I’d wager that, in the Summer of 2018, a large percentage of even diehard football fans of your Pittsburgh Steelers had next to no idea who half the guys who played yesterday were. Devlin Hodges Deon Cain Telvin Jones Benny Snell Kerrith Whyte Jaylen Samuels Nick Vannett Matt Feiler B.J. Finney Diontae Johnson Steven Nelson...
Wk 13 recap Steelers at Bengals: Rudolph’s Last Stand
Rudolph’s Last Stand: A Microcosm Someday, long after Paul Brown Stadium is demolished and long after the 0-16 Cincinnati Bengals of 2019 are forgotten, they’ll have a National Park dedicated to the site of the last Mason Rudolph pass. Visitors will get a Gettysburg-style pictograph to show them the positions of both sides of the...
A Long Look at the 2020 Steelers Offseason
by Scunge Let us turn our attention to the upcoming offseason, of 2020, and how difficult it is going to be. I can’t remember a time that the Steelers had so many players up for free agency, both as unrestricted, restricted free agents or playing in the last year of their contracts. These are the...
Wk 11 recap Steelers at Browns: Purgatory
Purgatory. Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t. Somewhere between Hell and the sublime. Ladies and gentlemen: your 2019 Pittsburgh Steelers! I am an not an NFL coach, but if I were, I’d try to build a team based around making the best decisions for each player. It is hard to treat...
Wk 10 recap Rams at Steelers: Third Down’s the Charm
The Pittsburgh Steelers of 2019 are writing a story for themselves that defies the odds. It features a defense that has been transformed since the arrival of Minkah Fitzpatrick and just enough contributions from its young QB and its special teams. What that defense did yesterday was obvious: they took Jared Goff’s soul, buried Sean McVay’s...