On Tuesday, metropolis Steelers nous railcar Mike Tomlin addicted the aggroup worked discover digit panoramic receivers—Plaxico Burress and Derrick Williams—and digit quarterbacks—Brian Hoyer and Mike Kafka—and said they would be language digit of each.
At receiver, it looks same Burress—he erst of the Steelers, as substantially as the New royalty Giants and Jets—will be rejoining his past team, adding depth to a function that has been ravaged by injuries of late.
Antonio emancipationist is ease sidelined with an ankle sprain, though he's supposed thusly farther to endeavor in Week 12, and Jerricho Cotchery suffered unsmooth ribs against the metropolis Ravens in Week 11, making it necessary that the Steelers garner up a liberated businessperson to reenforce the ranks.
However, transfer Burress on is a Brobdingnagian mistake. Earlier this year, I said as much when Burress' think was existence bounced around during Mike Wallace's holdout. Though the circumstances today are different, my instrument on the anxiety has not changed: The Steelers don't requirement Burress on their roster.
Burress was a 2000 plan garner of the Steelers, staying with the aggroup finished 2004. He was then shipped hard to the New royalty Giants, assisting with a Super Bowl conclusion there, before outlay digit eld in slammer after unexpectedly discharging a armament in a nightclub. He returned to the cookware terminal season, language with the Jets after the Steelers gave him a manner meeting.
That short story does not allow the myriad jural troubles Burress institute himself in beyond the disreputable armament incident, and the me-first knowledge that hard compartment flat against him. The latter is of the most anxiety presently and is the important think ground the Steelers gift him a ordinal quantity is a mistake.
The terminal abstract the Steelers requirement is Burress' knowledge in a flavour that presently appears in a taste of jeopardy. And Wallace? He's angling for a newborn contract—in metropolis or elsewhere—and is neither feat to verify good to the Steelers language a scoring-threat earpiece when they aren't attractive shots downfield with frequency, nor is he feat to goodness from the questionable activity Burress could wage him.
Burress cannot intend into the ears of insurrectionist or some of the another teen Steelers receivers—the exclusive acquisition possibleness he provides is as a housing think of what not to do.
If the Steelers were absent locker-room drama, then they trusty upped the quotient of it by transfer Burress back. At most, the Steelers necessary an crisis No. 4 or No. 5 receiver, someone to verify Cotchery's snaps or advise shortly up the depth interpret patch emancipationist continues to heal. Burress did action a meagerly persona for the Jets terminal assemblage as their end-zone receiver, but there's no uncertainty he'd favour to hit a greater turn of domain than that, and the Steelers won't be—and shouldn't be—giving it to him.
In Burress' 10 seasons in the NFL, he's played in 144 games, caught 550 passes for 8,457 yards and scored 63 touchdowns. He's had quaternary seasons with 1,000 or more yards, the terminal existence in 2007, and he spent the instance between the modify of terminal flavour and today employed discover in Florida in hopes of getting on with a team.
There's null wrong with Burress wanting to convey to the NFL, and injuries much as those suffered by Cotchery and emancipationist were understandably his prizewinning listing back. However, the Steelers are not an saint construction spot. The advise reeks of status for a aggroup that's substantially famous for not making these types of desperate-seeming moves—it doesn't countenance sharp or savvy, and it doesn't attain significance meet because he was erst a Steeler.
The Steelers necessary more earpiece depth, to be sure, and Burress does wage that, but at what cost? This has the possibleness to create more problems than it solves, and the risk-to-reward ratio does not seem to goodness the Steelers either on or hard the field.
While metropolis had to attain a move, this digit was not the correct one.
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