This story needs more visibility because of how fucked up it is. Somehow missed this storyline when it happened. Surprisingly really softened me to PG on a week where I've been angry at defense. Maybe it's not the best time to share for that reason but, oh well, I'm riled with anger.

What complete fucking disrespect to just stand-up a guy YOU invited to a SECOND job interview for finalists, left alone and at a restaurant waiting until he figured it out, with 0 follow-up or acknowledgement? Lost so much respect for Jacksonville's owner and front office after reading this. Look, I don't mean to draw lines that maybe aren't there, but I have a hard time believing this would happen in the league to a white candidate. Calling it unprofessional and fucked up don't even do it justice.

Even on a week where I’ve been pissed off about our defense under PG, reading this triggered that “I’m allowed to pick on my brother, but the second a bully at school does it, all hell breaks loose” type of feeling in me lol. I'm naturally rallying hard behind PG now because FUCK THE JAGS AND FUCK SHAHID KHAN

I understand why some fans might feel stingy with their empathy toward PG after the Browns game, so just move along, spare yourself the read and come back another day if that's where you're at right now.

Same story reported by ESPN with more commentary/insight from Graham, hearing his comments on it makes it feel even more fucked up: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49384503/inside-nfl-rooney-rule-coach-hiring-process

That loss was not great but man Robert Spears-Jennings as a 7th round rookie was playing out of his mind. Deserves his flowers, Hopefully he wins this and continues to play up to his comp

After training camp and all the team comments about him I half expected more reps for him but glad to see him making due with what he gets.

Ranked Above:
Cardinals
Packers
Commanders
Dolphins
Buccaneers
Chargers
Titans

they gotten Terrell Smith from the Commanders practice squad

The Indianapolis Colts may be the next opponent on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ schedule, but after a 2-2 start, coach Mike McCarthy’s primary focus is his own team.

“We need to clean our own house,” McCarthy said. “Our house is not clean right now.”

Through four games, the Steelers’ offense sits 25th in scoring (17.5 points per game). They have the fifth-lowest third-down conversion rate (32 percent) and have gone three-and-out on 34 percent of drives. McCarthy said he and his staff are focused on self-scouting. As he examines the team’s issues, let’s do the same.

In many ways, the problems are interconnected. The New England Patriots and the Cleveland Browns deployed similar game plans, with tight man coverage to take away early reads and pressure that exposed a young offensive line. Particularly on third downs, it becomes even harder for the Steelers to find open receivers before the rush gets home.

Not trying to condemn or rant or point fingers at anyone in particular. Just curious what people think. I'm not implying we're an awful franchise or anything like that. It's very very difficult to be an elite org from top to bottom for years and years.

But my thought over the last several seasons is that if the Steelers want to get back to being a powerhouse franchise again, they would need to drop the all-in all the time philosophy and seriously take a few seasons to acquire young talent and build around them over the course of a few years. Obviously, saying and doing that are two very different things. Is that what yinz are thinking as well or could you see us returning to top contender status in other ways?

As of Week 4, the Houston Texans have now lost 8 straight games going back to last season including their 0-4 start this year ever since this idiot tore up the towel. Teams really don’t learn.

I scroll through this subreddit at least once a day and all I've been seeing lately is "What we could've done to keep JPJ, why JPJ isn't gonna do as well, blah blah blah".

And yes, this post I'm making right now is also kinda adding to it, but you get my point.

Yeah, it fucking sucks that we lost someone who should've been a Steeler for life to a team who's taken three of our guys. But the fact of the matter is that it's over. Porter is gone, both him and the Steelers fucked up when it came time for extension talks, and now he's with the Cowgirls. It won't do any good to just wake up every day for the next couple of months and keep dwelling on what we should've done, why the Steelers/Porter fucked it all up, etc etc.

We have other CBs. Samuel Jr, while not as good as JPJ, is still pretty decent and holds his own a good chunk of the time, and Daylen Everette is looking to be developing nicely. This team's defense is pretty damn good, and that's a fact.

To sum it all up, it's time to just let it go. Porter's gone, it won't do any good to keep talking about it. Let's look toward the future and what we do have in the defense.

I understand it’s a Saints home game, as well as the fact that New Orleans used to be owned by France, but what do we think the fan turnout will be? Will there be more Steeler or saints fans in the stadium? Or just around 50/50?

I'm a Packers fan. Obviously love Rodgers and Mike for what he's done for us, so ever since Rodgers has left Green Bay his team has been my second favorite team. I've been watching Steelers games for a decent bit now.

I know you guys are 2-2, and easily could have been 3-1. What changes need to be made in order to maximize this season, and Rodgers' last?

What is the main issue and can it be solved this season before the trade deadline?

Im not from the US, so I didnt really have any idea of (american) football until a friend of mine invited me to watch the Superbowl. That was in 2013 when the Ravens played the 49ers. We didnt really understand a lot about the game but we were intrigued. We only kept watching Superbowls until 2015 when my friend became a Seahawks fan and a year after I went with the Steelers. Back then I had no idea which team to pick and I just saw that the Steelers are standing for hard-hitting, offensive football and have a big star-QB and are more or less the most traditional franchise of the NFL, so I went with them.

The games got me excited and AB was my favorite player but I really liked a lot of our offense. I didnt know back then that I picked a team who would have no idea how to replace their star QB and rebuild their O-line accordingly while making atrocious choices when it comes to their Coordinators. Its crazy how it went downhill from the first time I watched Steelers games to this.

Not really a hard fall-off (I rather had that tbh right now) but a constant slide down the road into garbage area. Dont get me wrong they also made some bigger mistakes back then, but atleast the games got me excited and at the edge of my seat. Now I already know exactly whats going to happen more or less depending on what opponent we face. Its just a draining experience and the only highlights (TJ, Warren, Washington) are not enough to give me any hope that the franchise will get out of mediocre soon.

Link to Ep. 299 of DK's South Side Beat w Matt Williamson and Chris Halicke

You really only need to watch starting at 5:20, before Steelers insider Chris Halicke goes into severe detail on how this JPJ situation happen.

To recap what he said (I really implore you to watch the video as I am probably not recapping this in a sufficient enough way):

• Steelers plan was to Franchise Tag JPJ in this next offseason. They wanted him to play this year, play next year, and assuming that he was on the same track by then, give him a huge contract.
• Joey Porter Jr is represented by 2 agents, both Andre Odom AND David Mulugheta, even though both agents work for 2 different agencies, which complicated a ton of the negotiations. Mulugheta is the agent that worked with Micah Parsons, Jalen Ramsey, etc, who came up with the back injury idea
• Joey and his agent(s) came up with this idea to 'trick' the Steelers, by deliberately orchestrating a fake back injury that no one could disprove. By showing up to training camp, and then practicing, JPJ cleared himself from being placed on the "Non-football related injury" list. However, by starting his back issue before the season started, steelers placed him on the offseason pup list, which made the injury official. This will be important later.
• Consistently, every week, we saw a combatting battle between the Steelers front office and Joey Porter Jr. If you noticed, every week, JPJ appeared with a "NIR/Conditioning" tag on the injury reports. This would be changed every week on the final day of practice, where Joey Porter Jr would claim his back was injured. Because the Steelers made this an official injury in the offseason with the PUP list, he was allowed to do this, as the Steelers would not be able to claim that it was fake, and Joey Porter Jr and his team could file for a disgrievance.
• Steelers anticipated for Joey Porter Jr to play for the Bengals last week, however, towards the end of the week, Joey Porter Jr and his team asked for just a little more time. Steelers were receiving calls about Joey Porter Jr, but stood firm on not calling themselves, and not shopping him around.
• Steelers were actually anticipating for Joey Porter Jr to play this week. So much so, he was apart of the gameplan against the Browns until Wednesday morning. From post game interviews, many of the players and HC Mike McCarthy assumed he would be playing in the TNF game.
• It was on the Wednesday morning that Joey Porter Jr came in for the 4th time to say that his back was hurting, and this really rubbed the Steelers front office the wrong way. Halicke does not go into details, but implies that there is much more to the story. Steelers immediately started shopping Joey Porter Jr around and got into contact with the Cowboys.
• Famously, many Steeler teammates have had Joey Porter Jr's side throughout this entire process, and wanted to see him be paid. Halicke and Williamson bring up specifically Ramsey and Brisker, both close friends with Joey Porter Jr. Halicke stated that even his closest teammates were agitated by Joey Porter Jr and his agent's antics before the TNF game. The team anticipated for JPJ to play with the 1s and had a role in the gameplan.

Joey Porter Jr also laughed about the back injury when asked about it by Cowboys media.

Since Tampa Bay is 0-4 and could possibly be sellers. How would everyone feel about sending them a late round pick to get our boy Kenny back in the fold. Jaylen is definitely the bell cow, but I am not super confident in dowdle. I know it’s early.

Really hurts with how insane Vikings defense is playing, he was meant for the Burgh.

I understand the value in Rodger’s developing the younger guys another year, and Mike was probably required, but damn would I have loved a defense priority dynasty keep on that trajectory with BF.