Business as Usual

What are the Steelers known for? Consistency and building through the draft. So it should come as no surprise that Ike Taylor signed a five-year extension today . Of course, the Steelers are also known for their refusal to over-pay for a player (I'm looking at you, Joey Porter); the hype surrounding Taylor's ascendancy made overpayment a possibility. The Steelers did a good thing, then, by locking him down before the open market inflated the price. And good on Taylor, too, for signing now, rather than waiting for the Redskin Potatoes to drive up with a dump truck of cash in the spring.

Maybe Taylor can take some of his new cash and buy a pair of sticky gloves, so that he can perhaps hang on to a few of those interceptions.