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Steelers Sign Rodgers, Shift Standards and Strategy for NFL
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6/9/2025
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obviously uh he signed the deal finally and you know everybody's uh on board now that he's going
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to be the Steelers quarterback you wrote about it and uh basically in not so many words you said
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they lowered their standards to do it oh I think I said they abandoned their standards to do it
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Scott I lowered maybe too too gentle a way to to put it this is not like anything they've done
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before and and there are some who would point to the fact that they have not won a playoff game
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in eight seasons and say well good they needed a change uh but I think the fact that they have
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had one losing season in this century says they didn't need this kind of change Aaron Rodgers
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history of cooperation cooperation with his coaches is not elite uh with his teammates is
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middling uh I with with with putting himself above all others is extraordinary and I don't see how
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that fits in any way to what the Steelers have been for the last 55 years and what's made them
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basically if you look at if you break it down just about every other way it's been the most successful
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franchise in the NFL since the 1970 merger between the AFL and NFL and they've had three coaches for a
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reason because they win and they haven't won big lately and that's because they haven't had great
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quarterback play but I don't think getting the guy who led the the Jets to what five and 12 last year
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is necessarily going to change that yeah I mean look uh I actually and you wrote about Justin Fields
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and a lot of his teammates really liked him and liked the way he worked and I liked the way he played
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and I I think you know I went to a few of the games and he went four and two in those six games that he
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started and then he turned around and got you know whatever 40 million and 75 percent of it I think you
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wrote guaranteed in that deal with the Jets I guess we'll find out in short order uh who's got the
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better deal because they're playing each other in week one now look I I have to get did would you have
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rather had Fields or Wilson obviously over this guy uh would are you on the side of Fields or Wilson I
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thought Wilson was terrible in December well he was but the the challenge was monstrous and just about
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anybody would have done the same or similar against that that stretch and then uh the the challenge of
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dealing with Arthur Smith in the Cincinnati game that closed the regular season was even worse than having
02:40
to try to go against Baltimore's defense or Philly's defense uh is Arthur Smith's game plan for the bank
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the second Bengals game was beyond atrocious it was I think maybe juvenile would be a good word
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uh for what they did in that game uh outside of the end of half two minute drill and the late comeback
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attempt that they had where they started to throw the ball because they had no choice
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they ran the ball on 11 out of 12 first downs without any success I think they had two
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runs of longer than four yards in those 11 so what are you doing so you can't blame Russ for that
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uh so I I my feeling was commit to Justin Fields tailor your offense to what makes him exceptional
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and then find find a quarterback in the 2026 draft that was my preference and at the numbers the Jets
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paid I think that was a fair preference if you didn't want to tinker with your offense and you
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wanted to continue to go down what you did last year then bringing Russ back with a year's experience
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uh would have been preferable to bringing in this guy I know there were there were reports that some
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of the people inside the organization uh didn't connect with Russ to put it nicely uh but I don't
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think any of them are going to connect with this guy because this guy's not interested in that
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