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It felt good to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers remind the Cleveland Browns who was still the superior team in the division. Now that the highly emotional contest between those two is finished, the Steelers will need to keep the same intensity as they head to the desert for a showdown with the Arizona Cardinals. This […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers will play the??Arizona Cardinals??Sunday afternoon on the road and if you???re like me, you???re counting down the hours until the game begins. As usual, I will attempt to project the seven inactives for every Steelers game of the 2019 season and below is my best guess as to which seven players won???t […]

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Since Stephon Tuitt???s injury, Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle Javon Hargrave has been consistently averaging about two thirds of the team???s snaps per game. In the six games since, he has put up 31 tackles, five for a loss, with two sacks, a forced fumble, and two quarterback hits. Playing in a contract year, Hargrave understands […]

The post Javon Hargrave: ‘I Love Getting More Reps And Just Being Out There With The Guys’ appeared first on Steelers Depot.

Playing it safe does not always have to bring along a negative connotation but in the NFL and especially throughout the winter months, the best teams cannot be afraid to push the envelope. That is why it was very fitting that on the first day of December, the Pittsburgh Steelers??? offense decided to push the […]

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The??Pittsburgh Steelers??can get to three games over .500 Sunday afternoon should they beat the??Arizona Cardinals??on the road and in the process they would definitely prevent the Baltimore Ravens from clinching the AFC North in Week 14. The Steelers enter Sunday of Week 14 still as the No. 6 seed in the AFC and they’ll likely […]

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Just as it looked as though the season was lost with the injury to Ben Roethlisberger, it???s very possible that Minkah Fitzpatrick saved it. Since the Pittsburgh Steelers acquired the 2018 first-round safety from the Miami Dolphins, the defense has played at an entirely different level, and it has been the driving force to their […]

The post Mike Hilton: Minkah Fitzpatrick Has ‘Elevated Us Defensively, Our Mentality’ appeared first on Steelers Depot.

One of the basic principles for roster construction for the Pittsburgh Steelers is that you have to carry at least six defensive linemen, even if you only dress five on Sundays. With three defensive linemen on the Reserve/Injured List this season, however, this principle was tested and tossed aside, the team now relying upon just […]

The post Javon Hargrave On Rookie Buggs: ‘Isaiah’s Gonna Be Good’ appeared first on Steelers Depot.

The Pittsburgh Steelers defense is playing at a level that we haven???t seen from them in years. Not only do they lead the league in takeaways with 30 in 12 games, they are on pace to once again break their own franchise record for sacks, which they just broke two years ago. Especially since the […]

The post T.J. Watt ‘Not Surprised’ By High Level Of Play From Defense appeared first on Steelers Depot.

Splash plays.?? Every team wants them but how do they happen? This article is going to look at the upcoming defense of the upcoming opponent focusing on the three biggest plays they allowed the previous week. It???ll take a look at the whole play including details such as personnel, formations, blocking schemes and route combinations. […]

The post Beating The Cardinals: Three Plays To Attack Their Defense appeared first on Steelers Depot.

The offseason is inevitably a period of projection and speculation, which makes it the ideal time to ponder the hypotheticals that the Pittsburgh Steelers will face over the course of the next year, whether it is addressing free agency, the draft, performance on the field, or some more ephemeral topic. That is what I will […]

The post Buy Or Sell: Steelers Will Reach The Postseason – As 5th Seed appeared first on Steelers Depot.

As we will do every week to get you ready for the upcoming game, our X Factor of the week. Sometimes it???s a player, unit, concept, or scheme. The key area to watch in Sunday???s game against the Arizona Cardinals.?? X Factor: Open Field Tackling Want to hold the Cardinals’ offense in check? Shut down […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers already found four representatives to the NFL 100 All-Time Team. They saw the addition of two more of their own last night when the secondary was announced, as both Hall of Fame cornerbacks Mel Blount and Rod Woodson were named. Safeties Troy Polamalu and Donnie Shell, however, were not, despite being named […]

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Another video this week, something we’ll try to do each Saturday from now throughout the rest of the season. Devin Bush has had a strong rookie year but he, of course, isn’t without flaws. In today’s breakdown, we check out two issues with his run fits and run defense from Sunday’s win over the Cleveland […]

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Do you remember Sean Davis? It seems that, to no great surprise, mans Pittsburgh Steelers fans have entirely forgotten about him, but that was the byproduct of acquiring an effective, impact safety via in-season trade who slid directly into the starting lineup, took over his role, and did far more with it than he ever […]

The post Sean Davis: ‘That’d Be Clutch If I Could Come Back And Add’ To Defensive Efforts appeared first on Steelers Depot.

Has it been too long since you???ve heard about Antonio Brown? Then boy is today your lucky day. Brown, who played for nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and then one game for the New England Patriots via the Oakland Raiders, has lost quite a bit, aside from his sanity, over the course of the […]

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Now that training camp is underway, and the roster for the offseason is close to finalized???though always fluid???it???s time to take stock of where the??Pittsburgh Steelers??stand. Specifically where Steelers players stand individually based on what we have seen happen over the course of the past few months. A stock evaluation can take a couple of […]

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We are now several weeks removed from the Pittsburgh Steelers??? road loss to the Cleveland Browns, which took place in the earlier portions of November. They have won both of their games played since then, including a home rematch against the Browns, and are looking to make it six straight, number three coming up tomorrow […]

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Tomorrow???s matchup will pit rookie starter against rookie starter at the quarterback position. For the home-team Arizona Cardinals, it will be first-overall pick Kyler Murray, who has been a full-time starter since the word go. The Pittsburgh Steelers will be fielding Devlin Hodges, an undrafted rookie, unsigned after the draft, who failed to make the […]

The post Cardinals HC Kliff Kingsbury Praised Devlin Hodges: ‘He Has Great Poise’ appeared first on Steelers Depot.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are now into the regular season, in which they entered with big aspirations, in spite of a tumultuous start to the offseason. Significant players were lost via trade and free agency, players who have helped shape the course of the franchise in recent years. We even now sit here without Ben Roethlisberger […]

The post 2019 South Side Questions: Will Jaylen Samuels Put Together Back-To-Back Solid Games? appeared first on Steelers Depot.

Happy Friday to yinz and hope everyone is ready for a great weekend. Not much is going on with me except for getting ready to watch a lot of football this weekend. The college championship games should be great and then the Pittsburgh Steelers will play the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Health-wise I went backwards […]

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