Lets deal with Holmes first.
OK i Will admit that i was pissed off when this story came through. Basically we trading him for a 5th round draft pick. So that's Superbowl MVP to being swapped for a 5th round pick in under two years. The reason seems to be disciplinary and something to do with smoking pot. plus he had a couple of incidents in his past that didn't sit to well with the Rooneys. (The Steelers owners and not Sherik and his missus)Holmes is due to sit out a four game suspension at the start of next season.
From reading information from various sources the owners decided that we had to get rid of Holmes and ordered the front office to ring round the 28 other sides (but not the other three AFC North sides) and see what trade offers we could get. The best offer was a 5th round draft pick from the Jets so we took it.
My view on this is simple. I feel that we are weekend by it. OK Mike Wallace can step in and do a decent job but that leaves us with no quality back up. And why give a side who we will be playing against this season one of the best wide receivers in the league? OK he will miss the first four match's but even with missing thoses games i feel we would get more out of Holmes for 12 games than we will get out of a 5th round draft pick. We already had ten picks before all this is another one going to help us much?
Fate tends to raise it head alot in sport. Whats the odds that we meet the Jets in the playoffs and Holmes scores the points that knocks us out? Its ok taking a moral stance but the Steelers exists to win Divisional,conferences and Superbowl championships. Shouldn't we be encouraging parents,teachers and politicians to be role models before football players?
Now to "Big Ben"
Basically Ben has had a couple of sexual assault chargers hanging over him for a while. I am delighted to say though that the police have decided there is no evidence to press charges. So you would have thought that would be the end of the matter wouldn't you? Maybe just give the case the last 5 Min's on an episode of Judge Judy and have done with it? Oh no my friends the fun only starts here.
I can imagine the opening line would go like this..
"So then Miss why did you decide to press false charges against multi millionaire and international sports star Mr Roethisberger?
So even though he is an innocent man either the Steelers or the NLF are going to suspend him. 2-4 games seems to be the total talked about in the media. Personally i would like the see the owners stand by Ben a hell of alot more than they are doing. Superbowl winning QB,s are hard to find and how many have two winners rings like Ben has? One of our back up QB,S has thrown two passes since 2007 and the other may well be a good QB in years to come but has lost his only game he started last year against an average and limited Ravens side.
In my opion it time to unite and put all this behind us move on,stop taking the moral high ground and get back investing in the side so we can be in a position to win football matchs come September.
I watched the owners press conference and although he answered all the questions as best he could i felt it should have been done days ago. I mean the cat is already out the bag and half way up the high street.
Just on final point a picked up on from the conference.
Quote " we have the highest level of expectations ON and off the field"
OK than so why didn't you make a big song and dance last season when we lost 5 in a row and got stuffed by the likes of the Clowns, Cheifs and Raiders?
I know i am quite liberal, laid back etc etc but carnt we just forget all this and concertrate on the Football?
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