There's a certain kind of joyful mundaneness to Terrell Edmunds' first job out of college.The Pittsburgh Steelers rookie safety is typically up before dawn and at the team's training facility by 7 a.m. Youth Customized Atlanta Falcons Jerseys , where he spends the 11 or so hours watching film, lifting weights, attending meetings and practicing.It's much the same when the first-round pick gets back home. Edmunds will place his legs inside a pair of compression sleeves designed to help his muscles recover quickly, flip on his iPad and look at more tape. Typically, Edmunds lets the video run at normal speed. No need to slow it down."I just let it play," Edmunds said. "Sometimes I don't look into detail. I'll see what pops up more than once and think 'Oh I saw this before. Who are they throwing it to the most?' Things like that."Edmunds is a quick study. Thrown immediately into the mix thanks to a preseason injury to free agent signee Morgan Burnett, Edmunds has been a bright spot for an uneven secondary.Steady if not yet spectacular, Edmunds has earned the trust of defensive backs coach Tom Bradley and head coach Mike Tomlin for his conscientious approach to his work."He's gotten better each and every game," Bradley said Tuesday. "The thing that got him three games ago doesn't get him now. Each week there's something he picks up that becomes easier in his repertoire as we progress in this thing."Edmunds really hasn't had much choice. He was supposed to spend his first season learning behind Burnett. It hasn't quite turned out that way.The Steelers (3-2-1) signed the former Green Bay Packer to a three-year deal in the offseason, hopeful Burnett could provide leadership and sure tackling, both things in short supply for a group in transition.Instead, Burnett has spent most of his time in Pittsburgh watching from the sideline thanks to a steady stream of injuries, the latest a groin issue that's forced him to miss each of the past four games.There is no timetable for when Burnett might be able to return and given Edmunds' rapid development, it's uncertain what role Burnett might fill whenever he is healthy enough to play.Burnett's status is one of a handful Bradley has been forced to face in his first year on the job. The careful offseason plan he and Tomlin put together to revitalize Pittsburgh's secondary makeover is in tatters. Burnett can't stay on the field.Cornerback Artie Burns is struggling and Coty Sensabaugh and Cam Sutton — the two most likely candidates to replace the erratic Burns — can't put together enough good stretches to provide a compelling reason to sit Burns down and let him regroup."We've got to make a lot of adjustments just based on injuries and the guys that have been able to play," Bradley said. "The things we worked on in preseason practice, we've been unable to play because of the different people playing different positions."Pittsburgh enters its bye week ranked 27th in passing yards and 29th in passing touchdowns allowed. Not exactly the step forward the organization had in mind when defensive backs coach Carnell Lake stepped away in the aftermath of a playoff loss to Jacksonville in January and veterans Mike Mitchell, Rob Golden and William Gay were released in March .Bradley is quick to place the blame on his shoulders. He's confident Burns — a standout as a rookie in 2016 — will get his swagger back."Artie has to play more consistently, he knows that," Bradley said. "We've got to make sure we concentrate on every play www.falconsauthorizedshops.com , to get everything right, all the little things."And maybe the big things too. Burns was beaten badly by Cincinnati's Tyler Boyd in Pittsburgh's 28-21 victory last Sunday, standing several steps behind Boyd as Boyd hauled in a remarkably easy 14-yard touchdown reception. Burns was replaced for a spell in the third quarter, but any long-term solution for the Steelers relies on Burns returning to form."I think he'll be fine," Bradley said. "He's got confidence in his ability and things he can do."If Burns needs inspiration, he doesn't need to look far. Pittsburgh finds itself in the thick of the AFC North race despite its uneven play on defense thanks in large part to veteran cornerback Joe Haden. The 29-year-old kept Atlanta's Julio Jones in check in a 41-17 victory two weeks ago and kept Bengals star A.J. Green out of the end zone."Joe's athletic ability is still pretty sharp," Bradley said. "But mentally he gets better as time goes on and I think he understands what people are trying to get done."It's a path the rest of the secondary is trying to follow. Work — lots of work in some cases — needs to be done, but Bradley believes the communication problems and injury concerns that have hampered his group will level off going forward."Playing defense is a lot like driving a car," Bradley said. "When you start out, we're all (hands at) 10 (o'clock) and 2 (o'clock), staring constantly. Then as you start to drive more ... you still see everything but you're able to look around, talk to people and do different things. Now, as time goes on, we'll start to play faster." Last offseason, the assumption was the Yankees were holding back on spending in order to accomplish two goals: one, to stay under the luxury tax for the first time in the history of said tax in order to reset the penalties, and two, to keep room on the payroll for adding a top-tier free agent like Bryce Harper or Manny Machado before the 2019 season. New York accomplished that first goal, as it looks like just the Red Sox and Nationals will end up paying the luxury tax in 2018. As for the second Womens Jake Matthews Jersey , well, the Yankees have been pretending they won’t make big free agency moves this winter, except, maybe they aren’t pretending after all. General manager Brian Cashman prefers the Yankees stay under the luxury tax threshold again, so as “to not line the pockets of opponents to use that (revenue) against us.”That is some incredible bullshit, to be frank. The luxury tax penalties aren’t that severe, not by a long shot: the Red Sox crossed not just the first, but also the second luxury tax threshold in 2018 by spending $238.4 million, meaning they have another round of taxing on top of them, which will result in a penalty of ... $11.3 million. That money will go into the central fund to be distributed to the small-market clubs (MLB is phasing out the 15 largest markets from collecting revenue-sharing funds), which means the Red Sox are mostly financing like, an extra September call-up for teams in 2019.The Yankees have paid out $341 million in luxury tax penalties in the previous 15 years in which they’ve exceeded the threshold, but even dividing that up over 15 years and splitting it among the rest of the teams doesn’t mean New York is, say, financing their rivals’ success. As a whole, sure, the Yankees are taking part in a process that helps smaller market teams make up for revenue disparities when you’re talking about all of the money going from one place to another through the central fund and revenue-sharing, but the Yankees alone aren’t financing it all. Plus, with the way revenue-sharing works in the first place http://www.falconsfootballauthentics.com/matt-ryan-jersey-authentic , 31 percent of a team’s net revenue goes into the central fund, anyway, so if the Yankees aren’t spending profits on Bryce Harper or Manny Machado, they’re just going to end up giving part of that money back to the league, anyway, and then the Royals can use it to help pay Alcides Escobar to be a terrible shortstop or whatever.The Yankees seem to be putting a lot of effort into making their fans not feel like Harper or Machado will be in pinstripes in 2019 and beyond, and while it could certainly still be a negotiating tactic and posturing to let Harper and Machado know that New York is perfectly happy to enter 2019 without them, it might also be Cashman and the Steinbrenners letting fans know that, just because they lost in the American League Division Series to their rivals doesn’t mean they’re going to go all The Boss on the rest of the league and start adding payroll on top of payroll. Not when there are some profits to be had by working on the margins and staying under the luxury tax threshold again.Obviously the Yankees should be in on players like Harper and Machado, but it’s also the bad teams that should be chasing the two best free agents out there. Let Grant Brisbee explain.The Nationals offered Bryce Harper a record-setting contract that he turned down. Whitney McIntosh sorted out what Washington’s motivations were.Here’s what the Farhan Zaidi hiring means for the Giants.The Mariners and Rays are set to make a trade, with Mike Zunino and Guillermo Heredia heading to the Rays in order to bring Mallex Smith back to Seattle.That’s not the only Rays’ trade news, as Blake Snell just might be untouchable this offseason.A significant part of the Red Sox success in 2018 can be attributed to the long-awaited breakout of shortstop Xander Bogaerts.Brian Cashman usually isn’t so open with his plans, but yet, there he is explaining his Sonny Gray ideas.It’s not expected that Michael Brantley will re-sign with Cleveland.Mike Fast, former Baseball Prospectus writer and key piece of the analytics side of the Astros’ front office, has now joined the Braves as a special assistant to the GM.