So much about this team's been such a bummer since the end of the season in Baltimore.

And I'm here to share entering the weekend,

what I think is at least one significant ray of sunshine.

Good morning to you. Good Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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pirates in the same place that you found this i'm going to take you back to when these guys were

ten and three one of the common subjects that i had at the time and before that time leading into it was, I think it's a good football team.

And then I kind of graduated to, I think it's a very good football team.

And then, by the time it was 10 and 3, and there had been some other boxes that seemed to be checked,

I at least left open the possibility that it could be even more than a very good team,

and that it actually might do, you know, damage in the playoffs.

I held to that, for the most part, after Philadelphia, saw some things in that game that still looked competitive with what I felt was one of the better teams in the league.

And then...

But if I rewind the clock to not just what I was saying or even what I was thinking,

but what I was feeling about this team back then was more than anything that it had some good

players. And guess what? It still has some good players. And if you had to make some kind of choice,

some grand overarching choice as a general manager between you get to have all these players

or you get to have all these coaches, you get to have all these coaches you'll take the players

every time every every every time is the roster perfect no i was saying that at the time has the

roster been filled with enough young high-end guys from recent drafts? Wow! No! Not at all.

But if you and I went right now, on both sides of the football,

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