Can We Get A COMON?
By Joe Smeltzer Mel Kiper says the Steelers’ 2021 draft class was mediocre. Tom in Bethel Park says it was great. Tom’s best friend, Ted, says it stunk, and the two have been arguing about it over cold suds for the past week. As a team with many areas of need, it would have been impossible for Pittsburgh to address
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By Donny Chedrick Don’t get confused here. This isn’t me saying the Steelers should draft a particular player. I’m just suggesting why his name will be brought up by the time the Steelers find themselves on the clock at No. 24 during the 2021 NFL Draft in just about a month. The player in question is Najee Harris. Alabama’s latest
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By Joe Smeltzer There won’t be many one-year, $8 million deals that will get the reaction that this one does. The words “polarizing” and “JuJu Smith-Schuster” go together like milk and cookies, so it’s appropriate that his surprising new contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers has a lot of people talking, with many spewing contrasting opinions. Is Smith-Schuster loyal for reportedly
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By Joe Smeltzer Last winter, we longed for the day we’d see Ben Roethlisberger play football again. Last fall, we smiled when that day came, and for three months after that, we thanked all things good that Big Ben was back. But by the end of 2020, we started to wonder if the gunslinger could still sling. In the first
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By Joe Smeltzer Knock it off. Cut it out. That’s enough. Wake up. It’s not going to happen, and the reasons couldn’t be more obvious if they were written on baseball, Aroldis Chapman threw it 100 MPH and hit you in the face with it. JJ Watt isn’t going to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. That statement should be as obvious
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By Joe Smeltzer “I want to send a message. A message to everyone who ever made fun of Cleveland. A message to anyone who ever told a Cleveland joke or laughed at a Cleveland joke. You can now officially shut up! – Drew Carey, Sept. 12, 1999 It took 21 years, but Carey is finally right. The Steelers couldn’t win
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By COMON Network Team Final Score – Cleveland Browns 48 def. Pittsburgh Steelers 37 The start of the 2020 Playoffs couldn’t have been much worse for the Steelers. When the final buzzer sounded, the Steelers were on the wrong end of the decision, and the Browns won their first playoff game since 1995. On the first snap of the game, the
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By Joe Smeltzer It’s always been a rivalry, I suppose. Not in the same way that Athens and Sparta were rivals, or the Montagues and the Capulets were rivals. No, Steelers-Browns games over the past 30 years have usually borne a more striking resemblance to what a boxing match between Mike Tyson and Dolly Parton would look like, or a
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By COMON Network Team Final Score – Cleveland Browns (11-5) 24 def. Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4) 22 The Pittsburgh Steelers traveled to Cleveland sans Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Heyward, TJ Watt, Chris Boswell, Terrell Edmunds and Maurkice Pouncey, and also were without the services of Joe Haden due to a COVID situation that came about Saturday. At the end, a failed two-point conversion
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By Joe Smeltzer Don’t lie to yourself. You know why you care about the Steelers’ last regular season game, and it has nothing to do with the Steelers. A win probably won’t make a seventh Super Bowl ring any more likely, so don’t pretend that it would. Unless Mason Rudolph throws for about 400 yards or launches a football into
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