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

What the heck is going on with all the injuries?!?!  I mean I expect teams to have a few injuries here and there, but this has gotten ridiculous. How many offensive linemen can the Steelers have injured? Actually when you look at not only the Steelers, but around the entire NFL, there are an awful lot of injured players. Why are we seeing injuries at such a rate? Are guys truly hurt? Is the lack of practice in pads making it easier for guys to get hurt when the pads go on? All I know is that Jack Lambert is out there somewhere watching football and wondering why so many guys are on the injury reports every week.

SOMETHING I’VE SOFTENED ON

Softened? Not this week. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what to put in here, only to finally decide that I haven’t really softened on anything. It is too important this time of the season, and the Steelers still have way too many questions to be answered. Top that off with all the injuries that have been going on, and I am more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. The next couple of weeks before the bye is too critical a time for the Steelers for me to ease up on them about anything. With that being said, I will see if next week brings me a change of heart and I am able to find something that I’m less stressed about.

SOMETHING THAT HASN’T CHANGED

T.J. Watt figures out how to have an impact on a game every week. When teams roll their blocking schemes his way, Trent Jordan just figures out another way he can have an impact on the game and then he does that. This past week we saw exactly that. The Raiders were not going to let him impact the game with sacks, so T.J. went all Mike Tyson punch out and had an impact by forcing fumbles. If that is not the definition of the Defensive Player of the Year then I don’t know what is.

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.