stillers4me
11-02-2010, 04:19 PM
By Bob Labriola – Steelers Digest
Posted 49 minutes ago
Mike Tomlin is a bottom-line guy, and as one he would rate the Steelers’ first outing without Aaron Smithhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/aaron-smith/488f7c49-70fe-411f-8000-072b635beaa7/) as a failure simply because the team lost the game to the New Orleans Saints (http://www.neworleanssaints.com/), 20-10.
But there are some nuanced layers to the issue as well, and Tomlin talked about some of those at his weekly news conference today at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex.
Smith’s injury was revealed to be a partially torn triceps muscle, and it was repaired with surgery on Monday, Oct. 25. After that procedure, Tomlin made the decision to keep Smith on the active roster based on the reports he got, and in his mind there is nothing to update this early in the process.
“Again it is an extended period of time, a number of weeks with Aaron,” said Tomlin. “We know the quality of player and person that he is. We’re going to be hopeful when there’s hope, and there is. Aaron is of the same mentality. So that’s going well. Once we get down this road a number of weeks we’ll be able to evaluate recovery and progress to be able to nail down a range. At this point, it’s safe to say he’ll be out an extended period of time.”
That means a lot of playing time for second-year pro Ziggy Hoodhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/ziggy-hood/d5735cbd-2280-4afb-968d-f159d5ca47d3/), who started at Smith’s left end spot last Sunday...............
Read more: http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Tomlin-Ziggy-played-well/83ae08d7-9909-453d-abe5-8a5e512bae22
Posted 49 minutes ago
Mike Tomlin is a bottom-line guy, and as one he would rate the Steelers’ first outing without Aaron Smithhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/aaron-smith/488f7c49-70fe-411f-8000-072b635beaa7/) as a failure simply because the team lost the game to the New Orleans Saints (http://www.neworleanssaints.com/), 20-10.
But there are some nuanced layers to the issue as well, and Tomlin talked about some of those at his weekly news conference today at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex.
Smith’s injury was revealed to be a partially torn triceps muscle, and it was repaired with surgery on Monday, Oct. 25. After that procedure, Tomlin made the decision to keep Smith on the active roster based on the reports he got, and in his mind there is nothing to update this early in the process.
“Again it is an extended period of time, a number of weeks with Aaron,” said Tomlin. “We know the quality of player and person that he is. We’re going to be hopeful when there’s hope, and there is. Aaron is of the same mentality. So that’s going well. Once we get down this road a number of weeks we’ll be able to evaluate recovery and progress to be able to nail down a range. At this point, it’s safe to say he’ll be out an extended period of time.”
That means a lot of playing time for second-year pro Ziggy Hoodhttp://www.steelers.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelers.com/team/roster/ziggy-hood/d5735cbd-2280-4afb-968d-f159d5ca47d3/), who started at Smith’s left end spot last Sunday...............
Read more: http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Tomlin-Ziggy-played-well/83ae08d7-9909-453d-abe5-8a5e512bae22