After the season ended, my wife said that she thinks Ben is breaking down. She thinks we should get a QB. Maybe she has a point. Ben is super fragile. Who knows what will happen next season. He gets injured every year..
After the season ended, my wife said that she thinks Ben is breaking down. She thinks we should get a QB. Maybe she has a point. Ben is super fragile. Who knows what will happen next season. He gets injured every year..
If there's a QB they like, then by all means go for him, no matter how high the pick.
I've seen several mock drafts that have the Giants taking Mitch Trubisky. I don't know anything about Mitch Trubisky - well, I might have gone to his bar mitzvah - but the Giants/Manning are in a very similar position as Steelers/Ben.
No one is saying either is washed up, but they're clearly on the downside. Another couple of bad hits and Ben will be moving like Jim Kelly or Joe Namath at the end of their careers.
And besides, taking an outside LB at No. 1 is no sure-fire guarantee. So they need to be open to drafting a QB...and not as a throwaway late-rounder.
Just remember Colbert had Tee Martin ahead of Tom Brady on his board....
With all the complaints about a "regressed QB and a terrible coaching staff" I do hope some noticed that the Steelers played for the AFC championship the last 2 years-losing once without Brown and Bell and once without Bell. When you can find me a QB/coaching staff who can get you there twice I'll be much more willing to listen.
I bet Belicheat had Tee Martin rated ahead of Brady
we didn't get to the AFCCG the last two years.
Sorry-guess it just felt like it since it was the SB winner both years. Still not bad.
Your hate for all things Pat is admirable, but I can't believe they don't have scouting reports that affect picks in the 5th and later rounds.This article is horseshit. They took a flyer and got lucky. It was no genius move and everyone who knows anything about drafts knows that after round 4 it's not about scouting anymore. You're taking guys who either fit your system, or have the best available upside.
This is just the ****** *** Patriots trying to take credit for more **** they got for free and didn't earn.
**** them, and **** Tom.
He did seem to move around quite gingerly at times. He looks like one of those old retired players with bad knees and arthritis. The fluid athlete that could elude and rip his way out of tackles is gone now.
Ben was never fast, but he was smooth and had amazing balance. I'm not seeing that anymore. Sure, he's not as young as he used to be, but he may be in more pain than we know.
Ben still has a lot in him. Get his a SB or two before he retires. The Steelers do need to look for the next guy under center. But Ben needs to get one more ring at least. Just keep keep him healthy to the best of the O lines abilities and all will be good to go imo
Clearly on the downside
again I do not see it that way...
Respectfully disagree.
The way he played on the road this past season tells me he has slipped some. Take away the added emotion of playing at home, and he struggled at times.
I don't have the stats in front of me. But I'm thinking his INTs were up, and some were real stinkers.
I'm not saying to put him in assisted living. But it's time to look ahead.
If the play calling inside the ten yard was better and we scored TD's this would not even be a thought. No play makers inside the ten yard line, coach is blind to this.
Yeah Dulac, Ben is in charge on all the bad plays, and Haley all the good ones. Dulac is a coaches nut hugger. I'm sure Ben told Coates to drop the ball, Hamilton to drop a td, and told Hamilton to run out of bounds.
The offense had 3 TDs called back or dropped, without Bell, I wasn't super upset with the offensive play calling regardless who was making the calls