LeGarrette Blount Agrees To 2 Year Deal With Steelers

Bount surprisingly easy to bring down before top speed?
OK, LMAO.

Ravens are bewildered, a modest mill.2, .3 this upcoming season for a 1-2 Bell Blount punch? Why, that's even a bargain in Steelers' terms. sheesh

Ring the Bell and roll me a Blount in 4rth quarters cuz D0bre's on board!

 

Now that is funny DObre or is it Dooby

Very excited to see the return of the Steelers running game.

Bman

 

I still think the run game success comes from a dedication from the coaches in practice time allocation and for the team to stick with the run into the 2nd half of games when down by 10 points or less.

We have always need a bit of infusion in the talent of our running backs to make up for the talent decline of the O-line. Mendenhall was supposed to be that guy and it didn't work out.

Now we might be seeing a revitalization of both the running back talent AND the offensive line talent. It should just take practice and devotion to the cause to get our running game back to above average in the league.

 

Well if anyone is going to fix the o-line it is Munchak.

I agree you need to commit to stick with it, but with Ben wanting the ball in all situations I don't see that happening.

Mendy ran behind a crappy line for years. The mindset should be the reverse IMO, go out and get a great offensive line and even a mediocre RB will look pretty good.

 

I've not been impressed with how the team has handled coordinating all aspects of the offense. I feel all-offense meetings should be the norm rather than the exception.

 

It will be great to see this combo behind last years 2nd half line.

Looking forward to it myself.

 

is Wallace starting at Center?

 

Well rumor has it that Miami does want to trade him.

 

talk about mobility at center.

 

One never knows

 

Narrowing it down it will either be Pouncey, Velasco or Wallace.

How is that for a broad stroke haha

Bman

 

you might wanna use a roller around here. LOL

 

Hahaha pretty broad indeed. Wallace filled in nicely, hopefully Velasco heals up and can be resigned. Pouncey is a "guard" that wether anyone likes it or not, shouldn't be resigned even if we can. Injury prone/overrated at the best. Proof is in the picture. He's not that good of a center folks... Damn sure not an anchor. He would've been brilliant (if healthy) on shanahan's old Denver donkey line, but is underweight and over brittle here.

I do believe he'd be an upgrade over Foster at guard and either Wallace or Velasco at center would be nice so long as the tackle spots hold up, which in everyone's mind is the if factor.

hes not worth the headache or the money that's assumed he'll try to command... But if he's honest with himself and can ditch the gingerly effect, I'd take him at an HONEST price to play guard.

 

I've said it a few times now, I'd rather have had Legs playing center than Pouncey all along. People want to bring up the fact against the pack in the bowl that Legs put us in a bind with his getting pushed back and allowing Ben to foul up a pass in the beginning of the bowl.

truth is, Pouncey never did great against the bull rush and I blame that moment on the play calling (while I liked the ballsy call) where maybe being conservative would have shaved a few points off of that initial outcome.

bottom line, Pouncey has never lived up to the hype some folks like to scream about... But honestly he does have some good use to be seen here if he stays healthy and is utilized accordingly. We'll see next off season wether or not he's overly full of himself come contract time.

 

You must put the pieces together, let's try.

Cowher signed. Big bruising olineman. Everyone one of them big bulldozing guys.
OC came and gone using the bus and the big line moved the chains.

Tomlin hired. BA fired. Haley in. Different ideas of a run game.
Pouncey. Over powered. Small. Mike shanahan small OLine. How many no name rbs had 1100 yards. Drafted in the 6th round. Alfred Morris. Zone blocking.

Not to carry on to long with the nonsense. Different styles. Zone block. Undersized. Capitalized.

Im not saying he will succeed. He already has. I will say he had the ppotential to flourish.

 

we don't have the right types in place yet. putting all the eggs in the pounce basket would be a mistake.

I also want to say it wasn't just the o-line that got better in the last half of the season. heath got healthier and spaeth came back. we surprised a few teams with what bell could bring. we went to a no huddle and kept them tired and off balance. it would be a big mistake if everyone thought it was this lines play that made the difference. teams will adjust and study. we won't have that type of surprise factor this year.

pouncey didn't play with this group last year. foster is still slow, adams and gilbert still can't do a lot of things on a consistent basis. DD is still working on his game. I think munch will have a big effect on him. I think munch can work with beachum , Wallace , pouncey and DD.

he's not a miracle worker. he says he will work with our players strengths, but he'd like to run the inside and outside zone blocking scheme. all the players have to be right for the system. we have had such a modge podge of abilities here and it's hurt everyone across the board.

it should be interesting to see what we go after in the draft and who is playing where come camp. it may not be who we think at certain spots once it's all said and done. at least if they let munch do his thing and not hold him back from his goal.

 

I must be remembering it differently. Legs was a journeyman. Pouncey re-energised the line, shored up some huge gaps in our protection and made our line look a whole lot better than it ever did with similar journeymen centres like Mahan and Hartwig. Putting Pouncey was a strategic move in terms of lifting the o-line play which had tried for too many years to go with guys of Legursky's calibre and hoped to get away with it.

It's difficult to say he hasn't lived up to the hype when the main reason for lack of production is injuries. Now, maybe the injuries and the weak points in his game are connected - I know some can argue that, and tbh I don't know enough about sports injuries to tell. So that may well be true.

 

Pouncey has 3 Pro Bowls to his name ... you better believe he's going to want top dollar.

 

I agree. We don't seem committed to any style of play. The personnel has to match the system if you have one ... or the system has to match the personnel if you don't. We seem to be stuck somewhere in the middle.

 

This is the main problem that we need to address in the off-season, above any player moves.

 

And where have those pro bowls gotten us? Not attacking just painting a picture... Yes he'll want top dollar, and I hope those in the FO aren't stupid enough to give it to him.

 

Who knows, we assume because of trend that he'll shoot for the moon contract wise. Maybe, maybe not.

and maybe he goes on to stay healthy and play some of the best ball at his spot anyone has ever seen. Honestly I don't think he's lived up to all the hoo haw and praise some give him... And believe it would be foolish to tie ourselves down to him moving foreward.

guess we'll see what this year brings. Hopefully he's beast and handles business... Then we'll see what his demands are. Still, I'd shop him around knowing that Wallace or Velasco(if healed) are more than serviceable in comparison.

 

And there's the problem. We don't know that Velasco is healed, and both he and Wallace have given one season of good play to go off. If Velasco was fully healthy, maybe it's a different story, but at the moment you could well argue that we have even less reason to believe those two are serviceable than Pouncey is, if we're going strictly on performance...

(Just playing devil's advocate here.)

 

trouble is we don't know how pouncey will play on that knee yet either. word is he will open camp on the PUP list. we sure could use another guy capable of playing center. that is beachum and that leaves adams at LT then. hubbard they were toying with last year learning the center spot. I'm not sure if we retained olsen or not. browning is a T/G, and so are embernate and Abdullah.