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Chuck Noll has a "title" in the current front office as well.
He adds NOTHING to this football team, and hasn't since the day he walked out.
Art was in private law practice for 20 freaking years, and had a future in politics all lined up.
That doesn't make him qualified to make football decisions for this team. Sorry.Comment
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Now, you're just being irrational...
You know who has had something to do with the team since becoming president?
Art Rooney II...
If you are going to put Art Jr.'s contributions on par with AR II over the last ten years, you are simply being ridiculous and ignoring facts on purpose...
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised...Actually, my post was NOT about you...but, if the shoe fits, feel free to lace that &!+€# up and wear it.Comment
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But Art Jr. is Vice President! He has the title, and the rings does he not? Surely he has SOMETHING to do with our success, correct?
Like I told you guys if this were Jones or Snyder you guys would be RIPPING them for their meddling into football decisions.
Why does Art get a pass?
If Art wants to be a GM wanna-be? Fire Colbert and let him go to a team that allows him to do his job.Comment
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Irrational...Actually, my post was NOT about you...but, if the shoe fits, feel free to lace that &!+€# up and wear it.Comment
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Logical....
And if Art II forced Haley on Tomlin? We'll see how "anxious" Tomlin is to extending his contract as well.Comment
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Originally Posted by Eich [URL="http://www.planetsteelers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=511677#post511677"]
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Why does anyone think that you have to PLAY the game to be successful coaching or running a team? It's absurd.
WHAT?!?! YOU are the person on here who apparently thinks you need to play in the NFL to coach or run an NFL team. Now I'm really confused...Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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Nope. All I hear is how I haven't played in the NFL so I can't be qualified to run a team like Haley, Tomlin, or the Saintly Rooney's. Originally Posted by Eich [URL="http://www.planetsteelers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=511677#post511677"][/URL]
Why does anyone think that you have to PLAY the game to be successful coaching or running a team? It's absurd.
WHAT?!?! YOU are the person on here who apparently thinks you need to play in the NFL to coach or run an NFL team. Now I'm really confused...
But here's the catch, they haven't played in the NFL either.Comment
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Do the things being said just get dumber and dumber to anyone else?"My team, may they always be right, but right or wrong...MY TEAM!"Comment
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Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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Pittsburgh Steelers: Rookie Chris Rainey can be Electric Weapon in Todd Haley's Offense
Saturday, June 30, 2012
by Seth Austin - NFL Writer
In his first season as the Pittsburgh Steelers' offensive coordinator, Todd Haley will be looking to add some wrinkles to the offense to make things more electric.
Of course, Pittsburgh is fighting to bring back speedster Mike Wallace to their receiving corps to pair with Antonio Brown and added Leonard Pope as a red zone tight end threat. However, with Rashard Mendenhall absent from the backfield due to injury, the Steelers could use a little flash in the running game.
After Mendenhall, who has some ability to scamper, the Steelers' backfield includes Isaac Redman, Jonathan Dwyer, John Clay and Baron Batch, none of whom are especially speedy backs for Haley's system. So in the fifth round of April's draft, the Steelers brought in Florida running back Chris Rainey, who could make a living by being fast.
In his first of two years as a head coach in Kansas City, Haley found success with Jamaal Charles, who is a shiftier back. Haley also drafted multi-purpose weapon Dexter McCluster, who we only got a brief glimpse of in Haley's system. However, it is likely that Haley envisioned a role for McCluster that closely resembles the one Darren Sproles played in New Orleans last season.
Now Haley might have an opportunity to bring the Steelers their own version of Sproles.
Both Sproles and Rainey are undersized backs (Rainey is 5'9", 175 lbs.) that are known primarily for their speed (Rainey was clocked in with a low of a 4.32 in the forty-yard dash).
In New Orleans' pass-heavy system, Sproles managed to rack up 2,696 all-purpose yards and ten touchdowns. Sproles also had 710 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns through the air last year while being utilized primarily in the short passing game.
If Haley is expected to utilize Ben Roethlisberger as much as possible and keep Pittsburgh trending toward being a pass-heavy team, Rainey could be used in the exact same manner. Over his career at Florida, Rainey had 69 receptions for 795 yards and six touchdowns.
Another area where Rainey could be an advantage is on special teams. His speed definitely makes him an asset and it will also allow Brown to be used less and less in that role as he grows as a weapon on offense.
The possibilities are truly endless with a talent like Rainey and it will be interesting to see how Haley and the Steelers coaching staff plan to use him in 2012.
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