Steelers Six From Around The Web – February 4th – Deacon Likes Deebo Edition
By Dave Bryan on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | No Comments
Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones supports the style of play of linebacker James Harrison while speaking this week on radio row. Jones would have been the poster child for fines if he were still playing today.
Former Steelers great and Hall of Famer Rod Woodson joined 93.7 The Fan to talk about his experience playing in the Super Bowl, the game Sunday and Bill Belichick. Joe Greene also called in to talk about how difficult it is for him to be in Indianapolis without the Steelers playing.
That is not all from Greene as he has come out to say that he is OK with idea of a new offensive Read more [...]
Pittsburgh Steelers 2012 Free Agents Analysis: T Jamon Meredith
By Dave Bryan on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | No Comments
Onward we go with our player by player look at the Pittsburgh Steelers 2012 Free Agents as I do a complete breakdown of their 2011 season and look ahead to their pending 2012 free agency situation. The post we finish out the Steelers restricted free agents with tackle Jamon Meredith. Please check out the links at the bottom to the other free agent player analysis already completed. Next up in the series will be the Steelers unrestricted free agents.
Player: Jamon Meredith
Position: Tackle
Experience: 3 Years
Free Agent Status: Restricted
2011 Salary Cap Hit: $600,000.00 (estimated)
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Hines Ward’s Future Up In Proverbial Air
By Christina L. Rivers on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | 3 Comments
Hines Ward's future with the Steelers is on the decision block and his future with the team will most likely be decided on March 1. 2012, due to a roster bonus he is due. At the Super Bowl media center Thursday, Ward was adamant that he'd be with the Steelers. It's true that in the last year of Bruce Arians' offense, Ward was devalued, but Arians is gone and that may or may not bode well for the 14-year veteran out of Georgia. Ward is scheduled to earn $4 million in the last two years of his contract, and has insisted he's willing to take a cut to stay with the team.
According to the Pittsburgh Read more [...]
Report: Steelers Were Interested In Tom Clements As Next Offensive Coordinator
By Dave Bryan on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | No Comments
Not surprisingly, It was announced yesterday that the Green Bay Packers named Tom Clements their new offensive coordinator. Clements had been the Packers quarterbacks coach since 2006 and was the obvious choice to replace Joe Philbin, who left to become the head coach of the Miami Dolphins after the 2011 season.
Clements, who previously served as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks coach under Bill Cowher from 2001-2004, was instantly considered a candidate to come back to Pittsburgh to be the new offensive coordinator, should he not get promoted by the Packers.
WPXI Sports Director Alby Read more [...]
Report: Todd Haley Frontrunner For Steelers Offensive Coordinator Job
By Dave Bryan on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | 2 Comments
Alby Oxenreiter, Sports Director for WPXI, tweets this afternoon that it is his understanding that former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley is the frontrunner for the Pittsburgh Steelers open offensive coordinator job. Since it was announced two weeks ago that Bruce Arians would not return for 2012, Haley was the only interview that has been 100% acknowledged by the Steelers website. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin also has reportedly had interest in Jim Caldwell, Alex Van Pelt and Hue Jackson as well, but if any of those interviews actually did take place, they only have fringe confirmation Read more [...]
NFL Network To Broadcast 13 Thursday Night Games In 2012 & It Stinks Of Hypocrisy
By Dave Bryan on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | 7 Comments
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell held his yearly State of the NFL press conference today in Indianapolis and announced that the the NFL Network will broadcast 13 Thursday night games starting in 2012. Goodell also said that all 32 NFL teams will be guaranteed at least one prime time game over the course of the 2012 season.
The NFL Network broadcasted eight Thursday night games last season and the new package will start in Week 2 and will run through Week 15 of the 2012 regular season. The question now becomes, how does this figure in with the strong push for player safety? Giving players a short Read more [...]
The Terrible Podcast – Super Bowl Preview & Myron Rolle Interview Episode
By Dave Bryan on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 | No Comments
Season 2, Episode 74 of The Terrible Podcast is up and David Todd and get the Super Bowl preview show started by addressing a few reader emails to start off with. Next David and I run down the list of finalist again for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and give our final predictions on who we think will be in the class of 2012 when it is announced Saturday. Do we think former Steelers Dermontti Dawson, Jerome Bettis, Kevin Greene and Jack Butler get in? You might be surprised on our thoughts.
We move on from that discussion to start breaking down and previewing Super Bowl XLVI. We look at what Read more [...]
Lynn Swann Says Last Time He Checked, Ben Roethlisberger Was A Paid Employee
By Dave Bryan on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | 6 Comments
Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann was making the rounds today on radio row at the Super Bowl promoting the free Burger King giveaway of onion rings this upcoming weekend. Swann sat down for a quick interview with Dave Dameshek and Adam Rank from NFL.com and Dameshek asked Swann his thoughts on the comments made last week by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger at the Pro Bowl where he said once he returns from Hawaii he will seek out team president Art Rooney II to find out what direction the Steelers offense will move in now that offensive coordinator Bruce Arians is gone. Swann Read more [...]
Pittsburgh Steelers 2012 Free Agents Analysis: S Ryan Mundy
By Dave Bryan on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | No Comments
Continuing on with our player by player look at the Pittsburgh Steelers 2012 Free Agents as do a complete breakdown of their 2011 season and look ahead to their pending 2012 free agency situation. The post we focus in on restricted free agent safety Ryan Mundy. Please check out the links at the bottom to the other free agent player analysis already completed.
Player: Ryan Mundy
Position: Safety
Experience: 3 Years
Free Agent Status: Restricted
2011 Salary Cap Hit: $525,000.00
2011 Season Breakdown: The Steelers former 2008 6th round draft pick was very reliable in 2011 as he was Read more [...]
Steelers Sign LB Brandon Hicks To Futures Contract
By Dave Bryan on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | 2 Comments
According to a tweet by Pittsburgh Steelers tackle Marcus Gilbert, the Steelers have signed linebacker Brandon Hicks to a futures contract. Hicks was a teammate with Gilbert at the University of Florida and was signed by the Buffalo Bills after going undrafted last April. Hicks did not make the Bills final 53 man roster and was released prior to the start of the 2011 regular season.
At his Florida pro day last March, Hicks measured in at 6023 and weighed 231 pounds. His unofficial 40 time was 4.83, he did 12 reps of 225 ponds, had a 31 inch vertical jump, a 09'10" broad jump and a 4.38 short Read more [...]
Packers Promote Tom Clements To Offensive Coordinator
By Dave Bryan on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | No Comments
You can scratch the name of Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements off of the list of potential candidates to be the Pittsburgh Steelers new offensive coordinator as it was announced today that Clements has been promoted to offensive coordinator by the Packers according to Kareem Copeland from the Green Bay Press Gazette.
The move was expected after Joe Philbin left to become the Miami Dolphins new head coach. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers also made his feelings known that he was hoping that Clements would be promoted as well. Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy said today: “Tom Read more [...]
Don’t Count Out Koogs
By Jeremy Hritz on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | 7 Comments
By Jeremy Hritz
Jim Irsay, who is becoming more eccentric with each passing day, and the Indianapolis Colts wasted no time in hiring a replacement head coach for Jim Caldwell. Nor did they hesitate in hiring a new offensive coordinator. Within eight days, Chuck Pagano, one-time defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens, was hired to replace Caldwell, with the embattled and “retired” Bruce Arians following a few days later.
Some Steelers’ fans may be looking at the Colts with envy, not because the history and tradition of the Colts’ franchise, but because of the swiftness that Read more [...]
Report: Steelers Have Not Contacted Packers QB Coach Tom Clements
By Dave Bryan on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | 1 Comment
WPXI Sports Director Alby Oxenreiter reports via Twitter that Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements has not heard from the Pittsburgh Steelers about their offensive coordinator opening. Clements has long been speculated as a possible candidate for the job as he is a Pittsburgh native and was the quarterbacks coach for the Steelers under head coach Bill Cowher.
Clements is the odds on favorite to be promoted by the Packers to their open offensive coordinator position after Joe Philbin left to become the head coach of the Miami Dolphins and quarterback Aaron Rodgers has thrown his Read more [...]
Bruce Arians Says Wearing Bulls-eye Is Fun As An Offensive Coordinator
By Dave Bryan on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 | 9 Comments
Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians spoke to the Indianapolis Colts media today after being named the teams new offensive coordinator. Arians talked about returning to Indianapolis, Peyton Manning and the upcoming opportunity to possibly work with a young quarterback. He also took questions about his offensive philosophy and of course about his time in Pittsburgh. Below are the transcribed questions and answers pertaining to the Steelers.
Re: On his main philosophy in running an offense
Arians: Balance. You cannot be one dimensional. I like to go back and look at Read more [...]
