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The Steelers Are Legit Super Bowl Contenders

Not expecting much this season. I’m not being pessimistic and I’m certainly not optimistic about this season, I just don’t see a recipe for success here.
My analogy of it is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Signing a very old QB that no one wanted, still having no clear cut #2 WR, an unproven running game, a work in process OL, but hay, he have lots of TEs. What could possibly go wrong?
Still for the fourth consecutive year have the highest paid defense but we saw how the highest paid defense played the last five games last year.
Two coordinators that do nothing for me and it’s all tied together by Mike Tomlin.
This thing could go off the rails quickly this season. Then it would become very interesting.
The Steeler culture, the aura, the Steeler way, all gone now.
Been watching and following since early 60’s and believe me when I tell you…. It’s bad again!
 
tapeANaspirin2it said:
Do you think Rodgers is washed? Why? He looked healthy last year. The problem was the Jets OL was garbage and Rodgers had no time to throw. The Steeler OL was pretty good in pass pro last year. Fields and Wilson had enough time. The problems were Fields is slow to read and Russ ignored the middle of the field and thought he still had the wheels to extend plays.

Rodgers reads very quickly and uses the whole field.

We haven't seen the Arthur Smith offense yet. He modified it for Fields and then for Russ. He even had to change his run game for Najee. Now Smith has a QB, OL, RB and WR1 that can execute his offense. They have 3 good TEs. Fautanu is like an extra 1st rounder. People forget that he was very impressive last year and likely would have started at RT.
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The plus with Rodgers is he's one of the smartest QBs in modern times and from everything I've read from camp, his arm is still there. His legs are the only thing that worry me right now because that can throw off his mechanics. However, an improved OL and a reduced need to scramble will be huge if it all works out.

Smith was a decent hire, but I'm not so sure his offense is actually any good. The only time his offenses have finished in the top 10 in scoring is when Derrick Henry was playing lights out moreso than usual. I don't know how many points the Steelers offense will need to score this year, but what we do know is that it hasn't been good enough to get it done in the playoffs. Basically, the Steelers are going to have to have a monster running game if they want to move up to the next tier of offensive production.
 
topseed said:
While I understand and respect your point of view on Franklin's poor performance against great teams, the fact remains that his CFP record stands at 2-1. And if you want to call being tied with Notre Dame, having the ball 1st-and-10 on their own 28 with 40 seconds and 2 timeouts left, about 40 yards away from a legitimate chance at playing in the national championship game a "crawl into the fetal position," then God bless you. I can't blame Franklin for the ridiculous decision that Drew Allar made on that INT. All he had to do was throw the ball up along the sideline where Warren would have had a chance to make a big play, or it simply goes out of bounds as an incompletion.

Penn State would have had six more chances in the last nine years had there been a 12-team field. Franklin hasn't really had a shot to prove what he can or can't do in the playoffs, but he'll get another opportunity this season. Tomlin hasn't done shlt in the playoffs for 8 years, and in fact, the Steelers wouldn't have even made the field twice had the NFL not expanded to 14 teams in 2020.

Losing a toss-up game in the final seconds one step away from playing for the national title is inequivalent to getting regularly crushed in the first round, in my opinion.
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3-17 against top 10 teams

1-14 against top 5 teams

fetal position when it comes to big games.
 
Badcat said:
3-17 against top 10 teams

1-14 against top 5 teams

fetal position when it comes to big games.
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They’ll be back in it this year. Penn State has 9 wins scheduled in just getting off the bus.
 
Badcat said:
3-17 against top 10 teams

1-14 against top 5 teams

fetal position when it comes to big games.
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Right. And let's ignore all the facts about their most recent game against Notre Dame and just blame it on Franklin. I used to share your angst before I got to know the man, and about what had been going on with Penn State's hierarchy for many years after Paterno died. What happens this season might surprise you and a lot of others.
 
topseed said:
Right. And let's ignore all the facts about their most recent game against Notre Dame and just blame it on Franklin. I used to share your angst before I got to know the man, and about what had been going on with Penn State's hierarchy for many years after Paterno died. What happens this season might surprise you and a lot of others.
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Please share what has been going on with psu hierarchy which helped cause all of those loses for Franklin. Thank you.
 
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