You know, one of the things that has me excited, and I think that is the appropriate word for how I'm feeling heading to La Trobe later this morning, is that I feel with this franchise right now, it's, it's, how do I put this?

It's like a cornered, wounded animal, and I like it. Good morning to you. Good. And I mean,

very good Wednesday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is Daily Shot of Steelers.

It comes your way bright and early every weekday. That'll be coming to you from St. Vincent College in La Trobe, Pennsylvania for the foreseeable future.

As players begin reporting at 10 a.m. They'll be available coming into the

dorms until around 1 or 1.30 p.m. Run test is at 4. Mike Tomlin is around 4.30. There will be

interviews galore. There's going to be news coming out of those. And there's going to be, I can

promise you this in advance

a sense of urgency attached to this entire process that will not have been matched by anything

in recent years now i can get you know really specific here and say just because, you know, Mike Tomlin

wants it and he's tired of losing in the first round of the playoffs year after year, and that he was

part of building up this roster in a way that gives him a chance, one big chance to go out like a winner. But for me,

that's oversimplification. Even if it's accurate, it's oversimplification. Because what I could do for

you here right now, I'm not going to because it would take forever. But I could go through all 22

of the projected starters on either side of the ball.

And I could identify for you something that they'd feel legitimately that they need to prove,

whether it's to themselves, whether it's to their new employer, whether it's to their old employer,

whether it's to their teammates, whether it's to the city, who knows, whatever it is, every single guy.

And within that, I could also outline why none of them individually or together are equipped

with any excuses outside of not having all that much familiarity because of those 22 players nine of them

will have been new since the end of last season so what do they get one month of grace is it three

weeks before they go to Ireland to face a very good Minnesota team three weeks of grace no excuses

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