OT: The Pittsburgher Thread: Ploff wins?!? Fire Tomlin

[xlm34]

Well OG was arguably already a need but if there’s truth that McCormick refused to suit up it might be a bigger fish they go after. He’s not good enough to avoid the doghouse.

 

[Peat]

Re all the talk of offensive expectations...

Yeah, I never expected the offence to be great.

16th for points scored is arguably a bit of an overachievement. 22nd for offensive touchdowns per game at 2.1 is more like expectations (and a reasonable tick up from last year's gruesome 1.7 per game, although still not good).

However, some parts of the execution leave me concerned. The failures on 4th down (which stats suggest is more frequent than not with Arthur Smith). Being 29th in the league with 48.21% conversion for red zone touchdowns (which was a problem in Atlanta, albeit a massive strength in Tennessee). The constant failure to get the team to understand their blocking assignments. That team being a worse rushing team than last year just shouldn't have happened. I guess might as well give him a second year to show what he can do with more experience with the unit and hopefully more talent if he's not going himself, but there's things going wrong beyond talent.

Still, it's nothing like a team that rests everything on its defence getting blown out like that, no.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I'd like to get more information on that McCormick thing before I complain too much. You can portray it as "he refused to play with a brace" just like you can portray it as "he was too injured to play and the brace wouldn't have been enough".

 

[Peat]

I'd like to get more information on that McCormick thing before I complain too much. You can portray it as "he refused to play with a brace" just like you can portray it as "he was too injured to play and the brace wouldn't have been enough".

My application of Occam's razor says we don't hear about this in this way unless someone thought he wasn't too injured.

But they might be an idiot.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

My application of Occam's razor says we don't hear about this in this way unless someone thought he wasn't too injured.

But they might be an idiot.

He said himself last week he wasn’t going to play with a club. If he couldn’t grip he wasn’t playing

 

[Empoleon8771]

My application of Occam's razor says we don't hear about this in this way unless someone thought he wasn't too injured.

But they might be an idiot.

Yeah and I'm willing to bet this is a case where someone thought McCormick should have been able to play but McCormick didn't agree.

If McCormick doesn't feel like he can play effectively with a brace, I'd rather him say that and not play than play and get abused.

 

[Peat]

He said himself last week he wasn’t going to play with a club. If he couldn’t grip he wasn’t playing

Good to know, but still doesn't answer the question about just how badly hurt he was and the rest of it.

I do have to add that I think Spencer Anderson with two good hands is probably better than McCormick with only one anyway.