It’s easy to call them cheap when you consider that they’ve spent less than allowed under the cap more often than not in the last dozen years.

That joke of a stadium – the group of massive high school bleachers known as Heinz Field – is even better proof that they’re cheap.

YES, I know that rule is for HEAD Coaches, but since the man making the decision has the same name as the rule that is in place for HC’s, if he does not interview a minority, the media, PFT included, will have a field day with him.

That being said, Fichtner is in Hawaii with Ben, so obviously Rooney has not had a chance to sit down with him, and have any type of discussion about this.

As for the “So if the Steelers continue to stretch the field, it could force them to stretch their wallet and/or salary cap in order to keep the pieces in place. Competent running backs, generally speaking, are much cheaper…” The Steelers are FAR from cheap, and in case no one noticed, are about $25 million OVER the cap for next year. Hard to call a team that is that far over the cap cheap, don’t you think?

I got a lot of thumbs down from my fellow Steeler fans and others for saying two weeks ago that the Rooneys are cheap and that it’s a serious problem.

PFT says the same thing…silence from the Burgh.

I’m a little worried that Art Rooney thinks he should be coaching the team. With a boatload of injuries last season the Steelers went 12-4.

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They went 12-4 thanks mainly to an easy schedule.

And their ultimate reward? Drafting lower in each round so the better players they need to fix the problems they have will be harder to get.

Going 12-4 is nice but unless a team is Pittsburgh’s situation wins the title, it possibly only helps delay the fixing of those problem areas.

And of course we haters love the sound of that a real lot…

It moving the ball is great, but we struggled getting 7 points inside the 20.

Actually, Pittsburgh was typically better in the no-huddle.

Guess who was calling plays in the no-huddle?

Three of them also have great running games. A great running game allows a team to 1. control the clock and 2. exhaust the opposing defense, in a way that high-voltage passing games just do not. In an ideal world you try to have both. The super bowl is a collision of these two different styles, and it should be interesting.

Relax, watch them do what they do and then call them geniuses when they make it to January, the best ever if they win it all or want to clean house once they lose/miss the playoffs.

Rinse, repeat, be obnoxious.

Next year, Ravens will own AFC North again.

@CKL …

Cowher was on the Competition Committee, and I’d love to see Tomlin get Polian’s spot.

I just never understood why, when the Steelers ran the ball effectively for 4 or 5 plays in a row (a rarity this season), that they would line up in 5 wide for the next 3 plays. I know it’s old school, but even the Pats and the Saints will at least put a RB in he backfield to make the defense THINK that there might be another running play.

I don’t expect run, run, run, PA pass, even though that has been the standard for the Steelers. But their o-line is not good enough to let defenses know what is happening. An empty backfield has resulted in a lot of sacks.

Roethlisberger and those wide receivers are good enough for 40 pass-plays a game. That offensive line is more conducive to 20 pass-plays a game.

I’m a Steelers fan and I realize that Arians let Ben do whatever he wanted to do and that’s why our offense was not creative and very predictable.

We need a coach that will stand up to Ben and restore his mechanics. He has gone down hill the last 4 years. He used to get the ball out quick and now he holds onto it.

Don’t know what the problem is, but the answer isn’t allowing Ben to tell Mr. Rooney or anyone else how to run the team.

You play, let them coach and run the team.

The Steelers, likely thanks to success on the field, and Rooneys with their influence personally and league wide, clearly have done a good job at muting this guys attitude issues and outbursts over the years and keeping it all in house and under wraps.

But, suddenly Ben really doesn’t get what he wants, and instead of taking it like a professional and a man, or at very least, quietly pouting about it, it turns to something personal and no amount of organizational soothing stops him from lashing out.

Gives one insight into his Georgia bathroom incident with the one girl who said no originally, then no again, but he demanded anyways and then just took. Same with the Vegas incident where his “broken TV” turned into a similar situation and Ben wanted something that someone else didn’t, but he got his way in the end.

Just another example of his selfish, egotistical, self serving personality which is probably going to get worse before it gets better as his skills decline but still still expects everything in football and life, given to him the way he demands.

He’ll limp into Rooney’s office…

…wearing two different colored shoes.

If they have such great football minds could be that the Rooneys do not think ben is the eltie qb the rest of you think he is…..