Build your Steelers team (a fun game?)

[Northern_Blitz]

[Northern_Blitz]

Original answer
Ben ($5)
Swann ($4)
Stallworth ($4)
Warren ($1)
Muth ($1)

I'm building a team for the current NFL where passing is king.

Can still run with Warren, but he's also a good pass blocker and can catch out of the backfield. Just like real football, I don't want to use much cap space on the RB position.

I would have liked to take Bell because I think he's tremendous value here. In his prime, he's a better back than Bettis for the current NFL IMO. Maybe then downgrade at WR to Lipps (who I didn't really watch play in real-time much)?

I think PF is better than his stats show and if the QB play was better he'd have better numbers.

Also could have gone with Brown and Holmes at WR for the same price. Pickens is maybe too cheal?

Final answer?
Ben ($5)
Brown ($5)
Pickens ($1)
Bell ($3)
Muth ($1)

Here's how I upgraded from Warren to Bell. WR is a little worse, but Pickens has upside. And I don't have to pay Bell to be RB1 and WR2

[WindyCitySteel]

Ha, this is cool.

TB ($4), Bell ($3), Lipps ($2), Holmes ($3), Green ($3)

Can run or throw out of any formation.

[feltdizz]

TB
Bell
Holmes
Pickens
Cunningham

This was tough because I had 5 dollars left and needed a WR and a TE from the last 2 rows. I feel like Pickens can block like Hines but is a better deep threat on short throws.

[T.Ferguson]

KP shouldn't be on here, instead I'm replacing him with Bubby for 1 who I shall take

Bubby - 1
Hines - 5
Brown - 5
Bell - 3
Muth - 1

[flippy]

Final answer?
Ben ($5)
Brown ($5)
Pickens ($1)
Bell ($3)
Muth ($1)

This was the first answer I came up with and believe is the only correct answer.

But then my second thought is, if we used our money on Dirt, Faneca, Decastro, Marvel Smith, and Broderick, then it wouldn?t matter which skill players we put behind them.

Kordell and Bell running behind that line would be electric. Hines blocking for them downfield would be epic. Maybe plug in Juju for another big body that likes to block downfield. Eric Green is the other super low cost vs potential guy on the board and he?s a monster TE that would help that running game.

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

Original answer

Final answer?
Ben ($5)
Brown ($5)
Pickens ($1)
Bell ($3)
Muth ($1)

Here's how I upgraded from Warren to Bell. WR is a little worse, but Pickens has upside. And I don't have to pay Bell to be RB1 and WR2

Nice, I went Warren and Green instead of Muth and Bell, but can go either way on that one. I believe Ben, Brown and Pickens (or possibly Ju Ju but I'd stick with Pickens) is the first three answers.

[Northern_Blitz]

This was the first answer I came up with and believe is the only correct answer.

The offense we had with slash and spreading it out with 5 WRs was probably the most innovative offense I've ever seen us have.

I could use that money to increase from Muth to Green. I'd like to get Heat
But then my second thought is, if we used our money on Dirt, Faneca, Decastro, Marvel Smith, and Broderick, then it wouldn?t matter which skill players we put behind them.

Kordell and Bell running behind that line would be electric. Hines blocking for them downfield would be epic. Maybe plug in Juju for another big body that likes to block downfield. Eric Green is the other super low cost vs potential guy on the board and he?s a monster TE that would help that running game.

I also toyed with the idea of putting Neil in at QB to free up $2. I think he might be the best value QB because most hate him for the SB performance.

That offense was so good when we had Slash and we would spread guys out 5 wide.

But not sure what I'd do with the extra money. I guess having Holmes could be better than Pickens. Upgrading from Pickens to Holmes? Or maybe Muth to Green?

My heart wants to somehow get Heath on the team. But there's just no way that it's worth it to spend as much on a TE as we would on QB.

[Northern_Blitz]

Nice, I went Warren and Green instead of Muth and Bell, but can go either way on that one. I believe Ben, Brown and Pickens (or possibly Ju Ju but I'd stick with Pickens) is the first three answers.

Ya..both $1 WRs seem like really good value to me if we get Juju at his prime. Just don't make Juju your MVP if you already have Mr. Big Chest

I think Green is a good pick too. But TE seems to be the least valuable position on this list to me, so I went with the $1 guy.

If I made the game up, I think I'd probably have the QBs start at $10 and go down by $2 each because QBs are just so valuable compared to other positions. Doing that makes decisions much harder. Because if you take Ben (or TB), then you are forced to pick the other guys from the bottom of the list (although I think we have a good group of "skill players" and they're all $1 except Najee).

If that was how the game worked, I think maybe I'd do this:
Neil O'Donnel ($6)
Bell ($3)
Holmes ($3)
Pickens ($1)

But that only gets me from Muth to Bruner. Maybe I cold go with Plex and Pickens and get to Green?

Or keep Muth and have to make the difficult choice or Stallworth over Swann? But I didn't watch those teams all that much. I don't know which is the "better" choice between the $4 WRs.

[Eich]

Being a QB driven league, I don't know how anyone starts with anyone other than BB or TB!

I'd go:

Ben: $5
Najee: $2
AB: $5
Pickens: $1
Bruner: $2

[WindyCitySteel]

Being a QB driven league, I don't know how anyone starts with anyone other than BB or TB!

Exactly, falling into the same trap the Steelers are now.

[Northern_Blitz]

Exactly, falling into the same trap the Steelers are now.

In this game, there's no difficulty finding a good QB. You have 2 hall of famers you can choose from.

The Steelers current problem isn't that they somehow forgot that QBs are important. It's that good to great QBs (even average ones) are hard to find.

[Northern_Blitz]

Being a QB driven league, I don't know how anyone starts with anyone other than BB or TB!

I'd go:

Ben: $5
Najee: $2
AB: $5
Pickens: $1
Bruner: $2

Yep.

If Ben costs the same as Heath, it means you always take Ben and you never take Heath. Hines and Jerome too, even though I love them.

[Buzz]

Take all the current players for $1 each and use the change to buy a (potent) beverage that will help with watching them

j/k

Bradshaw ($4), Bell ($3), Stallworth ($4), Pickens ($1), Green ($3)

[Buzz]

Or

Go with Bradshaw, Harris, Stallworth, Swann and Heath and let Kahn figure out how to phenagle the money, even if it means cap hell a year or two down the road