Ravens Coach Harbaugh's 'One Complaint' About NFL Schedule: Steelers Tracker

17/06/2024

JUNE 17 COMPLAINT WINDOW Every team in the AFC North has expressed some unhappiness with the new NFL schedule. Right, Ravens coach John Harbaugh?

"My only complaint that I have, and it's not even a complaint but just for the fans, you want to see prime-time games in Baltimore," Harbaugh recently said. "We are always on the short end of those for some crazy reason ...''

And now we've covered it all. Too tough. Too many road games. Too many MNF roads games.

At least the coach did offer a fun piece of truth here.

"You know,'' he said, "it's like Godfather II. 'This is the [business] we've chosen.''

JUNE 16 C'MON, LeBRON If Rodney McLeod and the Cleveland Browns are joking? It's funny. But if they - or anybody else - really thinks that LeBron James, approaching his 40th birthday, could truly succeed in the NFL?

They're wrong. Because this isn't Akron, Ohio, high school football.

“We could use somebody to complement [David] Njoku over there,'' McLeod said of the idea of the NBA superstar as a 6-9 tight end. "We’re going to have to save LeBron for third downs, red zone, passing situations ...''

Again, back to reality: We promise you, Steelers safeties, linebackers and defensive ends would love the opportunity to legally crash into a 6-9 frame in a way that would send an all-time great basketball player back to basketball.

Fact - and one that even applies to LeBron when he was 19 and not 39 - he chose to not play football for a reason.

JUNE 15 - SIGNED - After holding out of the three-day mandatory minicamp, Cincinnati Bengals star receiver Tee Higgins has finally signed his franchise tender, according to a report from ESPN's Adam Schefter.

However, as Schefter later added, even with Higgins deciding to end his holdout and report for training camp near the end of July, it is still a "longshot" that he agrees to a new long-term deal.

So, the former Clemson product will be forced to play this coming season, likely his last in Cincinnati, on an expiring contract before having the chance to enter free agency.

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JUNE 14 - BROWNS INJURY SCARE - One of the goals for every team coming out of mandatory minicamp, aside from preparing the players for training camp, is to emerge from it without any major injuries. The Pittsburgh Steelers have seemingly done that and so too have their AFC North rival, the Cleveland Browns.

However, the Browns' final day of minicamp didn't pass without a scare. As reported by Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal, the Browns' star edge rusher Myles Garrett went down with what appeared to be a hamstring injury during a defensive line drill.

Thus, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year was sidelined for the rest of practice as he spent time with the team's athletic trainer.

It was certainly not the news that Browns fans wanted to hear on Thursday. However, there was the good news: Coach Kevin Stefanski revealed afterward that the injury was not serious and Garrett would be "fine."

JUNE 14 - TRAINING CAMP UP NEXT - Thursday marked the third and final day of mandatory minicamp for the Pittsburgh Steelers. And as they hope for with any offseason practice or workout, they seem to have emerged without any major injuries.

Now, with the final ramp-up stage of the offseason complete they will have a few weeks rest before reporting for training camp. This year, the Steelers will begin camp on July 25 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where they will make their final preparations for the regular season.

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