STEELERS MEDIA THREAD PART 2

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At last, Steelers place Colon on guard duty - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

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Big Ben not bothered by partial rotator cuff tear | TribLIVE

 

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Regardless of the down, Redman is ready for role | TribLIVE

 

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?The Replacements? emerge for Steelers | TribLIVE

 

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Local players to be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame | TribLIVE

 

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Taylor offers perspective on Steelers | TribLIVE

 

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Butler set to take place among football greats | TribLIVE

 

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Steelers notebook: Team holds auditions at outside linebacker | TribLIVE

 

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8/6/12

Steelers' menacing Woodley says sacks all a part of big goal - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

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Steelers QB Roethlisberger held out of practice | TribLIVE

 

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Revamped Steelers straddling eras | TribLIVE

 

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Steelers notebook: Steelers coach Tomlin beats the rain | TribLIVE

 

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Steelers? Woodley seeks to regain status as elite linebacker | TribLIVE

 

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8/10/12

Three offensive players leave with injuries in Steelers' 24-23 loss - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

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Steelers offense debuts with long drive in loss | TribLIVE

 

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Steelers notebook: Johnson, Adams exit preseason opener with injuries | TribLIVE

 

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Rookie linemen share struggles | TribLIVE

 

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Coach Mike Tomlin on loss to Eagles



Coach Mike Tomlin: First I acknowledge that we didn’t get the job done. That is always our intention every time we step into a stadium, to win football games. When you evaluate it from a first preseason standpoint there were some positives and some things to build upon. Obviously we fell short in some areas. We have to go back to Latrobe and get back in the business of developing as a team. Too many errors, physical and mental. We’ll deal with it. We won’t accept it; we will deal with it this time of year. Some positive things, there were contributions from a lot of people. I like the effort overall of the group, but we have a lot of work to do and we will get diligent at getting about it.

From an injury standpoint David Johnson appears to have a severe knee injury. That is being evaluated. We will have more information when we get back to Pittsburgh. Mike Adams injury appears to be less significant. We will evaluate him as well. Jonathan Dwyer just had an AC sprain. Those are the guys that did not return. Anybody else that was shaken up in the game was just that, shaken up.

When did Adams get injured?
When he tried to pick the ball up and run.

Brett Keisel wasn’t here?
He had a family matter. He was excused by me.

Did Chris Rainey impress you at all?
He did some good things tonight. He has some growth, some detail things, some assignment things. Obviously he provided a splash or two for us in the football game.

How did you feel about David DeCastro and Mike Adams?
I thought they represented themselves well at times. From an assignment standpoint I thought they were above the line. They were beat physically some, but that is life in the National Football League. I am sure they will take the lessons learned in this stadium tonight and build from it.

RE: Time of possession on the first two drives:
It was a good start, but it was just that, a start. We desire to finish everything we do and we didn’t finish the job tonight. That is probably what burns in my mind more than anything.

The two touchdown passes, were those mental errors?
Those are physical, not necessarily mental. One Curtis Brown was there to make a play on it and he just has to make a play on it. Another one we had the quarterback in the backfield and we left our feet. We allowed him to get out of the pocket and create space and time and our coverage broke down. Errors that are critical in terms of the outcome of games, but they are also good lessons learned if we are smart.

 

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Labriola on preseason opener


PHILADELPHIA – It was only the preseason opener, but it seems as though this one game that doesn’t even count in the standings has settled the competition to be the starting left tackle for the start of the regular season, which for the Steelers will come on Sunday night, Sept. 9, in Denver.

Unfortunately, this really wasn’t what they had in mind.

Last April, the Steelers spent their first two draft picks on a couple of offensive linemen they hoped could help re-make the unit into one that was more exclamation point than question mark. David DeCastro and Mike Adams were seen as the kinds of talents who could do for guard and tackle, respectively, what Maurkice Pouncey had done for center three summers ago.

For their preseason opener, which came last night against the Eagles here, the Steelers’ top two draft picks were in the starting lineup, albeit for different reasons. DeCastro was at right guard only because left guard Willie Colon was out with an ankle injury and Ramon Foster had to slide over from the right side to fill that spot. Adams, on the other hand, had done enough in practices to earn the start against the Eagles.

What began with such promise ended with disappointment, because before the first quarter of the game against the Eagles was over, Adams had allowed two sacks and was knocked out of the game with an injury to his right knee.

Adams’ injury wasn’t the most disappointing aspect of the Steelers’ 24-23 defeat by the Eagles – that designation would belong to David Johnson’s knee injury that was termed “severe” by Coach Mike Tomlin – but it does seem to have ended Adams’ hopes to be the starting left tackle in Denver.

It’s not believed that Adams will require surgery, but the couple of weeks he seems destined to miss while rehabbing will put him too far behind to catch up in time for the opener.

All of a sudden, Max Starks, who was signed shortly before the opening of training camp and is still on the physically unable to perform list with a knee injury of his own, is the team’s best option at left tackle.

Once again, it’s going to have to be Max Starks to the rescue.

 

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