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Do you think mason should be our #1?

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by Mashburn, Mar 13, 2025.

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  1. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Bed time

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    You keep saying this

    And I keep saying they and I did find out all we needed to find out
     
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  2. forgotten1

    forgotten1 Well-Known Member

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    Nothing runs like a Deere and Fields is the better runner. Should have not let him get away.
    Rudolph is a different Deere and possibly could run the offense too.
     
  3. forgotten1

    forgotten1 Well-Known Member

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    They?
    Bags and crew?
    No way guey
     
  4. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    And you think Fields would've done any better with the tough schedule at the end?

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  5. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    That was also when Pickens was acting out because he wasn't heavily involved in the offense.
     
  6. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Bed time

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    Ok

    I
     
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  7. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    Fans crack me up with this Milton hype :rolleyes:, he has a cannon for an arm and accuracy issues too. I'm not worried about Mason numbers with the Titans he will be playing with more talent on the Steelers.
     
  8. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    Fields wasn't really benched because he was only starting because of injury, Fields also got injured during that stretch at the end and missed 2-3 games.
     
  9. Formerscribe

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    The other guy faced the far more difficult part of the schedule, played many of those games without the team's only viable starting receiver, and was out there as the defense fell apart, but sure, ignore the context to sell your false narrative.
     
  10. Formerscribe

    Formerscribe Well-Known Member

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    Tomlin didn't trust him to take shots down the field, which took away a big part of Pickens' game.
     
  11. pastorbob

    pastorbob Well-Known Member

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    me too
     
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  12. forgotten1

    forgotten1 Well-Known Member

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    Yes, possibly.
     
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  13. forgotten1

    forgotten1 Well-Known Member

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    3 games is a few not many talk about false narrative
    oh you forgot the days were colder and shorter, and blah blah

    4-2
    2 west coast victories
    4 away games
    both losses because of the defense.
     
  14. Bubbahotep

    Bubbahotep Well-Known Member

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    Can't disagree with this. Fields' success with the Steelers was 'manufactured' by keeping him from high risk throws to the middle of the field, throwing to first reads or taking off on a scramble. It's not an offense that will compete with the better teams. He still struggled to read defenses. Sure, Fields improved on a few things, but it's a question of how far and how long it would take to get him to an above average QB. Then, it's a rebuild on defense.
    If the Steelers really felt that positive on Fields, they would have offered a longer contract for more money than the NYJ. As it is, he got a two year deal which is really just a prove it contract.
     
  15. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Clearly they saw more than you did because they offered him 30 million. Perhaps if they let him play out the season they’d have seen a little more to convince them to fork over another 10 million.

    Instead they are stuck waiting on a 41 year old QB to save the day.
     
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  16. jeh1856

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    Not really

    $15M a year would place him about 20th on the salary list pretty much as expected

    With 32 teams that is well below average as was his play and ability

    One draft pick away from being a number 2
     
  17. Steel_Elvis

    Steel_Elvis Staff Member Mod Team

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    They also didn’t see enough in him to stick with him when the team was 4-2. It was a risk to make the change. I was on record (I think in @S.T.D@S.T.D ‘s “what are we afraid of?” Thread) as saying I wouldn’t take the risk while we were winning. Watching the offense rebound with Wilson proved to me that it was the right call. I remember that you even acknowledged the offense was better after a few weeks with Wilson. There’s no logical way to say that the season would have ended better with Fields. As for finding out what he had, we saw it in Weeks 1-6, and the team was trying to salvage something after a 10-3 start, so going back to Fields then w/o Pickens and with the defense falling down with TJ hobbled, would have been surrendering.
     
  18. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Don’t know why you keep trying to use this as a gotcha. Yes, Im fair that way, the offense looked good when he took over briefly. Did he look that way when the season ended on a 5 game skid? No, he looked like many of us warned about. He looked like a guy you eat 85 million dollars to get rid of.

    Not going to rehash the rest, makes zero sense to me playing a guy that offered nothing for the future and offered zero possibility of reaching the SB. His ****ty play was very easy to predict.

    Steelers better hope Fields doesn’t turn things around, or it will be a black eye this club never lives down.
     
  19. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Steelers recognized their mistake even if the people on this board can’t. They made that clear when they offered Fields a contract.
     
  20. jeh1856

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    They needed a backup and made an appropriate offer

    In hindsight it was a mistake switching to Wilson but at the time it was the right decision

    As hard as it is to fathom we just might have to live the rest of our lives realizing we disagree on Fields :drinks:
     

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