The Pittsburgh Steelers need to sign Nick Herbig to a long-term deal that keeps the defense fresh and pushing forward.

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I'm Chris Carter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, we got a fun show lined up for you, a call in question about the different field of the draft, but could that lead to positivity considering some of the recent draft failures of the Steelers organization? Will Patrick Graham switch up the pass rush and boost it by moving some things around. We'll talk about that.

And then, of course, the big topic today,

Nick Herbert wants to stay a Pittsburgh Steeler for life.

But can he get paid without a big edge trade?

I think he can.

And I'm going to talk about that with our friend,

Nick Farabaw of PennLive.com.

We got a lot to talk about today.

Nick, we're starting this because early,

a few, just a few days ago, uh, we had Nick Herbing's agent talking on, uh, the Braden Pahoko show and talking about how, you know, Nick Herbig wants to be a stealer for life.

And granted, most guys that are in a contract year, once you say I want to be

X team for life because that's going to help them get a chance to get paid. But Nick,

looking at the situation of Nick Herbig, they have T.J. Watt under, you know, a huge pay scale.

They have Alex Highsmith under a decent bill. And they didn't flip either of them or Nick Herbig, you know,

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