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00:00And it has been an injury-plagued beginning of career for Russell Wilson, to say the least.
00:09He missed some preseason time just an hour or so, we thought.
00:13All of a sudden, the injury report showed up earlier in the week, George, and Wilson
00:17was declared questionable for the game with a hamstring issue.
00:21You know, I don't know that Fields necessarily outplayed Wilson.
00:25Fields was like okay in the preseason also.
00:28Here's the flip side to this.
00:30First of all, I think Russell Wilson's finished.
00:32He looked finished for a while now, and I know Pittsburgh did this just to secure something.
00:38I think Pittsburgh is probably back in the draft trying for a quarterback after this
00:41year.
00:42But for me, I guess my concern is are they going to let Fields sort of do what he did
00:48in Chicago, which was at some point, if you remember, they didn't let him freelance for
00:53a while.
00:54They didn't want him.
00:55And then he talked about, hey, they're not letting me do what I came here to do.
00:58And then all of a sudden, he did.
00:59And he was great.
01:01But I don't know that that's ever going to be the Steelers' offense.
01:04I think, again, he's a good pivot for love if you have him and he's hurt or in a super
01:09flex league or a two-quarterback league, I would do that.
01:13But beyond that, that's as far as I would go with it.
01:17I think that's all fair.
01:19All fair here.
01:20I might have a little bit more love for Russell Wilson than you do.
01:23He was okay last year.
01:24He wasn't good, but he was okay.
01:27And he moves on here.
01:29Now, I fully believe Fields at this point.
01:32I think Pittsburgh should have anointed him to start.
01:33I think they should have built the offense around him.
01:35I think it's always the big problem.
01:37The offense is not built around Fields.
01:38It's built around Russell Wilson, what he can do.
01:41So it's just not fair to him.
01:43He needs to freelance.
01:44He needs to be moving around the park.
01:45He needs to rush the football.
01:46And you need to get your team aligned with that.
01:49Listen, Russell Wilson is not bringing you anywhere.
01:52At this point in his career, we know what Russell Wilson is, and it's not getting better.
01:56It's getting worse.
01:57There's not a lot of weapons here.
01:58It's George Pickens and prayers.
02:00There's a reason they want to Brandon Ayuk.
02:04We know that.
02:05The running game is okay.
02:06Maybe a tick better than okay, but it's far from anything special.
02:10I know Pat Frye, who signed the big contract, good for him.
02:13He's not special.
02:14So there's a lot of worry here.
02:17I wish they would have gone to Fields from day one.
02:20I did never like that Mike Tomlin anointed Russell Wilson to start.
02:24Why?
02:25This is not the Russell Wilson that won Super Bowls, and he didn't win them for you where
02:28you feel you owe it to him.
02:29All right.
02:30I might feel differently.
02:31If that was the case, he's first year with your team here.
02:34I said, the best thing I can say is I agree with you that another quarterback for next
02:39year's Pittsburgh Steelers is not currently on this roster.
02:43I don't think so, ma'am.
02:44I don't think so.
02:45They tried.
02:46Look, they tried.
02:47They drafted Kenny Pickett.
02:48He was in a poor quarterback class, but they drafted Kenny Pickett and yeah, it just doesn't
02:53seem to have worked for them, just basically with whoever they played a quarterback.
02:57It's hard replacing a Hall of Famer like Ben Roethlisberger.
03:00So in general, the way that the Steelers depth chart sort of lies here is Najee Harris is
03:07probably in line for the biggest workload of anyone, and maybe even Warren is playable
03:11this week, especially if Fields plays Friar Muth, Pickens, Roman Wilson.
03:15I'm a big Pickens fan.
03:17I think Pickens is good, but I just, I don't know.
03:22I would love to see Pittsburgh enter that game with Atlanta, George, and shock us.
03:29If it is Fields, and say, let's let Fields just run.
03:34Let's let him run around.
03:35Let's do something we've never done before.
03:38I don't know.
03:39It's just that they've never done it before.
03:41So I am probably out on a lot of Steelers going into game one.
03:45It's more of a wait and see.
03:46We'll get to Atlanta.
03:47It's going to be a little, I feel much different about Atlanta because I think you got to play
03:49a lot of these guys.
03:50But for Pittsburgh, I think this week is a watching week for me.
03:56You know, I think, I don't think, I mean, I'm in nine fantasy leagues.
04:00I don't think I have any Steeler.
04:03I think I stay away from this team.
04:04I want nothing to do with the quarterbacks, nothing to do with the running backs.
04:08It's not that Najee Harris or Warren are bad.
04:10I just think they're going to split the time there.
04:11You're not going to know who to start week in and week out.
04:14As you said, I love George Pickens.
04:16If you put Pickens with a normal team, with a good quarterback, we're talking about him
04:19being a wide receiver one, you know, or maybe a top-end wide receiver two at worst here.
04:25But he's not.
04:26He's with the Steelers.
04:27He doesn't have anybody.
04:28He's going to see nothing but cornerback ones, double coverage, bracket coverage, coverage
04:32being slanted towards him because every defensive coordinator is going to say, let's stop him.
04:36You stop him.
04:37We stop the passing game, and we'll get the run after that.
04:39All right?
04:40And Pat Freiberg is not a tight end one.
04:42All right?
04:43So this offense is a, I think you call it a work in progress, is being kind.
04:46All right?
04:47There's just not much here.
04:48Like I said, I'll say it again.
04:50There's a reason they wanted Brandon Iuke so much because they needed that kind of receiver.
04:54A second, number one receiver, yeah, that would transform this offense.
04:58But they didn't get him.
04:59Like I said, I think it's going to be a tough time for Steelers to win games.
05:02I mean, Benny White's going to be a lot of unders.
05:04It's the only way they win.
05:05If the game gets to over, they're not winning it.
05:07They're not winning 31-28 shootouts.
05:08They need to win 21-17, 20-0.
05:12That Demus has to play so well.
05:13So much pressure.
05:14Can't make any mistakes.