If Rodgers returns trade Rudolph!

"The best QB rating of any QB in 2023 in the regular season." You do realize that he only played 3 games and they were against Jake Browning, Geno Smith and Tyler Huntley? He then promptly crapped the bed in the playoff game throwing a critical pick in the end zone that handed the Bills the win. There are lots of backup QB's who have had a good 3 game stretch before. Duck Hodges won his first 3 starts against Philip Rivers, Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield. Then never won another NFL game after that.

 

And that is why he does not deserve to start and we should roll with rookies?

 

They might be good, we know Rudolph isn't.

 

Why would anyone other than the Steelers want their young quarterbacks because so many here say they suck and are wasted picks? Nobody is as dumb as the Steelers to draft them, right? Why would any other team want them? They should be as safe on the practice squad as anything can be according to fans.

Of course they won't put them on the practice squad because other teams would pounce on them and the Steelers would lose them.

 

That does not make sense.

 

Duck had woeful arm strength and does not have physical tools to succeed in NFL. He never led the league in passing albiet for 3 game stretch Mason has an NFL arm and physical tools that Duck did not have. Mason also won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award in college given to the best QB in college. He had the pedigree and that is why Steelers had first rd grade on him. He won against Seattle in Seattle which is always a tough place to play (Bradshaw or Ben never won in Seattle). Also Geno Smith was having a good year and Seattle was fighting for a playoff spot. I remember people saying after Cincinnati game that the real test will be against the Seahawks. He passed that test. He brought the Steelers back against the tough Bill defense at Bills. He did throw that interception, but when your running backs are having trouble punching it in from two yard line, you try to do too much. This was his first playoff game and just his 15th start and he put steelers in a position to be competitive, when the defense was doing jack ****. Mason also played better than Rodgers when he relieved him against Cincinnati last year. People say he stunk in Tennessee. When he got a chance to start, the team was already out of playoffs. No one really wanted to win. He actually got the coach (Callahan) his first win, when he played almost the entire game against the Patriots in relief of Will Levis who got credited with the win. He was in a bad situation at Tennessee and both the coach and GM got fired shortly after. Titans couldn't do much with Cam Ward either last year. Mason is not elite but definitely the best QB on the team, and that includes 43 year old Rodgers.

 

they should go into the preseason with 4 and come out with 3. I wouldnt trade MR until i see what Howard and Allar can do in real game situations (preseason games anyway)

 

If teams know we we know we arent cutting Allar or Howard, why not just wait for us to cut Rudolph and then sign him instead of giving up something in a trade?

 

Yes they could, but what if they are not a priority on the NFL waiver list?

Hence a team might trade a 7th round pick for him, rather than wait thier turn on the waiver wire list for Rudolph to become available to them to pick up.

I trust Khan on trades way more than I trust him to sign veteran free agents on their 2nd contact! In this aspect of being a GM, he's no " Doctor Evil ".

Sure Metcalf, and Queen give us fair value relative to their hefty cap #. If it were up to me, I would diminsh his role on signed 2nd contract players.

 

Skylar is an unrestricted free agent. They signed him for $1.1 million for one year last year. It is only Rudolph and Will Howard that are under contract as of right now (Allar and Rodgers don't have a contract.). I liked Skylar in preseason. A good place for a back up seems to be Houston. Their starting qb, CJ Stroud has been awful and the fanbase is turning on him. They won some games in spite of him. They have a great defense. Halfway decent 'qbing ' could take the team deep into playoffs

 

No way am I trading Mason Rudolph for a 7th rounder during training camp - unless he asks. This is whether Rodgers returns or not.

I am not in the business of bailing out teams with injury problems while exposing my team to the exact same issue for an irrelevant return. Of course, if Rodgers returns, and things go according to plan, then the likely result is Rudolph is gone. But until I have to cut the roster to 53, Rudolph is insurance. He's supposedly a good guy in the room, he's not overly expensive and his cap space is not needed right now (savings will be $3M), and most important, if things don't go according to plan, he is the only other QB who has even taken a snap in a pre-season game.

Now, if some team offered a fourth or a fifth - which would be insane - now there's an asset worth getting. But for a seventh? I'll hold onto my insurance policy.

 

Funny how quickly people forget the past.

Anyone remember last year when the Steelers lost 2 QBs to injury before the season even started?

 

Why are we looking to cut everyone here before TC even starts? Roman, Kaleb, Mason....I'm open to trading for a nice return, but other than that let everyone compete at camp and see who makes the team.

 

Funny, Right now the depth chart says your wrong and Mason Rudolph is the Steelers starting QB.

All other QBs on the roster have never even played a single down in a regular or preseason NFL game.

 

Rudolph's team won in Seattle on the strength of a dominating running game. The Bengals defense he faced would have struggled to stop a good high school team at that point. Your litany of excuses for Rudolph never fails to entertain. Even at the height of his career, those three games against two terrible defenses and a third one sitting its key starters, he managed just three touchdowns in three games. Even the aged remains of Rodgers are better than Rudolph on his best day.

 

They won because he converted third downs. Running game improved because there was threat of deep pass, and they couldn’t stack the line. He looked way better than your favorite Pickett ever did. He played well enough that Tomlin had to bite the bullet and start him over Pickett, even though Pickett was a first round pick. As for current Rodgers, they played the same Cincinnati team last year. Mason moved the ball more efficiently. 43 year old Rodgers doesn’t want to take hard hits anymore so he bails out on play, and doesn’t have the wheels anymore and gets caught from behind. Mason’s biggest problem is pocket awareness. He has improved in that area and he is running for first downs, like he did against the Bears on a play called back because of holding etc. Still needs to improve on that aspect.

 

I think you forgot to post the reply.