PITTSBURGH - Discussions of contract extensions weirdly defined much of last week for Pittsburgh sports fans - Paul Skenes during the early portion, then Cam Heyward and Chris Boswell later on.

Vastly different cases, obviously.

But also ones bound by missing some key points.

For the football guys, they're mostly on the player side, the fact that Heyward just did this a year ago, as well as the Steelers' longstanding policy of not extending anyone other than quarterbacks with multiple years left.

With Skenes, a radio overreaction sparked the latest round of speculation. It started when 93.7 The Fan's Andrew Fillipponi asked Pirates pregame/postgame host Dan Zangrilli whether the organization has "tried to make some headway" on a contract extension with Skenes.

"Yes," Zangrilli answere

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