Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but when this first happened, we were all worried it was a Tommy John injury that would take 18 months to recover from. And the official response was "Tommy John surgery only takes 18 months for baseball pitchers, for football QBs it's more like 9 months, and actually this isn't even a Tommy John surgery, it's something less serious and you're back to normal in a few months."
This sounds a lot less like that, anyway. If he's back to normal by the start of next season, I'll take it.
See you Space Cowboy ...
Ben and his Drama... just a little tennis elbow. He'll be back.
It's the Wade Wilson effect. There's 2 types of QB's, one that has a bad game and has his confidence shot, or ones that bounce back. This QB from the Saints I remember, looked like a world beater 6 games into the season and started of 6-0. Had one terrible game vs the Steelers (threw 2 INTs to Rod Woodson, one being a pick 6) and then his entire season looked shot after that. Dude went from looking like a good starter to a rattled shell of his former self.
IMO this is where you figure out if you have someone with a real future in the NFL or not. Mason didn't pass this test.
If Ben was any kind of player he'd be back by now under center. It's all for attention.
My optimistic self says that Trent Dilfer has won a SB doing nothing special except protecting the ball. So if Duck can protect the ball - we have a chance to make the playoffs.
my pessimistic self says that we got serious problems. Ben is injury prone and not a guarantee to come back next year as his normal self. And this team is too mature at the OL and defense to experiment with a mid round rookie QB. We need a veteran backup like Bridgewater.
And yet, Duck was able to pull victory from defeat. His two games have been better than Rudolph's first two games. So, either every learned the game of football in the few seconds it took to change QBs, or Rudolph had a problem that Duck doesn't have. Never mind they protected Rudolph for almost half a season from making stupid plays. When they couldn't do that anymore, he started making mistakes.
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I think you're exactly right. I have no idea why, when a QB plays better in movement, teams try to force them to stay in the pocket. Play to the strengths, not the weaknesses. Sure, force the player to stretch. I get it. But not to his detriment. Then again, had he stayed in his role as slash, he just may have been a Hall of Fame player.
Indeed
Kordell’s one weakness: throwing the ball
Kordell’s strength: running
So, what does Ray Sherman do? He tells Kordell to never run. The 1997 AFCCG would have been a victory if Kordell simply runs into the end-zone (as opposed to passing it into triple coverage).
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Absolutely!!! No one else has ever had his skill set. Kordell truly could play three positions. Le’Veon Bell is close (RB, WR), but even Bell isn’t anywhere close to what Kordell was.
So would you guys take Bubby Brister over Rudolph now?
This team could win the Super Bowl with Neil O'Donnel at QB.
Bring in batch as a qb coach
Personally, I never want to see Rudolph behind center again. Ever. Unless it's with the team the Steelers are playing.
I wonder, did you say that when Bradshaw was benched several times? Those are strong words that will not age well if Mason gets his head on straight. I'm a fan of the Steelers first, and this includes all players and coaches. As long as they are on THIS team, I'm pulling for them to succeed.
I get what you're saying....... but....... here's some hyperbole that's common around here..... all these terrible starting quarterbacks from the 80's. There were a total of FIVE starting QBs for the Steelers in the 80's that started more than 5 games, and one of them is in the HOF.
80's QB and Games Started:
Bradshaw 39
Stoudt 16
Malone 45
Woodley 13
Brister 29
So...... can everybody stop throwing around the hyperbole of all these horrible QBs. They may have been horrible but there were only four of them.