HR 2 - Must - Haves from Steelers O, Around NFL

Tom and Chris talk about things the Steelers offense has to be successfully at this weekend against Cincy.  They look around the NFL and make game picks for this week as well.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
It's Tom Offerman and Chris Danski on the Steelers Splitz
on Steelers Nation Radio, getting you ready for Steelers in
Bengals this Sunday at Akroscher Stadium in a game that
I have officially labeled as they must win. For the Steelers,
that's official now, they must win it or else things
get really really dark for them as far as their
hopes are concerned for the playoffs and for success in

(00:28):
the twenty twenty five season. Getting that must win. As
much as we talked up the defense and said, yeah,
you stop Chase brown you surprise yourself with the effort
that you have against Chase and Higgins the other Chase,
Jamar Chase, you turn Flack over a couple times. Sure,
you can slow that Bengals offense down somewhat, but no

(00:49):
one's slowing that Bengals offense down. Jake Browning's the only
one that has been successful at slowing that offense down
this year, and he was the quarterback for that very offense.
So if they don't stop themselves, no one stops them.
And that's why it really kind of falls on the
offense in this game to capitalize on almost every possession
that you get and if and hopefully they do, those

(01:12):
turnovers happen by the defense capitalizing on those turnovers with touchdowns.
I really struggle to see this game playing out with
a final score that's not similar to the first game
where they're both in the thirties.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, it's funny. I feel like we try to predict
these games and the a lot of times we say
this will be a shootout and it's a low scoring game.
We say this will be a low curring game ends
up being a shootout, right, But I mean literally every
game the Bengals have played whenever Jake Brunning was in
the quarterback has been a shootout. Right that they can't
play defense and they can score points, and you put
those two things together, they almost feed off each other

(01:47):
because then they're allowing points and they got to be
hurry up on offense and gotta to throw the ball more,
and they by a man in the run because they
got to keep up. And if that's the case, they're
scoring quickly, and then the other the other the other
team gets the ball quickly and it just sort of
this never ending cycle. Every Bengals gat me. The end
of that Bears game would never be forgotten the way
that that went back and forth in the final couple
of minutes with just like the the the unstoppable object

(02:07):
and the movable force or bosage or whatever however you
want to put it. So it'd be hard to envision
this game not being that now. I know that the
second Steelers Bengals game last year after they had a
shootout in Cincinnati was it was a lot closer, But again,
the Steelers were, whether they admitted it or not, they
were out of the playoff or they were they didn't
anything to play for at that moment. At that point there,

(02:28):
the division had been just eliminated a couple hours before
or during the game. The but Ravens were playing that
Saturday of Week eighteen, So I don't know if that affected
things or not. Maybe you don't show some things that
might have affected the kind of the flow of the game.
But like I said, I mean, it's one of those
things where you want to see the Steelers defense play well,
but you also almost assume they're going to give up.

(02:49):
I mean, I mean, if they give up twenty eight points,
you feel like they played well, right, I mean at
that point, yeah, yeah, because you figure you can get
the thirties as bad as the Steelers offense frankly has
been the last couple weeks in terms of if.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
You don't get to thirty on this dexact, this.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Might be worse than you know, some of the you
know whatever it was for your last game. We have
only having five points until yeah, three points, I'm sorry,
until the final drive.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
So I have a few things here that the Steelers
offense absolutely needs to be successful in or else we
should all be a little bit worried come Monday show,
because again, this is the miracle toonic defense. I mean,
you can't run the ball. We sink stink against the run.
I wanted to say suck there, but when with stink,
I don't know why it came out as sunk or
sink or whatever. We suck against the you can't throw

(03:32):
the ball. We suck against the pass, your quarterbacks getting
hit too much. We suck at getting home with pressure.
They're terrible at literally everything that you could slice on defense.
So here's some things that the Steelers are they must
be successful in these categories. DK Metcalf, bro. You gotta
have a big game. You got to have one hundred
yard game.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You just do.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
There is no one in that secondary that should make
you have any fear DJ Turner, I know, rip the
ball away from you in the last game. Get some
revenge on them. I mean, I think DK was talking
about that a little bit in the locker room this week.
He was like, I remember that this happened. It's embarrassing.
You got the ball wrestlers.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
When you are literally like the strongest wide receiver in
the history of the world.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Maybe yes, your body type. Yeah, So go out there
and dominate him, sun him a little bit. Whoever they
send your way. Just dominate. Have a Rogers the DK
type of performance. Let's see ten catches, Let's see one
hundred and twenty yards, because you know the double teams
and Rogers even saying all on third downs are doubling
DK too much. That means nothing to me against the Bengals,
because the Bengals stick. They could quadruple team you for

(04:36):
all I care. It's a quadruple team with bummy players.
Go beat the bummy players like they are the second
to worst pass defense in the NFL. They might actually
be the third worst, but the Commanders are like zero
point one yard worst. So for my narrative, it sounds
better to say second worst, So I just round up.
You know who's the worst.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's the worst.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
The Steelers. Oh my, the Bengals are the second worst, though,
So DK go out there and torch the second worst
secondary and football Rogers with DK go out there and
Torch the second worst secondary and football, there is minimal
resistance there. So if we come onto these microphones on
Monday and it's another you know, five catch thirty yard
performance from DK metcalf, I think there's some serious costs

(05:21):
for concern. And furthermore, we might lose that football game
if it plays out that way.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, there's like, I mean, we excited over and over
the tonic. It should be two games, one game with
DK in particular. What's going through the piece by piece here, Okay,
it can happen, happens everybody. Two games in a row.
You're starting to look like it's a trend you want
to stop, no matter who's up next. Right, you can't
have three games in a row with your highest paid player,

(05:47):
your number one receiver, a perennial Pro Bowl receiver who
has always produced essentially in the NFL. To have three
games in a row of two catches sixteen yard whatever.
Two you know, three catches you need, you need a
big game, right, and it can happen. This is the
team where it can't happen against. I don't care what
they try to do to vote the coverages to you
and things like that. I know that's been a storyline

(06:08):
this week, but you know they were doing that early
in the season. Of course they're doing that, right. I mean,
it's DK Metcalf. He's, like I said, the largest, one
of the biggest, baddest receivers in terms of his size
and skill set and things he can do. It's ever
you know, he's megatronish in terms of his size and
his strength and his speed. When you put those things together.
Of course they're going to vote, especially whenever the Steelers

(06:29):
well documented issues would say in terms of the lack
of a number two or a high end number two
wide receiver. So you like to see that. It's just
that defense just can't have it. That's enough. How bad
that defense is and how everybody's been running on. I mean,
remember the Jets, the Jets, the Jets can't watched the
Jets last night. The Jets actually looked kind of almost

(06:51):
maybe a little bit tiny bit competent, I guess more
so than usual offensively. But the Jets were scoring points
against the Bengals, even so when they were passing against
literally pretty much anybody else in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
So everybody scores points against the Bengals. I mean, it's
just it's impossible not to. Again, it's a worry worry spot.
If Monday comes and the Steelers scored like nineteen points,
even scored like twenty points, that's just, first of all,
it's probably not gonna win you the game. And it's
just not good enough against the defense like that. Like
their best performance of the season was against Cleveland in

(07:24):
Week one. They gave up sixteen points. Since then, they've
given up twenty seven, forty eight, twenty eight, thirty seven,
twenty seven, thirty one, thirty nine, and forty seven. They're
the worst defens in football. They averaged thirty three points
per game allowed. That is the worst average in the NFL.
Imagine if that Browns game wasn't in there either it's
sixteen points allowed, it would have been even worse.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
When they ironically shut down Joe Flacco, I think.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
With that way, my brain just turned off for a
second process that I kind of forgot about that, all right.
So that's Number one for me, is get dk going.
He needs to have a huge game here. More importantly
than that, though, is the running game in Jailer Warren
need to get going, because as bad as the Bengals
are against the pass, they are that much worse against
the run. They are thirty second in the NFL against

(08:07):
the run. They give up one hundred and sixty six
yards per game on the ground. The next closest team
is like the Giants at like one forty eight, so
they're almost like a full twenty yards per game more
than the thirty first rush defense in football. So Cincinnati
basically rolls out of red carpet for you to run on,

(08:27):
and the Steelers did it in Week seven against them.
It was Jalen Warren's most successful game, maybe as a Steeler,
but certainly this year in terms of running the football.
The game just got away from them at times, and
it was a shootout, so that they kind of abandoned
the run a little bit. Probably unnecessarily though, but they
did abandon the run a bit against the Bengals in

(08:49):
that game, but it was working with minimal resistance. So
you gotta lean on it this time. We've heard so
long that this team wants to be a running football team.
That's the Arthur Smith identity on offense. And it's like
they started showing progress in that regard in becoming a
running football team and then they just totally, you know,

(09:12):
swerve right back into traffic when it comes to the
deployment of their backs, the commitment to running the ball,
and then the success of it in the past couple
of weeks. So this is a team that again you
are almost forced into running the ball and running the
ball well against because you watch film, you see the stats.

(09:32):
They're just so bad against the run. So if the
Steelers don't rush for well over one hundred yards in
this game, if Janlin Warren doesn't average you know, a
five yard per carry clip or something like that, boy,
we got big problems with that running offense. To not
be able to do it against that, then what is
going to happen against the Bears, who are better than
that against the rape? You know what I mean? Like

(09:52):
every team is literally going to be better than that
from here on out, and except for maybe the Bills. No,
they are going to be better technically, But the Bills
are god awful against them.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, that's one I was gonna say. They're only two
teams they are averaging five point five yards per carry against,
and those are the Bills and the Giants, and the
Bengals were five point four by far their They.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Just missed that cutoff there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, the thirtieth and yards for attempt against them. And
remember this, the Steelers, as much as we like, one
of my favorite stats I've said a couple of times
here was that there was a point late in the
second half of that game, or at least late in
the second half of that game, and late in the
third quarter I think it was whenever Jalen Warren had
more yards per carry than Jamar Chase had yards per catch,

(10:32):
which kind of just showed a total lot of things
about the way that game that was going it. There
was just so many short passes to chase over and
over and over again. He was accumulating that many yards,
and so the Steelers were in that game against the
Bengals average seven point four yards per rush. And there's
only been one other game, only two of the games
they've had more than four and a half year, only

(10:53):
one of the game more than four point six yards
per carry for the Steelers for the for the season
the other eight games. So that shows how how much
they were able to run the ball in that game.
The season high one hundred and forty seven rushing yards
for the Steelers in that game. And I think there's been,
like I said, a lot of chatter this week inside
the team, outside the team. I think they there's Jayan

(11:13):
Warren has been really effective these last two weeks, but
he's been limited to under how many carries he's had.
I mean it's been in that in that less than
fifteen for sure each of those two games.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's not enough. I know that he's getting out snapped
by Kenneth Gainwell in the last game, which was like
kind of the the straw that broke the Campbell's back there.
That was just way too egregious to see that, or
at least fifty percent or less than fifty percent snap
count and more going to Kenneth Gamewell's pocket.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's right. Two of the last three games. He actually
wasn't very productive against the Colts.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
In the way they averaged like one point, but he
had the.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Two touchdowns in that game. Sixteen carries there, and he
have and he had thirteen carries sixty two yards against
the Packers. I think that that's the game, right.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
And he had fourteen carries last week, so he's averaging
around fifteen carries.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, fifteen care and that even goes back to the
Bengals game where he had sixteen carries for hundred twenty
seven yards. What's going on here after that? His season
high for carry is only eighteen and he's only broken
sixteen once.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
And they're not using him as much in the passing
game either, So it's not like we could be like, well,
he's getting fifteen carries a game, but he's getting eight
catches a game too.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, it is something like I mean we've talked. I
mean it's been trust me, it's been a major and
I kind of felt like Arthur Smith was like, Okay,
I get it's kind of beaten down getting asked questions
about it this past game, and and you know it's
nothing against Kenneth Gainwell, right, I mean it's just not
it's it's I just think Jalen Warren has definitely been
your most consistent player for sure, and I think offensively

(12:37):
throughout the team, and you know, argue in some ways
I mean I always put the quarterback separate no matter what.
But I mean Gainwell has more targets still than Jalen Warren,
and that kind of shows something.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I mean, you know, this shows something that I don't like.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, he I mean, Warren's one hundred and thirty six
touches this season and he missed one game, so that's
an eight game, So that's still Oh what is that?
That's seventeen touches a game that he's gotten so far,
and you know, you've got to get more than that,
I think to him, especially the way he's shown and
especially with your struggles at times in the passing game,

(13:11):
especially in games when you have leads and things like that,
especially in games whenever the other team's offenses is a
worry and the Bengals Bengals offense is a worry. So
I think being able to run the ball will helps
you win just an overall game plan too, So I
wouldn't be shocked if he is sort of relied on
more in this game. You know, we've had a couple
subpar they beat the calls, they get up short fields,

(13:33):
things like that, but it's a couple of subpart of
offensive games. Overall, a couple of subpart passing games. Overall,
maybe it's time to get back to the bread and
butter against the defense that you have proven you can
run them against, and everybody's proven that can run against.
And with all the kind of noise about Warren's lack
of involvement, I think it would be something to maybe
give him, you know, twenty three, twenty five touches, whatever
it is.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Absolutely, I just think that this is a game that's
kind of begging you for it. But then again, the
second half of That's Colts game was begging you to
run the ball and kind of ice things and you
were unsuccessful doing so. And then the second half for
that Packers game was begging you to come out and
run the ball and control the time of possession, and
you couldn't do that. Now, the Bengals are terrible in

(14:15):
time of possession. They possessed the ball the fewest amount
of time than any team in the NFL. So for
a team like the Steelers, who have the second fewest
time of possession, I guess you could technically say this
is a good matchup to improve your time of possession
numbers against because they don't hold onto the ball either.
Are these two team's gonna be playing hot potato like
you haven't? I got it? Is this game going to

(14:35):
be done in fifty minutes instead of sixty?

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Like?

Speaker 1 (14:37):
I don't know? But I do know that if you
kind of ignore the aspect of the Steelers struggling in
time of possession and just focus on the Bengals also
mightily struggling in time of possession, then you could conclude
and talk yourself into, hey, we need to get right
in possessing the ball. Running the ball helps go a
long way, and doing that, we just established that you

(14:58):
can run on these guys. You dominate time of possession
in a game where they don't want to dominate it either,
and try to correct ourselves in that area because that's huge.
They're them getting killed in time of possession in every
single game they play and then overall being second to
last to only the Bengals. It's killing this team. An
old team should not be at the bottom of time
of possession. You need to hold that thing, You need

(15:18):
to control the game.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, there's definitely it's an The thing is the Seeers
have been so good at takeaways too, you would think
that they're getting extra possessions things like that. I mean,
it's it's wild and yeah, the whole like the immovable again,
the immovable object of time. Times of that circle. Man,
the Bengals can't hold the ball, the Steelers can't hold
the ball. There's going to go back and forth. And

(15:40):
I think that some of that is the Bengals just
but it is the Bengals score quickly. I'm sure that's
the least part of why they're so they're so low
in time possession. But I think it's also their teams
can hold the ball on them and just run down
their throats and just bleed clock the rest of the game.
But it is something some of the historical in terms
of the Steelers being worse time possession this year than

(16:01):
they've been in decades, both in terms of their season
and some of these individual games they've held held the
ball less than they've held maybe not in decades, but
very very rarely, are only a handful of times over
the past couple decades if they held the balls as little,
and those individual games they did against the Chargers over
the Mike Tomlin era. So it is something that that

(16:24):
another thing you get another tonic, right, Tom, another thing
that's going. The miracle tonic you have for the Bengals
can cure all your ills in a lot of ways.
Is the perfect opponent.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh, I can't hold on to the football? Huh? I
think I got something back here. Help you out.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
He's got it. It's in some cork in the top.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah yeah, pop the cork out. Just a plot to
the air that hurts. You should be able to hold
onto that buff up with thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Now, thirty minutes.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Wow, this really is a miracle tonic. And then last,
but not least, and I think we talked about this yesterday.
Fifteen percent is the amount of third downs you're converting
in the past three games as the Steelers offense. Forty
nine point one percent is the amount of third downs
on the season that the Bengals defense allow you to get.
It is a coin flip every time you face a

(17:13):
third down if you're gonna get it or not. Against Cincinnati,
your numbers are so bad, dare I say abysmal when
it comes to third down conversions. You gotta be a
lot better in that area. Enter Cincinnati, Bengals.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
There you go. I mean, the tonic of the cures
the third down fifteen possession running game.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
That's a problem game. Let me see what I got
for you back here on my shell. Oh yes, the
fifteen percent conversion rate boost aka Cincinnati Bengal defense.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
That's what you're looking for here. And they, I mean,
the Bengals were bad last year. They did nothing to
really accept really like like annoy their best player on
defense and then pay him. Now he's hurt too, uh,
regardless of that, it's it's just it's and somehow the
fact that are still lost in them four weeks ago.
So you know, you can't take anything for granted, it's

(18:05):
still all these things. But even with all that day
no right, they know the Bengals aren'ty good. But still
so that's why I guess there is a little bit
of pressure because if we still can't get things right
a lot of these areas, in some of these areas Sunday,
then it's really like, oh boy, something's really wrong. But
even with the knowledge that if you do get a right,
it's quote unquote only the Bengals, I think it's a

(18:27):
good booy here to the rest of the down the
stretch of the season.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
And one of my favorite words, booey yes, it's just
fun to say it is it's supposed to too, like
it's what b u o y and it sounds kind
of like that other word that I like. That's fun
too say that one. Yeah, yeah, I love a good
booie booie.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yes, so do I.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
The Steelers all of the things that we just mentioned,
if they don't come to fruition and again it they
don't have to be perfect. One does have to run
for one hundred and fifty dec it doesn't have to
go for one hundred and fifty. They don't have to
invert every single third down. But if we don't see
serious signs of you know, the ship turning and go
in the other direction, progress being made a game that

(19:11):
is one based on those elements that I just laid
out on your offense being successful in those areas and
we don't see that again, I think it leads to
some serious concern about has that offense really started to
sputter out? Are they going to be stuck in neutral
now moving forward?

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Yeah? That might be more. You talked about it must
win in terms of and the reasons we laid out
just the general must win and where you're at in
the standings and the record and the wildcard in your
schedule and and all those things that go into it.
But even more it might be more concerning. I mean,
I want know what scenario of somehow they get a
win but the offense does nothing. I don't know, it's

(19:48):
hardy even visioned that. But and just in terms of
where you where how you feel about this team, regardless
of where they are in the standings or what their
situation is, in terms of, hey, they go out and
beat it, like you know, they gotta punchish chance to
beat the Bills or whoever you're talking about coming up here.
If you see a struggling offense Sunday, at that point,
you got to really just kind of question where you're
at in general. I feel like so it's an important

(20:10):
game for all those reasons because you can get well
in a lot of areas and kind of position yourself
at least feel good about having a chance to going
down the stretch.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Here, Chris and I will take a look at the
rest of the week eleven schedule around the NFL when
we come back. You're listening to the Steelers Splitz on
Steelers Nation Radio, part of the Steelers Audio Network. Week
eleven started on Thursday night, and Chris, we have our

(20:38):
first team of the twenty twenty five season to officially
clinch a winning record on the year as the New
England Patriots. That's right, the New England Patriots. God, I
hate having to say that already they're supposed to be
in purgatory for another ten years. What happened? What deal
did they make to get back? But they are nine

(21:00):
and two, which means they at the bare minimum, will
be nine to eight in a winning team. And Chrissy
gotta think, you know they're gonna win the East. I
think now, I think that they're in a good trajectory there,
but one more win overall, man good one into the
playoffs regardless. I think ten and seven gives you a
good chance in this AFC playoff picture.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
And that doesn't even account for the fact that they
got Bengals, Giants, Jets, Dolphins is for their Do.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
You think they'll get the final six, yes, I would imagine,
and then the eleventh win and twelfth one yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
So even if they do lose in the rematch of
the Bills with they heave at home, by the way,
and then they got at the Ravens. So really, again,
the Ravens again have a losing record. They have one
team left in their schedule, so they're gonna play their
final eight games. What is it the final seven games
you count last night against team six of them against
the teams losing records, and they were already eight and

(21:51):
two heading into that. So yeah, it's a and you
know you'd think, you know, you have a frustration or
we have a frustration or Pittsburgh or Seelers fans of
a frustration league does Yeah, And well the Jets think
about it. Those are their biggest rivals from any.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Jets and the Bills and the Dolphins, they all hate
it right now. This is hell on Earth.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
The Jets have tried this rebuild thing over and over
and over and over and over again. And the Patriots
have two down years in there.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
If the Patriots of Super Bowl this year, I mean,
Bills fans might just get up, I mean really just
might be done. I'm just turning in turn. We had
this great window. Patriots were down no more, Brady, we
run the AFC East. Now we have nothing to show
for it. And then this guy Drake May and Rabel
just roll in and they win a super Bowl already,
and the Patriots are back again, Like, I can't imagine

(22:34):
what it's like for them up close and personal in
that division. There was nothing that you could have really
proved if you were the Patriots last night. But I
still think that was kind of an impressive victory even
though it was against the Jets. You covered the spread
and it was a twelve and a half point spread,
So I mean, I I do view it through that
lens when you're playing kind of a bummy team. Did
you win by more than what you were expected to

(22:54):
win by against said bummy team? And then Drake May
You just watched the game, Chris, and you're like, oh
my god, he's really freaking good. Everything is just so perfect.
It feels like with him in that offense, he's twenty
five for thirty four, another unbelievable completion percentage. But it's
not like he's just paper cutting yet. Twenty four completions

(23:15):
got him two hundred and eighty one yards and he
had a touchdown on top of it. Like it just
looked like the game was coming so easy to him.
Anytime they were in like a fourth and short, they
put it in his hands and he would just he
knew where he was going with it. It was easy throws.
He's so good. I mean, it's it's remarkable that, you know,
we had a rookie class where Jaden Daniels came storming

(23:37):
onto the scene. Caleb Williams was thought of as like
that can't miss prospect for like several years. Jo Nicks
would have been a Rookie of the Year in any
other class other than the one that Jayden Daniels was with.
And you looked like you had a really nice crop
of these three guys. And I think all three of
them are still they're still pretty good. I mean, bo Nicks,
I don't know about that. Daniels' injury is weird and

(23:58):
it's hard to evaluate him. But Williams is actually starting
a tournal corner. It looks like, you know, there's something there.
But then Chris, it's this Drake May guy that is
going to end up ascending over all of them and
become the guy from that class.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Narrator J. J. McCarthy is also part of.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
The class not gonna ascend the over Drake May. No,
even if he's really good, he's not gonna Yes, they get.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
The third pick their third choice. Like I said, Kayleb
Williams from the time he was a college freshman was
known to be projected to be the number one pick,
you know, whenever he came out in the draft.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
You also forgot to mention Michael Pennix, by the way,
I sure.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
He was also played. Yeah, yeah, well he's not been
as well.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, but your point was well taken. Like the Patriots
kind of had may fall to them. Yeah, like they
were the team that was kind of like, well, I
guess we'll take the other. You know, forgive me if
you don't know this reference, but you play the Pokemon
video games, you had to go choose your starting Pokemon
with Professor Oak and you got there late and it
was like, ah, there was only one left and it
was this damn Pikachuu and it was like, I guess

(24:51):
I'll take Pikachu. That was Pokemon yellow if you're playing
the games. And that was also the cannon when it
came to the TV show that was on TV that
he ash was there late and all the Pokemon were
taken to take a Pikachu whatever. Okay, that's kind of like,
you know what the Patriots are left. It's like, hey,
we got here, Professor Roak. It's like, oh, we already
gave away our Caleb Williams and our Jade and Daniels.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
But here's what Drake may for you.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Do you want it? I need a Pokemon, so I
guess and lo and behold, he didn't turn into Pikachu.
And you know, Ash catch him. They're gonna win it
all the Patriots, not maybe this year, but they will
under him. I feel strongly about that because he's damn good.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, and it's one of those where, I mean Jaden
Daniel's I remember Washington, they had their eyes on Daniels,
and Daniels kind of came out of nowhere in terms
of not of nowhere better than draft being a high end,
top draft pick because he had an amazing seating at LSU. Yeah,
he wins the Heisman, so he was high profile in
that sense, and it looked like obviously and it still
doesn't obviously he's not a bust by. I mean he's
still he's had this, he's been injured and everything this year.

(25:45):
We'll give him a pass for how dynamic and Grady
was as a rookie. You still think it was a
great future there and it looked like a good pick
by the Commanders, but yeah, for New England to get it,
and I mean how many times did the Jets drafted
in the top five, it just got to be. It
just got it. I mean, like you're the Bill's angles
is crazy. If the if the Patriots get to a
Super Bowl, we'll win a Super Bowl. That's when the

(26:06):
Bills thing becomes like just like, you know, what do
we you know, the Jets get It's like how many
times we tried and then then like and now watching
Darnold like become an MVP candidate. I mean, if you're
a Jets fan, I mean, I know we're Pirates fans,
so I guess we have some aspect of it. Like
I have a real good friends a huge Jets fan,
and I'm always like, well, I feel I'm like, you're
gonna realize what my baseball team is.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
It's worse for us as pirate fans. The Jets are
at least in two AFC championship games.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
True, yeah, yeah, I get that, yeah, but but there's
got to be a feeling of hopelessness for the Jets now.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Question.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I mean, it's just like, what.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
What are we gonna do with him, probably get terrible
quarter quarterbacks will be good for other teams.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
And then and then draft guys like maybe like a
guy like a quinnin Williams or a sauce gardener and
trade away three years.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
And that's what I've seen so many people bring that
point up when it comes to they got all these picks.
It's like, okay, yeah, but they got it right with
all their picks pretty much other than the quarterback the
last time they had all these picks, and now they
just traded all those. They made good picks, like they
picked all pro players. Just can't get the quarterback right.
All right, Uh, Sunday in Madrid, we start things off

(27:08):
at nine thirty in the morning, Commanders and Dolphins. As
gorgeous as Madrid, Spain is, that game is gonna be
just as ugly. I mean it is probably if you're
gonna get the International straw or if you're gonna draw
the International straw. As a team, Madrid, Spain's pretty good.
Not a bad place staff to go to. London's a

(27:30):
little dreary this time of year. Dublin was cool for
the Steelers from their own perspective because there was just
some you know, other things that play there, Steelers specifically,
Dublin's a little dreary too when you go this time
of here put Madrid Spain, Baby, I mean that feels good.
Although it's Miami, I guess going there, so Miami's like
we're in Miami.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
But now Tom's are prisly you have not mentioned this yet?
What about the Super Bowl rush?

Speaker 1 (27:55):
There?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
You go? Okay, all right, thank you were on top
of it. I okay, it sticks out to me.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Well, these are sneaky ones because anyone involving the commanders
you got to think back in your mind's eye, old
team name that shall not be named.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
And the Dolphins haven't been in at the Super Bowl since, right,
I think.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
They had his fake logo now compared to yeah, you know,
I think the logo of the whatever the team was
called beforehand, you know, it needed to be changed. But
you want to talk about two iconic logos when they
were playing in the Super Bowl, Washington one and the
Dolphins won.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
In like a color contrast that chef's kiss as far
as a uniform matchup is concerned.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
But yeah, yeah, is that our only one this week?
Is that our only Super Bowl rematch this week?

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I believe it was crazy because I assumed that Raiders
Cowboys was a super Bowl even I couldn't remember which
they just never lifetime, but they never made showed up
like they probably if you go through the seventies, it
was probably either Raiders or Cast.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
The championship game Cowboys lost, they.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Were right there. They probably combined for like I mean
literally ten their ten years. They probably combined for fifteen
conference championship games between the two and the seventies and
didn't meet up each other because the Steelers meet the
Raiders most of the time. But that's beside the point.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Running parallel with the Steelers. In the one o'clock window,
you've got the Bucks and the Bills. That's the big
game in the one o'clock window. Bills are a five
and a half point favorite right now over the Buccaneers.
That seems like a lot befeshadowing something Tom. I was
gonna pick the Bucks too, so now I might switch
that because I need to catch you well. But I
don't blame me for picking it, though I do. I

(29:18):
like the Bucks a lot in that game. As far
as covering a spread is concerned, I don't know if
I like them allowed to win, it is that that's
more of a must win for the Bills right than
the Bucks because they got to keep pace with the
Patriots now. And if you go to six and four,
I mean, I still think you are a wild card,
but you're kind of like, uh oh, we are kind
of getting stuck in the pack when it comes to

(29:40):
the wildcard teams. So and then on the Buccaneers side
of things, if they lose and go to six and
four and the Panthers beat the Falcons on the road
and go to six and five, Panthers and the Bucks
have the same amount of wins. All of a sudden,
the Panthers only half a game back from you. But
you just don't fear the Panthers. You just don't take
them seriously. The Bucks will just win that division by
whatever means necessary. Whereas if the Bills lose, I think

(30:01):
you can maybe say the East is done and dusted
at that point. And then, as I.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Said, the teams that could that could tie you, well,
Kansas City could tie you, Houston win the game in Baltimore,
get a game with you in the wild card race,
and those are teams that you would all fear.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
And then look the Steelers will be right there too.
I'm serious though, they will be part of that wild card.
The Steelers and they play you, so they could you know,
deliver a blow that could.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Think psychologically because the Bills. I don't want to say
this was I mean, I think the Bills are pretty
much for like four years now. Yeah, them losing the
conference that of the game and could be good enough
for them this year. So if this season starts to
I would say unrival yet it wouldn't be that level.
But if they're all of a sudden on the on
the on the line, they make the playoffs, even like
the Bucks is a little more cop there's a little

(30:44):
more Bucks.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Are getting a home game to start the playoffs. That's
almost a guarantee. They will have to try so hard
to get that away from it.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
And you could say that they're gonna if they start
losing more games here, they're gonna fall out a tier
behind the NFC powers and I get it.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
But but they'll get a home game to start the playoffs,
so it really doesn't matter. That's you're right, I know
that you want to kind of be thought of that
way in that elite powers, like this team can super
Bowl but you get your ticket to the dance and
you start at home, even if you kind of just
were okay heading into the playoffs. You win that game,
you get some mojo going on the road now next week.

(31:19):
So the Bucks it'll be impossible pretty much for them
to lose that. So, yeah, this is a much bigger
game as far as the Bills are concerned. Bears and
Vikings also going off in the one o'clock window. That
is the Steeler's opponent next week, the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
The Vikings stand maybe to stay in the playoff race.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, I think you have to say that. I don't
know if that will officially be the case. Four and
six might still have a sniff at the wild card
in the NFC. They'll be done in the North, though,
I mean the NFC North will be it already is
kind of gone for them. But the Bears, if they
win this game and then you've got the Eagles taken
on the Lions in Philadelphia on Sunday Night football, Chicago

(31:56):
beats the Vikings, They're kicking their feet up and going.
There is a good chance ants that we are solo
NFC North leaders when the Steelers come to town next week.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
That is crazy to think, man, and.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
I think it's not that far fetched, right, could definitely
see the Lions losing to the Eagles, and could definitely
see the Bears beating the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
The two favorites the chalk Holds.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I actually see more. Well, the Vikings are favorite actually
and a half point favorite. And I was just gonna say,
I actually could see the Vikings beating the Bears in
this football Vikings beat the Bears on Soldier Field, remember
with JJ McCarthy earlier in the year, the first week
of the season. But the Bears are like six and
one or like something insane since five and one, since

(32:39):
starting one and two or something like that.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Like they have just rather six and one. That's at
some point you got it.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
To start the season.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, they're because they lost the Vikings and not remember
they got spanked by the Lions.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
And then and then they have really not looked back.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
They almost run the table. They only defeat since then
was that the Ravens. So they I mean they are
not impressive overall win I mean Raiders, Commander, Saints, Bengals, Giants,
but you know, and Cowboys are the first one I
say that, So there's not a winning team in there, right,
But that being said, I mean you're the Bears. I
mean you get you win this one now and again,

(33:15):
technically the Vikings are a winning team, but you know
you're seven and three is seven and three. It's the NFL.
And you know, especially when you're the Bears and you
probably haven't been seven and three for.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, exactly like you. We we analyze these teams and
we say, are you a for real seven and three
or not? But to your point, it's the NFL. Like,
this ain't college. This isn't eye test. You just stacked.
It's not like all that matters is stacked or not
the Sunbell Conference, you know whatever. I mean, if they
get the seven and three, it's at some point you're respected. Yeah,
if they finished, If they haven't finished fourteen and whatever,
thirteen to four this year, are we gonna say they're

(33:45):
gonna I don't know if I'll still pick them in
a playoff game to beat, But some point you got
to thirteen wins, you'd be like, I don't know them
if they won thirteen damn damn games all year.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
But the way they got they got the Steelers, which
you know, it's right, I don't know if the Steelers win.
If Steelers lose this week, the Bears almost for sure
will be a favorite next week. If the Steelers win,
I think the.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Bears might be a favorite, no matter what you think.
So you think the slight slight? Could we see a
pick them? You never see a pick them anymore. I
miss pick them. Don't you miss pick them? Chris, That's
a good point. I love opening up the sheet and
seeing a good pick them next to the game.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
That way. It's been a while.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
I feel like pinnanod Dame should have been a pick them.
They should have just said pick them. Oh God, when
people have been flooding tonother day. Chargers Jags in the
one o'clock window. Chargers are another one of those teams
that's like, yeah, I mean, how good are you? What
is your future without those tackles this year? But you
have seven wins going on eight. If you win this
game in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
It's like Jaguars last Name.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
I'm just gonna say, it's a little last standy for Jacksonville.
They go to five and five, they're not done, obviously,
but they start.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
To slip back. Yeah, you kind of feel there's a
laised there.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Charges their favorite on the road too, to go into
Jacksonville without any tackles, their favorite to go into the
road and beat the Jags.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, I mean the I mean, well, what's the Jags resume?
Since they beat the Chiefs, ain't good? They eked out
a win against the Raiders, who two point conversion goes
they they'd be in a four game louding streak since
beating the Chiefs to got a four and one right now.
One that two point conversion was caught by the Raiders
two weeks ago. So yeah, I mean, they played good teams,
but they just they just don't when you watch the
game flow of them, you don't feel like they're they're

(35:17):
any good to be honest, for being a winning.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Record, now the four o'clock window has two good games,
two May games, one terrible game. How in the world
did Ravens Browns find their way to four to twenty five?
How in the who did that? Who green lit that?
He was like, let's put them at four twenty five.
At the beginning of the season, no one would you
think the Browns were.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Gonna be good.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
And in May, when you were making the schedule and
assigning the time the East.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Coast teams, and then you have a marquee. You had
to figure the Chiefs and Broncos when the season started
would be your Markie jim Nantz.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's why I'm actually salty, Chris is because on CBS locally,
we're getting stuck with Browns Ravens. Oh we really yes,
oh my, instead of the Chiefs in the Broncials game
or you gotta know what happens in the Browns and
the Ravens game.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, vision, it's one thing whenever it's one o'clock and
they're no good games. When you've got the national game.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
It's okay, Chris, because we kind of screw the Ravens
in the Browns markets too, because they don't get to
watch Bills, Bucks watch They gotta watch us.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Opportunity AFC North.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Philly's gotta watch us too. The Eagles are probably gonna
be over there. That's what it also sucks to when
the Eagles games pop up over here, and it's like,
I don't care about the Eagles right now. They're in
the complete opposite conference. So four to twenty five is Ravens,
Browns And then you mentioned the Chiefs Broncos game four
oh five on Fox, though, you got Niners Cardinals, and
I do believe we are part of this map. The

(36:32):
game of the week Rams Seahawks at four oh five
in LA. That's a battle for the number one team
in the NFL. I think, yeah, unless people are going
to say the Patriots are after this week, but I
don't think so. I think it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Especially considering the quality of the win. Whoever wins it
against the other one, I think you'd have to unanimously
put them as the number one in it.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
You're in your what a great slate too, And then
you get the lines and the Eagles on Sunday Night Football.
I mean, Chris, we are running the in here. One
o'clock Bucks, Bills, Bears, Vikings, Bengals, Steelers, Jags, Chargers, all
weighty games four o'clock Windows, Seahawks, Rams, Niners, Cardinals. Has implications.
Are the Niners going to be able to keep pace?

(37:13):
Ravens Browns? Who cares except for maybe the Ravens will
get to five hundred Chiefs, Broncos massive, massive game into Lions, Eagles.
And this is a slate, my friend, I mean, this
is a good week.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Eleven here it is a good I think all these games,
I mean Bucks Bills could be the number one game
in a lot of weeks, I feel like, and it
probably ranks fourth, right like in terms of to me,
I mean, you got to put Eagles lines is sort
of the I mean, it's crazy because Eagles lines are
kind of the standard bearer of NFC power, like in

(37:43):
terms of the what you thought going into the season. Maybe,
but I mean Seahawks Rams are are that. So you
almost have a round robin the top four and that's right.
We did, we do what we did our parrect. The
the top four teams were Seahawks, Rams, Lions and Eagles
and England. And there's a round robin going on there.
And if you go to the AFC, I mean in
the Bucks might be you know, your fifth and then
they're playing one of the top teams in the af

(38:06):
that going on. So yeah, and two teams, as much
as we can laugh at the Jaguars or whatever, are
the Jaguars in a playoff spot right now?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Are the seventh SEI playoff teams playing Chargers? Chris and
I will come back. We will make our predictions for
the Steelers in the Bengals game, we will make our
NFL game picks as well. Those are going so well,
so make sure you stay tuned for that. We can
make you some money. He's Krista Danski. I'm Tom Opferman.
It's the Steelers Blitz on Steelers Nation Radio, part of
the Steelers Audio Network. It's time now for a part

(38:43):
on the Steelers Blitz with Tom Oframan and Chris Damski
that I'm starting to dread every week because it really
makes me look bad. You don't look great either, but
you are kind of exactly by association. You look like
that perfect ten standing next to me, your two of
a friend. Because it is, yes, so bad as far
as picking games is concerned. I had this huge thing

(39:04):
last week where I was in the dumps and I
was like, I'm gonna make a big stand. I'm gonna
pick some favorites. I'm gonna pick some really great teams,
or at least teams I thought I were gonna be great.
I'm gonna bounce back, damn it. I bounced back to
zero and three. I didn't win a single game last week.
Now I'm ten and twenty. You are Wow.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
You say it that way, it just sounds worse than
I thought.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
You are thirteen and seventeen because you went one and
two last week.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, I've been stacking these losing I think three losing
weeks in a row.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Now I'm three pretty good games behind you. Now you
have the tea box because I went oh for three,
So please step up and make your first pick of
the week.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag already, right,
So I gotta go Tampa Bay plus five and a half.
They might not win the game, but if you're giving
me five and a half points with the team I
think is one of the best in the league, and
I honestly also this is also sort of me fading
the Bills, because the Bills are I mean what their
last out and did not exactly bathe themselves by any
measure in Glory's for sure.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
So you're going to Tampa minus five and a half.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Plus five and a half? You try to be I say,
you did there?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Do you want to do an all spread?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Plus five hundred on the juice?

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
So I get, what does that go to be? Like?
Three wins? If you cover minus five and a half.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
You can't just bring this zombie with that. You did this,
So all.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Right, would you think about that? I'll go for my
first pick, Philadelphia minus two and a half. They're playing
at home against the Lions. Eagles just win games, man,
they have one of the most impressive resume of wins
on the season right now. They just beat good teams.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Which team they'd be number one for their.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Resume, and I feel like they want to kind of
go out and make a statement on Sunday Night football
against another Super Bowl contender type team. So I got
the Eagles winning this game. I can win by a
field goal, which would be a great tight, epic classic
type of game. And I'm still covering that two and
a half points. So at home, I'll take the Eagles.
Lay in the points, let's beat the Lions twenty seven

(40:58):
to twenty four.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Well, then I have the perfect I'm taking the Lions. No,
I know some reason. You're right, it's not logical, but
I still don't believe it. Like the Eagles just I
feel like they're there's I think that the Lions are
good enough that they could come in and just just
beat them and just coord of like say, break the wheel.
But I just h yeah, So I was I know

(41:20):
it's you're giving me points to the Detroit Lions. I
feel like I know it's on the road. I know
all those things you said. It's probably dumb, but I
like the factor. We're head to head now even better,
So let's go Lions.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Did you see, by the way JJ McCarthy it was
either a social media poster or a comment he made
after the Vikings beat the Lions a couple of weeks ago,
when he came back from injury. He said something like
knee caps intact or something like that. As you got
very good barb there. JJ McCarthy has got some sauce. Okay,
this guy's got personality. Did you also see the thing
where he calls himself nine? Like the split personality on
game days, I'm not JJ McCarthy on game days, I'm

(41:52):
just nine. I call myself nine.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
And this is one of those things where if you
were really good, he would be like, A that's a lot.
There's a little bit of Baker Mayfield here. When Baker
may Field is good, this is awesome. But then when
he was bad, it was like, get this guy out
of here.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
We don't know, we don't know if it's the good
or the bad. So I like the cockiness there. Jackson
Dart's another one that would wear really thin if he
weren't really kicking ass right now when he can play
when his brain's not sleep. Number two pick for me.
I'm gonna go with the Chiefs minus three and a half.
I think they're gonna beat the Denver Broncos by ten points.

(42:25):
I think this is kind of going to be like
a you know what, this is still our division kind
of reminder to them. And I think the Denver offense
is broken, and I think that. I look at the
Denver Bronco defense and I say that's a really good
to great defense. I look at the Kansas City chief
defense and I say that's a really good to great defense.
I look at the Kansas City offense and I say
that's a good offense. That could be a great offense.

(42:46):
It really has that potential and it's shown signs of
that this year. And then I look at the Broncos
offense and that's where it all goes to hell. You
know that meme where it's like Seal Team six is
outside of a place like doing a raid, and they're
all like in their gear, but then the third guy
in the line of four as a clown, like he's
dressed in a clown costume, and it's like this one
just doesn't belong. Well, the Denver offense doesn't belong with

(43:07):
the other three units in this game. So that's why
I look at that as that week link and I say,
the Chiefs cover the three and a half.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Okay, this one. I don't know why I'm doing it,
because a lot of reasons not to, but it just
really shows what I believe in the Packers right now.
And I will say I just looked it up. Now,
I was hoping to get the extra half a point.
Now I almost lost that. But I want him at seven.
If you give me the New York Giants plus a touchdown,
I think Jameis Winston goes out there that Jameis Winston right,
So Jameis Wits is gonna throw the if you think

(43:34):
Joe Flakka when the Bengals throw the ball around.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Dude, I love that pick actually, because the Packers have
been bunkering, like yes, so I figure I get a touchdown,
I think there'll be some juice.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
New coach, a new offensive coach. Now the jamis like
pick six factor they like in the take away giveaway
factor kind of makes me a little bit worried. But
I do feel like they're going to score some points
because that's the one thing that pack and right now
the Packers aren't scoring many points. So I do think
that maybe they can. They can win a shoot out
and very least I feel I can get a push
and that get Mike getting seven points.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I like that pick.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
First third pack there.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
My third and final pick is going to be the
Ravens minus seven and a half against the Browns. They
killed the Browns in the first meeting forty one to seventeen.
I bet you that this is a game where you're
gonna look at the halftime score and it's gonna be
like Ravens fourteen, Browns ten or something like that, and
you're gonna be like tom idiot, you always mix picks.
The Browns are gonna cover. I bet you the Ravens
explode in the second half. They will cover by more

(44:29):
than a touchdown. They will win this game by fourteen
plus points. So I will take the Ravens. I will
lay the seven and a half.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I mean, I guess I liked. I don't like the
idea of that pick because it's.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
It means they are putting pressure on What else you
have to do is win, Chris.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I did see there's a lot of wind. Not if
that affects points or not. May it probably doesn't with
you the Ravens because the markn just run.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
For win in Pittsburgh too correct, They're probably there's winning
in Cleveland.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, I would think. I'm not a meteorologist, but you
just play win travel.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
I'm gonna google that after. Let's get to our predict
since then for the Steelers game, because you said that
worries you if my prediction or if my pick comes
to pass and the Ravens get to five and five,
because that puts the pressure on the Steelers. Well, the
Steelers can alleviate that pressure before the Ravens game even
kicks off on Sunday by just taking care of damn
business themselves against the Bengals. And that's what they're gonna do.
I got the Steelers winning this football game. I think

(45:17):
the offense will look like they drank some miracle tonic
and we'll look a lot better in some areas that
have been deficient in recent weeks against that Bengals defense.
I think the Steelers defense will be able to force
a turnover or two, will be able to disrupt the
Bengals offense enough they'll stop Chase Brown completely. Thirty five
thirty one Steelers win.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
I have similar thoughts up and down the board pretty much,
but I'm gonna go I have thirty three to twenty
seven is my point prediction. So that's still over right,
ain't sixty? I'm sure whatever the overe, whatever the number is,
I'm sure it's not that.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
It's forty nine and a half actually a half. We
are flying over it.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah, we're flying over at that's totally low. Totally That
does stop, now, right, it does, because you feel like
people would just pound the over on again.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
This game is gonna finish with both teams in the thirties.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
I think is it the highest? And there's other games, Well,
the Cowboys game has forty nine and a half and
that's it, the only the one that matches it. So
they're still the highest or at least the co highest
of the week.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
From what I'm selling in the fifties.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
But yeah, you'd think, I mean every Bengal, I mean,
how many Bengals games have been under that? Let's put
that way. But anyway, yes, I think the Steelers win
and they'll get to their thirty points, and they'll win
by still one score, but they will win by a
big one score.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Big win for the Steelers. They will get to six
and four. So it has been said, so it show come.
I've heard that he's Chris Danski. I'm Tom Offerman. Thanks
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