Should the Steelers run it back with Rodgers or not?

I agree with this. IMHO I don't have any thoughts at all of us going to the super bowl this year with AR. This is a major transition year for the team and staff. My only realistic hope is for some serious player development. AR can give that to the most important position. I hate it but 26 is a prep year for 27 and the future nothing more. I do think we are close though, with our current personnel, we need a QB that can win games and young guys to grow.

 

How is it even possible to put a tender on an unrestricted free agent?
This basically only tells us that bargaining starts at 2025 salary ($14 mil) + 10% increase.

 

You ever heard the saying, hope in one hand and shıt in the other and see which one fills up faster?

 

I believe in putting the best team out there that you can every season. If that's ARod, then it's ARod. If and when ARod can't or doesn't want to do it anymore, we have 2 guys waiting and preparing. I don't have any problem with the better QB at any age. I understand the reasoning behind just wanting to go with the 2 young QBs and let it play out. I also understand the reasoning with letting ARod help teach the NFL game. We just need to decide what's best for the Steelers this season and go with that.

 

Steelers drafted Josh Dobbs, Mason Rudolph and Kenny Pickett to replace Roethlisberger. None of them worked out. It's not like the Steelers weren't active in replacing their "fading star."

Steelers also gave Mitch Trubisky and Justin Fields opportunities to be long term starters. It didn't work out.

 

They had two problems there. One was choosing poorly. The other was never putting any real trust in any of them. Any chance any of those guys had of becoming even a decent starter went out the window with how they were developed and treated.

 

I agree, but it's not like Steelers totally neglected QB in the twilight of Ben's career. Steelers were never going to develop a QB the way McVey/Stafford, Shanahan/Purdy, Payton/Nix, Harbaugh/LJ did with Tomlin and the promotion-from-within OC's he was "comfortable" with.