Week of Apr. 3rd, 2023

All the out of work actors milling around. Hire a stand-in for the prom date.

DRAFT CHOICES THE STEELERS MUST AVOID

1-ANTON HARRISON

clutchpoints.com/steelers-2023-nfl-draft-prospects-avoid

With this year's schedule, I think a max of 2-losses is where they need to be.

The main thing to understand is that out of the 71 scholarship players that were on the roster when Bob coached the bowl game after LR left, 56 are no longer on the team. That means that only 15 players have been here more than a year. In replacing them we've generally made upgrades in talent especially on the defensive side but the vast majority of the team is freshman, sophomores, or one year rentals out of the portal. The good news is that we should win more games on talent alone, the question becomes how well can all these new players be integrated into the team and be brought up to speed. The schedule sets up nice and we should be favored in every regular season game on talent alone except for maybe UT. It's the kind of team you would expect to win a lot of games but lose a couple because of the kind of mistakes made by players not completely familiar with the system.
Last year we were 1-5 in games decided by less than a score. Going 3-3 in those would make us 8-4 in the regular season. While that would show improvement record wise it could easily be a matter of the luck evening out and represent no real upgrade in play. All things considered I'd say we need to do better than that to assume we are making real improvement.
My one concern outside our control is that the Big-12 may try to influence the outcome of some game to ensure that they look strong going forward. It sure would make good marketing if neither UT or OU made the championship game in the last year before we exit to the SEC.

Everything here pointing to the good guys.