someone on the news brought up a good point about maddox. The play calls for maddox are asking him to throw deep which he obviously is struggling with but the play calls for batch have been small passes to get him into a rythm. BAD COACHING.
as far as Ben being “great” while scrambling, thats a stretch. anyone notice that second chin comming in for ben. he’s put on more then a “sophmore 15” all this time off is only gonna make him bigger and slower. compare rod rutherford’s senior and junior years. That extra 30lbs hurt rod a bunch and its gonna do the same to ben.
If maddox is soooooo bad then the coaches are to blame for keeping him on the team. Plain and simple!
I;m sorry but its his fucking job and he gets paid. He should be ready reguardless. I’m tired of the “bad coaching” argument when someone like maddox throws a fucking interception the second time he throws reguardless of deep or short passes.
Fuck him he gets a pay check that surpasses anyone on this board to sit there and be a back up for 21 games including preseason. Bitch needs to earn his fucking paycheck, not have excuses made for him…
You tailor a gameplan to suit a QB. The Steelers have done it fairly well with Batch. Frankly, we don’t have the O-line to give Maddox the time he needs AND Maddox is definitely in decline in ability.
how could they of done it with batch and not maddox? it was the same fuckign game just one play apart… maddox is just lame… he can’t throw decent passes, whether short or deep, and he fumbles the ball more than a 12 year old.
regardless of out o-line… ben and batch made plays… maddox does not. we gave him an entire game to fuck up, and he did, and we lost… then we went to batch… now batch is hurt and we’re fucked.
EXACTLY. They didn’t spend the week tailoring the plan to Maddox VS Browns. They spent the whole week planning plays with Batch at the helm. They had halftime to develop their “strategery” for Maddox.
its now clear you fall under the catagory of “YOU DON"T KNOW SHIT ABOUT FOOTBALL” you call plays based on what your are given. you don;t run a pitch out sweep with jarome bettis. It obvious the coaches know better than us so there is a reason maddox is still a steeler. BAD COACHING is the argument for the steelers to continually try to throw deep with tommy maddox.
game plans are tailored to the QB who will be starting but i HIGHLY doubt they assumed Maddox wouldnt play any downs…they did what they could do to get him and the team ready for him to play some downs…he didnt do his part and perform as a QB. The only thing they could really do to tailor to him at this point would be to never let a defender cross the line (so he doesnt get scared) and not let the other team have any defenders in the secondary (so he cant throw interceptions as easily)
other than that hes doing ok (aside from poor choices like giving up the fumble last week instead of falling on it like you’re taught since pee-wee football)
but there’s always tomorrow in the regular season. Steelers fans just love a scapegoat, this year its maddox. sorta like the george bush theory some people have. what ever goes wrong…must be tommy’s fault.
before someone brings it up: Heinz ward is a great player but not the best steeler WR ever. Stallworth played 4 year when the DB’s were still allowed to hack you all the way down the field and don’t forget the other hall of famer on the other side, lynn swann. Heinz earned the right to be mentioned with them thou, congrats.
cutty you can call all the fucking plays good or bad you want, if the asshole can;t throw a pass that is not the fucking coaches fault. Christ are you being stupid about this. Cower or whomever isn’t out there throwing the fucking ball for maddox.
i dont care whos takes the snap for the steelers. they’ve found a way to win 7 out of 9 games…
if i had to pick a concern its other teams consistantly converting on 3rd down. i believe last nights game could have been slightly different if cleveland didnt shoot themselve in the foot with turnovers and dropped passes. championship teams dont make those kind of mistakes so down the stretch and playoff time this will haunt us.
[QUOTE=Cutty]but there’s always tomorrow in the regular season. Steelers fans just love a scapegoat, this year its maddox. sorta like the george bush theory some people have. what ever goes wrong…must be tommy’s fault. QUOTE]
its not “ALWAYS” tommys fault, but when hes throwing int., fumbling the ball left and right, over throwing and under throwing the passes then yeah it is his fault. It’s sad when you would feel much better if your rec. was your QB. Randle el did what maddox couldn’t…complet a pass (to his own team).
OH MY GOD! pull ur dick outta Tommy’s ass PLEASE!!
he sucks, just face it…
do you remember the year “tommy-gun” was quarterback… what was the Steelers’ record? 6-10? What is their record when they run the ball, with a guy who doesnt make a BAGILLION mistakes? 15-1 - as a rookie