One word best describes the Pittsburgh Steelers:<\/p>\n
Chaos.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a flawed team that needs to \u201cclean our own house,\u201d as Mike McCarthy said. (I wonder if McCarthy knew what he was getting into, or if he was too eager to coach his hometown team.)<\/p>\n
Chaos.<\/p>\n
Let me count the ways:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Joey Porter Jr. faked injury to lie his way out of Pittsburgh. The Steelers validated his lie. It hijacked the season.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jalen Ramsey reportedly advised Porter on how to achieve his exit, calling on his own experience moving from Jacksonville to Los Angeles in 2019. Ramsey thus sabotaged his own team. (Ramsey denies it: \u201cY\u2019all are crazy lol.\u201d)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ramsey spoke about a \u201cdisconnect\u201d between players and coaches. Will Ramsey try to finagle a move to a contender before the NFL\u2019s Nov. 10 trade deadline? Detroit is allegedly interested. (Ramsey backtracked: \u201cI rock wit\u2019 the coaches.\u201d)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cameron Heyward said that fans burning Porter jerseys should \u201cgrow up.\u201d He\u2019s right, but why fuel the angst?<\/p>\n
\u2022 Heyward whines on the regular about not getting paid enough. T.J. Watt likely thinks his top career achievement is making $1 million more on average annual value than Myles Garrett. Score gets kept via income, not winning. (That\u2019s true of most athletes.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ex-Steeler Chris Hoke said linebacker Patrick Queen \u201cjust gave up\u201d on several plays at Cleveland: \u201cHey, I\u2019m not gonna throw my body in there.\u201d Video seems to confirm. Queen is in the final season of his contract. Is he making business decisions?<\/p>\n
\u2022 Aaron Rodgers is yelling at McCarthy.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Heyward and Watt are yelling at defensive coordinator Patrick Graham.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Omar Khan isn\u2019t qualified to be a GM. He\u2019s a bean counter. The Steelers haven\u2019t had a legit No. 2 wideout since trading Diontae Johnson more than two years ago. The depth chart has holes, but Khan took a kick returner in the fourth round of this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n
\u2022 It makes zero sense to employ a 42-year-old quarterback to \u201cwin now,\u201d then run off your 26-year-old top-level cover cornerback, arguably your most important defensive player. (By the way, when does the omnipresent philosophy of \u201cwin now\u201d actually translate into, you know, winning now?)<\/p>\n
Chaos.<\/p>\n
Fans seem angry. Ready to turn.<\/p>\n
Are the Steelers going to win nine or 10 games and stumble into the playoffs?<\/p>\n
That could happen. The NFL isn\u2019t very good.<\/p>\n
But the Steelers aren\u2019t likeable. Haven\u2019t been for the best part of a decade.<\/p>\n
No fun, my babe, no fun.<\/p>\n
Chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One word best describes the Pittsburgh Steelers: Chaos. It\u2019s a flawed team that needs to \u201cclean our own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-878544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}