Sometimes it hurts to be right

My latest Steelers Digest made for bleak reading-- no surprise given our 2-5 record.

The editor offered us suffering fans this:

It's not like a lot of people saw this coming. With this roster of players, with this coaching staff, with this ownership, 2-5 after seven games is shockingly unacceptable.

I guess that makes me one of the few since i made this assessment back in April:

I'm worried about this season. Our defense had problems last year. Our running game is suspect since Bettis has been injured in the last two seasons and Zeroue is a question mark as a feature back.

The big question is QB. Kordell Stewart is gone to Chicago so it all comes down to Tommy Maddox. He played brilliantly for much of last season-- but that was when he was an unknown quantity for defensive co-ordinators. This year they will know what to prepare for and will have plenty of film to study.

I wish i had been wrong. I also wish that i could now find some ray of hope.

But offenses are picking out secondary apart. Neither Zeroue not Bettis seems ready to get the ground game back on track. Our o-line is cobbled together. Mattox looks average as a QB.

The defense formerly known as Blitzburgh has 13 sacks while we've allowed 22.

Ugly. Just generally ugly.