In a few hours, the Steelers will not only begin conditioning drills, they鈥檒l claim victory for the quietest off-season of at least the Mike Tomlin era, and perhaps longer.Grab the checklist:n No suspensions hanging over the team.n No holdouts, rookie or otherwise.n No divisive commentary in ...
Keith Butler had just finished talking about his linebackers for close to 20 minutes with an array of reporters last week and then began walking back to his office. Halfway down the hallway, Butler let out a satisfying end-of-the-workday breath and said, 鈥淵ou know, this is the fastest defense ...
鈥淗ey, Wex!鈥� Mike Tomlin shouted as he charged down the sideline toward me with that big smile of his.鈥淒id you see what I did today?!鈥漎es, on this day Tomlin had moved rookie running back Dri Archer over to work with the wide receivers.I noticed it. I passed Tomlin鈥檚 test. I usually ...
From the notebook of a sportswriter who鈥檚 not embarrassed to make optimistic pronouncements on June 1 about the Steelers鈥� upcoming season:n Of course I need to see more than one week of spring practices, but I鈥檓 excited about the way they鈥檝e addressed their problems.n Sean Spence had ...
Someone wrote right before the draft, on the day the great scout Bill Nunn died, that the Pittsburgh Steelers had suffered 鈥渁 loss in the force.鈥滲ut I wondered whether it would work the other way. I wondered whether the Steelers had gained in 鈥渢he force,鈥� and I wondered whether the 40th ...
The juicy draft news always seems to take its sweet ol鈥� time coming out, but it eventually comes out.And you may have heard this from your sources, too, that the Steelers would like to trade down and gain more picks in the deepest draft in Kevin Colbert鈥檚 30 years in the ...
