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

[Peat]

Not if you live in DC lmao

Traffic going to be heinous that weekend haha

Good time to go on holiday

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Isn’t it heinous all the time?

Tbh weird city where it kinda depends where you work and live and where you’re going. For instance I am in really walkable part of town for personal life and my commute to work is actually in Maryland but is only 20-25 min each way (to go like 4.5 miles). So traffic is bad here but I don’t really experience it.

However when there are events (cherry blossoms festival for instance) going on it becomes hellish. I’m being a curmudgeon about the draft though. Traffic will be ungodly bad but I can walk to the mall in 25 min.

Will say - commuting anywhere at rush hour in the burbs here is absolutely brutal. That is really f***ing bad.

 

[plaidchuck]

Didn't Polamalu uncharacteristically trash the team/Tomlin on his way out around 2015? That was the big red flag for me.

 

[JTG]

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Having it on the national mall is pretty sick, not gonna lie

I work for the government and have to travel to DC every month for a week - it takes me 2 hours to go 37 miles. These people will be in traffic until 2032.

That being said, this will be very cool to watch from home!

Name the current players who are on this "Intern" path?
Tomlin has been a coach for 20 years and you named just a handful of people.

Oh and I remember Tomlin's "2 dogs, 1 bone" commentary related to Wallace vs AB. Yup he elected to have the corpse of Hines Ward starting instead of these 2 up and comers. Believe AB took a KR to the house vs TB in his 1st NFL action. But nope, gotta battle it out over a washed up vet.

I think that was a young coach trying to help an old vet cement his legacy. Hines wanted 1000 balls.

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

Keep telling everyone that there's a big time development problem for the past decade plus. There's a reason we're in mediocre purgatory.

There is a reason but it not development, its 100% because they havent had a good QB since 2017.

There plenty of small thing that could be better sure, but thats the list.

The waited too long to find a succession plan to Ben and have fired blanks so far every time they've attempted to do so.

You put a good QB on this roster from 2018-2024 and there are playoff wins, maybe even a deep run here or there.

 

[JTG]

Not if you live in DC lmao

Traffic going to be heinous that weekend haha

I work for the feds in a DC job, but I live in Pittsburgh. I have to go there every 3 weeks. The drive door to door is 250 miles and it's roughly a 4 hour drive. 37 of those miles takes me 2 hours. My office is in downtown DC.

I will be VERY curious to see how they do traffic management. Everything will have to be one way flow all day long and not just during rush hours.

I've said well before that flying into Reagan was like a death ride, and having THAT much more air traffic for that event coming into DC is sort of frightening.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

I work for the feds in a DC job, but I live in Pittsburgh. I have to go there every 3 weeks. The drive door to door is 250 miles and it's roughly a 4 hour drive. 37 of those miles takes me 2 hours. My office is in downtown DC.

I will be VERY curious to see how they do traffic management. Everything will have to be one way flow all day long and not just during rush hours.

I've said well before that flying into Reagan was like a death ride, and having THAT much more air traffic for that event coming into DC is sort of frightening.

I’m assuming 270 is what kills you? Like the Frederick to DC stretch?

my only point is that it is a region that allows you to live near your office so if you can set that up things really aren’t too bad. I live in NW and work in Bethesda and it’s not a fun drive (it takes 20-25 min to go 4.5 miles) but overall time spent commuting is sub 50 minutes a day. I can also metro very easily.

The moment you gotta start going from Gaithersburg to DC or Burke VA to DC is where traffic here becomes truly soul sucking. Crossing the Potomac river or having to use the beltway or both is the killer.

DCA is by far my favorite airport to fly out of. I can leave my house less than an hour from boarding if I’m flying out early AM. But I hear you on how freaky it is.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I’m assuming 270 is what kills you? Like the Frederick to DC stretch?

my only point is that it is a region that allows you to live near your office so if you can set that up things really aren’t too bad. I live in NW and work in Bethesda and it’s not a fun drive (it takes 20-25 min to go 4.5 miles) but overall time spent commuting is sub 50 minutes a day. I can also metro very easily.

The moment you gotta start going from Gaithersburg to DC or Burke VA to DC is where traffic here becomes truly soul sucking. Crossing the Potomac river or having to use the beltway or both is the killer.

DCA is by far my favorite airport to fly out of. I can leave my house less than an hour from boarding if I’m flying out early AM. But I hear you on how freaky it is.

A part of me dies every time I have to drive from Rockville into Virginia for anything. 270 is generally fine, but it becomes a shitshow as soon as it goes from 270 to 495.

 

[JTG]

I’m assuming 270 is what kills you? Like the Frederick to DC stretch?

my only point is that it is a region that allows you to live near your office so if you can set that up things really aren’t too bad. I live in NW and work in Bethesda and it’s not a fun drive (it takes 20-25 min to go 4.5 miles) but overall time spent commuting is sub 50 minutes a day. I can also metro very easily.

The moment you gotta start going from Gaithersburg to DC or Burke VA to DC is where traffic here becomes truly soul sucking. Crossing the Potomac river or having to use the beltway or both is the killer.

DCA is by far my favorite airport to fly out of. I can leave my house less than an hour from boarding if I’m flying out early AM. But I hear you on how freaky it is.

I get to Reynoldsville from the Smithsonian area in 2 hours. I eat at the coolest Burger King ever, change out of my work clothes, and go 95 the rest of the way home!

 

[JTG]

And DC traffic sucks because all of these assholes that drive Tesla's put auto cruise mode on and leave 20 car lengths between each other.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

A part of me dies every time I have to drive from Rockville into Virginia for anything. 270 is generally fine, but it becomes a shitshow as soon as it goes from 270 to 495.

Yeah even though I grew up here— I’m not living here long term if getting a bigger place for kids means I have to do the hour each way commute. Will happily F off to Richmond or some other cheap city and find a nicer, bigger place for cheaper and join a nice country club with the savings.

But if you can figure out how to buy into Bethesda/Chevy Chase/NW DC/north Arlington/Mclean and be near your office… I would put the quality of life up against anywhere in the US. All of those places are incredibly nice.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

I get to Reynoldsville from the Smithsonian area in 2 hours. I eat at the coolest Burger King ever, change out of my work clothes, and go 95 the rest of the way home!

I think that you just killed Cole with that oxymoron.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

I get to Reynoldsville from the Smithsonian area in 2 hours. I eat at the coolest Burger King ever, change out of my work clothes, and go 95 the rest of the way home!

At first I thought you meant I95.....and I was like, that doesn't go anywhere near Pittsburgh....but I'm figuring you mean 95mph, lol.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Yeah even though I grew up here— I’m not living here long term if getting a bigger place for kids means I have to do the hour each way commute. Will happily F off to Richmond or some other cheap city and find a nicer, bigger place for cheaper and join a nice country club with the savings.

But if you can figure out how to buy into Bethesda/Chevy Chase/NW DC/north Arlington/Mclean and be near your office… I would put the quality of life up against anywhere in the US. All of those places are incredibly nice.

I'm on a scale because I just spent the last 3.5 years living in Seattle, but the little I've seen so far makes me think it's way more affordable here than it was there

I was walking my dog and saw a really nice 3 bedroom house available for $550k, my immediate thought was "this would be $800k in Seattle".

 

[JTG]

At first I thought you meant I95.....and I was like, that doesn't go anywhere near Pittsburgh....but I'm figuring you mean 95mph, lol.

I get a very small per diem being down there. Doesn't scratch the surface of how much it costs to eat out in DC. I kind of set those checks aside for a while and bought the best radar detector I could.

 

[Jaded-Fan]

I think that you just killed Cole with that oxymoron.

I was in Florence with my girlfriend a few weeks ago. We had lunch at a little local restaurant. Pasta of course. They served bread beforehand and my girlfriend asked for butter. The waiter said "madam, you are in Italy. We eat bread with olive oil and a little salt." And did not bring butter. Left unspoken but obviously thought was that the McDonalds is three blocks over, you should have gone there.

I tell that story in hopes of reviving Cole from his JTG caused swoon.

 

[cookthebooks]

it seems like if you asked for your bread with olive oil and salt in a lot of places in the usa you would be told 'this is america' and not given olive oil and salt. people really are the same everywhere

 

[Peat]

And by the same, we mean bastard-coated bastards with a bastard filling.

 

[WheresRamziAbid]

There is a reason but it not development, its 100% because they havent had a good QB since 2017.

There plenty of small thing that could be better sure, but thats the list.

The waited too long to find a succession plan to Ben and have fired blanks so far every time they've attempted to do so.

You put a good QB on this roster from 2018-2024 and there are playoff wins, maybe even a deep run here or there.

Make you case, ill wait.

 

[xlm34]

I have no clue where it started but there’s apparently some smoke around a Pickens to the Cowboys trade happening.

 

[John Price]

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Thats dumb

 

[OnMyOwn]

I’m actually pissed. We didn’t draft one so now we’re in the same f***ing spot we were last season.

 

[xlm34]

I mean it’s the right move to trade him if you were never gonna sign him, but it makes me hate the Sawyer pick even more. Depth EDGE when you’re gonna be rolling with Woods/Austin/Wilson as your WR2? Ok.

 

[xlm34]

The return is a 2026 third and late round pick swap. Sounds about right.