Steelers News: Sammie Coates’ potential, Roger Goodell’s power, Ladarius Green’s injury
By Kim Myers
The Steelers have wrapped training camp and are headed into their second preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
While the Steelers get back to work on the rest of the preseason we’ll be busy looking for mentions of your Black & Gold so we’ve got you covered. Here’s your Steelers Morning Huddle for Thursday, Aug. 18th.
All the way up
Players you will find on the field in preseason are mainly the guys who have something to prove. They have something that coach Mike Tomlin needs to see for him to be able to make the roster decisions necessary for the season. One of those guys is receiver Sammie Coates.
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Coates has to shake off a bad first preseason game where he fumbled twice and
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’s comments about the confidence he has in Coates’ potential as a result of what he sees in him in practice.
"He has a lot of potential. It’s up to him to go out there and unlock it and I think he will.” – Antonio Brown"
Absolute power corrupts, absolutely
James Harrison and Roger Goodell publicly fighting over the NFL’s perceived right to demand an interview is raising questions about Goodell’s authority. Steelers linebacker among other players was served with a deadline by the league to submit to an interview or face suspension.
NFLPA Assistant Executive Director George Atallah joined ESPN’s Outside The Lines to express the NFLPA’s concern on how the league seems to be overstepping their boundaries and potentially violating these players’ rights by demanding on an interview as part of an investigation based on statements that were actually taken back.
ESPN’s NFL Business Analyst Andrew Brandt discussed the NFLPA’s distrust with the Goodell-led league and how this is an example of that mistrust that will continue to keep coming up in different forms, most of all when there are suspensions threatened.
Meanwhile Stephen A. Smith (A for A-hole) says he would suspend James Harrison immediately because he can’t stand when grownups are talking. So he’s got to throw an absurd statement in there to grab attention while inserting himself into the story. Captain Doing Too Much can have a seat.
Mysterious Ladarius
Does anyone know what’s up with Ladarius Green? Perhaps he has an ankle injury? Or is he going through the post-concussions symptoms that held Sidney Crosby off of the ice for damn near a lifetime it seemed? Because Dom Cosentino of Deadspin illustrates how confusing the story surrounding Green is.
Green sustained a pair of concussions within days of each other early last season in San Diego and he showed up in Pittsburgh after being signed in free agency with an ankle injury that required surgery, landing him on the PUP list for the entirety of training camp.
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Steelers coach Tomlin didn’t address the reports that Green is now suffering from recurring headaches due to the concussions and the Trib’s Mark Kaboly notes how Green told him back in March that his concussions were misdiagnosed as sinus problems. What gives?