Meh....he is gone now.....let's all move on to our next chapter of SteelerNation. I won't even dog Tomlin from here and out(don't hold me to that). He is the past. Let's all move forward.....as a fan base and an organization!!!!
The reason he was here was because he gave Tomlin his best chance at not having a losing season, we never had a chance at being a contender with Rodgers and that wasn't on just on Rodgers, but there was nothing good coming from bringing him in here. Ben was 38 or 39, and people were bitching that he was holding the franchise back from finding the next QB because we'd be just good enough to not have a high draft pick, well what exactly happened by bringing in a 42 year old Rodgers?
We've wanted players out of position or making mistakes to be held to a certain standard for years. This is where defensive leaders Heyward and Watt just didn't get it done. Every year, particularly Heyward, talked about miscommunication or guys being out of position/not doing their job. It never got fixed from the coaching staff and the defensive leadership didn't set the expectation. Players change, but the leadership the Steelers had on defense in the 2000s until they all retired was all-world. You finally get a guy on offense that can be harsh, but helps hold his teammates to a certain standards that we haven't seen from Fichtner/Canada/Smith and then you complain about it. It shouldn't take a 40+ year old QB on his first year with the team to care more about winning than most of the roster.
Maybe the head coach? I don't disagree with that, but not after every single play on national TV, the guy is bitching and moaning, then bitching on the side line, Ben couldn't say a guy was supposed to cross the face of the DB instead of running behind him without being called a horrible leader and throwing teammates under the bus, but Rodgers can throw a 3 yr old temper tantrum every other play and that's leadership?
I don't think you can get caught up in a group of people who hated Roethlisberger no matter what he did and will never credit him for being a great QB and tie it to Rodgers' style of leadership. Brady yelled at his teammates too and is recognized as the greatest QB of all time. I just think this was the first time in years that I saw glimpses of an NFL offense and the old QB was a major reason why.
I'm not necessarily talking people here, but alot of the same media people killed Ben for that, but praise Rodgers. The whole thing that started the AB crap was supposedly Ben telling him to re run a play in practice because he wasn't running the route correctly, and AB flipped **** and threw the ball at Ben's feet, and that's where the "it's Ben's fault" crap started. I don't care if it's Ben, Brady, Manning, Rodgers, IMO it's a bad look seeing the leader of your team come unglued every other play. Showing your teammates up in game rarely works out.
Which is why when they traded away GP I lost all hope for the season. DK simply isn't a WR1, and doesn't have half the ability that GP does.
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Rodgers did not have a good season. If "statistically" good was good enough, you wouldn't have had your thong bunched up for years over Coach Tomlin never having a losing season.I didn’t say anything about if he will play this season, etc. Statistically it wasn’t a bad season. Again you do you, we don’t have to worry about your credibility as long as I don’t sink to that level I am good.
Yep. I would have kept Pickens for the season and let him walk afterwards and receive what would hopefully have a 3rd round comp pick. That was 2 years in a row our WR room was empty besides one player.
Go **** yourself anything you say is irrelevant to a debate twatwaffle.
Rodgers did not have a good season. Statistically or any other way you want to qualify the nonsense
You can repeat it until you turn blue it doesn’t make your nonsense magically turn true.
Where there is smoke, there is fire....as Coach Tomlin once said. Someone always loved the drama...
