Kugler IS the O-line coach after all ...

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Re: Kugler IS the O-line coach after all ...

The Steelers draft the best player available based on their ratings of the players. Except in the case when there's a player on the board that they really covet (see Troy Polamalu and Santonio Holmes) then they will make a move to obtain the player and fill a need. The BPA has not been an offensive lineman in the years that Tomlin has been the coach.

This draft process and signing your own free agents that you would pursue if they were in the FA market is how the Steelers run their organization and that isn't changing. Why should it? it's been fairly successful don't you think?

You hear the media-idiots say that the Steelers didn't do anything in FA, then I have a question. If Taylor, Woodley, Timmons and Woodley hit the FA market would they be Steelers? No, we'd be looking at Worilds on the outside, Mundy and Allen as safeties and Gay and Mcfadden as cornerbacks, how would that work out for the Steelers?

The Steelers made some decisions for this year and next believing that they had an opportunity to get back to the Super Bowl. It may not work out, but we don't know yet. If it doesn't, the Steelers will accept their decisions and move forward with trying to build the team, if it does, then great, it worked.

I doubt the Steelers fire or release anyone if this season goes south, they'll accept their decisions and try to correct them like sane people, they aren't firing Tomlin, Lebeau, and Arians and then release Woodley, Smith, Timmons and anyone else that the fans perceive as disposable.

They will evaluate the state of the team in the off season and out together a plan to rebuild or retool. It's like some of you just started being a fan of the Steelers just before the Raven debacle this year.

Pappy

This kind of analysis and logic is refreshing. I always feel that this is the kind of thinking that Steelers fans should have. Every year is not going to be a successful season.
Even if this season doesn't go as expected, I still feel this team still has a solid core of players to remain competitive for the next 3 to 4 seasons.

[papillon]

Re: Kugler IS the O-line coach after all ...

The Steelers may draft BPA but their selection an development of OL outside of Pouncey has been attrocious. I don't think anyone is questioning Timmons, Woodley, Troy etc in this thread. It's Legursky, Scott, Kemo, Essex, etc... and what he have done with them once they land on the starting OL that has me shakng my head. These guys look horrible. Other teams are selecting similar talent and getting much better results.

I know play calling and QB/RB decisions play a part but there are plenty of times our guys are blocking no one, looking inside to help while their guy runs upfield for a free shot. What is Kemo looking at when they stunt? It's like he has tunnel vision... where is the push 3 yards down field that other teams are getting on Smith and Hood? I just want to see hat on hat for a good 5 yards. If that's asking for too much then we really do have OL coaching problems.

No, there's someone jumping into thread after thread telling us that Batch is a better option than Ben, others are saying that Timmons and Woodley were wasted money and that Taylor while playing well is an average cornerback and that Troy is overrated. It's not only the Legursky, Scott, Kemo, etc that are being questioned.

Pappy