Handicapping Steelers players for fantasy purposes has been tricky business lately. For instance, no one imagined that Charlie Batch would connect with four different receivers five times for nearly 300 yards passing last week. He was a stellar option in daily fantasy sports contests where he was available at an incredibly cheap salary relative to …
Category Archive: 2012 Regular Season
Pittsburgh Steelers Awards for the First Three Quarters of the 2012 Season
Everyone in Steeler Nation hold up four fingers, because it’s the fourth quarter. The fourth quarter of the 2012 NFL season, that is. There are 12 games down, four to go. The Pittsburgh Steelers are 7-5 and have the inside track on an AFC wild-card berth. Let’s recognize those who have helped the Steelers get …
Pittsburgh Steelers Keep the Ball in Their Hands, Use Shaun Suisham’s Foot to Beat Ravens, 23-20
Did anyone really trust Jonathan Dwyer and Isaac Redman to hold on to the football? Emmanuel Sanders couldn’t do it Sunday in Baltimore. He lost a fumble and dropped a pass. Mike Wallace also dropped a pass. That’s not what the Pittsburgh Steelers needed a week after turning the ball over eight times in Cleveland. …
Prediction Markets Indicate Steelers As Significant Underdog Against Ravens
With Big Ben’s injury, the game on the road, and Baltimore performing well lately, there is not too much confidence in prediction markets that the Steelers can produce an upset. The SportsTradex.com prediction market is currently indicating that the Steelers have a 27% chance of winning the game on Sunday. The market had the Steelers …
Polamalu, Brown Can Make Up for Roethlisberger’s Absence in Steelers’ Rematch against Ravens
As Meatloaf would say: “Don’t be sad, ’cause two out of three ain’t bad.” The Pittsburgh Steelers are likely to have Antonio Brown and Troy Polamalu back for Sunday’s game in Baltimore, but probably not Ben Roethlisberger. The Steelers are just going to have to win a game without Roethlisberger, hanging their hat on the …
Steelers’ Loss to Browns Doesn’t Mean This Is 2009 Redux
Let’s see, the Pittsburgh Steelers are without Ben Roethlisberger and Troy Polamalu. They showed some promise earlier this season with a four-game winning streak that got them to six wins. Then they lost two straight, including a 20-14 defeat in Cleveland to a woeful Browns team. Now they’re 6-5 and losing their grip on a …
With Charlie Batch at Helm, Steelers Should Still Win
While the Steelers offense certainly will miss Roethlisberger, the Steelers defense as well as a solid run game and a “good enough” passing game should propel them to victory. Oddsmakers currently have the Steelers to have about a 54% chance to win this game. At Sports Tradex, which is a free prediction marketplace that awards …
Handicapper’s Analysis of Steelers-Browns Matchup
Cliff Notes: Game will be close, but Steelers likely to prevail due to making less mistakes.
Pittsburgh Steelers Welcome New Faces and Starters to the Practice Field
By: Dan Benton (Sports Media 101) The Pittsburgh Steelers have received some bad news in recent weeks and are definitely a team that could use a change in that department. Wednesday, the team may have finally got some as rookie first round selection guard David DeCastro returned to the practice field.Yes, the rookie missed 10-games …
Injury-Depleted Pittsburgh Steelers Favored to Beat Cleveland Browns
By: SBRForum.com The Pittsburgh Steelers have seen their season turned on its head the past two weeks with a big loss to the Baltimore Ravens and even bigger losses at quarterback. With last week’s starter Byron Leftwich joining Ben Roethlisberger sidelined by injury, the Steelers will look to find a way to get it done …
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