‘Neither QB Will Succeed With The Current Talent’: The Athletic Ranks Steelers’ Roster No. 22 In NFL
April 18, 2024
‘Neither QB Will Succeed With The Current Talent’: The Athletic Ranks Steelers’ Roster No. 22 In NFL
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I’m just kinda confused by this? I dont think our roster is top ten, but 22nd? What the hell
This is a bait headline. That line is one part of a paragraph that, much like the rest of the article, is vague word salad that the writer believes makes him sound informed.
This is all conjecture. Not one solid point in here besides what we’re interested in pursuing in the upcoming draft.
Well they are evaluating a roster that has literal holes at C and WR2 and 3, as well as CB, so all things considered 22 seems high. Damn shame there isn’t an influx of young talent any time soon…
Neither one succeeded with their former team either.
This seems like a weird thing to publish right before the draft…granted, rookies are by no means a guaranteed uptick in productivity, but neither are trades or free agents.
Plus, free agency and the trade period are ongoing, who knows who might be picked up from the current pool of talent.
They ranked the rams 30 last year.
The harsh truth is that this probably isn’t far off from reality.
I HOPE it’s wrong, but signing a QB on the backside of his career and another one that has underwhelmed isn’t going to be a silver bullet. And who knows what the line is going to end up looking like.
The Steelers just have clear holes in positions like WR and C without a known good QB. While they are expected to draft to WR and C it isn’t surprising that these things push the roster towards a worse ranking.
I mean with the current roster as of April 18th at 9:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, I’d say this is a fairly accurate assessment. We have no WR2, WR3, or C, and we need to upgrade T, CB, and DL at a minimum
Ranking rosters *before* the draft and training camp makes absolutely no sense. These kinds of articles are much better and usually have some deeper analysis when they are released after the 53 man rosters are finalized and we’re like 1 week out from the start of the season.
I don’t disagree necessarily, but what is this guy’s “model”? He purports to “use[] advanced statistical models and simulations to predict outcomes and rate performances in the NFL, college football, MLB and other sports.” But if you are not showing me the model, I am not interested in seeing it. I don’t have an Athletic subscription, so maybe it is easy to find with that.
The offensive line befuddling this team for so long now is ridiculous.
Munch was not some wizard. Munch was not a deity. Munch was a failed head coach with a spotty track record before and after he gently guided a bunch of our first and second round picks to success!
David DeCastro and Maurkice Pouncey were first round fucking picks.
Before Broderick Jones joined their ranks 12 years later @ 14 we drafted:
Kendrick Green @ 87 Chuks @ 92
Then you go all the way fucking back to DeCastro @ 24 in 20-fucking-12.
It is a lost generation of Pittsburgh football. We did Ben a total disservice. We set Kenny up to fail. Now we expect the ghost of Russell Wilson and another failed Bears QB to guide us up the stairway to 7?Fuckin’ stinks!
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I’m just kinda confused by this? I dont think our roster is top ten, but 22nd? What the hell
This is a bait headline. That line is one part of a paragraph that, much like the rest of the article, is vague word salad that the writer believes makes him sound informed.
This is all conjecture. Not one solid point in here besides what we’re interested in pursuing in the upcoming draft.
Well they are evaluating a roster that has literal holes at C and WR2 and 3, as well as CB, so all things considered 22 seems high. Damn shame there isn’t an influx of young talent any time soon…
Neither one succeeded with their former team either.
This seems like a weird thing to publish right before the draft…granted, rookies are by no means a guaranteed uptick in productivity, but neither are trades or free agents.
Plus, free agency and the trade period are ongoing, who knows who might be picked up from the current pool of talent.
They ranked the rams 30 last year.
The harsh truth is that this probably isn’t far off from reality.
I HOPE it’s wrong, but signing a QB on the backside of his career and another one that has underwhelmed isn’t going to be a silver bullet. And who knows what the line is going to end up looking like.
The Steelers just have clear holes in positions like WR and C without a known good QB. While they are expected to draft to WR and C it isn’t surprising that these things push the roster towards a worse ranking.
I mean with the current roster as of April 18th at 9:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, I’d say this is a fairly accurate assessment. We have no WR2, WR3, or C, and we need to upgrade T, CB, and DL at a minimum
Ranking rosters *before* the draft and training camp makes absolutely no sense. These kinds of articles are much better and usually have some deeper analysis when they are released after the 53 man rosters are finalized and we’re like 1 week out from the start of the season.
I don’t disagree necessarily, but what is this guy’s “model”? He purports to “use[] advanced statistical models and simulations to predict outcomes and rate performances in the NFL, college football, MLB and other sports.” But if you are not showing me the model, I am not interested in seeing it. I don’t have an Athletic subscription, so maybe it is easy to find with that.
The offensive line befuddling this team for so long now is ridiculous.
Munch was not some wizard. Munch was not a deity. Munch was a failed head coach with a spotty track record before and after he gently guided a bunch of our first and second round picks to success!
David DeCastro and Maurkice Pouncey were first round fucking picks.
Before Broderick Jones joined their ranks 12 years later @ 14 we drafted:
Kendrick Green @ 87
Chuks @ 92
Then you go all the way fucking back to DeCastro @ 24 in 20-fucking-12.
It is a lost generation of Pittsburgh football. We did Ben a total disservice. We set Kenny up to fail. Now we expect the ghost of Russell Wilson and another failed Bears QB to guide us up the stairway to 7?Fuckin’ stinks!