50-YARD LINE

Happy Hump Day! It’s time for your Steelers mid-week report. Once again, the Steelers have more questions than answers, injury-wise, this week.  I seem to remember someone blogging about the lack of depth and how the Steelers were an injury or two away from disaster….Ben, Leftwich, and Cotchery are out. AB, Troy, Redman and Gilbert are question marks. Good news, #1 pick David DeCastro has been cleared for practice. Could he be too little, too late? Charlie Batch is your starting QB this week. Charlie is 5-2 as a starter and we’re playing the 2-8 Cleveland Clowns at the mistake by the lake this week. Charlie has a new backup in Brad Hoyer (who?) and will have a new/old target in Plaxico Burress. We’ll see if Plax can return to his old form or if there was a reason that he was signed off of the street. Watch out for the trap game! Don’t look ahead to the re-match with the Baltimorons. Cleveland rookie QB Brandon Weeden has thrown 11 TD’s and 12 INT’s this season with a 70.3 passer rating. The Steelers D has held opposing QB’s to under 200 yards passing 5 games in a row. That’s all well and good but their rookie running back Trent Richardson looks like he’s the real deal, rushing for 670 yards for a 3.7 yard average and 5 TD’s. Don’t sleep on this team. We can’t afford any more losses in the AFC or in our division. Get rested, get prepared, and get after it! Go Steelers!!!!!!