Blow it up

And what makes you think this roster is remotely close to competing for a championship not only based upon the results of the past two weeks but the past five seasons? This team is more pretenders than competitors

 

I agree, precisely why they need to be sellers. The young core is worth building upon.

 

We lost to teams with franchise QB’s. And the Super Bowl will be won by a team with a franchise QB.

We are competitive because we have a pretty good roster from top to bottom at OL, DL, LB, DB, RB, TE and 1WR. We have talent at each of those positions. And we have a good QB who is 35 and past his prime. And a coach who communicates very well with his players. Put all that together and the Steelers are a good team that will make the playoffs, and lose in the playoffs in the 1st or 2nd round.

What we are not going to do is win the Super Bowl or even reach the AFC Championship game because we lack a franchise QB. Plain and simple. San Fran has an even better roster than us, mostly because they sucked for so long that they accumulated lots of Top 5 and Top 10 picks (which the Steelers never have). And yet they can’t win a Super Bowl with a serviceable QB.

I’m not complaining abut this issue. Just stating the facts.

I said 2 weeks ago that these 3 games would tell us whether the Steelers were really good and SB contenders, or just good enough to make the playoffs. Even if the Steelers lost, they could not be blown out to be considered really good. Well we have been non-competitive in the 2nd half of both games.

We are probably 2 drafts away from looking for a franchise QB. Until then we should expect the Steelers to be competitive enough to make the playoffs, maybe win a division but ultimately can’t complete with the Chiefs, Bills, Eagles, Ravens, Lions (I know Lamar isn’t great against Pitt but he is against the rest of the league). This sucks but it is still better than 80% of the NFL.

Depending on development, we may be passed up in 2 years by the Broncos, Texans, Commanders. This is a QB league and we lack a franchise QB.

 

Honest question here, then why keep guys like Watt and Fitzpatrick on this roster when you can get 1st round capital for both and build a better overall roster?

 

Great question.

Pittsburgh needs to decide what the goal is and accept the repercussions of the answer.
Stay with this roster and keep plugging in adequate QB’s and we will continue to win 8-10 games because MT won’t let this roster suck. He is too good to lose 15 games.

Break the roster down and trade Watt, Minkah, Pickens for high draft picks and we likely suck for years before finding the correct QB in the draft (it’s not happening via trade or free agency).

So are Steelers fans going to accept winning 1-4 games per year to be bad enough to get the right QB and build a competitive roster? The Lions did that over 20 years. All of today’s top teams except the Ravens suffered through some lean years to be bad enough to draft a franchise QB. That does not happen with the 20th pick unless a team gets extremely lucky and luck is a bad strategy.

 

Call me greedy, but I want to have the next dynasty in this sport. And to get there it begins and ends with a franchise QB. Until we find that guy, this is what we got. I'm not against being run first/defense style of football; but this current roster isn't even built for that despite having some pieces and to me that's a major problem.

 

Beanie Bishop covering Isaiah Likely looked a little kid running in the backyard trying to keep up with his big brother.

 

The fact that most years the best team in the league doesn't win it all. Our team is good enough to beat the better teams in the league. You could make a cogent argument that Tomlin isn't likely to lead a team to a SB in today's NFL, but this football team (overall roster) is good enough to win it all. It's not the best chance in the league, but there is only a small handful of teams I think have a better chance than we do (Det, Philly, KC, Buf).

If every team that had a roster like ours decided to blow it all up there would be like 5-6 teams in the whole league that aren't in the middle of a complete rebuild.

 

You’re kidding, right? If healthy, we can beat anyone. We are maybe a wide receiver and a cornerback away from being one of the best teams in the league.

 

Are draft picks guaranteed to be as good or better than what you’ve traded away?