BTSC Steelers Daily Six Pack-Joey Porter's Mouth Edition

But I guess if you aren’t a golfer its not really that exciting. I’m glad he got this win and shut up a lot of critics. He has a little bit further (4 or 5 majors I think) to go to be the “best ever”, but clearly he has a big chance of doing it.

Oh and Joey Porter is an idiot.

I attended this year (for the 4th time). All it consists of is about 2 days of hanging out with Dermontti Dawson, Louis Lipps, Edmund Nelson, a couple of current players (this year it was Dan Sepulveda and Greg Warren) and about 300 other deeply devoted Steelers fans. You do some football drills on Saturday and Sunday but mostly, its drinking and story telling on Friday night and Saturday night. All the alumni players are down to earth and accessible. Oh, and the Saturday night guest speaker this year was Hines Ward. Previous guest speakers have included, Art Rooney, Coach T, Rocky Bleir, The Bus, Mel Blount, and Coach Mitchell.

So if a weekend of drinking, playing football and talking Steelers football with actual Steelers (current and alumni) is only a couple of ticks up the dorkinness scale, I would say that it must be a pretty robust challenge to find something that would appeal to you.

The Sporting News ranked Bruce Arians the 11th best offensive coordinator in the NFL.

What I find amazing about Arians is as the 11st best OC in the league, he able to churn out a product somewhere in the 20s. Pretty impressive, I think. Maybe when he gets a franchise QB he’ll start to perform better.

Funny that Cam Cameron got #1 offensive coordinator in the league.

At best he could be early 20s but I think thats it.

Now, there is the possibility that the more he works with a group the more effective his strategy will become but time will tell on that one. Granted, his first year at OC he had some impressive passing and (to some extent) rushing stats but that may have been by chance. Lets see if this upcoming offense performs better than last seasons.

The main problem I see with his play calls is that he loves pulling a guard WAY too much. He does it all the time on the goaline, where you should typically just line up and smack the man in front of you. Pulling a guard is typically used to gain big yardage, while risking the chance of letting someone in the backfield. Why he does this on the goaline i will never understand.

Another problem I see with his plays are the ones that you he spent all night creating in his laboratory, laughing like a mad scientist. Unfortunately these plays never work because he has too much faith in his o-line. Look at the wildcat play in the super bowl where Davis and Colon pretty much ran into each other and missed the one defender. Or look at the goaline play where Davis and Russell were lined up side by side in the backfield. Spaeth whiffed on a block and the defender ran right into Russell whos lead blocker (Davis) was useless from where he was.
On all his ‘clever’ plays, as I like to call them (because you know he just says to himself “o this is so clever” when he comes up with them), he expects his lineman or TE to always take their man with a one-on-one blocking scheme, which they rarely do.

Ok, i got a little side tracked there but my point is that Arians isn’t the 11th offensive coordinator in the NFL. He could be if he loses some faith in his o-line OR his o-line begins to preform better (which is a possibility considering they have a year under their belt of working together, not to mention Stapleton and Kemo will have some experience now).

So basically, Arians SHOULD get better as time goes on………………but I could be wrong.

I’m not sure if any of this makes sense, I kind of just rambled.

Think Arians is ranked about right. I would take many but not all those ranked above him. I would take some of those ranked below him. Agree with # 1 and I was clamoring for Cam when he was available. Not surprised to see all the ex Steelers on the list. The Steelers organization is highly touted. Just commenting on the ex Steelers;

1) Still mad at Chan for letting Stew throw the ball late in the half against Denver in 97. Felt if 10 had stuck the rock in the Buses gut the Steelers may have gotten 1 for the thumb in 97. That said, I’d take Chan over Arians.
2) Gilbride is about my least favorite OC. I can totally understand why Buddy Ryan went postal and wanted to take his head off during a game on the sideline. Maybe he grew and matured with NYG? I don’t want him back.
3) I think the Bengal O can be pretty good and it’s the D that let’s them down more. I liked Brat when he was part of Cowher’s staff. I would take him over Arians.
4) Always liked Mularkey. He brought a lot of the early razzle dazzle to the O. He was a precursor to Whiz who kept some of the Mularkey playbook. Would take MM in a NY second over Arians.
5) I understand Grimm’s lack of OC credentials. That said I would take Russ. I bet he’d follow what a wise man once said “when you run the ball good things happen.”

Regarding the other stories;
I think Peazy is being Peazy. Loved that guy early in his career. Felt he was over rated in the middle portion. He was an absolute monster in the 05 run and we would not have won XL without him. For that I got his back.
Love the idea of fantasy camp. Always makes me think of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer goes to a Yankees fantasy camp and punches out Mickey Mantle. “Kramer goes to a fantasy camp? His life is like a fantasy camp”
Also love the idea of Ratliff lining up at safety. I don’t know if Ratliff can beat out #3 Lewis or last years top ST tackler Madison. Don’t know if they would keep more than 5 CBs. Might have a shot of beating out Mundy or Carter to make the team as Mundy is eligible to PS again.

Any one else in Steelers nation read his quote about coming to the Steelers defense being equivalent to being a WR and getting to play with Tom Brady or Peyton Manning.

I know it’s a mountainous mole hill, but can’t you give some love to your new team, really. We love shills here, you tell us how great Steelers are and we love you, give Ben some love baby.