It Sounds Like Sunday We're Going To Be Waiting All Day For...Mason Rudolph Again
Beautiful. Waiting around all Sunday is already brutal enough as is when the Steelers play on Sunday night, but now I gotta kill time at Hobby Lobby with the wife knowing I'm most likely going to have to sit through Mason Rudolph's rainbow arm on the road against Joey Bosa and Derwin James?
At least next week is Thanksgiving week so I'll be able to go to bed Sunday night after watching whatever debacle takes place on Sunday night in LA without Minkah Fitzpatrick, Kevin Dotson, and most likely Big Ben and Chase Claypool. This has been a rough week. A tie to the Lions, blowing a chance to snag first place before the stretch run, and now being depleted with "Mediocre Mason" as some call him in Pittsburgh in primetime to finish it off. Taking the positive spin here, if Mason can capture that 82 yard opening drive from last Sunday and channel it throughout then maybe it won't be too bad? Perhaps he'll be less rusty in his second live game action than he was in his first? (missing a wide open Ray Ray McCloud in the endzone / missing Diontae Johnson on a slant that he'd still be running for). Hopefully. He's two fumbles away from likely sneaking the Lions game out in OT. That's the positive spin, I guess.
But the more realistic view is that the Chargers are coming off a tough loss to Minnesota at home again with a healthier team and a much better QB. So - bleak, I'd say. If Big Ben really can't go, even though he's been 100% attendance in virtual meetings this week, then Mason gets at least one last friggin' shot to makeup for the inaccuracies on Sunday vs. Detroit. This dude feels like he's got nine lives to try to prove himself to be "the guy" and every time he doesn't it seems the Steelers themselves double down on the guy. It's odd. It's scary to think about 2022 at that position right now. But right now you're in the middle of a division race the week before Thanksgiving. Whoever is playing QB Sunday in LA has to take care of business, and if it's Mason, then the tie against Detroit will be an old, faint memory.