Rodgers is coming back

Given the magnitude of the guaranteed money I suspect Rooney was heavily involved with the decision.

 

There's nothing wrong with him starting say the first 6 games.
There's nothing wrong with him being the starter and then being overtaken. (Ex: We are sputtering on offense, and Howard or Allar are practicing well)
At 43, there's a high probability of injury.....
So, that statement carries so many possibilities.

 

Interesting that you had very similar tone in 2023 and were convinced that he would fail before he came and had the best numbers of any qb in the nfl over 3 games. He’s been unlucky to have terrible talent and coaching around him in Tennessee and his first year of starting. He had concussion yes, but before his bad game against Cincinnati there was a national controversy about him being a racist.That would play on any 23 year old mind. He also had two of his best weapons out for Cleveland and Cincinnati game Juju and Connor (rb) were hurt. Anyways I think he is as good or better than quite a few qb in the league. I throw out the game against Cleveland and Cincinnati in 2023 because lack of weapons and racism controversy. If you throw those two games out his qb rating is in 90’s which is what an average qb in an nfl does. Elite is high 90’s or above hundred. He’s not the long term solution but much cheaper option and just as good an option than let’s say Jacoby Brisset or even almost 43 year old Rodgers. He has moments where he looks elite and moments where he looks very bad rather than someone who is just average all the time. His elite moments is what makes him attractive to me. If he can minimize the bad moments by getting good coaching he can have a Geno Smith type resurgence ( not a good analogy as Geno Smith went bad again , but getting point across)

 

4 days have gone by

Can most of us agree now 93.7 is not a valuable source of accurate information

 

They said he was coming to Pittsburgh I think him signing was speculation. From the sounds of it his agent is in talks trying to agree on term.

 

Just like every other source with a social media handle.

 

He has never been elite, not even in that three-game stretch in 2023. He threw three touchdowns in three games. That is not elite.

The true hypocrisy in your posts is how you want to make every excuse for Rudolph, like talking about teammates missing a game, but ignore things like the Bengals being an utter disaster by that point in the 2023 season or the Ravens sitting their top defenders two weeks later.

I honestly don't remember what I said about him having to step in to start for those games. My guess is that I was fine with benching Trubisky, but wasn't confident in Rudolph because I understand that he isn't good.

There is absolutely nothing in Rudolph's eight years in the NFL that indicates he can do even what Geno Smith did with the Seahawks.

 

And is this “sounds of it” from a reliable source

As far as him coming to Pittsburgh he appears to own a home near here

Maybe he is just doing spring cleaning and yard work

And the OP was not speculation it clearly stated he was coming back and was doing so to sign a contract

 

Trust me I hope they are wrong I want no part of him back here.

 

Agree to disagree

I think he can teach the young guys a lot

And what is up with all of the double posting on the board now

 

they said he also left a car here and didn't clean out his locker. maybe he needed his deodorant.

 

Just another wasted year without seeing if either of these young QBs are capable at all. To be fair to Allar he isn’t ready yet obviously but we won’t know about Howard either then at the draft what do we do?

 

I tried saying that a long time ago that they were like everyone else that makes money off of talking about a team. It's mainly about the clicks/views/listens, but some take everything said as gospel. If You say enough stuff eventually you will be right

 

If you lie enough eventually you will get elected

 

How do you figure that

I already posted how this could work well

 

We as fans may not Know , but the Coaches will have a very good ideal.. MM has already stated that Howard will be a starter in this league, now will he be good enough for MM ? He has a season to show him.. Our other young QB is already on the radar for how well he is throwing it,,he has a year to show his growth..

MM will know more about these 2 in his system than any QB he can draft next season .. IMO MM is not like Tomlin he expects a lot out of practice and a lot from his QB'S and WR'S in their drills and individual work .. MM also wants his guys to be gurus of his system and what Defenses are trying to do as such the People making the picks will know how close or how far they are away..

 

NEAT

 

I bring up legitimate reasons. Oh btw he beat the same Geno Smith in Seattle when Seattle was fighting for a playoff spot. He has always beaten up on Cinci’s defense. Even playing for hapless Tennessee he scored 27 points in a loss. You have to be a fool to think that racism row didn’t have an effect on his performance. This after he had beaten them handily earlier in the Anyways his stats with the Steelers after 2023 places him amongst very capable qb’s. Hopefully he gets his shot to start and gets to prove his haters wrong.

 

How do I figure that? Did you watch Rodgers last year vs any Defense worth a ****.

The mentorship part might be true but it still won’t let us see what these young guys have in real games. Pre Season is useless for evaluating players as it’s 3rd stringers and no game plans.

The team needs to accept we can’t compete for a championship with washed up old Vet QBs. Turn the page already.

 

He won 3 in a row in 2023 and since then has lost 5 out of his last 6 starts. Tommy Devito, Duck Hodges and many other backup QB's have won 3 games in a row before crashing back to earth.

 

He really didn’t crash back to earth. He was elite against Cincinnati and average against the Bears last year. Probably would have tied the game on last drive against the Bears if there wasn’t a holding call away from the play when he ran for first down. Those others don’t have pedigree of being considered the best qb in college during his senior year. He got some golden arm trophy given to best college qb that year. He led Titans to two of the three wins they had that season ( He didn’t get credit for win against Miami because Levis started the game but was injured early in the game. In two other losses he led the hapless Titans to 27 and 30 points Titans defense was giving up long drives and had given up for the season. He would have a wins if defense was halfway decent. In fact Titan team was historically ****ty as they won only 1 game the following year with Cam Ward, the #1 overall pick. It’s a team game.

 

Well I see you completely missed the point

 

No, I bring up legitimate reasons. You start making up mental trauma.

Quarterbacks don't go one-on-one with the opposing quarterback. His running game trampled the Seahawks with Rudolph along for the ride.

Yes, he has feasted on the Bengals. As I said, what few good moments he has had came against terrible defenses, which is what the Bengals have had through most of his career. Thank you for helping prove my point.

 

He came into a game the Steelers were already winning against arguably the worst defense in the NFL, a game they won because the defense added two scores, and that's your evidence of greatness. Tha'ts some funny stuff.

 

More important was the blow to his unprotected head at the end of that Browns game. Another head trauma a month after a severe concussion. Repeated head blows accumulates damage.
Head trauma can have lingering effects, even if the player is still medically cleared to play.
In 2006 Ben was (after his motorcycle accident) starting by game 2. He went 7-8, despite Cowher coaching and it being the season after their SB run.

That wasn't the same team as the previous season that went 12-4 with Burrow, but yelling "utter disaster" over and over seems like hyperbole.
At that point of the season, the Bengals were 8-6, and had won their previous 3 games. Two of those wins were vs Colts and Jaguars. (Both finished with winning records, so were meaningful wins.)

The Bengals only had 4 games all season where the opposing teams scored 30+ points.
No other team scored more than the Mason-led Steelers (34) all season.
If it was just a below-average QB "feasting" on a weak defense, then I would have expected the Mahomes-led Chiefs (who won the SB that season) to score more than 25 points vs. the Bengals.

Mason won't be good enough to put up massive stats to carry the team, but the offense as a whole seems to perform well with him. He can hold down the fort until Allar or Howard show they've fixed their fundamentals enough to take over.

You are holding Mason's 1-4 record in TEN against him.
No one was winning with that team. (Levis was 3-6 in 2023. Then with the offense organized for Levis, he went 2-10 the year Rudolph was on TEN.)
Two of the four losses were Buffalo (13-4) and Detroit (15-2), top 4 teams. Rodgers in his prime couldn't have lifted that Titans team over those two.

Sam Darnold went 13-25 with the Jets, 8-9 with Carolina, and 0-1 with SF.
He also went 14-3 with MIN and 14-3 with SEA.
Sometimes the team makes the difference.

For all the grumbling about the 2019 season, Mason did have a 5-3 record in his starts, despite the offense focused for Ben in the offseason.
Without Mason getting those 2 head blows, Duck probably doesn't see the field and Mason goes 10-4 as a starter (largely due to that top 5 defense).
Even with that one bad game at Cleveland skewing his stats, Mason was better at Duck for TD%, INT%, yards/game, and sack%.
He would still lose to the NFC champion 49ers in his first start, the away game at Cleveland (every QB craps the bed sometime), and probably both Ravens games. But the Bills and Jets game were winnable if the Duck-led offense scored more than 10 points in 6 quarters (which an uninjured Mason could do).