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2012 Steelers Mock Draft Version 1.0 – Post Senior Bowl

By Dave Bryan on Monday, January 30th, 2012 | 27 Comments

The Senior Bowl is now in the books and so kicks off the march towards the 2012 NFL draft. The next big event of course is the NFL combine that begins February 22nd and that is followed by the individual college pro days and pre draft visits. I purposely waited to release my first version of the 2012 Steelers mock draft so I could watch the Senior Bowl week coverage and game as to allow me to see several of players play and practice. With that said, I also like to research extensively to get a feel of what rounds players are expected to go in. As we have seen time and time again, several players Read more [...]

Steelers Take Two Punches To The Nose On Thursday

By Dave Bryan on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 | 3 Comments

While not totally unexpected and certainly on the horizon for a while now, the Pittsburgh Steelers officially took two punches to the nose on Thursday as it was reported the veteran nose tackle Casey Hampton would indeed require ACL surgery on the left knee he injured in the Wild Card game against the Denver Broncos and veteran backup nose tackle Chris Hoke made his retirement official. Heading into the offseason, Hampton has been at the top of the list of possible players the Steelers will need to cut or restructure to get underneath the projected salary cap number of $125 million when the Read more [...]

Steelers Broncos Wild Card Game Defensive Participation Chart & Personnel

By Dave Bryan on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 | No Comments

Below is the defensive participation chart for the Pittsburgh Steelers Wild Card game loss versus the Denver Broncos this past Sunday in Denver. The Steelers were in their base defense for 44 of the 55 non-penalty plays Sunday against the Broncos. Just 11 plays in the nickel sub-package. Nose tackle Casey Hampton left after just 2 plays with his ACL knee injury and left defensive end Brett Keisel left with an injured groin after 11 non-penalty snaps. Steve McLendon, Ziggy Hood and Cameron Heyward all finished out the game on the defensive line. LaMarr Woodley saw 37 snaps and Jason Worilds Read more [...]

Looking At The Steelers 2012 Free Agents Heading Into The Offseason

By Dave Bryan on Monday, January 9th, 2012 | 17 Comments

The questions are rolling in about the Pittsburgh Steelers 2012 free agents so I threw together a quick rundown of the restricted, unrestricted and exclusive rights free agents as the Steelers head into the offseason. The 6 restricted free agents will all certainly be tendered with only Mike Wallace receiving a first round tender. The other 5 will receive the lowest one year tenders. These amounts have not yet been released and I will post those amounts later in the offseason when they are made known. Both exclusive right free agents have no choice but to accept their tender offers and they can’t Read more [...]

Steelers Season Ends In 29-23 Overtime Loss To Broncos In AFC Wild Card Game – Game Recap

By Dave Bryan on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 | 18 Comments

The Pittsburgh Steelers saw their 2011 season come to an abrupt end Sunday in Denver with 29-23 overtime loss to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Wild Card game. Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow hit wide receiver Demaryius Thomas on the first play in overtime for a game-winning 80-yard touchdown pass to give the Broncos the win. Tebow had 316 passing yards and two touchdowns in the game and the Broncos now advance to play the New England Patriots in a divisional playoff game Saturday night in Foxboro. The Broncos finished with 447 total yards against the Steelers No. 1 defense that allowed an average Read more [...]

Steelers Browns Week 17 Defensive Participation Chart

By Dave Bryan on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

Below is the defensive participation chart for the Pittsburgh Steelers week 17 Sunday game versus the Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Browns Stadium. The Steelers were in their base defense for 25 of the 58 non-penalty plays Sunday against the Browns. 33 plays in the nickel sub-package with Bryant McFadden replacing Keenan Lewis later in the game after Lewis suffered a hamstring injury. Rookie Cameron Heyward had 6 snaps in this game and they came at the right defensive end spot. Steve McLendon saw 3 snaps at left defensive end and none as a base nose tackle this week. No snaps for Cortez Allen Read more [...]

Steelers 49ers Week 15 Defensive Participation Chart

By Dave Bryan on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | 3 Comments

Below is the defensive participation chart for the Pittsburgh Steelers week 15 Monday night game versus the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park. The Steelers were in their base defense a whopping 48 of the 61 non-penalty plays Monday night against the 49ers. 8 times they were in nickel, 3 times in dime and 2 times in goal-line. In the dime, linebacker Lawrence Timmons was the linebacker off the field. Both Troy Polamalu and Ryan Clark were pulled very late in the game and that is how Ryan Mundy and Will Allen got their snaps. Stevenson Sylvester was also in for the final 2 kneel downs Read more [...]

Breaking Down The Steelers Goal-line Stop On 3rd Down Versus Browns

By Dave Bryan on Friday, December 16th, 2011 | No Comments

There were several great play by the Pittsburgh Steelers defense last Thursday night in their 14-3 win over the Cleveland Browns and I wanted to focus in on the 3rd down and goal play from the Steelers 1 foot line with just over 10 minutes left in the first quarter. This play followed the great touchdown saving tackle of Browns quarterback Colt McCoy by James Harrison, that was originally ruled a touchdown. The Steelers are in goal-line personnel on this play and the first picture has the Steelers players numbered that are on the field so you can see who is where to begin with. Read more [...]

More Steelers Browns Observations From Week 14

By Dave Bryan on Friday, December 9th, 2011 | 5 Comments

The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cleveland Browns 14-3 Thursday night at Heinz Field and here are some of my post game observations after going through the game again. Lawrence Timmons bit hard on the play action on the early long completion to Evan Moore and never recovered in coverage. On the second big completion to Josh Cribbs, Troy Polamalu guessed wrong and Cribbs was wide open on the seam route. It was James Harrison that prevented Colt McCoy from getting into the endzone for the touchdown that was overturned after McCoy was clearly down. Harrison fought off his block to get a foot. Read more [...]

Banged Up Ben Roethlisberger Leads Steelers To 14-3 Win Over Browns – Game Recap

By Dave Bryan on Friday, December 9th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger showed why he is the toughest quarterback in the league Thursday night as he returned from a high ankle sprain suffered in the second quarter to lead the team to a 14-3 win over the Cleveland Browns. The gimped up Roethlisberger was 16 of 21 passing on the night for 280 yards with 2 touchdown passes to Jerricho Cotchery and Antonio Brown. He also had one interception in the game. He left the game with just under 6 minutes left in the first half after being sacked by Scott Paxson. On the play Roethlisberger had his ankle twisted severely during Read more [...]

Prediction Of Week 13 Steelers Inactives Against The Bengals

By Dave Bryan on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

The Steelers are back home this week to host the Cincinnati Bengals at Heinz Field. The final injury report on Friday showed two players ruled out in Arnaz Battle and Chris Carter. Larry Foote was listed as questionable, while LaMarr Woodley, Troy Polamalu, Emmanuel Sanders, Ben Roethlisberger, Stevenson Sylvester and Maurkice Pouncey were all listed as probable. Let’s have a look at the injured players and predict the other remaining inactives this week as the Steelers look to move to 9-3 on the season and 2-2 in the AFC North. The official inactive list are released 90 minutes before kick-off Read more [...]

Steelers Chiefs Week 12 Defensive Participation Chart

By Dave Bryan on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Below is the defensive participation chart for the Steelers week 12 Sunday night game versus the Kansas City Chiefs. Rookie Cameron Heyward went from getting no snaps against the Bengals last game to getting 17 against the Chiefs. Heyward played on both the left and right side this game and only in base formations. Rookie Cortez Allen saw just 3 snaps and 1 of those was when the Steelers had 12 men on defense. In reality the Steelers played dime just 2 times if you do not count that play. Steve McLendon saw 12 snaps and 2 of those were even at left defensive end in base formations. Troy Polamalu Read more [...]

Prediction Of Week 12 Steelers Inactives Against The Chiefs

By Dave Bryan on Saturday, November 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Steelers are back from their bye week now and ready to take on the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday night at Arrowhead Stadium. The Friday injury report showed 3 players as being questionable and I fully expect all three to be inactive this week. Let’s have a look at the injured players and predict the other remaining inactives this week as the Steelers look to move to 8-3 on the season. The official inactive list are released 90 minutes before kick-off and I will have them up on the site as soon as they are announced. OLB LaMarr Woodley – Woodley was limited all week in practice as he continues Read more [...]

Steelers 2012 Draft Needs

By Dave Bryan on Saturday, November 19th, 2011 | 22 Comments

During the Steelers bye week I have had several request to start looking forward to the Steelers 2012 draft and while I think mock drafts are pretty ludicrous to throw out there right now with 6 weeks left in the 2011 season and the bowl games yet to be played, I will wet your appetite with what I see as the possible needs for the Steelers based on what we have seen through the first 10 weeks to go along with the impending potential 2012 salary cap challenges I wrote about earlier in the season. I take my mock drafts pretty serious, as you have seen over the years, and have quite a bit of scouting Read more [...]

Steelers Bengals Week 10 Defensive Participation Chart

By Dave Bryan on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 | No Comments

Below is the defensive participation chart for the Steelers week 10 game versus the Cincinnati Bengals this past Sunday afternoon. The most noticeable thing this week was that rookie defensive end Cameron Heyward did not see the field on defense for the first time this season as both Brett Keisel and Ziggy Hood played every snap of the game. I asked Steelers beat writer Scott Brown about this tonight on the latest episode of the Terrible Podcast and he has not heard the reason behind that either. Sub-package wise the Steelers only played the dime on a handful of plays as they mostly played Read more [...]

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