The last time the Steelers went on the last-seed Cinderella playoff run, running back Jerome Bettis was steps away from retirement and Ben Roethlisberger was a raw, up-and-coming star. We’ve come full circle. Now it’s Big Ben who’s in the two-minute drive of his Hall of Fame career. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Pittsburgh poured out its grateful heart to retiring Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Monday night. Big Ben’s historic, 18-year run resulted in an unheard-of level of division dominance. But with Roethlisberger retiring, his like might not be seen anytime soon in Pittsburgh. Unless you count the young gun who’ll come to call at Heinz Field when the Bengals make their annual visit. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
It’s nothing short of Steelers sabotage! The Pittsburgh pro football club once known for excellence has totally botched quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s swan song season. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Both the Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger are still very much alive in the AFC North. All the talk about a top-to-bottom Steelers rebuild for a post-Roethlisberger era will have to wait. They’re sniffing playoffs in Pittsburgh. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Anyone who believes the Pittsburgh Steelers have hit bottom can’t be looking at the schedule that awaits a team that’s no longer capable of being physical on either side of the football. It could get much, much worse, starting this Sunday vs. the Ravens. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
So, are you missing Big Ben yet? Mason Rudolph’s play was as dreary and miserable as the Pittsburgh weather against the lowly Lions on Sunday. The quarterback once heralded by Steelers’ brass as possessing first-round talent and heir-apparent potential has proven to be a below average NFL backup, at best. This leaves the 2021 Steelers exactly where they were entering the season. Namely, hoping against hope that 39-year-old Ben Roethlisberger can rally for one last rodeo. In this case, Big Ben is...
Steelers’ fans absolutely love the team’s defensive theme song, ‘Renegade’ by Styx. When the ‘Coming down from the gallows’ dirge gets going, all of Heinz Field is rocking. But these days, perhaps it’s The Who’s ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ that should blare from those Heinz Field loudspeakers. It would be the perfect anthem for highly skeptical Steelers’ fans as they seemingly wait for this 2021 version of their favorite football team to unravel. It has to be just a matter of time, right? The quart...
Najee Harris relishes contact. Fans love it, too. He’s a workhorse running back in a league of running-back-by-committee teams. It could also be a prelude to his premature decline and fall in Pittsburgh. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s a scary-good Halloween matchup that has the Steelers trying to frighten the Browns at home on Halloween. It’s unlike any contest between these once one-sided rivals in two decades. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Many T.J. Watt-backers in Pittsburgh are saying that his strip-sack that delivered the ball to the Steelers in overtime for the Chris Boswell field goal for the 23-20 win justifies the team in showering their star linebacker with a $110 million contract extension, including $80 million in guaranteed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Stick a fork in him; Ben Roethlisberger is done. Such is the cold-eyed, callous assessment of once-adoring Steelers Nation. Certainly it is, if you judge by the damning reaction on Twitter in wake of the Steelers’ season-crushing 27-17 loss in Green Bay. This time it wasn’t on the Steelers young and unproven offensive line. The Steelers’ struggles were clearly the result of their 39-year-old, future Hall of Fame quarterback’s rapidly fading skills. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out i...
The Steelers are caught in a bizarre football lifecycle mismatch that threatens to doom the season and the foreseeable future. The team is burdened by a quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, in the winter of his years. The Steelers suffer from an offensive line that’s so embryonic it really hasn’t been born yet. Finally, Pittsburgh possesses a star running back, soon to enter with his prime. But 2021 first-round draft pick Najee Harris could be all washed up by the time this out-of-sync team gets goo...
It was classic Mike Tomlin understatement. Ben Roethlisberger took too many hits, and Najee Harris gained too few rushing yards. This is the Steelers’ moribund offense in microcosm. And the blame for it all rests squarely on the board shoulders but so-far small play of the supposedly rebuilt offensive line. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Get your worry beads out, Steelers Nation. All the questions that we hoped would be answered by now are still plaguing your 2021 Steelers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
All you need to know about Steelers rookie tight end Pat Freiermuth is the team was willing to draft him in the first round, had running back Najee Harris not been on the board. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The curtain goes up Saturday on the 2021 version of Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers’ new-look offense. The Steelers' third preseason game vs. the Detroit Lions at Heinz Field will be the closest thing to regular-season action until the real game begins in September. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
How long can the T.J. Watt waiting game go on before it short-circuits the Steelers' preparation for the all-important 2021 season? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s happening. Former first-round draft pick Dwayne Haskins is beating out “mediocre” Mason Rudolph for the Steelers’ backup role to Big Ben Roethlisberger. But more it’s even more significant than that. A long-shot quarterback succession plan could be falling into place for the Steelers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
The NFL is imposing some strict new rules for unvaccinated players, who are now being marked by those telltale yellow wristbands. While the Steelers are said to have a high overall rate of vaccinated players, Najee Harris was recently spotted wearing the wristband. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ben Roethlisberger is plucking a page out of Tom Brady’s playbook -- and his cookbook – in order to serve up a Steelers’ Super Bowl run. Word is Roethlisberger is on a new reducing plan to increase Pittsburgh’s chances of success this season. Ben’s determined dieting comes as 18-year Steelers’ veteran QB is said to be highly motivated to get into tiptop shape to prove all his carping critics wrong. In fact, they’re saying Big Ben’s diet is even stricter than the Father Time-reversing food plan T...
Steelers’ linebacker Devin Bush is definitely not getting a dead cat bounce on recent controversial posts to his Twitter account. Instead, cat-loving Steelers’ fans have their claws out for the once-loved linebacker. This, after Bush quote-tweeted a very twisted video of a cat rescue gone wrong. The video, which was posted by another account and has since been deleted, shows two people trying to rescue a cat many floors above the ground and it fails. Instead of tragic, Bush apparently found it a...
An NFL team’s offensive line is supposed to be a barrier, all right. A bulwark to protect the quarterback and a bulldozer to open lanes for the running game. But last year, the Steelers’ running game ground to a halt and Big Ben Roethlisberger was rushed into releasing his flurry of pop-gun short passes in mere nanoseconds. Much of it was because the one-time Steelers’ strong suit of its veteran offensive line had fallen into precipitous decline in Pittsburgh. This sad state of Steelers affairs ...
It used to be the most popular person in Pittsburgh was the backup quarterback. Now it’s the third-string or even the fourth-string QB. That depends on where Steelers’ reclamation project Dwayne Haskins lands in the passing pecking order. It’s still not clear following mini-camp just how well Haskins is doing in his Steelers’ second chance. This, after having been cast off from the Washington Football Team last season. The now 24-year-old turned his one-year starting at Ohio State into a passing...
The Steelers and their new coordinator Matt Canada are in the midst of installing an innovative offense built around lots of tempo and pre-snap motion, a plethora of running plays, hordes of play action, and above all, finding the mismatches that allow Steelers’ personnel to excel. Canada will try to put Big Ben Roethlisberger back under center, then on the move with play action to set up both the run and the long-ball pass. The offense should keep veteran receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the slo...
Mason Rudolph and the Steelers have made clear what we long suspected – it’s just a matter of time before Mason is your Steelers’ starting quarterback. This, after the team re-signed Rudolph this off-season, and he stands as the only team QB under contract for 2022. It might not be nearly that long before Rudolph is taking snaps under center for real. That’s because current Steelers starter and future Hall of Famer Ben Roethlisberger is age 39 and entering his 18th season with the Steelers. No o...
Nothing short of a total Steelers’ offensive overhaul is underway in Pittsburgh. This comes right from the guy who’ll be pulling the trigger on the new attack – Ben Roethlisberger. New coordinator Matt Canada has big plans to have Big Ben back under center. There will be rollouts. There will be play action. There will be lots of movement – and a lot less shotgun and popgun that was both the Steelers’ offensive signature – and its ultimate undoing – last season. Roethlisberger, who’s had his shar...
Careful observation the Steelers’ first OTA’s involving its new crop of rookies reveals the cornerstone upon which the 2021 season will rise or fall. On one side of the practice field, we glimpsed 39-year-old Ben Roethlisberger showing up and firing passes on the first day of these non-mandatory team activities. Video shows Big Ben zipping the ball. But he had thin air as the only defender breathing down his neck. In other words, what we saw was an illusion. Reconstructive surgery on Roethlisber...
Rookie running back Najee Harris isn’t just the new kid on the block, but a Steelers savior the likes of which we haven’t seen since Mean Joe Greene was installed as the cornerstone building block of all those 1970s Super Bowl teams. Najee was the guy Steelers Nation coveted in the draft. The Alabama basher and dasher fills a huge need after the Steelers, a team that once prided itself on running the football, just could not get it done in 2020. Meanwhile, Big Ben came up small in 2020, as his s...
The Steelers shuffle off to Buffalo to face the playoff-built Bills in Week 1 of the 2021 NFL season. It doesn’t get any easier from there, either. The Steelers are facing a brutal 2021 schedule regardless of how you slice and dice it. If you believe in stats, Pittsburgh is starring at an NFL gauntlet of games that ranks as the league’s most difficult. But it’s not only the opponents the Steelers face that spell trouble. It’s the way this particular team is built for this season that could defla...
National NFL pundits like ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. are poo-pooing Pittsburgh picking Najee Harris in the NFL draft. But one guy who knows what it takes to really roll in this league insists the Steelers just might have landed themselves the 2021 Offensive Rookie of the Year. Lynch, who’s now Najee’s agent, absolutely gushed about ‘his big, tall son’, saying “physically, he’s a G.D. freak of nature. I could see him putting up numbers. I would love to see him, you know, Rookie of the Year-type stuff. ...
