Pittsburgh Steelers John Rhys Plumlee Open To Returning Kickoffs To Make The Team

steel Nation on fire John rise plumbley said he would return kicks if that guarantees him a roster spot hey man shout out to John rice he been out there at them little uh football camps too man cool little cat man um you seen him running in uh what's that you UCF last year I like that mentality he can run bro he's I think it's different for him than a Fields oh yeah night and day definitely different heck I'm on for it whatever I mean he ran a 44 something and he could bring that element that we liked about potentially having Fields back there being able to like throw the ball across the field mhm i' be fine with it sure I test it out why not yeah I would like sit in the pre season because my only concern is those hits are going to be potentially but for him man what he got to lose because he's I mean not buried on the depth chart but you think you got three dudes that have already taken game reps have started in this league two of these dudes are you know very very excited about their future you know future being with us potentially so it's like for John that gives him opportunity man it gives him something he's and the more you can do face ain't nothing wrong part of his career ain't nothing look I ain't nothing wrong with that yeah I don't know how open he'd be to receiver and stuff receiver and tight end and all that cuz I do remember him saying that the reason he signed with the Steelers is because we view him as a quar quarterback now I do think returning kicks is a little bit different than getting offensive packages where you're playing receiver and all these different positions taking on a slash rle so maybe he could still be exclusively quarterback but then just have this little niche of returning kicks too I think for him man too it's the uh the sense of when we were talking about Justin fields and it's like man when you start opening up that door to being a slash you can very will become that fulltime and never be viewed as a quarterback or never get another legitimate opportunity to play quarterback I feel even stronger you know about that if John rise is the one that starts doing some of this gadget stuff he'll easily turn into a tesm hill I could easily I would agree unless his dream is to play quarterback because if his dream is to play quarterback kind of like Tim TBO we were like yo you could play tight end and you probably could be a really good tight end but his dream was quarterback and that was the big reason why he waited so long to transition I feel like Terrell pry was similar also early on wanted to play quarterback eventually was like you know I play wide receiver and we saw him have success there but for some dudes it's like yo if this is what they you know identify as N I ain't trying to go there but if that's like you know the position that they identify that they feel most comfortable in that could just be that you know they don't want to go and try these other stuff they want to you know exhaust all these opportunities here again I think if that's fields or for Fields that's the right approach to go like right now but with you're the fourth quarterback and you're undrafted you think with Steeler Nation on fire here said on this comment and that plumbley would be open to returning kicks I think that's the right approach I think you should do that say yeah Fields you're you're the backup here we just traded for you I think we still view you as a quarterback I think a lot of teams around the league still view you as a potential quarterback uh more on like the long-term side you had the hiccup your first three years with the Bears here now this is a good spot to reset so if you yeah if you start doing all this extra stuff you could be putting yourself in a bad spot now I I still think that Fields has enough juice still he's still young enough in his career that if he does do some packages if he did do some kick returns teams would view him as a quarterback next off season still okay especially if he plays good like I don't think that's going to be held against him I mean but this is the thing o de if you see him look electric as a slot w receiver on some Gadget packages and you've never seen him look that consistent throwing the football how do you tell yourself I would want to move him back when I've just seen him do something that I had never seen him do that I think yeah I think that's different uh if we're just putting him at one position but I would think that we're putting him behind Center and maybe sometimes he rolls out and motions to receiver and I still think predominantly if we got him out there he would be a quarterback that would be my guess at Le at least like wild cat type of stuff at least yeah see I look at it different I look at it like in the sense of you're you're going to use him in tandem with Russ Russ is still directing it but if you're throwing it almost like double pass type situations like I want to see you on the Move in that slot I want to see you lined up in that back field I want to see you know what it looks like if it's you n copis are you copis and Jaylen Warren or something like what does that look like and you still got a dude that can get anywhere out here as well man yeah then you might be starting to do fields of disservice MH by doing that but he was still Thrive though because how athletic he is and the profile that he has as long as it's and I said this before as long as it's not taking Snaps away from him playing quarterback like the typical snaps he would be taking this off season if it's just an addition okay not the end of the world yeah but yeah with rise Plumley this would be cool say rise good approach rise you're not filed you got no who you are know who you are if you're Justin Phils you're a quarterback stay in that quarterback room John rise whatever you could do to get on that moving train man they're talking about bosss actually kicking off shout out all right what because was it needs to bulk up a little was it me and you or was it me you and TG when we were talking about how many teams we think are going to have uh yeah we said like four five to start the season mhm CU you're G to go through some different strategies yeah like I'm sure you're going to have the ones that are trying to Sky it and have it dropping right on that you know in between the five and one yard line type convo I don't really think there's going to be a ton of incentive for dudes to Wi to just kick it out the back of the end zone we talked about that because of how the rules are changed and then um you got the other side where it's like it's all well and good until that guy has to tackle and there's a strong possibility with the new format that that kicker is going to have to tackle somebody man