It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello, good and everybody and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network.

We join you on what is a summary Thursday here in New York.

Really, as the seasons go right from basically late winter to summer in one day you don't have any

spring anymore yesterday and today have been you know typical summer days it feels like it 85 degrees

here as a matter of fact in sunshine so it took till June, but it is finally here.

A couple of things to get to.

And obviously, I will preview to Belmont Stakesphere, which comes your way Saturday.

It is a field of eight, no triple crown, but a very interesting squaring off between derby winner sovereignty and

freakness winner journalism, who is remarkably in this field and will run in all three races

and had a very hard freakness. And then by Aza back in there too. So you have the three

best horses, three- three year olds in training here

so uh that'll make it a very interesting race couple of things first then i'll get back to the

belmont number one i'm sure you've seen rogers and the steelers uh are finally on the same page he He will get a one-year contract. And it is a little different for the

Steelers. You know, Tomlin has always been in total control.

He has always wanted his players to be what he calls volunteers.

Okay.

He doesn't, he wants team first.

But also, he's always run his offense in complete compliment to his defense, meaning he always has run a run first offense because he has wanted, except for some prolific days with Ben Rutherstberger, but he has wanted to allow that to give his defense enough rest, play a field position game, and let your defense make the plays.

Now, the Steelers will always be a defensive team under Tomlin, but it'll be fascinating to see how much they will allow Rogers to be Rogers. I don't think you bring Rogers in

and install him at this stage of his life in an offense that doesn't fit him. Okay. The Steelers went in this direction, too, by bringing in Metcalf.

So they went and got themselves a very, very talented, explosive receiver

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