2023 New Orleans played a lot of bad teams and had the easiest schedule in the NFL.
Add into this the fact he will be playing in the Steelers junior High level offense.....yeah. mediocre probably at best.
After further thought, I believe the Steelers are crazy to make that deal and the Jags would be crazy to turn it down.
Proof that they will sell the farm for stopgap veterans to keep that precious non-losing seasons streak alive.
Rather have Fields.
Actually Fields has an 83.9 career QB rating, and it was 93.3 last season with the Steelers. He had only one INT in 161 attempts in 2024. Plus, of course, his passing numbers don't include his rushing prowess. Fields also has had four different offensive coordinators in his four NFL seasons, so some year-to-year stability in that department should help him.
A first and second would be ridiculous when we have so many needs. Lawrence is not going to save the team w/o competent WRs or OL play.
Meh.....you can bring in any QB and they will not thrive here with our current offensibe philosophy and scheme. So who the **** cares if Carr is a little better than anything we have had here since Ben.....
Because no QB wanted to go to the browns and the steelers Fandom moves the media. All Steelers articles generates clicks at a faster rate than anything brown.
He looked exactly like Pickett did the year before, Pickett in his final 11 games only threw 2 INT's, but that's because he wasn't allowed to throw the ball downfield because conservative Mike didn't want to risk turnovers, same with Fields, the majority of his stuff was short safe passes.
Who was his head coach?
Wasn't making a comment on who coached him, was commenting on not being able to say "he is what he is" with Fields based on his history. No one is going to look good with 4 OC's in 4 years. Constantly having to learn a new offense, never getting any type of stability. Not to mention his WR situations were worse than they are here, with even less of a running game.
Agree 100%. You have to remember that the Steelers' goal post has moved. The goal is no longer winning championships and developing players, it's whatever short-term fix you need to get to 9 wins even if it means *gasp* firing your first coach in mid-season since 1945.
Well how many QB's were average at best after 44 games, then all of sudden got it? You usually know what you have in most QB's after that many starts, and Darnold had a great year, but totally crapped the bed the last two games with everything on the line.
Detroit was able to get pressure on Darnold early and throw him off his game. They only sacked him twice, but they hit him 10 other times. LA stepped it up further and got even more pressure on him, sacking him 9 times and hitting him another 12 times. Show me a QB that wouldn't have crumbled under that kind of pressure! Mahomes crumbled in the SB under that pressure.