Mike Florio

Mike, I'm glad you said that last part here because not that I'm not a born skeptic and cynic, I am.

But I have jousted with Steelers fans who think that they are much closer, like a tweak here, a tweak there, and finding the quarterback.

And then suddenly, not even finding the quarterback necessarily for good, but just finding somebody better at that position from being like a real playoff contender.

I'm glad you brought up that that roster is not what people locally here seem to think that it is.

It's also getting older in a big hurry too.

team that hasn't won a playoff game since 2016 into a team that's going to make a deep run next january mike what would you say to them adding another hole temporarily to their roster an even bigger hole with this hypothetical espn had an article out there about potential trades likely uh to be traded players max crosby and aj brown the very top of the list 60 likelihood these guys get dealt and so they went down the list

Number six on the list at a 25% chance to get dealt, which was better than the chances that Kyler Murray was going to get dealt.

DK Metcalf, a potential trade candidate.

What would you say to that?

Because all the guarantees technically got voided.

They would not have a problem with the cap making a deal involving him.

What would you say to that kind of thing?

What about just replacing in the draft where it's like one of the deepest years we've ever seen among top 100 players that, like, I've heard people say 20 of the top 100 might be wide receivers, Mike?

Well, I mean, would you hate bringing in a veteran player?

Just sprinkling in.

Not like the whole team has to be veteran-laden to...

facilitate older players, but to sprinkle a guy like Trocek in who has been an all-star, obviously has played in the Olympics, things of that nature, played at a high level, I don't know if that would hurt, bringing in another set of veteran eyes.

It's amazing.

Wouldn't you be okay with stunting a little bit of Kendall's growth for this season if you felt like you actually had a legit chance to go through the playoffs, though?

I have a question for you, Pony.