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First Call: Steelers’ bad week got worse Sunday; plan for 17-game NFL season leakedVideo
After a beatdown in Cleveland Thursday night, the bad week for the Steelers (5-5) continued through Sunday based on what happened across the AFC. Those holding out hope that the Steelers could track down the Ravens atop the AFC North were dealt a severe blow as Baltimore wrecked the Houston...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden discuss Mason Rudolph vs. Myles Garrett, Colin Kaepernick, Ben Cherington
If you were on Twitter this weekend, it was a frustrating place to be. Nothing but people trying to soften Myles Garrett’s actions against the Steelers by way of blaming Mason Rudolph. And people pounding the Colin Kaepernick drum because he threw a nice deep ball or two against air...
Tim Benz: Defending Browns’ Myles Garrett by blaming Steelers’ Mason Rudolph is insanity
When disagreeing with someone’s opinion, there are two important rules to follow in the sports talk radio and sports columnist business. 1. No name calling. 2. Don’t make any broad generalizations about a group of people. With those rules made clear, anyone who thinks Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph is to...
John Steigerwald: Steelers QB Mason Rudolph shouldn’t get off so easily in Myles Garrett fight
Has everybody calmed down? Let’s try to take a nonhysterical look at what happened Thursday night in Cleveland. Myles Garrett of the Browns hit Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph on his helmetless head with his own helmet. And now Garrett is suspended indefinitely, for the rest of this season at...
Helmet hits in Steelers-Browns game test NFL’s concussion-reduction strategy
The Pittsburgh Steelers will begin a week of preparations Monday for their next game, and they will do so with three players, including two starters, in the NFL concussion protocol. Wide receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Diontae Johnson and linebacker Ola Adeniyi were placed in the protocol after suffering concussions in...
Steelers decline to attend Colin Kaepernick workout
The Pittsburgh Steelers did not have a representative scout free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s workout Saturday in Atlanta. Eight teams attended the official workout that was switched to a high school facility an hour away. Kaepernick changed locations after his representatives and the NFL disagreed about some conditions regarding the scheduled...
Steelers sign 2 players to provide depth at WR, RB positions
In the wake of injuries suffered by wide receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Diontae Johnson, plus running back James Conner, on Thursday night in a 21-7 loss at Cleveland, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed two players to their 53-man roster Saturday. The additions are wide receiver Deion Cain and running back Kerrith...
Steelers’ matchup with Browns brings amped-up sense of physicality to rivalryVideo
When the Pittsburgh Steelers travel to Ohio, they are used to encountering the type of physical, and occasionally reckless, brand of football that was on display Thursday night. It’s just that they expect to face it when visiting their divisional neighbors in the southern part of the state, not when...
Four Downs: Steelers wide receivers not separating themselves
1. No separating Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph had four interceptions and was 0 for 7 on passes that were intended more than 20 yards downfield during Thursday’s 21-7 loss to the Cleveland Browns. It was, by any reasonable measure, an awful game for Rudolph. But it should be noted...
Pittsburgh athletes can be found on right, wrong end of equipment-related shenanigans
Not since Randall Simon swung a baseball bat at a sausage race competitor 16 years ago has the national spotlight shined on a Pittsburgh professional athlete for an incident involving a piece of equipment. Only this time, a Pittsburgh player was on the receiving end when Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph...
Fans react to Steelers-Browns fight: ‘There’s no place for that in sports’Video
What happened at the end of the Steelers-Browns game Thursday night was not football, Western Pennsylvania fans said Friday. While the NFL doled out suspensions and fines for the fight at the end of the game, fans said that level of violence — Browns defensive lineman Myles Garrett swung Mason...
Mark Madden: Without benefit of takeaways, Steelers get exposed by BrownsVideo
Let’s get this out of the way: Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett bashing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph with his own helmet was egregious and merits his indefinite suspension (which lasts at least through year’s end). I’d hate to see the courts involved because that accomplishes little and continues...
Injuries bump Johnny Holton from journeyman special teamer to Steelers No. 2 WR
CLEVELAND – More passes were thrown Johnny Holton’s way Thursday than had been in NFL regular season games over the prior 23 months combined. But of the seven official targets from Mason Rudolph to Holton during the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 21-7 loss to the Cleveland Browns, only one of them was...
Steelers’ Tevin Jones on his NFL debut: I have to be a better guy, better receiver
CLEVELAND — It had to be one of the better days in the football career and life of Tevin Jones. But as it ended late Thursday night, Jones was in no mood to celebrate his promotion to an NFL active roster for the first time. “I didn’t do well enough,”...
Dozens of Steelers could face fines for leaving sideline, joining fracasVideo
CLEVELAND — The NFL swiftly administered harsh penalties to the Cleveland Browns’ Myles Garrett and Larry Ogunjobi and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey for their actions in the final seconds of Thursday night’s game. But the league cautioned that those won’t be the only players disciplined for involvement in the...
Browns’ Myles Garrett suspended indefinitely, Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey 3 games for brawl
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell acted swiftly to discipline Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Myles Garrett for swinging Mason Rudolph’s helmet at the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback’s unprotected head, suspending him indefinitely Friday afternoon with the punishment carrying through at least the rest of the regular season and postseason. Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey,...
No criminal charges filed for Garrett’s helmet hit on Rudolph in Steelers-Browns brawlVideo
Authorities are not investigating the late-game melee during Thursday’s Steelers game against the Cleveland Browns, and legal experts say the bar is high for criminal charges to be filed against the Browns’ Myles Garrett. In the brawl, Garrett took the helmet of Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and used it to...
Todd Haley weighs in on Garrett-Rudolph helmet incident in Steelers-Browns brawlVideo
“Inexcusable and embarassing.” No, that wasn’t Todd Haley describing his stints as offensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns. That was Haley describing Thursday night’s helmet-swinging melee between the teams, when Myles Garrett ripped quarterback Mason Rudolph’s helmet off and hit him in the head with it. Haley,...
First Call: How Cleveland media reacted to Myles Garrett hitting Mason Rudolph with helmet
Nationally, there has been a slew of reactions to Vontaze Garrett — uh, excuse me — Myles Garrett’s helmet-swinging incident Thursday night. Hey, Myles, if O.J. Simpson is the one having your back, you probably weren’t in the right. But what are they saying in Cleveland? Dan Labbe of Cleveland.com...
5 things not involving Myles Garrett that came out of Steelers’ loss to Browns
CLEVELAND — Five things we learned from Browns 21, Steelers 7 (that don’t involve the Myles Garrett helmet-swinging incident at the end of the game): 1. Thinning the herd The depth among skill position players was seriously compromised because of concussions sustained by JuJu Smith-Schuster and Diontae Johnson, along with...
Tim Benz: Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey shouldn’t be suspended for defending Mason Rudolph in Myles Garrett melee
Anyone outside of Pittsburgh will disagree with this stance, but who cares? The NFL should not suspend Maurkice Pouncey for his role in that Steelers-Browns brawl Thursday night. The Steelers center started punching and kicking Myles Garrett after Garrett swung a helmet and struck Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph during the...
Football world reacts to Browns’ Myles Garrett striking Steelers QB Mason Rudolph with helmetVideo
Reaction from NFL circles and beyond was swift after Browns defensive end Myles Garrett struck Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head with his helmet toward the end of the Browns’ win over the Steelers on Thursday night in Cleveland. From current players to former players to non-football celebrities, there...
Tim Benz: Airing of grievances from Steelers’ loss to Browns … before the brawl
A lot of preconceived notions Pittsburghers had about the Cleveland Browns were confirmed Thursday night during their 21-7 win over the Steelers. Like for instance, Myles Garrett is a hot-headed jerk. Myles Garrett doing the unthinkable and unimaginable. pic.twitter.com/Y0UXzrCskn— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 15, 2019 The prosecution rests. As a...
Kevin Gorman: Browns’ Myles Garrett deserves severe punishment for role in brawl vs. SteelersVideo
CLEVELAND – The talk will be about the wild finish, when Myles Garrett ripped Mason Rudolph’s helmet from his head in the final seconds and all hell broke loose between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium. That was only the start of something more sinister, a melee...
‘He has to answer for that’ – Steelers shocked by helmet swing of Browns’ Myles GarrettVideo
CLEVELAND — There was anger, there was a sense of standing up for a teammate, and there even was an air of pending restitution. But perhaps the most prominent feeling of all in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room about a half hour after Myles Garrett’s helmet swing at Mason Rudolph...
