When you are obsessed with the draft, spend months evaluating players on tape, and pore over/try to find deep meaning in pro day results… the actual draft results for your team are always disheartening. There is a disappointment when they don’t just choose from among the many players you’d expect but, instead, do things like,...
The 2021 B2B Directional State Team: Small-School & Undervalued Draft Prospects
Time again for my annual list of undervalued draft sleepers and smaller school prospects who deserve more attention in the NFL draft. For 17 years now, I have made the analysis of lesser-known, small school, and undervalued NFL draft prospects my obsession. Over the years, I’ve tweeted about, written about, mock-drafted, interviewed, argued about, and...
To trade down or not? An analysis of 1st-Round Trades.
With all the recent talk being that the Steelers are likely going to take a RB at #24 overall, and with it also being the height of mock draft season, we Steelers fans once again find ourselves trying to talk or wish into reality the Steelers actually trading down in the first round. Even though...
Browns at Steelers WC Game Recap: 7’s Stages of Grief
THE 7’s STAGES OF GRIEF 1. Shock and denial. This is a state of disbelief and numbed feelings. I knew it, but I didn’t want to believe it. Some of you who go back to the 2005 days at Stillers.com might remember that I had a vision dream that year after they hit 6-3. I saw...
The Fifth Quarter: The Turnpike Trifecta (Steelers-Browns recap)
After a two year hiatus, I’m back for one more post-game article, maybe my last ever. The entire reason for the return was some good playoff mojo. Getting this site’s old gang back together for one final playoff run of the Roethlisberger era. FC with the excellent “Gospel” pregame article and yours truly with the...