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DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK's Daily Shot of Steelers: Bench Justin Fields? Be serious

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Hockey, Steelers, Penguins, Football, Nfl, Matt Williamson, Nhl, Pittsburgh, Mlb, Baseball, Dejan Kovacevic, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Pirates

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Bench Justin Fields? Oh, be serious. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.2

It's on Prime.

0:55.7

Quarterback, really, really? We're going to do quarterback? Come on. Good morning to you. Good. Tuesday morning. I'm Dan Kovanovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Steelers. Comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into hockey and or baseball, I also offer daily shots of penguins and pirates in the same place that you've found

1:01.7

this because I also cover those teams. And those teams also have their own versions of

1:09.1

endless debates about a specific important position.

1:15.1

Only in this instance, I'm not going to lie, I'm really not feeling it.

1:20.7

I'm really not feeling the need to do an episode that says, hey, Justin Fields is your guy.

1:28.1

You're absolutely unequivocally not taking the football away from Fields heading into Las Vegas.

1:34.4

And that doesn't mean that, you know, Russell Wilson is never going to get an opportunity

1:37.9

or Wilson won't be taken seriously if he's a full participant in practice this week.

1:52.4

I just don't see how if you're Mike Tomlin, and my goodness, will this be a unilateral decision?

2:02.7

You can look at that film from that game against the Cowboys and say, ah, that's it, pulling the plug on him.

2:03.3

All done.

2:10.2

When to that point, and arguably including a big chunk of that point,

2:14.2

you were setting yourself up for possibly having,

2:20.3

not just your quarterback of the present, but your quarterback of the future. Because to do something like that, completely disregarding Wilson for the moment, you're going to have to find

2:27.8

some sort of flaw or some sort of significant regression on Fields' part,

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