Steelers offensive tackle Willie Colon who has only played one game in the last two seasons is on my list of guys who should be gone this offseason. After looking at all the cap numbers and potential cost savings to the Steelers by players who could be released it looks like we will be stuck with Colon for another season at least. He basically can’t be cut.
Colon is due $5.7 million this season. If the Steelers were to release Colon they would only save $900k of that $5.7 million in cap money. It is not worth it in any way shape or form for Colon to not be on this team next year.
It bothers me that this is happening. Colon should have never been signed in the first place. We had already drafted Marcus Gilbert in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Now Gilbert who had a good season at right tackle which is where he belongs has to move to left tackle. That is because Colon has to play right tackle. He can not go to the left side. So we had a good right tackle who n...
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February 08, 2012
It was announced late Monday night that Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Weslye Saunders has been suspended for the first four games of the 2012 season by the NFL for reportedly violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances. Since that time the speculation of course has been rampant as to what the substance was. The initial "rumors" were that it was...
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February 08, 2012
We will finally get to hear the Pittsburgh Steelers new offensive coordinator speak and take questions from the media on Thursday as Mark Kaboly reports this morning via Twitter that the Steelers will hold a noon press conference on Thursday to officially introduce Todd Haley as offensive coordinator. The press conference figures to be the normal 15-20 minute variety and hopefully...
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February 09, 2012
The Steelers have started their trek to shave $25 mil off their team salary. And they came about $4 million closer to getting under the salary cap yesterday just by releasing WR Arnaz Battle and CB Bryant McFadden.
If you’re asking yourself who those two are it’s probably because didn’t do a whole lot this year. Battle was strictly a special teams guy for the two...
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February 08, 2012
When you think of Ben Roethlisberger what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The Steelers starting Quarterback of course, but a close second is the inevitable “he holds onto the ball”. The latter is one of the things that Art Rooney II would probably like to change when he made the comments a couple weeks ago about Ben needing to tweak his game a little bit....
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February 07, 2012
ProFootballTalk reported this morning that Aaron Wilson of Scout.com tweeted about Saunders being suspended for the first four games of next season. Saunders was an undrafted free agent from South Carolina when the Steelers picked him up. Saunders had his first and only touch down in the game against the Kansas City Chiefs this year. That catch was 1 of only 4 this year for...
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February 09, 2012
Ed Bouchette had a sit down interview with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger prior to the introduction press conference of new offensive coordinator Todd Haley and shared several of his concerns about Haley being hired they mostly centered around the young players on the offense having to learn a new system.
Haley said in his presser today that while a lot of the...
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February 08, 2012
All of this warm and fuzzy feelings we have over the recent work done by Pittsburgh Steelers salary cap guru Omar Khan is dampened a bit tonight as St. Louis Rams beat writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jim Thomas tweets tonight that the Rams will interview Khan on Thursday for their general manager position. Thomas admits he thought that the Rams were done interviewing for the...
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February 10, 2012
Ben Roethlisberger had yet to meet with Todd Haley but had some interesting things to say in an interview with the Post Gazette’s Ed Bouchette on Thursday. Ben said he’s received numerous calls and texts from colleagues around the NFL about their thoughts on Haley. “Everybody has an opinion, as we all know, and they’re letting me know what their interaction...
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February 07, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) The Steelers have named Todd Haley their new offensive coordinator.
Haley, 45, will replace Bruce Arians, now with the Indianapolis Colts, and will inherit an offense that scored 325 points last season en route to finishing 12-4.
Haley was fired by Kansas City on Dec. 13, after going 19-26 in two-plus seasons with the Chiefs, leading them to the 2010 AFC West title...
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February 09, 2012
While in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said he wanted answers from team president Art Rooney II about why offensive coordinator Bruce Arians reportedly wasn't wanted back in Pittsburgh. Now that Arians' replacement, Todd Haley, officially has been introduced, it seems Roethlisberger has even more questions. Roethlisberger told the Pittsburgh...
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February 09, 2012
Sharon Ilkin had one up on her husband, Tunch, who played 12 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and went to the Pro Bowl twice.
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February 08, 2012
Steelers tight end Weslye Saunders was suspended by the NFL for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.
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February 10, 2012
On Thursday, MDS pointed out that the Steelers have begun chipping away at a $25 million cap bulge by restructuring the contracts of linebackers LaMarr Woodley and Lawrence Timmons. A league source has supplied the specifics to PFT. As to Woodley, his 2012 cap number has dropped from $11.5 million to $4.94 million, creating $6.56…
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February 07, 2012
The reasons behind Kansas City Chiefs dismissing their Head Coach Todd Haley last season have ranged from the sensible to the absurd. This of course depends on who you ask. But as word surfaces that Haley will take over the Pittsburgh Steelers offense, the knee-jerk reaction is not a good one. Haley has family ties
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The starting line day 1 is LT...Adams, LG...Legursky, C...Pouncy, RG...Colon, and RT...Gilbert.