Should the Steelers run it back with Rodgers or not?

So? Winning 9 games with Rodgers won't help the franchise as much as a top 10 draft pick in 2027.

 

If Rodgers doesn't come back then I hope they let the winner of the Allar/Howard competition start the season and gain valuable experience. The worst thing the team could do is start Rudolph and have us limp to a 6-11 season. That would help no one.

 

I think he agrees with us but AR doesn’t unfortunately.

 

Well I must say that old man Rodgers ( who will be 43 this December ) gives us the best chance to win this year due partly to the Tomfoolery of the previous staff in not getting Howard ready ( he should have been at least QB2 ).

But Rodgers is a 1 year bandaid at best assuming he doesn't get hurt. I bet he will miss games if he decides to return.

I just prefer to rip the band aid off, and let Rudoplh, Allar and Howard battle it out in camp as it will expedite us being better.

Retire Arron. Enjoy the privacy, and find the darkness you seek. After you say your goodbyes, do resurface in 5 years when you are eligible for the hall of fame because in my opinion you will be there on your 1st ballot.

 

That would make 0 sense but lately the Steelers make 0 sense or at least ownership. I could see a world where AR says yes let’s start Mason he has experience and could lead us to glory!

 

He was drafted 21 years ago. Let that sink in.

 

Agree. MR is not a starter in this league. We already know that. Lets give someone else a shot.

 

No we do not know that. He was never the starter. That's you opinion based on a few games, not a full season, not several full seasons. Yet you also know who is the starter material based on that eye test for college rookies, who have never played a down in the NFL.
Your eye test does not make sense, it's not rooted in anything.

 

Imagine dying on a Mason Rudolph hill

 

You might be the only person in the NFL universe that doesn't know that then.
He is capable of showing bright spots but then following those up with stinkfests.
Tennessee was keen on him after Levis went down.. it turned out mostly bad.

I was a Mason fan back in his college days, but 8 years has not been good for him. He's a backup.

 

Not just Mason Rudolph. Look at the draft. Cade Klubnik went on day 3 who is way better and more experienced and starter material, but Ty Simpson went #13 overall in the first round. Diego Pavia went and Joe Fagnano went underafter who are way better, starter material first round quarterback, but Drew Allar and Carson Beck were drafted in round 3, who suck.
And there are other examples. People hated and still hate Jalen Hurts, he is a two time Super Bowl quarterback, and would not get a chance here. There are other examples of stupidity, to many to name.

 

Keep Rudolph if Rodgers retires. Trade him if Rodgers decides to play another year. Howard and/or Allar could possibly have a higher ceiling than Rudolph at this point, but we'll never know if we keep starting QBs like Rodgers and Rudolph.

 

I didn’t understand a single word you just said.

 

Of course you did not.
Can you understand this about quarterback evaluations in the NFL? Murray and Young went #1 overall and are starters in the NFL. Diego Pavia went undrafted and unsigned in UDFA by the NFL. Maybe this lower level fact is more processable.

 

Now he is climbing up the Diego Pavia hill, or in Pavia's case more like an ant hill.

 

Maybe nobody drafted Pavia because he has limited talent AND after losing the Heisman went on several profanity-laced rants at the Heisman voters and even said F*%k Indiana.

Do you think that's what a team wants as the face of their franchise? A short quarterback with limited traits and is the emotional equivalent of an eight-year-old should have been drafted, handed tens of millions of dollars, and become the leader of a locker room and the face of a franchise?

Alrighty then...

 

Yeah. That dude might as well have tattooed "undraftable" on his forehead after his outbursts.

 

Your eye test is not a measurement stick for quarterbacks, and neither is mine. I would caution against that because you are putting yourself in the same bucket with the NFL which is proven to be run by idiots.

Eye test says nothing about whether a quarterback can lead a team to Super Bowl. It's irrelevant.

 

No maybes. It's simple, NFL is run by morons. There is no other way to explain how Murray and Young are #1 overall picks, starting, leading teams, making hundreds of millions of dollars, and Pavia is undrafted, unsigned.
So no, it's not just Mason Rudolph I will die on, it's bigger than that.

 

I am still ok with Rodgers coming back. I am also ok with him leaving and running it with what we have. At some point, it is time to pull off the bandaid and move on. I don't want another bandaid QB from elsewhere that is in the twilight of his career to fill in for another year. If that happens, we will be right back here again next year having the same conversation. At least with Rodgers, you can be pretty sure that he is done.

I will say that I have a lot more faith in McCarthy sorting out the QB problems than I did with Tomlin fixing it.

 

He was well spoken, not searching for what to say and no cutesy Tomlin quotes. He probably had the questions in advance, but he still had a good snippet there. He will do well in broadcasting.

I also agree with what he said about Aaron. The guy for developing a young QB. Add McCarthy to the mix and you can probably take a decent QB and move him from backup into a franchise guy. That is a lot of knowledge and experience between those two. Get a guy who is willing and capable of learning and he will go far.....IMO

 

Again I don't disagree

But I'd be shocked if that's the path the team takes.

 

There are plenty of morons everywhere....not just in the NFL.

Pavia made himself radioactive with his behavior. Forget about what you think about him just as a player. He sabotaged and undermined his own worth. Staying away from him was the smart move. If someone wants to take him as an undrafted free agent and see what he is all about and maybe give him a chance, that's fine. But if a team used draft capital and paid him huge money up front to be their guy, they'd be nuts.

 

Want to try that again and perhaps focus on something clear? What does Simpson have to do with the Steelers? He was gone long before their first pick.