It's time for the Steelers to turn over -- no, not a new leaf -- but some turnovers

It's time for the Steelers to turn over -- no, not a new leaf -- but some turnovers

Thursday, August 02, 2012
post-gazette.com


You don't have to spend even an hour on the verdant hillsides of Saint Vincent's natural amphitheater to realize that the 2012 Steelers will be improved substantially in at least one area, mostly because there's at least one area in which it's virtually impossible for them to be worse.

Recovering fumbles.

It's a somewhat arcane football skill partially related to the inevitably capricious bounces of an inflated prolate spheroid, but somebody should be able to fall on the thing once in a great while, don't you think?

Particularly large athletic people trained in the defensive arts.

But no.

The Steelers recovered four fumbles last year.

All year.

Four.

Secondary coach Carnell Lake once recovered five in a season by himself. Jack Lambert seven. Rod Woodson recovered three in one game as did 14 others throughout NFL history.


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wow, thats low i didnt realize they had only recovered four fumbles

The coaches need to set the defense loose on a farm and tell them to catch wild running, greased pigs once a week as training. It is pigskin after all.

Buddha Bus wrote:

The coaches need to set the defense loose on a farm and tell them to catch wild running, greased pigs once a week as training. It is pigskin after all.

ike will NEVER be able to catch that pig

vasteeler wrote:

Buddha Bus wrote:

The coaches need to set the defense loose on a farm and tell them to catch wild running, greased pigs once a week as training. It is pigskin after all.

ike will NEVER be able to catch that pig

He will if you put 2 forks in his swaggin' hands.