We take a look at the scouting reports written

about the Steelers third-round draft picks this offseason"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Latest NewsSteelers Film Room2018 NFL Draft AnalysisLatest NewsLatest NewsScouting the Steelers 2019 NFL Draft picks: CB Justin LayneNew Ulysees Gilbert Pittsburgh Steelers Jersey ,11commentsWe take a look at the scouting reports written about the Steelers third-round draft picks this offseasonEDTShareTweetShareShareScouting the Steelers 2019 NFL Draft picks: CB Justin LayneMike Carter-USA TODAY SportsIf the Pittsburgh Steelers selection of Toledo wide receiver Diontae Johnson had some fans questioning the move on Friday night, the choice of Michigan State cornerback Justin Layne at the end of the third-round should have been cause for celebration.In contrast to the pick of Johnson, most experts had Layne going much earlier on day two, with the selection seen as something of a steal among many in the draft community at pick No.83. And reading the scouting reports written about him during the offseason, it would appear there is a lot to like about the Steelers latest addition on defense.Lance Zierlein, NFL.com: Matt Miller, Bleacher Report:Kyle Crabbs, The Draft Network:Joe Marino, The Draft Network;You can also read an interview with the former Michigan State product done by Justin Melo of DraftWire here that should provide some more insight into the young cornerback. Watching his highlight videos shows a player who appears to have many of the skills that could translate well to the professional level. Warning some of the tracks that accompany these videos contains profanity and most of music is terrible:NFL fans can’t be critical of both the preseason and the idea of an 18-game regular season When I was a little kid in the ‘80s, NFL preseason games were like professional wrestling matches — I basically knew they were both fake, but I still wanted to suspend my disbelief. I’d watch Steelers’ exhibition games (excuse me Ulysees Gilbert Pittsburgh Steelers Jersey , Mr. Commissioner, preseason games) with the same fervor I reserved for the regular season. It didn’t matter that backups, has-beens and never-weres were doing most of the heavy lifting, I was all-in for August football.In fact, my favorite preseason game of all time was the fourth and final one of the 1988 exhibition campaign, when Chuck Noll played every single one of his A-list superstars —we’re talking Bubby Brister, David Little and the whole lot of them for the entirety of regulation and overtime — in a thrilling victory over the Saints at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The win pushed the Steelers’ preseason record to 3-1 which, as it turned out, would represent 60 percent of their actual win-total during the regular season (that probably should have been a clue to the 16-year-old me that NFL preseason action was the exact opposite of NBA action—not fantastic). By the ‘90s, with the help of age and wisdom — not to mention Ulysees Gilbert Jersey 2019 , the advent of NFL free agency, a salary cap and restrictions on stashing players on IR — I began to realize just how meaningless NFL preseason action really was. It didn’t help that the superstars played less and less, and that the (say it with me) all-important fourth preseason game slowly morphed into the all-important first half of the third preseason game. Thanks to the very vocal social media, along with the sleepless 24/7 news-cycle, recent summers have been filled with an endless number of voices “exposing” preseason football as a farce. And those exposed seats at stadiums all across the NFL, including those yellow ones atHeinz Field, don’t help either. People complain about the expense of attending preseason football games (totally true), and what can be done about it. There’s only one thing that can be done about it:Decrease the preseason by one or two games. After all, with most key starters seeing just limited action, how valuable is preseason football? If you eliminate those two games, you can make up for it by adding an extra week to the training camp schedule Cheap Ulysees Gilbert Jersey , thus allowing the veterans and youngsters to hone their tackling techniques and their route-running skills. And, to that, I say, “yeah — right.” Sure, you can eliminate two preseason games, but it will come at the price of two more regular-season games. Say what? You hate that too? You say the 16-game schedule is perfect as is because you can divide it up into four little quarters of the season? I agree totally but neither of us is an NFL owner, and NFL owners look at things a little differently than we do. While we see preseason football as the farce that it totally is, NFL owners see preseason football as a way to line their coffers with that all-important revenue. There might be a huge difference between Tevin Jones and Antonio Brown, but August revenue spends just the same as January revenue. Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones made news recently by suggesting the league adopt an 18-game regular season as a means to shorten the preseason farce — oh, and to cut down on things like concussions to its players — this despite them being exposed to two more games worth of hitting and tackling per year. That second part is totally ludicrous, right? Of course Justin Layne Jersey 2019 , it is. But it’s equally ludicrous to think the NFL will ever give up two games’ worth of revenue. The league has been using a 20-game model since at least the 1960’s, when there were six preseason games, followed by 14 regular season games. Then, in 1978, the current 16-game regular season was implemented, along with a four-game preseason.That 20-game model ain’t going anywhere, ever. We can cry — we can threaten to boycott stuff — we can cite head injuries until we’re blue in the face but nothing is going to get the owners to move away from a 20-game revenue model. Therefore, you can either accept the current format of four preseason games — games that aren’t worth much to you beyond an unofficial tax for the right to own season tickets — or you’ll have to eventually accept an 18-game regular season. Either way, the NFL’s 20-game revenue model (and “revenue” is the most important word here) is here to stay.