First round draft pick Maurkice Pouncey has been named in one of the many NCAA investigations going on this summer. There aren’t any Reggie Bush-like allegations but Pouncey is alleged to have received $100,000 prior to playing in the Sugar Bowl this past January. This will not effect his status with the Steelers and the […]

If you follow baseball more than casually, you’ve probably heard of “sabermetrics”, the use of statistics to analyze some of baseball’s long-held questions. Well, it’s taken hold in football, too, with all its acronym-ridden glory. One of the pioneers of the new brand of football statistics is Football Outsiders, whose numbers I will be using […]

Believe it or not, training camp is only a few weeks away. It has been the summer of suck between all of the off-the-field troubles for the Steelers and the simple fact that there is no football to watch. After a mediocre 9-7 season, I think I’m even more pumped for the Steelers to hopefully […]

Not football related, but this deserves its own post. One year ago today, Pittsburgh’s own Billy Mays passed away. He was a great salesman, an awesome dude, and a champion of the common man. Tough to watch this from 6:30 on..   http://youtube.com/watch?v= UbooQvuFLCU[/youtube]   The world needs more people like Billy Mays. RIP   […]

Our ongoing season on the present state of the Steelers roster continues today with the special teams. The long-overused joke of the Steelers special teams not being so “special” certainly applied in 2009 and will most likely be true again in 2010. Things haven’t changed too much since 2009. With Piotr Czech‘s release five days […]

Last year, I wrote a post titled “21 bold predictions for the 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers.” I didn’t hold back and threw out some ridiculous and very bold predictions. Even crazier, I believed in most of them at the time. I stumbled upon the post today and my god…I could not have been farther off on […]

Up next in our ongoing series are the linebackers. These guys are the backbone of Dick LeBeau’s legendary 3-4 defense and arguably the engine that makes this whole team go. Linebackers have historically been a strength of the Steelers, particularly outside backers. And while the faces have changed a bit and the ages are getting […]

A couple nights ago I tuned in to ESPN to catch the 6 o’clock Sportscenter. I was hoping to catch up on all the day’s baseball games, the Stanley Cup Finals, and the upcoming NBA Finals. But that’s not what I watched and it nearly made me throw up the leftover hot dogs and hamburgers […]

In the third installment (RBs and QBs) of our updated look at the Steelers’ roster and where it is heading, I take a gander at the talented but aging defensive line. There hasn’t been a lot of turnover among the defensive linemen since last season, so the main focus will be on staying healthy…which has […]

We’re now in the dead of the 2010 offseason and there’s not much going on aside from Ben Roethlisberger drama that I am completely sick of hearing about. It’s been months since the Steelers have played an actual football game and that makes it hard to believe that we’ve seen the last of Santonio Holmes […]

As we all know, Big Ben could miss up to the first six games of the Steelers’ season for his recent troubles. This includes games against Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Tennessee, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Miami, with a bye thrown in at Week 5. I believe the Steelers will come out of this with no problems. Here […]

Reports surfaced late last week that Steelers WR Limas Sweed seriously injured his Achilles tendon and will possibly miss the entire 2010 season. I’ve never been a huge Sweed fan — and really, who has? — but this is a tough blow to a kid that had apparently just gotten over some serious personal issues. […]

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