Steelers vs. Falcons Darrius Heyward-Bey Jersey , Week 5: Bold and bizarre predictions for the battle of the underachievers The 1-2-1 Steelers host the 1-3 Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at Heinz Field. Both teams have high-powered offensive attacks with defenses that are downright bad. One previously-billed Super Bowl contender will take a step toward saving their season, while the other will start watching the top prospects available in the 2019 NFL Draft.With this storyline and more, I’ve compiled a list of predictions (some basic, and some utterly idiotic) to look for in the Week-4 contest:Back on the same page, Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown have a Montana/Rice day. AB finishes with over 200 yards on the afternoon.However, Matt Ryan and Julio Jones shine as well.Julio makes the Heinz Field end zone his schoolyard and the touchdown goose egg disappears with three trips there.Not sure whether to gear his TD celebration towards the birthdays of Simon Cowell or Vladimir Putin, JuJu Smith-Schuster celebrates his second quarter TD by commemorating 1959’s Soviet probe Luna 3 when it transmitted the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon by taking a real cellphone shot of Ramon Foster bent over.Much to the dismay of the fans, Tyler Matakevich gets a majority of the defensive snaps over Matthew Thomas at Vince Williams’ ILB spot. The middle of the field is torched all day long.Because of the above prediction, fans lament not starting or picking up TE Austin Hooper in their fantasy leagues.The Steelers get some semblance of a running game as James Conner grinds out 70 on the ground.Le’Veon Bell debuts his latest rap single, Round is a Shape at halftime at Max and Erma’s.Jordan Berry continues to get booed vociferously, but Chris Boswell’s arrow continues to point up and straight.Despite a surge in offense Jordan Berry Jersey , the defense continues to struggle. Falcons 38-Steelers 30....Will any of this actually happen? I’ll bet at least one or two. Heck, maybe every one of them. Be sure to post your predictions — basic or bizarre — below. Remember how I said the Steelers and Antonio Brown were going to just have to find a way to coexist? That article was actually written on New Year’s Day but published on Friday. If you remember New Year’s Day, it was the day before Brown joined former Steelers linebacker James Harrison to watch (some might say mock) head coach Mike Tomlin’s end-of-year press conference in a video that, in a surprise to nobody who has been following the Pittsburgh Steelers the past few years, was posted on social media for all the world to see. During this video, Harrison, one of the funniest people you’ll ever want to meet (if “funny” is another word for “bitter”) joked that he was about to conduct an exclusive interview with Brown, you know, to get his side of the story. Of course, that never happened. Instead, the two smirked and smiled and hammed it up for the camera Alejandro Villanueva Jersey ,acting like HHH and Shawn Michaels may have acted back in the day as they mocked Mr. McMahon on an episode of WWE’s Raw (seriously, the two could have spouted terms like “The standard is the standard” and “Obviously....” and it wouldn’t have seemed any more disrespectful). Really, in my opinion, just days after Brown went AWOL on his team during practice and, ultimately, during a must-win end-of-season game vs. the Bengals, Brown watching (and mocking) Tomlin’s press conference made the whole Facebook Live incident from two years ago seem like an innocent gaffe by a player who simply didn’t know any better. After all, you could pass off Brown’s actions that night in Kansas City following a huge 18-16 victory over the Chiefs in a divisional playoff game as just your typical diva wide receiver—but in the social media age—not realizing the consequences of putting his team’s—and coach’s—locker room business outthere for the whole world—especially the New England Patriots—to see. But the press conference deal with Harrison, a man who partedwith the organization last year in the most bitter of ways (he basically forced his release from the team after, among other things, sleeping through linebacker meetings) and then immediately signed with the Patriots Chris Boswell Jersey , well, that was Facebook Live on steroids (speaking of Harrison). One thing we can certainly glean from this whole situation is we’ll never have to worry about Tomlin pulling another “Joey Porter” by hiring Harrison as his next outside linebackers coach (“No, no, that’s not the way to do it, No. 90! If you’re not getting to the quarterback, the proper technique is to defy your head coach by saying “S**t happens.”). But where do the Steelers go from here with Brown? Yeah, sure, it’s January. Yeah, sure, Ben Roethlisberger was all “What locker room blow up? That’s news to me,” during his radio show on 93.7 The Fan last week. Yes Stephon Tuitt Jersey , there is plenty of time for cooler heads to prevail between now and, heck, OTAs in just a few months. But this latest rift involving Brown, Roethlisberger and Tomlin (or, for all we know, it could be between Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster or Brown and Anthony Chickillo) is so screwy, I wonder if it’s really reparable. I’d like to think it is. But when the protagonist (or antagonist) of the story is doing nothing but dropping cryptic hints on the Internet, while the quarterback is all “Gosh, golly, AB and I are BFF’s,” it’s hard to get to the root of the problem.All we know is Coty Sensabaugh Jersey , Tomlin seemed pretty darn angry at his press-conference on Wednesday—and that was without realizing his star receiver and bitter ex-linebacker were mocking him on social media. Equal trade value, be damned. Dead cap money, be damned.Coexisting, be damned.Can the Steelers survive as a football team without Antonio Brown? The better question might be: can the Steelers even be a team with Antonio Brown? Mike Tomlin is a man his players have always respected—even as many fans seem to have little respect for his coaching abilities. If he wants to continue to have the respect of the locker room, he may have to do the unthinkable with his All Pro wide receiver.
