Mike Mitchell's A Trashy Punk

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(11-13-2015, 07:42 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: The real I've offered up is that the Steelers haven't been drafting as well, which eliminates their ability to reload instead of rebuild, which has always been their MO.

The real is that their defense, which is a staple of the organization and key to victory, has been regressing and getting worse over the past three years.

The real is that a team only gets so many draft picks, and even fewer early ones, which is where teams generally find their stars, so with the Steelers needing pieces and not finding the late-round gems that they used to, where do the new pieces come from that will allow them to return to dominance?

My real is that Ben will be 34 next season, which is right around the age, if not a bit later, that quarterbacks typically tend to start to decline in play, and most quarterbacks don't take the beating that Ben does.


So there's a few "real"s for you.  I'm sure I could probably find more if need-be.

Again, what's your "real"?  That it will happen just because it always used to happen?

Drafting defense has definitely been the problem. Offense has been top notch with high picks, and tons of mid to late round hits.

Really though, it's just been that Worilds and Jones have just been okay starters taken with high picks and corner has been passed over until the late rounds. Heyward and Tuitt is shaping up to be are best 34 DE combo we've had, and I thought some of our previous combos were untouchable. Shazier and Timmons dominant up the middle. It's the lack of push rush and bad corner play what hurts the defense. Shamarko Thomas has to officially be a bust at safety, but at least Will Allen can hold down the SS spot and Mitchell (that evil bastard) is good enough to be the answer at FS.