The Pittsburgh Steelers have one of the worst offenses in the NFL. I’m not going to display any stats for that; it’s pretty obvious. You’ll just have to take my word for it. This is not a very controversial opinion.
Of course, when an offense is struggling, the first place you look is the personnel. The Steelers have Kenny Pickett at QB, Najee Harris at RB, George Pickens and Allen Robinson at WR, Pat Freiermuth at TE, and a pretty lackluster O-Line. The personnel is mediocre, but there’s stuff to work with there. They should probably be averaging more than 15.5 points per game and 284 yards per game (would you look at that, I did pull out some stats. Hope that helped you understand the problem, nerds).
The next step in the process of searching for the faults in a bad offense (a process I am well familiar with as a Patriots fan in the last few years) is blaming the offensive coordinator (think Matt Patricia if you’re a Pats fan like me). If the offense has enough talent to perform to a higher level, you’d expect a good offensive coordinator to bring that out of them. Enter Matt Canada.
Matt Canada is (in my expert opinion) not getting the job done in Pittsburgh. How much is actually his fault I can’t really say, but the fans have been voicing their displeasures with conviction, and they definitely watch more Steelers football than I do, so I’m inclined to take their word for it.
I bet Matt Canada knows that the numbers aren’t great. And no one likes to get made fun of in a malicious way. What’s being said on social media towards Canada probably falls under the general umbrella of cyberbullying. If Canada can’t handle cyberbullying, I actually have a step by step tutorial that can help him get rid of this problem and take the weight off his shoulders. I’ll even show it with pictures to make sure it’s as easy to understand as possible:
Tyler, the Creator stated the message of this tapestry of images so eloquently on New Year’s Eve in 2012 when he tweeted:
(We here at A2Z Sports do not condone bullying. Bullying is bad, and can lead people to some dark places. However, you have to be able to take a little criticism so long as said criticism isn’t fueled by pure vitriol. It’s a good way to improve. Sack up.)
Now that Matt Canada has taken my (and Tyler, the Creator’s) advice, he will undoubtedly take people’s critiques of the offense to heart while putting the online hate behind him and focusing on improving the offensive output to better perform his job.
What’s that?
Hold on, my people here in the A2Z offices are informing me that, in fact, Matt Canada decided to forego filtering out the hate and moving on. Well at least tell me he went ahead and acknowledged the hate head on and either took ownership or defended himself openly…
He didn’t?
No, that can’t be right… That can only mean one thing, but Matt Canada is far too old to be taking part in such antics. He’s neither an emotionally unstable teenager, nor is he Kevin Durant. Don’t tell me…
Yep. Burner account.
Really tough look here for Canada. That is, of course, if this is true. It may not be. There are three possibilities for what this could be:
- Someone is actually just a huge Matt Canada fan (such as maybe his grandmother or someone like that), or Kenny Pickett hater, that feels the need to publicly defend their man.
- Someone had a scheme to frame Matt Canada for having a burner account, either just for fun or to make him look bad (or both), and made it detailed enough to be solid all the way through the password recovery email.
- Burner account.
Option 3 looks most plausible to me, but I will refrain from making an absolute statement in case Matt Canada is reading and is not guilty of this heinously embarrassing crime.
I mean, can we really blame Matt Canada if it was his burner, though? He decided he wanted to defend his offense, and probably figured it wouldn’t be very difficult considering that every one of the Steelers’ opponents thus far have figured out how to do this rather effectively.
It’s bad optics, for sure, but he’s going to have to combat the underlying on the gridiron instead of Twitter, or Mr. Canada will fittingly find himself on a Canadian Football League sideline in short order.
(If they’ll have him.)