Steelers News: Roster, Lip Reading, Defense
By Kim Myers
The Steelers players head into the offseason for recovery and the coaches head out to prepare for free agency and the draft.
Steelers season never truly ends for Steeler Nation so while the offseason starts to heat up we’ll be busy looking for mentions of your Black & Gold so we’ve got you covered. Here’s your Steelers Morning Huddle for Wednesday, Feb. 10th.
Roster moves
The Steelers are building up their offseason roster with reserve/future contracts being signed left and right. Teresa Varley breaks down all the moves the Steelers have made over the last week and even further back.
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The most recent additions to the roster are futures contracts given to wide receiver Issac Blakeney, cornerback Montell Garner, wide receiver Levi Norwood, wide receiver Tobias Palmer and cornerback Al-hajj Shabazz.
The Steelers have signed 20 players to reserve/futures contracts since the season ended.
Bad Lip Reading
The Bad Lip Reading crew is back with the 2016 NFL edition and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin made Part 2 Two of the 2-part series released with a combined over 12 million YouTube views. Shenanigans are always enjoyable.
Emulating Broncos Defense
The Denver Broncos rebuilt and re-tooled a defensive unit that got flat-out embarrassed in Super Bowl XLVIII by the Seattle Seahawks. The Broncos rode into that game with a high-powered offense only to get it handed right back to them. In two short years they turned it around to build one of the most impressive defensive runs in NFL history.
There should be no excuse for the Steelers to be able to fill their glaring defense deficiencies relatively quickly while they’ve got the potent offense they’ve got. After all, defense does still win championships, doesn’t it?
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler suggests that the one thing stopping the Steelers defense from morphing into the Broncos defense is the lack of a Von Miller. Neither Jarvis Jones nor Bud Dupree has proven their ability to be the pass rushing monster that Miller is. That’s a true statement.
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It’s also true that there’s no time like the present. Jones and Dupree have plenty of time to watch tape and get nasty with the goal of going after quarterbacks in mind as soon as they hit the grass this summer. I want them to get into fights over which one gets to knock down the quarterback first.