Darnell Washington's play needs its own thread

[gojira5150]

What's more impressive Vance MacDonald or Mount Washington and their perspective stiff arms. To me they are close, but I'll take Mount Washington.

[W&M_Steeler]

What's more impressive Vance MacDonald or Mount Washington and their perspective stiff arms. To me they are close, but I'll take Mount Washington.

Vance's stiff-arm set off a chain of events that led to the Steelers missing the playoffs in 2018. After everyone was impressed with Vance, Xavier "X-Man" Grimble tried to do the same thing in the Denver game and blow up a DB on the way to the end zone, intentionally running into the contact instead of taking the open TD. Unfortunately, the DB blew up Grimble, he fumbled out of the back of the endzone, the Broncos get the ball and end up winning the game. Losing that game cost the Steelers the playoffs and in retrospect closed the Steelers 2010s window. X-Man is on my list of most hated Steelers as a result.

That 2018 team couldn't get out of its own way. They went from mid-season #1 seed to missing the playoffs because of a bunch of sloppy losses to bad teams. That was also the "time pressure" loss against the Raiders. 2018, coming after the 2017 Jacksonville debacle, was the last straw for me with Tomlin.

[rooneytunes]

https://x.com/JoshNorris/status/1991183 ... mjiNw&s=01


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[SteelerDayTrader]

I think he should not have gone so close to the sideline. At about the 35 yard line he could have cut back to the right, away from the sideline. Instead, he was stepping just a few inches from the sideline, and was nudged out of bounds, which has the same effect as being tackled. If he had not been so close to the sideline, they would have had to keep trying to tackle him for real.

I mean dude went through, around, and over tacklers like a video game. The only thing he has left to do is outrun someone in the open field, which will likely happen at some point, considering his 40 time, even at size.