Comments on: Week 14 Preview: Baltimore Owes It All To Pittsburgh http://nicepickcowher.com/2008/12/12/week-14-preview-baltimore-owes-it-all-to-pittsburgh/ A Pittsburgh Steelers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Tue, 22 May 2012 00:39:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chris http://nicepickcowher.com/2008/12/12/week-14-preview-baltimore-owes-it-all-to-pittsburgh/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Chris Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:19:27 +0000 http://nicepickcowher.com/?p=375#comment-297 Todd:  Thanks for clarifying the situation for us.  I don't pretend to closely follow the saga of Pitt's recruiting endeavors so I pass to your knowledge of the situation.  Honestly, the Harris-Wannstache turnover and the fact Flacco got caught up in recruiting politics or whatnot really didn't occur to me until now.  I guess I was operating under the naive notion that you put the 3-4 QBs on the field and start the best one...and couldn't imagine Palko or Stull looking better than Flacco.  Thanks and let's beat the Beavers! Todd:  Thanks for clarifying the situation for us.  I don’t pretend to closely follow the saga of Pitt’s recruiting endeavors so I pass to your knowledge of the situation.  Honestly, the Harris-Wannstache turnover and the fact Flacco got caught up in recruiting politics or whatnot really didn’t occur to me until now.  I guess I was operating under the naive notion that you put the 3-4 QBs on the field and start the best one…and couldn’t imagine Palko or Stull looking better than Flacco. 

Thanks and let’s beat the Beavers!

]]> By: Todd http://nicepickcowher.com/2008/12/12/week-14-preview-baltimore-owes-it-all-to-pittsburgh/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Todd Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:44:37 +0000 http://nicepickcowher.com/?p=375#comment-296 Chris, love the blog. Long time reader, first time commenter. However, I must argue semantics. Being a loyal Panthers fan (always on the bright side, not living up to expectations means the annoying fair weathers stay home), it's not so much a case of "if he might've played Flacco," it's a case of over-recruiting at the position under the lingering stench of Walt Harris. Flacco didn't want to sit around and hope the job opened up, after 'Stache's new staff bent over backwards to get Stull and Shane Murray. I'm not at all saying I think Flacco was a crybaby who didn't want to compete for the job (since that was Palko's gig), and nobody knows what goes on behind closed locker room doors, but the fact of the matter was that there quickly became a roadblock in the backfield, on a team in which running the ball was the stated new pastime, right after the tenure of a coach who only considered playing Flacco in garbage time. Wannstache sucks and is at fault for a lot of things, don't get me wrong, but I don't think he much of an opportunity to suck and be at fault in the Flacco situation. There are a hundred I-A players who drop down to I-AA every year, and 99 of them are never heard from again. Of course, the sole successful player in that hundred had to be ours. Chris, love the blog. Long time reader, first time commenter.

However, I must argue semantics. Being a loyal Panthers fan (always on the bright side, not living up to expectations means the annoying fair weathers stay home), it’s not so much a case of “if he might’ve played Flacco,” it’s a case of over-recruiting at the position under the lingering stench of Walt Harris.

Flacco didn’t want to sit around and hope the job opened up, after ‘Stache’s new staff bent over backwards to get Stull and Shane Murray. I’m not at all saying I think Flacco was a crybaby who didn’t want to compete for the job (since that was Palko’s gig), and nobody knows what goes on behind closed locker room doors, but the fact of the matter was that there quickly became a roadblock in the backfield, on a team in which running the ball was the stated new pastime, right after the tenure of a coach who only considered playing Flacco in garbage time.

Wannstache sucks and is at fault for a lot of things, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think he much of an opportunity to suck and be at fault in the Flacco situation.

There are a hundred I-A players who drop down to I-AA every year, and 99 of them are never heard from again. Of course, the sole successful player in that hundred had to be ours.

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