It looks like Marcus Gilbert and Jonathan Scott’s injuries suffered last week in the preseason game against the Eagles aren’t going to be serious. But the Steelers are at least worried enough that they signed former Steeler Trai Essex to a 1-year deal this afternoon. Essex has been a very reliable backup throughout his career […]

The Steelers

Last summer, the Steelers knew they were going to be without Ben Roethlisberger for 4 weeks. The biggest battle in training camp was to see who would get the game action in his place to start the season? Fortunately, the Steelers had 3 other QBs in Byron Leftwich, Dennis Dixon, and Charlie Batch. That’s a […]

Take everything about this month’s games with a grain of salt. This is preseason and it does little to foretell regular season success. That said, there were a few things I took note of during last night’s game. Due to work and vacation schedules among our staff we won’t have a traditional game recap (perhaps […]

The Steelers lost a meaningless football game to the Washington Redskins last night, but the biggest loss of all from the game may be cornerback Ike Taylor, who broke his thumb during the game’s first series and will be out of action for an undetermined amount of time.  Taylor is currently the only cornerback on […]

The Steelers have addressed a lack of experience at WR today with the signing of Jerricho Cotchery to a one-year deal. Cotchery has spent his whole career with the Jets thus far and is a fairly proven commodity. He could easily have 1000 yards receiving if he gets regular time on the offense. Let’s answer […]

Nobody knows if Randy Moss is *really* retired or not. I’m guessing he probably is. Brett Favre has made a joke out of retirements lately and everybody now seems to assume that “retired” means “waiting for the right situation. Plenty of players have quietly retired a la Moss shortly before the start of NFL training […]

Every year in preseason, there’s the “Rust vs Rest” debate heading into the season. Should veterans practice and risk tweaking a leg muscle that could keep them out of an important game? If you rest them, will they have a hard time adjusting to the speed of the game again when the season rolls around? […]

This is a few days old now, but it definitely deserves its own post. Despite all of the brokering, discussions and haggling that took place this summer, the Steelers are still not happy with the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement.  They are unhappy enough with it that they were the only NFL team not to […]

It was reported today that several of the Pittsburgh Steelers will get their shot at acting as they will make cameo appearances in the latest Batman film which is being filmed in Pittsburgh. “The Dark Knight Rises” features a football scene between the Gotham Rogues and the Rapid City Monuments.  I wrote about this earlier […]

If the recent offseason issues of Ben Roethlisberger, Santonio Holmes, Hines Ward, Rashard Mendenhall, James Harrison, and other Steelers have taught me anything, it’s that all I really care about as an NFL fan is winning games and championships. Fan and media reaction to each player’s issues differed, but a least a decent chunk of […]

I’m not a training camp veteran and I’m far from an expert on Latrobe, but I try to make it down to St. Vincent every summer for training camp. I went with parents a lot when I was younger and our staff has a lot of experience going as well. Here’s a running list of […]

Almost every summer, some player on the Steelers roster comes out of nowhere and starts impressing fans. More often than not, the player is a ‘training camp star’ and nothing more, but every once in a while a diamond in the rough truly emerges. A couple of years ago, fans were comparing Isaac Redman to […]