I wouldn't have a problem with Jones.. but please, please, please pick up Ertz in the second. We need playmakers on O.
I wouldn't have a problem with Jones.. but please, please, please pick up Ertz in the second. We need playmakers on O.
I think that you can disregard the "Lebeau doesn't let them play for two years" argument here. There are usually two overriding factors behind why our D players can't get on the field right away:
1) They have to learn a new position and scheme
2) There are already superior vets in front of them
Hood and Heyward had Smith and Keisel in place ahead of them. Hood was new to the 3-4. Timmons was moving inside in a 3-4 to from outside in a 4-3. etc...
In this case, you would have a player coming in who was a 3-4 OLB in college. He is not coming in behind 5 time pro-bowler, two time all pro, former DPOY James Harrison. He would come in and compete with a group that includes Worilds, Robinson, and Carter. A group with 13 combined career starts.
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
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DeVille's Early April Mock (In Progress)
1.20 - Kool-Aid McKinstry, CB, Alabama
2.51 - Roman Wilson, WR, Michigan
3.84 -Sedrick Van Pran-Granger, C, Georgia
3.98 -<tbd>
4.117 - Maason Smith, DT, LSU
6.178 - Travis Glover, OT, Ga State
6.195 - Dillon Johnson, RB, Washington
Has anyone mentioned that Tyler Eiffert is available in the draft this year? I hear he's a pretty good tight end.
Pappy
1.20 - JC Latham, OT, Alabama
2.51 - Xavier leggette, WR, South Carolina
3.84 - Sedrick Van-Pran Granger, OC, Georgia
3.98 - Andru Phillips, CB, Kentucky
4.119 - Maason Smith, DT, LSU
7.178 -
7.195 -
"Football is a physical game, well, it used to be anyways" - Mel Blount
You repeat this as though it is a given fact, but it's simply not true. Guys who have proven ready to play early have played early. Those that have not been ready have not played.
Woodley contributed in his first year and started in his second. Cortez Allen has contributed in his first two years. Many players throughout the league do not make major impacts until their second year, regardless of defensive system.
And many offensive players (outside of RBs) contribute nothing as rookies.
Stop introducing logic into the discussion a rookie should never have to wait a couple of years to play and, particularly, a 1st round rookie. He should be inserted into the lineup immediately, many teams do this every year and are successful from what I hear.
Pappy
1.20 - JC Latham, OT, Alabama
2.51 - Xavier leggette, WR, South Carolina
3.84 - Sedrick Van-Pran Granger, OC, Georgia
3.98 - Andru Phillips, CB, Kentucky
4.119 - Maason Smith, DT, LSU
7.178 -
7.195 -
"Football is a physical game, well, it used to be anyways" - Mel Blount
Exactly! If Jones is drafted by the Steelers at 17, he comes in and starts from day one regardless of what this organization has done in the past. In this case, the history of what this origination has done draft-wise does not come into play because of the factors you point too.
Steelers 2015 Draft???....Go Freak! As in....
1-Bernardrick McKinney MLB Mississippi State 6 ft 5 250 4.5 40 yard dash
Moore and Jones both have work ethic problems. Don't want either one of them at 17. More money isn't going to give them better work ethics. Money just makes you more of what you are.
Call me crazy, but I'm taking Tank Carradine at 17. He is a top 10 pick any other year. He's going to sit for a year in Lebeau's system even if he was healthy.
Take him at 17 and get a stud for years to come.
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Last edited by BigRob; 04-04-2013 at 01:45 PM.
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