OT: The Pittsburgher Thread: Ploff wins?!? Fire Tomlin

[ZorkEnchanter]

Drafting Milroe accomplishes nothing. Fields is not even 4 years older than him and is coming up on his 5th season in the league.

I very seriously believe what Fields needed for his career happened last year. If they can get him WRs, he has no excuses to not perform.

Even more funny that people on this board think that Tomlin will suddenly know how to develop a QB. He hasn't developed many Draft picks at all... his QB acumen is dogshit.

No way in hell he develops Milroe.

 

[xlm34]

I just don’t think I would get the path with Milroe on this team. He’s no where near ready I think to play in so how long do you wait to figure out what he is? Are you potentially punting on QBs in ‘26 or ‘27? Or do you still look for one then, which basically means you wasted a day 2 pick?

 

[JTG]

I think this is one of my favorite prospects in the draft...

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[pistolpete11]

It's also possible that they do believe in Milroe and think he's a 1st round talent, and they just think they're taking advantage of Milroe's stock being down due to his horrid bowl game appearance.

Unfortunately that's true, but I think we have pretty good reason to not trust their judgement when it comes to what a 1st round QB talent is. At lest with Tomlin. Guess we'll see with Khan.

I have no objections with the idea of drafting a high risk, high reward QB in the 2nd or 3rd round to sit behind Fields. My objections in this case are specifically with Milroe, because he seems so flawed that I don't think the Steelers are the team that could develop him. This feels more like Willis than Hurts to me, and anything more than a late 3rd would make me very uncomfortable.

Not only are the Steelers definitely not the team to develop him, there's a high chance that no team is. I feel like people are talking about this like all a QB needs is to be developed properly, but some guys just aren't good enough, ya know?

I just don’t think I would get the path with Milroe on this team. He’s no where near ready I think to play in so how long do you wait to figure out what he is? Are you potentially punting on QBs in ‘26 or ‘27? Or do you still look for one then, which basically means you wasted a day 2 pick?

 

[Peat]

Unfortunately that's true, but I think we have pretty good reason to not trust their judgement when it comes to what a 1st round QB talent is. At lest with Tomlin. Guess we'll see with Khan.

I think for me the big white hope here is Weidl. It feels like he's had a big impact on who to pick. He's also been part of picking a successful QB.



Tangentially, I wonder if there's been a deliberate move to older players. I feel like classically the Steelers have liked guys with only two years of college - lots of tread left on the tires - but it feels like the last couple of years, there's been a lot of very experienced college players, which feels like it's been a good thing.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

My post was about Milroe, so...?

Right you draft Milroe because you don’t have to change the offense and it doesn’t hurt to draft qb every year

 

[JTG]

I think for me the big white hope here is Weidl. It feels like he's had a big impact on who to pick. He's also been part of picking a successful QB.



Tangentially, I wonder if there's been a deliberate move to older players. I feel like classically the Steelers have liked guys with only two years of college - lots of tread left on the tires - but it feels like the last couple of years, there's been a lot of very experienced college players, which feels like it's been a good thing.

I think it's because they knew we would be short on leadership. Not that it was right...but I understood why they did it.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Tomlin is not drafting and developing a franchise QB. I'd put money on it. Not because he won't but because he can't. He's got to get lucky like Cowher did and get a generational talent who is too good to be ruined.

Lol Ben Roethlisberger is in no way a generational talent

 

[End of Line]

I think with NIL we are going to see the same gripe as the players had when top 5 picks were making 60m and a 20th overall was making 1.2m. NIL has to be capped in some way. Top prospects and players who give a lot of time and publicity to the program should be compensated, but there is some disparity that shouldn't probably exist and I can see players getting pissed about it.

I think now programs have to prove they can develop. THey are going to want the top coaches, trainers, and therapists. College football is going to turn into an experience for these guys where they can tweak their bodies for 4 years while getting paid.




There was a 5% chance he bombed and the only reason was because he never faced adversity. No one knew how he would react. Jacksonville TOTALLY f***ed him though.

Lawrence doesn't have a dawg in him, I don't think. Never needed it.

With revenue sharing starting this year it’ll only become more complicated.

 

[cookthebooks]

Lol Ben Roethlisberger is in no way a generational talent

semantics…how about hall of fame

 

[bigdaddyk88]

Maybe they get lucky and McCarthy wants a passing game gig if he doesn’t get a hc gig.