Best wishes to all of them!!

The thing with the Steelers in this era though is that there really is never a rebuild, at least not in my time following the team. It seems we usually have some incredible scouting that finds talent in a later round than you’d usually find it in the draft and we never really have done a full rebuild like other teams do when they know they’re going to be bad for a long time in order to slowly gain the pieces to eventually be good again. So I feel like the logic of keeping Ben is a combination of knowing we can usually find these hidden talents in the draft and also the fact that any team is gonna sign a player they know is talented before signing someone unfamiliar to the team and their way of doing things. Ben still hasn’t slowed down enough for there to be a reason to drop him and try to do a full rebuild, he’s given too much to this team over the years and it feels like they’re returning the favor by trusting him when he says he believes in his ability to lead our team. The teams that do drop players and rebuild usually do it on players that haven’t been there long or willingly leave the team for whatever reason, it’s generally not something that a team decides to do by releasing their franchise quarterback, even after disappointing playoff turnouts. He’s the best option we have and we got him for as low as we could, and anything else would’ve lowered our chances at winning a ring. Even if we compensated with more talented offensive players than we have now, we would have to get incredibly lucky to find a really good qb for a low price to see any success because you do not ever see a team with a shit QB win a ring. I know I said we have good scouting and find talent in late rounds, but that really doesn’t apply to the qb position for us as far as I’ve seen. Our style is more to continue to build off of the best players we already have while we find new talent and train them to eventually become the new best players on the team, and it works because we always have winning seasons, even though we haven’t quite found the perfect combination yet, at least not in these recent years. It’s a method that works, I mean the patriots did it for years while they ran the league and we had to watch in pain, because they continued to build around their best players who happened to be some of the best in the league. I understand they had more motivation to continue to sign that team because of all the rings, but our constant winning seasons are still successful seasons and enough motivation to commit to this method of team building. We’re not doing the absolute best we can be but we still get close and have a shot at the playoffs every year, where we do have a chance to get a ring. We seem to upset major teams at least once a season, so if we can manage to do it in the playoffs against someone like the chiefs, I genuinely believe we can get the ring and I think that’s what the Steelers are thinking too releasing these players and signing Ben.

Aside from all that though, there is also the fact that even if Ben left this year, we would still take a huge cap hit from him and most likely we would’ve released a lot of these guys anyway I feel. Then we would’ve been trapped with little money, no quality qb, and a ton of the same pieces missing anyway on top of that.

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