Steeler Addicts - Pittsburgh Steelers Message Board http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/ Steelers fan site with plenty of fun for members! en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:49:36 GMT vBulletin 15 http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg Steeler Addicts - Pittsburgh Steelers Message Board http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/ saints vs vy queens http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25547&goto=newpost Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:45:13 GMT 1 n O. Ho Hum or sum mysterious portent of the future? What can you learn from 1st NFL game of the year? Me. It wasn't a crushing defeat. We don't play these teams during the season so no impact here? If I had to favorite these two it would be the Vyk a roos as I really hate the Saints. Jus sayin. ]]> NFL RIVERS OF STEEL http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25547 Met more Steeler fans tonite... http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25545&goto=newpost Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:55:23 GMT New team in my bowling league...had their Steeler shirts on, one was a Ward jersey. Of course, they all live in Florida now but I'll find out where they're from originally. Talked about Ben and they're high on Mike Wallace. Will see if I can get them to this forum. ]]> Steelers Talk Bucsfan4ever http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25545 Falcons prefer to face Dixon, rather than Batch http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25544&goto=newpost Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:27:23 GMT Atlanta Falcons linebacker Mike Peterson says he'd rather face Steelers' quarterback Dennis Dixon than Charlie Batch.
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Ha ha he won't be saying that when Double d is runnin past him or hitting miller over the middle right on peterson. I would rather want to play against batch atleast you can tee of on him..

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http://espn.go.com/blog/afcnorth/pos...-over-steelers ]]> Steelers Talk xxxsteelernation http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25544 <![CDATA["Expert" Picks 2010]]> http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25542&goto=newpost Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:48:50 GMT http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/N...ns-2010-season

Wow, I can't wait until this team proves everyone wrong... ]]> NFL SnakeEyes43 http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25542 Steelers will finish behind the Clowns?????....WTH! http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25541&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:27:57 GMT please, give me a freakin break. This dude has some serious issues.... Article (http://www.cleveland.com/budshaw/index.ssf/2010/09/post_16.html) ... please, give me a freakin break. This dude has some serious issues....

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AP Can new Cleveland Browns quarterback Jake Delhomme finally lead the team to the promised land of the NFL playoffs?
CLEVELAND -- A recent L.A. Times story traced the annual upheaval in the NFL's postseason -- though it's understandable if it feels like more of the same for Browns fans.

Share In each of the past 14 seasons at least five teams have made the playoffs after missing them the year before.

There were six last year: the Jets, New Orleans, New England, Green Bay, Dallas and Cincinnati.

With the new season kicking off Thursday when Minnesota gets a rematch with the Saints, my picks as the Best Bets To Return to the Playoffs after Missing Them in 2009 (with last year's record in parentheses):

Houston (9-7), Tennessee (8-8), Miami (7-9), Atlanta (9-7) and San Francisco (8-8).

I don't see Pittsburgh in the postseason. In fact, I think the Browns finish higher than the Steelers this season. And, no, I have not been drinking.

L.A. Times sportswriter Sam Farmer coins a term for the seven NFL teams that have gone at least five years without making the playoffs. For their inability to rise, he calls them The Unleavened Seven.

And, of course, that's where you'll find the Browns.

The list: Detroit and Buffalo (10 years), Houston (eight), the Browns, 49ers and Raiders (7), and the Rams (5).

Who will end the drought? Houston and San Francisco.

For the seventh consecutive year, a team -- New Orleans -- went from worst to first in its division. The Saints didn't stop there, of course, winning the Super Bowl.

But that streak of surprises looks to be in serious danger.

I mean, who would you pick to go from the bottom to the top out of this group: Buffalo (6-10), Cleveland (5-11), Jacksonville (7-9), Kansas City (4-12), Washington (4-12), Detroit (2-14), Tampa (3-13) and the Rams (1-15).

The fact that it's happened so often is another reason for the NFL's growing popularity as America's favorite sport.

That, fantasy leagues and gambling.
]]> Steelers Talk ejsteeler http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25541 Bungals pass rush AND O-Line takes a hit: Odom, Hartwig! http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25540&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:04:39 GMT "Profootballtalk.com confirms a report by the Cincinnati blog Threewaychili.com that RE Antwan Odom is facing a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's steroids policy.

Odom's appeal is pending, and he reportedly believes he has a strong chance of reversal or at least reducing the appeal. Most players believe the same, only to end up serving the full four games. As the suspension was not announced early in the week, Odom is still expected to suit up for Sunday's game at New England. He was the team's lone pass rushing threat before a season-ending Achilles tear last year. "


Ohh also this too:

"The Bengals will host free agent C/G Justin Hartwig next week.

Continuing the Bengals' history of picking up whatever floats down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh. Rookie Reggie Stevens would be headed toward the practice squad if Hartwig is signed to back up Kyle Cook."

CHEERS! Big snack can make Hartpig his B*tch!! ]]> NFL igor0190 http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25540 NFL truths for the 2010 season: http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25538&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:39:32 GMT Good stuff, his SB prediction is cool! http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-season-preview-whitlock-brings-the-truths Good stuff, his SB prediction is cool!


http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/n...ngs-the-truths ]]> NFL LatrobePA http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25538 Mike Wallace http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25537&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:24:58 GMT As I go through many of these pre-season predicition columns on many websites, I can't help but notice in the column where it says 'break-out players of the season,' MW is never mentioned. Anyone else have a feeling he is going to have a monster year? ]]> Steelers Talk SteelDad http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25537 <![CDATA[Fans guide to NFL labor issues & the CBA]]> http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25536&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:10:21 GMT http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-laborquestions090810 Roger Goodell was in the midst of a leisurely training camp tour last month when... http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slu...uestions090810

Roger Goodell was in the midst of a leisurely training camp tour last month when the NFL commissioner began experiencing severe labor pains.
Goodell, as part of his weeklong bus trip to seven NFL camps with Hall of Fame coach and broadcasting icon John Madden, initiated locker-room meetings with players at each stop, and the level of interrogation he faced became increasingly charged as players expressed anxiety and anger over a potential lockout next spring.
At one point in the commissioner’s visit with the Cleveland Browns, linebacker Scott Fujita(notes), a member of the NFL Players Association’s executive committee, asked: “What do the owners want? What’s it going to take to get a deal done?”


“I can’t answer that,” Goodell replied.
“You’re the NFL commissioner,” Fujita shot back. “You’re here as the mouthpiece for the owners, and you can’t even tell us what they want? The CBA [collective bargaining agreement] is up in March. Don’t you think you need to start giving us some answers?”
By the end of his visit with the Browns, players were referring to the league’s chief executive as “Roger the Dodger.” It got worse for Goodell during the final visit of his tour, this stop coming at the Indianapolis Colts’ training camp. According to two sources familiar with the meeting, some Colts players admonished Goodell with swear words, to the point where star quarterback Peyton Manning(notes) was embarrassed by their behavior. Veteran center Jeff Saturday(notes), another executive committee member, cut the meeting short to keep the situation from escalating further.
Welcome to the strange world of the 21st-century NFL, a wildly profitable business in uncertain economic times whose proprietors and employees can’t just get along. With the two sides seemingly headed for a rancorous and incongruous labor showdown next spring, America’s most prosperous and popular sporting enterprise could be walking a fine line between hard-fought progress and shameful self-immolation.
Two years ago, when the owners voted unanimously to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement following the 2010 season, it set the stage for a confrontation that could well result in the league’s first work stoppage since 1987. As the deadline for striking a new deal nears – things will likely come to a head on or around March 1 of next year – each camp is preparing for battle on numerous fronts. There has been legal wrangling, political maneuvering, spin-doctoring and economic leveraging by both sides … and much of it has been lost on a blissfully oblivious fan base.
Internal NFLPA studies have shown that only 33 to 40 percent of hardcore NFL fans have the impending labor drama on their radar screens. For everyone else, the prospect of football interrupted – and the potential havoc it could wreak upon everything from video games to fantasy drafts – may come as an unwelcome shock.
As we head into a season that could end with an abrupt dose of harsh reality, here’s a fan’s guide to the labor landscape based on exhaustive research and conversations with owners, NFLPA officials, players, agents and other league insiders.

Which side is forcing the issue?
The owners, particularly a faction of aggressive, entrepreneurial Goodell confidants (Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, Pat Bowlen, Jerry Richardson) who want a CBA that accounts for the high-risk investments they’ve made on new stadiums and other capital expenditures. For the most part, the owners are unified in their belief that they agreed to a lousy deal when the current CBA was extended in 2006, and that the players currently receive too great a share of their adjusted gross revenues. At last March’s NFL owners meeting in Orlando, Fla., the Carolina Panthers’ Richardson gave a fiery speech in which he exhorted his peers to “take back our league” by forcing a more favorable deal down the throats of the players. This is likely to be accomplished in the form of a lockout, though it’s possible that the owners could opt for a milder approach: negotiating to impasse and imposing terms of their choosing, which might compel the players to strike. DeMaurice Smith, the NFLPA’s executive director, is convinced that a lockout is coming, and a majority of his constituents – many of whom are more engaged and informed than is commonly perceived – share this belief.


Are the two sides making any progress toward a new deal?
DeMaurice Smith

Not really. Though there have been recent reports of an improved atmosphere between the NFL’s management council and the players’ union, there has been no substantial movement toward a new CBA. This may be partly due to the desire of some owners to play hardball and lock out the players until they capitulate; it also may simply be a function of timing. Think of it as akin to negotiations between a team and its first-round draft pick. Though the NFL draft is in late April, talks usually don’t begin to heat up until the approach of training camp, and often the contract isn’t signed until deeper into the offseason. In this case, though the CBA expires after the 2010 season, the real deadline isn’t until a year from now, when there’s a risk that games will be lost.

The rest of the article is very good so definitely check it out. Grab a cup of coffee or a cold beer because it's a bit long. ]]> NFL BlitzburghRockCity http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25536 my money is not on the ravens for winning the super bowl http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25535&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:26:16 GMT where is all this hype for the ravens winning the super bowl? Let' see the ravens playoff success in the last 8 years. in 2002 baltimore lost a divisional game against the steelers.
Then 2004 ravens didn't even make it outta the wild card being beat by the titans. 2007 they lose to the colts in the wild card. next play off apperance is not till 2009 when they beat a miami team that was lucky to get in the wild card. Then the divisional game tennessee, then we all know what happend in the AFC championship game that year - 3picks for Flacco against our D" Then last years wild card game the ripped the hell outta the patriots and then got destroyed by the colts in the afc championship game.

Now let's look at the steelers since 2002
2007 we lose to the jags
2008-2009 we win the super bowl
• Feb. 5, 2006 - Pittsburgh 21, Seattle 10 - Super Bowl

• Jan. 22, 2006 - Pittsburgh 34, Denver 17 - AFC Championship

• Jan. 15, 2006 - Pittsburgh 21, Indianapolis 18 - AFC Divisional

• Jan. 8, 2006 - Pittsburgh 31, Cincinatti 17 - AFC Wild Card

• Jan. 23, 2005 - New England 41, Pittsburgh 27 - AFC Championship

• Jan. 15, 2005 - Pittsburgh 20, N.Y. Jets 17 (OT) - AFC Divisional

• Jan. 11, 2003 - Tennessee 34, Pittsburgh 31 (OT) - AFC Divisional

• Jan.5, 2003 - Pittsburgh 36, Cleveland 33 - AFC Wild Card

• Jan. 27, 2002 - New England 24, Pittsburgh 17 - AFC Championship

• Jan. 20, 2002 - Pittsburgh 27, Baltimore 10 - AFC Divisional

so as an odd's maker wouldn't you put your money on the experience of the steelers even without ben for the first 4 games than a ravens team that hasn't proved it can win the big game since early early decade? ]]> xxxsteelernation http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25535 Sid goes yard.... http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25534&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:37:39 GMT Pretty funny, especially the parting line..... Article... Pretty funny, especially the parting line.....

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Sidney Crosby homers out of Pittsburgh's PNC Park
By Greg Wyshynski
Having captured a Stanley Cup championship and an Olympic gold medal, Sidney Crosby(notes) is obviously bored with the minutia of competitive hockey. So he's branching out into Bo Jackson cross-training territory: First with his attempts to shoot pucks through the football uprights at Heinz Field to promote the Winter Classic, and then with batting practice at the Pittsburgh Pirates' PNC Park on Wednesday.

A batting practice that saw him go yard. Way, way yard.


From the Penguins, who said eight Penguins took part in the baseball fun:

Showing off the hands which helped him score a National Hockey League-leading 51 goals last season, Crosby, who played baseball until the age of 13, either hit or one-hopped the wall in right and right center field five times before launching a 370-foot home run deep into the seats just past the 21-foot Clemente Wall in right field.

"I had a little bit of an edge because of I am a lefty," Crosby said. "To be able to come out here was awesome and to be able to put one out was great."

Eat your heart out, Tom Glavine. Upon seeing this video, the NHL immediately scrapped the shootout and instituted a home run derby to end regular-season overtime games involving the Penguins (tin-foil hat, off).

Congrats to Sid The Kid, and to Pirates fans: It must have been a thrill to see a Pittsburgh athlete homer in PNC Park, and to know he won't be traded away immediately after due to budgetary concerns.
]]> Pittsburgh Sports ejsteeler http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25534 Falcons vs. Steelers (Gm #1) http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25533&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:04:12 GMT Image: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k250/azsteeler/teams/atl.gif vs.Image: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k250/azsteeler/teams/pit.gif ...
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Join us here to talk about the action as it happens!

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]]> Steelers Game Day AZ_Steeler http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25533 Tom Brady T-Boned car accidnet: http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25532&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:37:15 GMT Accident...DUH!! http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/patriots-qb-tom-brady-car-accident-090910 Accident...DUH!!


http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/p...ccident-090910 ]]> NFL LatrobePA http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25532 <![CDATA[Ward says Dixon should 'be Dennis']]> http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25531&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:48:14 GMT
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If Hines Ward could offer Dennis Dixon one piece of advice heading into Sunday's season-opener against Atlanta, he knows what he would tell the quarterback making just his second career start.

"Let Dennis be Dennis," Ward said. "That's all we ask for. We are not asking Dennis to be Ben or Byron (Leftwich) or Charlie (Batch). We want him to do what he does."
This is what you would expect from Ward,what is disturbing is the following:

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Bruce Arians has said he would rather see Dixon use his arm than his legs.

Actually, Arians may be the only one who prefers Dixon stay in the pocket. While at the University of Oregon, Dixon rushed for 1,208 yards, including 583 his injury-shortened senior year.
Can somebody put this idiot out of his ( our ) misery.

Full story ]]> Steelers Talk jpele http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25531 Return to Glory http://www.steeleraddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25530&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:16 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dz41e5Ya34
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