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Mike Batista

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Name: Mike Batista
Date registered: November 19, 2012

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Pittsburgh Steelers blogger since 2007

Latest posts

  1. Pittsburgh Steelers Can Re-Sign Jason Worilds Without Any Painful Cuts — March 2, 2014
  2. 2014 NFL Draft: Pittsburgh Steelers’ Wish List Remains Intact After Combine — February 28, 2014
  3. Ranking the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 7 Worst Drafts Since 2000 — February 24, 2014
  4. Ranking the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Top 7 Drafts Since 2000 — February 22, 2014
  5. 5 Mistakes the Pittsburgh Steelers Must Avoid During the 2014 Offseason — February 17, 2014

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  1. Who Should Steelers Fans Root for in Super Bowl XLVIII? — 5 comments

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Pittsburgh Steelers Can Re-Sign Jason Worilds Without Any Painful Cuts

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2014 Offseason, AFC North, Contracts, Defense, Free Agency, Linebackers, Pittsburgh Steelers, SteelerAddicts

March 2, 2014

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The Pittsburgh Steelers’ salary-cap noose, which had been tight enough to choke even the most pencil-thin neck, is a whole lot more comfortable now that the NFL has increased the cap to $133 million. That’s $10 million more than last season and nearly $7 million more than the projection. This is the Steelers’ biggest stroke …

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2014 NFL Draft: Pittsburgh Steelers’ Wish List Remains Intact After Combine

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2014 NFL Draft, 2014 Offseason, AFC North, Defense, Defensive Line, Offense, Pittsburgh Steelers, Secondary, SteelerAddicts, Wide Receivers

February 28, 2014

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No matter how much anyone’s stock rose at the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine, all the players at the top of the Steelers board remain within their reach in the 2014 NFL draft. Sure, not everyone among Mike Evans, Justin Gilbert, Darqueze Dennard, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, Calvin Pryor and Louis Nix will be available when the …

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Ranking the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 7 Worst Drafts Since 2000

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2014 Offseason, AFC North, Pittsburgh Steelers, SteelerAddicts

February 24, 2014

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The Pittsburgh Steelers’ two-year playoff absence is their longest since Kevin Colbert became the team’s director of football operations in 2000. Part of the problem is their recent drafts. Many of them are among the Steelers’ seven worst drafts since 2000. Not every draft on this list was a bad one. This is just the …

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Ranking the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Top 7 Drafts Since 2000

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2014 NFL Draft, 2014 Offseason, AFC North, Pittsburgh Steelers, SteelerAddicts

February 22, 2014

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The football world has descended upon Indianapolis this week for the 2014 NFL Scouting Combine. When all the bench presses, vertical leaps and 40-yard dash times for the 335 combine participants are recorded, the buildup to the 2014 NFL draft will kick into high gear. Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert, who began his scouting …

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5 Mistakes the Pittsburgh Steelers Must Avoid During the 2014 Offseason

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2014 NFL Draft, AFC North, Contracts, Defense, Defensive Line, Free Agency, Linebackers, Offense, Pittsburgh Steelers, Roster Cuts, SteelerAddicts, Wide Receivers

February 17, 2014

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have a lot of decisions to make between now and the start of training camp. If too many of those decisions are the wrong decisions, they’ll be no better than a .500 football team for the third year in a row in 2014. Kevin Colbert, Mike Tomlin and the Rooneys can get …

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Could the Pittsburgh Steelers Draft Michael Sam?

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2014 NFL Draft, AFC North, Defense, Defensive Line, Linebackers, Pittsburgh Steelers, SteelerAddicts

February 14, 2014

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What are the chances that Michael Sam could be in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform next season? If the Steelers draft the Missouri defensive end, it wouldn’t be for the sake of having the NFL’s first openly gay player, it would be for the sake of an aging defense that declined rapidly in 2013. That brings …

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Pittsburgh Steelers 2014 Mock Draft: Full 7-Round Pre-Combine Predictions

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2014 Mock Draft, 2014 NFL Draft, AFC North, Defense, Defensive Line, Linebackers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Secondary, SteelerAddicts

February 8, 2014

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Defense must be the theme of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 2014 draft. They ranked 14th in the NFL in points allowed in 2013, their lowest since 2003, and 13th in yards allowed, their worst since 1992. The Steelers allowed 11 plays of 50 or more yards in 2013 after allowing three in 2011 and 2012 combined, …

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Who Should Steelers Fans Root for in Super Bowl XLVIII?

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2013 Offseason, AFC North, asides, Pittsburgh Steelers, Rivalry, SteelerAddicts, Steelers Fans

January 29, 2014

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So what are “Pittsburgh Steelers” and “Super Bowl XLVIII” doing in the same article title, you ask? The search engines will be more confused than Jarvis Jones was playing defense early in his rookie season. After three Super Bowl appearances in six years, the Steelers haven’t even won a playoff game in the last three …

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Pittsburgh Steelers Hire Mike Munchak, Convert a Rival

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2013 Offseason, AFC North, Coaches, Offense, Offensive Line, Pittsburgh Steelers, Rivalry, Running Backs, SteelerAddicts

January 26, 2014

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It wasn’t easy to watch Mike Munchak shaking hands with his assistants on that September afternoon after the Tennessee Titans had secured a Week 1 victory at Heinz Field. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Sure, few predicted the Pittsburgh Steelers would go 13-3 or 12-4 in 2013, but the Steelers weren’t expected to lose at …

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Ranking the Pittsburgh Steelers 2014 Free Agents by Priority

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2013 Offseason, AFC North, Defense, Defensive Line, Depth Chart, Free Agency, Linebackers, Offense, Offensive Line, Pittsburgh Steelers, Running Backs, Secondary, Special Teams, SteelerAddicts, Tight Ends, Wide Receivers

January 19, 2014

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Free-agent departures have become a rite of spring in recent years for the cap-strapped Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers have some hard choices to make, but there are some free agents they can’t afford to lose. We’ve ranked the Steelers’ top 18 unrestricted free agents, as indicated by Spotrac, in order of priority. The higher they …

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