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The Terrible Podcast - Steelers Podcast via Steelers Depot

The Terrible Take - Episode 1438 - February 9, 2025

The Terrible Podcast - Steelers Podcast via Steelers Depot

The Terrible Podcast

Sports, Football

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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February 9, 2025 - For Episode 1,438 this Sunday afternoon, Dr. Melanie Friedlander explains why Steelers fans should probably brace themselves for the reporting on who the next QB will be in Pittsburgh. steelersdepot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8

Welcome to The Terrible Take, a daily segment telling Steeler Nation what's on our minds.

0:35.0

I'm Melanie Friedlander.

0:36.6

As we approach free agency, Steelers fans need to be

0:39.7

prepared for the endless cycle of speculation and rumors, updated regularly by the NFL insiders.

0:45.4

And by updated, I really mean repeated, because there won't be that many actually significant

0:50.2

updates along the way. But when the story involves well-known skill position players,

0:55.0

any scrap of information generates interest, and views, and clicks. With the Steelers once again

1:01.0

missing a starting quarterback, we can expect that to dominate the headlines until Justin Fields

1:05.0

and or Russell Wilson sign a new deal, either to stay in Pittsburgh or move on to another team.

1:12.6

Both Fields and Wilson have been vocal about their desire to stay in Pittsburgh. Art Rooney, too, has been clear about the

1:16.6

team's intention to sign at least one of them, but never clarified which quarterback was the priority.

1:22.4

There is certainly some truth to what they're all saying, and there is also a PR factor as well.

1:28.4

For both Fields and Wilson, the easy and smart move is to stay they want to stay with the team they played for

1:32.9

most recently. Why say anything negative about the team you may be returning to? There's literally

1:37.8

nothing to gain. That's all on the surface, of course. For all we know, the Steelers have

1:42.8

already made an offer to Wilson and it's sitting on his agent's desk while he waits to see if there's any interest from other

1:47.8

teams. Supposedly, the Giants could come calling. Or Wilson's camp created that rumor for bargaining

1:53.2

power. It's likely that Fields does want to stay with the Steelers, but maybe he is pushing for

1:58.6

assurances that he will be the starter. Or maybe he wants to test the market and see what his price tag could be in a year where there

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