On the Patrick TD.. Hightower with a sweet pickup on Polamalu

[Brewster10]

Troy tried to do one of his Superman leaps, and Hightower just nailed him right on the chin..

 

[Mulli]

Poolamoola looked very average in this game.

 

[Shzm13]

Anyone have a visual on this?

I saw it.. but i wanna see it agaiN!

 

[Brewster10]

I just saw it as part of the highlight package on NFL.com..

It's nothing special.. but just a real nice blitz pickup.. hits him right under the chin, and Troy gets stopped, and then goes down a moment later

 

[Shzm13]

Each time polomalu gets pwnt, its something special

 

[anks106]

Poolamoola looked very average in this game.

Both Star SS's didn't look like nearly as good as they usually do. I almost wonder if practicing against AW and Polamalu all the time prepared these offenses for what they were facing.

 

[EatSteel]

Poolamoola looked very average in this game.

Polomalu looked average because he was deployed differently than usual. He was a big part of the reason Fitz was shut down for 3.5 quarters. Sometimes he was just deeper and had to use speed to cover more ground, and other times he was one half of the jam and cover with Ike Taylor. On some plays he actually lined up as a corner and jammed Fitz at the line.

 

[anks106]

Polomalu looked average because he was deployed differently than usual. He was a big part of the reason Fitz was shut down for 3.5 quarters. Sometimes he was just deeper and had to use speed to cover more ground, and other times he was one half of the jam and cover with Ike Taylor. On some plays he actually lined up as a corner and jammed Fitz at the line.

Edge juked him out twice, Hightower knocked him senseless, he bit on the flats on the Fitz TD.. this wasn't his day.

 

[Mr. Boldin]

Did anyone else want to puke when Polamalu had his own commercial during the Super Bowl?

Gag

 

[EatSteel]

Edge juked him out twice, Hightower knocked him senseless, he bit on the flats on the Fitz TD.. this wasn't his day.

You're missing the point. It had been stated that Troy Polamalu looked very average, but he actually played very well because he did exactly what Lebeau wanted him to do.

Polamalu often will close on a RB at full speed (4.3) when he has to play a little deeper (part of the stop-Fitz scheme by Lebeau). Usually he'll make a good tackle by torpedoing the RB's legs instead of wrapping up. He's missed a few times doing that. I give Edge credit.

Polamalu is probably under 200 lbs at this time of year. He's a small defensive back who gets knocked by a bigger RB when rushing full speed. That happens all the time.

As I stated earlier, for 3.5 quarters he and Ike shut Fitz down. The Fitz slant wasn't Troy's coverage. The Steelers had switched to a deep cover-2 and the two safeties covered the outside (which they hadn't done all game). I have a theory why the Steelers did this, but I don't like the coverage in that situarion.

 

[Hughc]

You're missing the point. It had been stated that Troy Polamalu looked very average, but he actually played very well because he did exactly what Lebeau wanted him to do.

Polamalu often will close on a RB at full speed (4.3) when he has to play a little deeper (part of the stop-Fitz scheme by Lebeau). Usually he'll make a good tackle by torpedoing the RB's legs instead of wrapping up. He's missed a few times doing that. I give Edge credit.

Polamalu is probably under 200 lbs at this time of year. He's a small defensive back who gets knocked by a bigger RB when rushing full speed. That happens all the time.

As I stated earlier, for 3.5 quarters he and Ike shut Fitz down. The Fitz slant wasn't Troy's coverage. The Steelers had switched to a deep cover-2 and the two safeties covered the outside (which they hadn't done all game). I have a theory why the Steelers did this, but I don't like the coverage in that situarion.

If that was his assignment, then I agree with you that it was a questionable coaching decision. It looked to me like he had to decide on which receiver to cover - and made the wrong choice. As a safety, it seems like covering the guy in the slot headed downfield would have made more sense than doubling on the receiver squaring out to the sideline on a shorter route.

 

[EatSteel]

If that was his assignment, then I agree with you that it was a questionable coaching decision. It looked to me like he had to decide on which receiver to cover - and made the wrong choice. As a safety, it seems like covering the guy in the slot headed downfield would have made more sense than doubling on the receiver squaring out to the sideline on a shorter route.

With a four point lead, I assume the gamble is to prevent the deep out patterns to keep the the clock running. It looked like Fitz made a veteran move by actually jamming Ike Talyor on the shoulder pads to control him, which gave him better separation on the slant--a beastly play on his part!!!

It may indeed be that Polamalu committed too early, but Warner threw that in rhythm, so it may have just been the designed coverage. I'm looking forward to the film room break down that we'll see in the next couple days.

 

[Zeno]

Polamalu is overrated, put him on the Jags, Rams, Lions etc and he wouldn't get half the pub he gets now. He's a good safety but not a great, he shouldn't even be in the same breath as Ed Reed.

 

[conraddobler]

Why are the Steelers posters still here, I realize the owners of the board probably think the more the merrier but how long exactly are these twits going to infest our boards blathering on about the mighty Steelers?

IMO we caught a case of the shakes and didn't punch them right in the mouth like we should of but that's something you learn with time, if they're lucky enough to make it to a SuperBowl again this decade hopefully we'll get to do them the favor of really testing the crap out of them.