Steelers (2-0) @ Buccaneers (2-0)

[tripwire]

Nice to get some offense for once

Good job by the oline to give 'glass' Batch some time, especially on those tds

Timmons has been a monster so far this year

[BurghFan]

WOW! Definitely wasn't expected this. I will say that I agree with others that the 2 long TD's were lucky. Wallace showed some great awareness though.

[Orange Juice]

Quote: Originally Posted by steelcurtain311

Now that one, was a nice throw by Batch. Nice to see Hines show up to this one. There's SO many Steelers fans there.

I know. Its kinda sad. U wonder why the game is even blacked out, it seems like plenty of Steelers fans bought tickets lol.

Quote: Originally Posted by 55

This sucks.

Yea it does. I mean Im happy the offense is able to move the ball on a defense this good, but we need TDs now, not FGs. The defense started out alright, but fell apart towards the last drive. Lets just hope this is as bad as it gets.

[SteelersFreak]

Even if those two long TD's were lucky, Batch is playing a damn good game.

[steelcurtain311]

The line is playing well, that Pouncey pick is looking great. He's been awesome this season aside from the couple of botched snaps. The run game is going to be good this year, ignore its performance in the Titans game, since there were circumstances there. Mendenhall is awesome, I really like him. Tomlin's drafting is looking pretty impressive, Timmons/Mendenhall/Pouncey all key players to our success this season, with Ziggy slowly learning his position and will eventually take Smith's spot I imagine.

[mjb2124]

Good game by the Steelers so far. Batch has looked good...nice to see him bounce back after the INT on his first pass. I thought the Steelers had beaten better teams in weeks 1 and 2 so I did/do expect the Steelers to win, but am a bit surprised they've put up 28pts thus far (even if the TD's to Wallace bounced right...that's football...one could even say they worked because nobody expected the Steelers to throw deep today). TB's defense isn't top flight (IMO), but isn't swiss cheese either.

[steelcurtain311]

Quote: Originally Posted by SteelersFreak

Even if those two long TD's were lucky, Batch is playing a damn good game.

I know, I didn't want that to sound too negative. He's playing fine. His throws are accurate, the TD's were lucky breaks as they were well covered, but you take them. Aside from them, he's made plenty of nice throws. Compared to what we saw from Dixon, he's been excellent. He played well against the Titans, too. Only problem was nobody caught anything. Numerous dropped passes, one was a nice TD throw to Hines that he bobbled. Another nice TD to Wallace that was called back on holding. Charlie is definitely proving he's the real backup QB on this team, which I'm surprised by. I was on the Dixon bandwagon after the Baltimore game last year.

[Orange Juice]

I'd hate to see what u guys look like when Ben comes back..