On Second Thought: Is There Hope for the 2016 Steelers?

The title of this post may seem odd to those of you who read yesterday’s game commentary, which contained choice items such as:

• I’m afraid I see another of Ben Roethlisberger’s precious remaining years going down the tubes.
• I begin to fear we’ve seen the best of Ben Roethlisberger already.
• It’s been tempting this season to think that unfortunate circumstances have conspired to pull the Steelers down. But they are second in the AFC North, could well be third after tonight’s game, and it’s pretty clear that unless something remarkable happens to the AFC West, in a bad way, there are going to be no wild card spots for an AFC North team. Yes, a lot can happen in seven games, but probably not that much.

So the short answer to the question posed by the title would appear to be “no.” But since this makes for an awfully short article, and since I prefer to contemplate good possibilities than fear bad ones, let’s see what can be dredged up by, well, going deeper.

Steelers Opponent Preview: the Seattle Seahawks

via Fansided

Well, folks, it’s 3:42 on Friday afternoon, and unlike my usual practice I haven’t written anything but the title for this preview. I would like to say it’s because I’m full of turkey, but actually it is because I’m full of indolence.

So before we get going with the actual fact-finding portion of this post I’m going to attach the following exceedingly lovely tweet from the last Steelers game we watched. Doesn’t it seem like about a million years ago since then? It was tweeted by the punter of the Indianapolis Colts as he enjoyed (apparently) his bye week. Or maybe he thought he was working…

 

And without further ado, here they are, ladies and gentlemen, the Seattle Seahawks!