We will not finish above 500

Too many holes to fill, talent is lacking, bad off season moves .if you think otherwise, you are delusional.

 

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

 

The Steelers have cut their Colon and are bleeding to death!

 

.500, we'll be lucky to win 4 games. Thanks to management for a great job.

 

your right!!
i predict
497 points on offense!!!!

 

darcrav's posts are what are going to be the main thing that get me through this off-season, I can see this already.

 

Above 500 what? Points? Tackles? Injuries?

 

thanks santee, of all those ,the last one is the most likely.
my heart sinks
if big ben gets hurt again it 500 times worse than losing any of these players in this free agency frenzy
REALITY BITES

 

I definitely haven't ruled them out, but I am worried.

Is Worilds good enough to replace Harrison? We don't know, but there's promise
Will Woodley return to form and stay healthy? We don't know.
What is our Dline going to look like? Will Hood step up, will either McClendon or Ta'amu step up and play well? What will Heyward do? Big question mark here
Cant Troy stay healthy? That's another big question mark.
Can Cortez Allen play well enough for us? He can catch, but no clue if he can defend yet.
Will our Oline finally step up and play well? They should, but until they actually do...

Then we have known problems, like mediocre players starting for us, such as Foote and Gay. We don't have a true #1 WR. Brown is good, but he's going to be double teamed and paired against the #1 CB now, and it's a big drop off after him. Sanders has not proven anything yet, and Plax hasn't been a starter in this league for a while. We are lacking talent at the RB position. Our only good receiving TE is hurt.

Some of those things may be addressed before the season starts, but for now, we have a lot of question marks on this team and we are lacking talent in key areas.

While we could definitely win the division and make the playoffs, we could also easily go 8-8 or worse. I just don't see how anyone can disagree with the above. Sure we have lots of promise with our young players, but for now, it's just promise and we all know how quickly a promising player can fall off the face of the earth (Sweed).

 

Sweed was promising coming out of the draft before he even stepped a foot onto the field. And when he did, all of that promise went out the window. These other guys have actually shown promise on the field.

Sure they may not all pan out like we'd hope, but maybe, just maybe they'll really shine and grow into their roles once the spotlight is on them.

 

That's kind of my point. Maybe they'll shine, maybe they won't. Our team has a lot of question marks this upcoming season. There's simply no reason to be too confident about this team right now. We're definitely not a Super Bowl contender this year, although there's no saying we can't get to that point. I just think we're in a bit of a lull right now

 

Yeah, you're right. This team could go 6-10 or 11-5 next year. It is in transition and thats just part of the natural order of things. The Steelers have been here before and Im confident that they'll pull through it without much of a lull. What gets me are those doom and gloomers who think that this is it and this team is forever shot. There are some that think this is a 4 win team. Then there are some who want to blow it all up and start again essentially assuring that they'd be a 4 win team. They're fine. They're in transition and they'll pull through it. I tend to look at the past and trust the organization. Their track record over the past 20 years in worthy of the benefit of the doubt, yet some here (a lot actually) don't see it that way.

 

i think it's more that it's happening during the best years left of our qb.

 

total moron ... 4 wins is crazy

HINES

 

Yea, we couldnt win the SB from the 6th seed, couldnt go 3-1 without Ben during his suspension, couldnt win 6 superbowls... Make sure you re telling the media we re done as well. Nothing kicks the Steelers in the arse more than being the underdog.

In 37 yrs as a fan, the Steelers have only failed to make the playoffs, 15 times. The last time we only won 4 games was 1967. Even if they do only win 4 games, thanks management for doing such an awesome job. Just for the record, Dallas has only won 2 playoff games since 1996.

Always easy to spot the bandwagoners and the fairweather fans.

 

I know things have been tough since XLV but thanks for posting your video to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TdYIiQGSmw

Things will get better.

 

How are people who are nervous about this year bandwagon and fairweather fans? I'm very nervous about this upcoming season, that doesn't make me a fairweather fan, it makes me passionate about this team. The fact that it's March and I'm already worried means I care.

 

I think that comment suggested the people who have been watching this team for three or four decades have a bit more patience, trust, and understanding with the moves the organization makes. There's no sense getting overly emotional about transactions because we all did it so many years ago when we saw guys like Franco and Webby leave, heard Bradshaw was trying to make a comeback with Tampa Bay, saw Merriweather and Lipps split, saw Lloyd, Woodson, and Lake leave . . . (Heck, I was nineteen and disappointed some young nobody named Cowher got the head coaching job Mean Joe Greene interviewed for) . . . and we never really missed a beat. Even more importantly, in hindsight, they all seemed like the right move.

So, when our team makes moves that some younger folks might be going apeshlt over, the older crowd kinda just shrugs their shoulders and thinks, "Meh, I'm sure it'll all work out."

I don't know that anybody who commits as much time as we all do to this board is a "bandwagoner" or "fairweather" fan. Heck, "fan" by definition is short for "fanatic" which, clearly, we all are.

Some are just more experienced fanatics than others, I guess.

 

This may be a challenging year but I really believe we can still be competitive and the primary reason for that is Ben. I've been critical of Ben at times, mainly for his unwillingness to adjust to a system designed to keep him upright and healthy and cut down on the number of sacks he takes. His "Mr. Sandlot" routine frustrates me at times but the fact is he's still one of the top 5 quarterbacks in the NFL and makes the other players around him better. If you don't believe that, pay attention to Mike "The Diva" Wallace's numbers this year with Ryan Tannehill tossing him the rock.

 

Not bandwagon or fair weather fan.....just realist. Plaxico, Matt S, Gay, gives me great hope.