Steelers Report Card/Week 14: Same Old Steelers Face Bleak Future

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Published: December 11, 2009

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... Cleveland friggin' Browns?!) on Sunday afternoon:

1. They said hell would freeze over before the defending champions lost five games in a row, so maybe we should have known that Cleveland would be the place. What should concern Steelers World far more is the future of this team, because it couldn’t be much darker if it was stuck in the middle of the Fort Pitt Tunnel right now. 

Take a look at the two-deep roster. Ryan Clark, Justin Hartwig, Brett Keisel and Jeff Reed are 30 years old. Brett Keisel and James Harrison are 31. Casey Hampton is 32. Tyrone Carter, Chris Hoke, Aaron Smith and Hines Ward are 33. James Farrior and Deshea Townsend are 34. Charlie Batch and Travis Kirschke are 35. And the two most important players – Troy Polamalu, 28, and Ben Roethlisberger, 27 – are 30-something in football years. 

Other than Ziggy Hood, Rashard Mendenhall, Mike Wallace and perhaps Dennis Dixon, there’s no...

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