Steelers QB Joshua Dobbs' Development is Progressing

Thanks. I guess the next logical phase will be: "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy........." (JEH - you'll have to explain to the under 40 crowd).

 

I also LOVED the 90's Steelers but we ALWAYS love them more when they win rings. No franchise QB RARELY wins rings. You had Brad Johnson of Tampa and Trent Dilfer of Ravens, and who else in modern NFL win the SB without a franchise QB? The Brady's, Roethlisberger's, Roger's, Mannings', Elway's, win rings. The Neil O'Donnell's don't.

 

Oh no, you didn't!!!

 

And under Tomlin/Colbert this happens quite frequently. Yet people want to get rid of them? Hmmm...

 

You have to be right, because if you're not, we're more screwed than we know. I have no idea why we keep Jones around, he's terrible and showed it last season. Dobbs (on topic here) looks really bad. His passes aren't crisp at all witch makes me question his arm strength and he has 0 poise in the pocket. Houston has looked slightly better than Dobbs, but that isn't saying much

 

I think Dobbs has decent arm strength, his accuracy isn't getting any better. Landry Jones must be sleeping good.

 

Of course.


Anything else he learns this year is essentially gold. I am fine with that and content with it personally.

 

It's basically huge Ben then a big old pile of steaming crap after him lol

 

I actually think he is playing well under the circumstances .The Team basically gave him a new WR package from one game til the next.He also had a number of drops by his guys as well as some poor route running .

How would he look with AB ? How would he look with a set WR'S he has experience with ? What if he had Bell to check down to ?

 

I really think Dobbs has a bright future...at NASA. LOL! Honestly though I'm not all that concerned with how he looked tonight. That was a pretty dang good d that he played tonight with a really defensive minded coach. It's not exactly like he was playing all scrubs the whole game. I'm more concerned with the fact that Matt Ryan appeared as though he could have driven 1,000 yards if the field had been that long.

 

Dobbs is 18 of 34 for 170 yards, a touchdown and three interceptions in two starts. His passer rating is 40.1

 

Yeah. This is why preseason isn't a good barometer for the season.

 

Landry Jones sleeping like a baby

 

I'm not sure what people expected from Dobbs. That he'd be a late round QB gem, like Dak Prescott or Tom Brady? Well, that's really unrealistic. That he'd step in as the logical #2 over the much maligned Laundry Jones? That might be asking too much.

Chances are Dobbs floats around the league for a couple of yrs holding clipboards, eventually gets displaced by another mid round fresh face, and starts his career at Boeing.

They'll keep him around, maybe he develops, maybe he doesn't. Odds are he wont. Look at the list of QBs drafting in 4th-5th round the last 5 yrs. it's full of Cardale Joneses, LoganThomases and Tom Savages. Few diamonds, lots of rough. That's probably who Josh Dobbs is. No insult to him, he is what he and he's playing in preseason like that.

Maybe the Stillers brilliant talent evaluation system found Ben's replacement in round 4 this year, but you can't be too disappointed if it didn't.

 

i know next week will be for ben and the starters to begin with and we have to then give LJ some game reps but......

does anyone else think houston has a better command of the offense and pocket presence than dobbs right now? should we put some more pressure on dobbs and play houston ahead of him in game 3 to make this a competition. houstons deep throws are off, but would working more with him give us a better evaluation of what we really have at our 3rd string guy.

i know dobbs is the draft pick and all but i gotta say, i'd like to see houston get an even shake with some better game action. can he be better than dobbs and the guy we keep?

i'm just not seeing a huge difference in a guy that gets way more reps and maybe the lesser guy needs some of those to make a true evaluation. i never thought houston would amount to much but he looks as good if not better to me running the offense with less opportunity. are we doing the team a disservice if we don't check this out and not just hand this spot to dobbs?

 

To be fair, many were saying the same thing about Landry when he was a rook and AB went invisible when Landry had to step in.

 

I think Dobbs is another Hybrid college QB, that NFL coaches are trying to make a pocket passer.

I say let the kid make some plays with his feet, that is what can make guys like Cam Newton, Russell Wilson, scary.

Problem is, the coaches want him to try to be the back up and run the offense like Ben. I don't think he is that type of QB.

I look at him as this point, as a project. He will be on the practice squad, get him reps. I'm not sure what the future holds.

It takes a lot of learning, give him some time. He has a long, long way to go. But, I think Landry with be safe in his QB2 spot.

 

That is true and LJ never got much better even with more reps and more time .I will give Dobbs the same before passing judgement. 2 things I see that Dobbs can do better than LJ'S already.#1 His arm is much stronger .#2 He does have the ability to elude and extend plays.

Will he ever be a starting caliber NFL QB ? I am not sure ? Does he deserve at least a full season before we pass that judgement ? Yes he does.

 

Yeah, he doesnt have to worry about Dobbs being the backup any time soon, lateraling that ball for a pick is about the dumbest thing i've seen in a game lately....

 

its basically ben or bust this season, just like every season. Landry is good enough to beat a scrub team i guess lol

 

Isn't this pretty much true of every team?