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DK's Double Shot of Steelers: Move the money

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

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode: The Steelers have grossly overspent on defense the past couple of seasons, and it's well past time their resources get run toward the other side. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's three Daily Shot podcasts -- one each on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates -- every weekday morning, plus the all-new DOUBLE SHOT show that follows up at 4:30 p.m. Eastern!

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0:00.0

So the money's over here on the defensive side, and it's been there for a while,

0:14.5

and a lot of the money's going to move over here by natural extension.

0:25.6

That in and of itself could be really interesting this offseason.

0:26.4

Good afternoon to you.

0:27.7

Good Wednesday afternoon.

0:29.6

I'm Dan Kovachvich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports.

0:31.0

This is the new double-shot show.

0:33.4

It comes your way every weekday afternoon.

0:37.5

The offense is going to have to pay a quarterback.

0:45.0

My feeling, actually, my hope is that it'll be Justin Fields.

0:48.4

Justin Fields is going to end up making, I don't know,

0:55.5

fresh off being a backup and knowing that the Steelers are going to have to get some sort of veteran to support him, you're probably talking somewhere in the range of around 20 million, maybe three years

1:01.9

and 60 guaranteed. He's not going to say no to that. And then you're going to have to pay somebody

1:08.2

else, kind of that Mitch Trubisky wage, you know, the 10 million or so. So you're putting, you're going to have to pay somebody else kind of that ms trubisky wage you know the 10

1:11.3

million or so so you're putting you're putting around 30 into the position whereas you put

1:16.5

almost nothing into it this past year so some of the money that was going over here obviously

1:25.7

has to make it over here. But that can't be it. That can't be it. Because one of

1:33.4

the things that you've seen, well, two of the things that you've seen in recent weeks here is,

1:38.0

one is that the defense wasn't worth it. Whatever they were getting paid for a whole bunch

1:42.7

of reasons wasn't worth it but offensively

1:47.4

it affects your defense we saw this time and time again heck even when the Steelers were

1:53.9

winning in the 10 and 3 stretch we saw it where the offense would just three and out too often

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