Official 2012-13 Pittsburgh Steelers Off-Season Thread

[joopen]

I don't understand how Orioles is a conflict. They don't play in the same stadium?

[joopen]

If the Steelers won the super bowl and had to start on the road people here would say its a conspiracy and the league is out to get the steelers.

Harrison is in Cincy now... Goodell hates them now

[shafnutz05]

I don't understand how Orioles is a conflict. They don't play in the same stadium?

If you've been to their stadium area, it would be a logistical nightmare to have two simultaneous games.

[joopen]

I don't understand how Orioles is a conflict. They don't play in the same stadium?

If you've been to their stadium area, it would be a logistical nightmare to have two simultaneous games.

Gotcha

[IanMoran]

You should never do this with injuries, not knowing how every team will be next year, etc... but breaking down the schedule, I don't see the doom and gloom.

vs. Titans: Steelers win 1-0
at Bengals: Bengals wins 1-1
at Bears: Bears win 1-2
London Vikings: Steelers win 2-2
at Jets: Steelers win 3-2
vs. Ravens: Steelers win 4-2
at Raiders: Steelers win 5-2
at Patriots: Patriots win 5-3
vs. Bills: Steelers win 6-3
vs. Lions: Steelers win 7-3
at Browns: Steelers win 8-3
at Ravens: Ravens win 8-4
vs. Dolphins-: Steelers win 9-4
vs. Bengals: Steelers wins 10-4
at Packers: Packers win 10-5
vs. Browns: Steelers win 11-5

Obviously some wins could go other way (Cinci might sweep us), but some losses can definitely go the other way (the Bears one)

There's a lot of teams with a lot of holes, not just the Steelers

[Froggy]

we got shafted on our schedule this year. we have @ chicago followed by a game in london which takes one of our home games, and basically puts us on the road for a month straight, and then we have to play 2 road games in 4 days, the 2nd of which is in baltimore. then we play AT Green Bay, AT New England, and travel to the west coast. this is an awful awful schedule.

[IanMoran]

we got shafted on our schedule this year. we have @ chicago followed by a game in london which takes one of our home games, and basically puts us on the road for a month straight, and then we have to play 2 road games in 4 days, the 2nd of which is in baltimore. then we play AT Green Bay, AT New England, and travel to the west coast. this is an awful awful schedule.

The game in London counts as away one. Trust me, Steelers were supposed to play in Minneapolis I was super excited....... then they move it to London. I was also excited for the Penguins at Wild this year........ I'll never be able to watch a Pittsburgh team again apparently

Most teams make a west coast trip.

Also, yea our home schedule is easier than our away but you could look at it as all those home games should take away some upset potential and we'd lose to Brady / Rodgers no matter where its played

[Froggy]

we got shafted on our schedule this year. we have @ chicago followed by a game in london which takes one of our home games, and basically puts us on the road for a month straight, and then we have to play 2 road games in 4 days, the 2nd of which is in baltimore. then we play AT Green Bay, AT New England, and travel to the west coast. this is an awful awful schedule.

The game in London counts as away one. Trust me, Steelers were supposed to play in Minneapolis I was super excited....... then they move it to London. I was also excited for the Penguins at Wild this year........ I'll never be able to watch a Pittsburgh team again apparently

i misread about the london game being a home game. still a crap schedule. meanwhile, over in baltimore...

most of their hardest games (HOU, GB, NE) are in baltimore, they get pittsburgh at home on a short week, and the furthest west they have to go is to Denver on the first night of the season, and then have 10 days off.

[IanMoran]

we got shafted on our schedule this year. we have @ chicago followed by a game in london which takes one of our home games, and basically puts us on the road for a month straight, and then we have to play 2 road games in 4 days, the 2nd of which is in baltimore. then we play AT Green Bay, AT New England, and travel to the west coast. this is an awful awful schedule.

The game in London counts as away one. Trust me, Steelers were supposed to play in Minneapolis I was super excited....... then they move it to London. I was also excited for the Penguins at Wild this year........ I'll never be able to watch a Pittsburgh team again apparently

i misread about the london game being a home game. still a crap schedule. meanwhile, over in baltimore...

most of their hardest games (HOU, GB, NE) are in baltimore, they get pittsburgh at home on a short week, and the furthest west they have to go is to Denver on the first night of the season, and then have 10 days off.

Ignoring logistic the Steelers have the 23 hardest schedule (based on last year's records) while Baltimore has the 5th toughest

Edited since I messed up :
Difference in teams:

Steelers play:
Titans, Raiders

Ravens play:
Broncos, Texans

[Froggy]

both teams play the pats and bills.

[Froggy]

we play 6 games vs our division, 4 games against the nfc north, 4 games against the afc east, and the other 2 3rd place finishers in the afc (oakland and tennessee)

baltimore plays 6 games vs our division, 4 games against the nfc north, 4 games against the afc east, and the other 2 1st place finishers in the afc (houston and denver)

on paper, yeah... the ravens have it harder. but they have a lot of breaks in their schedule, as i mentioned earlier

[IanMoran]

we play 6 games vs our division, 4 games against the nfc north, 4 games against the afc east, and the other 2 3rd place finishers in the afc (oakland and tennessee)

baltimore plays 6 games vs our division, 4 games against the nfc north, 4 games against the afc east, and the other 2 1st place finishers in the afc (houston and denver)

on paper, yeah... the ravens have it harder. but they have a lot of breaks in their schedule, as i mentioned earlier

Yea, IDK. My way-too early can't really do breakdown of game to game was 11-5. It'd be 9-7 if we had the Ravens schedule

[Rocco]

6-10. 3-13 if BRoeth misses a significant amount of time.

[shafnutz05]

Young money

Clairton Bears Football
12:57pm (about an hour ago)

I have been busy recently and didnt get a chance to post this when it happened, but Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers was scheduled to speak at the Clairton Bears Banquet last week and did not show up. Not only did he not show up, he didnt call, didnt return messages, his representative didnt call, didnt return messages and so far has left at least 3 emails looking for explainations unanswered. Thats classless. That is a classless act. These kids didnt deserve that. I would like to know why he didnt show up after confirming that he would be there. If anyone can get an answer for me I would be very grateful.

[Rocco]

Brown was working on a touchdown dance and lost track of time. It happens to the best of us.

[columbia]

Are we getting to the point, where prominent Steelers are more embarrassing than your average CIN player?

[WDWBurghGooner]

The Steelers have been terrible against Oakland recently, no matter the gulf in skill. I would chalk that up as a loss right now.

[Rylan]

Are we getting to the point, where prominent Steelers are more embarrassing than your average CIN player?

The NFL is embarrassing. Heck, sports in general is getting embarrassing.

[JS©]

Brown was working on a touch first down dance and lost track of time. It happens to the best of us.

fixed

[joopen]

Brown was working on a touch first down brushed my teeth dance and lost track of time. It happens to the best of us.

fixed

[JS©]

Here's a link to the FB post about Brown:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 3907057891

[Rocco]

Brown was working on a touch first down dance and lost track of time. It happens to the best of us.

fixed

Brown's too delusional to realize touchdowns will be scarce this year.

[shafnutz05]

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[jprolley]

Even though he's not a steeler anymore, I thought I'd share this story that shows despite the bad press a lot of NFL players seem to get or those who do good deeds in front of the cameras, theres still guys like Casey Hampton who are doing genuinely good things for people even though nobody is reading or hearing about it. Here's the story....

A month ago, my mom was in a serious car accident in Galveston TX and nearly didn't survive. A week after the accident, i realize i just stepped into an elevator with casey hampton. I said hi, told him i was a fan, nothing overbearing or anything. His mother was also in the ICU at the hospital. My dad also talked to him for a few minutes while hanging out in the waiting room. A few days later, his mom was moved to another floor and he was gone for the time being.

I had gone home for a few weeks to pay some bills, work, take care of the kids, etc before flying back here on Saturday. Apparently during that time, hamptons mom was moved back into the ICU and there was the mother and sister of a gunshot wound victim who had been in there a few weeks. They had come from about 90 minutes away and had literally spent every second of their lives inside hospital since they brought him in (theyre still there by the way). My dad and brother said that one day while i was gone, casey bought everybody buckets of fried chicken and handed the mother $100 to use on whatever she needed.

My dad also said Casey spotted him one day, called my dad by name (they had talked only once or twice before that) and asked how my mom was doing, let him know he's still praying for her, etc. Nice to know there's still guys doing nice things even though its not being filmed or publicized.

Just thought I'd share that with everyone. Casey Hampton = solid dude

[canaan]

cool story, jprolley. thanks for sharing. sorry to hear about your mom.