Steelers’ Thursday night QB rotation

An intelligent well thought response is requested @Joel Buchsbaum

 

I get that it seems that way. And I think it probably would be closer to the truth if we didn't have a big overhaul in the coaching staff.

Presumably, we'll be more aggressive offensively (hard to be less aggressive).

On offense, we'll probably "play to win" than we have in the past...where we were probably playing not to beat ourselves for most of the game in the hopes that we could then close out close games at the end. I think we had one of the better records in the league in close games in recent years...which is better than what people would assume from our talent.

We'll likely play more to win on offense under MM. This maybe gives us a better chance to develop QBs (hopefully). But it's also likely to lead to more mistakes. And more "beating ourselves".

It's probably a better strategy when you have a better QB. And maybe also true when you're trying to develop a QB (and you don't necessarily care about this year's record).

But it's probably not a strategy where you can sign a guy like Duck off the street and have him go 3-3 in the NFL.

Hopefully it's better in the medium term though!

 

I think it's only really an issue if Rodgers is hurt for a short period of time. Because if he's out for a while, we're probably missing the playoffs anyway.

If we're in a place where we have to start Mason in the playoffs against Mahomes / Allen / Jackson / Burrow / Maye / Nix / Stroud / Lawrence / Herbert / etc., then we're probably cooked (without a DTD or something....although we still got smoked by KC with Ben when we did get a DTD!).

In that case, it's probably better to just play the young guys IMO.

But if we lost Rodgers for something like 1-4 games mid-season, the team will probably want to have Mason around. If it's an average set of 4 games, Mason probably gives us a reasonable chance to win 2-3 games in a 4 game stretch. Where you're probably thinking 1-2 games with one of the mystery boxes.

And if we make the playoffs, the margin will likely be thin. So the difference in a 1-4 game stretch like that between Mason and Howard/Allar could easily be the difference between making and missing the playoffs.

Personally, I'd prefer possible QB development over another WC loss. But my guess is that Rooney feels the exact opposite way.

 

Mason Rudolph's last win as a Steeler was 3 years ago against Tyler Huntley and the rest of Raven's backups. Since then he has started 7 NFL games and lost 6 of them. He is not a short term, mid term or long term answer at QB.

 

McCarthy and company are putting on a clinic on how to run a QB competition. There's a lot of coaches who attempt to run QB competitions, however many of them screw it up. This one is being handled shrewdly thus far.

First off none of the QBs were poor in the first preseason outing, which demonstrates they're getting excellent coaching and preparation. Allar in particular has made a lot of strides with his mechanics, which I found very surprising on top of that. But right out the gate the coaching deserves credit for sure.

Secondly the changes made going into the next game show a decisive and immediate reward for Allar for being the best QB on the field. And while none of them were poor, he was certainly the best of them, and now he's going to jump Howard, which puts major heat on him. Using results as your metric is the way.

As simple as this is, what it does is it sets up the next game to have the most competition from these QBs. They're going to be more prone to push the envelope. Especially Howard, who is not going to be able to dink and dunk his way out of this by throwing screens and pop passes and hoping for explosive runs by the backs. Now if by some miracle Allar continues playing how he did then they may start thinking "why not make the kid the QB2?" And it is a possibility, since they could cut the other two and know at least one of them will be available to move to the PS.

But either way going into the next game we have a lot to look forward to just with this QB room. This is fun.

 

He did lose games on a team that was trying to lose games.

His record with the Steelers is 8-5-1. Though this was under the previous coaching regime with a "try not to lose" mentality.

• 2019 5-3-0 (certainly helped by great defense this year)
• 2020 0-1-0
• 2021 0-0-1
• 2023 3-0-0 <-- Looked like a low end starter here, which is why he got the job in TEN...where the goal was to lose.
• 2025 0-1-0 (lost his only start 38-31. Across the 5 games he played in: 38/52, 310, 2 TDs, but 2 INTs too)

 

I asked the girl at the gas station for a winning lottery ticket

 

Are you talking about yourself?
Mine was a joke. I throw like a girl. If my throwing strength, and motion was the only thing to use in sports I would have never been able to play anything.
I remember in the 8th grade them asking who would like to play Qb, and I raised my hand with dreams of being the next Bradshaw, two ,or 3 passes later Coach Carmelli said ah no move to the otherside of the field. Then my dreams of being the next Mel Blount started. LoL
Throwing is for sissies. LoL

 

Out of all the Qbs on the team besides Rodgers who have You seen throw TDs in a real NFL game??
Out of all the Qbs on the team besides Rodgers who have you seen actually have a team scheme against them, and they actually win the game??
Out of all the Qbs on the team besides Rodgers who have you ever seen throw tds in a playoff game??
Now with all that said, who do You think a HC that is on his 3rd team because he's been fired from two others is going to want to back up his 42 year old Qb this year??
I would say either Mason, or a different experienced backup Qb.

 

I know in that playoff game Mason threw a killer pick in the end zone that killed all chances of winning the game.

 

Some are afraid to try to be better.....

No risk it,no biscuit