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    Steelers Alternative Facts: ‘The Pittsburgh Steelers Select…Tom Brady, Quarterback, Michigan’

    In every day, in every life, we make decisions that set in motion irreversible changes that shape our lives. Sometimes our choices lead to decisions that are made for us that are beyond our control. The same thing applies to entities as well as it does to individuals—say, a sports team.

    The Pittsburgh Steelers have made a vast majority of good decisions over the years, which has allowed them to be the winningest team in the modern era, with the most hardware to show for it.

    But some decisions have worked out less well than others, and have helped shape the team as they are today. In the world of alternative facts, we get an opportunity to explore the team as it could have been, if one decision or event had gone differently.


    “With the 163rd pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers select…Tom Brady, quarterback, Michigan”.

    That was an entirely plausible outcome during the 2000 NFL Draft, and my, how things might have gone differently over the course of the past 16 years had it gone that way. The Steelers did draft a quarterback with the 163rd pick, in the fifth round, of that draft, after all. Only they used it on Tee Martin out of Tennessee, who completed 6 of 16 passes for 69 yards and a touchdown in his NFL career.


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    Re: Steelers Alternative Facts: ‘The Pittsburgh Steelers Select…Tom Brady, Quarterback, Michigan’

    Quote Originally Posted by polamalubeast View Post
    In every day, in every life, we make decisions that set in motion irreversible changes that shape our lives. Sometimes our choices lead to decisions that are made for us that are beyond our control. The same thing applies to entities as well as it does to individuals—say, a sports team.

    The Pittsburgh Steelers have made a vast majority of good decisions over the years, which has allowed them to be the winningest team in the modern era, with the most hardware to show for it.

    But some decisions have worked out less well than others, and have helped shape the team as they are today. In the world of alternative facts, we get an opportunity to explore the team as it could have been, if one decision or event had gone differently.


    “With the 163rd pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers select…Tom Brady, quarterback, Michigan”.

    That was an entirely plausible outcome during the 2000 NFL Draft, and my, how things might have gone differently over the course of the past 16 years had it gone that way. The Steelers did draft a quarterback with the 163rd pick, in the fifth round, of that draft, after all. Only they used it on Tee Martin out of Tennessee, who completed 6 of 16 passes for 69 yards and a touchdown in his NFL career.


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    I still recall being pissed off that they took Martin with Brady still available. I saw Brady play and was high on him. I couldn't believe he didn't go higher. Every time he was on the field he looked like the best Michigan quarterback by a mile.

    Maybe Cowher would have cut him.

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    Re: Steelers Alternative Facts: ‘The Pittsburgh Steelers Select…Tom Brady, Quarterback, Michigan’

    for some reason, this was the first thing that came to mind ...

    See you Space Cowboy ...

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    Re: Steelers Alternative Facts: ‘The Pittsburgh Steelers Select…Tom Brady, Quarterback, Michigan’

    Had we drafted him, Brady would probably have been good, even very good, possibly, but he'd never have been as good as he is in NE simply because he would have had to learn the NFL game like every other QB without the benefit of cheating. I've said it before, there are QBs that come into the NFL with all the tools, but they don't make it because they can't get over the learning curve and shorten their decision making cycles for the speed of the NFL while getting pummeled by LBs and linemen. Think, Rick Mirer. When a QB gets that learning curve severely flattened and knows before hand how the decision making cycle should go, he has all the time in the world to adjust to the NFL without dealing with the crushing weight of disappointment (or linemen piling on).


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