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Houston Texans @ Pittsburgh Steelers. 10/20. 7:30. **Official MNF Gameday Thread**

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ThaShark316

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The Night Game, Part II

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Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't about to panic, while slow starts have the Houston Texans searching for solutions.

The Steelers will likely need a better performance from their star quarterback as they try to send the Texans to a third straight loss in a Monday night matchup of .500 teams.

Despite failing to string any wins together and occupying the AFC North cellar, the Steelers aren't overly concerned and a three-game homestand could be one reason why.

They've won six of eight games at Heinz Field, but lost 27-24 to Tampa Bay in the most recent in Week 4.

Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh offense will have to deal with J.J. Watt, Houston's star defensive end who leads the NFL with 20 hits on quarterbacks his season and has four of his team's 10 sacks.

That unit could become a bit more formidable with the potential return of rookie linebacker Jadeveon Clowney, who has been out since Week 1 after arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. There's a 50-50 chance the No. 1 pick in this year's draft plays Monday, Coach Bill O'Brien said Friday.
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What I want to see:

  • The pass rushing making life a living hell for Big Ben
  • PIT struggles vs. the zone run; EXPLOIT IT!
  • Brice McCain starts for the Steelers; ATTACK.
  • Shut em up; silence detractors with a fast start.
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It's been a while, has it not? Well, that mini-bye is over, so it's time to get back to work. What makes it more awesome, is that it's on Monday Night Football! Sounds phenomenal to me. How about this? We take this show to Pittsburgh, get a bounce back W, and get back to the winning ways we had in September. Folks, it's time to show the nation what we can REALLY bring on a nation stage; SO LET'S GET ON WITH IT!!
 
I'm ready! :fans:




btw, where are your quotes from? just asking
 
ThaShark316 said:
The Night Game, Part II

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It's been a while, has it not? Well, that mini-bye is over, so it's time to get back to work. What makes it more awesome, is that it's on Monday Night Football! Sounds phenomenal to me. How about this? We take this show to Pittsburgh, get a bounce back W, and get back to the winning ways we had in September. Folks, it's time to show the nation what we can REALLY bring on a nation stage; SO LET'S GET ON WITH IT!!
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How about DOMINATING Pittsburgh and exercising some of those ghosts.
 
Marshall said:
How about DOMINATING Pittsburgh and exercising some of those ghosts.
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Don't know why the ghosts need exercise, I would rather excise them. Although I don't think the Texans are responsible for the Oilers ghosts. Let's give them a nightmare from 2002 and re-sign Aaron Glenn for a day...
 
Fred said:
Don't know why the ghosts need exercise, I would rather excise them. Although I don't think the Texans are responsible for the Oilers ghosts. Let's give them a nightmare from 2002 and re-sign Aaron Glenn for a day...
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I'd love to blame an auto-correct feature, but this one is on me. Thanks for the correction.
 
Pittsburgh vs Houston

Brings back some great memories and some not so great memories.

Earl vs the Steel Curtain

Texans win by ten and pick Ben off twice.

Go Texans
 
There's a football game today? What day is today? I thought I had something planned for today but can't remember.

Oh well. Go Texans. :texflag:
 
Fred said:
Don't know why the ghosts need exercise, I would rather excise them. Although I don't think the Texans are responsible for the Oilers ghosts. Let's give them a nightmare from 2002 and re-sign Aaron Glenn for a day...
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Dudes, it's neither of those.

It's "exorcise the ghosts," or "exorcise the demons."

I'm not a spelling Nazi, but I had to call ya'll out for stepping on the same rake. :rake: :rake:

:whistle:
 
EVOLVIST said:
Dudes, it's neither of those.

It's "exorcise the ghosts," or "exorcise the demons."

I'm not a spelling Nazi, but I had to call ya'll out for stepping on the same rake. :rake: :rake:

:whistle:
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I thought he chose the wrong word on purpose :)

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hmmm now I think even you did it on purpose :D
 
infantrycak said:
It's y'all, not ya'll.

:kitten:
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Sort of. "Y'all" is the most common spelling, though "Ya'll" and just plain "Yall" are both excepted in the publishing world (though "excepted" is the operative word, here, depending on the audience and/or the need for colloquialisms, as in casual speech).

Y'all, of course takes out the vowels of you (or are they all vowels? :kitten:), leaving the word all alone. Ya'll, on the other hand, takes the colloquial Ya, as in, "Ya know," instead of, "You know," and breaks up the "a" in all with an apostrophe. You'll find this usage more prevalent as you climb up the southern states on the east coast, before you get to Yankee-Ville, with their "Yous guys."

Anyway, I've always found it odd that contractions are generally attributed to the French, when it was/is the ancient Hebrew way (not having vowels) who first began using alternate markings to let the reader know which vowels should be inferred in text.

Otherwise, I feel very good about this game. I think we stomp Pittsburg tonight! :hurryup:
 
EVOLVIST said:
Sort of. "Y'all" is the most common spelling, though "Ya'll" and just plain "Yall" are both excepted in the publishing world (though "excepted" is the operative word, here, depending on the audience and/or the need for colloquialisms, as in casual speech).
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Do you mean "accepted"? Or "expected"?
 
In context, you're looking for accepted.

You're working too hard to justify a misspelling. No where in the country does anyone say ya all. It's y'all from you all. Here's a language geek site on the subject - Link
 
Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't about to panic, while slow starts have the Houston Texans searching for solutions.
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Let's run a 2-minute offense from the start. We have been so much better at that than with a 1st quarter offense.
 
Arian Foster with a 26-carry, 210-yard rushing, 3 TD game sounds about right. He's been even better than DeMarco Murray over the past two games. Unfortunately they were heartbreaking losses. Tonight, Arian goes beast mode for a third straight game during a win.
 
infantrycak said:
In context, you're looking for accepted.

You're working too hard to justify a misspelling. No where in the country does anyone say ya all. It's y'all from you all. Here's a language geek site on the subject - Link
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You mean, "Nowhere in the country," right? But, no, not only does the link you provided fail to give a concrete answer, but I have a publisher/editor in Virginia where we've had this exact same discussion. I have always been familiar with "Y'all," but was convinced that local spellings, in Georgia, Virginia and West Virginia have all used the "word" "Ya'll" as it expresses more accurately the dialect therein - the spoken word of said regions (though not all regions will use the same spelling, as not all regions use the same tongue).

In other words, I'm not trying to justify anything. I cannot, in fact, justify my misuse of the words excepted vs. accepted. Then again, I started off saying that I wasn't a "spelling Nazi," though it appears certain members want to take umbrage anyway. Fine. Have at it.

I think we've been too long without football.
 
EVOLVIST said:
You mean, "Nowhere in the country," right? But, no, not only does the link you provided fail to give a concrete answer, but I have a publisher/editor in Virginia where we've had this exact same discussion. I have always been familiar with "Y'all," but was convinced that local spellings, in Georgia, Virginia and West Virginia have all used the "word" "Ya'll" as it expresses more accurately the dialect therein - the spoken word of said regions (though not all regions will use the same spelling, as not all regions use the same tongue).

In other words, I'm not trying to justify anything. I cannot, in fact, justify my misuse of the words excepted vs. accepted. Then again, I started off saying that I wasn't a "spelling Nazi," though it appears certain members want to take umbrage anyway. Fine. Have at it.

I think we've been too long without football.
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Some folks get upset about spelling/grammar discussions. I'm not one of them. There is no dialect where ya all is spoken or written as an alternate to y'all/ya'll (and I've spent a lot of time in the region you mention). In West Virginia the English teacher doesn't tell you y'all or ya'll is wrong or a contraction of ya all and that ya all should be written out instead.

I'm not sure what you mean by concrete. Nobody was espousing your position as correct. In fact they said if ya'll was anything involving ya it made more sense to be a contraction of ya will.

And I say justify because even assuming ya all was being contracted you'd arbitrarily be picking which a is omitted and picking the less likely already substituted into you a which makes no sense. The only reason to pick the a in all to replace is to justify the spelling as ya'll.
 
EVOLVIST said:
You mean, "Nowhere in the country," right? But, no, not only does the link you provided fail to give a concrete answer, but I have a publisher/editor in Virginia where we've had this exact same discussion. I have always been familiar with "Y'all," but was convinced that local spellings, in Georgia, Virginia and West Virginia have all used the "word" "Ya'll" as it expresses more accurately the dialect therein - the spoken word of said regions (though not all regions will use the same spelling, as not all regions use the same tongue).

In other words, I'm not trying to justify anything. I cannot, in fact, justify my misuse of the words excepted vs. accepted. Then again, I started off saying that I wasn't a "spelling Nazi," though it appears certain members want to take umbrage anyway. Fine. Have at it.
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We used to have a priest who wrote "yo'all". Real stupid fellow.
I think we've been too long without football.
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I think we've been too long without rain.
 
However, I recently got into a debate with a friend of my parents about this. He maintained:

The word ya'll isn't a contraction of the words "you all" as many people think. It is a word of other distinct origin, indigenous to the rural South: ye aw. This evolved in a modern-day variation of y'all, where some put the apostrophe after the "a" (ya'll). So, ya'll could be a contraction for ya all.

Also, I was raised also using ya'll as a contraction of the words "ya will" in which case the apostrophe would replace the "wi"...thus, ya'll.
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I'm not at all convinced by his argument, but I'm opening this up for debate. Thoughts?
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http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/2008/07/crasis-crisis-yall-vs-yall.html
 
xtruroyaltyx said:
http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/2008/07/crasis-crisis-yall-vs-yall.html
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OK. I've never seen that argument before. However, you can look at how the word is used in a sentence then and choose the appropriate spelling.

Expand the contraction: "I had to call ya'll out" would expand to "I had to call ya will out" and that doesn't make sense. "I had to call you all out" does. Therefore, the appropriate contraction would be "y'all."

Personally, I consider "ya'll" a misspelling of "y'all".
 
TD said:
Hope the Texans are more focused than the fans in this thread. :cool:
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Speaking of which..... I just realized the Steelers play the Colts next week. wouldn't it be cool if we beat them tonight, then they go & beat the Colts next week?
 
EVOLVIST said:
Dudes, it's neither of those.

It's "exorcise the ghosts," or "exorcise the demons."

I'm not a spelling Nazi, but I had to call ya'll out for stepping on the same rake. :rake: :rake:

:whistle:
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Good. Saved me the trouble of figuring out which wrong answer to choose from. I remember the word, just not the spelling. Exercise - exertion, excise - taxes, Exorcise - eliminate ghosts or demons.
 
EVOLVIST said:
Sort of. "Y'all" is the most common spelling, though "Ya'll" and just plain "Yall" are both excepted in the publishing world (though "excepted" is the operative word, here, depending on the audience and/or the need for colloquialisms, as in casual speech).

Y'all, of course takes out the vowels of you (or are they all vowels? :kitten:), leaving the word all alone. Ya'll, on the other hand, takes the colloquial Ya, as in, "Ya know," instead of, "You know," and breaks up the "a" in all with an apostrophe. You'll find this usage more prevalent as you climb up the southern states on the east coast, before you get to Yankee-Ville, with their "Yous guys."

Anyway, I've always found it odd that contractions are generally attributed to the French, when it was/is the ancient Hebrew way (not having vowels) who first began using alternate markings to let the reader know which vowels should be inferred in text.

Otherwise, I feel very good about this game. I think we stomp Pittsburg tonight! :hurryup:
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And here I thought it was accepted. Shame on me.
 
thunderkyss said:
Speaking of which..... I just realized the Steelers play the Colts next week. wouldn't it be cool if we beat them tonight, then they go & beat the Colts next week?
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Yes. That would be cool. Let's embarrass them and make it happen.
 
I think we are gonna see a Houston win tonite by 13. 23 to 10.
Pitt has a lot of issues and we gonna see Tomlin on the hot seat.
 
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