The Tuesday Teasings has been in hiding for awhile, at least since the start of the NBA postseason. Remember, when we talk about football in the spring, there is a “need” for it since professional basketball and professional hockey dominate so much of the sports-news cycles, in spite of professional baseball being active from late March onward. Any playoffs are better than the first half of a 162-game season.

(Well, maybe not “any playoff”—right, UFL?!)

Currently, the Pittsburgh Steelers have an impressive streak going: they have not posted a losing record since 2003, and current Head Coach Mike Tomlin has never had a losing season since taking over from Bill Cowher in 2007. In this era of free agency, parity, and salary caps, that’s an amazing stretch of success. And we are betting it all will come crashing down if the Steelers do the stupid and sign Aaron Rodgers.

In this 18-year run under Tomlin, the Pittsburgh franchise has reached the postseason 12 times, winning a Super Bowl in the process and losing one other. The Steelers have been invited to the playoffs four times in the last five years, as well, so the team has been doing good, generally speaking, even if it hasn’t won a postseason contest since the 2016 playoffs. Also, three different quarterbacks in the last five years resonates.

So, the Pittsburgh brass is now counting on Rodgers to … do what? Get them over the hump and back to the Super Bowl? That’s laughable. Remember how he was supposed to take the New York Jets to the Promised Land? That did not happen. As Ser Davos of House Seaworth once noted, nothing f**ks you harder than time, and the clock has been ticking on Rodgers since the end of the 2021 season. That was a long time ago.

And look at what the Steelers have done since the end of the 2024 season, when they lost in the wild-card round to the Baltimore Ravens by falling behind 21-0 at halftime? They traded away their (arguably) best player and receiving target, while not necessarily drafting any impact rookies to replace him. Sure, the Pittsburgh front office acquired a great wide receiver, too, but … one who is three years older. Hmmm.

Overall, the Steelers also lost their best running back, as well, so Rodgers would be coming in without the team’s leading receiver and rusher (Najee Harris) from last season. That is not a recipe for success, even if you think you have replacements ready. DK Metcalf is more injury prone than George Pickens, in addition to being three years older, and Pittsburgh will have two talented, albeit unproven, guys at running back, too.

There is no true second WR threat for any QB to utilize, even if the tight end position is soundly manned. And again, we reiterate that Rodgers had a mediocre, by his standards, 2022 season while healthy, missed basically all of 2023 with an injury, and played worse than average for the Jets at age 41 last season. We are betting right now, at age 42? Rodgers, if he signs with the Steelers, will doom the team to a losing season.