don’t have them ten yards of the receivers, everytime.

Don’t get too down about it.

Trying to refrain from whining about: 1. NFL overtime 2. Titans defensive scheme in 4th quarter and overtime 3. 2 blown field goals in 1st half I’m sure there’s more… But will take a hard fought loss on the road against the Steelers – as …much as I loathe them as a franchise – respect them yes – but with a jealous loathing.

Oh yeah – one more – how many times did the Titan defense fall for the Burger’s pump fakes on 5 and 7 step drops?

not picking on the titans but you followed the ravens script on how to lose to the steelers. your coaches went down the same slippery slope.

it was painfully obvious that nobody jammed the receivers. the 3 and 4 man front could have been statues. the blitz was working and ben throws picks under pressure. chris johnson wasn’t used enough. he disappeared while pitt. kept grinding although they avegeraged less than 2 a carry.

i said it before that fisher is a horrible 4th quarter coach. his clock management always costs you even going back to 1999 against us. his play calling gets choppy.

Anyways… This loss goes to everybody. Gage dropped a touchdown. Scaife decided to just let go of the ball. Collins refuses to dump it off when they blitz. Heimerdinger needed to run the ball A SHITLOAD more. Bironas can’t seem to get the ball up in the air. Something tells me it was Fisher overriding Cecil in the fourth quarter where we were playing prevent defense.

I’m not mad because we lost. I’m mad because ran up and down the field on them and couldn’t do a damn thing.

If I saw him right now I would probably end up attacking him. As Jimmy said, we just kept rushing four down lineman every play (on one third and twelve we rushed 3) and expected it to just magically start working. Somewhere in Washington Fat Albert is in a very good mood because his absence was huge.

And special teams lose football games.

If our special teams were perfect (like Pittsburgh’s) we win that game going away.

Special teams, special teams, special teams.

Hasn’t proven a winning strategy over the years. More to the point, when you mention Ben having all day to throw, you intended it as a knock on the Titans, but it’s really a comment on Roethlisberger, the most deceptively elusive QB in the league. The guy moves his feet and has amazing feel for the pocket, buying one second more time and again.

I don’t think Tennessee botched this from a game calling perspective. The defense shut down the run and forced Ben to win it. He did, but he’s kinda good at that.

bad calls against you too..the hold on #51 on the kickoff was nonexistant. i slowmode it. also, the spot on a run play on the last drive was about 2 feet off. the coin toss. typical steeler luck. you guys are the hardest luck team i can ever remember. maybe the cavaliers when they kept running into jordan in the playoffs years ago were more snake bit.

but i’m really discouraged by this. i know it’s only one game, but it always seems like we lose the big ones, and the coaches seem blind.

you HAVE to get the ball in Chris Johnson’s hands. by run, screen, toss, pass, reverse, etc. he is the only thing that can keep pitts ends honest. we should have used ray rice in that mode last year but didn’t. we better this year. the steelers blitz so hard that misdirection and dumps can work. the last time we beat them Troy Smith was the qb. just saying.

i can take losing to the world champs in overtime in pitt. Yes we could have won…but i feel good about our season. fish will make the corrections.

oh yeah…why in the hell on 3rd and 12 do we rush only 3 linemen!!!!

ok …im better now….

Our defense held them to 10 points in regulation…thats good.

missed FG, blocked FG, gained 73 yards on 7 returns, allowed 126 yards on 5 returns.

i just hate to admit that they are that good when they don’t really seem to be that good.

amazingly, they lose Troy and win. In the playoffs they lost Ward in the 1st quarter and won.

don’t forget the huge bad passthat sailed high and wide to scaiffe (sp?) on 3rd and long. you guys were moving the ball then and scaiffe was wide open but collins missed him. that was a turning point.

mawae looked real old..once getting helped back to the line by the other gray bear.

if we pick up mark jones…..we can sign players now and we don’t have to garauntee their salary for the year now.

take him and inactivate chris henry

this game could have been ravens vs tenn or ravens vs tenn 2. at some point coaches need to take chances to widen the margin for error as someone mentioned above. you don’t always have to do the waltz until the last few minutes and then scramble for a win. be creative. run a reverse. do a flea flicker. what the hell. your not going into pitt and winning a straight up game. they have too much luck and confidence for that. need a wrinkle.

It’s one game. The Titans took the Super Bowl champs to overtime in their own house. Yeah, there were mistakes, but look at the positives. Britt showed that he can be a playmaker for us. Gage is going to make plays downfield and be a legit deep threat. CJ will have another good year.

I didn’t like the defensive play calling either, but it was Cecil’s first game, so I’m going to cut him some slack. I bet he learns from this and changes things up.

This is a good team and will make the playoffs.

but you can’t win in Pitt.. the ravens can’t win in pitt.. both of us ran the same D out there and got waxed in the 4th quarter. pitt. was in control.

kvb didnt get close to the qb?

but jacob ford seems to have the better edge rush

im just pissed because there are only a handful of pitt. loseable games on the schedule. this doesn’t bode well for b-more. means we need to take down a giant to equal it. stupid coin toss and prevent D.

After the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 13-10 overtime victory over the Tennessee Titans on Thursday night, coach Mike Tomlin told reporters that safety Troy Polamalu had suffered an MCL sprain. While doctors are still evaluating the injury, right now the speculation is that he will miss 3-6 weeks due to the injury.

Tomlin confirmed that there is still a chance there is a more serious injury in the knee (read: torn ligament), and that doctors are still looking at the film. Expect a better diagnosis tomorrow following an MRI.

How about kenny britt? rookie wr…are you kidding he looks good..

jared cook as well next week …..glass more than half full :)

but why did it seem like Pittsburgh when blitzed the time we actually did blitz, thought to use its speedy tailback or even Santonio Holmes lined up in a near slot receiver position, to run quick pass plays? Or even Heath Miller as a hot route? Not once did we run a screen to Chris Johnson, the fastest player on the entire field. Not once. I’m fully convinced one to two screens would’ve helped tremendously to keep the defensive line for the steelers (which were blocked very well for the first half at least) in check. Anything to give Kerry a bit more time in the second half would’ve helped. Plus, Heimerdinger gave up on Lendale and CJ way to early in general putting the ball in Kerry’s hands which is not always his strong suit. Second, offensive line needs some work ahhemm David Stewart. Are you kidding me? I mean your no OU lineman….But alas, a one game season it is not. But the offense needs work, and the Defense played very well, just need to fix some coverage issues when the D-line isn’t getting pressure. Oh and seconded to Kenny Britt playing fantastic for his first NFL game that matters. Bravo.

But I am not gonna dwell on it. We played the Steelers to OT in their house. Its the first game of the season and I am willing to bet Fish unf$%ks Special Teams over the next 10 days. We have a good team this year. I am not gonna start kicking dirt over this Loss.

We need a confident kick returner. This is killing us and will lead to another loss if we are not careful

and after the blocked kick i said to him “this is how the titans blow games to good teams that they should win”. exactly like the ravens game, they simply didn’t take advantage of scoring opportunities, and the defense eventually broke down.

let’s face it, we had a defensive coordinator making his rookie debut and it showed. i think the titans did a lot of good things on both offense and defense at times, but they just weren’t able to string it together on offense and put points on the board. the reason we were 13-3 last year is because we didn’t do what we did today squandering our scoring chances.

special teams was a disaster and that falls on jeff fisher’s shoulders. this team clearly does not have the adequate personnel to do anything in either return game, and if they don’t fix it by cutting dead weight (hawkins & henry, im looking at you) and adding some free agents it could cost us even more games in the future, because it already cost us one.

we only ran the ball 23 times. that’s insane. i don’t care if the passing game looked good, 23 rushes when basically never really playing from behind is inexcusable. we lost time of possession and it showed when our front four suddenly stopped getting any pressure, even though they got 4 sacks previously. this team has to run the ball and control the clock and they failed to do that tonight.

Other than that, the D-Line is a shadow of its former self.

I’m not gonna get too down about it, but I will say that this is, at best, a 10-win team.

Britt looked good. Collins passes looked like laser beams with the exception of the interception.
I was certain that if Pitt. got the ball they would win because our defense looked absolutely gassed in regulation. The defense which has been so solid the last couple of years is really missing Haynesworth. The pre season really did mean nothing, I was looking at last nights game as a barometer to measure how we will stack up this year against the competition. I felt we played good enough to win, but we just don’t have as stout of D as we used to and the wins won’t come as easy.
  Dang it, Crumpler should have caught that pass early in the game that would have put us right by the goal line. I find that play hard to take more than Gages drop in the endzone.