Midseason positives

[Drink IRON City]

Najee was drafted at minimum 1 round to early, I’d preferred 3rd round.

He didn’t live up to the 1st round pedigree, but he also didn’t have much of an offensive line and by far the worse OC in league history. That is a lot going against him.

Creed Humphrey would have made a bigger impact at second round pick than what Najee made as a 1st rounder.

Again, he couldn't control where he was picked.

We got 4 injury free years out of him and in a lucky way, we missed his season ending injury status.



Salute the nation

 

[Coryea]

I'm not sure how anyone drinks any kind of Lite Beer, WTF, might as well just drink some rain water.

Positives/Negatives make no difference anymore to me, we were 10-3 last year and bombed out when we faced good teams. I'm not sold on NE or Indy being that great, we did beat them so it's better than losing but it took 11 turnovers in those two games to squeak by them both.
The good teams usually slowly rise to the top, last year KC was in 1 score games no matter who they played.
The playoffs are still going to go through Allen and Mahomes, whether that be in Buffalo or KC, or them on the road, and we aren't beating them in a playoff game, we got stomped out by Jackson last year.

This is starting to remind of 2020 when we started 11-0, the offense wasn't pushing the ball downfield at all, but putting up decent points because of all the turnovers the D generated, the defense had something like 24 turnovers through 11 games, once the turnovers stopped and teams were taking all the quick passes away, there went the wins.

 

[Punxsutawney]

The Steelers have spent a lot of draft picks on DBs, but not a lot of draft capital. Only JPJ and Minkah were acquired with high value picks. The rest since 2020 have been day 3. The results match the investment.

True, but they still have used high picks on two of their top 4 DBs, considering they basically swapped Minkah for Ramsey. It's not like they've totally neglected the secondary from a draft capital standpoint.

We just have about a decade now of the Steelers shooting blanks when it comes to it; sufficient sample size to conclude that Tomlin sucks at it, regardless of the GM he works with.

Even Minkah regressed pretty much every year after the incredible debut season he had with the Steelers in 2019. He was still decent, just not what he was at the beginning.

Porter is better than Artie Burns, Sean Davis or Terrell Edmunds ever were, but that isnt saying a lot, to be honest.

 

[Punxsutawney]

I'm not sure how anyone drinks any kind of Lite Beer, WTF, might as well just drink some rain water.

Positives/Negatives make no difference anymore to me, we were 10-3 last year and bombed out when we faced good teams. I'm not sold on NE or Indy being that great, we did beat them so it's better than losing but it took 11 turnovers in those two games to squeak by them both.
The good teams usually slowly rise to the top, last year KC was in 1 score games no matter who they played.
The playoffs are still going to go through Allen and Mahomes, whether that be in Buffalo or KC, or them on the road, and we aren't beating them in a playoff game, we got stomped out by Jackson last year.

This is starting to remind of 2020 when we started 11-0, the offense wasn't pushing the ball downfield at all, but putting up decent points because of all the turnovers the D generated, the defense had something like 24 turnovers through 11 games, once the turnovers stopped and teams were taking all the quick passes away, there went the wins.

In fairness to the offense, in their two highest scoring games this season against the Jets and Bengals, they did not benefit much from turnovers. I know it's the Jets and Bengals, but they also scored 25 against the Packers with little help from the defense.

The Steelers are still overly dependent on turnovers, but one difference is that Rodgers is a better QB than 2020 Ben or 2024 Russ, IMO.

Rodgers didn't blow up his throwing elbow in his late 30s like Ben did and his legs are still strong enough to both buy time and play from under center.

Ben couldn't or wouldn't dropback from center his last several years and couldn't elude the rush much at all.

Russ just cannot consistently pass over the middle of the field anymore. It was probably never a strength of his, but has become more of a weakness as he has gotten older and cannot make as many plays with his legs.

 

[Fiji Mariner]

German beer > American beer

100% agree

Luckily our drummer works at a brewery so I get all the fresh craft beer I could desire and even get to ask as a test audience for perspective new additions to the lineup

Budweiser products are simply awful as is that crap made up in Boston, can’t stand Sammy Adams either

 

[Fiji Mariner]

Najee was drafted at minimum 1 round to early, I’d preferred 3rd round.

He didn’t live up to the 1st round pedigree, but he also didn’t have much of an offensive line and by far the worse OC in league history. That is a lot going against him.

Creed Humphrey would have made a bigger impact at second round pick than what Najee made as a 1st rounder.

Again, he couldn't control where he was picked.

We got 4 injury free years out of him and in a lucky way, we missed his season ending injury status.



Salute the nation

Creed!!!

Will forever live on in Steeler draft lore for grabbing Najee and Muth while passing on the guy many wanted twice.

 

[Aussie_Steeler]

German beer > American beer

Pretty much any beer, apart from Fosters, is better than American beer (apart from Texas red ales and Yuengling lager, the real lager that is, not the light one)