Analyst Blasts Steelers Ownership for Waiting on Aaron Rodgers: ‘The Rooneys Are Rolling over in Their Graves’
FOX Sports host Craig Carton thinks the Pittsburgh Steelers have lost their way by waiting for 41-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers to make a decision. The contact period for free agency started over a week ago, and the Steelers still don’t have an answer at quarterback.
Rodgers holds all the cards, and he reportedly is in no rush to make a decision. Team captain Cam Heyward is even getting disgruntled by the way the Steelers are handling the quarterback position.
Carton thinks the Rooneys of the past would have not tolerated waiting for Rodgers. Dan Rooney and Art Rooney Sr. would’ve set a hard deadline.
“The Rooneys are rolling over in their graves,” Carton said on Breakfast Ball on Fox Sports 1. “‘This isn’t why I bought an NFL franchise to never win a playoff game.’ And much like the Giants, a storied franchise and an embarrassment right now, on the fact that they don’t have a starting quarterback, they’ve become a joke, too. And I love you, Pittsburgh.”
Former Steelers offensive tackle Willie Colon also touched on the state of the Steelers in a recent interview. He believes the Steelers Way doesn’t exist anymore.
“I was at the Super Bowl, and I ran into a lot of my old teammates because everybody was kind of whoring themselves around media row and trying to shake hands, kiss babies type thing and find a door so they can walk through with their media career,” Colon said on the Ryen Russillo podcast…
“We were talking about the culture of the Steelers. At one point, it meant something. And now, it feels like it’s something that you just say, and it doesn’t have as much weight as it once did. Some of the stories I was hearing coming out of the locker room was interesting. I got the feeling that the old way and what I was brought into doesn’t exist anymore. That was disheartening.”
The Steelers landed star wide receiver DK Metcalf in a blockbuster trade with the Seattle Seahawks this offseason, but who’s going to throw the ball to him? The Steelers’ plan at the games most important position has certainly been head-scratching.
“This is the first time, I got to be honest, that the Pittsburgh Steelers look like an incompetent franchise,” former NFL running back LeSean McCoy said on FS1’s The Facility. “You go out there, spend $125 million on a superstar wide receiver with no quarterback. What are we doing here?”
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