BTSC Steelers Daily Six Pack- The Power Of Steeler Nation Edition
by Frank Mineo (DYMS) on Aug 12, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
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PrintIX-If anyone ever asks you why you root so hard for the Pittsburgh Steelers and why you spend so much time worrying about the 53 man roster and debating for hours on BTSC, perhaps you should show them this story from ESPN.com. Sports and specifically the Pittsburgh Steelers have a certain knack for bonding people together and inspiring people to do great things. The story is about a cancer survivor, Bob Zinski, that may have you crying by the time you are done.
X-The real credit for this story deserves to go to Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponnies who broke the pictures in January of this year. Now Philly.com has provided more details eight months later. It appears that the Pennsylvania State Police department might be in a little bit of trouble for an incident with the Pittsburgh Steelers that happened approximately three years ago. According to the paper a few Steelers players went onto a State Police firing range and we given assault weapons and somebody even thought it was a bright idea to take pictures of the whole mess. I don't think the Steelers have much of anything to worry about because if anyone should get in trouble for this it seems to me that it will be the P.A. State Troopers, not the Steelers.
XIII-The Arizona Cardinals surprised almost everyone last year when they were just minutes away from winning Super Bowl XLIII in February. While the Cardinals lost a few pieces on both their player personel and coaching staff they also added a few new players like Chris "Beenie" Wells, and former Steeler Bryant McFadden. According to the Arizona Rebublic, McFadden is attempting to bring the Steelers swagger to the dessert.
XIV-Ohio State quarterback, and former Pittsburgh Area High School Star Terrelle Pryor has reportedly ran a "4.33" 40 yard dash according to the Ohio State coaching staff. Pryor weighs in a 235 pounds and some including Yahoo's Dr. Saturday are skeptical of the results, considering only Darius Heyward-Bey ran a time that was faster at this years combine. The kid must be eating small children if he weighs 235 pounds at 19 years old.
XL-Here is a video excerpt from Mike Tomlin's press conference yesterday after practice and specifically dealing with the pre-season match-up with the Arizona Cardinals this Thursday Evening. For a full transcript of the press conference you can read it for free at Steel City Insider right here.
XLIII-With the Steelers matching up with the Arizona Cardinals tomorrow evening, the Steelers will not practice again until Saturday. So here is one of the last training camp re-caps until Saturday hopefully it will hold you over until the kickoff of Steeler Football. Anyone have a score prediction for the preseason opener?
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That song is irritating
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
Truth.
But that’s a hilarious nickname.
by John Stephens on Aug 12, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
thats for the tip…fixed it up…
I'll drink your Milkshake, I'll drink it up!
by Frank Mineo (DYMS) on Aug 12, 2009 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Preseason opener ponderage...
Im feeling a mid-level start for The Ben. Its gonna be just ok. No TDs, no INTs, probably a 45% completion percentage. People are gonna use it as fuel to say Ben is distracted. But in honesty, it will be cause the Cardinals probably care about this game more than we do.
I predict a solid outing for Rashard Mendenhall. 4.6ypc for him. Limas Sweed will catch 3 passes.
Dennis dixon will get a rushing first down.
And Matt Leinert will get sacked.
Ben's line
I expect something like 2 for 3 with about 25 yards from Ben tonight. They usually do very little in the first preseason game.
For ideas on statistical analyses, email me at wolfpacksteelersfan@gmail.com.
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Aug 12, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Pryor
The quibbling over the 40 time misses the point about Pryor. Bottom line, he’s 6’6", 235, and is the fastest man on one of the most athletic teams in the country.
I buy the hype on him 100%. I happened to watch a replay of this year’s OSU Scarlet-Gray game. It was a farce. Pryor was head-and-shoulders better than every other player on the field. I mean by a gigantic margin. The only other player I’ve seen on the college level who was that much better than everyone else was Randy Moss.
I’ll get laughed at for this given the eggs OSU has laid in bowl games, but I think they will run the table this year and win the national championship. Pryor is going to blow people’s minds.
by Steelers in XLIV on Aug 12, 2009 2:28 PM EDT reply actions
gifted athlete, yes
good quarterback remains to be seen. Sure he already has an impressive highlight reel from games against bottom rung Big 10 teams, but against USC, PSU, and Texas he only scored touchdowns when he lined up at receiver. Being big and fast has nothing to do with passing skills, and last year his decision making (albeit as a true freshman) was questionable. With OSU having to replace beanie wells and their wide receivers, it’ll be easier for defenses to zero in on containing him.
But did you hear he can drive a golfball 350 yards into the wind?
Now I'm impressed
Not even Tiger Woods is going to be safe from the Terrelle Pryor machine.
I remember that bowl game against Texas and feeling like he lost them the game, in that if he’d completed his passes and kept drives going then they would’ve been able to bleed the clock enough to win. Maybe it was just freshman jitters in a big bowl game, but a lot of those incompletions were terrible throws landing at the feet of his receivers.
by barnerburner on Aug 12, 2009 8:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Doubtful if they face the Gators
The Gators have the same speed on their D as pryor on everyone except the DLine (and some of them are probably close). Sorry but they won’t beat the Gators in the MNC game – assuming they get to it.
Oh and I think their D started a bunch of freshman and sophmore’s last year.
I do like Pryor
When he was in that Army All-American bowl and tore up the competition, you knew he was something really special. Yes, he’s really fast and a great playmaker, but the quarterback position is about your arm and Pryor has got to work on his arm and punt like throws. I don’t believe OSU will run the table because they lost too much to graduation on their defense, and that’s what carried them last year
Fiesta Bowl
Pryor did make some god-awful throws in the Fiesta Bowl, absolutely. He also has kind of a weird throwing motion. I’m not an expert on mechanics but he seems to need to be coached up. It’s a testament to his arm strength that he can still make the throws with that short-arm delivery.
In the OSU spring game there was a play on which Pryor eluded pressure, stepped up, drifted right, then threw about 40 yards down the sidelines to hit a guy between defenders for a TD. I just about fell out of my chair.
I know, I know. Meaningless scrimmage. But this was one of those plays where a kid just jumps off the screen and you know you’re seeing something really rare.
by Steelers in XLIV on Aug 13, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
September 12, 2009
If he can do stuff like that in a little over a month when USC rolls into town, I’ll be impressed.
by barnerburner on Aug 13, 2009 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Ohio State Scrimmage
No way man, I’m in the same boat as you when it comes to scrimmages. You can tell a lot from a scrimmage, because its a game-like experience and it shows how players come preform in front of a crowd. After the blue-white game last year, I predicted Aaron Maybin would be a first round pick, and that was months before he even started a game. Back to Pryor though, his throwing could definitely be coached up, and that’s one of the easier fixes for a quarterback (compared to reading blitzes, coverages, going through progressions etc.). He seems to be good at those ^ and we all know he’s athletic, so he should be fine. Will he be an All-American and first round pick? He got a lot of work to do before that
That Story
Is incredible. I got chills while reading the section on the guys experience during the last drive. Wow. Thanks for sharing.
“Steelers play for 60 minutes.”
I have my answer now. I have been wondering if it were my puny prayers during that last drive that allowed the steelers to score on that last drive. Now I know that it was BZ’s prayers that were answered. So happy he got to experience that. Everyone should read that article.
When I say who dey, you say we dey.
Follow me @Sn0w13allz
not really worth a fanpost
but heres an interesting article on yahoo about the QB competition in Cleveland.
Either Brady Quinn is being an ass or a joker.
QB competition in Cleveland.
Let me fix that for you “Who’s the bigger turd competition in Cleveland”
by John Stephens on Aug 12, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
steelers play 60 minutes
the story from espn was awesome, kinda puts wins and losses in to perspective. pulling for bz to finish his drive with a td just like the steelers did,
by guns dont kill people pittsburgh does on Aug 12, 2009 3:40 PM EDT reply actions
Zinski
Yeah, that is quite a story. I read it this morning. Definitely one of those that chokes you up a bit.
For ideas on statistical analyses, email me at wolfpacksteelersfan@gmail.com.
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Aug 12, 2009 3:56 PM EDT reply actions
Preseason Prediction
Steelers 27 Cardinals 23 sound familiar? ;)
Snoop Dogg just called the Steelers “his” on sportscenter.
Something to the effect of “we’ll see if my stillers can make it back to the Super Bowl”
yet he goes to Ravens camp……………as a spy hopefully
friend of Mcstabbin
apparently.
Went there to pick up stuff to teach his pee wee team.
I know it’s ridiculous but I’m not making this up. The anchor on NFL Live flipped on his jive switch and quizzled the dizzle.
by Steely McSmash on Aug 13, 2009 12:01 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't believe him
He was wearing a Ravens hat.
by John Stephens on Aug 13, 2009 8:36 AM EDT up reply actions
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