Steelers News: Robots, Hampton, Butler

The Steelers are on summer vacation as the offseason workout program wrapped up and they won’t come back together until reporting to training camp in just a couple of weeks.

Steelers season never really ends for Steeler nation so while the Steelers players get their minds and bodies right to embark on the 2016 regular season 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, July 20^th.

Our robots are cooler than your robots

Looks like other teams are getting in on the robotic tackling dummy craze like the Pittsburgh Steelers discovered earlier this year. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler indicates that the Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Ravens placed orders for the Mobile Virtual Players for their camps along with the Steelers.

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I wonder if the robots will come down the walkway to the field and stop to give autographs like the players do. Fowler says that the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears have inquired about using them in the future.

He also noted that the Ravens tested theirs in secret which can only mean that they dressed them up in that hideous purple camo and probably did inappropriate things to them as well.

Big Snack

If you’re having an otherwise less than stellar day behold, Casey Hampton wearing a Super Bowl bathrobe smoking a cigar whilst holding the Lombardi trophy like a baby. There’s nothing at all wrong with this picture. Not even a little bit.

On the right track?

One year removed from the departure of legendary Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau and CBS Sports writer Ryan Wilson poses the question to whether or not Keith Butler has the Steelers defense on the right track.

The Steelers went from 30^th to 13^th against the pass and from 17^th to 5^th against the run last season as opposed to the previous year under LeBeau. If those numbers are any indication then Butler has this unit ahead of schedule.

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Still, there’s going to be a whole lot of trial by fire going on this season with more guys in their 20s than ever before. If it weren’t for old man James Harrison throwing off the average this would be the youngest defensive unit by a long shot.