Archives for August 27, 2009

‘Roethlisberger, Parker, and the remainder of Pittsburgh’s first-team should play most or all of the first-half on Saturday, in keeping with third-game-of- preseason tradition.’

‘”It’s going to be tough,” said receivers coach Tyke Tolbert. “We all have input. The good thing about my job is I’m going to coach whoever is out there. When it gets down to it, the higher-ups make those types of decisions. All the guys out here right now are my guys, so I coach them all hard and coach them the same and try to get them to be as successful as possible because you never know what’s going to happen.”‘

‘"I wasn’t happy with the way I played," Posluszny said. "I thought I was just an average player. I did my job and I was where I needed to be, but I didn’t really make any big plays, didn’t really make anything happen."’

‘There will be deals on sports cards, comics and other collectibles, and Booker Edgerson and Al Bemiller will sign autographs for $5 each from 1 to 2:30 p.m.’

‘"That’s always a good thing when the X-rays come back negative. I’m enthusiastic about that. Hopefully I can get back as soon as possible. … I’ll try to get back as soon as I can because we’ve still got work to do and I still need to be out there with those guys."’

‘Cornerback ranks second only to quarterback on the NFL pay scale. The going rate for a proven starter on the open market is $7 million to $8 million a year and up.’

‘”You know what it is going to do here wind-wise, and snow-wise and cold weather-wise,” said Jauron. “But we have no idea what it’s going to do early in the season and we could easily get rain. The footing and how you compete and how you backpedal, how you turn, plant and drive, cutting, you have to work on those things because they’re not easy.”‘