Rodgers to appear on McAfee’s show today

There could be something to be said about that.

 

Well I hope his lab work helped him ..MM says he got much better as a Coach because of more film study..AR has studied every season and he gets mad when the rest of the Offense doesn't want to do the work , I hope that translates to the field.. He has to hit on the WR spot at least 1 good Vet and a high potential draft pick..I believe AR and MM when they talk about Will and I think they both are trying to set him up to be our Franchise guy...

The last thing Will needs is to be thrown into a new scheme with new Coaches and a different WR room..If we get enough talent and all goes well AR might do more seasons to build Will up even more..

A lot to be said about learning the game from people who really know it ,great for long term confidence and wisdom of the position ..

 

The Steelers have too many other needs beyond qb to make a deep run- won’t happen this yr.

So let Rodgers go and rebuild thru the draft over next two yrs - fill openings w/ free agency. It wouldn’t bother me if we traded Watt or f we could land a 1st round pick. Let’s get younger and make a run 3 yrs from now.

 

I'm in total agreement with the Will Howard part, and it can help him.

 

Let AR start, but i doubt he finishes the season. Good opportunity for Will Howard, this may be the one season where we all get a chance to see what hes got.

But Will Howard has to overtake MR for no 2 first. Thats not guaranteed either. I wouldn't be surprised if Howard ends up no 3 again.

 

I still think the Steelers are going to bring in someone that is going to bounce Mason from the #2 spot right out of town. I remember when Landry Jones suffered the same fate when Mason was drafted. Landry went from being the sure thing backup QB to Ben, to being unemployed when the team went younger and cheaper with Mason and Dobbs.

I fully expect Mike McCarthy to bring in a QB that he has history with like Trey Lance, draft a Art Rooney Local boy like Drew Allar, or maybe even bring in a rebuilding project like Anthony Richardson.

I also like the fact that Khan may still have his pole in the water to bring in say Kyler Murry or Mac Jones. As Aaron Rodgers said yesterday there was no offer yet from the Steelers, so maybe, there is a reason the Steelers have not offered a contract to Rodgers yet. If they have an offer on the table for Rodgers, they can't really go fishing for any starting QB #1s.

In the end I think Mason Rudolf goes the way of Landry Jones when the team announces its Final 53-man roster.

Steelers keep Josh Dobbs, cut quarterback Landry Jones | AP News
The Pittsburgh Steelers chose to keep Dobbs and rookie Mason Rudolph as the primary backup quarterbacks behind Ben Roethlisberger when they pared the roster to 53 on Saturday. The decision left Jones, a six-year veteran, as the surprising odd man out.

 

On Will Howard....he can have all the heady intangibles and high end mentoring that exists in the NFL world....it doesn't change the fact that he does not look to have an NFL arm. Folks around here are consistently calling for a QB to attack MOF. Well a dude with borderline NFL caliber arm strength is not the cat to do that with.

I dunno, maybe his NFL redshirt year had him fixing footwork and he find a few ticks on the ol' fastball?

But there are a lot of things working against Will Howard that do not change just cause his brain got good at football.

 

Here is another good article..https://steelersdepot.com/2026/03/i...ned-how-i-did-last-season-aaron-rodgers-says/

I think AR has took Howard under his wing ,I think he wants to keep showing him how to play the position..IMO Howard is already the #2 and Mason offers very little in teaching the position.. Lance reportedly scored high on the Wonderlic, he was widely considered intelligent and smart by scouts..As stated above he knows the system and Will and him could both benefit from the knowledge that AR brings..

IMO Mason is as good as gone , I wished we could just trade him for a 4th. or 5th. ? Maybe we can with the Draft being so weak at the QB spot ..Maybe MM could make him look like a starting QB in the pre season and trade him for a 2027 pick..

 

"The Wait"
(originally by Killing Joke)

Motives changing, day to day,
The fire increases, masks decay.
I look at the river, white foam floats down,
The body's poisoned, gotta sit tight.

The wait, the wait, the wait, the wait.

After wakening, silence grows,
The screams subside, distortion shows.
Mutant thoughts of bad mouthed news,
Is just another birth of distorted views.

The wait, the wait, the wait, the wait.

The wait, the wait, the wait, the wait.

 

Actually seeing the field better and being faster processing the reads would lead to the ball coming out quicker and arriving at the spots Quicker..

Free your mind and your body will follow it will allow you to play faster and possibly throw harder.. Hard to rip it if you doubt what you are seeing ..

 

to who?

 

Having a strong arm is always an advantage and it will help a quarterback fit the ball into tight windows and allow him to stretch the field more. However, a quarterback that is able to layer the ball and throw the ball with the right amount of pace to throw over the linebackers and in front of the safeties is very important ability. A lot of the guys that just live with the fastball don't have that in their repertoire and are never able to develop it.

The obvious objective is to have the quarterback that has a powerful arm but also has the vision and touch to make those other throws.

What needs to be discovered is if Howard has enough arm and can be trained to improve his technique and use his legs more to drive the ball so he is capable of more. If he can't, he will most likely have to be a quarterback that throws with anticipation and often throws to a spot on the field.

It doesn't mean that he can't play well, it just means that he needs to be elite at many things to overcome his deficiencies. The good news is that Howard appears to be a really smart guy with tremendous recall skills and understanding of defenses. There are reports that if he hears something once or sees something once, he has it stored in his memory banks. That can serve him well and give him a chance. Getting to pick the brain of Aaron Rodgers is also a very good thing for him and everything we hear about him says he is willing to do the hard work on the practice field and in the film room to get better.

 

I still hope we move up and sign Tate .. I would also like Diggs if he is not going to jail he is a good Football player that may have made some mistakes or it could all be a lie? Just give him a modest contact with heavy incentives and if any more trouble arises then he doesn't get them ...

 

I do get all that. Admittedly not at the level of detailed understanding that either of you do.

But I do think the hype train for a guy who played a ton of games in college and still had visible flaws/holes in his game is getting way off the tracks.

The list of guys that "fix" or "develop" all the things that many observers indicate that Howard has to do in order to be NFL successful is vanishingly small.

Can Will Howard succeed? Of course. Would I rather spend 2026 watching him try and do that than any other known option? Yes.

But I think that expectations for what Howard can be as NFL QB need reined WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY back in from where some have them currently.

 

Don't make the mistake of thinking I know what the finished product of Will Howard is going to look like. Nobody does.

I'm simply commenting on his skillset and what does/doesn't translate at the NFL level.

I still want the quarterback with all the tools as well.

 

Sure.

I, as an ignorant fan, am just kind of tune out when people start talking about how some guy's make-up and presence, and whatever is going to bridge all these gaps in his game.

The NFL is super-duper hard. I have no idea what the math is....but I gotta figure it is some small percentage of total football players in the world that can even thing about trying to do it. And then some small percentage of that pool is able to do it well.

Hopefully, Howard surprises me and just wows everyone.

 

I think that most guys who play College QB at a big School in a passing system at a high level has the potential to play NFL QB IMO.. Even some small school guys..

To me a lot are ruined by being forced to play in the NFL to early , a lot are simply not smart enough , a lot are not willing to learn their craft , a lot have no one to teach them correctly .. I love that he has AR and MM to learn what it takes to learn to play the position on a NFL Level I put more stock in that than the physical ..

Game knows Game AR sees something in him he has no reason to lie..MM is not Tomlin he is more truthful about things IMO as I stated in other threads I haven't heard him say 1 positive thing about Mason..

 

There is just no way to know how many of the necessary boxes Howard is able to check. He needs to check a lot of boxes to be capable of being successful, and he has a lot of work to do.

I agree. I am hoping Howard surprises me.

As you know when I rated last year's quarterbacks, I didn't rate Howard as a high draft pick. In my estimation, he didn't have the physical skills that Ward, Dart, and Shough had. I rated him below that, and I believe I gave him a fourth/fifth-round grade with upside because of the intangibles and smarts I talked about before. The Steelers getting him in the sixth-round seems like a bit of a bargain but in the end, it doesn't really matter what round he was taken. It only matters if he can play or not.

The only caveat is that the higher the round a quarterback was taken and the more physical skills they have generally gives them more chances than a QB drafted in later rounds if they initially fail.

 

That all seems reasonable to me.

I think the draft cost thing is somewhat in the Steelers favor. If they burned a sixth round pick on a guy who washes out...it doesn't really hurt anything from their overall roster construction.

Maybe I would be higher on Howard if he wasn't out of OSU? There is just a catalog of dudes who put up video game numbers at OSU and then didn't make it work at the NFL level.

Oh well. I guess we will find out in a few months.

 

While I think Mason is not ever going to be a starter here again, when are the Landry Jones, and Mason comparisons going to stop?
Landry Jones played 3 years ,and only in Pittsburgh, nobody else even saw fit for him to play backup anywhere. He had 8tds, and 7 ints.
Mason is going into his 7th season this year, and has 30 tds, and at least someone else wanted him. I know a bunch who told me he would go just like Landry years ago, but that comparison has passed awhile ago.

 

Totally different tune, and I play both Tom Petty, and Killing Joke/Metallica .

 

I feel the exact same way when someone shows me a guy's arm strength, his speed, and running abilities.
I've seen many of the strongest arm Qb that could throw a football a mile, and throw one through a brick wall not make anything of themselves, and I keep thinking of the 2 top Qbs I've ever seen, and neither had a strong arm in comparison to most Qbs. Brady, and Montana, but they had anticipation, could read a D and brains. Hell Justin Fields, A.Richardson , Lamar Jackson, Trevor Lawrence, and J. Allen can all right now throw farther, harder, and faster than either Montana, and Brady could in their prime, and yet it hasn't gotten them very much.