Steelers and Sam Darnold

Show some proof the Steelers even made an offer to Darnold, fans just make up stuff to fit their argument .

 

I don't care about fumbles if it wasn't a lost fumble, it doesn't get credited to him as a turnover if it was recovered by his own team.

 

The fumble by the QBs are not the same that the fumble by the WRs or RBs because it happens much less often that when the QBs fumble this is in the traffic or thing like that so the odds to recover the fumble by the offense is much higher if you look at the stats

The fumble who is recover by the offense is not a turnovers!

 

That’s it just pick the parts of the facts you like

 

Fields is a fumble machine though.

 

Yes but I talk in general

 

Yet it's still a fumble.

 

I think we agree, and more important is that even had the Steelers offered Darnold the same contract as the Seahawks did, he'd have been an idiot to take it over what he was surrounded by in Seattle, so unless the team was going to go Cleveland Browns and offer him an unprecedented contract, the top FA QB coming to Pittsburgh wasn't happening..

 

So You are saying if Your RB fumbles 11 times next year, as long as we jump on 5 of them, it's cool.
I call .
That would be like saying if the Qb throws a int, but while the guy that intercepted it is returning it, our players knock it out, and get it back, that the Qb didn't throw a int. LoL. No he threw a int, and we just got it back. It's still a int, and when You fumble, it's still a fumble no matter who gets on it.

 

In 53 games started, he has fumbled 48 times, between 3 different teams. LoL. Yeah, he's a fumble machine.

 

And sometimes a fumble by the QB can be the fault of a bad snap by the center .

 

Hell a Int could be caused by a bad snap of the center. You have to take your eyes off the route to handle the ball, and you dont see the defense correctly, but we don't blame them for it. A fumble is a fumble, and a ints is a int. Darnold has 57 fumbles by 5 different teams added together. I guess all of his centers have been bad. LoL

 

If it walks like a dog and quacks like a duck it’s a duck

 

They don't keep stats like that a QB is only credited with fumbles lost but keep trying .

 

Khan wasn't going to sign any player to a big contract like Darnold got from Seattle, he wasn't going to mess up his plans to get those comp picks.

 

Holy crap

You had an original thought that was pretty good

 

Tomlin using Rudolph speaks to him understanding what you and others here want to dismiss, that Pickett was coming off and injury and hadn't played in over a month. The gap between the two wasn't much and it didn't justify making the change back. I do think that injury hammered home the point that Pickett can't stay healthy, something we continued to see the last two seasons.

I think that is why teams may stop giving him opportunities even as a No. 2. They don't want to be where the Eagles were two years ago, turning to Pickett when their starter gets hurt, only to have him also go down. They had McKee, so it didn't hurt them, but I can't see many teams wanting to take on an injury risk at that position.

 

If that was the reason, it was a stupid one. Either tank or don't. This half-assed nonsense doesn't make sense.

 

I did not make up anything, so your next response to me should be apologizing for claiming otherwise. I have no idea if they made an offer or not. My post left room for either possibility. Either they made one and it wasn't nearly good enough or they didn't make one at all. My point was that they not only should have made an offer, it should have been one better than what he got in Seattle. I don't think they did that.

 

Well, everybody thought this was going to be a really good QB class.

 

That it turned out to not be the case is wonderful evidence of why that sort of approach is foolish.

 

Don't hold your breath waiting for an apology . Another poster posted a link where Darnold said he picked Seattle because of Kubiak; they previously worked together with the 49ers.

 

He stops getting opportunities as a QB2 because he isn't good at playing QB in the NFL. And he consistently gets outplayed by guys who are supposed to be lower than him on the depth chart.

He got hurt and Mason came in and played better than he did. Mason is a career backup. But he can throw TDs at a rate of more than 1 / month (which is what Kenny did over his final 8 games with us IIRC). And he got hot in the small sample he played for us in 2023. Good for him because he got a decent contract and some playing time out of it before reverting to the mean.

McKee in limited snaps played better than Kenny did. And he only got the job because Kenny got hurt (again).

Then Kenny got beaten out by two rookies in CLE.

In Oakland, he threw for 188 yards, 1 TD, and 2 INTs in 45 attempts. This is actually a pretty good TD% for Kenny. But it's not what you want even from a backup. O'Connell is also bad. But Kenny couldn't keep him off the bench either.


Kenny is worse at throwing TDs than basically anyone in the UFA/cap period.

And he gets hurt every couple of games. Because he likes to spin to his blindside. Often right into a DT.

He had a good year in college when he was older than he was supposed to be because of covid eligibility. And he had a very good WR. That made him look better than he was in the draft.

Then Tomlin's straight jacket style offensive system makes bad QBs look at least OK (while it would likely hold back good QBs).

I get that Pitt fans might not like to hear it. But he's just not an NFL starter. And maybe not even a backup.

Again...FWIW, I thought he'd end up being an above average backup when he left us. Looks like I was wrong.

 

‘Half aassed is how the team has been run by the current owner. His employees do as they’re told (tomlin and khan).