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The Pittsburgh Steelers are hoping that Russell Wilson and Justin Fields can help out a team that many believe was a quarterback away from competing last season.
One analyst doesn’t believe it will be enough and that in order to turn around a franchise that has been spinning its wheels in the mud over the last few years, they should trade their franchise player and ship T.J. Watt out of town.
Jason McIntyre filled in for Colin Cowherd on The Herd today and said the team needs to put Watt on the trading block to turn around the franchise, saying “It’s not a defensive league…every playoff game they’ve been to and gotten smashed in the last six years, they’re giving up 30, 40 points…so what’s the point of being built around defense?”
.@jasonrmcintyre says the Steelers should trade T.J. Watt to turn around the franchise pic.twitter.com/1fXKAD9Whx
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) August 23, 2024
McIntyre acknowledged that it’s a controversial idea, but for a team that has the most expensive defense in the league, paying these guys isn’t bringing the results the team needs and is hindering their future.
Watt will turn 30 in October and McIntyre believes he could fetch a pair of first-round picks in return and get this team closer to landing the elite quarterback it needs to finally get out of the mediocrity it has been in for years.
This is a brutal idea for Steelers fans to stomach, but if things go poorly during this season, it’s not a crazy idea.
The quarterback situation has to improve with Russ and Fields under center, and if it doesn’t, McIntyre is correct…what is the point of paying a defense this much if the offense is consistently this bad?
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