Mendy SUSPENDED

[jb500ex]

This.

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True dat...leave the drama up to Gang Green up in NYC.

well lets look at how rex was voted the coach players wanted top play for a couple years ago by a huge margin and now this year it was tomlin. if you pay close attention its not hard to see how this will go

[86WARD]

Good. Glad to see that money being saved. Officially makes that draft class a wasted year.

[fansince'76]

well lets look at how rex was voted the coach players wanted top play for a couple years ago by a huge margin and now this year it was tomlin. if you pay close attention its not hard to see how this will go

Yeah, some idiotic players poll that doesn't mean shit is really a great barometer of a head coach's career arc. Please.

[BlastFurnace]

I know I'm going to be in the minority, but I think Tomlin and the coaching staff did Rashard wrong this year. Not excusing not attending the fame, but he was done wrong before this past weekend.

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You know, I am actually hoping that he got suspended for taking on Tomlin. If he challenged Mike, then good on him. Apparently, the one thing you can't do on this team is fumble. You can shit the bed anyway else you please, but don't fumble.

Amen!!! I dislike Tomlin more and more every year.

[zulater]

Mendy's career began to unravel the moment I made him my first round pick for my FFL team back in 2011.

To prove I haven't lost my touch I made Maurice Jones Drew my number one pick this year.

[tube517]

Christ. Either Tomlin is too much of a pussy to be a good coach, or he's too much of a hard ass to be one.

He's a hard ass pussy.

[BlountForceTrauma]

Yes, in the game day section on the main forum.

http://www.steelersuniverse.com/foru...hp/15-Game-Day

Welcome to SU btw!

Thanks dude! And BTW LOL to the fact that you are a right wing extremist! Can I join you?

[86WARD]

Did he make any interesting comments via Twitter?

[BlastFurnace]

I wonder if Adrian Peterson would get 100 yards with our O Line. They were starting to gel there, but seems like the train if off the rails again.

Adrian better not fumble or 120lb Chris Rainey will get his goal line carries.

[steelerdiva]

Sometimes you have issues with your boss (or in this case, coach). But you still show up and do your job. It's called being a professional.

[Count Steeler]

Adrian better not fumble or 120lb Chris Rainey will get his goal line carries.

Too true, and too sad.

[BlastFurnace]

That's what ticked me off so bad last night watching the Pats*. As soon as Brady* handed the ball off, it was like the parting of the Red Sea.

You'll get mad every time you watch them then. They know how to play offense and bury teams.

[stillers4me]

You'll get mad every time you watch them then. They know how to play offense and bury teams.

Yep. I do.

[vader29]

[Steeldude]

Ed Bouchette‏@EdBouchette

#Steelers suspended Mendenhall bec after they told him he wd not dress vs. Chargers, he did not show up at Heinz Field, source says.

I always had a feeling he was a baby. A wasted draft pick. The Steelers should have never went for a RB in the first round.

[Dwinsgames]

I always had a feeling he was a baby. A wasted draft pick. The Steelers should have never went for a RB in the first round.

or selected one not named Mendenhall , the very next selection was Chris Johnson , in the second round that year Ray Rice , in round 3 Jamaal Charles ....

[Shoes]

or selected one not named Mendenhall , the very next selection was Chris Johnson , in the second round that year Ray Rice , in round 3 Jamaal Charles ....

....that's enough to make one sick!

[oneforthetoe]

Evil Mike Tomlin tweet.


Due to Mendenhall being suspended we brought up Charlie's great grandson Baron Batch from the practice squad

https://twitter.com/EvilMikeTomlin

I fixed the quote.

[Heinz Hitman]

I don't know what some of you guys are talking about?

Mendy hasn't been the Steelers best running back since 2010. In running back years that's half a career ago.

This.

[LLT]

We have jettisoned better players than Mendenhall due to attitude issues....this too shall pass.

Do You know what sooths a wasted 1st round pick at running back in 2008? A better running back picked up as a sixth rounder in 2010.

[Steeldude]

2008 turned out to be a horrible draft, as many of us predicted.

Rashard Mendenhall - Not a position of need. Overrated RB coming out of the spread. Afraid of contact.
Limas Sweed - Good value pick, but turned out to be a dud.
Bruce Davis - Moronic pick.
Tony Hills - Worse than the Bruce Davis pick.
Dennis Dixon - Another running QB experiment. When will they learn?
Mike Humpal - Who? Late round pick no big deal.
Ryan Mundy - Still on the team. I guess that isn't bad for a 7th round pick.

[Dwinsgames]

....that's enough to make one sick!

isn't it though

[86WARD]

Just think where the Steelers might be had they drafted 3-5 players in 2008 that would actually be contributing in defense or offense...

Players like Chris Johnson, Kenny Phillips, Jordy Nelson, Matt Forte, Tracy Porter. Would be nice to have Forte running the ball and Porter across from Ike...not to mention Carl Nicks on the OLine...

Instead...Mendenhall not running, Sweed not catching and Bruce Davis not rushing and QB...

[Steeldude]

The Bruce Davis and Tony Hills picks are the real head-scratchers, IMO.

[86WARD]

Just thinking of this draft as a whole turns my stomach but the Bruce Davis pick...makes me throw up in my mouth...

[Moose]

He's pissed me off since the fumble in the GB Super Bowl game. No other comment.

[Moose]

You'll get mad every time you watch them then. They know how to play offense and bury teams.

Exactly ! I can't stand the Pat's and Brady, but you have to admit they know how to manhandle teams, and very seldom will you see them lose to BOTTOM FEEDERS !! They hit them hard early and keep hitting, and hitting, and hitting....then put their foot on their throat for the kill. Sure do wish our coach could instill that in our players. GO STEELERS

[primantibro1]

I always had a feeling he was a baby. A wasted draft pick. The Steelers should have never went for a RB in the first round.

You know what bothered me about him... I remember not long after rookie camp, a story was reported that Mendy and a girl he was with were jumped by a river walk or something back in Michigan or Chicago or something. They took his watch and his wallet. Now, granted, if there is a gun (not sure) involved, anybody can get jumped. It's the intangible emotion I had after reading it that always stuck with me.

I think it had to do with the "aura" that I supposed Mendy had about him. I mean, a 5'10" 220 pound guy, ripped from head to toe, doesn't say to the average mugger "come and get me." Not that it couldn't happen to Harrison, or Woodley, or Redman, or someone else ... but it is harder to imagine. I remember feeling violated like "our 1st round draft pick just got mugged?" Sure, call me a douche for saying it, and tell me how ridiculous I am, and how they would have taken the same from me PLUS the girl. And you might be right.

The only reason I am saying this is that it marked the first time I had the feeling that our top pick was soft. The feeling never departed. Even his up one game down one game inconsistency - when he was "doing good." No tenacity. He got his shoulder broken by Ray Lewis after some texting controversy. Kid just seems to get ass-whupped at all levels. Jerome Bettis didn't get victimized and he ran over guys like Ray Lewis. Not sure of my point here ... I guess it's just that I suppose that he showed his colors early and leopards typically don't change their spots.

Put Ward's spirit in Mendenhall's body, you have a potential hall of famer. With Mendy's spirit in Mendy's body, you have a really athletic writer of Haiku. That's about it.

[steelreserve]

You know what bothered me about him... I remember not long after rookie camp, a story was reported that Mendy and a girl he was with were jumped by a river walk or something back in Michigan or Chicago or something. They took his watch and his wallet. Now, granted, if there is a gun (not sure) involved, anybody can get jumped. It's the intangible emotion I had after reading it that always stuck with me.

I think it had to do with the "aura" that I supposed Mendy had about him. I mean, a 5'10" 220 pound guy, ripped from head to toe, doesn't say to the average mugger "come and get me." Not that it couldn't happen to Harrison, or Woodley, or Redman, or someone else ... but it is harder to imagine. I remember feeling violated like "our 1st round draft pick just got mugged?" Sure, call me a douche for saying it, and tell me how ridiculous I am, and how they would have taken the same from me PLUS the girl. And you might be right.

The only reason I am saying this is that it marked the first time I had the feeling that our top pick was soft. The feeling never departed. Even his up one game down one game inconsistency - when he was "doing good." No tenacity. He got his shoulder broken by Ray Lewis after some texting controversy. Kid just seems to get ass-whupped at all levels. Jerome Bettis didn't get victimized and he ran over guys like Ray Lewis. Not sure of my point here ... I guess it's just that I suppose that he showed his colors early and leopards typically don't change their spots.

Put Ward's spirit in Mendenhall's body, you have a potential hall of famer. With Mendy's spirit in Mendy's body, you have a really athletic writer of Haiku. That's about it.

Heh ... yeah, Bettis would've shown you how to get mugged like a MAN.

[Edman]

I knew Mendenhall was soft, but a mugging isn't a proper barometer of on-field toughness. Yeah, what a pussy Rashard is, getting mugged.