If you can't read this and see the hypocricy in your train of thought you are beyond hope. You liked the Tuitt pick so you are making excuses about production and seeing what you want to see. You hated the Archer pick so you are BLASTING his production and using his 5 touches as a "I told you so" rant. NEITHER ONE HAS DONE ****! If you can't see that you are either blind or retarded.
We drafted Archer 97th overall and people were excited about getting the fastest guy in the draft. Whooptie ******* boo-hoo! Sorry we all can't be pessimistic Debbie Downer or Negative Nancy like you. I have said it a thousand times and I will say it again, a third round pick has less than a 12% chance at starting. Not being an every day starter just starting a ******* football game. All the guys we "should have" picked instead aren't blowing the league up either so the fact Archer dresses and gets into the game is actually a positive thing but no he hasn't busted out a 50 yard TD so he sucks.
Bottom line you don't like Archer or the pick so his five touches, to you, make him a bust because one hasn't gone for a 50 yard touchdown. But you liked the Tuitt pick so his one assisted tackle makes him the next Aaron ******* Smith. HYPOCRITE!
There's no hypocrisy in the post, they play COMPLETELY different positions, with COMPLETELY different expectations. I also never mentioned Aaron Smith, that was all you (and to be quite frank, I HIGHLY doubt we'll EVER see another Aaron Smith type player). You keep going on and on about his one assist, and COMPLETELY ignore what I've said about what he DOES do well (especially compared to what else we have on the roster). I said you can see the potential is there. He has the strength, the mobility, and the size that you want in a 3-4 DE, and once he puts it all together he's going to be good for us.
I'm sorry that you feel I'm being a debbie downer over one pick, one pick that we really didn't have the luxury to make, one that even in the third round of barely has a chance to make the starting line up bullshit line you keep throwing out...has an even SMALL chance of being an impact player... but that's all you keep saying he is GOING to be. Just wait and see I keep hearing. I did not see the blazing speed in preseason either. I saw a decently fast player catch a ball in tons of space, with no one around him, and get run out of bounds. It was preseason, soft coverage, vanilla defenses, and not all starters, but I'm supposed to buy that because his TWO plays in preseason, he's just going to bust one out.... just wait and see. In the mean time, I'm watching him get arm tackled by CB's, read the holes wrong, fail to set up any blocks on run backs, and just look absolutely slow as **** when there are people around him.
My views aren't hypocritical, they just aren't yours. And it's not because he hasn't busted one for 50 yards and a TD, he hasn't even produced a first down. His longest play is 4 yards. Cameron Heyward our STARTING DE has a whopping 8 tackles and 5 assists, Steve McClendon our STARTING NT has 9 tackles 5 assists, Cam Thomas our STARTING DE ahead of Tuitt has 3 tackles, 5 assists. Really piling up those tackles... can't understand why someone who has played 15% of the defensive snaps doesn't have eye popping stats from a position where eye popping stats don't exist. It's so weird.
If you run very fast in Pre Season games in full pads, you run very fast in Regular Season games in full pads. Does this analogy work better? If he can't run as fast in the Regular season as you say, then perhaps he is conserving energy for next year's Pre Season where he can REALLY show his stuff again.
He didn't run very fast, I said it then and I'm still saying it. He doesn't look that fast out there. And whether it's because he isn't 100% or because he can't handle the pressure of people being around him (has to have WIDE open space), doesn't matter. Tell me he looks fast RIGHT now, during the regular season, against starters, against teams game planning, tell me where this speed is. Tell me why I wasn't the one that started this thread about his 40 time not translate, tell me I'm the ONLY one that doesn't see it. Hell I've seen a couple articles written recently asking if the Steelers made a mistake drafting Archer.
Fact is we had positions without much depth (CB, OLB), and now because of injuries, those positions have even less depth. I don't care if there is a list of people we should have picked out there somewhere. I don't care if they are blowing up the league or not. We will never know how they would have fared with the Steelers given the injuries we've had. What I do know is that Archer has not produced a single first down, he has not made a single guy miss, he looks hesitant, unsure, and slow. He's a Steeler, and I will cheer for him until he no longer where's black and gold, but he hasn't given me much to cheer for. All he's given me is questions...
Where's the speed gone?