Maine-iac

The bad: 4th down. We were probably 3 punts away from winning. Two 4th downs we probably should have punted and one punt we didn't execute and gave up a TD. I

Our kicker has been so good. If we're inside the 40 I am always confused when we don't just kick it.

I totally agree with almost everything you point out here but I might say that the Texans are a perfect fit for Taylor. Despite the game manager tag Taylor gets he never played better than when Watkins or Goodwin were stretching defenses (when they weren't hurt). I think having Cooks to go deep and Ingram to grind at RB might be the perfect fit for Taylor. I still don't think Taylor is a throw it 50 times a game 4,000 yards and 40 TD's type QB but if the Texans play defense and Ingram and Cooks have a good year Taylor has proven he can win. They might surprise people. Then they'll draft a QB first thing next year.

I'll go one further and say that even being fairly one dimensional, not having a great game plan on offense, if we just didn't turn the ball over on two fourth and 1s and then give up the special teams TD we probably win that game. Basically saying even not playing our best or calling the best game we still probably win if we would have just punted and made the Steelers go a long field and not given up the special teams score.

Taylor doesn't throw for 300 yards a game every week so he has to be trash. All joking aside I love Allen but people never gave Taylor credit for being a decent game manager. Houston could do a lot worse with Watson not playing.

We played defense only and ground out wins into the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor. What we didn't do was make dumb mistakes. We could have ground out a win today if we didn't turn the ball over a handful of times.

I'd also like to say, no offense to Sanders, but our best two outside receivers in my opinion are Davis and Diggs and I might even go next best (at any WR position) is Beasley. I would have had those 3 out there to start.

I didn't necessarily see holding but I also didn't see enough pass interference on White for that call either. I will not disagree with anyone who didn't like some of the calls out there. I just feel like we stilll could have won the game i.e. the refs didn't lose it for us.

What I will say for Singletary is that if you give him a hole he'll give you a decent run. If you have 3 guys penetrating into the backfield he's no better than anyone else. I'm not sure any of the run game problems start with him.

I agree with all of that. Wasn't a fan of the call or the hit in the end zone later on which was clearly early but I don't think it cost us the game.

You only get so many straight up mistakes in a game before playing better doesn't cut it. Up by 7 and turning the ball over on downs twice and then giving up a special teams TD was probably 2 mistakes to many. We didn't play that badly but we did make too many mistakes.

Can't say I'm with you on that call. Offense looked pretty bad and especially the passing game. I'm leaning towards the play calling being the problem but Allen missed a few (he was getting hurried) and there were a number of drops. All in all the defense looked fine, the offense looked off most of the day and the special teams ultimately lost the game. The refs had a few close possibly bad calls but I certainly wouldn't say they decided anything.

Defense is holding the Steelers to a 3 points and we lead by a TD lets give them the ball on downs 2 times in a row and see how the defense likes that. That second 4th and 1 where he threw it backwards was just utter garbage. If you can't run for 1 yard between Singletary or Allen you have problems and barring that we have one of the best groups of receivers in the NFL how the hell can we not get a yard ...... throw it backwards 5 yards and spot the defense 6 yards before the guy even starts running that's how.

Also like to add that we needed to stop calling gimicky QB runs. Just call a pass and let Allen escape up the middle if we need a QB run. Definitely needed to throw the ball or head up field. Running sideline to sideline against the Steelers was not the answer.

Going for it twice got the Steelers going and killed us. Offense was mediocre all day but giving the Steelers great field position twice in the second half got them going and hurt our defense. We need to do a much better job with our run game and the play calling that goes with it. I'm sure our passing game will be fine but the run game calling was horrendous until the Steelers took the lead.

and they're talking like old friends by the end of the play.

No I get that. A rule is a rule, penalty is a penalty type thing. That said Smith lowers his head and blasts him and I'm thinking dumb play. He goes in head up and makes a play on the QB and I'm thinking dumb rule.

Their helmets might have hit but it was effeminately more face mask to face mask. Smith didn't lower his head and blast him. auto correct for the win ............ I'm leaving effeminately in there just because.

Have to remember to not complain that we don't run the ball. We have 41 points.

Guess we get to see more of Fields vs our pass rushers.

Not a fan of running first, and second down, then throwing on 3rd likes it's a pre written script but ever there was a time it would be up 20 something in the second half. Would like to see if we can line up and run the ball not just call a draw play once in a while.

Would still love to see us develop a real running game. Passing offense looks ready to go. Haven't watched his blocking but Hollister looks legit.

McKelvin was notorious for being there but not making a play.

If you can't look back for the ball watch the receivers hands and knock it out.

All game long I was thinking our best tackler is probably one of our CB's and our best hitter is Milano when he's out there. I don't think I felt that way before this season. Alexander, Kyle, and Lawson knew how to knock people down.