10-25-2022, 10:14 AM
(10-24-2022, 11:02 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I was perusing the Steelers board (I look around the division), and there were reasonable people but there was also that group that says he doesn't "it", "we have to draft a QB next year" and I wanted to join up just to call them stupid. He may end up not being the guy but damn.
Yep. We have some real fucknuggets as fans. Delusional, idiotic, moronic....etc. The sense of entitlement, expectation of perfection, and lack of patience runs high. So much so, that the idiocy of taking back to back first round QBs doesn't matter to them. They literally can't see the complete lunacy of doing such a thing and don't even realize that that pick could be a miss also.
It's completely unreasonable to expect a rookie to come in and play lights out right away, but not with our fans. Big Ben spoiled them.
Fellow Steeler fans reading this, don't take this personal, but in general our Yinzer fanbase is the absolute worst.
(10-24-2022, 11:05 AM)TecmoBengals Wrote: Their posts are indicative of contemporary NFL practices. Developmental QB projects aren't really a thing anymore. It's now draft a QB and hope you have a stud. If he's not an elite guy quickly getting a team to the playoffs, then the organization moves on. Organizations move on faster now even if a guy gets to the playoffs but doesn't seem to have Super Bowl stuff.
It's wild!
(10-24-2022, 02:42 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yep it's nothing like it used to be. Every QB or so very nearly every QB was drafted knowing he was going to be groomed two seasons maybe three before he took the helm.
Now ?? If you ain't able to hit the ground running you're crap. And there's a lot of QB's that just aren't ready that fast.
This ^^^
IMO Big Ben had much to do with this shift in thinking. He was the most successful rookie QB since Marino, and ever since people expect it, thinking that he was the norm rather than an anomaly.
Fact is that the 2003 6-10 Steelers were actually a pretty good team that was plagued by injuries allowing them to be in position to draft Ben. When he got there, he was surrounded by a team that the typical #11 pick doesn't have. They were able to coddle and develop him while they were winning. Eventually, he did develop into one of the best, but early on it was more about the team around him.
