Brian Batko

He can do it again.

But in that case, it didn't work.

I'm sure there are a lot of people in that Steelers building who thought for sure this was going to be a really good class.

So no shame in thinking that the 2026 group was going to be a lot better at the top, a lot deeper.

It just hasn't worked out that way.

Now, could be a cautionary tale for viewing the 2027 crew in the same way, which a lot of people...

Continue to do.

I was going back and forth with intern Dom about that on Twitter.

Why don't really have a back and forth?

Should he have known you were there?

Yeah, I mean, that could be a genuine misconnection.

But yeah, I'd have to know more about the situation.

If Dom knew you were there, he probably should have reached out.

NFC South, that's kind of what you want.

I think if this class would have shaken out differently and say you had Mendoza and you had Dante Moore come out and you had maybe a Lenora Sellers come out, especially if you'd have had a better season with the Gamecocks, I think they were planning –

to have the ability to do that.

Yeah, but there was also a lot of careful planning, I think, that went into it as far as, you know, the George Pickens trade, working the comp pick.

maybe they'll do that again this offseason and they'll kind of become like the Ravens where they do that with regularity.

They're always one of those teams that gets a bunch of those extra draft picks and they try to move up and down the board every year with a lot of the analytics that go into that thinking too.

So I still think that that is their long-term vision, but I also believe that