Steelers Free Agent Flurry

Kevin Colbert has been working the phones, buying, selling to take advantage of of our Super Bowl window.

In this episode:

Quietly assembling depth with the acquisition of:

Eric EbronChris WormleyStefen Wisniewski Derek Watt

It took some doing to make cap room space, as the following Steeler veterans departed

Javone Hargrave - Eagles Ramon Foster - RetiredBJ Finney - Seahawks Tyler Matakevich - Bills (Good for you Dirty Red!!)Artie Burns - Bears Nick Vannett - DenverAnthnoy Chickillo - releasedRosie Nix - releasedMark Barron - releasedJohnny Holton - released

And we kicked the can down the road with several contract restructures:

Chris BoswellJoe HadenMaurkice PounceyBen RoethlisbergerVance McDonald

The KEY to the system is the doctor who reconstructed Big Ben's arm, but before we got into that, we took a look at Ben's social consciousness (but more importantly, an intimate peek into his personal life):

Ben on Social Distancing

Ben tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that he's "throwing without pain for the first time in years." Better yet, he answers the haters:

"I've heard people say I'm fat, and that just blows my mind,". "I'm lighter and in better shape than I was in either of the past two years. I haven't stopped working out. I normally don't work out in the offseason, but I've been doing everything five days a week with my trainer. Cardio twice a week. Legs twice a week. Upper body twice a week."

"I guess it's my beard that makes me look heavier. I must have 5 pounds in that, I know. But I'm not overweight."

Steelers Nation needs to appreciate the last of the beer-swilling' cigar-chomping' gun slingers* that we will probably ever see again in this age of NFL Stepford QBs.

Diontae Johnson, getting pointers from Antonio Brown? Please stop!

Finally, how many sets of brothers have been on the Steelers over the past two years?

*Ben does not actually swill beer or chomp cigars. This is presented as an allegory only to make a point.