Hey everyone, Chris Carter here on the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

Today, I want to talk about the next big thing that's on their docket after the Jalen Ramsey trade,

and that's T.J. Watts contract, but why the Ramsey trade, I think, is a good sign that the Watt contract is going to get done.

That and taking a lot of your questions here in the Locked on Steelers podcast let's get into it you are locked on Steelers your daily

pittsburgh steelers podcast part of the locked on podcast network your team every day hello and welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carter, big of you, get a dose of all things on the Pittsburgh Steelers. As always, you can find the show your favorite podcasting apps and on YouTube, like this video if you enjoy. Subscribe to this YouTube channel to get all of your daily Monday through Friday episodes as well as our bonus content. We thank you for making us your first listen every day because we're your team every day. And today's episode is brought to you by Fandul. Right now, new customers get $150 in bonus bets when you hit on your first bet of $5 or more, more on them later. All right, Steelers fans, let's dive into a few things here. We're going to get back to taking calls with this episode and get back to that kind of regularly throughout the next several episodes because so many of you have left calls. And we only got 20 days before training camp, before Steelers report to training camp, 20 days. Less than three weeks, y'all. That's crazy how fast time flies but with that we're going to be

trying to get through a lot of your questions so we'll do more that but let's talk for a minute we still

don't have the official official contract in you know official numbers and salary cap numbers of what

the jalen ramsie trade with john Smith and Bigger's contract going out,

what all that's going to do to the salary cap.

I saw on SpotRack, it listed the Steelers as $11 million over.

It doesn't really add up when I looked at the over the cap numbers.

That's something I'm trying to still fully understand.

Admittedly, contract and salary cap numbers are not my, how those work in trades and

transactions. That's not my forte in understanding football. So we'll try to get to answer that

when we get a chance. But what I can talk about is why I think the Ramsey trade is more

of a sign that the Watt signing is expected to happen because I really think that there is a link between why

the Steelers specifically wanted to get someone like Jalen Ramsey for this defense and this

short term that is directly linked to them thinking that T.J. Watt is definitely going to be around

for the next two, three, maybe at most four more

seasons. And it's because Jalen Ramsey, more so than Mick of Fitzpatrick, is going to be

able to help against the very thing that has that has kind of slowed up the chance for T.J.

Watt to be a playmaker as well as the Steelers pass rush,

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