Newhouse stinks

[pbmax]

Won a Super Bowl last year without one home playoff game, better than getting Rodgers laid out.

Different team. Home field does not mean what it once did, but I think our lines need the crowds help to even out the matchup.

[George Cumby]

Aw shit, the dreaded "knee sprain" + MRI.

I'm guessing he might be out until the playoffs.

Mebbe, but he was on the sideline suited up was he not?

[Pugger]

Here's to hoping Bulaga will be back for postseason...his injury did not seem as severe as Jennings'.

Our OL continues to show no signs of taking a step forward to becoming a reliable group. For all that Thompson has done well, his inability to find capable guys on the OL is glaring. Bulaga and Sitton were great additions...but we need to get more than 2 guys every 5-6 years. The lines on both sides of the ball are places where you need a continue flow of talent...getting a contributor a year on average. Rodgers becomes a mediocre QB when he's getting pressured in the pocket...he gets a serious case of happy feet and becomes rather inaccurate.

Really? If our O line was from L --> R = Clifton, Lang, Wells, Sitton and Bulaga I don't think anybody would be complaining. Plus TT drafted Sherrod to take Cliffy's place in the future. Unfortunately we are getting hit on the O line right now.

[denverYooper]

Mebbe, but he was on the sideline suited up was he not?

Yup. Standing and looking like he kinda wanted to go in when Sherrod got wasted.

[pbmax]

Bulaga said he planned to go back in but could not get his knee loosened up. Its the same knee he hurt earlier this year.

[pbmax]

There is plenty of talent on the O line. Lang, Sitton, Bulaga, Sherrod and Newhouse are all from the last four years, aren't they?

No team has a starting capable LT on the bench except the Packers, and he broke his leg. Newhouse had a bad game, but he isn't a tire fire. Hali is an All-Pro DE. Problem is, Peppers and Vandenbosch are next.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Hard to give up home field.

If the Steelers win tomorrow night, we wouldn't be giving up anything. I've changed my tune and I agree with Nutz. It's obvious that this team needs to get healthy.

[Bretsky]

No team has a starting capable LT on the bench except the Packers, and he broke his leg. Newhouse had a bad game, but he isn't a tire fire. Hali is an All-Pro DE. Problem is, Peppers and Vandenbosch are next.

I haven't seen enough of Sherrod to consider him starting capable
I've venture to say even if he is there are certainly other teams with starting capable LT's on the bench.
Newhouse has had a lot of bad games and doensn't belong in a starting linup at this point

If you'd have told me before today Green Bay was going to lose I'd have said it was a combination of turnovers and the Marshmellow getting ripped apart. I would have been half right

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[Bretsky]

If the Steelers win tomorrow night, we wouldn't be giving up anything. I've changed my tune and I agree with Nutz. It's obvious that this team needs to get healthy.

Absolutely agree; once we secure home field the last two games really don't matter much. Getting healthy and getting homefield for the NFC Championship against the Saints is key

[King Friday]

Really? If our O line was from L --> R = Clifton, Lang, Wells, Sitton and Bulaga I don't think anybody would be complaining.

No...but Clifton clearly can't make it through an entire season at this point, so expecting him to be there is a luxury. The starting 5 is good...yeah, but there is precious little behind them. Very tough to think that a 5 deep OL (with one of those guys as brittle as glass) is good enough when your entire team is based on offensive proficiency from your QB, who apparently gets flustered easily by a pass rush.

[pbmax]

If the Steelers win tomorrow night, we wouldn't be giving up anything. I've changed my tune and I agree with Nutz. It's obvious that this team needs to get healthy.

I dunno. This team's peak was a month ago. If they don't play healthy starters, then nothing is going to go well in the playoffs.

If they ran the table playing lights out, then rest late. But the starters have to get it together first. That is how this team got hot last year. Health or no, they played right to the end.

[Pugger]

Absolutely agree; once we secure home field the last two games really don't matter much. Getting healthy and getting homefield for the NFC Championship against the Saints is key

A lot of folks think it will be the Saints but who knows? The Saints lost to the Rams and Tampa in October ya know...

[Bretsky]

A lot of folks think it will be the Saints but who knows? The Saints lost to the Rams and Tampa in October ya know...

The Saints look like Green Bay at the end of last year
They are peaking

It would be great if San Fran got the two seed and knocked them off but I think the Saints are too good and it would not suprise me if they find a way to the Super Bowl

[pbmax]

No...but Clifton clearly can't make it through an entire season at this point, so expecting him to be there is a luxury. The starting 5 is good...yeah, but there is precious little behind them. Very tough to think that a 5 deep OL (with one of those guys as brittle as glass) is good enough when your entire team is based on offensive proficiency from your QB, who apparently gets flustered easily by a pass rush.

Its not exactly flustered by any pass rush. Its either a jail break or a 4 man rush that is so good he needs to keep a sixth blocker in to keep the pocket in shape. Then four receivers are going against seven defenders and no one is beating that single coverage and catching the ball. That is the problem.

If they blitzed and put pressure on him, opening a hole or giving him multiple single coverage, he has been killing it all season.

[pbmax]

No...but Clifton clearly can't make it through an entire season at this point, so expecting him to be there is a luxury. The starting 5 is good...yeah, but there is precious little behind them. Very tough to think that a 5 deep OL (with one of those guys as brittle as glass) is good enough when your entire team is based on offensive proficiency from your QB, who apparently gets flustered easily by a pass rush.

I just don't know who you think is going to have 2 possible starting left tackles on the roster better than Newhouse. If you discount Clifton due to injury, the Packers could trot out Bulaga, Newhouse and Sherrod. That is 2 first round tackles and a 4th round find. The Steelers pulled two former players they had jettisoned previously, off the street to play for them this year.