stillers4me
06-26-2014, 11:23 AM
He sat at a table with Troy Polamalu (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/4474/troy-polamalu) and Ike Taylor (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/4583/ike-taylor) a couple weeks ago, and there was nothing remarkable in itself about Joey Porter (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/1826/joey-porter) chatting up his former teammates in a cafeteria.
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But watching Polamalu and Taylor listen intently to Porter, it seemed like 2005 all over again. That's when the two were young players following the lead of the brash, fully charged linebacker who may have been most responsible for the Pittsburgh Steelers (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/pit/pittsburgh-steelers) ending a quarter-century Super Bowl drought that season.
A couple of hours later, Porter revealed just how much time has passed since he was the soul and guts of a defense in which players fed off the emotional lather that once possessed "J Peezy" to try to board the Baltimore Ravens (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/bal/baltimore-ravens) teams bus after a game because he had unfinished business with none other than Ray Lewis (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/964/ray-lewis).
Talking about his fledging coaching career after a minicamp practice, Porter candidly said, "I don't have all of the answers. As a player I would say something slick like I knew it all. As a coach I've got to be humble because I don't." ...........
Read more @ http://espn.go.com/blog/pittsburgh-steelers/post/_/id/7325/joey-porter-driven-by-new-role-in-football
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But watching Polamalu and Taylor listen intently to Porter, it seemed like 2005 all over again. That's when the two were young players following the lead of the brash, fully charged linebacker who may have been most responsible for the Pittsburgh Steelers (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/pit/pittsburgh-steelers) ending a quarter-century Super Bowl drought that season.
A couple of hours later, Porter revealed just how much time has passed since he was the soul and guts of a defense in which players fed off the emotional lather that once possessed "J Peezy" to try to board the Baltimore Ravens (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/bal/baltimore-ravens) teams bus after a game because he had unfinished business with none other than Ray Lewis (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/964/ray-lewis).
Talking about his fledging coaching career after a minicamp practice, Porter candidly said, "I don't have all of the answers. As a player I would say something slick like I knew it all. As a coach I've got to be humble because I don't." ...........
Read more @ http://espn.go.com/blog/pittsburgh-steelers/post/_/id/7325/joey-porter-driven-by-new-role-in-football