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*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** Summer has officially begun, and with it ends the springtime phase of the NFL year. The last of the minicamps for teams around the league ended on Thursday. Thursday also marked the end of the NBA year as the Miami Heat wrapped up…
It’s been written here the success of Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger often comes due to his ability to extend plays well past their normal point of death and find something off-schedule in which to keep chains moving. NFL Films’ Greg Cosell, one of the best analysts alive, has an excellent piece of analysis on Roethlisberger’s…
Starting today football goes underground for about six weeks. The players will continue to prepare for the season, but they will do so individually or in small groups; and privately. Steelers minicamp ended yesterday with an abbreviated (about 15 minutes) session that has come to be known as Hat Day. The team will reassemble on…
*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** For those of you who don’t know, Steelers receivers Emmanuel Sanders and Antonio Brown plead guilty on Monday to charges of littering and were each fined $ 300. BTSC is a PG site, so if you want all the sordid details, you can…
The Houston Texans had the NFL’s best coached defense in 2011. An arbitrary statement that will likely be argued – and can be. But there wasn’t a challenge they didn’t rise to accept, especially when they went through a period of time in which they couldn’t get a quarterback to don a Texans helmet and…
The Baltimore Ravens were the 2011 AFC North Champions. They came close to representing the AFC in the Super Bowl. These facts are, as they say, undisputed. in the NFL, you’re either growing or you’re dying. I’m not suggesting Baltimore is a bad team or they’re not capable of winning 10+ games again, but look…
*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** OTAs ended for the 2012 pre-season on Thursday. What remains is next week’s mandatory minicamp and then, for those of us who are excited and anxious for the start of the season, a long, difficult dead period lasting about six weeks until the…
*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** The Pittsburgh Steelers ended another week of OTA sessions, which means that fans are one week closer to the start of training camp and the regular season. While, it is virtually impossible to make heads or tails of defensive progress due to the…
I received a few emails since the post yesterday in which I broke down the rushing of the Pittsburgh Steelers running backs by direction and was asked if I could post the stats of each running back by direction and down from 2011. I compiled the stats of just Rashard Mendenhall and Isaac Redman below…
*** Discuss this article and more at our Pittsburgh Steelers forum *** I’m feeling pretty good about doing the Check Down this week. With the start of OTAs there are plenty of interesting stories to highlight. For many of the past several weeks I’ve been feeling like someone tasked with serving a banquet armed only…