The wait is over, but the smiles have just begun Feb 07, 2021 at 03:32 PM Copied!
A long awaited knock: For five years, Alan Faneca went to the Super Bowl as a Hall of Fame finalist, waiting anxiously in a hotel room for the knock on the door.
This year, in his sixth year as a finalist, that knock finally came.
But it wasn t in a hotel room in Tampa. It was at his home in Virginia.
Because of all of the changes to the NFL Honors show due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hall of Fame President David Baker made the rounds to the Class of 2021 at their homes, knocking on the front door instead of the hotel room door.
Rooney reflects on Nunn, Faneca Feb 07, 2021 at 06:00 AM Copied!
Timing. Also known as, being in the right place at the right time, is an important element of so many things in our daily lives. Where we work. Where we live. Our relationships. Our accomplishments and achievements. The good things, and the not-so-good things often come down not only to what we do, but also when we do them. And who happens to be watching when we do.
It s a way of ending this particular discussion, and it s meant to do so in a condescending way. The nature of sports, particularly at the professional level, is that the games and the people playing them and coaching them, are going to receive scrutiny from the media. And the attention from the media isn t always going to be flattering. And at some point, every professional athlete or professional coach has sought to belittle the individual asking pointed questions about things gone wrong with some variati
Let s get to it:
ED BLAKE FROM SHREVE, OH: When the Steelers won one game in 1969, who was the starting quarterback? Also, were they that bad?
ANSWER: In 1969, which was Chuck Noll s first year as the Steelers coach, there were two quarterbacks who started games during that 1-13 regular season. The first was Dick Shiner, who was in his sixth NFL season in 1969, having come to the Steelers in 1968 after stints in Washington and Cleveland. He was 1-8 as the starter that season. The other quarterback was rookie Terry Hanratty, Noll s second-round draft pick from Notre Dame, and his record as a starter in 1969 was 0-5. The 1969 Steelers were bad, very bad. Shiner completed 46.4 percent of his passes on the season, and Hanratty completed 41.3 percent. To put those numbers in perspective, decent high school quarterbacks complete 50 percent of their passes. The 1969 Steelers averaged 16 points a game and allowed an average of 29 points a game. Their losses weren t all blowouts, but the
Run game was historically bad in 2020 Jan 30, 2021 at 04:00 PM Copied!
Super Bowl LV is one week from today, and the team representing the AFC finished the regular season No. 16 in the league in rushing and the team representing the NFC finished the regular season tied for No. 28 in the league in rushing.
Maybe that proves a team doesn t have to be able to run the football on the level of the Vince Lombardi Green Bay Packers to contend for a championship in today s NFL, but what the 2020 season showed rather definitively was that a team cannot be as bad at running the football as the 2020 Steelers and expect to contend for a championship.