Did The Pittsburgh Steelers Make A Mistake Trading Diontae Johnson?

Johnny Utah says Brandon auk was in a white shirt and black shorts today this needs to end hey T about I I did hear that that's been going on are they real life checking his fit when he goes to practice bro well yeah well one of the main reasons is he hasn't been at practice over the last two weeks so he showed up yesterday for the first time okay this was all on the hills of the deal they got with J Ray said they got a deal in place to trade him and they got the final deal in place for him to sign a contract extension yeah they're still yeah they're still how do you have both of those place by that was just like so he yeah he comes back to ners practice he's wearing ners gear apparently he's involved talking to teamm so he signed the extenstion there he hasn't yet huh so so that's what I was wondering all right what does today look like practice and today he was in black black Steelers white Steelers away okay maybe that's the message then this does need to end though cuz I'm actually legitimately getting tired of it and it seems like this is on Brandon iuk at this point low key I felt that energy too I'm like are you are you playing games bro like just pick a team yeah cuz I don't even know if it's worth it for us at this point like this is getting ridiculous it's almost the fatigue of it I'm with you yeah cuz I felt I I unplugged from it after I saw the ab and Jerry Rice back to back and I was kind of like bro if this is going to go make it happen yeah but I'm with you I'm like bro I don't think that I still got my questions about the 30 m for you right so I think it would be I him 28 I think that's the report but still but it's like we doing all these hoops this that you playing the game publicly you trying to play this uh that's I just I don't know yeah I could I can definitely understand what you're saying man and Dak just said today that the Steelers view Pickins as their franchise receiver no matter if we trade for auk or not and we're pay him accordingly okay I think that's easy to say before auk is here but I like it I like the messaging because you do want to keep the young guy confident and feeling good about all this wide receiver chatter because he very well could take offense to all this wide receiver chatter so I think that is the appropriate message to get out there to him but I also would like to see if both of them were here and Russ is at quarterback who is he you know favoring a little bit more that's all and I think that we wouldn't know that until that scenario happened yeah right uh he said he hasn't been paying attention to it really he's just been locked in with what's going on then the Steelers uh makes you wonder man I guess I was thinking about this earlier today should we have just kept Deontay don't do that because you know they told Deontay in Carolina you're are Fe feature receiver and you know Deontay said it's been a minute since I've had the coordinator featuring me or the team featuring me in the offense and saying what do I want he said now it's just on me to create separation and make the plays I know I can make oh that was Canada that's what he said though bro that was Canada no no no you know we love was saying yesterday he like all I was doing last year was doing verticals we love GP you know we love GPS is like now I'm actually doing a bunch of other stuff they're scheming me up and DJ said bro I'm the feature he's like I get to be the feature again he says I love that feeling I get to be the feature again is what he said he was the feature when Ben was here this is also true yeah but GP wasn't here while Ben was here so you know that would have been nice it would have it would been interesting to see but uh yeah the reason I'm saying that is like if we truly do view Pickins as the franchise wide receiver one and everything and we're going to end up paying them next off season wouldn't have been wouldn't have have just been so seamless to keep Deontay for this year coming up his cap hit wasn't anything crazy 189 million but let's also remember we didn't trade Deon because we didn't want Deontay we traded Deontay because Deontay was upset with KY picket who was our current quarterback at the time and that's what we all said man if Deontay could have just waited a week I know everything is different did we have Arthur Smith at that point I am not sure I just know that like I wonder if it's a combination of that and then maybe him them viewing deont is not a fit in the Arthur Smith system because physic honestly that could have been it I just don't remember Arthur Smith when he got on board in that time frame I just remember literally DJ being upset about all the reports saying that it was still gonna be Kenny cuz you think man even in uh at the combat they were still saying yo it's gonna be Kenny Kenny's the guy so all the reports all off season was it was going to be Kenny until it wasn't Russ came in here and then it was like oh now Kenny's upset with this and then he moved on but that was why DJ and Kenny were both gone the Steelers didn't want to get rid of them but that's the whole volunteers not hostage then yep no you're right I'm just thinking though with how it's all played out and I trying to get auk in here trading up assets potentially paying him all this money but then we're still saying we love Pickin and he's our wide receiv receiver one wouldn't have just been easier to keep deont you know I'm with you bro wouldn't have just been easier and then my other keeps our cap flexibility for next year too but we we have two really nice receivers going my real question is if we know they work together de if if the report from d like is they're going to pay George pick is accordingly next year regardless of auk is here or not you mean to tell me auk gonna get 28 and we gonna pay GP what 20 22 24 no what's his number DJ got 18 couple years ago so you're saying his number has to be more than aayu and this before we even know which quarterback we paying too right between Russ and Phils he's got a ball out again no no but but I'm just saying in general this this is not to you this is to the the report they're saying that hey yeah what's our plan you catch what I'm saying here like if I'm bringing in auk and you're telling me that you view GP as a franchise guy you're going to pay him accordingly what are we about to be paying this wide receiver room before we take care of either Russ or Phils who are both on oneyear deals and we're going to have to answer that door too that's why we might have to draft a guy bro this is nuts man we're going to have a readymade team for that R quarterback this is nuts definitely go to the draft shador can we highl at you real quick man all right yeah that's what I'm thinking though I don't even think the Steelers are thinking about that that hard I think they're just trying to win right now and then we'll answer those questions later that's true which is fine I mean that's a part of building a roster you have to be focused on this year but you still have to have some out you know some outlook for the future not 10 years down the line but at least we talk in the next two to three years like we know is some contracts GNA be coming up what is going to going on with TJ's dealing a couple of years minka's dealing a couple of years heith JP JP Queen like it's some D B like in the next couple years like that's what I'm just like yo it's you still got piece you got to kind of worry about but we know the big ones that would be most most concerned with are quarterback next year you got to pay somebody whether you're drafting somebody or one of the guys we currently have and then this GP or Mo scenario because even if we brought back nii Na's not going to break the bank like that moof Mo could be the sneaky one that can mess the numbers up cuz now I can't be giving this 28 you get 22 and now move come here and get 12 that's just a lot of money going around man that's why I'm wondering yeah while TJ while TJ's PID Queen pay HMI pay pay yeah because it could complicate things for the future but I also want to live in the now I want to give us the best chance to win this season like if if we pay auk and Pickins balls out we can always trade one of them like if we need to clear up the cap space that bad but which one you trading I don't know you see how the season plays out hey look if I just paid this one 28 30 bill I mean come on bro how much is guaranteed what we doing with it you see how the season plays out yeah it's not like it hasn't been done before Brandon Cooks bounced around the league all the time he's been a really good receiver