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Defense Likely to Lead Way in Draft After Racking Up Numbers on Quarterbacks

Each year throughout the NFL season, experts, media and football fans constantly complain and act baffled as to why offenses cannot execute on a consistent bases. And now, there's a new complaint that is suddenly popular: Why do certain quarterbacks hold the ball long? Well, here's the answer, defensive players get...

Steelers Decide to Play Waiting Game With Free Agents

The Steelers are apparently waiting to see what a new collective bargaining agreement brings before worrying about resigning their relatively long list of free agents. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that left tackle Jonathan Scott is the only one of the Steelers' 14 potentially unrestricted free agents that the team...

Steelers' 2011 Schedule: Pittsburgh Could be in Driver's Seat Again

Last season, the Steelers weren't expected to be as productive, due to the four-game suspension of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for violating the league's personal conduct policy. But after making the Super Bowl, the 2010 AFC North champs will not be slept on in 2011. Thanks to their philosophy of tough, physical play...

John Kuhn Brings Experience From Time With Steelers Into Super Bowl

DALLAS -- John Kuhn is the only active Green Bay player who has a Super Bowl ring. Ironically, the fullback/running back won it five years ago as a member of the practice squad of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Packers' opponent in Super Bowl XLV on Sunday at Cowboys Stadium. "It's definitely fun to be playing the Steelers...

Kurt Warner: Steelers Should Be OK if Maurkice Pouncey Can't Play

Steelers Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey arrived in Dallas on crutches, and his status for Sunday's Super Bowl is in doubt. The natural discussion among pundits and fans alike has been to question how Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh offense will fare without their All-Pro center when they line up against the Packers...