why mendenhall....why

by steelersfan4life on Sep 26, 2008 1:56 PM EDT Comment 28 comments

I don't know how many of you have seen this so I thought I'd post it. Apparently Mendehall sent a text message to Ray Rice saying he was going to have a big game and Rice passed this information on to his defense. Why in your first NFL start would you go out of your way to piss off the opposing defense which just happens to be one of the best in the league? I was really looking forward to seeing what Mendenhall could do in this game (which I will be attending) but now I'm worried he just gave them that much more incentive. However part of me doesn't mind the confidence, lets just hope the rookie knows how to back it up. Anyways heres the link to the story....

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3610947

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GO GET 'UM

Man this is the best thing I have heard in a long time from the STEELERS camp…

Personally i think he should have sent the message to “KNIFE MASTER” Ray Lewis, like I said earlier in one of the other posts..

WATCH OUT RAY LEWIS, this is a train coming at u,, its like a young JEROME B, running at an old man in a walker..

Its about time someone on the O started talking like old JOEY did on D prior to every weeks game. , He is no Anthony Smith(big mouth no way to back it up), run him behind Big K and Ray and Bart will get continually “STEAM ROLLED”..

Time for the 21 week streak to end!!!

GO STEELERS!!!

by BigDaddyTat2boy on Sep 26, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

don't get to excited...

Delicious is good….but have you seen ever Ray Lewis get manhandled by a rookie???
Honestly, i would absolutely love to see Ray Lewis get jacked up, and to see Hines jack up Bart Scott again. But i dont see Delicious runnin’ over a linebacker in a long while, especially Ray Lewis.

by PsycoSalameh on Sep 28, 2008 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no problem with the extra incentive. Go ahead and get the ravens D pissed at you. I just expect him to bring his A-game now, and he better.

by steelguy99 on Sep 26, 2008 2:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ugh

Let the yapping begin.

by Blitzburgh on Sep 26, 2008 2:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So basically Ray Rice is an asshole

This kind of crap always annoys me. Why don’t coaches just make up stuff about a player if a joke like this riles them up. I’m glad Mendy has such good friends he can joke around with.

charity standing orders

by BadMaafala on Sep 26, 2008 2:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i don't think

this kind of stuff really riles players up. Ravens and Steelers already hate each other enough. Doesn’t matter. Any player worth his salt knows how friends talk to each other before they play. Non-story. All it will do is the first time Ray or Scott blows up Mendenhall they’ll say “thought you were going to light us up”, instead of the other trash they would usually talk.

by TheMostViolentTeam on Sep 26, 2008 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe we should come up with the ravens talking points.

“Isn’t that grass sandwich DELICIOUS?”

by steelguy99 on Sep 26, 2008 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m just remembering a certain All-World MVP QB getting in the face of a no name second year FS over a similarly innocuous comment.

charity standing orders

by BadMaafala on Sep 26, 2008 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

slightly different

he guaranteed a win, in the press. you don’t think most these players are friends and aren’t texting each other during the week? Chad Johnson and Ray Lewis are friends and I’ve read before Chad saying he texts Ray during the week talking trash when they play.

by TheMostViolentTeam on Sep 26, 2008 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

not only that

But Anthony Smith kept yapping at Brady as the teams were warming up. He actually went up to Brady to talk smack,..can you believe that? Who the hell is Anthony Smith to even approach Brady let alone talk to him? That kind of garbage is reserved for proven vets like Hampton, A Smith (the good one), and Troy.

by ismail on Sep 26, 2008 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I forgot about that trash talking on the field. I still think the first comment was blown out of proportion. Someone basically asked him if he thought they were going to win and he said, “We’re going to win. Yeah, I can guarantee a win, as long as we come out and do what we got to do. Both sides of the ball are rolling, and if our special teams come through for us, we’ve got a good chance to win.”

“BACKUP SAFETY GUARANTEES VICTORY!!!”

Yeah, I guess.

charity standing orders

by BadMaafala on Sep 26, 2008 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

ever since Joe Namath

the word Guarantee has held a special meaning in the language of sports. That’s just the way it is.

by math_geek on Sep 26, 2008 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

dunno

Guys like Ray Lewis dont let things slide. We’ll be hearing from him I think. And we certainly will hear from him about the comment if they win.

by Blitzburgh on Sep 26, 2008 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

completely agree MVT

It makes for good press during the week but Ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs and Bart Scott will go 100% on every single play no matter what the Steelers say during the week (and visa versa). Once they step on the field, it’s just football. The only difference it’ll make it some extra talk between plays.

Revenge of the Birds

by cgolden on Sep 26, 2008 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

sure

the game wont be affected by this nonsense, it just means we MAY have to hear more of Ray Ray chest thump. Not good.

by Blitzburgh on Sep 26, 2008 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

won't be thumping

much if Mendy can plow over him once in the game, man I can’t wait to see him try!

by TheMostViolentTeam on Sep 26, 2008 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was quite surprised at the low level of Ray Ray chest thumping in the Browns game

although he may have been too busy beating the living tar out of Kellen Winslow.

by math_geek on Sep 26, 2008 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

dude, the whole fricking situation probably went down like this

Mendy texts to Ray Rice – “Dude I’m gonna rip a new one in your teams pathetic old-ass D”

Ray Rice receives text while hanging out with Tavares Gooden and Dawan Landry and says hey, look at Rashard thinking he’s all that. Gooden and Landry laugh and tell Ed Reed about it. Eventually the whole team is joking around about it and Bart Scott mentions it to the press who decide it makes a great story for the “BREAKING DEVELOPMENT IN THE STEELERS RAVENS RIVALRY” that they spent all morning working so hard to come up with.

by math_geek on Sep 26, 2008 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ravens talking points

Ray to Bart, “Did you get the number of that Bus” my ears are still ringing.. Nope, just the white and gold blur as it went by.. I think it had a 3 or 4 in the number..

by BigDaddyTat2boy on Sep 26, 2008 3:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

either way

Now he’s opened his big mouth, he’s gonna have to bring it. I like the confidence, if that ‘s indeed what is was, but something tells me he was just talking shit with his so call buddyy!
He aint even done anything yet and he’s running his mouth and getting the Ravens extra pumped up…havent we learned anything from Anthony Smith last year.
You talk your shit after the smoke clears and the game is over…everybody knows that!

Furthermore…with a name like “Delicious” he shouldnt be saying anything and just looking to come out and run the ball in such a way to make people come up with a more…“manly” nickname for him. LOL
I like the big rook, but "Delicious….is so gay! That name doesnt fit for a Steelers running back!

by Steeler Ric on Sep 26, 2008 4:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He did the same thing with the Giants Antonio Pierce

On the Best Damn Sports show. He likes to talk the talk but now he has to walk the walk.

Here it is: This was pre-draft of course.

To the tune of the classic children's song "This Old Man" (the part with nick nack patty whack)

Big Snack, Silverback, take the Dawg Pound's Bone, the Black and Gold sent the Brownies crying home.

by HighSchoolSteeler on Sep 26, 2008 7:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I like the kid

….I really do. I hadn’t seen that clip before, thanks HSS.

Seems like he has something to prove, and is very determined to do so. (Not a bad base beat either.)

Here’s a clip to get pumped up for Monday Night!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7OiYXlBEZU&feature=related

by herewegosteelers on Sep 26, 2008 7:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It won't make a difference

The text won’t make a difference with this rivalry. I can’t wait to see Mendenhall as the featured back. I really think that he will be ok. Let’s hope Arians lets him carry the rock for at least 20 touches. This is the reason we drafted him. I keep thinking about the recent interview with Dick Hoak, the part where he was talking about over coaching. I got the feeling early on in pre-preseason that Mendenhall was overthinking and didn’t let the game come to him.

by BabushkaPower on Sep 27, 2008 12:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wort case scenario

Well…I don’t have a problem with guys having confidence and saying so. What do people think they’re going to say? “I’m going to get a few carries where you guys are going to either stop me at the line or strip the ball, my OC will give up on me and the run, and we’ll see Ben get driven into the ground all night.” No way, they need to be confident, and you wouldn’t want them not to be. That sort of thinking is for fan-nuts like us.

I don’t buy the whole bulletin board thing for most players. I think there are some out there that thrive on it (Joey did maybe). For most of them I think its just trash talk that goes in one ear and out the other.

Hope all the best for Delicious this Monday. Just hold on to that ball and everything will be ok.

by SCSteeler on Sep 27, 2008 12:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Because he is a GAM

I sick and tired of Grown A Men being of afraid of saying they are going to be successful. If Bmore needs Rashard Mendenhall to fire them up, then they are in trouble. Big ups to Rashard for being willing to feel good about himself. It’s the scared fans who need a pair of balls in their life.

GO GET THEM RASHARD – WILLIE IS STARTING TO BREAKDOWN, JUST AS EVERY OTHER RUNNING BACK DOES WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF CARRIES.

by 72Steeler on Sep 27, 2008 11:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

+a million

great post

"If you hit .440 with 20 bombs, you don't have to do s---. You don't have to bring a glove to practice, just hit and leave whenever you want. You can bring a 40 and smoke a cigarette and call me from the parking lot asking me what time the game is, and I'll tell you. You can even say 'F--- you, Steve!' Actually, don't say that, that wouldn't be very nice." -Steve Friend, Head Coach, Chabot College Gladiators Baseball

by flipgatey3 on Sep 27, 2008 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs