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Doesn't matter how many offensive weapons we get, the defense can't stop anyone

 

Looks like they gave it a try with the splash trade and signings. Didn’t work out and, rather than investing more future capital, they are throwing in the towel

 

Hopefully this kills off any dumb talk of trading away draft picks for a WR in another failed attempt to win a playoff game.

 

That might be the point of the signing. They are trying to do a Bengals approach by 'loading up' offense to cover for a sad defense. It kinda has worked for the Bungals. Problem for the Steelers? MVS ain't Chase, or Higgins, or even their WR3.

 

These things aren't mutually exclusive.

Just because they signed a WR (probably a WR3/4) doesn't mean they aren't doing other things.

They already signed a safety when we lost Elliott earlier in the season (Peppers).

And the DL is pretty deep. I like Ekuale. But he's played 72 snaps this year (14%). Although he is playing NT where we don't technically have another guy. Will be interesting to see how we handle this. Do we just have someone like Black take those snaps? He's certainly big enough for it.

There's a quote in here from Austin (Sept 21) re: Black at NT. Sounds like they were open to having him play there. But with Ekuale there, they could move Black outside. Maybe they move him inside for some snaps with Ekuale out. Probably better than just picking someone off the scrap heap IMO.

 

I read this morning that Ekuale (torn ACL) is out for the rest of the season.

 

Hey, you leave Bobby Nutbag out of this