Ravens @ Steelers game thread

You're welcome to feel how you want regarding Trubisky and, while I don't agree, I respect your insight.

However, the above statement is something that I'm completely against considering the present state of the Steelers. If Ben was still playing and this team had a chance of success, then fine. But they don't. Not with Mitch, Mason, or even Kenny. They need film on Pickett and they need it as soon as possible. He struggles but he's a rookie. His career arc is at a different point than Mitch Trubisky. I'm willing to forego some immediate success if it may mean experience for someone the team is invested in. Time has proven Trubisky is not the answer anywhere but we don't know that with Pickett.

I say, let him play. Warts and all.

 

I have to stand on my opinion from the preseason that Mason should have been named the starter.

I have yet to see any compelling evidence to the contrary.

Let the arrows and slings fly, but I am not backing down on that position.

 

You might get your wish next week.

 

I think the Steelers will do everything they can to keep from having Mason play at any point this season. I would truly be surprised if they were to decide to put him in the game, even if Mitch goes out and lays the largest eggs in the history of the coop.

If they suit Rudolph up and he goes out and plays better than either Mitch or Ken has this season, then there will be questions they have to answer that could simply be avoided by not playing him.

 

If the Steelers brass thinks like that. Then they deserve whatever misfortune befalls them.

 

Typically, I wouldn't necessarily see this particular coaching staff/front office in as cynical of a light, but I think it's a valid question considering the rhetoric around letting it be an open competition at passer before the season started.

I believed the coaching staff was being sincere, Beach believed they were not, and that Mitch had already been anointed.

He was right, I was wrong, and I think the Steelers royally screwed the pooch by taking that approach.

I called the Trubisky signing before it happened, and I went on record that Mason would win an open competition outright within that building.

There's not an argument I've read that will convince me that Mason should not have had an opportunity to start for the Steelers.

With that being said, even if Rudolph started, I still would have had the Steelers as a likely 6-win team on the season. Pittsburgh still has some roster building to do in order to be considered a potential Super bowl candidate in the AFC again.

 

I just had to make sure I read this right the first time. "Best the passing game has looked this year" = 3 INT's, including two in the redzone. You can't fix stupid.

 

I actually thought that Rudolph should have strarted the season until they felt Pickett was ready. I really didn’t like the signing of Trubisky. Saw enough in Chicago. ​

 

@Campbell

With Kenny Pickett's status uncertain (concussion), third-string QB Mason Rudolph hoping for opportunity to play

With Kenny Pickett's status uncertain, Steelers' Mason Rudolph welcomes possible chance to play

via cbssportsapp.com

 

I get that you have an issue with Beach, but stalking his and SAS posts seems beyond petty at this point.

 

I’d be surprised if he has done anything less than try to improve his game while waiting to find out what jersey he will be wearing next season.

 

I think the approach was sound. Sign a vet with undetermined upside (outside of CHI), draft a rookie (if not for Haskins tragic demise, Olodakun’s pick is not required), and let them compete for the job.

The moment they put the thumb on the scale they stepped in the wrong direction.

 

I don't stalk anyone's posts. I check in here when Trubisky shits the bed to commiserate with everyone else who knows what it's like to suffer with him at QB. I can't help it that beachbum took personal shots at Bears fans and others over his repeatedly proclaimed Nostradamus prediction of Trubisky's success, and then says stupid stuff in defense of it. "Target rich environment", one might say.

 

I get it, but your problem with those two has run out of the general boards and into their team boards.

Just doesn’t make sense to keep it up anymore.

 

I would have preferred to Pickett. But I disagree. We saw Mason play. That was enough for me.

 

Ha I can guess who this is. Not sorry I didn't read it.

 

And his age 24 season was better than Ken’s at this point.

To say let one grow into it but the other showed us all he is doesn’t work, IMO.

Geno Smith has a reminder for everyone that their career doesn’t end because one team, or a fan base, says it has.

 

He should get another chance. Hopefully he makes the best of it. I'm hoping like hell Pickett is the answer but it doesn't look promising to me. Ceiling just too low.