If Wilson is worth resigning - and that remains to be seen - why wouldn’t the Steelers be able to do so? They’ll have plenty of cap space.
He’ll make about $50 mil in his career as a back up. Not bad.
I think he would have to get another shot at starting to make that much, hope he gets it.
they have been trying to get Ayiuk for about 3 months now so i dont think the steelers are any more comfortable with Van Jefferson at the wr2 spot than the fans are.
if they were comfortable with it, they wouldnt have offered Ayiuk 28/m a year, which they reportedly did..
I don't think SF is willing to part with Ayiuk unless it's an over the top return. The fact the Steelers keep falling back in love with a deal sort of suggests that it is still a possibility.
I'm not saying be an all pro, just saying mediocre production would have been nice.
Like winning games ?
Which let's me know you know nothing about my fraternity - so keep your lame stuff moving!
Explain your prediction earlier in this very thread that we won’t have Wilson next year because he’ll sign a big free agent deal. That doesn’t happen if he doesn’t produce this year. Pillboy is right, you’re in the wrong lane.
He used MS-dos and somehow had strong earnings to report to Wall Street. W/L are what matters most. He delivered at an elite rate.
Anyone remember the Detroit game when the WR unit Rudolph had to throw to was even worse (due to injuries)? Mason also had the terrible oline and 40 mile an hour winds and a wet football. Yinzers said he wasn’t an nfl QB. You guys said he shouldn’t even hold a clipboard. I strongly defended him and said he was certainly an NFL QB. Turns out Mason is an NFL QB afterall. I never doubted him.
You think he’s worried about his next deal ?
It seems other teams in the league agreed with the yinzers
There wasn’t much to go on. The point is you can’t expect non elite QBs to shine shit or perform with MS-DOS as was so brilliantly stated earlier by 303vsND. And not even the largest of Kenny apologists thinks Kenny is that type of QB. But he is an NFL QB you can win with if you give him the tools. Fields though? I hope so but have my doubts.
If Wilson wants to keep playing he's absolutely worried about his next deal. He doesn't want to be a low-paid backup QB. He wants to be a starter at some level of starting money.
Fields will have many of the same problems those other guys had because the Steelers were too enamored with certain skill positions to pay attention to putting talented OL-men in front of them. I don't think they fixed that in the draft but even if they luck out and those guys become legit OL-men, it will be a couple of years before they get to that level. Fields only advantage is that he can run for his life a little better than most. Unfortunately, that hasn't been a workable strategy in the NFL to this point (see Baltimore). Yes, Lamar Jackson is a two time MVP and has only put more than 24 points on the scoreboard in the playoffs once.
i always liked rudolph. just wasnt given any real shot here in pittsburgh, tomlin botched the qb situation for about 4+ years now...
I'd argue that it's been longer than that. He had a HOF type guy that he didn't know how to win with because they felt like putting deadbeats or run first guys that didn't pass block well, in front of him, was a good idea.
lol, so true. still cant believe some pitt fans are so thin skinned that they try and justify the pickett pick with saying that other people suck..
ben dinucci will probably have a longer nfl career than him
He really did, and Rudolph was set up to fail from the start. Coach Randy was best known for his “fart in a skillet” quote and not passing game innovation. Is he in football? Last I heard he wasn’t. Then we had an Ahole starting QB who saw Rudolph as a threat from day 1 and did nothing to help him. Think about starting a new career and not having a coach or a tenored coworker to lean on. Rudolph is what he is, an NFL backup by every definition of the term. His job is to come in and win games if called upon and he can do it. All credit to him. The Steelers failed him.
i see soo many glaring issues with tomlin and this staff, annually. i know we all hated canada and deservedly so but it goes so much deeper than that.
Yeah it’s been a little harsh. I really don’t know how anyone can absolve Kenny yet say that Fields is terrible. My position is both are unfinished products. Fields needs to protect the football. Kenny needs to do a better job getting rid of the football when he has a pass rush. Both can be fixed. Consistent OL play and experience will help Kenny but he’s already shown to be a winner. And believe it or not I think Tomlin can be the best coach for Fields because we know how Tomlin hates turnovers. If he can limit them, his legs will more than make up for his accuracy issues and maybe he too can show he’s a winner.
im with you FK, pretty much spot on. man oh man, i feel like Fields (if/when he plays) will make us love him and hate him, a few times, every game..
Maybe. But in his only game after Canada was fired, he averaged over 8 yards per throw. Small sample size, just as last weeks game was
i always say this, how many actual good qbs just had a career ruined, squandered because they were drafted on bad teams and thrown to the wolves way too early, ruining any chance of success??
