Merged: The reason the Fins lost...

[FreightTrain]

ESPN, NFL Network, Sports Illustrated, and anybody who predicted them to win/go to the Super Bowl.

Seriously, all these people got into your guys' heads with all these ideas of winning the Super Bowl, or going 12-5, or whatever they said.

Honestly, the Dolphins are a good team, but they are going to have some flaws. Namely the secondary. But they played an awesome team, and I think some of you guys are forgetting they won the Super Bowl for a reason. DEFENSE.

Ronnie did good, Pepp did alright, the recievers; minus the dropped touchdown, looked good. The defensive front 7 looked good. The secondary is our downfall.

So stop blaming everyone on the team for losing to a great team, and maybe look at yourself for over-hyping the team.

 

[dominizzo]

For the 1000000 time Mike Lehan

 

[BGtoKNfor6]

For the 1000000 time Mike Lehan

That is like blaming steve bartman for alex gonzalez error and the cubs downfall a few years ago..its a team game. Last time I checked, zach thomas and the invisible safety let a slow *** marginal tight end run 80 yards up the field for a score.....

 

[dominizzo]

that was bad!! HEath Miller woow!! BAtch made our secondary look like a Pee WEE secondary

 

[FreightTrain]

Two things. One, Heath Miller is not marginal. And two, the reason why the safety was "invisible" was because he bit, HARD, on the playaction, or whatever Parker did on that play.

 

[fleaflicker]

that was bad!! HEath Miller woow!! BAtch made our secondary look like a Pee WEE secondary

I can't believe how fast Heath Miller looked on that play...

 

[d-day]

way too much blaming specific players, coaches, playcalling, specific plays...

bottom line: pittsburgh is just a better team than we are right now

 

[FreightTrain]

Oh, and I would just like to state that Charlie Batch is not as bad as everyone is saying. And I am not saying that because of this game, either.

 

[SteelHack]

IMO its this stat right here that is the reason

Steelers outrushed Miami 143-38

HACK

 

[Captain91]

reason why we lost

Well, there is lots of reasons why we lost and i hope the coaching staff read this. On offense, Chambers dropped a TD pass float those up and let him jump up and get those, stupid play calling at the end because we got despirate when we didn't need to, two muffed challenges by Saban(yes booker caught that pass cause it didn't come out til after he hit the ground that should have been challenged too), blocking fell apart at the end, And Daunte's panic at the end throwing all the time and forcing it too deep was evident. Most of all it was apparent we were out of sync big time thats where the INTs came. As for the defense it was all our secondary and i would really like to thank J. Allen for holding out. We needed just one big play like the steelers made at the end. Goodman should be released first. Look closely he was burned badly on the first two TDs. Daniels would have done better on a bum ankle. Our 3rd down D was bad too with giving up long first downs or causing the big penalties again. I am getting sick of giving up the long TDs and making back up QBs look so good. I know they were the superbowl champs, but we had them and once again lost another heart breaker in the last few minutes. There was a lot of positivtes and i think we will shread most teams this year once we get together, and i know we will. until next week.

 

[Tommy_Cane]

i'm sure the coaches are scouring the message boards right now looking to improve on their gameplan

 

[Coral Reefer]

i'm sure the coaches are scouring the message boards right now looking to improve on their gameplan

I was just thinking the same thing, although I do believe Wannstedt may have at times and it showed.

 

[SarahAnn]

I was just thinking the same thing, although I do believe Wannstedt may have at times and it showed.

The way Wanny coached I think he coulda improved had he listened to fans.

 

[fear-the-d]

the reason we lost - lack of consistant running game lack of a secondary oh yea and the Steelers Defense and offense!!! They are a solid team allround where as miami have weaknesses

 

[SarahAnn]

the reason we lost - lack of consistant running game lack of a secondary oh yea and the Steelers Defense and offense!!! They are a solid team allround where as miami have weaknesses

We aren't the complete team people keep claiming, We have holes that need filling and even though we plugged the major one this offseason, you have enough small ones and the ship can still sink. We can just have faith that Saban as our Cap can save it, This season isnt over, catch the holes early and we can still go far.