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

DK’s Daily Shot of Steelers: Unprecedented spree?

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

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Unprecedented spending spree this offseason? 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

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slash UK slash AI for people. There couldn't have been a more predictable move made the entire offseason and the release of Preston Smith.

0:46.8

I'm guessing it's one that completely slipped the collective attention of this particular nation.

0:53.9

It really shouldn't have. Good morning to you. Good Tuesday morning. slipped the collective attention of this particular nation.

0:58.5

It really shouldn't have. Good morning to you. Good Tuesday morning.

1:04.3

I'm Dan Kovachvich 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

1:09.9

daily shots of penguins and pirates in the same

1:12.6

place that you found this. Little extra pep in the step today, if that isn't coming across.

1:19.3

And that's because even though I knew, he knew, you knew, everybody knew, Smith was going to get

1:24.7

released from the moment that he was acquired, no matter how well

1:29.3

he performed, and he did. He had his moments. He played his role fourth outside linebacker,

1:36.1

but there was always going to be a $13.4 million cap savings if he were put out now.

1:44.7

And he just was put out now.

1:48.4

And what that means, I'm going to read this number to you exactly,

1:54.3

is that the Steelers now have cap space of 55,743,775.

2:06.6

So $55.5.7 million, the ninth most of any team in the league entering this off-season.

2:16.7

And one thing I'm going to keep sharing with you because I believe that it's relevant

2:20.8

is that Omar Khan still has the very real capability of being able to reconstruct other contracts,

2:33.1

including however it is that he chooses to handle an extension for

2:39.3

T.J. Watt or a possible extension for Chris Boswell. He can bake into those babies all kinds of

2:47.0

nuance that buys him even more latitude. But it's hard to imagine what he would do with that

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