00:00he gets up and walks away again we'll know there may be further news in the meantime time for a
00:04little hawk talk andrew hawkins has an opinion that we all want to hear that is a good picture
00:08thank you a lot less wrinkles back then i think the pittsburgh steelers are going to get to the
00:13playoffs and win a playoff game for the first time in a long time because they have aaron rogers
00:17we've heard aaron rogers talk about his mindset going to is what he thinks is going to be his last
00:22season i think this situation in pittsburgh is actually the situation we thought he was walking
00:27into with the jet where he doesn't have to be his all-star self to make this team better we've seen
00:32mike tomlin do this with quarterbacks who are much less than what aaron rogers has at 42 years old
00:36you buy it yeah i'm definitely buying the one difference between this situation that's a little
00:40worse than the jet situation is this division is going to be a little bit more consistently tough
00:45and i think that the point that you're making is right hog is that if the jets wanted so much from
00:50aaron rogers the steelers aren't asking a whole lot from him they may ask him to work his magic in
00:56late game situations occasionally but most of it is like hey be smart with the football we're going
01:01to keep you in the game you're going to be safe and you can use your talents because we saw in
01:04certain situations last year the arm isn't gone like aaron rogers still has talent i think putting
01:09a team on his back is something that you can't quite do anymore you know it's interesting because
01:12we're talking about the dallas cowboys and repeating what they've done in the past and doing
01:17the same thing over again moving slowly in all these contracts the pittsburgh steelers for years have done
01:22things the exact same way this feels like the first off season where they broke the mold and
01:28acted very unstealer like they traded for dk metcalf they traded for jalen ramsey they traded for john
01:36who smith they signed aaron rogers they did a lot of things that stealer teams in the past wouldn't
01:44have done they've never been one of the most aggressive teams in the league they have relied on
01:50drafting their players developing them leaning on the values of being a pittsburgh stealer this
01:55was not your pittsburgh stealer's father's off season they broke the mold and acted in ways that
02:02this team has it they recognize that they had lost six straight playoff games and it was time to try
02:08to do something different this was a radical departure from what they've done in other off season
02:13it's an important point for all the stealer fans who were saying we need to do something different the
02:16definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again i think a lot of them from the
02:21sense i get externally was they thought they needed to make a change in the coach i think that they did
02:26the right thing by keeping the coach because he's a great coach and changing around the philosophy
02:29because the philosophy had gotten stale and by the way as to the division i understand why you say that
02:34the ravens are really good but the bengals best defensive player just drove home to jacksonville don't
02:39know where he is the browns are we're talking about them like they may have the first pick in the draft
02:43next year the nfc north nfc east afc west i think are all better divisions i think the stealers as
02:49they were a year ago and they surprised people by doing it will be right there to the finish in that
02:54i think you're absolutely right i i would say the one thing that they aren't doing that's unusual in
02:58mold breaking is they are paying you brought up trey hendrickson they're paying their older defensive
03:03end because they are serious about making some sort of run to your point everything all the decisions
03:09that were made were different but they were aligned they were consistent with what it appeared that
03:14they wanted to do the bangles those decisions don't seem consistent with like signing t higgins that
03:20seems consistent with all right we're making a run with this core that we have not signing trey
03:24hendrickson or shamar stewart is not consistent so i think in that division they can feel comfortable
03:29that they're at least run better than the bangles the steelers
03:32that's right
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