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I appreciate all of you hanging out with us on a Friday as we rolled into the weekend and there is some good news continuing.

Maybe if you are a Pittsburgh stealer fan Ben Rafflesberger I think this is a big story we're going to break it down a little bit has reduced his pay to fourteen million dollars from nineteen million dollar in the final year of his contract and spread all of that cost through multiple years so the cap hit for his contract has been lowered by over fifteen million dollars so the team can make the right moves and be as competitive as possible that is a quarter.

As a matter of fact, I think it's possible that is according to Adam Shepter who gave me all those details there also there are a lot of teams with a lot of cap room but there are also a ton of teams without much salary cap room I'm going to hit on that a bit as we go forward but the Ben Rafflesberger experience is going to be interesting as we start to look ahead and think about what the Pittsburgh Steelers are capable of they are way over the salary.

Cap right now obviously Rafflesberger helping out a bunch in many ways is a substantial portion there but as you start to look forward the question that I think the Steelers have to ask themselves is this where do they rank right now in the AFC North you know what I always like to do in the NFL a lot of people want to get into the question of hey can this team win the Super Bowl can they not win the Super Bowl there eight divisions and I think that is a great thing for the

Super Bowl.

And I much more often like to consider every team within the context of the division itself.

So let's think about the AFC North here for a moment now that Ben Rafflesberger is effectively returning you got Baker may filled with the brown scene UFOs

Jackson who has had I think it's fair to say not good postseason performances in general he did win his first ever playoff game but then looked very bad against the Buffalo

Bills including that hundred yard interception that he threw that basically ended that game and then you have got a team as you kind of break down the overall AFC North

that it's hard to know very much about the Cincinnati Bengals because Joe burrow showed flashes of really great quarterback play but now he's coming off of a relatively serious injury to his knee that ACL tear so

if you look right now at the AFC North now that we know basically what every team is going to look like at least at the quarterback position now that Ben Rafflesberger is

going to be a lot of different moves in the offseason still to come could probably pick one Lynch pen player and say hey what's going to happen with them is Odell Beckham I know he was injured and the browns played well

without him but what's going to happen with Odell Beckham coming off of his ACL what's going to happen with Budapurri coming off of his ACL with the

Bills when you look at the Baltimore Ravens are they going to go get some playmakers at wide receiver for Lamar Jackson does that fit very well is judon going to be back on the defensive side of the ball

there and then with the Cincinnati Bengals just what is their plan going forward in particular when it comes to surrounding Joe burrow with an offensive line that can protect him

from the Iowa's

I'm going to tell you right now I think the Steelers are the third best team in the AFC North which is kind of unheard of because that is a division that by and large the Steelers have dominated under my

but right now I think in this maybe a crazy opinion I understand some of you are going to reject it as out of hand I think that the browns are in the best possible position in the AFC North right now

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