This may be the worst defensive play call I have ever seen.

[Seltzer]

2 Things: 

1) I still believe in Ron Rivera as a coach, especially on defense

2) His worst fault is probably his loyalty and wanting to help his guys succeed... promoted Shula when Chud left, and promoted Wilks (who probably wasn't ready) and now Washington (who definitely isn't ready).

There are worse personality traits for sure, but they need to be corrected.  And people need to remember, every other good coach has done the same thing, included Belichick, Reid, Payton, etc.

Ron just has to correct it now before it derails the season

[Snake]

Play? This was about as bad as I've seen defensively. 

[TheRed]

28 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

This is what happens when the assistant coach of the assistant coach of the Coordinator finds himself calling the plays 2 years later.

This is what happens when Ron Rivera is afraid of hiring a DC that might be good enough at their job to threaten his own job security.

[LiberalsRWeak93]

25 minutes ago, Shocker said:

Starting to wonder if Luke is fed up with this shet play calling.  I would be.  He is to damn smart for this shet.

Shite coaching is wasting years of both Luke and Cam's careers.... Washington just may be the worst coordinator we have ever had considering we had Shula and Henning that is really saying somthing.

[Eazy-E]

Woke up and Washington still has a job. Wtf.

[raleigh-panther]

16 hours ago, Eazy-E said:

Can anyone tell me what the fug I am watching. We have DE's and DT's 5 + yards down field in coverage and Short and Luke as the only pass rushers on a fuging 3rd & 3. This play alone should be enough to get Washington fired. I mean watch Short's half-assed effort while Luke is trying to bull rush 3 fuging linemen. Watching this makes my fuging eyes bleed.

https://www.steelers.com/video/highlight-ben-launches-a-34-yard-pass-to-ab

So, our head coach is supposedly a defensive expert

his passive acceptance of this stupidity indicates he approved of it as he called no timeout to stop it

by anyone’s measure, last night was a nationally televised fiasco......

.....owned by, directed by Ron Rivera.  His players. His coaches and one would like to hope for his millions he at least reviews his coordinators game plans and provides guidance on in game adjustments...

[TheSpecialJuan]

I thought it was a brilliant call 

[FugAllY'all]

Yep, that was the one that stood out to me the most. How in the holy hell can you rush two and still end up with only a safety on their best player.

[Darvinsun]

Was this the play where Big Ben was just standing there in shock with 15secs waiting on someone to tackle him and just said f-it I will go ahead and just throw it.... There were so many plays where I said will someone tackle the guy . I mean Conner didn' even have to play the substitutes were having a field day.

[Kevin Greene]

[Carolina Cajun]

I don't know what's worse, the play call or the fact that Ron Rivera heard the play call and went "yea...that'll work".

[BrianS]

This was actually where I turned the TV off.  We were still (score wise) in the game, but there was no way we were winning once that happened.  It seems small, but our DC doesn't have any idea how to call a game, and the NFL is not the place he should be trying to learn it.

It's a real shame we're going to lose a fantastic D Line coach because of it.

[darrybear]

17 hours ago, EgoDogg said:

No way am I clicking that link or ever willingly subjecting myself to that Defensive (lack of) performance again. That said, at least it kind of worked with Peppers once. Probably felt like he was a genius when that happened so he Shula'd and just kept deciding to to do it. Even a blind deaf albino squirrel finds a nut every now and then. Except this one. This one died a long long time ago. 

Have you watch the game highlights because I haven’t I don’t think I have the heartHave you watch the game highlights because I haven’t I don’t think I have the heart

[EgoDogg]

1 minute ago, darrybear said:

Have you watch the game highlights because I haven’t I don’t think I have the heartHave you watch the game highlights because I haven’t I don’t think I have the heart

Well, the game was re-aired on NFL Network around 2 PM today (or was it 3?). I already had the station on, so I watched the first drive. But then I really had to focus on work so I switched to Spotify instead. So I don't know what happens afterwards. I'll just assume we continued to dominate like that first drive.