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Landry Jones

enough is enough. keep him through preseason and cut his *** afeter the last game
 
I think we have seen enough. Cut him now and bring in another arm. At least we can get a good look at someone else just in case Gradkowski isn't ready.
 
Arm...meh...
Accuracy...pathetic,
reads, average at best
No mobility, no football sense... a Mark Malone mustache... he must be chopped
 
Time to move on. Jones is who he is and it isn't an NFL quarterback. I wish him the best in his life after the NFL, but there is no reason to continue to keep him on the roster.
 
I'm all for keeping a kid like Tyler Murphy on the roster as an emergency #3 guy....lets face it I'd rather have a Randel-El esque type player than a guy who doesn't belong on the roster in Landry Jones.
 
Laundry has played a ton vs scrubs this season... he is completing 50% of his pass attempts... he has a paltry 4 yards per attempt. there just isn't anything there to save...cut and move on
 
When they keep a guy like Landry Jones around that anyone can plainly see is not an NFL caliber QB, it really makes me question a lot of their decisions. I can easily accept that the coaches see things we do not. They see the game cut ups, they are at practice. But when a guy has played 8-10 preseason games and has shown nothing, I really have to question that. If he makes this squad, even based on the idea of having a third guy familiar with the system, I'd really have to say the person making that decision was stupid.
 
Wouldnt surprise me if after he's cut the Pats pick him up for Brady's suspension, just to pick his brain for week 1. Then cut him again after he's back.
 
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They won't cut him. he's Tomlin's pet project according to the Jags announcers. He just can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn, that's all.

I say somewhere in Oklahoma a county fair is looking for a corn dog vendor....he should get on with his life's work


Come back Charlie Batch. come back.
 
This is where you want to be a few seasons in with your twenty-something back-up QB prospect... basically the polar opposite of where we are with Landry.

Brock Osweiler completed 15-of-20 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown in the Broncos' preseason opener Friday night.
Osweiler got the start and played the whole first half with Peyton Manning rested. The 2012 second-round draft pick kept Denver's offense on the move, engineering five scoring drives in five possessions including a 17-yard touchdown pass to TE Virgil Green. Osweiler flashed signs tonight that the Broncos' offense would be in competent hands should Peyton miss time in 2015.
 
Watching Landry reminds me of watching Malone. Malone was bad because his team sucked, and you just hoped they could put a drive together to score. In the 2nd half, Landry didn't have a lot of weapons. They managed a score, but that was about it.
 
madinsomniac said:
Arm...meh...
Accuracy...pathetic,
reads, average at best
No mobility, no football sense... a Mark Malone mustache... he must be chopped
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Is he even reading? Seems like he decides who he is going to throw it to when he breaks the huddle.
 
That's exactly what he is doing
 
antdrewjosh said:
That's exactly what he is doing
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Not quite, but he doesn't exactly seem to make a lot of progressions before he is dumping it or throwing it away... Its like Kordell before he decided to be a pocket passer, one read then run, only the run part is throw it to the check down guy instead...
 
Dennis Dixon was better than Landry. Maybe the strategy is to keep Jones until Ben retires, then start him 1 season to guarantee the first pick in the draft to get another QB.
 
We should have traded up to draft Manziel when we had the chance.
 
I think this is a situation for management and the coaches about Known and Unknown.
To them Landry Jones is a Known, in their mind at least they know what he can/can't do.
Bringing in another backup QB to them would be an Unknown.
They don't want to deal with that, for them it is much easier to just stick with Jones.

Brock Osweiler
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This was exactly the kind of project we wanted them to draft a few years ago.
A guy they could develop that can step in as #2 to save them having to pay a veteran like a Gradkowski.
And if things went exceedingly well they could possible trade him for picks to a desperate team.
 
This is a lot of angst over a 3rd string QB. 3rd string, for **** sake.

Let's say he would be playing more like Osweiler. If Ben were to go down and you had an Osweiler, are you telling me you would be confident the team would do anything? They ain't winning **** without Ben. Ben is special, and whenever he does retire, or should he get hurt, it is going to be tough as hell replacing that. The Packer situation is extremely rare. So quit worrying about it until you have to.
 
SteelVictory said:
I think this is a situation for management and the coaches about Known and Unknown.
To them Landry Jones is a Known, in their mind at least they know what he can/can't do.
Bringing in another backup QB to them would be an Unknown.
They don't want to deal with that, for them it is much easier to just stick with Jones.


This was exactly the kind of project we wanted them to draft a few years ago.
A guy they could develop that can step in as #2 to save them having to pay a veteran like a Gradkowski.
And if things went exceedingly well they could possible trade him for picks to a desperate team.
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they know he can't more often than not finish drives

we know he is painful to watch

they know he has been here long enough and his chances should have run dry

..............

thing is I know if Ben and Bruce both go down that he won't be able to lead the team

knowing that it is a FO fail to keep him any longer

for all the knowns and unknowns simply wait until a

backup QB comes available final cuts, and


do a switcheroo

fer the love of God

please
 
Try to slip Murphy or Gardner on the PS as the emergency plan and use that roster spot on someone worthy, please!
 
Not angst, just a discussion.
Don't flip this and make Steelers Fans the problem, we are just having a conversation.

It's the 2-3 game injury thing.
Is there confidence that the back-up QB can at least keep the team steady and in position to win 2-3 games in the middle of the season?
We've seen it happen recently with this very team. (Batch, Leftwich, Dixon)

The Roethlisberger era won't last forever, they can't throw away a season because Ben missed 2-3 games.
If Jones has to play can he move the chains with the weapons the Steelers have on offense?

"he is just a 3rd string QB"...that is the problem, he was drafted to develop into a #2, and to provide cap relief against a veteran contract (like Bruce's)
IMHO, a 3rd String QB should be a developmental guy and in this era probably a read-option guy for the scout team.

The question for management and coaches should be: Are we confident that Landry Jones is capable of being the #2 to start the season, can he win us 2-3 games?
 
diver said:
This is a lot of angst over a 3rd string QB. 3rd string, for **** sake.

Let's say he would be playing more like Osweiler. If Ben were to go down and you had an Osweiler, are you telling me you would be confident the team would do anything? They ain't winning **** without Ben. Ben is special, and whenever he does retire, or should he get hurt, it is going to be tough as hell replacing that. The Packer situation is extremely rare. So quit worrying about it until you have to.
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You're missing the bigger point, just like some did in the Dri Archer thread. The angst isn't necessarily over a "3rd string QB." The angst is over the fact that he was drafted to begin with, and that he has proven unworthy of a roster spot, yet is still on the team. The venom is aimed at CMT and managements judgement.
 
diver said:
If Ben were to go down and you had an Osweiler, are you telling me you would be confident the team would do anything?
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Hell yes I would! As special as Ben is, does that mean we can't have a capable back-up? Why shouldn't the team be able to win games if a starter, even Ben, goes down for a few games? And in a player like Osweiler, you have someone groomed in the system ready to take over down the line. Or if he's that damn good, you have a valuable trade asset. Anyway, holding onto a bottom-scraper like Landry does nobody any good. Just a waste of time, his time, our time, the Steelers' time.
 
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