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Inside the locker Room with King and Starks, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.080 presented by our neighborhood Ford Store here on the Steeler's 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.240 Audio Network, alongside Max Starks, wes Uler, Justin Miller, and 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.120 our iHeart Studios. I'm Rob King, Thanks very much for 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.280 being with us. Whose idea was that to get that 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:14.880 fired up? 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.720 Listen that that is the inspiration of the one, the only, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:24.000 the late Great Craig Wolfley and CJ reminded us the 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:28.400 Latrobe five hundred will be underway, I would say tomorrow, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.880 but we won't be on the airwaves because they'll have 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.920 a walk through and that'll be it. This is the 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.840 last great day that you're jockeying for pole position after 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.640 this practice to figure out when are we going to 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:41.400 get it done? 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.440 Now? You know, Mike Tomalin has a. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:48.400 History, you know, whether spotty or not where sometimes he'll 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.440 release them tonight and then you'll do a walk through 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.600 and tomorrow in south Side. But I know a lot 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.920 of young boys. I don't know if he's gonna pull it. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.680 But we're not gonna be on the airways tomorrow because 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.200 of the close practice and an early morning one. So 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.360 next time we'll talk will be Thursday. So we figured 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.359 you got to play it because this was one of 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.079 Wolfe's favorite things to do. And you know, thanks to 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.160 CJ for for reminding us about this. But the La 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.800 Trope five hundred, you know, usually starts on UH on 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:24.280 Route thirty, goes goes to seventy six, then to three 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.840 seventy six and then after that to parts unknown and 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.679 then where guys will live. 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.959 For people who don't know, that is the exodus. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.799 Yes, mass, mass, exodus mass, let's not play it down. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.880 Yeah, everybody will be leaving. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:44.359 And it is a it's a great it's a great camp, right, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.840 and the players rave about how great it is. But 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.600 at some point, right, it's it's time to it's time. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.160 And I think it's you know, we talked about this Max, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:58.359 I can't remember what's on the air off Mike about like. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.280 Vacations, Like you're going to a vacation or whatever. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.960 And usually at some point, you know, you kind of 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.520 start thinking about home, you know, and that's yeah. And 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.280 once you start thinking about home, by the way, vacation's 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:10.799 about over. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:11.919 Yeah. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.160 And if you're driving somewhere, you know a lot of 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.960 people in Pittsburgh drive down to you know, the outer Banks, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.160 or they go to you know, the head the shore 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.960 down in Baltimore, or you know wherever they're going. You know, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.000 once you pull into that driveway, man, once you start 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.960 to know you're almost home, it's a it's a good feeling. 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.280 And for these guys knowing that they're almost going to 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.160 be home. As great as camp is, it's got to 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.360 be a sense of release, not relief, but release, like let's. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.720 Go yeah, no, it absolutely is. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.600 And let's face it, you know, the NFL has has 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.360 a nice large partnership with a company called Sleep Number, 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.920 So I'm sure a lot of the players have those 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.040 Sleep Number beds so you can finally get back to 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.960 your cooling mattress or your hot mattress, whether your number 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.920 is seventy six or forty or whatever it is. You know, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.560 they're looking forward to having those creature comforts of home 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.000 coming up. I mean, heck, I'm thinking about my creature 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.680 comforts of home. I've been away from my house for 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.760 almost a month now, so by the time I get home, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.159 it'll be exactly one month. So I'm just I'm looking 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.120 forward to that. But you know, we still got work 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.960 to do, so I had to kind of push it 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.440 off to the side, right, you know, hit the reminder 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.560 button on there, you know, like we have on your phones, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:31.000 like reminder you snoozing that for another day. But you know, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.119 this is one last padded practice, one last physical tune 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.680 up team on team before they see the Tampa Bay 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.200 Buccaneers in a group setting on Thursday in Afer Shore, 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:48.120 a closed off practice preceding their showdown on Saturday. So 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.120 a lot of familiar faces over on that Buccaneers sideline 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.839 that will be coming back to Akershore for the first 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.080 time in a while and I mean Larry Foot, Harold 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.760 Goodwin to name a few of the guys who were 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.760 four former Steelers players and coach that will be coming 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:04.680 back to aftershore. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:09.680 You know, it would strike me Max that you know, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.400 this is another little test for being a professional. You know, 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.280 if this is your first time out at camp and 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.440 you're thinking, Hey, I got to get back into town. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.440 I've got to you know, get an apartment set up 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.120 or what have you. If you haven't already done that, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.359 find a place to live. Hopefully guys have already done that. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.840 But if you're a veteran, you might be getting back 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.600 to your family, like you're talking about. But there's always 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.920 going to be something. There's always going to be a distraction. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.320 There's always going to be a mental hurdle to overcome. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:39.600 You know. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.960 They talk about that, and maybe the closest thing in 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.840 football will be a practice squad, but they talk about that, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.040 particularly in baseball. Hey, they need to call this guy up. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.840 He's getting bored down in the minors. Okay, well that's fine, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.680 but that player's got to also push through that because 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:58.760 are you going to get bored in the majors. You're 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.680 gonna get bored in the NFL. You know, Yeah, you've 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.480 got to find there's always a mental challenge. It's always 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.520 a little bit different for every player. And this last 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.640 practice and walk through, keeping things crisp, keeping your mind 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:16.080 focused on the task at hand, pushing aside what you 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.760 really want, which is to start to a trope five hundred, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.760 getting that car and head back to Pittsburgh tomorrow. Another 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.239 little mental challenge for the guys. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 Yeah, because can you keep that foot out of the 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.400 parking lot right for one last practice? 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:29.760 Right? 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:35.120 Can you get your attention so that you can focus 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.640 in laser focus for the two two and a half 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:44.360 hours that practice will be and then start worrying. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:45.440 About packing up your bags. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.160 And for a lot of guys, like you know, a 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.279 lot of guys are gonna go to the team hotel 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.520 and stay there because you know the future is uncertain. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.040 But for the guys that do have a longer tenure, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.360 or you are a higher rated draft pick, you know 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.200 you should have a space somewhere that's. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.760 At least spoken for. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.599 I'm not gonna say that you've moved in yet, right, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.600 because you never want to assume anything. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.400 But at least spoken for. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.040 And you know, the moving date could be oh, let's 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.480 just call it a random number. August thirty first, right, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.840 you know that you have that intent, but you have 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.480 a deal in place just to make sure. But a 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.040 lot of guys still don't know. You know, we talked 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.760 about this kinger like, you know, if you've got sixty 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.520 guys that you want to keep on this roster in 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.120 only fifty three spaces, you know, there's seven hearts who 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.640 are going to be broken momentarily until they find a 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.800 new home or they get re signed to the practice squad. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.760 So you you don't want to count your chickens before 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.560 they're hatched and be presumptive. But I think if you 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.360 know you're TJ. Watt, you're Cam Hayward, you can go 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.800 back to your houses that you've lived in, you know, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.880 for the better part of a decade or more. And 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.080 you know, Aaron Rodgers, he can go back to wherever 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.080 he wherever he has staked his claim as home for 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.200 the year his rental. You know, But there are a 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.040 lot of guys, you know, there's still that uncertainty. I mean, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.240 if you're the fifth linebacker right now, you're not You're 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.600 not going back to an apartment, you know, if you 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.480 if you're if you're the ninth or tenth offensive lineman, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.440 you know, seventh or eighth defensive lineman. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.320 Like he was like, Nah, I'm gonna have to get 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:14.600 it for. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.160 These next three exhibitions, we'll call it because we'll count 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.480 the joint practice as a mini game scrimmage type of deal. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:26.560 Three exhibitions to to fall into the top group, you know, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.480 to make your claim that I deserve to be a 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.920 Pittsburgh Steeler. That's what we're looking for. And that's that's 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.080 what the whole point of this is. That's why this exercise, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.160 that's why you're having a padded practice for the last 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.680 one of open practices. To the fans, that's the moment 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.840 they're fighting for to continue that journey. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.760 August twenty sixth, that's the day in which you know, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.240 we're we're looking at the cutdowns, right, and which guys 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.640 are gonna be there, and which guys are going to 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.360 be on the uh, you know, practice squad, which guys 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.480 are going to be maybe claimed by other teams. There's 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.080 some of that that'll be going on there. There are 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.480 gonna be the guys who think they're on a roster spot, 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.760 but then you like another player, who's got another team better. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.120 So hey, congratulations you made the team, or congratulations you 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.160 made the practice squad, and then maybe the next day 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.480 it's hey, I got bad news for you. I mean, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.160 it's uneasy times if you're an edge guy, if you're 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.600 a you know, if you're a fourth line player in 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.520 the NHL, if you're the last guy in a bullpen 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.719 in baseball, if you are you know, the eleventh man 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.679 and a basketball team, if you're the fifty third man 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.920 on an NFL roster, there's never there. I don't think 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.200 there's too many nights where you're sleeping easy thinking you 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.600 got it made well. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.120 And that's why I say the thirty first, because the 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.199 twenty six is the actual cutdown day. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.520 With the five days after that, yeah, that's where the 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:51.560 attrition happens. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.640 So don't put that deposit in until the thirty first, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.120 Ladies and gentlemen, before you start staking home, make sure 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.800 that you're going into up timber you're still in that roster, because, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.240 like you said, a lot of things can change. There's 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.560 thirty one other teams that are cleaning house as well 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.560 to cut down to fifty three. And then there's that 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.439 posturing for what I would even say fifty through fifty 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.959 three can change, Like you know, you're the if you're 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.040 the if you're not in that top forty six on 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.560 the list, it gets a little uneasy. But I would 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.640 say fifty through fifty three, those last four spots are 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.360 interchangeable pieces, right. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.960 So you know, we were looking at a roster ranking 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.200 and another one came out yesterday. I don't know if 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.800 this was the same one Wes, because there is one 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.959 here that that also that had and I don't know 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.800 if this was the same one. It does have the 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.800 quarterback in it. We were go faing because they had 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.040 this stoo there's ranked as the twenty second or twenty 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.320 third best roster. So I'm looking at another one by ESPN. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:56.360 This one includes the quarterback. So yesterday to recap, Wes 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.160 found a ranking of the roster and the depth it. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:05.600 This one is a future power rankings. We stacked all 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.000 thirty two teams long term expectations. I'm not sure if 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.600 this is the same one that Wes was looking at. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.160 Is Wes there, Yeah, it was just the same one West. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.120 It might have been part of that piece. I'm not sure. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:20.760 I'd have to look it up. I can go and 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:21.920 find what you're looking at right now. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.360 Okay, so we have the quarterback at twenty percent, the 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.360 rest of the roster at thirty percent, the front office 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.000 at twenty five percent, and the coaching at twenty five percent. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.480 Now we know that ESPN thinks very highly of this 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.240 year's front office and coaching. I think WES found something 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.160 where they were ranked eighth, right, correct, So that's half 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.920 the battle. In half the battle, you're ranked eighth. I 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.280 can't get to the math that has you ranked twenty 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:53.000 second as the roster, but I also think that so 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.480 this is twenty five through twenty seven, which teams are 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.800 set up to win over the next three seasons a 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:10.000 somewhat fruitless exercise when you consider injuries, free agency, somebody emerging, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.440 somebody not living up to expectations. I mean, this is 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.880 a tough This is tough, you know. But again on 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.960 this one, and this is Ben Solock, Lewis Riddick, Aaron Shatz, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.920 and Seth Walder. So this is ranking for the next 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.640 three years and they have this Steelers. I'm shuttling down. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:34.599 I think it's twenty second on this list. Yeah, twenty second. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:40.000 So now I can understand a little bit that they 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.320 would be critical of. Hey, you only have a one 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.240 year solution at the quarterback position, which again is thirty 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.520 percent of the battle Max. I still think they're wrong 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.760 on this Steelers' roster because I still think I think 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.199 that when you look at this team, they're a little 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.520 older on defense and they are on offense, but look 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.880 at what they've done. This is again, I just we 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.440 have to go back to this because we had we 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.079 were our Dandard was up a little bit yesterday. I 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:07.840 want to go back to this just for one segment 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.160 and then we'll move on. Because the Steelers way has 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.760 always been to build through the draft. Now they've been 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.839 more aggressive in free agency. And when I look at 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.000 guys who are signed for the next couple of years, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.680 there's still guys in their prime. Deshaun Elliott's still in 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.680 his prime. Patrick Queen is still in his prime. You 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.760 just drafted young guys to bolster your defensive line. You 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.640 have you know, TJ. Watt signed for a couple more years. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.679 They talk about aging roster, but he still remains productive. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.600 You have Herbie behind him. You know, you're hoping Jack 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.520 Sawyer is going to be a guy. You only have 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.559 Darius slay for one year, but they have a lot 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.520 of hopes I think for for Corey Trice and nobody. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.560 I don't know, as any roster in the NFL, max 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.880 is set up for absolutely set up for three years 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.480 of success. I mean, that's a really hard measuring stick. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.040 I think, you know, to glimpse far into the future. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.080 No, I mean, it's a tough exercise, but you know 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.599 you got to have talking points, right right, Let me 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.040 guess the team that's up at the top of that list, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:10.559 rob Let me guess, is it Philadelphia? 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.560 It's Philadelphia, of course, I think because I think this 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.360 is the same I think I feel like as a. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:17.400 Philly grew No. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.400 No, but I mean, but it kind of goes in 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.840 line with where the rankings were we were talking about 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.360 for this year's success, right right. You know they're all 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.880 in the same jockeying position. I'm sure you know. Lamar Jackson, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.960 like Baltimore is up there in the top three as well. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.560 Washington's probably up there as well if you extrapolate a. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:36.080 Little bit longer. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.160 Because of young quarterback play, So what quarterbacks are signed 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:40.760 long term? 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.320 Here's what they have here, so they have they break 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.920 them down by ranking so once again, uh, twenty percent 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.920 for quarterback, thirty percent for roster, twenty five percent for 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.760 front office, twenty five percent for coaching. So the Eagles 0:14:55.840 --> 0:15:02.640 have overall roster minus QB number one, QB number eight, 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.640 coaching number ten. I think I'd be I think if 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.360 I was the ego's coaching staff, I'd be like, what 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:11.400 what do you mean number ten? 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.200 Well, the run off they got poached. They've gotten poached. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.160 So you can't depend on your coaches because usually they 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.600 go on to become head coaches elsewhere. Think of the 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.360 Lions right right, Dan Campbell, they would have been high, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.400 but Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn both both get posted 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.440 to be head coaches elsewhere. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.080 So I mean I get that one for the coaching. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.240 Okay, so here's where the Steelers are at number twenty two. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.440 So this is where Wes. So this is a combined 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.480 ranking because Wes was telling us about the overall roster 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.000 minus QB ranked, they had the Steelers ranked twenty third. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:47.520 Yeah. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.080 Yeah, that that was our gutting point. That that got 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.160 our that got our uh yeah, that was our that 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.280 got our browns furled. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:55.120 Was just a little bit. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.640 Yeah, that was our number one complaint, especially for this year, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.520 like I could see, okay, maybe the future. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.440 Okay, I get it, you know you don't. You don't 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.240 have an Aaron Rodgers. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.600 After this year's solution, you're gonna have to go find 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:07.520 another quarterback. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.960 But again, minus QB, minus QB, that's what I say. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.800 I mean, I get, I get that, but it's just 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.080 it's so weird for this year, like with Jalen Ramsey 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.640 and with dk Metcalf and and with like you said. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.520 Darius slay One thorn Hill. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.720 I mean, you have so many different and you have 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.120 a super young offensive line exactly that's here for the 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:28.920 next three years. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.560 Right, So you have you have the offensive line. So 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.200 you're gonna you're gonna be missing Somala. Well, everybody's gonna 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.160 be missing somebody. You you have a you have a place, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.400 a very plausible replacement, and then you can go get 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.240 more guys in the draft. Right, and again we're not 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.200 talking about the quarterback position. You trade it for dk 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.280 met guy, then you signed him to a long term deal. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.960 He's still in his prime. So and then you drafted 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.320 Caleb Johnson at the running back position, and your your 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.400 receivers are young, you're hoping Roman Wilson emerges. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.040 And you know so that you got two young guys, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.320 I mean Calvin Austin as well. You tighten you hope 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.400 he eop he hope he comes into his. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.639 Own right, Your tight ends are fine? Right? Yeah? 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.000 You know so, uh so most of that offense minus 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.399 the quarterback. And again, and that's not part of this exercise. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.440 They're here through twenty three, right or twenty twenty seven 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:22.840 through twenty seven, Yeah, the next three years. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:23.240 I'm sorry. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.920 Yeah, so they're here through twenty seven for the next 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.760 three years. So that's shaping up pretty solid. Remember again, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.879 this is this is no quarterback, right yeah. And then defensively, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.359 they're talking about the aging guys. Well, okay, so if 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.560 you want to say, hey, three years from now, you 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.880 know Cam Hayward's not gonna be the same player, or 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:45.760 you know, you know Darius Slay is going to be gone. Okay, Well, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.040 you signed TJ. Watt to an extension that keeps him here. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:51.399 You have high Smith on the other side, you have 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.960 herbig backing them up this year. There's way is to 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.840 draft young guys. So you got it. You got a 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.960 Jack Sawyer. We'll see if he's a guy who's capable 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.440 of emerging as a good pass rusher. The D line. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.240 You short up your D line should be they'll continue 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.720 to add to that. But that's in pretty good shape. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:14.119 Jalen Ramsey's here for another couple of years. Joey Porter junior, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.120 you should be able to, you know, hopefully keep here 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.840 for a few more years. Again, this sort of notion 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.720 that it's an aging roster. Maybe in a couple of spots. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.840 I think the defense, the defense is what I would say, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.160 more mature, but I don't think that's a bad thing. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.639 They should be at their prime. I think this is 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.439 how Max. This is kind of how it goes around 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.159 the NFL, right, Like you you know, one unit is 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.119 generally speaking going to be younger than the other. You know, 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.720 you put your money into something and then you know 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.680 you're drafting or or a position group. You're drafting younger guys. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.080 So those younger guys are on rookie deals. I mean, 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:53.720 you know the best time to have that. You know, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.280 that quarterback is if he hits it big young man. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.359 You got him on a rookie deal for a few years. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.280 You don't have to pay him fifty million dollar a 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.399 year now you can sprinkle that around the rest of 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:07.680 your roster. So roster construction, you know, units one aging 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.800 one younger. Okay, so you know maybe you know, I 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.160 think they'll continue to draft offensive lineman probably every year. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.840 You certainly are going to have to go out, it 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.800 would seem, and go get a quarterback. You know, that's 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.359 something they've talked about, a young quarterback. But you know, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.200 that's how it works, you know what I mean, That's 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.240 how you go out and you get a guy. And 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.080 then again we're talking about the non quarterback position. I 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.480 look at the rest of the roster. I think it's 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.560 set up well for the next three years. I don't 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.159 think it's set up like the twenty second the twenty 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.879 third best roster for the next three years. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:42.879 I just I don't see it. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:43.240 Max. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.560 I feel like they got the ranking confused with our 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:50.320 draft position, right, because that's usually the race we're usually 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.440 drafting somewhere between eighteen and twenty three. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.120 Right, I mean, that's how it's been. 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.520 We don't get because you're saying, now, if we're the 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.400 twenty second best roster, let's inverse that right with draft order. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.600 So you're saying we're going to be a top ten 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.520 drafting team in three years. That's that's what they're saying. 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.560 That's what that's what the twenty two overall score is saying. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.480 Is that pretty soon? And so again the bold prediction. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.199 The Steelers will finish with five or fewer wins in 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:21.200 twenty twenty seven. After an unsuccessful twenty twenty five campaign 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.520 with Rogers. They will make an ill fated attempt to 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.080 compete again in twenty twenty six with an aging roster. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.040 After that fails, they will finally commit to the teardown 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.800