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The five biggest snubs for the 2024 NFL Pro Bowl rosters

Now that the 2024 Pro Bowl rosters have been announced, here are the biggest snubs — the players who should have made it, and didn’t.

The NFL announced the 2024 Pro Bowl rosters on Wednesday night. The rosters were determined by the consensus votes of fans, players, and coaches, making the NFL the only sports league that combines voting by fans, coaches and players to select it’s All-Star rosters.

That said, as there is every year, there were multiple notable snubs that were left off the Pro Bowl roster, and these are the five biggest names to no be 2024 Pro Bowlers.

Steelers HC Mike Tomlin named Peter King’s ‘Goat of the Week’

Peter King flippantly named Mike Tomlin “Goat of the Week” in his Football Morning in America column. 

Each week in the NFL is littered with bad coaching decisions, and one of them this time around unsurprisingly belongs to none other than Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin.

The media highlighted his awful Week 15 decision to punt instead of trusting the usually reliable leg of kicker Chris Boswell when down by 11 with 18 minutes to play.

Tomlin had an opportunity to put points on the board when Pittsburgh had a fourth down at the Indianapolis Colts’ 39-yard line. He opted to bypass giving Boswell — who made five of six from 50 and beyond this season — a chance to make it a one-score game on a 57-yard attempt under the dome of Lucas Oil Stadium.

Boswell was on the field, ready to help his squad when he was called off. And his disapproval was shared by Steelers faithful everywhere.

Tomlin trusted his inconsistent punter and that approach didn’t work. While Tomlin said he hoped to pin the Colts deep inside their five-yard line, Pressley Harvin III netted just 22 yards, setting them up at their 17.

The decision on the previous play was almost as egregious.

“On the play before, instead of choosing to get Boswell closer on third-and-14, the Steelers, in a big offensive hole, threw incomplete deep for George Pickens instead of just trying to get it closer to make it a one-score game,” NBC Sports columnist Peter King wrote. “Bad day for the Steelers and their coach.”

For that, King flippantly named Tomlin “Goat of the Week” in his Football Morning in America column.

Tomlin clearly over-thought the decision and second-guessed himself in the process. He explained his reasoning in his postgame presser.

“You know, on the play before, I wanted to be aggressive and take a shot down the field, and that wasn’t afforded to us,” Tomlin said on Saturday. “And so, then I wanted to check the ball down, we didn’t. We threw the ball out of bounds, and we didn’t improve our field goal positioning.

“We were looking at a 56, 57-yard field goal with our defense leaking the way that it was leaking. I wanted to maintain a posture where we protected them, as opposed to potentially put them in harm’s way. If you miss a long field goal, the defense is working on a short field. And I just didn’t feel like we were positioned to expose them in that way.

I thought it was more prudent, given the amount of time left in play, to try to work them on the long field and protect the defense.”

The leaking defense gave up a field goal on a 15-play, 70-yard drive to go up 27-13.

We all know how it went from there.

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Steelers K Chris Boswell shares photos showing idiocy of offside call

The refs did the Steelers no favors on Sunday.

Sunday’s loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars included a series of ridiculous pieces of officiating, none of which worked in the favor of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Perhaps the most egregious was an offside call on guard Isaac Seumalo where the officials said he was lined up illegally on a 55-yard field goal try that kicker Chris Boswell made. The officials backed the Steelers up five yards and he missed the next attempt.

After the game, Boswell took to Instagram to share the pics below. They not only illustrate that Seumalo was not offside, but it looks more like a Jaguars player was offside instead.

After the game, head coach Mike Tomlin said in 17 years he had never seen that call and you could see on the sideline he was livid when the call was announced.

This play was a huge momentum turnaround in the Jaguars’ favor and almost certainly had an impact on the outcome of the game.

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Steelers sign K Matthew Wright from Chiefs practice squad

The Steelers brought back kicker Matthew Wright.

Just when you thought Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Chris Boswell was fully healthy, there might be a change of plans. On Tuesday the Steelers released Nick Sciba, which we thought meant Boswell’s groin injury was a thing of the past.

But just one day later, the Steelers signed Matthew Wright from the Kansas City Chiefs practice squad and added him to the 53-man roster. Signing Wright from the Chiefs PS means he must remain on the Pittsburgh roster for three weeks. This doesn’t bode well for the severity of Boswell’s injury.

This will be Wright’s third stint with the Steelers. Pittsburgh originally signed Wright as an undrafted free agent in 2019 and lasted until final cuts. The Steelers re-signed Wright in November 2020. He was elevated from the practice squad for three games at the end of the season and hit all four of his field-goal tries as well as seven extra points.

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Wind wins in Cleveland as Chris Boswell field-goal attempt is blown wide

Chris Boswell’s field-goal attempt was wrecked by the Cleveland wind

It is barely autumn but no one told the Weather Gods about that in Cleveland.

The Pittsburgh Steelers decided to try for a 49-yard field goal early on in the Thursday Night Football game.

Chris Boswell’s kick looked good off his foot and then the wind started playing tricks with the football.

The ball wound up well wide and the game remained scoreless.

Fantasy Football: Top streaming options for Week 3

Here are the top streaming options for Week 3 of fantasy football.

We are entering Week 3 of the fantasy football season, and streaming the waiver wire is becoming an increasingly vital aspect for managers.

Given the injuries to quarterbacks Trey Lance, Dak Prescott and Justin Herbert, fantasy managers may find themselves in quite a pickle for Week 3. Meanwhile, the tight end position continues to be a barren landscape, especially for those who drafted players like Cole Kmet and T.J. Hockenson, to name a few.

Whether you voluntarily live the stream life or are essentially forced into it, here are the top streaming options in fantasy football for Week 3.

Steelers won in the wackiest overtime against the Bengals moments after Chris Boswell doinked a kick

What a WILD game!

Well, that was certainly a game of football!

On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in overtime after an incredibly painful — yet highly entertaining — Week 1 matchup. After blocking the Bengals’ extra point attempt to put the game into overtime, it seemed as if neither Pittsburgh or Cincinnati wanted to win in what was probably the messiest overtime ever.

The pain nearly came to an end when the Steelers got into field goal range with two and a half minutes left in overtime, but disaster struck as Pittsburgh kicker Chris Boswell doinked the near game-winning field goal off the upright!

That’s so painful, my goodness. Listen to the legendary “bong” noise the upright makes as the football clatters uselessly off it.

But! After a failed Bengals possession, the Steelers got the ball back and made it into field goal range once more. And this time, on a 53-yard attempt, Boswell nailed it for the last-second overtime win!

Look, by all rights this game should have ended in a tie with how miserable this game was, but what a redemption story for Boswell!

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Bengals let Steelers game slip away with horrible clock management

Bengals head coach Zac Taylor has some clock management explaining to do after an overtime loss to the Steelers.

In all honesty, the Cincinnati Bengals shouldn’t have even been in this one. That they took the Pittsburgh Steelers into overtime after Joe Burrow’s four interceptions and one fumble seemed like a miracle. But there the Bengals were, with 1:04 left in the game, looking to salvage a 20-20 tie out of the entire disaster. This after Burrow took his seventh sack of the day.

What we do not know is why head coach Zac Taylor didn’t let the clock run all the way down before Kevin Huber’s punt. Instead of bleeding the clock down, the Bengals gave the Steelers 15 extra seconds on the clock.

And with those extra 15 seconds, the Steelers went on an eight-play, 45-yard, 56-second drive that ended with Chris Boswell’s 56-yard field goal.

What a game indeed, but if the Bengals had forced the Steelers to start that drive with more than a minute on the clock, they may have escaped their own stadium with a tie.

Steelers kicker Chris Boswell kicked an extra point so wide it went into the stands

Chris Boswell’s kick was so bad it’d be hard for him to replicate it.

NFL kickers are generally precise and good at their jobs, but that was not the case when Steelers kicker Chris Boswell missed an extra point attempt to tie the Steelers game against the Ravens at 10 points.

For an offense that struggles to move the ball and get into the endzone, the Steelers need every possible point that they can get.

They didn’t even get close to this one. The kick from Boswell was so bad that Tony Romo and the broadcasting team pondered if the ball had been tipped at the line of scrimmage.

Nope, no tip or block. Just an all time shank by a kicker that’s typically reliable.

Congratulations to the fan that ended up with this ball.

Steelers survive Bears as 65-yard field-goal attempt comes up short

Chris Boswell kicks the game-winning field goal

A thrilling ending to the Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers left with a 29-27 victory.

Chicago trailed 23-13 but rallied to take a 27-26 lead.

Ben Roethlisberger led the game-winning drive and set up a field goal by Chris Boswell with … his legs.

Roethlisberger did not get the first down on the play but Boswell came on and drilled his third field goal of the final quarter from 40 yards to give Pittsburgh the 29-27 lead.

The Steelers were not home free at Heinz Field, though, as Justin Fields put the Bears in position to try a 65-yard field goal by Cairo Santos as time would expire.

The kick was short and Pittsburgh had its fourth straight victory.