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Postby meow » Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:33 am

The #Steelers are a little banged up, but QB Ben Roethlisberger (right elbow), TE Vance McDonald (foot), DT Cameron Heyward (knee), and CB Artie Burns (toe) — listed as questionable — are expected to play vs. the #Chiefs, sources say.
I assume that both Haden and DeCastro are out, since I didn't see any updates on them.


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Postby count2infinity » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:51 pm

I hope that's ruled not a catch just to keep the James hate alive...

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Postby blackjack68 » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:53 pm

Wrong thread

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Postby count2infinity » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:53 pm

whoops...

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:27 pm

Yeah, today’s the last day I waste an entire afternoon watching football.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:29 pm

Yeah, today’s the last day I waste an entire afternoon watching football.
I've been outside most of the day... It is a beautiful day outside. Go enjoy it!

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:59 am

Defensive drafting in the Mike Tomlin era:

2007
1: Timmons, LB - pretty good for a decent time period
2: Woodley, LB - great for a short period of time
4: Ryan McBean, DE - who?
5: Willie Gay, DB - pretty servicable and had a long career

2008
3: Bruce Davis, LB - sucked ass
6: Mike Humpal, LB - CUT
6: Mundy, DB - EH, though a six year career is nothing to sneeze at

2009
1: Hood, DL - bad, but still in the league
3: Lewis, DB - was bad until he became too expensive to re-sign
5: Burnett, DB - stuck around for a season
6: Harris, DL - who?

2010
1: Worilds, LB - sucked until he decided to love Jesus more than football
4: Gibson, LB - WHO?
5: Butler, DB - sucked but stuck around the league for 10 seasons
5: Sylvester, LB - serviceable until injuries ended his career
7: Worthington, DE - played 8 games over 6 seasons, none with the Steelers

2011
1: Heyward, DL - GOAT
3: Brown, DB - bad
4: Cortez the Killer, DB - paycheck stealer
5: Carter, LB - played 7 seasons, never registered a sack

2012
3: Spence, LB - RIP knee
4: Ta'amu, DL - South Side Destroyer
7: Frederick, CB - sucked

2013
1: Jarvis, LB - SUCKED
4: Shamarko, DB - SUCKED
5: Hawthorne, DB - CUT!
6: Bince, LB - kinda okay
7: Williams, DL - still in the league, never played for Steelers

2014
1: Shazier, LB - GOAT, RIP
2: Tuitt, DL - hasn't done a whole lot since getting paid
5: Richardson, DB - CUT!
6: Zumwalt, LB - CUT!
6: McCullers, DL - HAS SUCKED FOR 5 SEASONS

2015
1: Bud, LB- SUCKS!
2: Golson, DB - RIP
4: Grant, DB - sucked
6: Walton, DL - hanging around but seems to suck
6: Chickillo, LB - meh
7: Holliman, FS - CUT!

2016
1: Burns, DB - seemed good, now sucks
2: Davis, DB - seemed good, now sucks
3: Hargrave, DL - seemed good, now sucks
4: Feeney, LB - CUT!
7: Matakavich, LB - everyone likes him because he's white and has a nickname

2017
1: Watt, LB - great against Cleveland, okay against everyone else
3: Sutton, DB - YIKES
5: Allen, DB - PS fodder
7: Adams, LB - PS fodder

2018
1: Edmunds, DB - always looked good against Pitt
5: Allen, DB - went to a terrible college
7: Frazier, DL - CUT!

That's a lot of bad football players. Poor player evaluation, a terrible job with LBs (especially OLB), some wasted top picks, and very little impact from late round picks.

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Postby blackjack68 » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:06 am

Chickillo and Matakevich are kept for special teams and back up role. Mostly what you expect from a 6th and 7th rounder.

But yeah, lotta wasted picks.

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Postby the wicked child » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:07 am

This team is making it easy for me to walk away from the NFL as a whole.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:11 am

Chickillo and Matakevich are kept for special teams and back up role. Mostly what you expect from a 6th and 7th rounder.

But yeah, lotta wasted picks.
At the same time Chickillo is the ONLY backup OLB on the roster. They also pretend that Matakevich is their top backup at ILB.

The 2016 draft class is the most disappointing to me. Those three at the top of the draft have regressed severely from their rookie seasons.

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Postby Morkle » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:19 am

I've been saying it for a while on the Steelers Reddit and people get super upset. I think it's fair to question both Tomlin, and the GM for drafting poorly on defense. Either they're drafting guys who they don't use properly, or they're just poor at scouting in that area (likely the latter).

Seemingly 5 out of 40 defensive picks have been repeatedly meaningful to the defense since 2010.

Heyward, Williams, Shazier, Tuitt, and Watt.

Burns is yuck, Bud is mega yuck.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:34 am

The sad thing about Dupree is that he's still been an upgrade over Jarvis.

Colbert has been here a long time with a pretty solid track record and the drafting on offense is still pretty solid. Maybe defensive genius Mike Tomlin gets more say on defensive picks and really sucks at it.

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Postby Viva la Ben » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:40 am


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Postby Viva la Ben » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:41 am

That is AB’s first tweet since before yesterdays game.

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Postby nocera » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:44 am

And this team once again proves itself to be an unlikeable bunch of dodints.

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Postby blackjack68 » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:44 am

Sigh

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:45 am

Maybe he's angry that Ben called him a baby.

https://twitter.com/KraigRiley/status/1 ... 5250493445

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Postby Morkle » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:46 am

lol and this is where Tomlin is a **** coach. Instead of squashing everything internally, he's allowed his "men" to run roughshod.

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Postby nocera » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:47 am

Just blow the whole team up. Trade and fire everybody. That's the only way to change the culture of this team.

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Postby Viva la Ben » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:52 am

Ryan Scarpino used to work PR for the Steelers.

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Postby Morkle » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:55 am

Just blow the whole team up. Trade and fire everybody. That's the only way to change the culture of this team.
Regular season prowess aside - I do think a change of voice in the locker-room is warranted. I don't care that he's racked up a large amount of regular season wins. He's stagnated, and honestly, it does need to be addressed that his team isn't preparing, etc. Winning cures all, but we've seen more of this in the last 4 years than any coach should honestly want to deal with. Tomlin seems to live in it and pays for it even though he doesn't have to.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:59 am

I cant read the twitters, anyone care to help a gentleman out

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:03 pm

I cant read the twitters, anyone care to help a gentleman out
You can't see the picture where Ryan Scarpino tweeted: "AB needs to thank his lucky stars, because he was drafted by a team that had Ben. And Ben got AB paid. You know darn well he wouldn’t put up those numbers for other teams" and then AB retweeted with the response: "Trade me let’s find out"?

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Postby slappybrown » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:03 pm

I cant read the twitters, anyone care to help a gentleman out
Former PR guy says AB is lucky to have been paired with Ben for his career, he wouldnt put up the numbers he did without Ben

AB response to tweet by saying "trade me and lets find out"

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:14 pm

social media is a not good idea.

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