I'm not sure, but it's not all on Mike
Tomlin making these decisions. It's, it's the organization
, it's the quarterback, but we leading off with
Mike Tomlin playing with fire. And as I said
to you the other day, Joy, I said
, I said, look, All the blame is
gonna go on Mike T. He ain't gonna get
none of the credit. If Aaron Rodgers decides to
do something different, They stuck with Mason Rudolph.
If Aaron Rodgers decide that he's gonna play for the
Steelers and it doesn't go nearly as well as we
think it should go. They're gonna say Mike Thomas
should have never brought him in. They're not gonna
say Aaron Rodgers is a bum. If he wins
, TJ. It's because of Aaron Rodgers, because
Mike Tomlin hadn't won since Ben Roethlisberger, and he's
gone through a litany of quarterbacks. So he's in
a lose-lose situation, especially since this thing is carrying
on even further now. He left the building today
without an agreement. It doesn't mean he doesn't have
a contract. It just means he hasn't agreed to
it. And typically, from my history of covering
the game and planning the game and being a free
agent, when you leave the building, You usually
don't come back. That means that you, cause
they wanna get it done right now. They get
close to you. They wanna touch you, they
wanna be able to feel you, see you.
They don't want you leaving. Cause if you leave
, you can wind up going to Cleveland or wind
up going to the Giants or something along those lines
. So, you know, it'll be interesting to
see how this thing finally unfolds though. Paul,
you think he's playing with 5? They're dealing with
a firestorm down there, Joy. I, I
, I, I like, cause if they don't
sign Aaron Rodgers, which is probably the best option
moving forward if they wanna continue this playoff streak and
then you add a DK. Where, where do
you go from there? Cause uh, is Russell
gonna swallow his pride and say, I'll come back
for the simple fact that they was like, hold
on, Russ, we, we don't know if
we want you back. We, we're, we're
trying to see if we can get an upgrade for
you. So, This can leave Pittsburgh in such
a bad position moving forward. Mike Thomas, like
I said, his playoff streak is on the line
based on who's gonna be the quarterback this coming year
, and, you know, I would have never
even entertained Rogers first of all, because I knew
what kind of show that was gonna be. I
would have stuck, I would have kept everything in-house
. I would have, I would have Russ Fields
, I would have worked with that first, you
know, at the beginning it was like you thought
it'd be one of them. Who. I said
, man, she look good though. She look
at Aaron Rodgers, they looking at Aaron Hay Rodger
. They looking at the accolades. They look at
all that like, yeah, they're just overlooking the
last couple of years, the weather, the work
it's not as tight you know. just like going
to one of them, them parties. Oh yeah
. The memory of that. I always say it
, Joey though it, it, whether it's coach
Tomlin, whether it's the front office, the general
manager, whoever it is, they always look at
the athlete that is at the back end of his
career and really don't have as much to offer.
They wanna try to squeeze the last little juice they
can out of him, you know, they're like
, man, we can work with him. We
, we think we can do something.