First of all, happy new year to all. I wish you all the best, health and a lot of success in your endevours. It is truly a pleasure to read and share whatever is on our minds here in BTSC.

Most of us here at BTSC have been calling for Bruce Arians' head for two years and counting (since MT did not announce anything at his Conference today). He has driven us crazy with some of his playcalling and unfortunate timeliness of his calls at critical times of games. He has been the easy scapegoat to answer why is it that the offense has the ability to reach the red zone four times against the Bengals in Heinz Field and manages to get exactly four FG's. He has demonstrated time and again that while he generally has a good script of plays to start the games, he never manages to adjust in-game to what the opposing Defense is throwing at them.

However, I think that while BA has to go, it all starts with Mike Tomlin.

Just what is Mike Tomlin's offensive philosophy?

All of the numerous offensive problems described above and throughout many posts in BTSC have to do either with play selection or with an overall philosophy. I think that we (the fans) should give Mike Tomlin more of the blame for the short-comings of the offense.

More after the break.

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The month of November brought all of us in the Steeler Nation a bitter taste in our mouths. We witnessed the talented offense stumble whenever they had an opportunity to score inside the redzone. We where awestruck on how our mighty D gave up lead after lead after lead in the closing moments of games. Worst of all, we collectively puked at our beloved team's performance in the frigid Brown stadium. But on Sunday dec. 20th the Steelers, led by its two-time SuperBowl winning QB, gave all of us a big thrill and gave me an early Christmas present.

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Like most of you, I am eager for the weekend to get here and have our beloved team redeem themselves against one of our divisional rivals. Each game is very important, and this next one starts a strech of games before the bye week that feature two division rivals (Cincy and Cle), one AFC opponent (SD) and another two NFC North teams (Det & Min), all very beatable opponents; however, let's focus on the Cincinnati Begles and the reasons why I think that the Steelers will win this game, without getting too much into the details of individual match-ups.

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