I noticed that at Texans games. People wear some random stuff to games. I've even seen hockey jerseys.
Not to mention, the Steelers are probably the most well-travelled team in the league. It's a dumb argument to be having right now, and one of the reasons this thread sucks. Your team just beat a good team that is built on toughness, and we are complaining about stupid and hypothetical things? Are you kidding me. This team just took step one in shedding the "soft" label (which they shed last year, imo), by stuffing the ball right down the opposing team's collective throats and all we care about are how many Steelers fans were at the game? Seriously? Now, the next two games are against tough, physical teams. Let's fully shed that soft label. Someone said we survived Kubiak. Really? What mistakes did he make? As for the penalties, it's not about coaching. It's about getting caught up in emotion. While they were dumb, it didn't cost us the game, so I'm fine. Is rather see this team fired up and making emotional mistakes than looking apathetic. Of course I'd rather see no penalties. As far as Duncan Mcdonuts, you've got to be kidding me. I figured you'd just politely excuse yourself from the thread after making the Jonathan Joseph comment, but to defend it twice, wow. See my analogy about three posts ago.
I don't know now. After watching that video rezdawg posted, I have to change my statement and say that I see 98% steeler fans. I say 98% to 2%. The 2 percent of texans fans staff workers. My eyes don't lie. =/ Watched the game again as I always do, it was nice to see us be able to play any style of football. Stupid penalties also cost Mario a fumble recovery and Owen a big catch. The front seven did an awesome job containing Big Ben. I can't remember which local "expert" from the houston media scene gave us the ground breaking revelation that schaub doesn't like getting pressured, neither did Ben. He was never comfortable.
We go into ultra conservative mode when we have a 4th quarter lead. We did it against the Saints when we were up 9 with 12 minutes to play...if you remember, we had two terrible possessions and the Saints took the lead....THEN we open the offense and drive 90 yards for a TD. In yesterday's game, our last 3 possessions were 3 and outs. Not 1 first down because our offense becomes so vanilla, so predictable. If not for our crazy defense, we would have either lost or gone into OT. Kubiak plays to not lose...instead of playing to win. Thats the problem.
Didn't you guys win? Being around here makes it seem like you guys took the L. 3-1, handle the turds for us next week will ya?
not true, a deep bomb to jacoby is not conservative. we just missed on it. also owen had a 40 yarder as well late in the game right before the big foster td run.
Implying that people on this board would not go crazy if Kubiak was throwing more with the lead in the 4th, particularly with AJ out in addition to a pretty good Steelers D.
I don't mind a conservative game plan in that situation. Your defense has been playing well, your star WR is out, and your star RB is in the groove. If the Texans couldn't pull out that win with the gameplan Kubiak put together for the 4th quarter, then they didn't deserve to win, nor would they likely wind up winning many more games after that. ...Now, New Orleans on the other hand... not so much.
I'm having a lot more fun with the Texans this season by limiting my time reading/talking about them here! 3-1!!! Go Texans!
They will not win against an opponent with a decent run defense and a competent offensive line with that game plan, home or away.
Aren't we supposed to just kick off separate threads for off-topic subjects? FWIW: They sell season tickets in the non-PSL sections. So capping season tickets based on the PSL seats is dead wrong. Plenty of season ticket holders happily sell away many (sometimes most) of their tickets to make back their money (sometimes just to make money). Personally, I wouldn't want to sell my tickets to the non-divison marquee matchups...but some love to, given that the Pack, Steelers, etc will fork over the most cash. Steeler fans are, IMO, the most impressive national fanbase. They invade every stadium, bar none, and bring the noise. And as far as my experiences have gone, they aren't the jackholes that Saints fans are. They cheer their team and let that be that. Too many visiting fans are trying to start crap with the home fans around them (Dallas fans probably topping the list).
The pass to Owen was when we were tied. I'm talking about when we are in the lead. The pass to jacoby was predictable. Run, run, pass, punt. We had zero first downs during our last three possessions when we had the lead.
So just bc you win, that means there are no problems? Nice logic. Trust me, partied for 12 hours yesterday bc of the texans...huge win. But, to say there are no problems is a joke. We would have lost that game in the 4th quarter against at least 10 other teams. Given that we gave away the game to the Saints...this is an issue that concerns me.
There were not 25K steelers fan there. Period. There were a ton, but not anywhere near 25K...that's just silly. Steelers represent well at any stadium. Their fans act like college fans, i.e. they travel and anyone in the local area will make it a point to go see them. Good game for the most part. Taking 14 points off the board certainly hurt and made the game much closer than should have been, but they held in there and got the win. It was nice to see the defense close out the game in the 4th...the offense can't always be expected to win these games. It's always fun to read this thread the next day after the game. 33-35 people were completely freaking out...and the trolls showed their heads.
