When NFL players retire, and I'm talking about players of all kinds, all positions, all personalities, they should all get into the business of instructing social media. Good morning to you. Good. Thursday morning,

I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is daily shot of Steelers. It comes your way

bright and early every weekday. If you're into hockey and or baseball, I also offer daily shots of the other two

teams in town that I cover, the Penguins and the Pirates, and I hope you'll check both of those

out as well. T.J. Watt posted a picture with no caption, no explanation, no additional clues on his Instagram account yesterday.

And it is plain and simple, not doctored, not a-eyed, him walking off the field in a road uniform holding up a peace sign.

Well, there went the internet, at least among the nation.

What's he mean?

No, TJ, don't leave us.

Oh, no.

But if you're tracking closely, and those of us in this line of work kind of have to do that,

you'll know that this is the second such occasion,

except that the other one

was by Big Brother JJ, who used actual words for his in putting forth that, well, his

little bro needs to get paid sooner rather than later. Now, if anybody isn't familiar with

TJ's contract status, he does have one more

year. When you're a player of that caliber in the NFL, you don't enter lame duck seasons.

You get extended and you get meaningfully extended in the off-season that precedes it.

So what's this mean?

Well, first off, I'm not wild about studying social media hints.

To me, you could do that, and I could do every single episode about everybody attempting it.

But this is TJ.

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