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"Football is a physical game, well, it used to be anyways" - Mel Blount
Our injuries are no big deal yet imho. But there are certain players no team can really replace and still expect to compete for a championship. If Ben or Troy go down, we're f'd. Other than those 2, we should be able to get by for the most part. Ike would be a big loss. So is Heath. Maybe Timmons. Other than that, I think we'd be ok with backups.
But there's also a point where losing a large number of players starts to have an impact. Especially if you lose a bunch in the same game given you can only dress part of the 53. Carrying injured guys on roster spots doesn't necessarily make things easier.
This team has had injury and conditioning problems the last 3 years.
Hehehe... Pappy- you say the Steelers have tried to fix the OL problem & failed, except for Pouncey, DeCastro & possibly Adams.
So 3 out of the 4 high selection solutions were not failures.... yet they failed?
For the record, Chadman knows what you are saying- right now the OL is a mess even with the high selections. But outside of drafting OL in Round 1 every year until you strike lucky, how do you go about fixing the OL different to what the Steelers have done? They picked up the #1 interior OL guys in both DeCastro & Pouncey for their respective years, and got Adams (who was a Round 1 talent) in Round 2. Gilbert is the only one that could be second-guessed as to his draft value (although the end of Round 2, beginning of Round 3 was about the right spot in predictions). The Steelers haven't overdrafted, haven't reached on any of these guys.
Chadman's take- a lot of change, in a short time, to both the personel & coaching hasn't allowed the group to gel as quickly as you'd like. They are talented guys. The pieces are in place. They need time to build chemistry though.
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I?
Light up the darkness.
2024 Draft
1. Kool-Aid McKinstry CB
2. Sedrick Van Pran-Grainger OC
3. Malachi Corley WR
3. Maason Smith DT
4. Matt Goncalves OT
6. Trevin Wallace ILB
7. AJ Barner TE
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