Steelers named NFL's worst in NFLPA's 2025 team report card.

then why was there a dried out field turf this season week 5??
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The team should be ashamed of not having state of the art facilities. There is so much money in NFL football and their business that there is no excuse.

Isn't this stuff tax deductible as a business expense?

For all of you that think this isn't a big deal to the players, this stuff is huge. Imagine friends on other teams telling you that they have a daycare for the children so they don't have to have something set up off site that you need to drive to before and after being at the facility. The whole family can arrive and leave together. It's safer. It's more convenient, and it is just better.

The lack of bathrooms is an embarrassment. There is no excuse. The players also have a limited time to use those bathrooms. As anyone that has played football knows, you try to take care of business before you go onto the field, but it's hard to get your body to cooperate at times. Having a huge roster and limited bathrooms with a relatively short time to get yourself in the best possible situation before you leave the locker room sucks. Some guys use the bathroom just to throw up before every game. This stuff is real if you're a player.

It doesn't matter if fans don't think it's a big deal, but it matters if all the players in the NFL and their wives and children think it's a big deal.

 

sloppy seconds!!!????

Damn Rooney that's not cool

 

Im starting to think my vitriol towards MT was somewhat misguided. Not that some of it was warranted but AR 2 appears to be the real problem here. Hard to be a contender with a horrible owner who appears driven by mediocrity. He can’t be gone quick enough.

 

This will send the ninnies into full-on Def Con 1 high alert status.

Art gonna Art though...

 

They are not the richest owners. Most of their money goes to contracts. I doubt they have much left over to update their facilities.

Elon Musk wanted to buy the Steelers last year. I personally would not want that.

 

Captain complacency, stuck in the past, unwilling to change, needs everything to be a comfort blanket, not a winner. Needs to go, he's like a middle mamager who spent a lifetime at the same office supplies business and never rocked a boat once.

Mr. Gold watch, 40 years of service, credit the company, now off you go into retirement, and a week later no-one notices he's gone.

 

I've been in all 32 team's facilities (not the newer ones from 2017).

I think Washington, Cleveland, Atlanta are among the worst. The Jets suck.
Philly was totally the worst by far, but they have all new stuff, and it takes it a while to slum back down.

I never really had Pittsburgh among the top.
At one time the 49ers were King of that Hill. NE may be there now.
Or maybe the Rams...
That contraption is Dallas is better than that urinal looking place... but I think of it as a mall.

They do need to spend some money on the training facilities. It does make a difference.
Omar has some distance to go to out rank Jets management... or the Falcons.
I think he's mid-pack if I squeeze my eyes tight and drink a few pickle juice tequilas, maybe inject some heroin.

I know the Rooney's and I won't trash them.
I do think Art needs a little more backbone. Dan probably is better.

 

You keep insulting Khan. He's only been on the job for a few years and nearly everybody he drafted has made the roster. Your comment about the Jets and the Falcons is ridiculous?

I don't understand you banging on him the way that you do.

I agree that he still has a lot to improve on in free agency, but I believe he is now in position to take a slightly more powerful role in making more decisions with a new head coach and staff coming in.

Let's see where he goes from here.

 

Supposedly he is more of a football man than the lawyer we have in charge now. It can’t be any worse.

 

Agreed. In terms of blame around here AR2 and Tomlin get much more than Khan IMO. Now 2/3 years from now that could change.

 

I would
Love to transfer all of these players back to the 60’s and 70’s for just one season. 95% would probably quit after about a week. I get that they want top notch treatment but sometimes they have to come back to reality. They are being paid milllions to play a game.

The daycare thing is laughable to me. They have wives, girlfriends, baby mamas who probably don’t work at all. I know some of them do but the vast majority run around in their expensive cars doing mostly nothing all day while they drop their kids off at daycare (baby sitter) and then come home to sleep and repeat daily.

The bathroom deal is atrocious in this day and age and needs to be improved. This is where I can say Rooneys are Cheap!


I know that some players probably go for the best of the best but they often overlook the western PA cost of living and opt for California where they are taxed beyond all control for very little return.


If Elon Musk wanted to buy the team I would welcome it with open arms. Rooneys will never be able to do what Musk could do overnight. The guy wants to build a city on the moon. Imagine what he could do with replacing Acricrap stadium.

 

Good question. Was is ever confirmed who the doctor was? Thought I read somewhere that TJ was doing that on his own away from steelers people.

 

Well, apparently the NFLPA agrees with me.
I didn't rank him bottom, just mediocre. I will do so until he builds a winning roster and that takes "impact players" not the blue-light specials.
Also of note, I do hold onto hope that he ascends to the next levels. This is a very good year for him to prove his worth.
I don't mind being wrong, but until he proves such... he gets what he gets.

Then there is this:
What are our two glaring holes? QB and WR. (yeah, we need other spots... but those two are 2-years overdue, maybe more)
Drafting S's and K's isn't going to address that. (Used as a point, not a fact. There are GM's that have done just that)
Coaching is not to sole problem. (I'd even prop Omar for maybe seeing that the time had come to move on and change was needed)
I also think he needs some of his guys to show up in the fake Pro Bowl ballots more. (I think they should just do away with the game and just announce the players and maybe have a ceremony but even the balloting is sort of a joke - but it is all we have for now)

No, Omar does not get a free pass.
Look at what bad GM (and owners have done)
The Jets - how could you prop them? They get tons of draft picks making good moves, but they destroy everything... that owner is terrible.
Atlanta - Aurthur Blank.... wow.. just wow...
Scott Pioli - From top of the chain to drunk under a bridge somewhere.
Any GM with the Raiders. Of course Johnny Appleseed owner has some hand in that.
Every year GM's get fired for stupid crap.
Thankfully, ours is not among the worst.

 

I get it. I do. But the reality is that teams are competing with what other teams are doing.

It's just like when you're buying a house and moving to a neighborhood. You are going to compare amenities and compare what you are getting for the money.

I wish I had these problems when I was their age!

 

This is the kind of things that make me think the Rooney’s are highly committed but relatively cash poor owners. They can not just lavish cash on their operation like those that are getting cash flow from another massive business operation can.

 

Well, you did say that "Omar has some distance to go to out rank Jets management... or the Falcons."

Those are bottom of the barrel organizations and you seem to be putting him below those teams. That's what I was talking about.

I think the quarterback situation and the wide receiver situation go hand-in-hand. I believe that Rooney and Tomlin wanted Rodgers. Sure Khan signed him, but that was an organizational decision that I don't believe he had any control of.

Rodgers is hard on inexperienced WRs and players that don't meet his rigid standards. I can understand a quality free agent WR that has no history with Rodgers not wanting to play for an organization that has been putting out terrible offenses and bad quarterback play for years now, a 42-year-old QB that is constantly showing up his receivers when they make mistakes, and isn't offering a salary that is blowing them away. No big-time WR is going out of their way to play where their numbers are not going to be good and they are going to be blocking much of the time. This is also a team that just got rid of George Pickens and they already signed their current #1 so any WR knows they aren't getting a lot of action or money in the Burgh.

If they bring Aaron Rodgers back, do you really think he has any real options other than getting another developmental QB? I don't.

Until they can show that the offense is going somewhere and there is actually a future plan in place, free agent WRs aren't coming here without getting overpaid.

I know he hasn't done enough to say he's a top-tier GM, but I am hoping that he can hit a few homeruns going forward that can elevate the team. He needs to do that, and I agree with you in that regard.

 

The Steelers have been on a downward trajectory and finally hit the bottom, last place. They don't need to aspire to be number 1 but you'd think that Rooney would make a few attempts at getting out of the basement. At this point, I think I'd rather them put money into some of these things for the players than upgrade the seats in the stadium.

 

Players are people too and the working conditions in Pittsburgh are way below NFL standards.

Paging Mr. Art Rooney II

You players have spoken.

 

Yikes, the bolded, is misleading. No, he is not there. But just mid-pack at very best.
Rogers is a true to life throwback to "Field Generals" - He could call the entire game with the OC taking a long nap - Like Peyton did. Rogers knows every play and who does what and where they should be. I love those QB's.... they show up every now and them, very tough to find. He was most definitely an underrated plus in our offense for that... he level of play has fallen but those attributes kept us in it.

This is the year for him to prove otherwise. The spotlight is on him.
If it were any other team, I'd say this a make it break year... fail and he's fired.

I 100% agree it is a tough year but there's always hidden gems and the unexpected. If he's making calls you never know what can turn up.

As I said in another post, "he doesn't have to make the 'splash' signings, just good solid shopping."
You really should be using FA to stock up, that market is for role players and when you need that 1 or 2 guys. The draft is most important.
If he goes out and signs some more old 30+ then I would show him the exit.

 

The Steelers, as an organization, have to be more realistic in regards to their internal evaluations. The idea that they are just a smidge away from winning it all is laughable. But that is their public facing stance at least. Look, I would love to see Heyward and Watt lift a Lombardi and then ride off into the sunset...but that ship has sailed.

A brutally honest assessment of this team and where it is at would realize that any over about 26-28 is not on the timeline to the next Steelers SB team. Every player added to the roster...should be aligned with that timeline. Guys on rookie deals that need a change of scenery, guys just starting their second contracts that needed another opportunity. No more guys looking for one last contract as they enter the back side of their career. Let the Chiefs, the Bills, the Rams, etc do that. Their window is right now. So they can and should sign right now players.

The Steelers need to sign the NEXT generation of right now players. Get them in their building and grow the team together.

Likely this only makes sense in my head...but I swear I thought I had a point.