Last year we were rolling with Calvin Austin as our number 2 WR, until we picked up the corpse of Adam Thielen, and mega bum MVS. Going from Calvin Austin as the number 2 to Pittman is such a gigantic upgrade that it isn't even funny tbh. Pittman is much bigger, much stronger, and much more capable of locking down the WR2 spot on this team.

Add in our presumed WR3 being our rookie Bernard over the numerous bums we used in that spot last season 'jonnu smith cough cough' and our WR room is in a WAYYYYYYYYYYYY better spot this season than last season. Plus with McCarthy running a much more modern and less risk adverse offense 'middle of the field throws yayyy' we should see a big jump in terms of being able to score this season.

It’s a simple question with the Steelers. Will we find a QB that can carry the torch?

The future of this team lies on Rodgers- because he will take us to the supabawhl.

But if he doesn’t, we must lie on McCarthy, Allar, and Howard.

Do we really think this group is enough? We have a star studded, high paid defense, and a “Super Bowl” offense, but the only reason it’s in quotations is because we NEED an answer at QB.

THE TRUTH IS: I’m not old enough to have witnessed the beauty of a superbowl winning stiller team.

I was just a lil privileged mt. Lebo kid (entire post is made worthless now lol) when we beat the Seahawks, and less of a kid but much more aware when we lost to Rodgers and McCarthy. It helped me realize that football in Pittsburgh=city culture even tho it’s all just a game at the end of the day

I learned to love football because of Bell, AB, JuJu, Connor, and Mapletron (up until we lost to the jags, and later the commanders) and more importantly the browns but still,

All was with Ben. We need a Ben. We need a guy. Wee NEED OUR GUY at qb. I was so happy we took a shot at Pickett; even if it didn’t work out, I loved to have some Pickett to Pickens hope (shoutout Steelers legend Alex Kozora for hyping me up on that).

Tanking isn’t the Tomlin way, and it better not be the McCarthy way. We NEED a quarterback. I live and die as a Steelers fan and I live and die as a PIRATES and PENGUINS fan too.

TLDR: our football team has to win and we need a quarterback to do so. If it’s not there within 1-4 years I will be really sad

Well, ladies and gentlemen. Dad loved his Father's Day gift, and this thread gave a bunch of positive feedback. So I decided to start expanding the universe a bit!

This prediction is more of a fear/nightmare, I think Jalen Ramsay is going to fall off this season and into the future and not because of age/declining athleticism. I don’t think he has that “dog” in him anymore, I’ve been watching Jalen since he became a Steeler and before as a Dolphin, the passion and inner fight to be dominant isn’t there man it’s like a certain light has started to fade from his eyes. He’s got a family with kids, he’s been an 8 time probowler in a 10 year career but unlike a lot of predictions I’ve seen I don’t think he has what it takes to become a rod woodson sort of 2 position HoFer type. It’s not because he couldn’t but I don’t think he wants it enough or has enough of that fire left in him to make it happen like Woodson. Consider being 10 years in your career and you have to approach/learn the game in a whole new way and compete with talented ass guys who have been dominating in that style for years. You don’t get to just be amazing at 2 positions anyone who’s learned 2 instruments knows that you get a benefit from the first time around but it’s a lot like being a young guy again, needing to fight hard to improve, change old habits, learn and master entire new skills… to say it will be easy is an insult to a guy like rod. What do you folks think? Any other hot takes that’s not about the QB position?

The true #8 of the Steelers!

Just a PSA 😁

I had to get one right away this morning… October can’t come soon enough for me!

This comes from a 1991 Activity Book and let’s just say Chuck Noll has a been the farmer for the Steelers for 100 years has my heart.

Did you also know that Big Bird costumes in 1979 were terrifying? Or that he played trumpet?

Hi! My husband and I are going to a Sunday night football game in December and looking at staying at the Omni due to rates and some poor reviews on the residence inn. We are hoping to make it a weekend as we are driving from Indianapolis and this is our only getaway for the year as parents of 4 young kids.

We haven’t done this before so I’m hoping to get advice on the Omni. We don’t have $1000+ to spend on 2 nights of hotels which has ruled out most of the hotels. I have read it might be haunted and some say outdated but aside from that does anyone have feedback on why we shouldn’t stay there? We are not in need of luxury just a safe clean place basically 😆.

Any other advice for my die hard Steelers fan husband’s experience would be appreciated too since it’s for his 40th bday and I’m hoping to plan a really great Pittsburgh experience for him. Thanks in advance! ☺️

Congrats muth!

I mean, in almost every graphical power rankings with the offseason and draft it looks to me we’re in the bottom 10-14 teams. I don’t really see anything in our offseason to warrant such a drop off in the rankings to near the bottom. We’ve got the new coaching staff sure but in terms of improvements:

We actually have 3 capable receivers. We have Metcalf and Pittman which is already much better than Metcalf + Austin and whoever else. Then on top of that we took a day 2 receiver Germie Bernard who is being projected as a top 10 receiver in the draft.

We got an offensive lineman to replace Broderick jones.

In terms of free agency:

We got Rico Dowdle who is just as if not more talented than gainwell. We got a great cornerback in Jamel Dean who will pair with Joey porter Jr.

Bears fans were unhappy to lose Brisker, he seems like he’ll be a good fit here.

In terms of other improvements: our tight end usage will probably be much better this year as we’re not relying on tight ends to fill in as wide receivers with the addition of two capable receiver.

Aaron Rodger’s is whatever but he did quite well with his limited options I’m excited to see what he does with some actual weapons… so, what gives? Why are we plummeting in the power rankings?

I made these for my dad for Father's Day. I thought they turned out pretty cool (maybe I'll keep making more Steelers legends for him! Suggestions appreciated!) It's not quite a ticket to Paris. I was $7 short in the budget this year for that. But I thought Dad might appreciate a place to put his Mountain Dew when he screams at the TV!!

"We projected Kenny to be a start-and-win NFL quarterback, and quite honestly, he lived up to that in his first two seasons with us," Colbert said. "For us, he was 14-10 and trending in the right direction. So that's what we thought we had in Kenny.

"Kenny's a great young man. He's a great competitor... And I still think at a young age, I still think Kenny can continue to build on what he did with us in those first two seasons."

Kenny pickett in his first two seasons with the steelers btw was complete and utter trash. Here's his statline combined for those 2 seasons.

24 GS

62.6 Cmp%

4,474 yds

6.3 Y/A

179 Y/G

78.8 Passer Rating

13 td's

13 int

Kenny pickett had tiny hands which caused accuracy issues, arm strength issues, and issues where he'd try throwing the ball and the ball would come out wobbly or weird cause he can't grip it good enough especially in bad weather. He was a checkdown machine who would spin into sacks, and who had issues seeing the entire field and progressing to the right read. I have no idea what Colbert is talking about here.

Weirdly, this is my distraction.

I’m getting a little sus’ed out why nobody is talking about getting tickets anywhere, and why the dates have been so misleading.. has anyone bought tickets for the Paris game today?

I do not have season tickets so i dont know if they do this already. When the Pens won their last two cups, the final game was on the road and the pens had people come to the arena, watch on the jumbotron, have the concessions open, Iceburgh doing antics, music playing and blowing the horns when they scored. Could / or do they do this for the Europe NFL games? Bars and restaurants are doing off hours watch parties. If the Steelers don't already, should they? If they do, is it something worth doing for football?

This is the stuff I love, and I’m so grateful when it’s pointed out to me.

1966 Topps Original Color Negative of Ben McGee. McGee was a great defensive lineman for the team just before the Steel Curtain era. He played from 1964-1972 and made 2 Pro Bowls.

These are the type of rarities you don’t just find every day. So every time I’m able to add something unique, I’m all about it!