NFL Week 10

[John B. Foster]

The Steelers are taking on the Panthers tonight. Finally we get an exciting game on Thursday night.

First time starting a weekly thread, apologies if done incorrectly.

 

[poindexter]

You got the week correct, and you didn't end the title in a question mark.

A+ work for around here.

 

[outofplace]

That's it. Every time I start a running thread from now on, it's going to have a damn question mark!

:)

 

[John B. Foster]

Yes because everyone wants to watch this game...

 

[playthrough]

Yes because everyone wants to watch this game...

Packers/Vikings got flexed to Sunday night, which created some odd domino effects down the rest of the TV schedule.

 

[Batman]

Yes because everyone wants to watch this game...

As Playthrough noted, flexing shuffled up the schedule. But have you seen the Week 12 schedule? There are a lot of games that nobody wants to watch.
The best games (Saints-Falcons, Packers-Vikings, Titans-Texans) are in the primetime slots. It's also Thanksgiving weekend, so the three Thursday games left an 8-2 split (now 7-3) between early and late games on Sunday.
There's also a **** sandwich of bad games across the board. Not just bad teams, but bad matchups: 49ers-Bucs, Raiders-Ravens, Patriots-Jets, Cardinals-Chargers, Jaguars-Bills, Browns-Bengals, Giants-Eagles.
The only game that looks halfway decent is Seahawks-Panthers. Dolphins-Colts might actually be the second most appealing game on that slate. The Dolphins are somehow in the playoff hunt and the Colts haven't been totally ****ty.

 

[poindexter]

Yes because everyone wants to watch this game...

I've instructed my satellite provider to black out this game from my tv.

 

[Gutter]

Packers/Vikings got flexed to Sunday night, which created some odd domino effects down the rest of the TV schedule.

Packers/Vikings is the originally scheduled Sunday night game on 11/25.

 

[playthrough]

Packers/Vikings is the originally scheduled Sunday night game on 11/25.

Well that shoots down my perfectly good theory.

 

[CD Boogie]

As Playthrough noted, flexing shuffled up the schedule. But have you seen the Week 12 schedule? There are a lot of games that nobody wants to watch.
The best games (Saints-Falcons, Packers-Vikings, Titans-Texans) are in the primetime slots. It's also Thanksgiving weekend, so the three Thursday games left an 8-2 split (now 7-3) between early and late games on Sunday.
There's also a **** sandwich of bad games across the board. Not just bad teams, but bad matchups: 49ers-Bucs, Raiders-Ravens, Patriots-Jets, Cardinals-Chargers, Jaguars-Bills, Browns-Bengals, Giants-Eagles.
The only game that looks halfway decent is Seahawks-Panthers. Dolphins-Colts might actually be the second most appealing game on that slate. The Dolphins are somehow in the playoff hunt and the Colts haven't been totally ****ty.

Pats-Jets and Browns-Bungles usually make for entertaining, intra-divisional tilts.

 

[CD Boogie]

The Steelers are taking on the Panthers tonight. Finally we get an exciting game on Thursday night.

First time starting a weekly thread, apologies if done incorrectly.

As a Steelers fan, I'm confident Mike Tomlin will get outcoached by Riverboat Ron Rivera.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Certainly off to an entertaining start in Pittsburgh.

 

[outofplace]

Nice work by Watt and Williams on that pick-six, but Newton made a terrible decision to throw it.

I'm still wondering if the Steelers can figure out how to stop the Panthers' running game. McCaffrey is far too quick for their inside linebackers and they can't seem to figure out how to defend him while keeping an eye on Newton.

 

[outofplace]

I know we have plenty of folks who don't like the Steelers here, but how can you not love James Conner?

I hadn't heard that quote by Alejandro Villanueva. "He runs like he's faced death." A bit dramatic, but he's not wrong given Conner's history.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

I feel like someone missed a coverage assignment on that McCaffrey touchdown.

 

[outofplace]

I feel like someone missed a coverage assignment on that McCaffrey touchdown.

That was a bad defensive design to ask Bostic to cover that. That is twice the Panthers caught the Steelers on that same mistake, once on each inside linebacker. Pittsburgh has handed Carolina both touchdowns with defensive designs that were doomed to fail from the snap.

 

[expendable]

That was a bad defensive design to ask Bostic to cover that. That is twice the Panthers caught the Steelers on that same mistake, once on each inside linebacker. Pittsburgh has handed Carolina both touchdowns with defensive designs that were doomed to fail from the snap.

Carolina has handed Pittsburgh at least two.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Who was the genius that called single-man coverage on Antonio Brown?

 

[expendable]

Carolina has handed Pittsburgh at least two.

Make that three.

 

[outofplace]

Make that three.

Brown at least had to beat somebody for his touchdown. The first score, however, was a huge screw-up by the Carolina cornerback. Neither defense is playing particularly well. Newton's mistake on the pick-six is the primary difference here.

The real issue for the Steelers is I think Conner may be injured. He missed the second half of the field goal drive and all but one play of the last one.