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Yahoo
05-08-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Steelers' passing game with Aaron Rodgers is apparently sputtering
The Steelers have upgraded at the quarterback position. The upgrade has yet to fully load. A recent item from Christopher Barbre of raises red flags about Aaron Rodgers's performance in training camp. The concern is a familiar one for late-career Aaron Rodgers. Not enough balls down the field. Too many short passes and checkdowns. The connection between Rodgers and receiver DK Metcalf has yet to flourish. It's still not clear who the No. 2 receiver will be. They have more than a month to get it right, when the Steelers visit Rodgers's most recent former team, the Jets, at MetLife Stadium. It doesn't help that the Steelers' offense is facing a pretty good defense in practice. That will help the offense when it's time to face other teams. In theory. Regardless, Rodgers and Metcalf were supposed to change the narrative. For now, it's the same old story.
USA Today
22-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Steelers announce official signing of T.J. Watt's record-setting four-year extension
We have signed LB T.J. Watt to a new four-year contract. @BordasLaw📝: T.J. Watt has officially signed his new extension with Pittsburgh. On July 22 at approximately 3:00 PM EST, the Steelers announced Watt had signed a new four-year deal on social media. Watt took the announcement one step further on social media — sending a message to the Steelers fanbase following the historic signing: "What's up Steeler Nation, I'm excited to officially be signed to an extension," Watt said via X. "So excited to see you guys in Latrobe tomorrow. Here we go. It's going to be a special year." Let's get to work 💪 @_TJWatt The last time Watt signed an extension with Pittsburgh — back in 2021 — he went on to win Defensive Player of the Year and tied Michael Strahan's single-season sack record with 22.5. Watt is looking to make a statement in 2025, to help this incredibly stacked Steelers roster reach the promised land — a seventh Lombardi championship. With a new deal in hand, the superstar defender's mission is clear: deliver when it matters most. For up-to-date Steelers coverage, follow us on X @TheSteelersWire and give our Facebook page a like.
USA Today
29-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Steeler James Harrison drops the hard truth about Mike Tomlin's job security
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is a polarizing figure among Steeler Nation. For every fan who thinks he is one of the best head coaches in the NFL and should be the Steelers head coach for life, there's another who thinks he should have been fired years ago and this team will never win another Super Bowl as long as he's in charge. But how do players feel about this? Current players aren't going to offer much in the way of an opinion on it one way for another but former Steelers linebacker and legend James Harrison has nothing to lose so when he was on The Nightcap Podcast with Shannon Sharpe, he told everyone the truth that we all already knew but didn't want to say out loud. "Mike Tomlin ain't going nowhere," Harrison said. The only person can get Mike Tomlin fired is Mike Tomlin." This might come as a shock to some of you but this is the reality of being a head coach in Pittsburgh. This franchise has had only three head coaches since hiring Chuck Noll in 1969. Not every season under Noll was great, nor was it for his replacement, Bill Cowher. But just like when Cowher replaced Noll and Tomlin replaced Cowher, it was because their predecessor stepped aside and it wasn't ownership's decision to move on. There's no reason to believe the Rooneys won't extend Tomlin the same courtesy. If Tomlin strings together two or three losing season, we could see him deciding to step away and retire and say all the right things about it being the right time for him and the right time for the franchise and the Rooney's hands stay clean. If you are a Steelers fan who is hoping a bad season or two will prompt a Tomlin firing, you will continue to be disappointed.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Steelers announce 50th Anniversary Terrible Towel release date
This soon-to-be-released piece of merch could make you the envy of Steeler Nation. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced Thursday that the limited-edition 50th Anniversary Terrible Towel will drop at 10 a.m. EST July 1. Advertisement Only 5,000 of the towels have been created. Sports broadcaster Myron Cope created the Terrible Towel Dec. 27, 1975, in an effort to excite fans before a playoff game. The Steelers will celebrate the towel's anniversary throughout their upcoming season. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Boston Globe
31-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Why haven't Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins joined new teams yet?
Neither move has happened yet. Rodgers and the Steelers Advertisement In Pittsburgh, Steelers owner Art Rooney has said all spring the team will be patient with Rodgers, and said 'a little while longer' at the owners meetings two weeks ago. Rodgers said multiple times this offseason that he won't be signing quickly with any team because 'I've been in the weeds with these people who are close to me that have cancer,' Rodgers recently told the ' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up If Rodgers truly is helping his sick friends before signing with the Steelers, he might want to say so more publicly and forcefully than he has. Because the impression Rodgers is giving is that he's once again being a diva — milking the attention and delaying his signing because he'd rather go on an ayahuasca retreat than participate in the Steelers' offseason program. Advertisement It's certainly Rodgers's right to skip the offseason since he's not under contract, but Steeler Nation is getting frustrated. It began in March when team leader Cam Heyward said he wasn't going to recruit Rodgers. 'I ain't doing that darkness retreat. I don't need any of that crap,' Heyward said. 'Either you want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler or you don't. That's simple, that's the pitch. Pittsburgh Steelers — if you want to be part of it, so be it. If you don't, no skin off my back.' This past week, with the Steelers beginning voluntary organized team activities, cornerback Darius Slay said, 'Everybody has to buy in, and this is the time that you need to be bought in.' And Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw went off on Rodgers in a radio interview in Arkansas. 'That is just to me is a joke,' The Steelers have little choice but to bite their lip and wait for Rodgers, who even at 41 and coming off a poor season is the Steelers' best option at quarterback this year. They have handled the transition from Ben Roethlisberger poorly, and their only quarterbacks are career backup Mason Rudolph , rookie sixth-rounder Will Howard , and practice squad candidate Skylar Thompson . With coach Mike Tomlin entering his 19th season and no playoff wins in eight years, 2025 could be make-or-break in Pittsburgh. But if Rodgers isn't careful, the Steelers could turn their attention to Cousins, who has been skipping the Falcons' voluntary OTAs while they work through his situation. Cousins, 36, would be more expensive, as Rodgers has said he'll play for as little as $10 million and Cousins is owed $27.5 million this year and $10 million next year. Advertisement It's possible that the Falcons have been waiting to trade Cousins until after June 1, when they can split his dead salary cap money over two years, but the lack of trade movement seems to be mostly about cash. Last year, the Broncos decided to cut Russell Wilson and pay him his $38 million guarantee, allowing the Steelers to sign Wilson for league minimum ($1 million). This year, the Falcons reportedly want an acquiring team to pick up about $20 million of Cousins's guarantee, which has stalled trade talks. If the Falcons were willing to eat the money, Cousins would likely be traded by now. The other problem is that most of the musical chairs have been filled. Other than the Steelers, the only team without a clear-cut starting quarterback is the Saints, who have rookie second-round pick Tyler Shough and youngsters Spencer Rattler and Jake Haener . A Falcons-Saints swap for Cousins makes sense, and intra-division trades do happen ( Drew Bledsoe , Donovan McNabb ), but the Falcons and Saints revel in their especially nasty rivalry. The Browns made sense for Cousins earlier this offseason, but now they'd probably have to trade and/or release Kenny Pickett and Joe Flacco . The Jets could probably use another arm, but they chose Justin Fields and Tyrod Taylor for a reason. Ironically, one team that could use Cousins is the Falcons. Penix is still unproven, and they don't have much behind him in career backup Easton Stick and youngster Emory Jones . In 99 percent of situations, the team will want to trade the expensive veteran to get out of the contract and put all its support behind the youngster. But Cousins might be the one guy who can be a good teammate and support Penix without making it awkward, and he'd be a great insurance policy for a team looking to make noise in the NFC. Advertisement Most likely, the Falcons will be patient through training camp and see if any new trade partners emerge, like when the Vikings traded a first-round pick for Sam Bradford after Teddy Bridgewater went down in 2016. Absent that, the Falcons may be better off keeping an expensive backup for 2025. The Falcons' trade options for Cousins have just about dried up as they struggle to find a team to take on a contract with $37.5 million fully guaranteed. Daniel Kucin Jr./Associated Press BILLS, BILLS, BILLS All isn't rosy in Buffalo All seems to be well in Western New York. The Bills locked up Josh Allen with a They have quietly had a messy offseason. Two of their bigger free agent signings, defensive linemen Michael Hoecht and Larry Ogunjobi , will begin the regular season with six-game suspensions for performance-enhancing drugs. The Bills knew about Hoecht's punishment when they signed him, but Ogunjobi's came as a surprise on the day he signed his contract. Related : This past week, the news got worse. Pass rusher Joey Bosa , the Bills' biggest signing and the replacement for Von Miller , suffered a calf injury at voluntary OTAs and is out until training camp. Though it's potentially not a big deal for Bosa to miss nonpadded practices, the last thing he or the Bills need is a lingering calf injury. Now in his 10th season, Bosa has missed 23 games and played in 28 over the last three years. Advertisement 'Listen, it is concerning,' Bills coach Sean McDermott said. 'Durability, availability are key ties to our roster.' Amid all this was a notable exchange from Bills general manager Brandon Beane a few weeks ago, when he The pressure certainly seems to be building in Buffalo coming off Pass rusher Joey Bosa, the Bills' biggest signing and the replacement for Von Miller, suffered a calf injury at voluntary OTAs and is out until training camp. Maria Lysaker/Associated Press ETC. A few notes on the Patriots ▪ The Patriots led the NFL in The Patriots' cash spending for 2025 ($289 million) still ranks just 23rd, though they rank 10th in cash spending for 2026 ($244.5 million). ▪ Remarkable but true: Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers has never been on a winning team in eight NFL seasons. Peppers has won just 29 of 99 games he has played in since the Browns drafted him in the first round in 2017. Overall, his teams are 37-94-1 (.284) with no playoff appearances. Advertisement Peppers went 7-24-1 with the Browns (including an 0-16 season), 14-35 with the Giants, and 16-35 in three years with the Patriots. Peppers's best seasons were 8-9 with the 2022 Patriots and 7-8-1 with the 2018 Browns. 'I'll be the first one to tell you I'm tired of that,' he said last week. Related : ▪ The Patriots are going to have two epic joint practices this August featuring the quarterback class of 2024. First the Patriots will host the Commanders in Foxborough before their Aug. 8 preseason game, giving fans a chance to watch Drake Maye duel Commanders phenom Jayden Daniels . The next week, Maye will battle J.J. McCarthy as the Patriots visit the Vikings to practice before the Aug. 16 game. ▪ A league source, who knows Stefon Diggs from Buffalo and has no financial or personal reason to protect him, reached out Friday to defend Diggs in light of that 'I promise you, he's working harder down here than whatever he would be doing with the Patriots,' the source said. 'All he does is train all day. He works harder than all of their young receivers. He can throw with Drake later. Doing this now is going to help him be ready to go for Week 1.' Related : ▪ Caught up with the great Ernie Adams last week, who is still living in the area after Mike Vrabel insisted on playing weakside safety on the scout team defense when it was the starting offense's turn on the field, spending most of the time chirping at Tom Brady . 'It was the best part of practice,' Adams said. Tax man The NFL owners held their quarterly meetings two weeks ago in Minnesota. As usual, the NFL used a silly rule change — in this case, We may have discovered the reason that the NFL owners seem to be capitulating to President Donald Trump lately. The bill includes a provision that would allow sports owners to write off only half of the value of their intangible assets over 15 years, instead of a full write-off. A Congressional committee estimated the provision will raise nearly $1 billion over 10 years, but NFL owners believe it could cost them more. The bulk of NFL franchise values consist of intangible assets, including player contracts, media rights, and sponsorships. While the new tax provision would only affect future NFL owners, it could significantly hamper franchise sale values moving forward. Trump and the NFL have long been sparring partners, and this could be Trump's knockout blow. 'The president is committed to ensuring that sports teams overcharging ticketholders do not receive favorable tax treatment,' White House spokesman Harrison Fields told the Times in a statement. 'His focus is on fairness for fans, not team ownership.' Hard at work No. 2 draft pick Travis Hunter hasn't signed his rookie contract yet, but he's putting in the work with the Jaguars at voluntary OTAs. Hunter is primarily practicing at receiver, but spent last Wednesday's practice with the cornerbacks and defense, and is participating in defensive meetings. Hunter hasn't done team drills on defense or played both sides of the ball in one practice, but it's coming. 'He still meets defensively every day that he's on offense. So, he's getting the mental part of it and being able to catch up on some of the communication, some of the corrections off the film from the defensive side of the ball,' Jaguars coach Liam Coen said. 'And it would probably be unfair to put him out on the grass and do both and ask him to go do that and see success. 'In season, he's definitely going to have to do that. I envision maybe a third-down day in-season where obviously he's playing receiver, but he's also going to have to go get some reps on defense and be able to do some of those things. It will come up, absolutely.' Extra points The Raiders will be a tricky Week 1 opponent for the Patriots, with new offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and quarterback Geno Smith tough to get a read on. Kelly, Brian Schottenheimer : Certified 'Players' Coach.' The Ping-Pong table is back in the Cowboys' players' lounge. So is a 10-foot basketball hoop and putting competitions. And last week, he took the team to play paintball, an activity usually reserved for the very end of the offseason program. 'We went paintballing on the first day. I thought that was like a crazy thing, it's never happened before,' fourth-year guard Tyler Smith told the Dallas Morning News … Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase wasn't wrong this past week when he told reporters, 'Sounds like we need to play in the preseason, huh?' The Bengals have a 7-14-1 September record under coach Zac Taylor , who doesn't play his starters in the preseason. It was surprising to hear Chase call out his head coach so publicly, but he probably feels more confident speaking his mind after getting Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones an equal 170 reps, with equal turns with the 1s and 2s during OTAs. The Browns, though, aren't giving 25 percent of reps each to Joe Flacco , Kenny Pickett , Dillon Gabriel , and Shedeur Sanders … Congrats to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer for winning the Bill Nunn Award, becoming the second woman to earn this spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Cabot has been covering the Browns expertly since 1988, three years before Bill Belichick arrived … When I called former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck recently to chat about Tim , is the head coach. 'As a player in the NFL, you take for granted that there's 20 coaches that do all this,' Hasselbeck said. Ben Volin can be reached at
