A Letter From the Editor: Enjoy the process with the 2025 Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are just starting their 2025 journey, and there is a tendency to start looking ahead.

The Steelers are back at practice…

But I can’t wait until they have padded practices!

The pads are on…

But I can’t wait until the Friday Night Lights practice which is packed with physicality!

The Friday night practice was good…

But I can’t wait until they get to hit someone else. Bring on preseason football!

The preseason is pretty meaningless…

I can’t wait until the regular season begins and these games start counting!

Before you know it, the calendar will read December and the season will be coming to a close. And while we hope the Steelers season will go deep into January, and maybe February, whenever it ends is when the lengthy offseason will begin once again. The same lull we are just crawling out of will begin again.

This isn’t me preaching to the congregation on what you should, or shouldn’t, do. Instead, it’s me helping fans enjoy the upcoming season for everything it can provide. Literally getting every drop out of the season.

Before diving into the logistics of this method, I do have to admit I do this often in my life. There is one time of the year in particular where this is absolutely true in my personal life. From the moment the calendar turns to November, the day after Halloween, I am 100% in Christmas mode. I decorate the outside of the house, even though the lights don’t get turned on until the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I listen to Christmas music and start enjoying everything I love about the holiday.

Some say this might be going overboard, but I always respond the same way. First, I don’t push this on anyone else. Next, I get every last drop out of the holiday. Lastly, once the holiday is over, I’ve absolutely had my fill and am ready to start the new year.

What I’m suggesting is to do the same thing with the upcoming Steelers season. Savor every second of the process, and focus on the current state of the process without constantly looking forward.

Let’s put this into current day practice.

While the Steelers are still in the acclimatization process of training camp, the days before they can put pads and have full-contact practices, we can learn a great deal about the team. Not only do we get first-hand interviews with players and coaches, but we also have the opportunity to see what the Steelers are starting to think with so many new faces on the roster.

What do they plan to do with Joey Porter Jr., Darius Slay and Jalen Ramsey? We’re seeing it unfold in front of our very eyes.

How are the rookies getting acclimated to life in the pros? Again, this is part of the early stages of camp which we get to see from the very beginning.

You get where I’m going with this, and the best advice I can give you is to take in every nugget of information you can before the team breaks camp. Because when that happens, we, the fan base, begin the process of being relegated to weekly press conferences and sound bytes from players amidst media scrums.

While feeling shut out, when we get to that point is when those real proverbial bullets start flying and we get to see what the entire training camp/preseason work has developed. We get to see if the work these players and coaches have done will come to fruition, or vanish as nothing but the hopes and dreams of a new season. Either way, this is the time of year we’ve all been waiting on for a very long time, and it is time to soak it all in. And I mean all of it.

Take it all in, and get every last drop out of the entire season…including training camp and the preseason.

Don’t wish it all away, savor it…it will be gone before you know it.

So, before you start wondering about the 2026 NFL Draft and who/when the Steelers might be drafting, just remember we have to get through the 2025 season before we start thinking about next year.