BlaqOptic Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, mission27 said: Ehhh Hightower is definitely as big of an injury as Shazier / Haden (from a football perspective, Shazier is obviously big for other reasons). And the issue for the Pats is more quantity ... probably at least a dozen important guys out... rather than quality of any individual player... because nobody on the team other than Brady really matters. That being said Brown is obviously a huge loss. If we play in the AFCCG he will definitely make a difference. Although being in Foxborough will also make a difference too. Should be a good game. Ryan Shazier was, quite literally, playing at a Defensive Player of the Year level. Hightower hasn't done that. That said, as Steelers fans, we cannot argue injuries because we've been the healthiest team in the league this year. However, the 3 major injuries we've suffered are a League MVP candidate, a League DPoTY candidate, and our #1 Cornerback who was playing pretty damn good at the position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatriotsWin! Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Dang, making injury excuses already. Didn't see that coming... Anyway, I'm glad the injury is not serious. The way his leg whipped out after colliding with the CB looked gruesome. Thought it was a break for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission27 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 2 minutes ago, BlaqOptic said: Ryan Shazier was, quite literally, playing at a Defensive Player of the Year level. Hightower hasn't done that. That said, as Steelers fans, we cannot argue injuries because we've been the healthiest team in the league this year. However, the 3 major injuries we've suffered are a League MVP candidate, a League DPoTY candidate, and our #1 Cornerback who was playing pretty damn good at the position. DPoTY candidate or not, Hightower was the unquestioned leader and best player on the #1 scoring and Super Bowl winning defense last year and will end up missing basically the entire season. The difference in the defense with and without Hightower is night and day, same with the Steelers and Shazier. They're both huge losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
43M Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 minute ago, PatriotsWin! said: Dang, making injury excuses already. Didn't see that coming... Did you even bother reading before commenting? No...you clearly didnt. If you did, you would see that Steeler fans arent blaming injuries. It was your boy who brought up the Patriots injuries.....and it was pointed out that the Steelers are missing high impact players as well. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlaqOptic Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 5 minutes ago, PatriotsWin! said: Dang, making injury excuses already. Didn't see that coming... Anyway, I'm glad the injury is not serious. The way his leg whipped out after colliding with the CB looked gruesome. Thought it was a break for sure. Who's making excuses? Your team won on a controversial - albeit correct by a moronic rule - call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerman Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 hour ago, FourThreeMafia said: Shazier, Haden and Brown >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>anyone missing from your roster. Edelman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerman Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 31 minutes ago, BlaqOptic said: You really don't. The Patriots have lost the most players to games this season but none of them have been All-Pro caliber players. It's why, according to MGL, despite having the most injuries, the Patriots are behind 7 teams with over 150 MGL and right there with 12 other teams between 130 and 150 MGLs. Not all pro, but you could easily make the argument that Hightower is far and away our most important defensive player and Edelman is like 1A and 1B with Gronk for most important offensive player outside of Brady. And then you're adding Van Noy, Hogan, Mitchell, etc on top of that who are impact players that we could use to alleviate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerman Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 That said injury cat fighting aside, glad Brown will be back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubs10 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 38 minutes ago, fluhartz said: is he yelling karma on this one? Who's calf muscle has Ab partially torn in the past? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
43M Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 54 minutes ago, fluhartz said: is he yelling karma on this one? Whats wrong, princess? Oh thats right, your team is garbage and all you have left to do is troll. Totally forgot about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluhartz Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 42 minutes ago, FourThreeMafia said: Whats wrong, princess? Oh thats right, your team is garbage and all you have left to do is troll. Totally forgot about that. no.. i understand that my team is garbage... I realized that a while ago.. I am just sick of your "classy" franchise... Honestly... could you imagine the backlash is Taze or any Bengals player did some **** like that....mocking and injured player????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtait93 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Must be karma finally catching up to him from what he did to that punter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFlaccoSeagulls Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 2 hours ago, BlaqOptic said: Ryan Shazier was, quite literally, playing at a Defensive Player of the Year level. That's just homerism, tbh. He's not even close to Bobby Wagner, and even Bobby Wagner might not win it this year after today. Shazier is a good player, but that's a very inaccurate comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 There's no need to attack other fan bases or posters. Just keep that in mind =) The Steelers have the Texans and Browns left on their schedule. They should be able to win both of those games and secure one of the top two seeds in the AFC to ensure themselves a bye in the first round. That bye week would be great to have to give Brown one more week to get ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDez Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 That's brutal. Unusual that you see a tear from a contusion and not a plant/twist or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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