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TV Talk: ‘Landman’ marks Taylor Sheridan’s best series yet
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“Landman,” streaming Sunday on Paramount+, is Taylor Sheridan’s best series yet. It’s even more entertaining than “Yellowstone.” Partly that’s the perfect match of actor and material — Billy Bob Thornton was born to play oil company fixer Tommy...
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Jaylen Warren added to Steelers’ injury report, Donte Jackson returns to practice
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Jaylen Warren sat out Thursday’s Pittsburgh Steelers practice, a surprise addition to the injury report because of a back ailment. The complementary running back to Najee Harris, Warren sat out three games earlier this season because of a knee injury. Harris joins veteran cornerback C.J....
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Steelers’ Najee Harris appreciates Arthur Smith’s offense, Cordarrelle Patterson’s vet presence
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As is the accelerated cycle of life in the NFL, Najee Harris seemingly has gone quickly from hotshot rookie to veteran who very well might be in his last season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. For the first time during his four-year Steelers tenure, though, Harris enters a season with a
on Sep 6
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Troy Fautanu upgraded to full participant, Darnell Washington sits out Steelers practice
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Tight end Darnell Washington was an addition to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ injury report, sitting out Thursday’s practice because of a knee injury. Washington joined veteran starting left guard Isaac Seumalo and rookie defensive lineman Logan Lee as Steelers who were listed as...
on Sep 6
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What a difference a year makes! Right about this time in 2023, the Steelers were 6-3, but no one was happy because we were all in full-blown “FIRE CANADA” mode. Now the Steelers are a mere one game better at 7-2, yet it feels 180 degrees different around the city.
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All-Pro safety Kyle Hamilton at practice but not in uniform as Ravens prepare for Steelers
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton was working off to the side — not in uniform — during the portion of practice open to reporters Wednesday. Hamilton injured his ankle in last week’s victory over Cincinnati. The All-Pro did some stretching and...
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TV Talk: WTAE-TV announces new weekend morning anchor
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WTAE-TV general assignment reporter Lily Coleman will become the station’s new weekend morning news anchor effective Nov. 23. Coleman, who reported weekday mornings before most recently filling in as morning traffic/noon anchor while Elena LaQuatra has been on maternity leave (LaQuatra...
on Wed, 11PM
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The Pittsburgh Steelers may be interested in bringing back a familiar face. There’s an interesting trend about the officiating crew for the team’s game against Baltimore on Sunday. The Penguins’ schedule is about to play into their hands. Now, can they actually do something...
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TV Q&A: Why do stations cover high school football from the end zone?
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: One thing I’ve always wondered when watching highlights of high school football games — on really all the local news channels...
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Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
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CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in...
on Tue, 6AM
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Mark Madden: Beating Ravens would legitimize Steelers' hopes of AFC North title ... and more
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Refreshing sports notes, top of the league! Sports notes, top of the league! • Beating Washington on the road legitimizes the Steelers’ 7-2 record. Beating Baltimore at Acrisure Stadium this coming Sunday would legitimize their pursuit of the AFC North championship and their...
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TV Talk: CMU grad, ‘Pretty Little Liars’ alum stars in Christmas programs
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. PASADENA, Calif. — Actor Ian Harding graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s acting program in 2010 and didn’t have to pay his dues waiting tables, as many actors do. Instead, he was almost...
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WR Scotty Miller a healthy scratch for Steelers in Mike Williams’ team debut, Ben Skowronek return
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LANDOVER, Md. – In the wake of the team’s trade for Mike Williams this past week, Scotty Miller became an odd man out of the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receivers corps. Miller, a six-year veteran in his first season with the Steelers, was announced as a healthy scratch prior to Sunday’s
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TV Talk: More smiles than laughs from ‘St. Denis;’ Pittsburgh’s Nielsen rank ticks up
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NBC’s “St. Denis Medical” (8 p.m. Nov. 12) has a great cast — Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, David Alan Grier — but this mockumentary set at a bland Oregon hospital is more “American Auto” than “The Office” or “Parks and...
on Sun, 1AM
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George Pickens embraces addition of Mike Williams to Steelers WR corps
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The Pittsburgh Steelers’ 6-foot-3, 200-plus pound No. 1 wide receiver is eager to play with the Steelers’ newest 6-foot-3, 200-plus pound wide receiver. “Adding another big receiver (is beneficial) not only for me but (quarterback Russell Wilson) as well,” George Pickens...
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Najee Harris-led rushing attack on a roll for Steelers
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Because each is a “big back” of similar listed weight and that each entered the league after winning a national championship as the featured back at Alabama, Derrick Henry and Najee Harris were bound to draw comparisons. Those similarities were highlighted even moreso when the...
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New Pittsburgh Steeler Mike Williams talks about his recent exposure to Acrisure Stadium. We get some background on Diontae Johnson’s trade to Baltimore from Carolina’s perspective. The Washington Commanders have a plan to counterbalance a potential influx of Steelers fans populating...
on Nov 7
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Steelers center Zach Frazier back at practice, expects to play Sunday in Washington
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So much for easing back into things. After a two-week absence, Zach Frazier is back as a full participant at Pittsburgh Steelers practice this week. And the Steelers’ rookie starting center requested to his 300-plus pound defensive linemen teammates that they don’t take it easy on...
on Nov 6
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Mark Madden: Steelers needed more than predictable, underwhelming at trade deadline
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Acquiring wideout Mike Williams from the New York Jets at Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline was token and just not enough. The investment sends a message of belief to the Steelers’ locker room, though it’s easily dismissed if considered realistically. Most fans will be fooled. Fans...
on Nov 6
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TV Q&A: How does ‘Yellowstone’ get away with more profanity than other TV shows?
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Why does “Yellowstone” seem to have a different foul-language barrier than other TV shows? — Steve, Titusville Rob: I...
on Nov 6
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Mike Tomlin puts Steelers secondary 'on notice' for Week 10 game against Commanders
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Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin advised “everybody in the secondary to be on notice” because of the return of versatile defensive back Cameron Sutton. After serving an eight-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, Sutton is eligible to play for...
on Nov 6
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At the halfway point of the NFL season, there’s a lot to like about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense. As of Monday morning, coach Mike Tomlin’s team ranked second in points allowed per game (14.6). With 15 takeaways, only the Packers (19), Vikings (17) and Lions (16) had more. The team
on Nov 5
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Cameron Sutton excited get back to practice with Steelers, but immediate role undetermined
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For the first time since his rookie pro season seven years ago, Cameron Sutton endured an absence from football of more than one game. “It’s difficult, obviously, being out, not doing what you love to do,” Sutton said Monday from the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. “Yeah,...
on Nov 4
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TV Talk: Netflix’s ‘Piano Lesson’ director seeks to honor Hill District, August Wilson
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. ^ The second Pittsburgh-set film-with-an-exorcism of 2024 arrives this month with Netflix’s adaptation of Pittsburgh native August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson,” playing at Waterworks Cinema...
on Nov 4
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Jason Kelce slams phone of Penn State fan who hurled homophobic slur at him before game
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Jason Kelce threw a Penn State fan’s phone to the ground after the fan taunted him and directed a homophobic slur at him on Saturday before the Nittany Lions’ matchup against Ohio State at Beaver Stadium. Viral clips of the encounter outside of the stadium played out throughout the evening
on Nov 4
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Steelers' midseason position-by position report card
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With the Pittsburgh Steelers at 6-2 and sitting idle this weekend, here’s a midterm report card for the team: Quarterbacks: A- Mason Rudolph’s 2023 late-season cameo noted, Justin Fields and Russell Wilson have given the Steelers arguably their best eight-game stretch of quarterback...
on Nov 3
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Westmoreland GOP leaders skip unity rally days after parade float depicted political violence
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There was a unity rally planned for political party leaders in Westmoreland County Friday, but only one side came to the event. The noon observance was planned late Thursday after an entry in Mt. Pleasant’s Halloween parade this week depicted political violence. Organized by Westmoreland...
on Nov 2
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Vice President Kamala Harris: A president for all Americans
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On Tuesday, Pennsylvanians have the chance to choose between a president who will fight for you or one focused only on himself. I remember my mother sitting at our kitchen table, with a pile of bills in front of her, cup of tea in hand, trying to figure out how
on Nov 2
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Mixing and matching of Steelers tight ends leaves opposing defenses guessing
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It was posited as a joke to Pittsburgh Steelers tight ends coach Alfredo Roberts that his team — for maybe even just one snap, at least — achieves the proverbial Holy Grail for tight ends across the world. The “0-5” personnel. “Oh-five?!” an eavesdropping...
on Nov 2
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Rocky Bleier nominated by Steelers for NFL's Salute to Service Award
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Pittsburgh Steelers legend Rocky Bleier is the team’s nominee for the NFL’s Salute to Service Award, the franchise announced Friday. A running back on the Super Steelers’ four-time Super Bowl champions of the 1970s, Bleier’s story is familiar to Steelers fans but no less...
on Nov 1
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TV Talk: ‘The Diplomat’ is Netflix’s best ongoing drama
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Netflix stated a goal of creating TV shows that are like “gourmet cheeseburgers,” but those patties often come off the grill more McDonald’s and less Five Guys. However, returning drama “The Diplomat” is that Netflix rarity: A great show. Now streaming all six...
on Nov 1
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TV Talk: Networks warn viewers before airing some political ads
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In recent weeks, particularly during sporting events and news broadcasts, broadcast TV outlets have aired content warnings before televising political ads that carry anti-trans messaging and in front of ads with graphic images for a little-known anti-abortion presidential candidate. “The...
on Nov 1
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The Mt. Lebanon School District has agreed to pay $350,000 in legal fees to end a lawsuit that accused a teacher of violating parents’ constitutional rights when she gave a lesson on transgender identity to first-grade students. A federal judge in September ruled in favor of three mothers in the
on Oct 31
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Tim Benz: 6-pack of questions (and some answers) about Steelers heading into bye
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are heading into their bye week at 6-2. In a weird sort of dichotomy, that is exactly where they have to be, but we also don’t have much of a right to expect them to be better than that. Given their offensive line issues, new faces on
on Oct 31
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Steelers special teams coach Danny Smith a colorful character, with or without the camera
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Danny Smith has become a social media darling, with telecasts capturing cutaway shots of him chomping on Dubble Bubble, pumping his fist or being mobbed by Pittsburgh Steelers after special teams splash plays. From his sideline antics to the slang he slips into his answers, the Steelers special...
on Oct 31
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Steelers’ Calvin Austin had a breakout game Monday, but to him, it was long overdue
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As Calvin Austin III was prepping for a third-quarter punt return Monday night, Mike Tomlin told him that it was “his time.” To Austin, though, his time was long overdue. Austin has his first career punt return for a touchdown, in addition to a receiving touchdown, in propelling the...
on Oct 29
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Justin Fields designated as Steelers ‘emergency’ QB vs. Giants because of hamstring injury
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Justin Fields was the starting quarterback as recently as Oct. 13 in Las Vegas. He was the backup to Russell Wilson the next week, and for Monday night’s game against the New York Giants, he was designated to serve as the “emergency” No. 3. Fields was officially deemed an inactive
on Oct 29
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TV Talk: German leader reimagined as detective; ‘Pradeeps’ fact-checked
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For the sheer novelty, it’s hard to beat the oddity that is “Miss Merkel,” a two-episode foreign series that imagines former German chancellor Angela Merkel as a Jessica Fletcher-like amateur detective. Now streaming on indie service MHz Choice, the German-language “Miss...
on Oct 28
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TV Talk: Disney replays a past hit with ‘Wizards Beyond Waverly Place’
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. The reboots come quicker after the original than ever these days, with a sequel series to 2007-12 Disney Channel tween hit “Wizards of Waverly Place,” now called “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place,”...
on Oct 28
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TV Q&A: Did a WPXI reporter exit?
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Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I think WPXI-TV’s Lonni Rivera is a freelancer, but I haven’t seen her in quite a while. Is she on vacation or maybe I am
on Oct 28
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Steelers No. 2 QB Justin Fields downgraded to questionable to play vs. Giants
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The Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday downgraded quarterback Justin Fields to questionable to play in Monday night’s home game against the New York Giants. Fields, the team announced, was added to the injury report because of a hamstring injury. Fields started the Steelers’ first six...
on Oct 28
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Playing 3rd home night game in 23 days, Steelers can get 100th primetime win by beating Giants
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Over his first six NFL seasons, Donte Jackson didn’t have much experience playing under the lights. Part of the lower-profile Carolina Panthers, Jackson played just five primetime home games. “I wasn’t used to (night games) till I got here,” said Jackson, a cornerback...
on Oct 27
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S DeShon Elliott returns to Steelers practice, DT Keeanu Benton upgraded for Steelers
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Safety DeShon Elliott returned to Pittsburgh Steelers practice Friday, a day after he sat out a session because of a back injury. Eliott is expected to be cleared to play in time for Monday night’s home game against the New York Giants. His change in status from “DNP” to...
on Oct 26
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O-line shakeup They’ll get no sympathy from the Pittsburgh Steelers, who themselves have started nine different offensive linemen and five starting combinations of the unit through seven games. But Pittsburgh’s next opponent is facing desperate times at its O-line’s most...
on Oct 25
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Spate of blocks by Steelers special teams gives Danny Smith something aside from gum to chew on
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Danny Smith is known for chewing gum with the intensity of a jackhammer. Smith chomping on a mouthful of Double Bubble has become his calling card in 12 seasons as Pittsburgh Steelers special teams coach. It also cost him several teeth during a game last season. “I had three teeth
on Oct 24
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Tyler Matakevich returns to Steelers practice, opening window for return to game action
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The Pittsburgh Steelers special teams are on a roll. A featured piece is poised to re-join the unit. Special-teams standout and inside linebacker Tyler Matakevich returned to practice Thursday, the team announced. The 31-year-old, nine-year NFL veteran has not played since a Sept. 15 win at...
on Oct 24
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Former 1st-round pick C.J. Henderson excited to make Steelers debut as DB, special-teamer
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His weekly pay just increased roughly three-fold. And his accrued seasons clock is back ticking in regards to future pensions and service time. But aside from such procedural minutia, a promotion from the practice squad to the active roster this week made little impact on veteran cornerback C.J....
on Oct 24
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'Hunting the ball' helps Steelers defense rank among league leaders in turnovers
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At each Pittsburgh Steelers practice, defensive players know the drill. Or drills, as the case may be. “We do turnover circuit’” cornerback Donte Jackson said, “every day.” The turnover circuit? “You’re gonna have a ‘punch-out’ (drill),...
on Oct 24
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Rookie Beanie Bishop keeps smiling even with anticipated return of Cam Sutton to Steelers secondary
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With an assist from Pat McAfee, rookie cornerback Beanie Bishop’s wish for Aaron Rodgers’ signature on a pair of game balls is coming true. After intercepting Rodgers twice Sunday night in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 37-15 victory against the New York Jets, Bishop kept the balls...
on Oct 23
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Steelers coach Mike Tomlin playing it close to vest again with his quarterback situation
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Just like he wouldn’t publicly announce Russell Wilson as his starting quarterback last week, coach Mike Tomlin isn’t ready to label Justin Fields as the backup when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the other team from New York on “Monday Night Football.” Playing coy with the...
on Oct 22