Steelers/NFL category, Page 387
Tim Benz: A link between the Rooney Rule and the NFL Draft is bad. What it says about the league is worse.
The NFL’s plan to expand the Rooney Rule is bad. The commentary the league is making about itself for even considering such a proposal is even worse. The NFL has only four minority head coaches (Mike Tomlin, Steelers; Brian Flores, Miami Dolphins; Anthony Lynn, Los Angeles Chargers; and Ron Rivera,...
NFL making changes to expand Rooney RuleVideo
The NFL is amending the Rooney Rule to require more interviews of minority candidates for head coaching and coordinator positions, two people familiar with the decision told the Associated Press. Reacting to a lack of diversity progress in hirings for those jobs, the league will require teams to interview at...
Forbes: Steelers to lose more than $156 million in stadium revenue if there are no fansVideo
As sports leagues around the world stage events without fans, the clock is ticking on the scheduled start of the NFL’s 2020 season. And if the coronavirus pandemic dictates empty stadiums in the fall, that would put a significant dent in team revenues. According to Forbes.com, the NFL would lose...
Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger throws passes to teammates, trims beard
The beard isn’t exactly sheared, but it is neatly trimmed. Before undergoing right elbow surgery in September, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said he wouldn’t cut his hair or shave until he was able to throw a “legit NFL pass” to one of his teammates. That time apparently occurred over...
Unfiltered: Tim Benz, Mark Madden break down James Harrison’s ‘envelope’ story, NFL debacles, NHL’s futureVideo
It’s amazing what a comment about an envelope can cause. In this week’s “Madden & Benz Unfiltered”, Tim Benz and Mark Madden discuss former Steelers linebacker James Harrison’s comments about receiving an envelope after a hit on Browns receiver Mohammed Massaquoi in 2010. The guys also get into whether it...
Mark Madden on JuJu Smith-Schuster: ‘He wasn’t unmotivated, he was unfocused’
Some sports are starting to play without fans. Golf. NASCAR. Soccer. How can the four major North American sports — and the NCAA — learn from what they are seeing so far? That’s how Mark Madden and I start off this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast. Mark has been watching the...
Tim Benz: The ‘Dumb, Dumber, Dumberest’ of James Harrison’s envelope story
Back in a different lifetime — a fuzzy, faded memory known as 2014 — I used to host “The X Morning Show” on 105.9 The X. My cohost/producer, Bob McLaughlin, and I used to produce a weekly bit called “Dumb, Dumber, Dumberest.” It was essentially a collection of the dumbest...
Rookie RB Anthony McFarland’s size not a deterrent in Steelers’ plans for him
The NFL’s leading rusher last year in the regular season and postseason stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 247 pounds. The NFL often is a copycat league, but the incoming class of rookie running backs has little resemblance to the Tennessee Titans’ Derrick Henry. Of the 16 running backs taken in last...
Mark Madden: Time for Steelers to cut ties with James Harrison
James Harrison went too far…again. He threw Mike Tomlin and the Steelers logo under the bus…again. It’s time for the Steelers to excommunicate Harrison. Make him persona non grata. Harrison should never again be welcome at Heinz Field. When Harrison said Tomlin “handed me an envelope” after Harrison got fined...
Steelers to join other NFL clubs in reopening team facilities Tuesday
With NFL commissioner Roger Goodell giving teams permission to reopen their facilities Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Steelers plan to take advantage. “We will begin the process of opening our facilities on Tuesday, May 19, with a limited number of staff being permitted in our buildings,” Steelers spokesman Burt Lauten said in...
NFL teams can begin opening facilities Tuesday if certain conditions are metVideo
NFL teams can begin reopening their facilities Tuesday if state and local governments allow it. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Friday by commissioner Roger Goodell and obtained by the Associated Press, he stressed the clubs must be “in compliance with any additional public health requirements in their...
Left to improvise, Steelers’ Zach Banner shows off workout with laundry detergentVideo
With NFL team facilities deemed off-limits to players, rookies and veterans alike are left to improvise in an effort to stay in shape and keep their bodies prepared for the rigors of professional football. For Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner, his alternate weightlifting regimen involves laundry detergent. In an...
Early lines say Steelers favored in 10 games, underdogs in 6; Ravens favored in all 16
Now that the NFL scheduled is set, the game-by-game betting lines are out. By the odds, the Pittsburgh Steelers are projected to go 10-6. The Steelers are favored in 10 of their 16 scheduled games in 2020, according to BetOnline.ag. The Steelers are underdogs in road games at the Tennessee...
Former Steelers LB James Harrison: Mike Tomlin ‘never paid me’ to hurt another player
James Harrison still isn’t saying what was in the envelope he alleges Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin gave him in 2010 after receiving a $75,000 fine. But the former linebacker said Friday the contents were not a reward for knocking Cleveland Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi from the game a...
Fear the turtle: Maryland developing strong pipeline to Steelers
There is no truth to the rumor the Great Allegheny Passage biking and hiking trail that runs southeast from Pittsburgh was forged by a convoy of future Steelers. But in recent years, it seems as if it could have been. The Steelers have taken three University of Maryland players over...
What fantasy sports players expect out of Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger, 82-game MLB season
Part of the reason many folks have been missing sports so much is the loss of fantasy sports, too. So if Major League Baseball comes back soon — if the players and owners ever get their acts together — that means fantasy baseball can come back, as well. Now what?...
First Call: James Harrison has much more to say about Steelers beyond ‘the envelope’
In Friday’s “First Call” we look at everything James Harrison said in that interview with Willie Colon besides the inferred payment for his hit on Mohamed Massaquoi. Also, that story isn’t sitting well with Saints coach Sean Payton. Fake crowd noise on NFL broadcasts? And another “Lemieux” has No. 66....
Payment from Mike Tomlin? ‘Absolutely not. Never happened,’ claims James Harrison’s agent
If James Harrison received an envelope from coach Mike Tomlin to supposedly cover a fine that the former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker received in 2010, it’s news to his agent. “Absolutely not. Never happened,” Bill Parise told the Tribune-Review on Thursday. “I would have known that. It didn’t happen.” Harrison was...
Mike Tomlin: ‘No bumps in the road’ for Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger
Mike Tomlin provided a brief update Thursday on the status of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his recovery from right elbow surgery in September. “He’s doing great thus far,” Tomlin said on a 15-minute conference call with fans. “He’s in great physical condition. Rehabilitation in regards to the injury...
Mike Tomlin ready for James Conner to resume ‘featured runner’ role in 2020Video
Mike Tomlin’s preference to have a workhorse runner in the Pittsburgh Steelers backfield was tested last year because of injuries to starter James Conner. As he prepares for his 14th season as coach, Tomlin sounds like he’s ready to stick with his tried-and-true approach — with Conner again leading the...
Inside linebacker help for Steelers will come from within, says GM Kevin Colbert
In the two months since the Pittsburgh Steelers released Mark Barron, the organization has done little in the way of adding candidates to replace him at inside linebacker. The position was ignored in free agency and in the recruitment of former XFL players. It wasn’t addressed in the NFL Draft,...
NBC to highlight ‘Immaculate Reception’ during airing of NFL’s greatest plays
Voted the greatest play in NFL history, “The Immaculate Reception” will get some screen time this weekend on NBC. As part of the network’s “NFL 100: Greatest” series, the immaculate catch made by Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris in a 1972 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders will be...
Steelers announce dates, times for preseason games
The NFL’s two all-time leading passers are scheduled to be at Heinz Field in August. Not that they are expected to play, though — if the games are played at all. The Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday announced the dates and times for their full preseason schedule. The two annual home...
First Call: Ranking all 10 of Steelers first round picks of 2010s
NFL.com posted this ranking of the No. 1 overall picks in the draft from 2010-19. That’s what you do when you are in the midst of a coronavirus shutdown and you have no content to speak of. Hey, I’m not hatin’. I’m praising! Good job, Ali Bhanpuri. The check is...
U mad, bro? Readers fume over coverage of Ben Roethlisberger, Barry Bonds, NHL return
This week’s “U mad, bro?” has a little of everything. Angry hockey fans. Miffed Barry Bonds defenders. Football historians in a snit. Even a good ol’ fashioned case of mistaken identity. “B Byrnes” goes hard after Fox’s Jay Glazer for his shot at Ben Roethlisberger’s history of offseason fitness. Or...
