While the Pittsburgh Steelers have a lot of factors that they can control about their offseason, there are at least two off the top of my head that are out of their hands. One, they don’t determine what the salary cap will be. And two, it’s not up to them, at least individually, whether or not a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is in place in time for the start of the new league year.
And as we’ve talked about previously, whether or not there is a CBA on the books will have an impact on what sort of bookkeeping maneuvers they will be permitted to make in 2020 in order to create additional cap space, so it really does matter whether or not something gets hammered out over the course of the next two months.