Props to Ramon Foster

[Stryker]

I know a couple people were giving Ramon Foster a hard time, while not fully understanding his salary cap implications. Last game he was a monster. Pulling, popping and pushing players into the end zone.

Foster spiked not 1 but 2 footballs. One for pushing Bell into the end zone on his catch and run for a TD, the other for the division winning TD where he came to help AB, though he didn't need any.

This is an extra benefit that I usually only see out of NE. The offensive line is getting down field and helping our skill players score. Add another layer of development to this already supercharged O-Line!

 

[slashsteel]

yeah the O-line is capable of great things.


and have been helping produce great things.

Foster deserves his due... but I could say that about each and every player on the starting unit.

And then point to nice performances from the backups.


I have loved what MM has done with this unit.

 

[Drink IRON City]

Foster use to be a fat slow OL buit I think he has worked hard to get to the playing shape he is in now and some of the motivation and coaching coming from Munchack. Hats off to Ramon and his increasingly good ability.



Salute the nation

 

[Fiji Mariner]

I thought he was a key free agent last year and glad we kept him, and at a pretty fair price.

 

[bermudasteel]

I like Noodles too...

 

[Litos]

He's been solid all season

 

[steelerscotty]

With Hubbard and Finney we have nice depth too.

 

[bmoritz]

And don't forget Hawkins will be back next season.

 

[Coryea]

Foster has been pretty good from day one, he started the last 3 weeks in 2009 for kemo, and we won all 3 and put up 400+ yards on Miami and 500+ yards on Green Bay, and beat Baltimore in the middle

 

[SteelerFan448]

ESPN.com rated the Steelers as the second best OL in the league, via BTSC:

http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.co...-the-second-best-unit-in-the-nfl-mike-munchak

2. Pittsburgh Steelers
“This line is certainly better known than the Saints' unit, anchored by 2014 All-Pro center Maurkice Pouncey and 2015 All-Pro right guard David DeCastro. Pittsburgh ranks in the top six for all of the metrics we're measuring here except for penalties. Our game charting over the past couple of years has ranked DeCastro and left guard Ramon Foster in the top 10 for snaps per blown block. And left tackle Alejandro Villanueva has improved in his second season as the starting left tackle.”

Foster doesn't have the pedigree as several of the other guys on the line, but he is very consistent and a leader.