Aaron Jones

Don't we already have a 25 year old RB who has trouble staying on the field?

 

ye...... no, hell yes. i'd take their backup too if not jones. jamal williams.

 

no actually we don't, he's a free agent too. well will be in march.

 

Great player. Leaving the inconvenient issue of money aside for the moment there is no point in signing someone like Jones without a transformation in the whole approach on offence. He is not a big man, won’t run over people, break tackles and get yards on his own, they’d have to open lanes for him to get him in space where he goes to work. The Steelers line just wasn’t doing that in 2020 and our running backs were too slow for it to matter anyway, but I guess it’s something they will be determined to fix under Canada.

If they do manage to fix it I think McFarland could have a big year 2. He is in the Jones mould, totally dependent on blocking but devastating once he gets in to space.

Jones is brilliant as a receiver too, but a lot of that is down to the play action offence they are running in GB now. Jones was transformed once LeFleur got there and changed the scheme.

 

you evidently haven't watched much of jones if that's your take on him.

 

I have watched plenty of him. He is brilliant, but I think he would be wasted in this current Steelers offence without huge improvement in front of him.

What is your take and why am I wrong?

 

he does run over people and through tackles and gets alot of yardage after contact as well as breaks tackles. all three of green bays rbs are pretty impressive. all can catch well too. i expect williams to be the odd man out unless they can afford them all.

 

Do you think it is a coincidence that all three of their running backs are impressive? Or that Jones career completely exploded once LeFleur got there? It’s the scheme they are running. He did nothing before that.

Of course he gets some YAC but he is not Derrick Henry or Nick Chubb, what sets Jones apart is those explosive runs when he finds a gap, he only runs a 4.5 but plays much faster. Very few running backs have more of those long runs than Aaron Jones, he can really make people miss.

 

Sometimes I wonder if Agents leak false info that Steelers are interested in order to generate some heat?

Aaron Jones would be a great pick up though...

 

No Thanks. Give me Javonte William's in hopefully 2and, prob have to trade up in 2nd

 

I don't care anymore. Just post when somebody is actually signed.

 

Pretty good O line there too.

 

You do understand any one can have a twitter account , even you.

Who is Evan Massey? Not sure how this makes him a reliable source for the Steelers?

 

I do not think it is the agents, just way to many independent sports "journalists" that just push something and hope it sticks enough to generate enough re-tweets to get some attention. Most of the blather that comes through the feeds on my phone is just complete made up non-sense.

 

Lmao yeah I'm not putting much into this.

The reality is the Steelers are up against the cap and probably losing most of their own free agents to free agency let alone sign big names from other teams.

Look for our signings to follow the traditional pattern of economical mid-teir veterans in the second wave of FA. Every now and then they hit like they did with James Farrior

 

I do not even have twitter but you describe pretty much the whole world of this type of media right there, anyone can have an account. Something popped up a few hours ago, some guy writing that JJ Watt would be traded to the Chargers for some other player. His 'expert'opinion also included the line, "This probably won't happen, but it makes sense'. Oh really, to who does it make sense? A cheap smart phone, a $25 dollar cheap phone plan, free twitter account and everyone is now a 'journalist', lmao.

 

He is a great player blast, never said he wasn’t, just don’t expect that we could drop him in to this current Steelers offence and get the same results that he got in Green Bay where he had that line in front of him and arguably the best QB/WR combo in football in Rodgers/Adams to back defences up and lighten the box. It’s a great place to be a running back is all I’m saying, and it a good part of his success.

I think this story is BS but even if the Steelers did have some money to spend I wouldn’t be putting it towards a running back, good as he is. I’d go after his teammate Corey Linsley first, also a FA

 

It’s a message board and it’s fun to speculate I suppose but I agree with Glenn sign him sign everyone!! We are not signing any big FA we don’t have any damn money to spend. We are about to lose half our roster cutting people to get under the cap for Christ sake. Only chance at retaining some players or adding one or two would be Ben retiring or doing something crazy with his contract to take a league minimum.

 

James F. Was perfect, because his team had switched 2 the 4-3. It left him expendable. Another reason I hate 2 see a team blow up everything after a season they didn't like. 2 put it clearly. I don't want 2 see us do that. I like it when other teams do it.

 

IMO we can go cheap at the RB spot, we don't have the OL to run block and we probably have another season of little to no running game..I wanted a stud RB in the draft at first thought , but after thinking about it why ? If we are going to be the quick pass dink and dunk then no need to sign the Franchise RB this year..

Just use Mcfadden as the scat RB and Snell on short yardage ...

 

If the price is right, sure. Jones, Pick, AMc, Snell

 

The reason the Pack isn't going to overpay Jones is because of a 2020 2nd round pick.

Get your RBs in the draft, and on cheap 3rd contracts. Never pay for their decline.