2013 TM93 WK16 Pittsburgh vs Green Bay Gameday Thread

Not Flynn's best game. He needed to spike that ball or at least get it off immediately when the ref set the ball. Calling out any sort of cadence wasted precious seconds. Then not even looking Jordy's way and only at Boykin when it's the last play of the game and he had time to look. Stupid, and shows why he's a backup. 

Flynn blew this one

 

Pakrzboi good friend Dr. Kevorkian blew this one

Yeah if the ref hadn't run up to him I doubt they even would have gotten the play off.  How can you be in your 6th year in the league and not understand basic clock management?

 

Spike the ball and there's 7 or 8 seconds left, plenty of time to get 2 more plays off.  Not only that, but 2 organized plays. 

This entire team was laughable today

 

The special teams debacles.  I mean, they gave up like 3 or 4 big returns.

 

The ill advised, drive killing penalties that cost them points.  The Raji and Perry penalties in the 4Q.

 

Then there's Flynn gift wrapping them points and the idotic lack of clock management at the end.  

 

 

He wasn't good, but there is a great deal of blame to be spread around. This team looks so bad right now, and with the way some contracts are set up and certain defensive draft picks seem to be going, I'm wondering how they are going to turn it around. The WRs and RBs are good, and the OL has shown a lot of promise this year (fewer sacks that were their fault, strong power rushing) in spite of all the penalties. They also have that Rodgers guy. Special teams, TEs and defense are in pretty awful shape, though.

when us dumdum fans understand the rules better than the players....problemo

 

Even the fifty drunks in this virtual bar knew it would be  a run off and clock starting once ball  placed back in play.

 

Still fun game and fun afternoon regardless of all of our brett farts

And it was real close to Mike Tomlin wearing the goat horns for not simply running the clock down and kicking the FG.

 

 

It will be Rajis last penalty as a Green Bay Packer.he wants way more than he is worth,turned down Packers eight million offer,is he nuts.Perry coming across offside on a FG attempt leading them to a td,priceless,what was he thinking,far too many brain farts on some of these players,at times they looked just like the Lions.

Back up QB produces 31 points.  Blame him.

 

Of course.  

 

 

Unless Philly values the 3rd seed as opposed to the 4th seed.  A loss to Chicago and a win next week menas Philly is a 4.

I couldn't believe they ran the ball on 2nd down.  A couple kneel downs and they kick a FG with 5 seconds left. 

Perry and Raji penalties to keep crucial drives going was almost as unforgivable. A bad team had their season ended today. Bears will kill a Philly team that will not be playing balls out.  The Bears are going to get destroyed in the first round of the playoffs.

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It will be Rajis last penalty as a Green Bay Packer.

How do you know Raji won't get a bunch of penalties next week? 

The last pass. I know time expired but what down was it?

       
       
A gift at the goal line, a pick six, theres 14 points taken away from the equation plus some great running by Lacy and Starks...Flynn had very little to do with those 31 points. Pick a QB high in May is what I say

What's so incredibly frustrating is this team battles so hard in the wake of crippling injuries, but then has about 10 bonehead plays that you just can't have in a must-win game.

 

In the last two minutes alone, they:

*Fumble trying to make something out of nothing

*Commit a brutal offsides on FG

*Don't have the awareness to let a guy score and tackle him at the one

*Commit a false start with 20 seconds left that results in a 10 second run-off

*Fail to recognize the clock is running even though the ref just announced it would to 60,000 fans and the entire viewing audience

 

So as much as I respect the resilience of this team in the face of so many injuries, I just don't get how these things happen so many times. Obviously I'll root for the Eagles tonight. But even if the Eagles won, would anyone be shocked if next week is just a repeat of this week (AR saga, Flynn bonehead mistakes, more injuries, brutal special teams).

BJ Raji over the past 3 years = all the talent of Conrad Bolston at a Kevin Williams price. What's not to love?

       
       
Second

2nd down.  Starks got the ball to the 1 yard line with 40 seconds left.  They managed to get 1 more play off.  Almost unbelievable. 

Green Bay didn't score on a Pick Six.  So, there's no "14 points taken away from the equation".  

 

 

The Flynn pick 6 was a 7 point swing, quite possibly a 10 or 14 which I doubt

By the way, there should have been more than 10 seconds left on the clock. The penalty probably happened at 25 or 24 seconds…but b/c the play wasn't blown dead immediately, the clock kept running during the Starks handoff. 

Either way, if the ref doesn't tell Flynn the clock is still running, he's probably barking out signals while the coaches run out for the post-game handshake. Awful awareness by a veteran QB. And would it kill a coach or another player to figure it out and motion to him that he needs to spike the ball?

They had 1st down at the 3 yard line. 

 

They also gift wrapped 7 due to the moronic pick 6 play.  I don't know what was worse- the play call or the wounded duck TJ Rubley throw

 

 

Pittsburgh did.  Perhaps if Flynn hadn't thrown a pick-six the rest of the game might have unfolded differently?  :hmm:

Wasn't the point.  I said backup QB puts up 31.  You then say "Take 14 points out of the equation", which is wrong on every possible level.  I point that out, you shift the goalposts.  

 

But, yeah, he threw a pick 6 because Quarless ran into him while he threw.  So.  Yeah.

Just an all around bad game for a team that needed to play at a high level to win.   Steelers made less mistakes - it's as simple as that.

 

If for whatever reason they don't advance they can look to this game as exhibit A.  Season in a nutshell.   Injuries, bad playcalling, poor execution, ill advised penalties, etc.  Awesome!

Rationalizing Flynn's bad game is not worth the time or effort.   He did not play well today, period. 

 

Quarless ran into him?  Really?  Sound like Bill Schroeder running the wrong route BS when Favre was here.

Perhaps if Quarles had a clue, CBS radio broadcast were all over him for causing the interception

I can't really kill anyone.  The Steelers are a (record be) damned good team and we were way understaffed.  They still put up a hell of a fight. 

 

Flynn should be Doug Pederson version 2.  If they have a better defense he's good enough to give us a shot.  Don't trust Tolzien and don't think a draft pick is the right route.

 

Clay went out on his shield with a sack.  Team showed they were very game this year when it would have been easy to quit.  No shame at all in how they competed 

 

I have a good feeling about the Eagles tonight.  I don't see the Bears being able to handle McCoy.  Season's not quite over yet... 

 

 

Causing the interception.  That's rich

 

The ball took like 8 seconds to get to the boundary so whatever

 

The Pittsburgh DB actually had to slow down to catch it - watch the replay

 

Makes Matt Hasselbeck v Al Harris look like nothing

 

Hooray Matty Ice!!  I mean Matt Flynn6

 

Flynn had time to eat the ball after bumping Quarless, but he let her fly "gunslinger" style.  That neat-o fumble was a treat, too.  Raji and Perry totally screwed the pooch the whole game, then made sure they were mentioned on TV by committing stupid penalties that saved Pittsburgh. Next year is a long ways off.

Well, you gotta wonder who was wrong in that case. Quarless ran to the line like it was a running play, as did everyone else yet Flynn turns to throw. Who was wrong? That's what I'd like to know.

If Quarless doesn't run into Flynn that play may have been a TD for Boykin. He was one on one with no safety over the top.  I'd bet that was an audible to that play and Quarless missed the call.

And yet the dumb ass players end up bein ESPN and NFL network NFL analysts.  Go figure!

MM implied in his interview with McCarren that much of that was on Flynn for how the change was communicated.

At TIT,  I hope so!

It was the run/pass option deal that the Packers and every other team runs. Watch the OLine....they are all run blocking.

 

MF went with the pass option at least 4 times today, with very little to show for at....and a pick 6 to boot.

 

Just RTFB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pittsburgh really didn't stop them at all today when the Packers chose to run the ball, yet MM is dialing up pass plays again and again.  

 

The pick 6 play should never have happened.