Howard or Rudolph?

We'll see. But I wouldn't put much stock into what McCarthy did with Cowboys. Steelers and Cowboys are Apples and Oranges.

 

Doubtful so I’ll bet you ten rubels Rodgers does not play against the Packers

All bets must be paid in actual paper rubels

Just because it’s the Packers means nothing he played a regular game against them last year

Rodgers didn't play a single snap in the Steelers' 2025 preseason, similar to his 2024 approach with the Jets where he also didn't play in the preseason

 

Dude. You are leaving out a whole year of practice, which Howard didn't get, and 8 preseason games, which in today's game would take over 3 years since they only play 3 preseason games a year now.
You , and I both know the only way that what happened with Dobbs, and the guys we have now to be the same would be for next year one of them is the number 2, and even then they wouldn't have had as many preseason games as Dobbs.

 

LoL. At the I think the HC should just throw something out there, and hope it works .
For people that don't, or haven't played any actual sports in their lives this may sound good, but HCs live , and die by wins.
Last time I can remember a HC going into a season without a experience Qb, and actually they didn't start the season that way, they actually waited till week 5, was the Browns HC last year.
Oh by the way He got fired.
This isn't about what You want, its about a team, and a HC trying to win as many games as they can, and hoping to catch a break, or Lighting in a bottle at some point in the season.

 

Rodgers.

 

Didn't Howard not play in contact drills at all in the preseason (certainly no drills where you could hit the QB)? I wouldn't put any stock in stats for non-contact drills.

IIRC, we heard a lot about Kenny playing well in these drills. Then I think it came out that we had to keep playing after the D "touched" the QB to end the play. Because otherwise the O wasn't getting enough work. I think part of that was also on the fact that we had a poor OL and very good edge rushers.

 

My guess is that most of the established starters won't play much in the preseason.

But even playing against backups, PS players, and guys who aren't going to make the PS is better competition than they will have faced in the NCAA.

 

If at least one of the lottery tickets shows something, I'd be OK with this...actually I'd be OK with it either way because I want a rebuild.

My guess will be that the team will need one of the young guys to play well enough to show that they can be a reasonable NFL backup for the team to drop Rudolph (hopefully via trade). Because the prime directive is to not play meaningless regular season games.

 

Camp numbers are useless information