We spend endless hours debating what the Steelers will do this offseason. (Some more than others.) It’s insufferable. Non-stop yak, yak, yak. Most of it about the quarterback position.
Here’s a shortcut. Here’s what the Steelers won’t do this offseason:
• Trade for Matthew Stafford.
• Get Aaron Rodgers.
• Sign any free agents of legit note. (Patrick Queen is their ceiling. Meh, in other words. They got Russell Wilson last season because he came cheap.)
• Make any meaningful changes to their administration or method of football.
Are you starting to get the picture?
The Steelers will do nothing of note. They’re just going to run it back. Show up, be the Steelers, and hope that’s enough.
We (mostly you) are wasting a lot of breath. Any discussion is moot.
Coach Mike Tomlin promised change at season’s end.
But none of significance got made with the coaching staff. A few comings and goings based on expiring contracts, but that’s it. (They got a New Castle guy to coach the inside ‘backers. Keep it local! Yay!)
Either Wilson or Justin Fields will be the quarterback. Probably the former. The latter will see better opportunity elsewhere, not least because Tomlin will never let him develop via taking risk.
Wilson also has the backing of the owner, who is a less flamboyant Jerry Jones. He has no football background beyond inheriting the Steelers’ purse strings.
The Steelers won’t get a wide receiver of note unless they draft one. They played all of last season without a No. 2 wideout.
The Steelers will get a token free agent. The marks will immediately overestimate him like they did Queen.
The Steelers will draft the best athlete available. I can’t believe he was still on the board.
The Steelers won’t fix anything, not really. They will fill holes, but more will open up. The Steelers don’t know how to build to a peak.
The Steelers will get roughly the same results and wind up in approximately the same place, the same mushy middle.
Worst of all, it will look and feel exactly the same.
The Steelers are boring. Mind-numbingly so. They’re content to be stale.
That is all the people to know about the Steelers’ offseason. You watch and see if I’m not right.
One potential highlight: The Steelers might sign running back Najee Harris to an extension that pays him more next season than he would have made had the Steelers picked up the fifth-year option on his rookie contract. How stupid is that?
The only mystery is what the Steelers do with nutty wideout George Pickens. I bet he stays.
T.J. Watt get his contract extended even if he did fade this past season. Wouldn’t want Watt to know an unpleasant moment.