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From the notebook of a sportswriter who just watched a miserable Steelers run defense but who doesn’t have to knock it all that much as the team heads into the playoffs:n “Missed tackles, the scheme,” was how Lawrence Timmons explained away the season-high 231 rushing yards put up by the ...

Highlights from Tomlin’s conference

Here are the highlights of Mike TomlinĢƵ press conference Tuesday, with my takeaway in italics:n “DeAngelo (Williams) wasn’t played in the (last) game because he had some swelling in the knee. Maybe it was the accumulation of the weekĢƵ work. Maybe it was the result of the plane flight. ...

Takeaways from Tomlin conference

Following are the highlights of Mike TomlinĢƵ weekly press conference on Tuesday, with my commentary in italics:n “Our willingness and ability to spread (the Buffalo Bills) out and make them defend the field both horizontally and vertically at the early stages set the stage, in terms of ...

Defense the story in Steelers’ win

From the notebook of a sportswriter who predicted a shootout but is once again writing about the Steelers defense:n Who figured such a defensive stretch after that Dallas game? I remember being asked if the Steelers gave up the last two touchdowns on purpose in that game. ThatĢƵ how bad the ...

It’s not the ’80s… yet

From the notebook of a sportswriter who just watched the post-apocalyptic Steelers without Ben Roethlisberger, and the experience was as deflating as expected:n This was the 1980s all over again. The radio waves rustled with talk of promoting a backup quarterback, the performance was adequate ...

Thoughts on several Steelers

From the notebook of a sportswriter whoĢƵ just going by what heĢƵ seen and heard to tell you what I know about ...- <strong>Ladarius Green.</strong>ThereĢƵ been so much back and forth written about him that no one, I’m sure, knows what to believe. But I will ...