What are the Top 5 moves the Steelers have made this offseason?
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What are the hosts' initial thoughts on the Steelers' offseason?
You can listen to this show or any of our shows on demand. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. Donnie Football in for Pomp and Joe on this Friday the 13th. Austin Bechtold is with me behind the glass. Noah Hiles will join us in about 15 minutes to talk a little Buccos. I believe he is still down in Bradenton. That's where the morning show is going starting on Monday. Callis included. So a big step for us that work full-time behind the glass. Callis getting sent to Bradenton with Crowley and Doran. Doran was in a panic today. One of his teeth... Got chipped up, so he had to go get that fixed. Yeah, it was wild how he was explaining how the process works to fix that. He also doesn't have a real ID or a passport, and that is a headache if you're trying to travel via air.
Well, don't they have to send you a new license through the mail? I think you have a couple of options. You either do that or you just go to the DMV. Sarah got hers through the mail a couple of years ago, but I went to the DMV and went through that process.
I did too. I had to go last year because it expired and got the real ID and it has a real ID logo on it. You can't fly without a real ID or else you have to pay a huge fee.
Yeah, I don't—see, I don't think it's—I don't know if it's a huge fee, but you do have to pay something, and you also have to fill out some sort of paperwork. It's just more of, like, a pain than anything. Isn't it, like, $45?
I guess that's not huge, but it's still $40. Yeah, I think it's, like, $50. It's still, like, $50. I mean, I'd rather have $50 than spend it on that.
Yeah, and then you have to fill out a paper or something like that, and— go from there. So it's like not the end of the world, but it's just an inconvenience for you. So those guys are out there starting on Monday. We'll talk to Noah in a little bit. Jesse Marshall will join us to talk Penguins at 1 o'clock. But Austin, I wanted to power rank our top five Steelers moves so far. This offseason. This doesn't necessarily have to be just signings and trades. This could be other things that they have done or considered this offseason. We can alternate here and then at the end we will give our full list. So kind of how we do it on Thursday afternoons. I will go 5-3-1. You can do 4-2 and then we will eventually...
reveal our list one through five. Number five for me is signing Jamel Dean. Maybe a little bit low. Three years, $36-plus million for him. This is a corner that has a Super Bowl ring. I think it's played some pretty good football. A few things to worry about, one of them also being his age because he is on the doorstep of magic number 30. But Dean has put some good football out there, and it makes me feel better. That made me feel better right away about their secondary than it did last season. You already have Jalen Ramsey here, and Joey Porter is, contrary to some belief, starting to become a pretty good young corner player. in this league. Dean is somebody who the metrics have backed up a lot. The advanced metrics for sure.
He does very well in. I know that we like pro football focus when they are nice to our players. We hate them pretty much any other time. They love this dude. He was one of the best corners in football according to the Bible that is pro football focus. So that's number five for me. Jamel Dean. Number four? Well, I had signing Jamel Dean at number four.
So let me give you an honorable mention for me. Rico Dowdle is what I consider as an honorable mention. I'll give you my five and Rico Dowdle as the HM. Dowdle is a thousand yard back. You might wonder, Austin, why is he just an honorable mention? to your list because at number five, I have shopping Patrick queen. I think trying to acquire a draft pick for a player who sure is a hundred tackle guy, but has not lived up to the contract that he was paid and also can kind of get lost in translation on the defense is the green dot guy. I just don't feel like Patrick Queen has played well enough. He's had good moments. He's had good games against the Ravens, his former team.
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