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Week 3 of the 2018 NFL regular season gets underway tonight as the Cleveland Browns will host the New York Jets in an AFC game. The Browns enter Thursday night with an 0-1-1 record after losing on the road last week to the New Orleans Saints 21-18. The Jets, on the other hand, enter Thursday […]

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James Harrison said a large part of miscommunication in 2017 came from the Pittsburgh Steelers defense playing two different coverages. That problem evidently isn’t solved based on what Keith Butler admitted in speaking with reporters this afternoon. Shown in this week’s Coordinator’s Corner??on Steelers.com,??Butler was asked about comments made by cornerback Mike Hilton, who said […]

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While the major story coming from Sunday???s game should have been the Pittsburgh Steelers losing, it instead ended up being the sideline discussion between wide receiver Antonio Brown and offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner. Those on the outside made this into a pretty big deal, but it wasn???t for either of the participants, both of whom […]

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released their first injury report of Week 3 on Thursday and it includes the names of 10 players on it Not practicing on Thursday for the Buccaneers were cornerback Marcus Williams (hamstring), defensive and Jason Pierre-Paul (knee), and defensive tackle Beau Allen (foot). Pierre-Paul and Allen are both starters. Limited for […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have bow released their Thursday injury report ahead of their Monday night road game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the first official offering of the week includes the names of 7 players on it. Not practicing on Thursday were center Maurkice Pouncey (coaches decision), guard David DeCastro (hand) and tackle Marcus […]

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I’m not sure how much simpler it can get but the Pittsburgh Steelers are reportedly watering things down Monday Night when they take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. According to this report/tweet from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Haden says the defense will take a more simplified approach. Steelers corner Joe Haden hinted the Steelers are simplifying […]

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown met the media on Thursday and below is a partial transcript of the questions he was asked along with the answers he gave so that you can have the full context. Brown: “I am passionate about winning.” pic.twitter.com/kYMCPAveet ??? Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) September 20, 2018 RE: Why weren’t you […]

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Welcome back to the mailbag. Whew, what a week. Lot to talk about, lot on your mind, I’m sure. We’ll be here the next hour, like usual. To your questions! Michael James:??Hey Alex! How much patience with our coaches do you still have at this point? I can only speak for myself, but I’m fed […]

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown had yet another interesting session with the media on Thursday and it included him answering questions related to his Monday absence, the discipline he received from head coach Mike Tomlin, his actions on the sideline and on the field during Sunday’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in addition […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play each other Monday night and while the first official Week 3 injury report for both teams won’t be released until Thursday afternoon, it’s sounding like both teams might just get previously injured starting cornerbacks back for the contest. Buccaneers cornerback Brent Grimes, who missed the first […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have had a difficult time connecting on deep passes, and producing explosive plays through the air, over the course of the first two weeks of the regular season. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger???s accuracy on the deep pass has been lacking. A surprising producer of explosive plays has suddenly been fourth-year tight end Jesse […]

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The running game on Sunday was, uh, not good. And the reason for that was pretty simple: the run blocking. The Pittsburgh Steelers didn???t run the ball very much, but when they did, there was usually at least one key error or failure of execution that resulted in an unsuccessful play. James Conner carried the […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers may have not dressed Justin Hunter for Sunday???s game against the Kansas City Chiefs, but that doesn???t mean they limited themselves to using just four wide receivers. In the season opener, Darrius Heyward-Bey played just one snap, used in the victory formation to close out the first half. In their last game, […]

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Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, paper boy, evening T.V. Predictability is great if you’re John Stamos on??Full House. It’s a lot worse if you’re Keith Butler coaching this Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense. I know we just wrote about the issues they’ve had in being predictable. Unfortunately, they weren’t isolated incidents. While the players had their […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers logged 84 snaps on offense against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. And second-year running back James Conner played 74 of them. Just in the off chance that you don???t have a calculator on you, that is 88 percent of the team???s offensive snaps. That is Le???Veon Bell-level workload, something that offensive […]

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Even if you concede the NFL is throwing the yellow flag more often this year, the Pittsburgh Steelers are getting penalized more than anyone else through the first two weeks. And it’s not even close. The Steelers lead the NFL with 24 total penalties, six more than the second-place team. They have??16 more??than the league-best […]

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The NFL has played 32 games during the regular season so far, through two weeks of play. And, strikingly, football still pretty much looks the same that it did the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that, and on and on, through every rule change that we constantly see get […]

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I know, I know. You thought this page would be blank, didn’t you? But for real, despite how tough it was to see the Pittsburgh Steelers give up 42 points and fall to 0-1-1 on the season, there are still some positives to take away from it.??Even??on the defense. So as doom and gloom as […]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers defense is optimistic heading into the team???s next game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, according to captain Cameron Heyward, and for one very simple reason: it can???t get any worse than what they showed on Sunday after giving up six touchdowns to Patrick Mahomes as a young starter. He was asked about […]

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Antonio Brown is finally going to speak for himself a little bit later today, but up until now, it has been his teammates and coaches who have been speaking for the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver since Sunday following the team???s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Brown had just 67 yards in the game. First […]

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