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Behind the Steel Curtain
"j. watt alex smith" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Three point. One boo then. The next player was antwan brooks and his one game against dallas where he played well then got hurt. They had to cut him or put him on. I r so people are saying why mondo because if you aren't paying attention the dude had been playing great plain flat not not flash she you know who else does it play. Flashy tyson hollow. Yeah he's not flashy he's just really good at you know so it is what it is. I unfortunately keeping eight. I really feel that this might be what's going on. Even if he doesn't go in they might just feel that they don't have steph onto it available for the first week but it would be smart if they're not going to be available for wanted. Just do the i. R. thing so that's the defensive line anything else you wanna say about that no other than bringing up to you. Know part of what we're doing when we're looking at all this is you're trying to think of things the head coach and gm could be sitting down talking about and looking at with this and that could be something we're not saying it is. We might be far from it but it's not out of the realm of possibility that something like that is going on so exactly exactly so. Yes because it's that's an awful lot of defensive lineman. There's one other possibility we got to throw it out. There there could be steelers. Wanted to try to trade. Somebody people like you know what why we'll just back for you to cut one of them. Nope you want them to pay for them to pay for every possible that i got to be one of those two things. In my opinion it's got to be so so that's let's outside linebackers. That was interesting. And unfortunately i called this one right on. Didn't want to call it this way. But i just thought it was what the steelers would do. The steelers only kept four outside linebackers. Tj watt alex. smith. Melvin ingram third and jamir jones. Not in this group. Was cassius marsh as well as six round draft. Pick quincy rochet queue from you. As time went on just was more and more obvious that shamir jones earned a spot over rochet young men. the only question was was roche. Would rochet earn a spot over someone else. A different position that they chose to keep. I'm really surprised when i saw her. They did keep. I'm really at inside linebacker. Which will get to shortly. I'm surprised it wasn't rochet. That should have been rochet. If you know what. I mean rather rather than keep six inside linebackers i would have rather gone five and five ten linebackers. That's i would have done. But that's me and the thing is he's exposed to waivers if someone else wants them. He's there's he looks like he's going to be a practice squad guy. Someone doesn't pick him up. You don't let one of your draft picks. Go think you're going to sign them back the next day. That's not a move you make so that tells me that the steelers can take him bad but we're okay. If if yeah understood that they might lose it. Yeah and here's what's crazy. A lot of people like Well jones out played my everything. Yeah the jones. I'll play actually had a higher grade. According to pf now jones did really make bigger splashes on special teams. But so did russia. He did pretty good too. So i can. I can understand what was going on there. It just kinda seem from the playing time and everything else. The jones was the guy they were giving more of a look too. So hopefully coup for you is still gonna stick around and you know what six round draft pick didn't make the initial fifty-three hopefully ends up on the practice squad. Could maybe up on the on the on the roster later like i said before you just described antoine brooks. That was him last year. He didn't make fifty three start. So i don't want to say this time of pittsburgh over but if someone else decides they want to take a flyer on them then it is so we'll we'll we'll see what happens okay. Anything else about outside linebackers. No let's go to where the discussion's going to be a little bit more of late one thing outside of that. Let's let's look at the top guy on the list. One track jordan watts okay. I still can't believe people were were seriously expecting his contract announcement during immediately after the game. We set it on the show. Jerry dulack was not give you an inside reports. He was giving his opinion so everyone ran with this report that the deals done just wade out of the game. That's not what was said. That's not what happened in k. That that just wasn't the case but my opinions. And like i know michael beck. He was projected when the deal was done he was. He's got two hours unless they announced this time of night because he thought it was today. I guess thursday. Because the steelers have practice monday tuesday wednesday off for four days. And i'm like. I would be surprised if he signed it and maybe wednesday when they have practice or side at that first day. Then maybe you can go take some time. My other opinion is i think he starts practicing when they come back from that break whether there's a new deal i don't think he's gonna take this into the regular season. I don't know that it's all him. I don't know that he. I don't know if you know i mean if steelers' want to put their foot down they could say get it on the brexit now or get out and they haven't been working together so that's just my i wanted to throw my thoughts out there on the whole. Watch anything you want to say about that before. We go inside linebacker..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"j. watt alex smith" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Pittsburgh steelers fans welcome to this breaking news. Podcast of the pittsburgh steelers fifty three man roster. The steelers had to cut down to fifty three players by four pm. On tuesday august thirty first and this is their first fifty three man roster for the two thousand twenty one. Nfl season now. The reason. I say it's the first is because it's not going to be the last honestly this roster may only last a day if there's anyone that they're wanting to get to the i. r. to have come back early or anything like that and he kind of trades and kind of ups those are still could becoming so this is just the first version and it's actually quite interesting with some of the things that the steelers chose to do so. Let's break it down real quick. There was really no surprise at the quarterback position. It was ben rothlisberger mason rudolph and wayne haskins and joshua dobbs went to the injured reserve list as part of the announcement of this which is interesting because if he's going to the into reserve less now after not being on the roster for the day. This isn't un eligible to return thing this is. He's on the i are now. They could've put. I mean the the actual statement was that he is on the reserve injured list. Now could there be an injury settlement later if he's eligible to to play things of that nature. Perhaps i'm not sure. But i'm not surprised by this because if someone someone being on the i r this allows joshua dobbs to be on the sidelines for steelers games which i think is something that they ultimately want it. But let's not go too much into that. let's talk about. Who's on this team. The steelers kept four running back and fullback they. They're running. backs are nausea harris. Benny snell junior anthony. Macfarland junior and caylin balaj. The steelers released trey edmunds and jalen. Samuels i thought it was a chance that could maybe keep trey edmunds. Because he does some different things as h back. I think he's a prime candidate for the practice squad and possibly even elevation if they would need it so i don't think his time in pittsburgh is completely over. Also the steelers kept fullback derrick. What as expected and the steelers went with the five wide receivers that a lot of people had them projected to have all the way back ever since julius misuse to return so it was juju smith schuster. James washington deonte johnson. Chase klay poll. At ray ray mcleod in no particular order. The steelers also kept three tight ends. When eric hebron pat fair youth and zach gentry. They released kevin reiter as long as he goes through. Waivers everything he's another prime candidate for the practice squad. Additionally then we get to the offensive line which is kind of crazy with what the steelers did here. I wasn't sure or this is going gonna keep rashad coward or bj finney. Rashad coward a bj. Finney didn't keep either of them. They're going with eight offensive linemen. Which is kind of crazy right now when you think about it but it's chew chor four zach banner kevin dodge and trae turner kendrick green dan moore junior joe hague and jc half an hour. So this means that the steelers did not their backup guard right. Now is half an hour so i have a feeling we might see one or both of these players back on this roster sometime soon. I wouldn't be surprised if one day later if player. I've hinted at this monday morning before. Other things even came out that we could possibly see zach banner going on injured reserve early in the season with a chance to return and you can return after three weeks. Not three not three games three weeks the way i understand it which means that earlier. He goes on the sooner he can return. But that's the offensive line. Only eight offensive lineman at this time they might be looking to add another one outside of the organization or to have one of those other ones. Come back it'll be really interesting to see how this plays out over the next several days. So that's a total of twenty four players on offense so they're one less than they normally have on offense so let's go ahead and slide on over to the defense and the question was. Oh my goodness which defensive lineman of the steelers not gonna keep. Are they going to. Are they going to keep an extra one to keep seven. If so they still gotta lose one is going to be mondo bugs auto milk. Who's it going to be so looking at it. They kept them all. They kept eight. Defensive lineman cameron heyward stefan to it. Tyson allahu chris warmly. Henry mondo isaiah bugs. Carlos davis and isaiah louder milk. All of them all of them to start off on this fifty three man roster next did outside linebackers. The only kept four. The only kept for the big. Three of tj watt. Alex smith and malcolm melvin ingram. The third and the fourth was jamir jones who played the best in the preseason. So that was one that was kind of interesting what they would do with quincy rochet. He did not make the team. I'm sure they'd love to get them on the practice squad if he can get there. But here's where. I get surprised that they that they didn't keep quincy rochet but they kept six inside linebackers. That which were devon bush. Joe show bert. Roberts spelane buddy johnson marcus. Allen and ulysses gilbert the third. I was really surprised that they would keep that many inside linebackers and so if you outside linebackers but that's just what they decided to go with. And that's that's very interesting so ten linebackers when sometimes. There's only nine eight defensive lineman when a lot of times. There's only six or seven. You already had one more guy on defense because the guy on offense but if you're counting and you're and you're saying okay. They still going to have three specialists. How many they got back. They only kept eight defensive backs four corners and four safeties. So i would not be shocked to see the steelers. Possibly looking places here where they're a little bit thin because the cornerbacks are joe. Haden cameron jean-pierre justin lane. Yes that is correct. The steelers they've released. Arthur molet who seemed to be if he was healthy. Might have been in line to be the slot. Cornerback after an injury to antoine brooks but he was released gay as well as mark gilbert and then it safety. They kept four. Which wasn't surprise. They released donovan steiner and they kept making fitzpatrick tarot edmonds miles. Killebrew and trae norwood's so that is your pittsburgh steelers defense twenty-six players at all. You gotta finish up with a specialist. These reports came out monday night and yes they were true. The only the only one returner from last season. And that is place-kicker chris. Boswell the punter is seventh round draft pick presley harbin in the third and the long snapper is christian. Coots who has been on and off the steelers practice squad or training camp you know. He was on the practice. What a little bit last year when they might have been concerned of needing a long snapper with a lot of the covert stuff he played in the xfl but had himself a very nice preseason. So the steelers switch up both their punter and long snapper so in all twenty four offense twenty sixty fence. Three specialists fifty three men. Total on this team. This roster is likely to change its likely to change within. I mean i don't know about hours. But i the steelers could go out. And they could sign a veteran that was released right now because it would not have to clear waivers. They could pick up someone in the waiver wire. They could signed somebody back tomorrow. They could put one of their players on the i r. Unsigned somebody back. There's a lot of possibilities here so we will be breaking this down. Even more on the scarborough show podcast tonight at approximately nine. Pm on youtube and facebook and the audio will be going up sometime between eleven pm and midnight eastern so. Make sure you check that out but this was your breaking news. I don't even know if i said who i was. I can't remember. I was so excited about the fifty. Three man roster. This is behind the curtain editor. Dave scofield let you know what happened with this roster and these are most of the players you will see most likely come september twelfth. We are less than two weeks away from the steelers kicking off in buffalo. And we'll we'll see what kind of moves they make but bottom line is these are the players that that you can start to fall in love with hope. We'll see how they change. I'm sure something's going to happen. But as we always say here go steelers..
Behind the Steel Curtain
"j. watt alex smith" Discussed on Behind the Steel Curtain
"Let's ride podcast every monday wednesday friday but also all of our other morning shows like the live mike staticky can all of rpm shows that are also simulcast on facebook live in on youtube. All right. let's get right into things. Everyone is excited. I can tell that steeler nation is starting to kind of wake up again as my writer die crew on twitter. I put out the tweet. And i said okay mailbag time. He wants to have some questions. And to my. Gosh there's a lot. Everyone wants to talk about. Melvin ingram and rightfully so in case. You didn't see monday. The steelers were reportedly signing. Melvin ingram on tuesday. That became official. They release two players. They also brought in a tackle formerly of the indianapolis colts instead of bolstering their lineup. A little bit melvin. Ingram is a player that a lot of people are curious about and they asked the question which is how do you think he fits. And the first thing. I want to make sure it's very clear. This is not in any way. Shape or form. Melvin ingram being placed on the steelers roster is not in any way shape or form a demotion for alex highsmith. Not at all just like last season. When alex smith was drafted it was not dude as a demotion for bud to free. This is not a case of you know when the steelers strategies misused during yet sammie coats and martinez frying kind of going back and forth about twitter was not the case. It's not the case now. Either alex highsmith's going into his second year in the national football league in no way shape performance anymore gonna say he's a veteran he's an entrenched starter. He is going to be learning. As the season progresses everyone with a brain in between their ears should know this. And it's it's going to be smart that it is smart that the steelers go went out in found valuable leadership and experience at a position of need. The pittsburgh steelers the two positions. I think most would agree with us. The two positions especially on the defensive side of the football that are glaring when it comes to so thin in the in the depths department. It's outside linebacker and then quarterback but it's different quarterback you have depth is just unproven death in other words. You have occur brown undrafted rookie. You have james beard. We don't know a ton about him based on the fact that he hasn't played that much and then you have some other players justin lane. Even they have depth. But it's unproven death on on the outside linebacker depth chart. That's a different story altogether on the outside linebacker depth chart you have nothing. The coverage is pretty bare. You have obviously t. J. watt alex smith. You had cassius. Marsh in quincy rochet six draft pick from temple slash miami the u. That's it that was it. It wasn't even a potential thing. Yeah quincy rochet. You're like okay. Maybe he got was sixth round draft. Pick for a reason. He's a six round draft. Pick if anyone thought that he was worth more or worthy of a higher slot they would have drafted him. They didn't six round draft pick into the dealer. Said we need to make a move. They released dave decastro. They free up cap space. And you bring in a player who i again. I'm not claiming to be an expert. Here but melvin. Ingram from all accounts that i've read and people that i trust is that he could be the perfect number three tass rusher for the steelers. Let me give you a couple of reasons. Why number one. This is something that i like. How hot is that. He can play both sides. He is not a player that has to always rush from the right or always rushing the left he can play those sides. That is huge. Checkmark number one. Another thing is that melvin. Ingram is experience employs. This guy he's not thinking about someone. Like cassius marsh or you think about ola finian pass. Where did they struggle. They struggled in setting the edge. They just weren't big enough. They just aren't strong enough. That's not melvin ingram. This guy can play the run. He can set the edge. He knows exactly what's asked of him. He will be just finding that department. Kenny rush the passer. Absolutely absolutely in jeffrey benedict. Who does more about football than ideal he talked about his bullrushes is number one..