The team announced Friday that Porter’s contract would not be renewed. The move is the first of what could be several coaching adjustments by the Steelers after Pittsburgh failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2013.The 41-year-old Porter Xavier Grimble Jersey , who spent 13 seasons in the NFL before going into coaching, joined the Steelers as a defensive assistant in 2014 and was promoted to outside linebackers coach in 2015. His tenure with the team was marred by an incident in January 2017 when he was arrested following an altercation with a bouncer at a bar. Most of the charges against Porter were later dropped.Coach Mike Tomlin called the decision to fire Porter “difficult.”Play by Pittsburgh’s outside linebackers was uneven during Porter’s tenure. Though T.J. Watt finished with a career-best and team-high 13 sacks, the development of 2015 first-round pick Bud Dupree has been slow. Longtime Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison also became problematic in his final season with Pittsburgh in 2017, eventually getting released due in part to insubordination.Steelers LB T.J. Watt reportedly fined for ‘forcibly hitting the knee area’ of Matt Ryan In today’s NFL, there are plenty of questionable calls on the football field. You see awful defensive pass interference calls in almost every game Anthony Chickillo Jersey , odd holding penalties and of course the often discussed roughing the passer penalties.Usually in the NFL, when a player is given a personal foul of some kind, they are also met with a fine of some sort. If not fine follows, it is usually the NFL’s way of saying they missed the call on the field. So, when this happened on Sunday in the Steelers vs. Falcons game Mike Hilton Jersey , and a flag was thrown for roughing the passer, most assumed T.J. Watt would be getting an “our bad” vibe from the league office by not getting fined. Think again. Yes, Watt was reportedly fined for the above hit, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.In a game where fans, players and coaches are talking about the horrible penalties occurring on a weekly basis Joe Haden Jersey , the league doing something like this is only going to compound the frustration with the game, the officials and those enforcing said rules.Either way, Watt would be smart to appeal the fine, considering he tried to move out of Ryan’s way, but was unable to avoid “forcibly hitting the knee area” of the quarterback.What a joke.
