When a person does the wrong things with their health - horrible diet, no exercise, smoking, etc. - for 10-15 years, even though they started as a very healthy person, their health continues to crash. But, they lie to themselves, surround themselves with those who will lie with them, and the health continues to crash.
So, eventually it gets so bad that they can't function well, and the new doctor is ordered in. Emergency surgery is needed, and it is drastic, harsh, everyone notices, and many wonder if the patient will live through it.
That's what we are seeing. The prognosis depends on the new patterns and habits of the patient. Let's hope this one returns to the ways of old, where real football decisions were made. And the viruses are killed off, the amputations are done, and the cardio is brought back. Veggies and water, not ice cream and soda.
I feel a twinge of this and a feeling of "now the grown ups are in charge." I believe Kahn is his own man, a man who's been around and witnessed how we got here, the good and bad. And this just in: There has been the bad, and it's up to him to correct the bad. And he is doing just that. Is his vision superior to what we've been operating under?
Only time will tell, but my bottom dollar says "likely." We've had over a decade of seeing what the "leadership" of Shades and Colbert bought us. And I've got to say, the further we went on an odyssey with those two, the more obvious it was that that ship wasn't seaworthy. Yes, I'm gonna say it one more time: Shades Super Bowl season was not a team built with his vision; it was Cowher's. And the further we got away from Cowher's leadership, the worst our team got, even with a franchise QB.
Yes, we've only seen one year of drafting by Kahn, but this just in: It looks pretty promising. Jones, JPJ, Benton and Herbig all look like quality draft picks, and there's still hope for Washington and even Spenser Anderson becoming solid pieces. Even Colbert's "better" draft classes usually had 1 decent player and maybe one other worth starting. Colbert's/Shades' draft classes are why we are in the weak position we are in, including their last few which were really weak.
2022
- Pickett - Horrid, horrid play, immature attitude, already off the team. Huge miss.
- Pickens - Uber talented, trying to overcome immaturity.
- Leal - No one knows what they were thinking. A total tweener without a position.
- Austin - small person, zero production so far. Not even mentioned even with the team being so weak at WR.
- Connor Heyward - More Shades "brother drafting." A major fail.
- Robinson - an ILB who has failed so far.
- Oladoken - QB who's off the team.
2021
- Harris - 1st round RB who turned out not worth it. Just OK.
- Muth - TE we missed on a lot of better players for.
- Green - failed pick who was a shot in the dark at C, turned out horrible at OG as well.
- Moore - a bad LT who still stinks to this day.
- Buddy Johnson - a LB who....??
- Loudermilk - failed DLman
- Roche - DL, fail
- Norwood - DB fail
- Harvin - punter who stunk
The rest of their drafts mostly read the same way. And before anyone can say "Drafting is hard, a lot of team's picks don't work out." I know that. But anyone giving a real, hard look at Pgh's drafts know they've been mostly fail. Cowher's era did not produce such paltry drafts.
