0 comments by Bam on 8/1/2011
A quick programming note: I will be appearing on TribLive Radio this afternoon talking free agency, training camp and all things Steelers with Chris and DD from Pittsburgh Sports Depot. You can listen to the show online at http://sportstalk.triblive.com/
0 comments by Bam on 7/31/2011
Plaxico Burress has signed a 1-year contract with the New York Jets, hours after he visited the Steelers and hours after it was reported that he wouldn’t meet with the Jets on Sunday. The Steelers clearly wanted Burress to come back, especially Bruce Arians and Ben Roethlisberger, who began reaching out to Burress a few […]
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Free agent cornerback William Gay has signed a new deal that will keep him in Pittsburgh. This means the Steelers will bring back top three cornerbacks they had in 2010. I’ve been known for being a Gay apologist before, but I think he has some value has a nickel back. He’s not good enough to […]
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Punter Daniel Sepulveda has re-signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers and will compete with Jeremy Kapinos and Aaron Bates for the Steelers punting job. Sepulveda has suffered three major knee injuries in the last couple of years and hasn’t been able to stay on the field. Kapinos is not a good NFL punter and rookie free […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/29/2011
Free agency is usually a pretty quiet time for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The biggest news most years is the team cutting a veteran player like Joey Porter or Antwaan Randle-El and rarely does the franchise get into bidding wars for the services of star players via free agency. The team’s commitment to building through the […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/28/2011
Tackle Willie Colon signed a 5-year, $29 million deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers today, per the Post-Gazette. I, like many others, had written Colon off as going elsewhere this offseason. He’s had a rough last couple of years with the team battling injuries, but the team is confident enough in him to give him a […]
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In a somewhat surprising move, the Steelers have released longtime tackle Max Starks. Starks is rumored by some to be approaching 400 pounds (!!) and his cap hit was $5.14 million in each of the next two seasons. That’s an awful lot for a guy who hasn’t had a defined role in a few years […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/27/2011
The rumors have been out there for a while, but today was the first day that there has been confirmed, official interest between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Plaxico Burress as news broke that the two parties were meeting. Fan opinion on Burress, the former Steelers, is highly divided. Some see him as an old, washed […]
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UPDATE: The Steelers signed a punter, Adam Bates. Not worth its own post, sorry. This is Carson Palmer. He is impossible to dislike right now. Back in January, Palmer went to the Bengals front office and requested a trade. He cited the lack of success for either him or his team during the last few years […]
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Free agent CB Ike Taylor has agreed to a new 4-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Adam Schefter
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Sometime during last season, I discovered the Cold Hard Football Facts website. Their stats look promising, and I’ll probably be analyzing their predictability in the next couple months. However, about a month ago, as their Twitter feed kept touting their latest “Quality Stat”, Passer Rating Differential, it hit me: I (at least slightly, more on […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/26/2011
With the lockout over, teams are now free to begin signing undrafted free agents beginning on the evening of July 25th. The Steelers have consistently been one of the best teams in the league at finding talent among the players who don’t have their name called during the draft. Below is a player-by-player look at […]
0 comments by Brian Schaich on 7/25/2011
Because it looks like the players and owners finally decided they are. As of July 25th, 2011, the NFL is no longer experiencing a lockout and football will proceed as planned (minus the Hall of Fame game that you weren’t going to watch anyway). Here are the important dates so far: Today at 6 PM […]
0 comments by Brian Schaich on 7/23/2011
It’s always fun trying to predict your team’s depth chart before the start of a season. But as they’ve said recently about Pittsburgh, everything we do, we do it big. So let’s take a peek into the future and see who might be suiting up for the Steelers three years from now. OFFENSE QB: Ben […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/21/2011
Per everybody, the NFL lockout seems to be coming to a close any day (hour?) now. The most boring NFL offseason in recent memory will be over and football fans will be seen high-fiving each other all across the world. Don’t expect the Steelers front office to feel the same sense of relief though. They […]
