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 the right up those big nostrils”. So that’s it. This is my 2 cents after sitting on the latest Steelers game for a bit. 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

Fans deserve better. With the amount of talent that is on the Steelers team, we as fan should be treated to a much better product than what they’ve been showing. The defense does its best to try to give us a good product, but even they aren’t perfect. The offensive players are not coming anywhere close to living up to their potential. They have disappointed weekend and week out. They show flashes, but there is no consistency at all in their play. Without offensive improvement, this team is not deserving of a playoff spot and I would actually say I would be embarrassed as a fan if they were to squeak their way into the playoffs.

SOMETHING I’VE SOFTENED ON

As much as I hate to say it, it’s Matt Canada. Maybe the reason for Canada being such a micromanager of the offense was because without it the offense could get nowhere. At least if he was telling them exactly what to do and it didn’t work the finger could be pointed at Canada. Now I feel like there’s more options, still nothing is working, and we have no clue where the issues lie. I know this seems a little strange, but I was really struggling to figure out something I’d softened on and this is the only thing that seemed to make any sense to me.

SOMETHING THAT HASN’T CHANGED

The defense has zero margin of error. That was evidenced no better than last week’s game. The defense was having some struggles in the first half and came out in the second half and shut New England down completely. The problem was they had given up too many points in the first half for the offense to recover. The defense does not get any time to get things wrong and then make adjustments. The offense is allowed to have things wrong go in at halftime still not make adjustments and play the second half. If I was playing on the defensive side of the football for the Steelers I would feel that this is not fair. Why why would I have to play a perfect game from the very start only to watch the other side of the ball play nowhere near perfect or even halfway to perfect at any point of the game.

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.