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With Kenny Pickett still out for the foreseeable future, there’s an unquestioned man in charge of the quarterback position in his absence. Unquestioned in the eyes of the coaching staff, at least. In his weekly press conference, which was a day earlier than usual due to the Steelers playing on Saturday this week, head coach…

As the NFL season marches on, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the end of the season. It’s crunch time for some teams, desperation time for others, and development time for the rest. The NFL aired two different Monday night games last night. In Miami, the fans were stunned as their team suffered a historical collapse…

Let’s do something a little different today. With the Steelers constantly takings down to the wire, there’s been plenty of Steelers teams that just barely missed out on the postseason. In the Mike Tomlin era, Pittsburgh has historically always been in the running until the dying moments of the regular season. While that hasn’t often…

I can’t believe we are here again. Things have to change. In back to back weeks, a team who had two wins coming into the year came into Pittsburgh in a must-win game for the Steelers, and in back to back weeks, Mike Tomlin’s team loses again. I have never been on the fire Tomlin…

Pittsburgh’s 24-10 loss to the Arizona Cardinals was absolutely brutal. An arrogant, undisciplined, and unprepared team got embarrassed at home to a team that had won 2 games all season prior to Sunday. In the midst of the battle, quarterback Kenny Pickett went down with an ankle injury, and did not return to the game.…

With Kenny Picket out for considerable time, the Pittsburgh Steelers were down to two quarterbacks in the organization. To remedy that, the Steelers have signed former Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley to the team’s practice squad. McSorley is a former sixth round pick by the Baltimore Ravens in 2019. The 28 year old has appeared…

Amidst all the ugliness of Pittsburgh’s 24-10 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, quarterback Kenny Pickett left the game late in the second quarter and did not return. The injury forced veteran backup Mitch Trubisky to finish the game, which went from bad to worse. Early in the third quarter, Trubisky fumbled off a bad snap…

I stared at my computer for ten straight minutes before I began typing. I didn’t know how to properly express my disappointment in what I saw today. But then I realized, that I shouldn’t have been disappointed. Because this is exactly what I expected. Truth be told, I didn’t even need to wait for the…

Earlier this year, when the Steelers were getting ready to travel down to Houston to face the Texans, I warned that game could be a trap game. Of course, that was Week 4. Lots has changed since then. We now have a better understanding of how good CJ Stroud is in his rookie year, and…

Kenny Pickett looked like a new man on Sunday in Cincinnati. In his first game after the firing of offensive coordinator Matt Canada, Pickett threw for 278 yards, the second highest total of his NFL career to date, and threw seemingly without fear all over the field. The Steelers used the middle of the field…

THE STREAK. IS. OVER. After 58 straight games of football for the Pittsburgh Steelers without cracking 400+ yards on offense, they finally did it yesterday against the Bengals in Cincinnati. It was Pittsburgh’s first game since firing offensive coordinator Matt Canada, and promoting Eddie Faulkner to the role of OC and Mike Sullivan to the…

For the first time in 58…FIFTY EIGHT games, the Pittsburgh Steelers amassed 400+ yards on offense. That hasn’t happened since Week 2 of the 2020 NFL season. That never happened once during Matt Canada’s reign as offensive coordinator, which began at the start of the 2021 season and ended on Tuesday, when the Steelers did…

This is it. There are no more excuses for Kenny Pickett. His biggest hurdle to success in the NFL, offensive coordinator Matt Canada, is gone. Pittsburgh fired him on Tuesday to the jubilation of Steelers fans worldwide. In his place, the Steelers are employing a tag team strategy at the position; Running Backs Coach Eddie…

The New York Jets made headlines when news broke that they were sitting quarterback Zach Wilson for Sunday’s upcoming game against the Miami Dolphins. In fact, they went one step further than simply benching him. With Tim Boyle taking over the starter’s job and veteran Trevor Siemian serving as backup, Wilson has plummeted to QB3…

The Matt Canada era in Pittsburgh, at long last, is over. The Steelers fired their offensive coordinator this morning, with head coach Mike Tomlin adding in a brief statement “I appreciate Matt’s hard work and dedication, and I wish him the best moving forward.” Canada, in his third year as the offensive coordinator for the…

Like many of you, I cannot believe this is a real thought I am having, but here we are. This was actually something I had first thought about during the short week before the Thursday night game against the Tennessee Titans. With Pickett’s status in doubt, and Mitch Trubisky coming off of a very uninspiring…

We all knew it was coming, right? I found it somewhat amusing when a lot of NFL pundits and the national media painted it as a massive positive for the Pittsburgh Steelers when news broke that the team would be facing backup rookie quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson. Of course, why would they think anything else? In…

There has been a lot, and I mean a LOT of discourse about starting quarterback Kenny Pickett in media, fan, and social media circles all season long. There’s been a never ending war between the Pickett stans (a dying breed) and the Pickett haters (a growing army) every week after a Steelers game. The latest…

Starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, DeShaun Watson, is out for the season. Watson has been battling a peculiar shoulder injury for weeks, and earlier this week, the team announced he would undergo season ending surgery. This will dramatically alter how the Pittsburgh Steelers plan for the of their biggest games of the season, now…

After days of wondering if Steelers Special Teams Coach Danny Smith was alright after sustaining a huge hit on the sideline as time expired in Sunday’s win over the Green Bay Packers. Smith was on the sideline when Pittsburgh’s Damontae Kazee intercepted Green Bay’s Jordan Love on the final play of the game. Kazee took…

The Patrick Peterson signing has not worked out nearly as well as the Pittsburgh Steelers had hoped for in 2023. Peterson has been routinely beaten in the passing game and has been maligned by fans and media who have been very critical of the 33 year old’s poor play. But Peterson found a new level…

Folks, they’ve done it again. They’ve gave everyone in Pittsburgh a heart attack as another one-score game ends with an end-of-game interception for the Steelers. Damontae Kazee gets the honor this go around, picking off Green Bay’s Jordan Love to end the game. And once again, the Steelers were outgained in yardage, but somehow walk…

It’s been a long time since the Green Bay Packers visited the Steelers in Pittsburgh, but that won’t be the case on Sunday afternoon when these two teams face off at Acrisure Stadium. The Packers come to town after beating the LA Rams 20-3 last week, meanwhile the Steelers hope to start stacking wins after…

Heading into the NFL’s trade deadline on Halloween afternoon, the Pittsburgh Steelers were among the final front runners to pick up a cornerback to boost their struggling secondary. The Steelers, along with other teams, were linked to Chicago Bears CB Jaylon Johnson, who had just recently been granted permission to seek a trade after talks…

Mike Tomlin heavily downplayed any concerns or potential problems regarding George Pickens’ social media controversy this week after the Steelers win vs the Tennessee Titans. “It is a pebble in my shoe to be quite honest with you,” Tomlin said during his Tuesday press conference when asked about Pickens’ actions on Instagram after Pittsburgh’s win.…

On Thursday Night Football, Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson ended a frustrating and miserable drought of touchdown passes when he finally caught a pass by fourth quarter Kenny Pickett (who we should really start referring to as an entirely different Pickett). Johnson had went the entire 2022 season without scoring a touchdown, and had waited…

Martavis Bryant’s name is making the rounds after the announcement that he has officially been reinstated to the National Football League. Bryant had been barred from NFL action for four years after numerous positive drug tests plagued his career. The 31 year old wide receiver has not played in the NFL since 2018, where he…