The Steelers are officially on summer vacation as the offseason workout program wrapped up and they won’t come back together until reporting to training camp later next month.
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, June 29th.
Top 3
We’re back at the AFC North round table over at ESPN and it was Jeremy Fowler’s turn to ask the question. He inquired if the group would agree that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger; woefully ranked too low in the NFL Top 100 poll was one of the top three quarterbacks in the league?
Now that Peyton Manning has retired the conversation becomes a lot easier for Roethlisberger to get the credit he’s due based on his performance, particularly over the past few seasons.
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Not even Ravens writer Jamison Hensley could argue that anyone besides Roethlisberger would be behind Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. I bed he died a little inside having to admit that.
The man to watch in camp
We’re just under a month out from the start of Steelers training camp so the prediction machines are cranking up all over the place. NFL Network’s Around the NFL describes the player to keep an eye on this August is wide receiver Sammie Coates.
Coates was the draft pick everyone questioned last April but he made more sense once news of the Martavis Bryant suspension came out. Coates, described as having the build of a young Terrell Owens, can make a big move to a place of prominence in this offense if he’s mastered the playbook.
Show us what you got
Say all you want about James Harrison’s method of publically sharing correspondence between he and the NFL regarding their intent on interviewing him for a suspected PED investigation but his stance is the same as the NFLPA’s stance. They want to know what the NFL is basing their investigation on.
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Mike Florio of PFT explains how the controversy is bubbling out because both sides decided to make it all public as of last week. The NFL has been attempting to interview these players since January and the NFLPA has been stepping in and requesting information on the basis with neither side budging.
The importance of the NFLPA standing firm in asking the NFL to produce additional justification for this probe other than the recanted statements of a guy in a YouTube video talking about some pro football players. Its one thing to investigate players based on legit allegations and quite another to go on a fishing expedition with their reputations hanging in the balance.