Highsmith rumor

If I'm the Steelers I am not trading any of my edge rushers, unless I get an offer I can't refuse.

 

Exactly... They don't have to do anything right now.

 

Not only that, it seems like Watt, Highsmith and Herbig always get banged up and miss a few games each season. I'd keep the group intact, unless I got a ridiculous stupid offer.

 

Currently the Steelers locker room seems to be in really good shape team chemistry wise

To bad Pickens isn’t here to spread his cancer

Wife: Sure am glad I had that mastectomy before the cancer spread through my entire body

Husband: You should have kept that breast it looked great last year

 

One of those things is something tangible and factual. The other is based heavily in speculation and information the team leaked to try to justify a lousy trade. Of course, the apologist among us thoughtlessly swallowed those nuggets and continues to mindlessly regurgitate them all over thread after thread.

 

Some bone head down the street: The doctors lied and faked the mammogram

Every community has that one neighbor

 

Good writers know when their metaphors have failed. Bad ones try to prop them up by insulting those who point out the flaws. The mammogram metaphor is inaccurate and misleading, so I'm not surprised that particular writer chose it.

Every fan group has apologists who just can't accept that their favorite team made a mistake. Watching them twist themselves into rhetorical knots and lash out at anybody who dares apply critical thinking to the situation can be entertaining in its own right, but eventually, it just becomes a bore.

 

don't you just want to hug that?

 

Yes, that bear looks very huggable!

 

I don't see why Kayshon Boutte would want to come to Pittsburgh. To me he would be in a worse situation than in New England. Right now he is on the final year of his rookie contract, so he is going to want to go somewhere where he is at least the teams #2 WR.

In Pittsburgh he is looking at battle with the Rookie for the WR #3 position. Both DK and Pittman are signed for the next 3 years. 2026,2027, and 2028.

 

If his stuff is already cleared out of the locker room, he’s staying injury-free until they trade him.

 

“IF”

 

If we do trade him, we need to do better than Boutte. Highsmith is one of the better edge rusher in the league.

 

I just read a speculation on Highsmith’s absence suggesting this may not be a function of trade but rather him looking at what Herbig just received and now he wants a new contract

A hold out

Considering he has two years left on his contract this would be dumb move to pull on Omar

He won’t negotiate with someone with a contract who does not show up

Highsmith is not in a position with any leverage to hold out