Fans are furious and rightly so.

I don't get that sense at all from the players.

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I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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Having spent a good chunk of last week in Bradenton, Florida,

among the many things I tried to gauge from countless conversations with players and others,

was their thoughts on the state of the team.

And I know that sounds like the most boring possible thing you can bring up but you'd be

surprised at the variety of answers the variety of very real sentiments that can

come from that and I'm gonna give you three general not universal general

consensus sentiments that I picked up from these guys.

Number one, and I do mean number one, is that they're so confident, so supremely confident in this starting rotation, that they feel the sky's the limit, that they feel they're going to be able to surprise probably

pretty much everybody.

A few of them spoke with me about the way they feel as a team when they walk into a visiting

stadium and they look at their starters for that upcoming series and they see Skeen's, Jones, and Keller, they're not exactly going to be cringing from whatever challenge they face.

I get that.

I respect that.

I think that's a fair way for them to feel.

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