While all conversations currently lead to the quarterback position, quite honestly, they should,

I feel like it's also worth wondering, independent of that, if the offense as a whole, has gotten better since

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offer daily shots of penguins and pirates in the same place that you found this. Tomorrow

marks the opening of rookie minicamp. It's a three-day event. Saturday will be the only day

that it's open for media access. So there's something on our immediate horizon, meaning something substantive from the

coverage standpoint.

And within that, it's going to be the first time that we're going to lay eyes on a lot of

these new people with some of these rookies expected, and I do mean expected, to make an

immediate impact offensively, defensively, and on special teams.

I can comfortably say that one of the reasons that I'm okay with saying stuff like you don't

need Aaron Rogers around, let the current quarterbacks go at it, is that I see the offense that'll be around

whoever this team's quarterback is as being more solid, more dependable, and deeper, albeit

not that different, at least not from the personnel perspective. Hear me out on this,

because it's not super clear cut. For example, I see here and read people constantly saying,

well, they're better at running back because they still have Jalen Warren and they have replaced

Kenny Gainwell with Rico Doudal.

And the numbers would appear to support that strongly.

But Gainwell was your team MVP in 2025, and that wasn't for nothing.

So I'd prefer to see that with my own eyes versus just presuming it.

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