part of the blame, but the real game-losing errors were the two dropped tight-end passes by Cotchery and Whatshisname Theotherguy.

Also, some of the worst officiating I've seen. That's not favoritism. Denver deserved a turnover on that botched backward pass to Wallace and Tebow definitely got facemasked on a run; Steelers got screwed on a bogus passint call; there were a number of clock errors as well.

Eh. Saves us the ignominy of getting taken apart by New England. I really wasn't holding out much hope that we'd take them twice in one year, especially in our current injured state.; 10:05 AM
Jack Crow said...: fish,

Now here's to hoping Eli can use some of his clutch magic, to knock out the damned Packers.; 10:16 AM
Anonymous said...: you may not like tebow's open worship of jesus or brady's open worship of fashion, but luckily what you don't like doesn't count for shit.; 10:35 AM
LP Steve said...: Oh, TAYLOR. I thought they had Ike Turner playing corner yesterday.; 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...: How fitting if Eli would have 2 SB rings to his dumbass' brother's 1. Now that's an insufferable MSM-annointed twerp.

Unfortunately, spurred by some scandal-driven self-examination, I had to forswear 'amateur' American football, and I wasn't that hot on pro FB. So count me out, of this favoured 'merkin pasttime

Capt'n Obvious; 10:54 AM
Montag said...: i'm down for a superbowl XXXI rematch. opposite result hopefully.; 11:19 AM
Broncos Fer Evah said...: My unsolicited analysis of the Tebow-offense phenomenon: from a strategic point of view, the original winning streak was largely made possible by a ridiculously successful running game that defenses didn't know how to stop because they'd never seen it before.

Orthodox defensive schemes weren't working because of Tebow's running ability, so a new, and mostly successful, defensive formula was developed: crowd the line of scrimmage to stop the run, assign a spy to Tebow, and ease up on blitzing and pass rush (instead focusing on contain) to stop Tebow from scrambling for 30-yard touchdown runs.

The weakness of this approach was on display yesterday, as Tebow had all day to scorch the Steelers on deep ball after deep ball. I think he was unsuccessful previously against this strategy because of turnovers, dropped passes, and conservative play calling that stuck with the run even when it was clearly being stopped.

Now the Patriots have to decide whether they will respect the Broncos' newly demonstrated deep passing game and take their chances on Tebow and McGahee running for 300 yards, or force Tebow to beat them deep. I'd say you still stick with the latter as the weakest threat, but if the Broncos don't repeat their turnover meltdown from the last Patriots game, they have a solid chance to dominate a week pass defense.; 11:27 AM
Happy Jack said...: Obviously, the big guy in the sky decided to smite the sodomites of Pittsblurg.

How else can you explain losing to someone who still can't throw an out?; 11:51 AM
fish said...: Now here's to hoping Eli can use some of his clutch magic, to knock out the damned Packers.

As long as they go out in the next round. I got too much voodoo to deal with if there is a Super Bowl rematch.; 12:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Again, with your f**king "beloved Steelers"? This is a corporate franchise, packaged for the local market, selling brutality and hyper-masculinity for all you needle-dicks out there who can't find a way to live in the real world. For F__'s sake, I'd rather watch goddamned Kardashians whelp than be a fan of the most despicable populist scam of them all, the NFL.; 2:20 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: And how, M'sieur, would you satiate your football fetish if all the structures necessary to bring it to you had not been enabled by all the metastructures you claim to despise?

Why, you'd be reduced to checking out the local highschool teams ... no wait a second, even they require a certain amount of metastrucutural prerequisities.; 2:30 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: to anon @ 2:20 -

Why, man, that "Kardashians whelp" trope was positively IOZ-ian.

Be careful of taverns - some IOZ henchman may try to snuff out a potential rhetorical rival with a well-thrust poinard ...; 3:00 PM
Montag said...: aside from a certain class of genuine person-to-person human interactions, what ISN'T a despicable populist scam enabled by the metastructures we claim to despise?

handegg is to The Arts, for example, as Cheney is to Obama lol.; 3:46 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: to Montag@346:

Re:

"what ISN'T a despicable populist scam enabled by the metastructures we claim to despise?"

First:

There's an Ionescuan syllogism buried in there. Let's see if we can bring it into focus:

Coventry was as despicable as Guernica.

What act of war isn't as despicable as any other?

Second:

You've constructed a lovely mini-cento there. (More on cento(es) when I have a moment ...); 3:55 PM
Enron said...: Belichick is playing the role of antichrist; 3:58 PM
Sorry said...: A few weird diehards talking pit strategy...; 4:00 PM
Montag said...: not sure who Ionescu is, but if you want to compare atrocities, i say high school football is far more despicable than the, yes, plenty despicable in it's own right, NFL. that high school shit cray. generating entitled, meat-headed, king-shit, sociopaths by the dozens in every community. and with such a weird culture around it: fanatical parents/boosters, militaristic coaches, media scrutiny, preferential treatment, and so on. THESE ARE CHILDREN WHO ARE OUR FUTURE.; 4:46 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...: Sorry Montag - I meant Ionesco, of course. Not sure if you were twitting me, but if not, here's a synopsis of his play "Rhinoceros", in which he twists the familiar notion of syllogism into something very funny

http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/rhinoceros/section1.html

HS football is to deprived rural areas as HS basketball is to deprived metro areas ... that doesn't excuse its excesses, but it's always good to place things in their proper socioeconomic context ...; 4:54 PM
Anonymous said...: our pass defense...Saves us the ignominy ...we'd take them twice...our current injured state

"Our"? "We"? Didn't realize the Steelers had hired IOZ.; 5:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Spikes and Chung are back. Look for the Patriots to completely shut down the Broncos. Tebow can't string enough 1st downs together to beat a Belichick bend but don't break defense that takes the ball away. Especially given two weeks of prep. Throw in Josh McDaniels, who drafted Tebow and TT and this is going to be a blowout.; 7:44 PM
Anonymous said...: I figure the Pats in three.; 12:07 AM
Anonymous said...: "he had plenty of time to slow down and turn back for it"

WRONG. Tebow's helper Demaryius Thomas caught the perfect throw in stride running 16.5 MPH! Tebow serves the Lord and the Lord gives he and Denver success. PRAISE GOD!; 12:36 AM
Pied Cow said...: I think Tebow is getting better; he's becoming a good quarterback.

But I can't stand that God-damned "Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" crap.

If he wants to believe in those fairy tales it's okay with me. Hey - lots of people still believe in Santa Claus.

But keep it to yourself buddy, okay? Jesus H. Christ!; 5:04 AM
Anonymous said...: "Tebow serves the Lord and the Lord gives he and Denver success. PRAISE GOD!"

If that's meant to be serious, it's absolute horseshit. First of all there is no God!, but even if there were a God! she wouldn't be taking sides in a motherfucking football game in Denver, CO. By that convoluted logic, God! was working against Pittsburgh. By that same convoluted logic, God! was helping the Pats against the Tebows last game. I'm convinced that the reason there are so many people finding fault with Tebow (mechanics, bad passing #s, poor skills at reading Ds) isn't because they dislike Tebow the person, it's because they dislike the Tebow worshipers who equate any Tebow success with divine intervention. If God! was such a Tebow fan, why can't God! tech Timmy to pass a football without a 2 second wind-up?

If it wasn't meant to be serious, bless me father for I have sinned against one of IOZ's minions.; 12:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Tebow an imperfect vessel like we all but he loves God and God receives his devotion. That is why God rewards him with a perfect pass caught by Demaryius Thomas in stride at 16.5 MPG! Praise the Lord GOD for helping Denver defeat the Stealers (remember "Thou shalt not STEAL")!; 3:52 PM

Sunday, January 08, 2012

Steel Errs

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