OT: The Pittsburgher Thread: Post Draft - Still dont need no QB

[JTG]

Rodgers or Pickens?

Both

 

[plaidchuck]

Man I pine for the days of this team at least having the perception/rep of being "drama free". Having players like Brown and Bell blew the door off that and now #RogersWatch is part of the team news cycle.

 

[JTG]

It only happened because it has been allowed to be tolerated.

 

[Peat]

Rodgers or Pickens?

I think there's not many stories of Rodgers doing that? Trying to dictate a bunch of stuff to coaches and the front office, but not acting up among the players. Or so is my impression.

Tbh I get the impression most NFL locker rooms are full of batshit crazy and guys are so used to it they just get on with it. I think I'd hate it, but it seems to work with them.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

Rodgers or Pickens?

Or the 100 million we DK

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

Doesn't have to do with draft strategy.

Something has changed since the Cowher years.

In the early to late 90's this team would draft a player and let him cut his teeth on ST's for a year or 2. Then once they've done well in that arena, they were given playing opportunities. This was an outstanding philosophy to develop role players to support the stars.

Recently, there are no Orpheus Royes, Lee Flowers, Jerry Osalvskis, Myron Bell, Fred McAfees, Hines Ward. The only person I can think of from the Tomlin years that was groomed like this was Isaac Redman who played a large supporting role.

This goes back to my general mantra that this team cannot develop players, period. It's a major f***ing problem of why they can't get over the mediocre to pretty good hump.

Willie Gay
Mike Wallace
Antonio Brown
Jason Worilds
Emmanual Sanders
Kelvin Beachum
Vince Williams
Cam Sutton
Chuks (kinda)
Dan Moore
Calvin Austin

All dudes that took a year or two to develop and become starters, there are others if you set the bar at contributers rather than starters.

 

[Peat]

While I do have criticisms of their development, isn't it pretty much NFL norm these days for rookies to jump in early or not at all? The rookie wage scale and increasing pro readiness out of college makes everybody impatient.

 

[Beliveau]

I think there's not many stories of Rodgers doing that? Trying to dictate a bunch of stuff to coaches and the front office, but not acting up among the players. Or so is my impression. ...

You need to start following football. It's well documented that Rodgers did that many times with the Jets.