Bruce Arians has the distinction of being the only Steeler I ever hated. As Luck would have his retirement just validates my hatred of BA & his QB breaker system

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I can’t argue with that. Hodges for the Redman.

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Hodges has run away with the Redman award. You calling him 2 years away from being a starter confirms that.

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It is ironic that you mention Moore not caring if his name got into the paper because it didn’t. He happened to sign the same day that Ben signed his first 100 million dollar deal, so all he got in the Trib and PG was a stub. Fine, I thought something more in depth will come in a day or so.

Nope.

John Harris did something on him during the dead time in June, but that was about it.

Heck, coaches seemed to ignore him, as they turned to Carey Davis when Mendenhall got hurt in Baltimore.

Yet I think Moore ripped off like a 10 yard run on his first carry against Jacksonville the following week…

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Never mind – I found the problem…

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Well said, Bill!

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Diontae Johnson looks like Mr Inconsistency. He has the speed, the moves, and can light up the field. He is both incandescent and inconsistent. His drops – both on passes and kick returns – can and will kill you. He showed all of that last night. His hands remind me a little of that Limas guy. He could be great. Or he could make Yinzers end it all by jumping out their basement windows. Nuff said.

QB we got four. We’re gonna see a lot of Dobbs because either he wins the number two spot (he’s smarter and more athletic than Rudolph, runs a thousand times better, and has a strong arm on deep stuff) or he gets showcased and some team who loses a QB in pre-season will trade a draft choice for him. Is he a better back up than 168-year old Methusaleh McNown? The real worry is can we somehow protect Hodges on the PS or will we begin the season with only two QB’s? TBH, Homer thinks any of the four of them could start in the NFL, although with Hodges that’s maybe two years off.

The defensive secondary, which has been a weakness, looks much, much better, albeit playing much of the time against second string QB’s. That kid Kelly from the Defunct Sandlot League is intriguing. And some of the other guys, like Sutton, seem to have stepped up their game.

The worry here is TE, if something happens to Fragile Vance.

There’s lots more to say, but the Steelers right now are very much a work in progress. We know what the first stringers can do, and Tomlin has had the luxury of watching the rest of the 90 during camp and pre-season games. What we’re seeing now ain’t soup yet, but both Ivan and Homer think this roster is loaded.

It ain’t soup yet, but when it is, it could be quite tasty.

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Agreed about MeMo. Moore was exactly the kind of player that both Chuck Noll and Mike Tomlin have always loved. A simply brilliant guy, both on and off the field. His skill set was good, his versatility was outstanding. He could and would do anything you asked him to do, you could plug him in and be confident he would seldom make a mistake. He was clubhouse gold, and you never had to worry about seeing his name in the paper on a Sunday or Monday morning during the offseason in a story with the words, “according to police reports.*” He gave to the community in the off-season and still does.

In other words, Chuck Noll and Mike Tomlin saw a lot of their younger selves in Mewelde Moore. He was a blue collar guy who worked his butt off, did his job, and didn’t boast or bag. That make him a true Steeler.

* Unless it involved the whole damned Vikings team and a boat.

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That will be interesting to watch, but this could be a chicken-egg type argument. Ben DID force the ball to Brown often. And a lot has been made of the picks he threw when trying to do that. However, Brown also came away with a lot of those passes.

Either way, if anyone had doubts that the Steelers made the right decision, events of the last few weeks should erase those.

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