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? T.J. Watt and his wife Dani are expecting a baby in February of 2025. T.J. and Dani revealed the news on Instagram on Sunday.
? Eight of the 10 NFL.com panelists picked the Atlanta Falcons to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 1. The Steelers are currently 3-point underdogs against the Falcons, according to Vegas Insider.
? Russell Wilson posted a hype video on Sunday with it being one week away from the start of the season.
One week. @steelers 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ZTDhRsA9wU
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) September 1, 2024
? Country music star Lainey Wilson said she and her boyfriend Devlin “Duck” Hodges bleed black and gold. Of course. Hodges is the former Steelers quarterback, who played in eight games (started six) in 2019.
“Me and him are big fans,” Wilson told Cale Berger of Y108. “He always tells me he’s just like ‘I’ll never forget the way that town made me feel and just made me feel welcome and like, cheered me on’ and so we’re always going to be Steelers fans in our house.”
? Falcons head coach Raheem Morris said in a recent interview that he used to mimic Mike Tomlin during meetings when he was an assistant defensive backs coach under him in Tampa Bay. Tomlin was the Buccaneers defensive backs coach from 2001-2005.
“He absolutely does. I was his assistant,” Morris told reporters. “I always ran the meetings after practice. I ran the meetings and I was sometimes doing his voice, and he’d lean outside of his office which was a closet and he’d go ‘Hey, are you imitating me or you coaching?’ And we all laugh, all the players knew. It really wasn’t picking on him. It really was emulating some greatness and some of the things he was able to do. Like, nobody can hold the form like Mike Tomlin. It’s more about me emulating really good things and stealing it. I’ve been able to do that over the years.”
Morris said it will be all business when he faces his mentor in Week 1.
“It just so happens in Week 1 man, he’s gray matter. He knows it,” Morris said.
? Happy Birthday to Steelers Hall of Fame quarterback and four-time Super Bowl champion Terry Bradshaw, born on September 2, 1948 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Happy Birthday Terry Bradshaw#Steelers #HereWeGo#TerryBradshawThread pic.twitter.com/QJ5NRsEHrM
— Old Time Football 🏈 (@Ol_TimeFootball) September 2, 2024
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