Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Baker Mayfield to Steelers? + Joel Bitonio Retires

**James Harrison** (0:00)
So, they say Baker, could Baker Mayfield be the Steelers' next quarterback after Aaron Rodgers? NFL insider, Baker Mayfield would be perfect for the Steelers as he's poised to hit free agency after the 2026 I don't know if he could hit free agency after 2026, because I think he gave them boys until when, was it?
I think he gave them to Training Client to get a chance to get a deal done or however it may be. I don't know why we are already talking about a quarterback for the Steelers next year, dude. I mean, I ain't gonna lie, but I would talk about it. I mean, I guess if it was Joe Burrow, you know what I'm saying? If it was Joe Burrow, I would do that. But Mike Flora asked-

**Joe Haden** (0:48)
If it was Baker Mayfield, you know what I'm saying?

**James Harrison** (0:50)
I ain't tripping. If it was Mike Flora, he seems to think that, what did he say? He said, Baker Mayfield would be perfect in Pittsburgh. He would be perfect. He said, I know they would like to get off of the train of old veteran quarterbacks. Baker ain't that old either, though. But I mean, he's a spring chicken compared to Aaron Rodgers.
I would make a beeline, he said, for Baker Mayfield, if I'm Mike McCarthy and in Steelers, I get through the season and my options are Will Howard and Drew Aller or Mason Rudolph. I'm doing whatever it takes to get to Baker Mayfield and to get Baker Mayfield in Pittsburgh. So that's what he thinks.
I don't know about that.

**Joe Haden** (1:42)
What are you thinking?

**James Harrison** (1:43)
Me? I don't know. I would say, yes, I would say we really have to depend on what true development you saw in your players first. So we don't know. We still have no clue of what Drew or Will can do. Drew just got there. Will was hurt. Like we had no idea.
So if that became to where like it was like, okay, it was a toss up throw up in the air if he was go be able to or if either one of them was go be a automatic, I see him as a starter for us next year, then yeah. Now that's going to determine what it is that Baker is looking to get from it. And assuming was his last deal three year, 100 million, you know, he's either looking for that right now. He's 29 He's looking for that right now. And if not more, and they're obviously, I guess they're balking on it a little bit. And he's he didn't gave him a deadline that they got to get the deal done by training camp. So if they don't get that deal done by training camp, then he's like, ain't no deal to get done. And I'm out of here.
If we are in that, I don't know if he comes wanting 35, 40 million, do we even think about that versus what may be out there? And like I said, it's a whole bunch of other stuff that got to happen before we even get to that point, like where we go be at in the draft, like what we go be like, we already go be last, you know what I'm saying? Because we're about to win the Super Bowl. So, you know, is it something that we can get done, packaged, whatever, tossed? I don't know to get it. Oh, I hate to say this.

**Joe Haden** (3:33)
Go ahead.

**James Harrison** (3:33)
I don't know why that just went through my head.

**Joe Haden** (3:36)
Say it. What you think it, Deebo?

**James Harrison** (3:40)
If the deal can't be done with Lil Peasy, I might have to switch him off for a couple of first round picks. Damn, I don't even know why I thought of that.

**Joe Haden** (3:52)
No, no, don't do that.

**James Harrison** (3:55)
Listen, man, I don't even know why I did it.

**Joe Haden** (3:56)
Don't do that.

**James Harrison** (3:59)
I know it's all wrong. We can't do nothing.

**Joe Haden** (4:01)
We're going to get it.

**James Harrison** (4:02)
I'm just telling you what went through my head. That was all.

**Joe Haden** (4:06)
Okay, I'm glad you told me.

**James Harrison** (4:09)
I was trying to get a quarterback in the first day on the first pick.

**Joe Haden** (4:14)
That went in one ear and out the other.

**James Harrison** (4:18)
That was gym thoughts, man. They just flow through your head crazy something. You know what I'm saying?

**Joe Haden** (4:22)
No, this is what I'm saying. We're going to run this year.