Best case scenario

[SteelerDayTrader]

Best case scenario imo


- The Steelers continue to lose and lose a lot of games. Fortunately this is very possible. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to imagine a top 5 draft spot.

- The Steelers trade their “stars” who have ZERO chance of being here and/or relevant by the time the Steelers rebuild going at their current pace

- I see trade scenarios as:

Watt = 1, 2, 4, 5, 2025 2
Minkah = 1, 4, 2025 4
Pickens = 1, 3, 5, 2025 3
DJ = 3, 5
Pickett = 4


This not only nets draft picks to rebuild but also frees up significant cap space. If we assume the Steelers finish at 7 in the draft.

Then the Steelers could have
1 Caleb Williams
1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 7 7 this and 1 2 3 4 4 4 5 6 7 next year

Their draft could pretty easily look like this

1 Caleb Williams QB USC
1 JC Latham RT Alabama
1 (Traded for 2 and 3)
2 Kameren Kitchens FS Miami
2 Kingsley Suamataia OG/OT BYU
3 Tony Grimes CB Texas A&M
3 Nazir Stackhouse DL Georgia
3 Smael Mondon Jr LB Georgia
3 Bryce Foster C Texas A&M
4 Jalen Catalon SS Texas A&M
4 Bru McCoy WR Tennessee
4 Ainias Smith WR Texas A&M
4 Brenden Rice WR USC
4 Khordae Sydnor ILB/EDGE Purdue
5 Jasheen Davis EDGE Wake Forest
5 Collin Oliver EDGE Oklahoma St.
5 (Traded for 6 and 7)
6 Alton McCaskill RB Colorado
6 Micah Bernard RB Utah
7 Cornelius Johnson WR Michigan
7 Jordan Jefferson DL LSU
7 Justin Rogers DL Auburn

Before you start with your dumbass bitching remember this:

NONE of the players traded will be here by the time the Steelers are competitive again continuing on their current path

[Professor Half Wit]

Would be more entertaining than what we’re watching.

I’m as big a Watt fan boy as any on the board.

He’ll never have a ring here.

[SteelerDayTrader]

Additionally

We could move Highsmith to the easier side where Watt plays and he’d probably blow up

Then you could have 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 7 in your pocket for 2025 AND if you hit on just one of the 2024 EDGE rushers Highsmith could net you even more

More than enough to clean up any errors from 2024

Team rebuilt for Lombardi contending in 2 years tops

[Professor Half Wit]

In your scenario is Tomlin still the coach? Still involved in selecting horseflesh? Still involved in giving the overall direction to the defense and offense?

[955876]

I’d be ok ripping this team down to the bone as long as (1) it brought in a shot load of high pics and (2) Jibba Jabber is no longer associated with the team.

Giving Jibbs new toys is as dumb as buying a 600 piece Lego set for a small child.

You’ll spend Christmas Day putting together that pirate ship but come that night it’ll be all busted up again.

Rinse repeat.

Until Jibbs goes it doesn’t matter who we have.

[Professor Half Wit]

I’d be ok ripping this team down to the bone as long as (1) it brought in a shot load of high pics and (2) Jibba Jabber is no longer associated with the team.

Giving Jibbs new toys is a dumb as buying a 600 piece Lego set for a small child.

You’ll spend Christmas Day putting together that pirate ship but come that night it’ll be all busted up again.

Rinse repeat.

Until Jibbs goes it doesn’t matter who we have.

Great minds….

[955876]

Well, once Houston’s starters are healthy again maybe we can trades some guys for their 3rd & 4th stringers that tore us up….

[Kodiak.]

Teams can and do turn it around in just 1-2 years. Will never happen with Tomlin, but you can't just start a fire sale because you're not confident you can hire the coaches to make it work.

You also have to spend like 90% of your cap, so might as well keep a couple of players that at least deserve top dollar. And a guy like TJ is basically un-tradeable because he's such a unicorn and so valuable that 3 R1 picks in the draft lottery still isn't fair value.

Hire new coaches and naturally some decent players might get moved simply because they don't fit well with the new schemes. Guys like DJ and Najee. Yeah, we all love Highsmith, but what if the new coaches switch to a 4-3?

[jebrick]

Gambling on the draft picks worked out so well for the Browns.

The draft is a crap shoot. You could argue to spend draft capital on proven players

[the-other-burg]

Who are the coordinators? Who is the HQ?

We could draft the second coming of Jim Brown and turn him into Ron Dayne with this staff.

[Texas Black & Gold]

Best case scenario for WHO?

No.
The best case scenario for fans is to have the Steelers (owners, managers, coaches, and players) get their collective heads out of their rear ends and get back to winning football.

[tbsteel]

The actual best case scenario:

*Matt Canada is fired after we lose to the Ravens 24-3.

*Kenny Pickett gets arrested for sharing nudes with minors and is released by the team.

*The Steelers finish 3-14 with the #1 overall pick and draft Caleb Williams.

*Someone young with a brain is hired as OC and given complete autonomy to run the offense with no input from Tomlin with Tomlin's role in the offensive gameplan taken from him. Tomlin naturally hates that and begins angling for a move to TV after the 2024 season.

*The new OC is promoted to HC and works with Khan on remaking the team.

[SteelerDayTrader]

Tomlin’s contract expires after the 2024-25 season

Canada’s contract expires after this season

I can’t find any details on Austin’s contract. He signed a DC contract in Feb 2022. Just a guess but a 3 year contract would expire after the 2024-25 season

Realistically I could see something like these scenarios:

Feb 2024 - Wow we really suck. The defense wouldn’t have been as bad but the horrible offense dragged down the defense. Hard to say for sure Kenny sucks given how bad the offense was. Let’s fire Canada.

Feb 2025 - Pick your scapegoat. Kenny ? Austin ? Tomlin ?

But again the chances of this team being competitive anytime soon are very slim if they continue on the same pace

I can say this fairly certainly

Cincinnati is likely to get exponentially better as a franchise soon due to the Steelers being in a likely prolonged downturn if things don’t change

Cincy always would crash burn largely due to solid Steelers teams. If they establish a winning franchise it’s going to be that much harder to compete

Baltimore and bitch Harbaugh are always tough

The owe the huge large majority of their success to Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger.

Are we gonna land one of the top 10 biggest impact players in NFL history again anytime soon ??

If not maybe we need to strike while the iron is hot and trade the few stars we have for a truckload of picks and hope for the best

[SteelerDayTrader]

Best case scenario for WHO?

No.
The best case scenario for fans is to have the Steelers (owners, managers, coaches, and players) get their collective heads out of their rear ends and get back to winning football.

Not happening on this current trajectory for at least several years

[Professor Half Wit]

The actual best case scenario:

*Matt Canada is fired after we lose to the Ravens 24-3.

*Kenny Pickett gets arrested for sharing nudes with minors and is released by the team.

*The Steelers finish 3-14 with the #1 overall pick and draft Caleb Williams.

*Someone young with a brain is hired as OC and given complete autonomy to run the offense with no input from Tomlin with Tomlin's role in the offensive gameplan taken from him. Tomlin naturally hates that and begins angling for a move to TV after the 2024 season.

*The new OC is promoted to HC and works with Khan on remaking the team.

Another sure shot TB heater.

[SteelerDayTrader]

The actual best case scenario:

*Matt Canada is fired after we lose to the Ravens 24-3.

*Kenny Pickett gets arrested for sharing nudes with minors and is released by the team.

*The Steelers finish 3-14 with the #1 overall pick and draft Caleb Williams.

*Someone young with a brain is hired as OC and given complete autonomy to run the offense with no input from Tomlin with Tomlin's role in the offensive gameplan taken from him. Tomlin naturally hates that and begins angling for a move to TV after the 2024 season.

*The new OC is promoted to HC and works with Khan on remaking the team.

Canada won’t be fired mid-season. If the team finishes poorly I bet he gets “retired” lol at the end of the season

[LakecrestSteeler]

Wrong. The best case scenario is to force Tomlin out at the end of the season and let the new guy bring in some new coaches and ask for some new toys in the draft and then see what he can do with current toys and new toys next season.

Tomlin should not be fired, he should come to an agreement to move to the next chapter of his life. He may well go to another team and get another ring, but it is not happening in Pittsburgh…several members in the top of the organization clearly need a change of scenery.

New coach gets a pretty wide birth to adjust the DCs and OCs as he sees fit.

That is the best case scenario.

[tbsteel]

The actual best case scenario:

*Matt Canada is fired after we lose to the Ravens 24-3.

*Kenny Pickett gets arrested for sharing nudes with minors and is released by the team.

*The Steelers finish 3-14 with the #1 overall pick and draft Caleb Williams.

*Someone young with a brain is hired as OC and given complete autonomy to run the offense with no input from Tomlin with Tomlin's role in the offensive gameplan taken from him. Tomlin naturally hates that and begins angling for a move to TV after the 2024 season.

*The new OC is promoted to HC and works with Khan on remaking the team.

Canada won’t be fired mid-season. If the team finishes poorly I bet he gets “retired” lol at the end of the season

If I had to bet my life on it, I'd agree with you.... but I think the outside noise is so loud in this situation that there's a real chance if he's not fired that his playcalling duties are removed.

Of course, knowing the Steelers, they'll eek out some ugly ass 16-13 win against Baltimore on Sunday and they won't be able to justify it.

I'm praying we get annihilated.

We need to bottom out so bad.

[955876]

Remember when these idiot coaches said we have too many NFL caliber bodies along the dline and will lose some quality players?

One injury and these stuffs can’t even come close to stopping the run.

What a joke.

[SteelerDayTrader]

The actual best case scenario:

*Matt Canada is fired after we lose to the Ravens 24-3.

*Kenny Pickett gets arrested for sharing nudes with minors and is released by the team.

*The Steelers finish 3-14 with the #1 overall pick and draft Caleb Williams.

*Someone young with a brain is hired as OC and given complete autonomy to run the offense with no input from Tomlin with Tomlin's role in the offensive gameplan taken from him. Tomlin naturally hates that and begins angling for a move to TV after the 2024 season.

*The new OC is promoted to HC and works with Khan on remaking the team.

Canada won’t be fired mid-season. If the team finishes poorly I bet he gets “retired” lol at the end of the season

If I had to bet my life on it, I'd agree with you.... but I think the outside noise is so loud in this situation that there's a real chance if he's not fired that his playcalling duties are removed.

Of course, knowing the Steelers, they'll eek out some ugly ass 16-13 win against Baltimore on Sunday and they won't be able to justify it.

I'm praying we get annihilated.

We need to bottom out so bad.

I think Kenny is going on injury vacation and Watt is due for his yearly injury vacation soon as well

Can this team eek out some wins ?? Yeah but hopefully not

When a guy like Pickens starts getting openly angry about the team you can be sure he isn’t the only one

[gojira5150]

Why isn't Bowers on your list. That dude is unreal. You can look at the TE from Texas as well. We need another highly touted TE. Bowers & Washington together again

[Professor Half Wit]

Canada won’t be fired mid-season. If the team finishes poorly I bet he gets “retired” lol at the end of the season

If I had to bet my life on it, I'd agree with you.... but I think the outside noise is so loud in this situation that there's a real chance if he's not fired that his playcalling duties are removed.

Of course, knowing the Steelers, they'll eek out some ugly ass 16-13 win against Baltimore on Sunday and they won't be able to justify it.

I'm praying we get annihilated.

We need to bottom out so bad.

I think Kenny is going on injury vacation and Watt is due for his yearly injury vacation soon as well

Can this team eek out some wins ?? Yeah but hopefully not

When a guy like Pickens starts getting openly angry about the team you can be sure he isn’t the only one

KP apparently only had a bone bruise. Back after bye.

[K_C_]

The hilarious part is that absolutely none of this will take place.

[K_C_]

Why isn't Bowers on your list. That dude is unreal. You can look at the TE from Texas as well. We need another highly touted TE. Bowers & Washington together again

What’s wrong with Freiermuth and the 7.3 40 he runs and all the drunken stumbling he does like Fry Daddy is full of Dewars?

[W&M_Steeler]

If I had to bet my life on it, I'd agree with you.... but I think the outside noise is so loud in this situation that there's a real chance if he's not fired that his playcalling duties are removed.

Of course, knowing the Steelers, they'll eek out some ugly ass 16-13 win against Baltimore on Sunday and they won't be able to justify it.

I'm praying we get annihilated.

We need to bottom out so bad.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Steelers win this week. The Texans games felt like the classic Tomlin trap game- he was looking forward to the Ravens.

[K_C_]

If I had to bet my life on it, I'd agree with you.... but I think the outside noise is so loud in this situation that there's a real chance if he's not fired that his playcalling duties are removed.

Of course, knowing the Steelers, they'll eek out some ugly ass 16-13 win against Baltimore on Sunday and they won't be able to justify it.

I'm praying we get annihilated.

We need to bottom out so bad.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Steelers win this week. The Texans games felt like the classic Tomlin trap game- he was looking forward to the Ravens.

Last tiime Trubisky saw the Ravens, he replaced a concussed Kenny early in the game in Pittsburgh last year.

Mitch was an INT machine.

I'll be very surprised if the Steelers win this week. Lamar is playing well and he has some weapons now.

I know the Ravens are banged up, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we end up seeing Mason before this one is over.

That o-line is a MESS.

[SteelerDayTrader]

Why isn't Bowers on your list. That dude is unreal. You can look at the TE from Texas as well. We need another highly touted TE. Bowers & Washington together again

Can’t draft everyone

Bowers will be a top 10 pick

[gojira5150]

Why isn't Bowers on your list. That dude is unreal. You can look at the TE from Texas as well. We need another highly touted TE. Bowers & Washington together again

What’s wrong with Freiermuth and the 7.3 40 he runs and all the drunken stumbling he does like Fry Daddy is full of Dewars?

We need a serious update at the TE position. We need a Kelce type and Bowers is the next big athletic TE that can exploit the middle of the field.
You are right, Fry Daddy stumbles all over his 2 left feet

[gojira5150]

Why isn't Bowers on your list. That dude is unreal. You can look at the TE from Texas as well. We need another highly touted TE. Bowers & Washington together again

Can’t draft everyone

Bowers will be a top 10 pick

In your trades we get 3 number 1 picks. Use one on Bowers as a target for Caleb. I actually agree with your trade scenarios.

[Steelperch]

No “Doories” this week, but STD blessed us with a 23 pick mock draft. Blessed.