Defining the NFL “end” and “beginning” today is difficult, but as Behind the Steel Curtain Editor Neal Coolong observes, the league’s annual scouting combine signals the beginning of the 2014 cycle. So as the Pittsburgh Steelers pivot into full 2014 off season mode, its only appropriate to pivot back and take one last look at […]
Unlike his predecessor Tom Donahoe, Kevin Colbert has been more than willing to lay out the welcome mat to departed free agents if the economics and football need present itself. Thus it was with Plaxico Burress. Capsule Profile of Plaxico Burress with the Steelers If the Steelers let the press and the fans dictate their […]
LaMarr Woodley is in the middle of a six year contract extension he signed in 2011, a deal that made him the highest paid player in Steelers history at the time. Yet since signing that deal, Woodley has seen injuries ruin his 2011, 2012, and 2013 seasons. That, plus the emergence of Jason Worilds and […]
In the late 1990’s something happened in Pittsburgh that had not occurred since Chuck Noll agonized over whether not to start Mark Malone or not to start David Woodley. Surely you remember that, right? Neither do I. At least not too much. Such “quarterback controversies” obviously missed the sports pages during adolescence which was spent […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers opened training camp as a team looking to fulfill a host of needs and the press has done its best to keep Steelers Nation up to speed covering a wide range of topics, giving the Watch Tower ample subjects on which to shine its light. Renegade! BTSC On-Line Pre Season Magazine Subdues […]
It is far, far too early for Steelers Nation to begin panicking, but the injuries the Steelers have suffered thus far in training camp reveal just how little margin for error the Steelers have left themselves in 2013. In wrapping up the Steelers 2013 off season, Steel Curtain Rising looked back at the gloom and […]
It is fitting that the Pittsburgh Steelers still hold training camp at a college, because this franchise needs to concentrate on the 3 R’s while at St. Vincents. Of course the 3 R’s in question are not reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic but Retool, Recalibrate, and Refocus. While each of the Steelers “3 R’s” represents an […]
Charlie Batch came to the Steelers as a cap casualty in late in the 2002 off season. Detroit had decided they no longer needed his services, and Kevin Colbert, who had a hand in drafting Batch, leaped at the chance to add serious depth at quarterback. The expectation was that Batch’s relationship with the Steelers would […]
Unrestricted free agent Ryan Mundy entered the NFL as the 6th round pick in the Steelers now maligned 2008 draft class. Shortly before the season started Mundy was an injured-waived but returned via the practice squad in November. Mundy had a strong training camp in 2009, played well in preseason and looked good on special […]
Three summers ago, Isaac Redman entered Steelers training camp St. Vincents as an after thought. Redman left Latrobe as one of Steeler’s Nation’s cult heroes. To fully grasp of the enormity of that feat, consider the depth chart he was up against: Willie Parker author of the longest run from scrimmage in Super Bowl history […]
