Steelers Burning Question: Stay Put, Sign, or Trade?
Last season I did the Friday Night Steelers Six Pack and wondered if it was worth doing further. After all, interaction was not great, and sometimes you just have to adjust. So I decided to call an audible, and not just abandon the Friday night meeting of the black-and-gold minds.
Instead of six questions, I wanted to focus solely on one question.
We’ll still do the preamble of what you’re eating/drinking/listening to, but we’ll focus our attention on the one Steelers question of the week. Don’t worry, most weeks I’ll do a bonus/extra credit question for fun. With all that out of the way, let’s get to the question!
The Steelers now find themselves in a similar situation with their wide receive room as to 2024. Most fans are assuming, or hoping, the team will be adding a wide receiver in some capacity. But the question is how they will add that receiver?
Current Roster
Free Agency
Trade
After last season, I’ll say I won’t be putting any actual faith in the team to execute a trade. Will they try? I’m sure they will, but as we learned last year, it doesn’t mean it will happen. If I had to guess, they’ll either stick with the current roster, or go into the season with the receivers they have.
Do I love that idea? No, but I’m just being a realist.
EXTRA CREDIT: What was your first album you purchased with your own money? For me I broke it down into categories…
Tape: Bon Jovi “Slippery When Wet”
CD: Bryan Adams “Waking Up the Neighbors” (not proud of that one lol)
What say you?
As for what I’m eating, it’s “smash” burgers with salad. As for drink, it’s always store bought kombucha, as usual, and the tunes will be our youngest daughter’s favorite artist, Kacey Musgraves, on vinyl!
Happy Friday everyone!!
I’d much prefer a trade, will accept FA, and standing pat doesn’t work, unless a clear find from rookie minicamp emerges.
Chef’s salad and Smithwick’s, boring and true. Movie night with family, no tunes. First tape I purchased was by The Police, Outlandos d’Amour.
Think it was ’78, before SB XIII.
I’m gonna shock —- absolutely nobody! Enjoying a few Sun King GJFs this evening, heading to a company party to enjoy some BBQ in a little while.
As to the question, I have no feel for and really no preference for whether we bring somebody else on for the WR room. I feel like we WILL do so eventually, but I (personally) like the patience this team has shown throughout this process. So, I’m good with them bringing someone else on — whether through a trade, free agency OR even discovering/signing one of the UDFAs/tryouts this weekend.
Dang, as far as my first album (yep I’m that old, it was definitely vinyl of the 33 RPM variety). That’s going back a hell of a long way for me but IF I recall correctly, it may have been the original Boston release in 1975. I was a freshman in HS and I got that bad boy at release day (I STILL own it in fact as it’s sitting in a protective plastic sleeve here at the house). That’s the best my memory can do. IF it wasn’t the original Boston album, it was likely one of the Beatles early albums that I picked up. Yes, I’m that old…
Just a number, SteelYinzer.
That’s absolutely true Matt. Although, some days, my knees remind me that the number in question is getting up there… LOL
So you graduated in 78-79?
Was born in 78 🙂
1978! It was a very good year! LOL, you youngster! 😉
Eating chicken strips, and some black beans mixed with garbanzos. Not my best work, but better than you might think.
Drinking a lime seltzer at the moment, but just picked up a hazy IPA mix pack from Sierra Nevada – it was on sale. How bad can it be for $15.00?
Listening to Outcast, and Glass Animals channels shuffle on Pandora.
My guess is they’ll pick up a free agent, and we’re gonna do 24 all over again.
I’m still processing the GP trade, and I’ll get beyond it I’m just really disappointed that we’re doing this again. On that topic, was there really anywhere else he was gonna go than Dallas? I mean come on Jerry, your like a parody of yourself at this point.
First album? Hmmm good question. I’d guess it’d be one of the Kiss albums from the 80’s. Which is hilarious, because I can’t turn Kiss off fast enough now, but 12 year old JoeBwan liked them for a minute. I didn’t need to spend money on music, my mom had a lot of really good stuff so I mostly listened to her catalog.
I’m hoping against hope for Chicago to release Moore. Johnson apparently isn’t a Moore fan. Don’t know if Khan would be into Moore’s price point, but Moore is a chain mover that has 4-1000 yd seasons under his belt.
Chicken Kebabs – marinated chunks of chicken, red bell pepper and onions.
i doubt there is a trade, unless it is during training camp. I would prefer they sign 1 or 2 free agents through camp and then scour the camp cuts to see if they can improve the WR room.
i can’t remember the first album I bought, but I do know the first one I was ever given – Tchaichovsky’s 1812 Overture / Nutcracker Suite, with Robert Sharples conducting the London Symphony, which I was given sometime in the mid 60s. I was 8 or 9. If I had to guess which album I ever bought for myself it would have been Maynard Ferguson’s MF Horn 2. I played trumpet in jazz band and he was big back then.
Tape, Vinyl, CD or MP3 – depends on the decade
i spent a ton of money in the late ‘70s and through the early ‘90s on stereo equipment, vinyl and CDs. In the mid-70’s, I first started buying 8-Track tapes because we only had a player in the den. Then I bought a compact stereo (turntable/radio) with a built-in 8-Track player recorder and switched to vinyl and making 8-track mix tapes. Then I bought higher end separate stereo components and switched to cassette mix tapes. Later when CDs came out, I stopped buying vinyl.
In the late ‘90s I spent a lot of my free time burning my 400+ vinyl records onto my computer at CD-quality and copying back to CD-Rs and making CD-R mixes. Finally, when I was given an 160GB iPod, I copied all my music onto my computer as MP3s to sync to first the iPod and then iPhones.
I later sold the vinyl since I had it all on CD and now just play all my 14,500+ Rock, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Oldies, Country songs on random play from my iPhone both in the car and at home. I also have a decent classical music collection.
That is a wild journey whogastim!
Admirable dedication, whogastim!
Leftover chicken fajitas for breakfast with liquid IV infused water. Getting ready to cut grass with moe on Pandora
Stay put and wait for camp cuts.
First tape was appetite for destruction. First cd was Pearljam 10 (don’t like either band anymore)
Chicken burgers, cucumber salad on a tv tray.
I can barely remember my first car, let alone the music.
I don’t think we’re spending any draft capital this year, maybe we spend some cash on FA’s or camp cuts. Sounds like Omar is ok with the WR room as it is, so who knows which way we go.
My best case would be to gamble, not bring in Rodgers, bet on Mason for the season. If he busts, go after a QB. If he’s a winner, think of all those picks we’ll have to round out a the team.
I am 100% down with this plan of attack junebug!
Agreed. Rent a UFL QB for camp, see if he beats out Thompson for 3rd and proceed ahead.
Roc Taylor and Roman Wilson hype train passengers rise up.