Experience plays a huge part in this too. The head coach and many players are still learning their job. Combine it with mediocre to below talent at some positions and you have a team that has a very small amount of room for error. The game yesterday was one big error after another.

I am one who believes that a better, more experienced coach could get better performance out of this team. I don’t think there is as big of a lack of talent on the roster as there is a lack of planning and putting the right players in the right position to win games.

There have been some very bad personnel decisions this year that have not allowed this team to use what few strengths it may have. The decisions about playing Goff, LJ, McGraw, have been mind numbing while decisions to cut Pollard and not playing Page and DJ have been even worse in my eyes.

Regarding the running game (or lack thereof) It should be very clear that LJ is NOT the right guy for the job at this point. Charles and Savage are clearly the better RBs on the roster and will give this team a MUCH better opportunity to succeed. You can say how bad the line is till you are blue in the face but, it seems that those young guys can at least get marginal gains whereas LJ keeps getting stuffed. Regarding the line, although our line is REAL BAD, It doesn’t have to be as bad as it has been. Alleman and Ndukwe are better options at Center and RG but, Haley seems quite content doing the same shit over and over expecting different results that my friends is the true definition of insanity.

The Steelers went to and WON a Super Bowl with an offensive line that was only marginally better than ours. They overcame that with good QB play and creative plays that kept that team in games. I am done hearing about the line because it’s now an excuse. It’s not the worst line in history and it doesn’t have to be as bad as it is. Haley could make this team better but seems to choose not to.

The coaching is worse than the players at this point in my eyes although there is a lack of talent as well.

It says witch is More to blame. I say coach, if that includes management too. QB with no o-line is just stupid, stupid, stupid.

Maybe I have to believe this for my own sanity. The first test for Haley will be whether he benches LJ in favor of anyone else at this point. It is obvious to everyone except Haley that LJ is not working out. I’m not sure about benching Cassel in favor of Croyle, but it could’t be any worse, or maybe it could. Fire Pendergasp at the end of season if not sooner.

I remember noticing this in the Dallas game. It is a lot more evident live when you get to see the whole field than it is on TV. But, we are blitzing the heck out of people and leaving our defensive backs on an island.

Blitzing is effective, but only when the right blitz is called for the right situation (Dick Lebeau is a master of this). For us, it seems like we are blitzing just for the sake of blitzing and we just aren’t reaching the QB in time.

Often times, our corners are left in man coverage one-on-one against receivers, and they are doing suprisingly well most of the time. But as SD and Dallas proved, one missed tackle and it is all over. Brandon Flowers and Brandon Carr will be great corners in this league, but they aren’t prepared to take on some of these guys one-on-one with no help.

The adage goes: “you live by the blitz, you die by the blitz”. Right now, we are experiencing the latter.

Haley is trying to do too much with too little. He is taking risks because he knows the team cannot beat another team on talent alone. Pendergast is probably blitzing too much because we cannot get pressure on the passer any other way. Just so many variables and problems with the team, no one thing can be the only thing to blame