Colbert defends selecting Pickett

Doesn't matter. Even average Centers are comically difficult to find. Pittsburgh learned that the hard way after Pouncey's retirement. Never found one from 2021 until 2024.


Within that near identical span, Baltimore had a Franchise Player at the Pivot. Realistically, Baltimore should have tagged Kyle and extended Tyler. Lamar could have been dealt with in 2027 in the same vein that Kyle could have.

 

When Marino retired he was the career leader in pick sixes thrown with 29. It's hard enough to beat a good team, especially a playoff one, even harder when your choker of a quarterback throws at least two interceptions.

In the regular season, he was good enough to beat the '85 Bears. However, in the post-season, he couldn't beat the '85 Patriots - at home - in Miami - and was badly outplayed by the "great" Tony Eason. No defense? He was drafted by a team that was just in the Super Bowl. Do you think David Woodley's passing got them there or was it the Killer B's defense?

Five times in his career Marino had a top 10 defense in points allowed. Three times he had a top five defense. Twice he had a defense that led the league in fewest points allowed. How'd that work out for two-turnover Danny?

In some of those playoff match-ups, Marino had the better defense, but no one remembers that and they don't blame Teflon Danny.

In 1983 at home against Seattle, Miami lost 27-20. Marino threw two interceptions in 25 passes and had a passer rating of 77.6 wasting Miami’s number one ranked defense in the NFL. Seattle’s defense was ranked 24th out of 28 in the NFL in points given up.

In 1990, in a playoff game at Buffalo, Marino would again throw two interceptions and had a passer rating of 72.1. The Dolphins that year had the fourth best scoring defense in the NFL. The Bills had the sixth best scoring defense in the NFL.

The 1995 season ended with a playoff loss at Buffalo where Marino would throw three interceptions and had a passer rating of just 63.4. Miami had the 10th best scoring defense in the NFL. Buffalo had the 12th best scoring defense in the NFL. So much for the myth Marino didn’t have a better defense than Miami’s playoff opponent.

But you'll still make some excuse for Danny.

So what excuse do you have for him not winning at Pitt with a future NFL team of stars around him???? This you won't answer as no one does because it blows their fake excuse that he didn't have a good team around him, he didn't have a good defense or he didn't have a running game. He had it all at Pitt and choked big time against Florida State in 1980 and Penn State in 1981 costing Pitt two national championships.

It’s a repeated fact that Marino did not play well in big games. Stats don’t lie. Marino never won a title at any level, even in high school where quarterbacks dominate play. His Central Catholic team lost to Penn Hills in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Conference (WPIAL) championship game in 1978. In the WPIAL final, Marino completed only six of 18 passes and was intercepted THREE times.

Choking is in his DNA. ZERO rings.

 

^the anti-Bradshaw

Good post, that was informative

 

Marino's college coach claimed that the drug use rumor was started by angry bettors when Marino failed to meet the betting lines in his final season. That is the seedy side of gambling that no one seems to want to talk about.

 

Good job of copy paste a old article that I see in the past....

 

Pretty much everything you regurgitate is some form of old article cut and paste

 

Good try but no.....

 

Some people when they cite reasons a quarterback should be in the nfl HOF they mistakenly add superbowl wins

Marino has none and he is in and deserves to be

I hope that dispels the sb win value

 

I’m surprised @steelersrule6 has not already declared this should be moved to the General forum

 

Keep in mind at that time betting on Pitt would have been mostly handled by bookies and gambling people smoking cigars in rooms with the windows painted over

Plus IIR Bradshaw had surgery against Steelers advice and assured the Steelers he was just fine (he was not) so that made Marino a notch less desirable

Now I’m not trying to make a @Brice level conspiracy but how could the Steelers have actually gotten any of this disinformation

 

Baltimore offered Linderbaum $20MM/yr which would have reset the market anyway. The deal he got with the Raiders is worth 50% more a year than two-time running first-team all-pro Creed Humphrey's. It was a ridiculous overpay.

 

I almost gave you the "Against the Rules" feedback, just to make you think for just a moment that he was man enough to read your post.

 

Don’t be making me think I thought you almost somewhat a little but liked me

But just because he’s another coward who ran doesn’t mean he should be spared

 

I think they did this on purpose to force Ben out. How do you do from Pouncey to a rookie with only a few snaps at Center in college?

 

Nobody was going to succeed taking snaps from that guy.

Holy smokes he was bad.