Hello everyone. We are now deep into summer. We're deep into the true NFL offseason.

We've got a new week. So I'm always open to ideas with things to discuss. But I tease this

late last week that I did my X-Factors, which is much

different, and I explained it in that podcast, go check it out, against my make-or-break players.

And a short kind of summary of the difference to me for the Steelers is X-factors are more through the team's lens.

You know, if I'm looking out through the team, man, if Aaron Rogers can get back to being a top

eight quarterback, that's an X factor. But if he's a 20th quarterback, ooh, you know, X factors of how

the season can go.

Where make or break players, to me, is more through the lens of the player in their respective career.

A lot of these guys, it's like, I got to put up or shut up because the NFL moves really fast.

I haven't put enough on tape that either I'm guaranteed a spot on the Steelers roster

or I'm guaranteed much longer to be able to do this for a living amongst any of the 32

teams.

You know what I mean?

Like the NFL is a very unforgiving wilderness.

And so I didn't have any quarterbacks that were make or break.

They've all kind of know where they're at.

Their careers are pretty safe.

And I'm not going to go to the bottom of the roster dudes.

You know, like I didn't dig super, super deep.

That being said, I kind of did it running back, though.

If you don't know, the Steelers have Evan Hull and Trey Sermon on this roster.

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