Steelers Listed As Most Successful Team In Draft Since 1996

[polamalubeast]

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2016/04...ft-since-1996/

[st33lersguy]

Great teams like the Steelers build through the draft

[GBMelBlount]

Anyone who reads our board discussions about our past drafts would think we've had the worst draft record of any team in the last 20 years.

[polamalubeast]

Anyone who reads our board discussions about our past drafts would think we've had the worst draft record of any team in the last 20 years.

When you almost never goes in free agency and you have a very good record, it means that you drafted very well.

[Hawkman]

Big surprise that the Brows are dead last.

[fansince'76]

Anyone who reads our board discussions about our past drafts would think we've had the worst draft record of any team in the last 20 years.

[pczach]

The idiot that wrote that article clearly doesn't understand that Steelers message boards are built on the premise that the organization has no idea what they are doing. Only fans know how to properly run a successful NFL team.

[Mojouw]

Only true draft gurus can understand how detailed film study proves that their small school prospect in the 5th round represented a far better value than the Steelers failed selection of another project CB or project TE.

Clearly the authors of this post do not understand that the only realistic evaluation of any Steelers draft is to hold the organization to an arbitrary standard (typically somewhere in the neighborhood of just short of perfection). A metric based on a relative evaluation of the Steelers centered on a results based comparison with their peers, all other NFL franchises, is not really a valid criteria. It totally fails to take in to account the opportunity cost of the Steelers not drafting the heroes put forth by armchair GMs. It also fails to account for the fact that the only acceptable outcome of any NFL season is a Lombardi trophy. The Pittsburgh Steelers do not do sustained success - they do unequaled perfection.

Colbert sucks. He is totally useless and over rated. I already have a variety of MB posts ready that point out the numerous errors in his draft selections this year.

[pczach]

Only true draft gurus can understand how detailed film study proves that their small school prospect in the 5th round represented a far better value than the Steelers failed selection of another project CB or project TE.

Clearly the authors of this post do not understand that the only realistic evaluation of any Steelers draft is to hold the organization to an arbitrary standard (typically somewhere in the neighborhood of just short of perfection). A metric based on a relative evaluation of the Steelers centered on a results based comparison with their peers, all other NFL franchises, is not really a valid criteria. It totally fails to take in to account the opportunity cost of the Steelers not drafting the heroes put forth by armchair GMs. It also fails to account for the fact that the only acceptable outcome of any NFL season is a Lombardi trophy. The Pittsburgh Steelers do not do sustained success - they do unequaled perfection.

Colbert sucks. He is totally useless and over rated. I already have a variety of MB posts ready that point out the numerous errors in his draft selections this year.

You're right, they should not have promoted Colbert to GM and the power that comes with that title. They should have left him as Director of Football Operations like he was when Cowher was there and still have the coach pick most of the players like the good ole' days. You know, when they won all those Super Bowls.

The Steelers must have really squeezed a lot out of Cowhers players to overcome the shitty job that Colbert has done since he left.

Poor Tomlin has to try to squeeze out a couple victories a year with the crap Colbert has been giving him to work with. The Steelers are toast.

[steelreserve]

I'll acknowledge that the Tomlin regime has improved from what was an undeniably shitty start with the draft and for the most part, know what they are doing now. This thread really has the air of "Steelers can do no wrong, damn uppity fans, coaches will always know more than them, dogpile on the dissenters, etc., etc."

Complaining about other users' complaining was a great sign that the last message board was going stale, followed by complaining about the complaining about the complaining, and eventually complaining about the complaining about the complaining about the complaining. I hope we're not getting there already.

[Craic]

I'll acknowledge that the Tomlin regime has improved from what was an undeniably shitty start with the draft and for the most part, know what they are doing now. This thread really has the air of "Steelers can do no wrong, damn uppity fans, coaches will always know more than them, dogpile on the dissenters, etc., etc."

Complaining about other users' complaining was a great sign that the last message board was going stale, followed by complaining about the complaining about the complaining, and eventually complaining about the complaining about the complaining about the complaining. I hope we're not getting there already.

Let's apply the test.

How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?

1. 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed
2. 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently
3. 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
4. 1 to move it to the Lighting section
5. 2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section
6. 7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
7. 5 to flame the spell checkers
8. 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames
9. 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid
10. 2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
11. 15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct
12. 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
13. 11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum
14. 36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty
15. 7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs
16. 4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's
17. 3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group
18. 13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
19. 5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy
20. 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
21. 13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"
22. 1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

No - we're on step 20. It doesn't get stale until step 22.

[Devilsdancefloor]

Anyone who reads our board discussions about our past drafts would think we've had the worst draft record of any team in the last 20 years.

2008 .. :P