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Love him or hate him, he is right once again. So much false bravado coming from the players these days, do you think a Hoodie team would be caught dead saying these things?
But no, Claypool meant top-three receiver in the entire NFL: “I am not like the rest of the guys in the NFL.”
That’s true in some respects. For example, no other receiver in the NFL jumps and falls down on every catch. Some actually run through receptions like you’re supposed to.
Like Mendenhall, Claypool is best known for a mistake: His idiotic, time-wasting first-down celebration that cost the Steelers a play in a failed late-game drive at Minnesota last Dec. 9. The Vikings won 36-28.
Cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon listed himself among the NFL’s top five cornerbacks.
Witherspoon has spent five seasons in the NFL and started less than half his teams’ games.
If Witherspoon covered Claypool, perhaps one would have a chance to live up to his ego. It would more likely be a Mexican standoff of sub-mediocrity.
But that’s how the Steelers are. They haven’t won a playoff game in five seasons, but there’s been no shortage of chest-beating in the interim.
The Steelers are 100% a players’ team.
Mike Tomlin is a players’ coach.
Art Rooney II is a players’ owner. Everybody gets paid.
T.J. Watt got paid. Minkah Fitzpatrick got paid. Johnson will get paid. (Johnson’s not a No. 1-level receiver, but might get north of $18 million per season. It would be smarter to flush that money through a woodchipper.)
That management style isn’t wrong. If you win.
But if the Steelers don’t win, they can just say they did. A lot of fanboys would believe it.
Mendenhall says he didn’t fumble.
Claypool says he’s a top-three receiver.
Witherspoon says he’s a top-five cornerback.
Watt should say he’s a Rhodes Scholar. The next day’s headline: “Steelers Star To Study At Oxford.”
The Steelers are kings of fake news, and beneficiary of lowered standards.
Pittsburgh is no longer the City of Champions. It’s the City of Minimal Expectations.
That’s true in some respects. For example, no other receiver in the NFL jumps and falls down on every catch. Some actually run through receptions like you’re supposed to.
Like Mendenhall, Claypool is best known for a mistake: His idiotic, time-wasting first-down celebration that cost the Steelers a play in a failed late-game drive at Minnesota last Dec. 9. The Vikings won 36-28.
Cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon listed himself among the NFL’s top five cornerbacks.
Witherspoon has spent five seasons in the NFL and started less than half his teams’ games.
If Witherspoon covered Claypool, perhaps one would have a chance to live up to his ego. It would more likely be a Mexican standoff of sub-mediocrity.
But that’s how the Steelers are. They haven’t won a playoff game in five seasons, but there’s been no shortage of chest-beating in the interim.
The Steelers are 100% a players’ team.
Mike Tomlin is a players’ coach.
Art Rooney II is a players’ owner. Everybody gets paid.
T.J. Watt got paid. Minkah Fitzpatrick got paid. Johnson will get paid. (Johnson’s not a No. 1-level receiver, but might get north of $18 million per season. It would be smarter to flush that money through a woodchipper.)
That management style isn’t wrong. If you win.
But if the Steelers don’t win, they can just say they did. A lot of fanboys would believe it.
Mendenhall says he didn’t fumble.
Claypool says he’s a top-three receiver.
Witherspoon says he’s a top-five cornerback.
Watt should say he’s a Rhodes Scholar. The next day’s headline: “Steelers Star To Study At Oxford.”
The Steelers are kings of fake news, and beneficiary of lowered standards.
Pittsburgh is no longer the City of Champions. It’s the City of Minimal Expectations.
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