New Fan

I’m new to blogging so please bear with me. I just joined to get some good insight from true Steeler fans. Im very happy to go int our bye week 4 &1 record. Big Ben could really use the rest . Does anyone think The Steelers may look to sign any offensive lineman? I feel that we have more wholes than swiss cheese and Big Ben may not last the season if it doesn’t improve

It will come down to how good our defense is if we are going to contend with the top teams. However I feel getting Fast Willie back will give our offense great chance to improve on some bigtime plays with his break away speed. Get back "FAST WILLIE " we need your help.

Our hopes lie in whether or not Tomlin, Arians and Zierlein can wring improvement out of what we have. I think physically, our guys are fine. They are big and strong. The improvements for the players need to be in technique and awareness. The coaches are responsible for these guys getting the support they need for this improvement. Once the coaches are aware of whatever strengths and weaknesses a particular unit has, they need to gameplan accordingly. Just because we have sucked at times does not mean we have to continue to do so. That is why we have coaches…..make better players.

I think we really need to find another OL, but not a starter. We’re not going to find a mid-season pickup or trade that will improve our line. However, we’re very thin along the interior with Simmons going down and trading Mahan. I thought (and said) trading Mahan for a 7th rounder was a poor, depth-killing decision, and I say the same thing now. Say what you will about him, but he would have been a damn fine #7 or #8 lineman that could cover all the interior spots. Now if Hartwig happened to go down, we’d have to seriously shuffle the line.

We haven’t added anyone to replace Simmons, so our reserves are Starks, who we KNOW won’t ever see the field, Essex, who is okay at LT and waaaay too weak to play anything else, and Hills, who is a non-promising weak/slow/green red-shirt rookie. I think we need to pick up an older vet who’s out of work – the Orpheus Roye of the interior OL – as a 3 position backup. If Bentley would be willing to play that role, I’d be all for it. I’m sure robert ethan would disagree, but I doubt we can count on Doug Legursky for anything, and I can’t think of anyone else that was even in training camp with us that we could get. I’m sure there are a few guys that have some starting experience like Matt Flynn or Bentley that may be looking for work and could fill in for us as needed.

If you think business is slow now. . . wait until you get hooked on this!!!

As far as picking up OL help, I think once the RBs get healthy they’ll probably drop back on someone like Dookie and pickup a reserve, but its not like the Steelers/Rooneys to go out midseason and go big on a trade with a team like OAK or STL. Like some others said, the Steelers have to think they can still make due with what they got in Stapleton, Colon, Starks if needed, etc.

Enjoy the site. . . always like to see out of towners (like myself now, unfortunately) keeping up with Burgh talk on here.