Bridge City Pod
Bridge City Pod
Jake Keefer
Bridge City Pod is a space to navigate Steelers' offseason chaos together. Host Jake Keefer presents his own completely biased and minimally educated opinions on narratives that emerge throughout the offseason while occasionally doing so through conversations with other fans.
Ep. 6 - Mitch Trubisky, Mitchell, Steelers, and Shameless Search Engine Optimization 101
Jake reacts to the Steelers being, like, genuinely active on the first day of legal tampering while also being supremely (and therefore characteristically) boring. Skip ahead to 7:05 for Mitch Trubisky content, or stay for the whole episode to get the lowdown on the Chuks Okorofor and Mason Cole contracts.
Mar 15, 2022
24 min
Ep. 5 - Player Movement Recap, How To Interpret Free Agency, and Is The Salary Cap Even Real, Bro?
Jake briefly reacts to the Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz, Khalil Mack, and Amari Cooper trades. Then, he summarizes the most important things to know about free agency and the salary cap. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram @bridgecity_pod.
Mar 12, 2022
29 min
Ep. 4 - Combine SZN!! Plus a Hitchhiker's Guide to Offseason Resources and How To Treat Stephon Tuitt Like a Human Being
Jake describes what makes the NFL Scouting Combine so enjoyable, recommends his favorite off-season content creators, and expresses human decency toward Stephon Tuitt and his family--which is a good thing; literally everybody should literally always be doing this to literally everybody literally all of the time.
Mar 4, 2022
22 min
Ep. 3 - Hines Ward's Hall Of Fame Case! Plus Brian Flores, Kevin Colbert, and QB Talk with Josh Haught and Jeremy Schultz
Jake argues Hines Ward's HOF case based on numbers and narratives before being joined by Josh Haught and Jeremy Schultz for a roundtable discussion on the Brian Flores hire, Kevin Colbert's press conference, and the future for the Steelers' QB position. Can we make it through a whole episode without mentioning a QB from Liberty/Auburn? Spoiler alert: no.
Mar 4, 2022
46 min
Ep. 2 - Malik Willis' Warts, DPOY Trivia, Teryl Austin Gets Promoted (But Probably Not Really), and 'How Much A Diontae Cost?'
In this week's episode, Jake evaluates Malik Willis' Senior Bowl performance (2:00), celebrates TJ Watt's DPOY win (7:30), contextualizes the Teryl Austin promotion (15:40), and argues for giving Diontae Johnson $15 million per year (21:00).
Feb 11, 2022
37 min
Ep. 1 - Malik Willis Hype, Senior Bowl Preview, and What Did Joe Schobert Do To Hurt You?
Jake makes an incredibly low-effort NFL comp for Liberty QB Malik Willis (2:24), argues a case to retain Joe Schobert in spite of his high cap hit (7:55), and rattles off a list of his favorite Senior Bowl players (14:00).
Feb 5, 2022
21 min
Trailer: Why Bridge City?
Host Jake Keefer traces the motivation behind starting Bridge City Pod--a space to navigate Steelers' offseason chaos together.
Feb 4, 2022
6 min