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Pouncey needs surgery

Ghost of Frenchy Fuqua said:
A guy, whose name I can't mention, who writes for a newspaper I can't mention, reported that Pouncey was overheard after the game saying that if needs surgery he might retire.

I can see being extremely depressed/upset by what happened. But this is taking it to another level.
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What does it matter he sucks anyway. Look at all the money the Steelers would save
 
Xc944 said:
Personally I don't like the hood rat and hated hat we resigned him
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This.^^


And...I really can't recall any huge drop-off in the performance of the OL with every one of MP's numerous injuries. They always seem to continue to play at the same level as when he was there, and even better when he was replaced by Velasco. I doubt we miss him much this year either.

I'm more worried about Tuitt.
 
thesteelcity said:
Bright side: he will miss half a season and should be back during the thick of things. Negative: he will miss a half a season.

Anyone that thinks the OL would be better w/o #53 is delusional..
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He could be done for the year and yeah - I only want what's best for Ben - he had his greatest year last year with the best protection



Pouncey breaks left fibula in Steelers' win, could miss entire season

The Steelers have been down this path too many times.

This time, they hope they can deal with it better than the last.

The Steelers will be without All-Pro center Maurkice Pouncey for a significant portion of the season — if not all of it — after he suffered a broken left fibula that will require surgery, according to two sources familiar with the injury. Pouncey was injured during the first half of the Steelers' 24-19 win over Green Bay in front of 44,517 on Sunday at Heinz Field.

This is the third time in six years Pouncey suffered a significant leg injury — ankle in 2010, knee in 2013 and lower leg in 2015.

“Everybody knows what to expect this time around,” guard Ramon Foster said.

Two years ago, they didn't.

In 2013, Pouncey was lost for the season after tearing his ACL and MCL on the eighth play of the season against the Titans. The offensive line went into a tailspin, struggling to help the running game and protect quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

The Steelers finished 27th in rushing and 18th in sacks as they went 8-8 and missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year. They used seven offensive line combinations that season.

Last year, with a healthy Pouncey — he missed only seven snaps and was on the field for every play over the final 14 games — the Steelers used only three line combinations and, in turn, produced one of the best offenses in the league.

Now, Pouncey will miss significant time again. He is a candidate to go on the injured reserve/designated to return list, which would keep him out at a minimum of six weeks (42 calendar days).

http://triblive.com/sports/-topstories/8950654-74/pouncey-steelers-game#axzz3jhezMHOF
 
It's always something....I get so bleeping bleeping sick and tired of this team always having injuries at key positions every year.

Cant believe some of you are blowing Pounceys injury off like its no big deal.
 
it's not no big deal, but it's also not something that this team hasn't dealt with before. i didn't like the fact that they gave him a bunch of scratch. not saying he isn't good, but there certainly doesn't seem to be a huge drop off when they move over to the next guy. if it's true and he mentioned retirement as said earlier in this thread...
i'd be entirely fine with that
 
Omar10213245 said:
Some of you chicken littles need to pop a soma and relax, the offense will be fine in his absence.
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mdk2 said:
Packers suffered a much bigger loss than we did today. Wallace will get the job done. Packers losing Jordy is big time.
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Here's what I saw...and I bet a lot of teams will implement the strategy on us until Pouncey returns...CRASH BLITZES straight up the middle. Cody will have to get stronger because he was skating on a lot of plays; but, time will tell. I have faith the FO will make the right decisions, but, to think this is a hurdle - that's very optimistic...
 
Beachum was also trained to play center. In a question of putting your best five on the field to start with is the best five going to be Alejandro, Foster, Beachum, DeCastro, Gilbert, or Beachum, Foster, Wallace, DeCastro, Gilbert, or some other combination. Velesko looked good when he was here. The only positive thing with this is there is some time before the season starts so they can try and get some things worked out. There maybe some other guys available as teams cut down to the 53 and the guys that become available will have just completed a preseason somewhere.

Yeah it sucks but better now than at the beginning of a playoff run.
 
Stoney said:
This.^^


And...I really can't recall any huge drop-off in the performance of the OL with every one of MP's numerous injuries. They always seem to continue to play at the same level as when he was there, and even better when he was replaced by Velasco. I doubt we miss him much this year either.

I'm more worried about Tuitt.
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So the offensive line was better with Velasco then they were last year??
 
The Tuitt injury or Pouncey injury? Which hurts the Steelers more?

The Steelers picked up a homeless player on the wavier wire ( Velasco ) at center and the team was just fine. If history shows us anything, its Pouncey's value on game day is not Ben's, AB's, Beachum's, Miller's, Gilbert's or Bell's.

Tuitt's injury could prove to be more costly.
 
Bottom line -- it's not our last injury that will happen. I'm simply hoping Pouncey will be back this year and at full strength by the end of season.

In 2010 - the Achilles injury to Polomalu on his pick 6 vs. Bengals transformed him from DPOY to just another Saftey. After making a play that was the direct difference between winning and losing in 5 games that year; he didn't make a single big play the entire post season run. Often I've wondered if a healthy Troy could have made a game changing play vs Packers.

In 2011 - I still say by the end of season that was a better team than the 2010 AFC Championship team, but the Ben high ankle sprain and injuries to Mendenhall & Pouncey in final games of reg season + the Hampton,Starks & Kiesel injuries during the game destroyed that teams ability to make a final run.

Let's hope the injuries aren't final and no major ones happen at wrong time. They are part of the game.

2008 cleared Brady out of our way and Pats weren't a facto
2014 the Manning injury had us clear sailing toAFCCG if it weren't for that damn injury to Bell. And dang -- from there who knows?



POINT IS - let's just hope it's minimized and we're healthy for post season run
 
start cody, keep kelvin at lt, just bring a few vets for a look and see if mt and haley both see a big drop off in the ol play when practice resumes, late in the week.
 
bermudasteel said:
Here's what I saw...and I bet a lot of teams will implement the strategy on us until Pouncey returns...CRASH BLITZES straight up the middle. Cody will have to get stronger because he was skating on a lot of plays; but, time will tell. I have faith the FO will make the right decisions, but, to think this is a hurdle - that's very optimistic...
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Pouncey gets pushed backwards a lot too
 
antdrewjosh said:
There is a thing called market value. The Steelers who are as frugal as they come paid the man what they obviously feel he is worth. If they didn't think he was worth it he wouldn't of gotten an offer. Missed blocking assignments?? Unless it's in the open field it's hard as hell to tell when a center missed a assignment especially when we don't know who the assignment was. As far as his injury two players fell on his ankle. Yes some players luckily escape injury and some do not. Just like Jordy Nelson injury sometimes it's an ankle sprain and sometimes it's a torn ACL from no contact. **** happens..the only sentiment should be get well soon
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Exactly what I have been saying.
 
Wingman said:
Beachum was also trained to play center. In a question of putting your best five on the field to start with is the best five going to be Alejandro, Foster, Beachum, DeCastro, Gilbert, or Beachum, Foster, Wallace, DeCastro, Gilbert, or some other combination.
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F83 said:
start cody, keep kelvin at lt, just bring a few vets for a look and see if mt and haley both see a big drop off in the ol play when practice resumes, late in the week.
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Tough call but I guess I'd rather keep Beachum at LT since we finally found a good one.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Tough call but I guess I'd rather keep Beachum at LT since we finally found a good one.
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Unless someone has been performing spectacularly in practice, there is no way you move Beachum from LT.
 
Look, the bottom line is that you do not need a star center for a line to work well. It helps, of course, particularly in the run game, to have an ultra athletic guy who can get downfield, but like guard an average pug will do fine. thats why its hard to make the HOF as a guard or center... a bad one can hurt you, but a great one doesnt help as much as other positions....
 
madinsomniac said:
Look, the bottom line is that you do not need a star center for a line to work well. It helps, of course, particularly in the run game, to have an ultra athletic guy who can get downfield, but like guard an average pug will do fine. thats why its hard to make the HOF as a guard or center... a bad one can hurt you, but a great one doesnt help as much as other positions....
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I don't believe that for a minute - sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. We are one more inj on the OL for it to be in complete shambles.

You can't expect a career back-up to produce like an All-Pro for an entire season - that's just crazy talk. I don't care what anybody thinks personally of Pouncey, his loss is huge.
 
I think Pouncey is very over-rated. His reputation is based on his rookie year. He did play very well then, but has declined since. I think he is above average, but I would not say he is a superstar or even a pro-bowl center. I do not think replacing him well be as big of a task as some think. The only bad thing is that it will really impact our depth.
 
Cody Wallace - our new savior.

 
I stand by my statement that losing Tuitt would be worse than Pouncey. They have a viable experienced guy behind Pouncey. He isn't near as good, but an ideas of moving a guy who is playing well at Tackle are just silly. First off you don't create two problems to try and fix one. That is one of the oldest adages in Football. They literally have nothing behind Tuitt and I've been saying that all preseason. If they have cap room they need to go out and get someone decent to back up/ play DE. It is way too physical a position too expect two guys to take every snap all season. Someone commented that Tuitts injury wasn't that significant because the defense sucks anyway. C'mon, Tuitt is a second year player with a great deal of promise. I agree the defense isn't looking good right now, but they are a work in progress. No way you can lose a good looking prospect in his second season. I expect huge growing pains, but if they can even play middle of the pack by mid season, this team can make a serious run. Hopefully we will here that Pouncey can be a part of that by going on the recall IR.
 
P.S. I will be interested in the full nature of Pouncey's injury in that it requires surgery. He walked on it with the full weight of his large body leaving the field. Hopefully it wasn't made worse by that and I have no idea why the training staff would allow that to happen.
 
jitter77 said:
I think Pouncey is very over-rated. His reputation is based on his rookie year. He did play very well then, but has declined since. I think he is above average, but I would not say he is a superstar or even a pro-bowl center. I do not think replacing him well be as big of a task as some think. The only bad thing is that it will really impact our depth.
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I disagree.. he is incredibly athletic and makes some amazing blocks downfield. he has developed into a star center more than people here give him credit for, mostly because of his tweeting and social media blunders in the past. Having said that I still do not think a star center brings that much to the table... This isnt losing Ben or Bell or Brown, its an interior lineman. you can get by with a lesser skilled guy without too much worry. Its not like Dawson or webster, where the things they were doing were so much different from the typical center in the game during their era's... most centers have more athletiscism than even 15 years ago. The problem comes when you put a bad center in there, one that cannot handle a bull rush or is too slow or not agile enough to make the blocks and lets pressure up the middle... that will kill an O. as long as Wallace plays even level at center the O has more than enough skill to compensate. Bell might get a bit less running room and cutback lanes, Ben might get less room to step up in the pocket at times, but that is about it.
 
Spike said:
I don't believe that for a minute - sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me. We are one more inj on the OL for it to be in complete shambles.

You can't expect a career back-up to produce like an All-Pro for an entire season - that's just crazy talk. I don't care what anybody thinks personally of Pouncey, his loss is huge.
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Look at what a huge help to the run game Alan Faneca was as was Dawson. Replacing any quality lineman is a big task. We do not need to relive the debacle that was sean mahen. I think Pouncey is a bit over rated but he is still good to very good and there will likely be a drop off in quality. Hopefully Wallace can be adequate to good and we will be ok till Pouncey returns.
 
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