Archive for January, 2008
Tomlin Earns Sexy Honor
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t seem to care about earning style points on the field — a win is a win, no matter how ugly it may be.
Poteat warns Giants against comments
Here are America’s favorite underdogs, preening for the cameras, appearing on late-night television, boldly calling out the opposition while aiming their slingshots directly at Goliath.
The New York Giants are basking in the fairy tale that accompanies every Cinderella story.
But eight-year veteran NFL cornerback and Delaware resident Hank Poteat said the Giants should be careful.
Every slight [...]
Dockery: Our Goal Beat up Patriots WRS
When you’ve missed four of the last five games, you do anything you can to find a way to contribute. So nickel back Kevin Dockery has been watching film of the Patriots and he thinks he found a way to slow down one of the most potent offenses in NFL history:
Lake Leaves for Detroit
PewterReport.com is reporting that Tampa Bay assistant defensive backs coach Jimmy Lake was hired by Detroit on Saturday to serve as the Lions’ defensive backs coach.
Lake, whose contract was set to expire at the end of the month, interviewed with Detroit on Thursday. He spent the 2006 season working alongside former Bucs linebackers coach Joe [...]
Packers bank on repeat performance Sunday from Jenkins
The Green Bay Packers will start practicing today (Wednesday) for Sunday night’s NFC Championship Game against the New York Giants at Lambeau Field.Among other things, they’ll look for another solid performance from defensive end Cullen Jenkins. He was nagged by a series of injuries during the regular season.
But in last Saturday’s divisional playoff against Seattle, [...]
Coach Lake Interviewing With Lions
PewterReport.com is reporting that Jimmy Lake, the assistant to Tampa Bay defensive backs coach Raheem Morris, is interviewing with the Detroit Lions today, presumably for the defensive backs position. Lake’s contract expires at the end of this month and he spent the 2006 season working alongside former Bucs linebackers coach Joe Barry, who was hired [...]
Tomlin’s Take on Topics
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin weighed in on a variety of topics during his season-ending press conference. The following are some of the topics that he addressed.
On quarterback Ben Roethlisberger:
He did a nice job of course. He is a pro-bowler. He set franchise marks in some areas. He’s a merging big time football player. He [...]
Wyms Fills in the Blanks
It was mid-October, three years since his last appearance in an NFL game, and Howard Green was home in Louisiana about to return to classes at LSU to complete a degree in business management when the call came.The Seahawks had lost another defensive tackle to injury. This time it was veteran Chuck Darby, whose knee [...]
Tomlin Finalist for Coach of Year
Mike Tomlin is a finalist for the 2007 Motorola NFL Coach of the Year Award. The others up for the award are New England’s Bill Belichick, Jacksonville’s Jack Del Rio, Washington’s Joe Gibbs and Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy, who is a Pittsburgh native.Fans can vote for one of the five on NFL.com until 6 p.m. [...]
Tomlin Ready for First Playoff Game
He took over a team that finished .500 a year after winning the Super Bowl and featuring star players set in their ways with a built-in comfort level from the only coach most of them had played for.
Mike Tomlin’s first season with the Steelers has been better than predicted when the team convened for training [...]
‘Hawk’ up to Speed
In this Q&A, Hawkins discusses anticipation for the playoffs, his cat, Bruce Leroy, and what it was like to grow up on a farm in Illinois:
Question: You transferred to Illinois State from Purdue in college. Why?
I transferred from Purdue because I was young, stupid. I thought maybe I was having some playing-time issues. That was [...]
