Pittsburgh's March Massacre

**Ravenswintitle** · 02-08-2013, 02:02 PM

Ed Bouchette paints a pretty bleak picture of the upcoming purge.

see links below post #3

**nickh0801** · 02-08-2013, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by Ravenswintitle

Ed Bouchette paints a pretty bleak picture of the upcoming purge.http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/i...ge-of-veterans

Busted link..article not found

**Ravenswintitle** · 02-08-2013, 02:20 PM

sorry I was on a terrible slow connection.

http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/i...arch-massacre-

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ge-of-veterans

**RavenScallywag** · 02-08-2013, 02:23 PM

Nevermind, he fixed it...

Seems he's implying that last time it happened, they won the Super Bowl, so it should spell good things for them.

Good luck with that.

**bmore finest** · 02-08-2013, 02:26 PM

Yeah, this city is about to be soooo pissed for a couple years. Ravens win Superbowl , shitsburgh going backwards , just enough for me. Lovin it

**wickedsolo** · 02-08-2013, 02:27 PM

Cap wise, they really put themselves in a bad situation.

To make matters worse they havent drafted well in a few seasons either.

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**GOTA** · 02-08-2013, 02:28 PM

Anyone see the end comment

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ge-of-veterans

"With the Baltimore Ravens also turning to a youth movement, a window may be opening for the Cincinnati Bengals to take control of the AFC North in 2013."

**NCRAVEN** · 02-08-2013, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by GOTA

Anyone see the end comment

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ge-of-veterans

"With the Baltimore Ravens also turning to a youth movement, a window may be opening for the Cincinnati Bengals to take control of the AFC North in 2013."

I'm not sure that's really far off. Not saying we won;t be good, but the Bengals seem to have a bunch of the right pieces.

**Paintballguy** · 02-08-2013, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by GOTA

Anyone see the end comment

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ge-of-veterans

"With the Baltimore Ravens also turning to a youth movement, a window may be opening for the Cincinnati Bengals to take control of the AFC North in 2013."

Not with dalton at qb. The only reason he got a win against us last year is because we put the JV team out there.

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**RavenScallywag** · 02-08-2013, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by Paintballguy

Not with dalton at qb. The only reason he got a win against us last year is because we put the JV team out there.

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I have to give credit, they started getting over the humps last year. The longer Jay Gruden is on staff with them, AND Hue Jackson, the better the chances that he keeps developing.

I wouldn't mind a dogfight between us and the Bengals for the division for the next few years. Hopefully a healthy Webb will negate AJ Green.

**alienrace** · 02-08-2013, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Paintballguy

Not with dalton at qb. The only reason he got a win against us last year is because we put the JV team out there.

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I agree. Dalton hasn't shown he can play well in big games to this point. They still have holes on offense that need to be addressed.

**pslholder96** · 02-08-2013, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by GOTA

Anyone see the end comment

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ge-of-veterans

"With the Baltimore Ravens also turning to a youth movement, a window may be opening for the Cincinnati Bengals to take control of the AFC North in 2013."

The comment about the Ravens turning to a youth movement is more laughable. We've been doing that since 2010 and only now are we reaping the dividends from it.

**LukeDaniel** · 02-08-2013, 03:03 PM

I've done and re-done the Steelers 2013 cap and $14 million over the cap just isn't right. Perhaps that is the number of just their roster right now, not counting any of their Restricted Free Agents or ERFAs. The Steelers, by my calculations, have $103 m tied up in just 11 players. When you take their top 23 players, including their RFAs, they go up to around $125 million. So that's $4 million over the cap before we even add the other 28 players needed to determine their "rule of 51". Assuming the average for those other 28 players is $575-600, that puts them about $22-25 million over the cap.

They're screwed.

**NCRAVEN** · 02-08-2013, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by LukeDaniel

I've done and re-done the Steelers 2013 cap and $14 million over the cap just isn't right. Perhaps that is the number of just their roster right now, not counting any of their Restricted Free Agents or ERFAs. The Steelers, by my calculations, have $103 m tied up in just 11 players. When you take their top 23 players, including their RFAs, they go up to around $125 million. So that's $4 million over the cap before we even add the other 28 players needed to determine their "rule of 51". Assuming the average for those other 28 players is $575-600, that puts them about $22-25 million over the cap.

They're screwed.

Here is a thread I found about them discussing their cap.

http://www.steelernation.com/forums/...-Cap-Situation

**JohnBKistler** · 02-08-2013, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by GOTA

Anyone see the end comment

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ge-of-veterans

"With the Baltimore Ravens also turning to a youth movement, a window may be opening for the Cincinnati Bengals to take control of the AFC North in 2013."

You mean all the young players that made just about every big play in the playoffs? That youth movement?

**The Excellector** · 02-08-2013, 03:24 PM

They tried to bring back as many as possible for one last run, but Joe Flacco has a hold on this division now.

**The Excellector** · 02-08-2013, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by JohnBKistler

You mean all the young players that made just about every big play in the playoffs? That youth movement?

Did you mean the clutch first down runs of Benard Pierce, or the clutch play of Jimmy Smith?

**JohnBKistler** · 02-08-2013, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by LukeDaniel

I've done and re-done the Steelers 2013 cap and $14 million over the cap just isn't right. Perhaps that is the number of just their roster right now, not counting any of their Restricted Free Agents or ERFAs. The Steelers, by my calculations, have $103 m tied up in just 11 players. When you take their top 23 players, including their RFAs, they go up to around $125 million. So that's $4 million over the cap before we even add the other 28 players needed to determine their "rule of 51". Assuming the average for those other 28 players is $575-600, that puts them about $22-25 million over the cap.

They're screwed.

Well, I am not ready to right them off at this point....but they cannot afford another bad draft like last season. (who can?)

**B-more Ravor** · 02-08-2013, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by LukeDaniel

I've done and re-done the Steelers 2013 cap and $14 million over the cap just isn't right. Perhaps that is the number of just their roster right now, not counting any of their Restricted Free Agents or ERFAs.

I'm sure that's it. Most writers are only basing their stories on the present Cap status of teams which only includes the players presently under contract.

**JohnBKistler** · 02-08-2013, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by The Excellector

Did you mean the clutch first down runs of Benard Pierce, or the clutch play of Jimmy Smith?

I was thinking along the lines of the play of the MVP QB...making passes to the young TEs and wide-out Torrey Smith.

Don't get me wrong...they don't win the SB without the veterans...but outside of Anquan Boldin, all the other veterans (Reed, Suggs, Lewis, even Ngata) had a fairly quiet post-season run.