Welcome to Paul Zeise’s weekly mailbag, where the Post-Gazette columnist answers your questions about sports, life and everything in between. If you want to ask a question, find him on X @PaulZeise or email him at pzeise@post-gazette.com.

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Oliver: Don’t you think the Steelers biggest problem is that they have over spent on way too many retread players! It’s like buying Flex Seal to fix a leaky roof and I see they just traded for another one. Why are they trying to piece together a defense with everyone else’s castoffs?

Zeise: Free agency exists to plug holes, and that’s what they have tried to do. Now, I think they have signed too many players who are past their primes, but those are the guys who are available. I do think it is concerning that the secondary is now two

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