Mark KabolyVerified account @MarkKaboly 38m38 minutes ago
Kaboly: Steelers 'respecting the board' won't do them a lick of good in chasing that Lombardi this year
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Mark KabolyVerified account @MarkKaboly 38m38 minutes ago
Kaboly: Steelers 'respecting the board' won't do them a lick of good in chasing that Lombardi this year
Kaboly is another wind bag I won't pay to read.
he can't even get the Steelers' draft choices' names right: :jerkit:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shoes
Mark Kaboly Verified account@MarkKaboly
James Saxon about RB Jaylen Smith. – at UPMC Sports Performance Complex
https://twitter.com/markkaboly?lang=en
He's entitled to his opinion, but him making a comment like this is just a hot take IMO.
He has no idea of how any of these picks will be used.
He barely knows who the UDFAs are.
He hasn't seen any of them practice or play at an NFL level yet.
He doesn't know what other moves will be made.
He has no idea how good Bostic will be at ILB with this defensive line playing in front of him and in this system.
He seems to be pretending that Burnett wasn't signed or isn't an upgrade at safety.
I get so pissed when I hear stuff like this from someone who should know better. He knows that the Steelers picked up Haden before the season started last year. He knows this, yet he still makes that statement.
Mark Kaboly just dropped a few notches from what I felt about him before reading his comment. It shows a complete lack of understanding as a guy that covers football, or he is just become another "Mr. Hot Takes". Either way, he is discrediting himself.
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Originally Posted by hawaiiansteeler
Exactly.....
How about doing your job correctly and a little attention to detail there Mark Kobaldo.
I enjoyed reading Kaboly when he was with the Trib-Review but only read his tweets now since he has been behind a paywall since he left the Trib-Review 2 jobs ago
His opinion may be valid but, as he tweeted several days ago, most of those making real $$$ at this are in the business rather than reporting on it (and perhaps better spellers:rolleyes:)
With the caveat that, unlike Kaboly, I have never been paid to follow the Steelers, my main takes on this draft are:
There was no guaranteed savior in the draft who could be expected to step right in as a rookie ILB and take up immediately where Shazier left off. Even assuming the Steelers would have been willing to put in all their chips for this draft and trade up to get Roquan Smith, RB is about the only position where a college player can step right in without taking time to adjust to the pro game. And my recollection is the last time UGA had a LB this highly touted was ... Jarvis Jones. As far as trading up to get other first round ILB prospects, Vander Esch has medical issues along with not being a finished product while Evans would not even run for scouts. So the Steelers not reaching for an ILB is defensible, particularly if you buy into the view the hybrid safety-LB player is one way to address how to defend modern pass first offenses.
Steelers use big safeties to address Ryan Shazier void
http://www.espn.com/blog/pittsburgh-...n-shazier-void
More significantly, the window may be closing for Ben but the Steelers are not planning to disband the franchise when Ben retires. Colbert puts it well
“This is the challenge — 2018, win the Super Bowl,” Colbert said. “But we're never going to lose sight of making sure we can compete each and every year.”
http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/...raft-concludes
This draft and trading Bryant to not focus solely on winning in 2018 reflect that goal.
IMO the Steelers front office has earned the benefit of the doubt regarding whether or not this draft made sense
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Originally Posted by AtlantaDan
Well put Dan.
There are so many unknowns at this point that anyone that makes a definitive statement on the big picture about how things went in the draft or how things are going to proceed going forward is a fool.
I don't know everything, but I do know this. There is a plan at work here. It involves position flexibility, versatility, tackling, football IQ, communication skills on and off the field, and starting to weed out certain types of behavior while trying to move on from players that don't want to be here or are inherent risks to the overall success of the team.
How they put all the chess pieces together and what additional talent is acquired or released is to be determined.
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Originally Posted by pczach
Sorry, the board keeps putting my response within your quote and won't allow me to correct it. I think it's a problem when tweets are in a quoted post.
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Originally Posted by AtlantaDan
great post
Having trouble quoting stuff. Great posts by the usual suspects. As to Kaboly, he can’t even spell. It is LUDICROUS unless he was intentionally name dropping the rapper in some complex Le’Veon Bell burn. I realize it was an autocorrect error, but if you are so amped to fire out a Tweet that you can’t even catch that, then it is pretty clear you are just a haaawwwttt taaaaake meathead at this point.
Virtual ray of sunshine.....
Kaboly is in the job of drawing page hits - there are a few media types who would take a pay cut if they got a NFL job - Kaboly is not one of those fewQuote:
Originally Posted by stillers4me
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
Dude needs glasses.........
Kaboly's right though. The Steelers aren't going to reinvent the concept of defense by having 5 safeties on the field