Aaron Rodgers is staying in Green Bay.
Russell Wilson got traded to Denver, not Pittsburgh.
But fear not, Steelers marks: I’m told by a source close to the situation that the team is in advanced talks with Tom Brady about ending his brief retirement to play in Pittsburgh.
No agreement has been finalized, so the Steelers could “almost” get Brady. (Just like they “almost” got Rodgers.)
Why wouldn’t Brady play for the Steelers?
Except for a bad offensive line, unqualified offensive coordinator, no deep threat, overrated defense, uncertainty all over the depth chart and at least one clearly superior team in the same division, the Steelers offer Brady a great opportunity to win an eighth ring.
Brady will bring tight end Rob Gronkowski with him, who was a ringer at Woodland Hills High School his senior year. Gronkowski was a free agent even then.
Brady and Gronkowski will play for a huge discount. On the books, anyway.
The Steelers will circumvent the salary cap by giving Brady 12% of the franchise. Brady owns all of Heinz Field’s empty seats for an average Steelers home game in 2021.
Gronkowski gets the entire collection of “Girls Gone Wild” DVDs, including an autographed copy of the one with Snoop Dogg. Snoop is a big Steelers fan, except when they lose.
The Steelers are in “win-now” mode. The “Super Bowl window” is wide open.
True, they haven’t won a playoff game in five years. But there’s no reason to doubt that the Steelers could rattle off three (or four) straight postseason victories against quality foes. They’re due.
Gisele will move to Pittsburgh and model hoodies for Shop 412.
If Brady doesn’t play, the Steelers still deserve credit for trying to do something non-traditional by the method of the franchise. (Except they’re not. Let’s see if they do something non-traditional in free agency, like give guaranteed money past the first year of a contract.)
If coaxing Brady to Pittsburgh falls through, the Steelers will trade up to get Pitt’s Kenny Pickett and his small, Ken doll-like hands.
Barbie could model the hoodies.
Do you finally understand that the whole Rodgers-to-Pittsburgh scenario was a lie? There was no discussion between the Steelers and Green Bay, nor the Steelers and Rodgers. Rodgers didn’t have a prearranged, nailed-down smorgasbord of four teams to pick from.
It was a work. Too many exploited it, and too many fell for it.
Anybody who treated the “possibility” of Rodgers joining the Steelers as anything besides utter horse manure was either a dunce or willingly repeating what they knew to be fiction.
Clue: None of the Steelers’ beat writers treated the notion of Rodgers coming to Pittsburgh with any remote degree of credibility. They’re on the inside, they knew, and did not lie.
The term “fake news” is politicized and too often used. But it applies here. The whole drama has a Trumpian feel. So does Rodgers.
Rodgers just wanted Green Bay to make him the highest-paid player in NFL history. That was always the end game, and it happened.
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