Is he? He might be harsh in his approach. Little off in some of his takes. But Rudy has struggled mightily in the opportunities he was given. The pendulum has shown more negatives than positives. I would say by a large margin. He can't thread the needle throw into tight windows, he isn't mobile. He isn't overly accurate. For me just not the answer. Not even a little bit.
Cool. I don't disagree. I just think it's middle school nonsense to give a guy no chance when he is the chance. MR just wants his chance. I'll give it to him.
He will get his chance in camp. But depending on who is signed those odds can deminish quickly. I think he has had chances to shine and those opportunities are running out.
I don't see him in that average range. If the Steeler cut him today, how many teams would he start for?
gotta disagree on saying he has struggled mightily. I don't think he has no more than Ben has in the first half of games before doing his own thing. He is hamstrung by a ****** scheme the same as Ben has been. Yet he still has a winning record.
Do you disagree with any of the deficiencies I stated? He won't improve on those windows if he forces the issue INTs will pile up. He won't be more mobile. Maybe he can squeeze out a higher accuracy percentage. But when he hits the red zone his limitations will strap the O just as much if not more than the scheme.
Wow you can judge all that from a guy who hasn't even started 14 games has had a terrible OC had young inexperienced receivers and yet still pulled out a winning record. He throws a nice deep ball, shows touch in the middle of the field, absolutely showed improvement in his pocket presence and had one of if not the longest runs of the year. The play calling was terrible when he was near the endzone and he was pushing too hard. Hell Bradshaw absolutely **** the field for almost two years of starts. People have way too little patience today. Yeah yeah 4 years but not 4 years of real experience and in an offense designed for his skills.
He's 5-4-1. This is like celebrating "neve had a losing season" when the Steelers are on their longest playoff win drought in 50 years.
What I saw. What you saw was under the same amount of games. I have patience. I just see deficiencies that aren't prone to improving. So how did his start turn out this last season? His latest showing a grand total of 16 points including an entire overtime against the lowly *** Lions. Yeah that "improvement" was on display. How long should fans wait for this ability to shine? The clock is ticking for him. He is close to turning into a pumpkin.
This is where I'm at. Rudolph is pretty close to peaked already. The biggest sign is his teammates don't believe he's the starting QB. If a reporter is asking Johnson, Harris, Heyward, or Watt about next year's QB, they easily could've said "we're ready to be lead by Mason." Every one of them mentioned the front office bringing someone in. It's gonna be tough to lead your team when your own guys don't believe in you.
That was only a small clip of over a minute of him talking about Rudolph. He was getting to the idea that if the Steelers go into next season with Rudolph, they are no longer the team that goes into the offseason with the belief they can compete for a championship the next season.
Come on, Terry Bradshaw was the No. 1 overall draft pick and he played 50 years ago. It has never been easier for an NFL QB to succeed. Rudolph has no special traits. His pocket presence is lacking, he doesn't throw his receivers open, he doesn't have exceptional accuracy. He's just a guy at quarterback and he isn't going to lead the Steelers to anything significant. It's not jumping to conclusions, we've watched him for a few years now and you can see he isn't the answer. And again, it's not just the fans saying this, but his high-level teammates not believing in him either. When Heyward, Watt, Johnson, Harris, etc. all start showing full confidence in Rudolph as the starter, I'll buy in, but each guy has talked about bringing in a QB from the outside. His teammates said that, not the fans.
A game he wasn't practicing for as the starter and didn't know he was starting until late the night before, after it was too late to change the game plan. A game he still almost won twice had players not fumbled it away. The "lowly" lions went on to win some games and not look horrible. Again he was still hamstrung by terrible play calling yet again had them in position to win a game. Not much worse than Ben had been doing. I see improvement in those very deficiencies you allude to. Again you would have had us cutting Bradshaw after the same number of starts. Peyton Manning as well if you look. I am not saying he is remotely close to being those players but he has better numbers at this point in starts than they did. I see more positives in what he has done so far than negatives. The reactions to him seem entirely emotional and devoid of actua reasoning. He is truly cursed by following Ben. I don't think anything he does will ever be enough.
BS they absolutely could win one with Rudolph if they built the right team around him. If Dilfer can win one Mason can, or Flacco for that matter. He doesn't have to be great just good enough. A Ben will not just fall in our laps we have to build the best team we can and win without Ben or anything close, then when we do find "the guy" he can step in and do wonders with a great team. If we chase QB's and not focus on building the rest of the team we become the Browns.
This guy's job is to always be ready being the top backup. Plenty of backup QBs come off the bench and shine. Because opposing teams have so little game footage to go off of. He doesn't get a pass because he is a backup. You mentioned Ben, how well did he do in his rookie season? Seems you have a decent amount of excuses for him. None of them are curing his deficiencies.
He is just causing hate and discontent for ratings, that’s what media hacks do.
You keep mentioning Rudolph's record as if it has some sort of relevance. Duck Hodges was 3-3 (almost as good as 5-4-1) as the starting quarterback in Pittsburgh. He parlayed that into being waived by the Rams before the start of this season, and then a stint in the CFL with the Ottawa Redblacks, where he went 16-38 for 139 yards with no touchdowns and a pick.
