The title “My Worthless 2 Cents” that I came up with isn’t one I feel I can take full credit for, but is a story in itself, so here it is. I was in the 8th grade at the time, and found myself tagging along with my older sister (a senior in high school), as she was a part of the high school theatre group who would work as ushers for local community theatre productions. Working as an usher at a production of “Harvey”, the dad for one of my baseball friends came up to me at intermission and handed me two pennies and asked me to go back to the dressing area and find the lead actor in the play. I was to give him the pennies and tell him “this is from the guy with the big nostrils, giving you his two cents worth”. I thought this was funny so I agreed to do it, especially since I knew the two were friends. I go to the dressing room and deliver the message and the “gift”. The response I was given was even better. The actor told me to return the pennies and I was to “tell the guy with the big nostrils to take his worthless 2 cents and shove them right up his big nostrils”. So that’s it. This is my 2 cents after sitting on the latest Steelers game for a bit. This is quite the opposite of my Knee Jerk Reaction article, so I get to bring everything full circle. You might tell me to take my worthless two cents and shove them up my nostrils, and that’s okay, because we are friends and I don’t look at it as personal.

I am going to break things down into three categories: One, something I feel stronger about. Two, something I have softened on a bit. Three, something that didn’t really change.

SOMETHING I FEEL STRONGER ABOUT

Another late season collapse. These have become the norm, not the exception in Pittsburgh. I am tired of seeing this team peak in the mid part of the season only to collapse down the stretch and give us zero hope as fans as they enter the playoffs. Another word that would describe what I feel strongly about is regression. The Steelers offense the past several years makes improvements until the late part of the season when suddenly they regress to being too conservative and too predictable.

SOMETHING I’VE SOFTENED ON

Steelers’ Nation. My heart goes out to Steelers’ Nation as we are all struggling with the last quarter of the Steelers season. At this point it’s difficult for me to argue with any fan who wants to be critical of a player, a coach, front office, ownership, or the Steeler organization as a whole. Unfortunately the type of collapse we’ve seen from the Steelers has become the standard over the past several years, and it is a standard that is not good enough for Steelers’ Nation. When the season comes to a close (more than likely this Saturday), I am going to need a couple of weeks to simmer down and lick my wounds and get back on the Black and Gold train.

SOMETHING THAT HASN’T CHANGED

Predictability. The one thing Steelers fans were hoping to see different this year as compared to the past few has been the predictability of the offense. Unfortunately for Steelers’ Nation that did not change. The Steelers offense has become way too predictable. Russell Wilson lines up under center you might as well chalk it up as a run. George Pickens comes out of the game, it’s going to be a run. With no creativity, formation and personnel packages give away what the Steelers are going to do. If we know it as fans, you better bet that the team on the opposite side of the football knows it as well.

There you have it. My worthless 2 cents. Maybe you liked it, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you want to tell me to shove my worthless two cents up my big nostrils. Maybe you have your own worthless 2 cents you would like to share. If so please feel free to share it in the comments below, I might look at it and tell you to shove it up your big nostrils…but that’s okay, because we are still friends.