The sports world has been funny the last couple weeks. The Bills look good, the Lions look great, and we won't talk about baseball. What I may understand least however, is why all of the experts think the Pittsburgh Steelers are a good team.
This article won't be a statistical analysis and this isn't even coming after watching all of their film. This is a reaction to the parts that I have seen, and the parts that I have seen are telling me that the Steelers are a bad football team. I understand that they've been there before and they're always good blah, blah, blah. That doesn't matter for this year. What does matter is that they have one of the league's oldest defenses and their offense struggled against a god awful Colts team last week. Some members of the ESPN community (read Bayless, Skip) see it as a gutty win, I see it as a struggle to beat Curtis Painter. Fucking Curtis Painter, who honestly may be the worst quarterback to strap a helmet on in the last decade. He was throwing balls in the dirt, constantly giving the Steelers second chances. On offense, they struggled against a Colts D that should have been run off the field with the amount of time they played. The week before, they had the luxury of playing against Tavares Jackson. Stellar competition. They may count as wins, but they don't show that the Steelers are anything other than a .500 team. That's what I expect them to be at the end of the year.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they'll come out and beat a good (not great) Houston team today and destroy this blog after less than an hour. I doubt that though. This is not Pittsburgh's year and, once again, the Super Bowl hangover will hold up.
