PITTSBURGH 鈥� As they have every season since 1978, the Steelers will play 16 regular-season games and, potentially, up to four postseason games in 2017.Yet to hear some tell it, the Steelers have just one opponent next season: The New England Patriots.Those would be the same Patriots who ...
The Jabrill Peppers news yesterday knocked me for a bit of a loop.Peppers was someone whom I believed could give the Pittsburgh Steelers what the great Troy Polamalu gave them.But then, shouldn鈥檛 Peppers act like Polamalu?Hey, for all I know, Peppers鈥� failed NFL Combine drug test 鈥� his ...
The loss still stings.The need still rings.Here was Mike Tomlin finally admitting to that need last month at the NFL Owners Meetings:鈥淥ur inability to play man-to-man effectively and our inability to apply pressure on the quarterback without blitzing were issues in that game,鈥� Tomlin said ...
James Harrison covered up a big problem last season, and that problem could actually be a structural one for a team that believes it can continue using OLB/DE hybrids as edge rushers in their nickel defense.The nickel defense has become the base defense for the Steelers, who seemingly refuse to ...
Reuben Foster looked like Ryan Shazier playing middle linebacker for Alabama last season.He was lightning-quick and always got to where he was going in a really bad mood.Of course, the cost was expected to be exhorbitant. Shazier was a middle-of-the-first player, and so, apparently, was ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� The NFL schedule has been finalized with its official release Thursday night. Five games will be nationally televised in a seven-week span, with three games taking place at Heinz Field.As had already been determined, the Steelers will meet the New England Patriots for the third ...
