Grade the overall draft

Not to argue, but I'm gonna. It's Qb, CB, T, EDGE, ,and so on. A great Qb, and CB can make up for many deficiencies on each of their side of the ball.

 

Using some of the most dysfunctional franchise in the NFL is not a good example.I never said it was guaranteed to work, but the odds were going to be better for the Steelers to be a true contender... Of course, if the front office isn't good, it doesn't matter

 

You are bantering with someone who just wants to be right for once in the Season Record Prediction
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Again. I don't make excuses to make what I believe work like certain people, all I did was give facts of teams that draft year after year high. Did you want me to cherry pick for you?? If what You , and a few of you think is true those teams wouldn't be drafting high as much as they do.

 

Disagree. You can control the LOS on D if you don't have to help your backfield out so much with schemes. If I can take away where you want to throw, I can get to you with less talent, and I can also play the run without having to worry about not having to help my backfield if you are play acting.
Let's look at Dallas, and SF. What was the difference between who won SBs between them during the 90s? I believe a CB. Where he went , that's who won.

 

I'm not missing the point. I'm demonstrating to you why it doesn't hold up. I am showing you instances when the Steelers went against our thinking with outstanding results. They did it with Troy Polamalu and got a Hall of Famer who helped them reach three Super Bowls, winning two of them. They did it by trading a first-round pick for Fitzpatrick and it got them an All-Pro. They were lucky to get another former first-rounder in Farrior and got another key championship component.

Look at it the other way. The Steelers played in three Super Bowls from 2005 through 2010. One common thread among those teams is they had an elite safety who was taken in the first round, Polamalu. Another common thread was a stud inside linebacker who had also been taken in the first round in Farrior. Do you think they win those two Super Bowls and appear in the third without those guys?

By the way, the other starting inside linebacker on that 2010 team was Lawrence Timmons, another first-round pick.

You say they need to focus more on guards and tackles in the first round of the draft. The starting offensive line for the 2010 team that made the Super Bowl didn't have a single former first-round pick. Flozell Adams was he highest pick on that line. He was drafted in the second round. The same was true of the 2008 Super Bowl championship team. They didn't have a single offensive lineman who had been a first-round draft pick.

Of the three most recent Super Bowl appearances, only the 2005 team had first-rounders on the offensive line. That team had three of them, but none at tackle. It was their two guards, Faneca and Simmons, and their center, Hartings. Isn't guard near the end of your priority list? Isn't center left off it entirely?

We can do this with the teams of the '70s, too. Mike Webster was a fifth-round pick. Sam Davis was not drafted. John Kolb was a third-rounder. Larry Brown was a converted tight end and a fifth-round pick. Gerry Mullins was taken in the fourth. The 1979 team didn't have a single former first-round pick on the offensive line.

To be fair, those teams didn't have high draft picks at safety and linebacker, either, but this idea that you have to spend all your first-round picks on what you think of as premium positions doesn't hold up.

Prime quarterback beats prime anything, but as for the rest, that isn't necessarily the case.

You also have to figure in the likelihood of the player giving you a prime results. Thieneman, for example, is a better bet to succeed this year and beyond than Eheanachor. The latter might have a higher ceiling. Maybe. But he also has a much lower floor.

 

I didn’t see that coming

 

None of the Steelers' Super Bowl championship teams started a first-round pick at tackle. None of them.

The last two featured a safety and an inside linebacker who were first-round picks.

While the Steelers of the '70s did have a first round cornerback, J.T. Thomas, none of their teams that reached the Super Bowl in in '05, '08, or '10 had a first-round corner. In fact, you could argue that cornerback was the weakest part of all three of those defenses and they did just fine.

 

This is why I don't watch NBA anymore!

 

GM's and Owners matter. Look no further than Jets and Browns. Trends are not excuses. Those are bad franchises that make bad decisions and it shows.

Steelers made a bad decision by hanging on to a HC about 10 years too long.

Steelers are going to make another bad decision by rolling out Rodgers this year at QB instead of throwing Howard and Allar to the fire.

 

I agree with this, however the Browns drafted well last year and this year didn't look too bad neither. Maybe they're learning from their mistakes finally. The Jets on the other hand.... still the Jets for now.

 

That's awesome. Now explain the Giants, Arizona, Raiders, and others.
You , and your losing seasons bring you championship cronies say one thing, and then to cover your mistakes, and misconceptions then move the goal post to cover your a$$es.
All I know for a fact is this, and I don't care how You move the goal post. If You don't make the playoffs, you can't win playoff games, and you can't win a SB