Steelers control the AFC North from the sidelines

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Underground, The steel City Underground, the black
and gold standard for Pittsburgh Steelers coverage. Now here's your hose.
Joe Kuzma and Brian E. Rose.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Steel
City Underground podcast. My name is Joe Kuzma. I'm joined
here once again stateside with my buddy and colleague one,
mister Brian E. Roach. Brian, I hope you're doing a
little better than I'm doing. I know you had your
little brothers get away. The sinuses got me though, dude.

(00:41):
Like the day after I returned from Ireland, it was
like my body just said, screw you, Ohio. I want
to go back where all of that nice, clean, breathable
air was. And I have been Naisley ever since. So
I apologize folks if I have a little bit of
a rock and easily whatever going on here. But I

(01:03):
will persevere with our little bonus programming that we've got here,
because you know, we've got to had our own backs,
I guess. But how are you doing? Man? I was
talking all about myself and my Naisints because I need
to speak to the people and let them know this
is what for If it's a first time listener. This
isn't like you know, this is an amateur hour here.

(01:24):
This isn't what I normally sound like. If I sound unpleasant,
I apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's all good. I don't think you sound unpleasant. I
think you sound like your normal self. I'm doing well.
Once I finally got back for Ireland.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
You know, United.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Airways did their darnedest to make sure I didn't get back,
but you know I eventually did.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Uh, And you know, since then, I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, we had we had some interesting travels, so you
know what we'll pick up from there. I think I
know it's not we're not diving into football. Maybe people
on a knowell bought some football stuff. The Steelers didn't play,
So what did we do during the bye week? I recovered.
I was sitting on the couch. I was watching all
the AFC North games, because all three teams played at
a day and kicked off at a different time. You

(02:12):
had the Browns over in London for their home game.
They were hosted the Vikings who stayed over and I
just sat there and chilled. And now my nose is
an old stuffy and everything like that. But I'm still
you know, I'm still trying to get through it. I
was probably up about twenty two straight hours. I want
to say, I'm trying to think there was a five
hour time difference between Dublin, Ireland in New York time

(02:36):
on the East Coast time here in the States, and
just that alone, well, reckon, enough havoc on your lifestyle,
you know, in your sleep, and that's quite a big difference.
And I know for you, you go to sleep a
little earlier than even I do. I'm more of a
night oul, so that was even rougher for me. But
you know, I made it through. I didn't sleep a
whole lot on the plane. I had two connections and

(02:57):
it was absolutely wild. I went Dublin to Paris forts
Now Paris, France is an extra hour ahead. There's six
hours difference, so I get there in my layover. Because
for some reason, planes like to sit on the sit
on the runway and not go anywhere, or sit at
the gate and not go anywhere, which was at least
you didn't well you may have dealt with that. I'll

(03:18):
let you tell your story, because you know, I at
least got on a plane. Brian wakes up to we're
both going to ahead to the airport. He had no reason
to other than to drop me off. Unfortunately, it's like
entirely disappeared off the board until the next day, which
was rough. Had me very nervous. I was white knuckling
it and running through some various areas. So an hour

(03:40):
later arrival than expected in Paris, combined with a time
change now meant I was still going through security, and
they pulled my bag even though they told me to
put all these things in the bag, don't pull out
the electronics. I got so many electronics. I had all
this stuff for the pod, even my phone. They said,
put the phone in the bag. It is boarding time,
and they're still I fling through. And of course when

(04:01):
they do that, and I had it like it's like
a jinga puzzle and you have it just the way
so it doesn't topple. I couldn't get everything back in
there the way they did, and so I'm running through.
My time in Paris was very short. It was very fleeting.
But since it was one of those like Jumbo what
is it, the seven seven seven seven seven whatever, the

(04:22):
big ones that have like ten rows across the line
to get on that plane was pretty big, so and
it was booked. It was booked up entirely, so I
was able to make that one. And by the time
I got back to DC. Now you've got to go
through security and customs, but they give you your check
bag back and you have to take the check bag
back and then roll it down to another place and
then go through TSA. And let me tell you just

(04:44):
that experience alone, everybody was like standing in line. It's
like the people who don't maybe want to use the
self checkout or the electronic conveniences that we have with
our smartphones. There was a little app that you could
do the customs form on you scan a QR code,
you download the app for free and take a picture
or your passport. Boom, you're in a completely different line
and I'm through in like five minutes. I'm just looking

(05:04):
at everybody and it's like I would have missed my
flight if I stayed in that other line. There just
was not enough time. And the funny thing is the
London flight from Hebrow came in at the same time
at Dulles, So you had the big jet from London,
the big jet from Paris, and everybody trying to come
back in. Regardless of where you're heading to. It's the
same line off of both of those planes. And I

(05:25):
don't know how many people are on those planes. There
was like fifty rows on my plane, so I'm gonna
guess like four hundred people, five hundred people with the
crew or whatever. And long story short, I made that
one by about fifteen minutes getting to the gate, because
you're on a complete opposite side of the airport there,
and I got in early by fifteen minutes, so I did.

(05:46):
I had to wait for my ride to come get me.
But aside from that, I was pretty good. I went
to an Irish bar. I compared the guinness that we
get here in OHI compared to what I just had
in Dublin, Ireland, and there was really no comparison. So
but I was happy to finally, you know, be home.

(06:08):
And then I slept a lot, trying to get over
the whole sinuses or sinus infection or whatever I got
going on.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, you had, you had much more of an adventure
than I did. I.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
You know, as you said, I woke up, my plane
was my flight was canceled, completely canceled. Luckily we discovered
that before I checked out of the hotel, was able
to extend the night at the hotel. And then you'd
like to think, I mean the flight in was delayed
five hours, so that you know, United was not on
time one single time, delayed five hours, then completely canceled.

(06:42):
The next day, the flight is delayed again, and I'm
just waiting for them to cancel the flight, but they didn't. Luckily,
you know, made it over. I was supposed to get
home at eleven fifteen in the morning. I got home
at six thirty that night, but I slept a little
on the plane, and that meant I wasn't a total

(07:02):
wastoid zombie when I got home, and I was able
to stay up until you know, nine thirty, ten o'clock,
which would have been two o'clock in the morning Ireland time,
So that was what my body was on and then
I could go.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
To sleep, and that was it. I was.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I was back into normal, normal scheme. The only downside
of all of this is you know, you'd think, okay, United,
United was just trying to give me an extra day
of VACA, right, Oh.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
You're gonna enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
You're gonna be at no it rained all damn day ah.
I couldn't even get out of the hotel. I mean,
you know, I was tentative enough driving over there. I
wasn't going to do it in the rain to go,
and what was I gonna do? All the stuff I
wanted to do was outside. I'm not going to wander
around in the rain. I didn't feel like doing that.
So I watched Picard all day long. That's funny because

(07:51):
I watched like three movies on the plane. I wasn't
really going to sleep on the big plane. I'm a
big dude. But at least I got like one I
got one of the roads. In the back, there's only
two seats, so like there was nobody next to me.
There was like this little space where a seat should
have been because they were in front of me had
three seats and that worked out very well. But you know,

(08:12):
and then when I got back, it was like seven
pm Easter and it was about that would have been
midnight Dublin time, which I was on track with that.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
I was okay. Wednesday, I was completely fine, man, And
then I like hit a wall all of a sudden,
like I actually came home. I don't know, maybe it's
my condo. I don't know. I checked the furnace, fielders
and stuff. I don't know what's going on, and it
was just like there's dustin palland all over my car.
So I mean that just goes to show it was
significantly warmer coming back. It was like eighty five, eighty

(08:40):
nine stuff like that. Here we had like sixty one
is a high maybe the last day we were there
and it's overcast and everything else. That's a shame and
you should have at least went down and checked out
the checked out what Aldi was like, Like I did it.
They sell paint and power tools there, so that's all
I got. I was.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I was not I didn't need to peruse Aldi.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Oh I apologize there. It is still breaking up. Well anyways,
aside from that little note of our we've made it
back safely. We're back on track, we're back on schedule.
Got to watch a lot of games yesterday, the Sunday
slate starting again with another nine thirty kickoff. Like we said,
the Vikings by the skin of their teeth competitive game.

(09:23):
I'm not sure how much of it you got to catch,
but I'm sure you caught some of the highlights too.
All the AFC North teams lost is what the big
point of this is.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
It means the Steelers won the buy. That's what its
Steelers one really won the buy.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
The Steelers are ahead now and the Bills losing on
Sunday night to the New England Patriots. Maybe that gives
folks a little bit of a different perspective on the Steelers.
The starting schedule here right, because New England's now three
and two on the season. The Vikings are three and
two on the season. The Seahawks, man, boy, they end

(10:01):
up pulling that out. They're three and two. They lost.
I was watching that one too. There were a lot
of close games. There were a lot of so called upsets,
and I watched I watched a lot of games. Yeah,
the Buccaneers won the last second field. That was a turnover,
I believe. Did Darnald throw a pick and something like
that was a very sudden turnover and they did. They screwed.

(10:21):
They beat themselves. The Seahawks did so, but they still
put up thirty five points. I was a shootout. Imagine
that Baker mayfield Sam Darnold on like their fourth or
fifteens each and they're facing each other years later from
was that the twenty seventeen draft, twenty sixteen draft. I
get a confused. I think it was twenty sixteen. Miles
Garrett was in twenty seventeen at number one overall to Cleveland.

(10:44):
So but it's just funny to see those guys just throwing.
I think Darnald had four touchdown passes, not to anybody
that I needed. We had another Bozo walk up to
the end zone and dropped the ball early. It was
on my fantasy team. Amri de Mercado had Junkan Gannon,
the coach for the Cardinals, going ballistic on the sidelines
as he should have totally, and then they blew the

(11:06):
game to the Titans, and I'm just like, oh man,
I'm like, imagine just they had the goofiest touchdown I've
ever seen too, where there was an interception and forward
recovered to the original team that had the ball, which
was Tennessee. The Saints put a pretty nice whooping on
the Giants for their first win in the season. The

(11:28):
Cowboys beat on the Jets. The Jets are now zero
and five. I think they might be the only winless
team in the NFL right now. You had a bunch
of other teams idol with the Bears, Packers, and Falcons
joining the Steelers. But the Steelers benefit the most. Looking
at the Vikings and the Browns man the Vikings got
a lot of injuries on their offensive line, but the

(11:48):
Browns defense can be had. And now the Browns have
to travel back from London and get reacquainted, just like
we had to maybe deal what's ohio allergies, Miles Garrett
and face and then go to Pittsburgh Sunday and face
the Steelers. So Dylan Gabriel in his first start, he

(12:10):
moved the ball boarder than Joe Fleckel, but that's not
saying a whole lot. He threw it to just about
tight ends and nobody else. In this one, David and
Joku was targeted nine times. He had a TD. It's
not fair to say they have this young kid bond.
They was targeted seven times. We only caught two of them.
And then Harold Fannon, a rookie tight end four for

(12:31):
thirteen and a TD. But those were your scorers. Were
both tight ends. A lot of checkdown type stuff. But
some folks were talking about whether or not he could
be a viable fantasy quarterback and stuff, and it was
like he was nineteen to thirty three for one hundred
and ninety yards. Stop the conversation right now, It's not
a whole lot. Quinchawn Judkins. Maybe when we preview this game,
somebody I'd worry about a little more. He ran for

(12:53):
one hundred and ten, but that was against Vikings defense,
and Kenneth Gainwell just ran all over to He was
one short of one hundred yards as well, So Wentz
was still rather effective. Twenty five of thirty four for
two thirty six, a touchdown, no interceptions, and then there
was a trick play with Cam Makers who threw a
thirty two yard touchdown pass as well. That was a

(13:13):
twenty one to seventeen victory. Browns dropped the one in
four and that'll be the Steelers next opponent. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Look, you said that Brown's defense can be had, and
I think that there's some truth to that. But that
is the number one defense in the NFL right now.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
They're no joke.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
You know, I'll give them props and I always have you.
I know you hate them so much you don't want
to give.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Them pops ever. Okay, but there's guys to give individual.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Give them props. There give them props. The defense is good,
very very good.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I think I think it was pretty interesting what was
set and it was I think it was when Cleveland
had to drop into zone. It was on the broadcast,
and how much Wentz was, how much more effective he
was getting them in a zone versus any kind of
man demand cover. I mean, they still they still did
their job bright and there's still guys on that defense.

(14:04):
They forced. They forced two fumbles. Vikings also missed a
field goal and it was missed on TV that it
hit the trip wire that was suspended. It looked really weird,
like it was like the old man in the clouds,
would it just up on?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
They didn't they have it there.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
And then the Jets hit the hit a camera skym skycam,
So yeah, they just, you know whatever, We've never seen
that happen, So we're we forgot that rule that you
need to do it over. I just like not that
I want to get into the preview, but yeah, I'm
probably more concerned about this game than you are because
of our offensive line and the Browns defensive line.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
But we'll deal with that later.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, here's the reason I'm not I'm not stressing too
much here. Punt, touchdown, punt, punt, punt, field goal, touchdown.
Only possession of the third quarter for the Cleveland Browns
thirteen plays, four yards. That was an eight minute possession.
That was a nice drive sustaining. I think there was

(15:07):
some penalty yards that helped contribute to that. Then they
punted four straight times and then the game was over
with the final drive. So there were still they still
had some struggles. Guys like Jerry Judy were completely absent
from this game. Judy was targeted five times. He caught
two of them for fifteen yards. He housers. That's bad.

(15:29):
That's really bad. So Justin Jefferson caught seven passes for
one hundred and twenty three yards. He was pretty much
just plowing all over them. They were able to run
the ball in spots. So I do think that, you know,
minus Miles Garrett, I know Mason Graham, the rookie that's there,
he's been pretty solid. You still have Denzel Ward, greg
News some on the corners, Grant Delpits of solid safety

(15:50):
is still like the other safety and the nickel and
the guys that they have with the secondary, those other
guys still aren't up to stuff. You still have Devin
Bush as one of the linebackers. Now Schweisinger, the rookie
from UCLA. He was solid. I liked him and in
the process too, So yes, But they were talking about
how Jim Schwartz there is not a lot to figure
out there. He does what he does and that's what

(16:12):
they do, and that kind of is what works for Cleveland.
They just have the ball. Those guys got tired. Miles
Garrett was huffing and puffing at the end of that game.
And they're taking their timeouts and trying it because the
offense was not supporting them. It's what we usually complained
about with the Steelers offense and playing complimentary ball or not.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
In this case, we will, yeah, we will have to
see how it goes. You know, you have you have
teams with sort of the same problems in that the offense,
I mean, the Steelers offense is clearly steps far ahead
of the Browns offense. Brown's offense is offensive. To be blunt,

(16:51):
they're not good, but you know, the Steelers haven't been
great either. They've had moments, but they haven't tied it
all together. They have difficulty running the ball. The offensive
line doesn't play tremendously. Well, we'll see, We'll see how
how the game plays out. I think the other side
of that is, you know, we felt like the defense

(17:14):
made strides in Ireland.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Do they continue to do so?

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Because this is a game where if you're letting a
team like the Browns take advantage of you, Wow, that's
going to be really ugly and bad. But you know
that'll also probably depend on who's playing.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
You know, we do have some injuries. We'll have to
see who gets back.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, I was a good segue because I was going
to get into that. Of course, the Browns have their
own issues too, with the offensive line, with some of
their injury. I know Conklin played for this game, but
you know, the tackles or they bring in an extra body.
Sometimes they're trying to run the ball. Guys are committing penalties.
I actually saw holding calls made in other games. I
was in shock and awe. I'm just like, who are

(18:01):
these referees. We have not seen these guys yet apparently.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
So.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, injury wise, a little bit of bonus football, a
little bit of extra work or whatever is going on.
It's southside and they've got some guys on the field.
Alex Heismith, Joey Porter Junior, Jalen Warren all getting some activity.
Porter above all of them, was said to you, he's
going to be a go for Sunday. We got to
see where Jalen Rams he's at, because he's really the
Swiss Army knife and that's a really big, a really

(18:28):
big set of shoes to fill for the Steelers defense.
That's one that they cannot be missing. And likewise, who
else was Kelvin Austin. We're waiting to see what happens
with Kevin Austin. Kelvied Austin's been putt returner. We'll see
if Dante Kent is next man up. I thought that's
what he was drafted to do. He's been on injured reserve.

(18:50):
He is eligible to come back. Now we're headed into
week six, so he's already well beyond the ability to
be reactivated. We'll see what else happens too. Will Howard
gets bumped back up because Scaler Thompson went on IR
like shortly after that, and you've only had like Logan
Woodside as your emergency or do they still just do
that and leave me. They got a lot of calculations

(19:10):
to do as far as you know, juggling rosters and
roster spots and if there's a team that those that
all too well, right now we jump into talking about
injuries and everybody's excuses. Man, they're one and four, I
get it. I mean, I guess you could after they
lose to the Rams, you know, I love the tweets

(19:32):
that were coming out. Yeah, if the Rams get their
head out of their ass. They killed me on Thursday
night too, my survival pool boom. I knew I should
have took the Texans here forty four to ten.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I knew that Texans were losing some games real close,
but they still had to go on the road. I'm like,
is harbaught the coach to tomlin Is and tomlin could
put who was that? The one year it gets Brady,
it was like Sydney Jones and some other guy that
you know was bouts around journeyman corners. They had to
start both of them and Mitch Trubisky at quarterback and
somehow came away and beat the Buccaneers at home. Not

(20:04):
the same thing here with Baltimore with Cooper Rush under center,
he was fourteen to twenty. I mean, they didn't have
the ball a whole lot. He threw three picks in
this game. He was only sacked once, though Derrick Henry
held fifteen carries thirty three yards two point two average.
This team they got absolutely just smoked. There was no

(20:28):
other way to say it.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
And I know they got their butts kicked at home.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
They're missing Kyle Hamilton, Rokwan Smith, Nomni Medabike, who else
they say, Hamilton, Marlon Humphrey, they're missing just they might
have been missing Nate Wiggins too, So yeah, they were
missing a lot of dudes. And then they were just
making mistakes on top of that, like Mark Andrews had
a pretty bad catch and fumble just basically just handed

(20:55):
it to the Texans, and the Texans just they just
took advantage. They scored against. Now Baltimore's defense has been bad,
even with their starters in there, though.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yes, they have not been what you would have expected.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
The Texans scored on all but two possessions of the game,
and that would be the final two where they finally
punted with about seven and a half minutes to go
in the game, and then they just knelt down. The
Ravens missed the field goal they had the three picks
and they punted a few times, a lot of three

(21:32):
and outs. In fact, aside from the first position that
was twelve plays seventy one yards, that looked like, hey,
they might still compete a little bit in this game.
They didn't have a drive that lasted more than five plays,
and they had one that was five plays seventy yards
and finally got something going. But I mean, it was
like the Texans were already playing kind of like a
shell with their defense. And it's the same thing we're

(21:53):
going to talk about with Detroit because unlike Houston, Houston
wasn't losing players. Detroit was all of a sudden everybody
getting hurt at the end of the game against the Bengals.
But man, the Ravens, it's not looking good and if
their hole keeps, they can't lose too many more games.
The same situation Cincinnati was in last year, where you
just get behind the eight ball so far and then boom,

(22:15):
it's done. You're playing catchup for the whole rest of
the season. You may never catch up.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
And here's because I was interested in this. I was
looking at their schedule the rest of the way, and
you know, let's say they get healthy. If they drop
against the Rams. They drop the Rams game at home
because nobody's still playing, right, Let's say Lamar's not playing yet,
Roquan's not playing, they missing their secondary still, and they

(22:41):
lose that game to the Rams one in five. You
look at the rest of their schedule, though, I don't
know that it's all that difficult, you know. I mean
they got a lot of AFC games right, AFC North
games yet to come. Uh, and you know, so anything

(23:03):
is possible there.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
You never know. Let's say they split with us, you know,
it will be difficult for them.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
To get back to the point I mean because basically
they got to win every game you start to, you go,
one in five, you can't drop too many more games.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, we're looking at it right here. So next up
is the Rams at home, and then they take a
buy so that will help them. Then they play at
home again three in a row with a buye like
they never leave. Then they go, oh, then they go
down for a Thursday, so short weekend, have to play
at hard Rock that we know that's October thirtieth Winter terrible.

(23:42):
They're terrible, though they're not they're bad, depends on how
many injuries they might.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Not walk a Tyree hill Man. Was that ugly?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, but yeah, they're not good.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
I mean they if you figure because they're coming off
a buye, right, they have a shot to be completely healthy.
If they're completely healthy, you assume they will beat the Bears.
The Bears seem to be hit or missed this season,
right one. At one point they're awesome. In the next
week they look stinky. So you assume they beat the Bears.
They'll beat the Dolphins. Then who's next up on this list?

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay, so we've got they got it. They got some
road games finally, Minnesota Vikings that could be competitive. Browns
Carson Wentz is still the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I don't know, but we'll still know either. The house
could be closed. They'll kill the Jets.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Hey, you know what, Before we jump any further, let's
let's bring this up real quick. The Steelers quarterbacks last year.
If you have any thought about Mike Tomlin's ability to
coach and when they have injuries and everything, what's the
combined record of Russell Wilson and Justin Field so far
this year? I think they're now, oh and Owen a lot. Yeah,

(24:54):
the big Gooseggs all right, continuing because that was on
my brain with field with fields, and he's still the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
So the wind of the Jets win, they'll win against.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Thursday night, that's Thanksgiving against the Beans because Burrow is
not going to be back probably yet. Well, there's a
set of conversation said Southern Ohio right now about whether
or not they'll pull the trigger on yanking Yankee Browning
and making a play for somebody, whether that's we were
just talking about Russell Willison. No, they all make a

(25:27):
play for Mason Rudolph. But Kirk Cousins is sitting down
there in Atlanta too, just you know, twiddling his thumbs.
So whether or not they'll do that, but their ownership
so they an cheap. I don't see that they would
pay anything. That was the whole reason why Cousins isn't
going anywhere. I know the Falcons are paying too much
money for him, but absolutely I don't see it happening.

(25:48):
So that they get the Bengals twice, they bookmarked up
against the Steelers, so they get a little bit of
a mini buy before they have to come to before
they host uh And of course it's back to back
at home again and they go to Cincinnati again and then
Patriots at green Patriots.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Question, Green Bay is probably a loss.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Patriots could be tough at that point too, especially if
it's a motivated Patriots team. Let's say the Patriots are
are on the edge of like eight nine wins in
a playoff berth for the first time, and you've got
Mike Vrabel. I mean, that could be a tough game.
That really could so. But yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
It's not that it's not that daunting of a schedule.
But you look at the rest of their season, do you.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
But the ability to rip off eight or nine wins
in a row is what you start to think about.
That's very difficult to do, no matter how your schedules
it is.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
But I don't know. Look, I expect us to win
one of the two Ravens Gas.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
It would be nice if we could sweep them, right,
If we sweep them, then I think the division is
ours regardless because I don't see us losing to the
Bengals with that burrow unless some crazy happens. And you know,
I'm going to say we probably split with the Browns,
but we'll see, you know, if that happens. What are

(27:11):
we at three and one. Now, so let's say that
that's another five wins. That gives us to eight victories,
and there's other teams on our schedule that we're gonna beat, right,
so we'll.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
See, yeah, I know. And everybody's saying, well, the Steelers
is going to have to play like the Lions later on,
It's like, okay, yeah, all right, they will.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
So you know, if it just gets to the Lions
and they lose to the Packers, right, that's two losses
out of the rest of their schedule. You know, as
I said, the Bears aren't really frightening. Even if you're
going to go to Lambeau. It doesn't mean they won't
light us up because they could have one of those
kind of games, but they can also you know, lay
an egg because that's just the way their season has been.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Well, the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
You know, at the beginning of the season, the Chargers
game looked a little scary. But after the last two
losses that the Chargers just went through, are you terrified
of the Chargers anymore?

Speaker 4 (27:59):
No, especially because it'll be a home game for the Steelers.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Because it always is their offensive line in their backfield.
Just you know, Nausey's out for the year. They keep dropping.
Everybody's dropping like flies and that doesn't help their What
the other hard Row wants to do there is run
the football, but just jumping on. Uh, I may have
lost the thought that I had there, Brian, I'm going
to have to come back to it now. So oh well,

(28:22):
maybe we'll just jump to the Begels And you're talking
about who's scary. I was thinking about like the Packers,
thinking about the Lions. I totally lost. You had said
something and I lost it. And I'll tell you what,
I've got this brain fog that I just can't get through.
It just seems so it'll come back to me. Oh,
I was thinking about too. With Baltimore. It's just like

(28:46):
how much for how many more losses could they sustain?
For really in trouble. I mean four is a pretty
bad number where they're at right now. And if they
drop one and they have like a hiccup somewhere along
the way, that's where I really think of them the
same like Lamar's not gonna be out as long as
Joe Burrow though, and all of it runs, I mean
it obviously runs through Lamar, so we shall see.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
We will not get the same benefit with the ravens
Lamar will almost one hundred percent be back. Well, he
will be back, provided nothing else happens. He will be
back before both of our games. Whereas I don't think
we'll see Joe Burrow this year.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'm not sure that we see Joe Burrow either. Bengals.
It looks closer maybe in score thirty seven to twenty four,
because they really just started playing prevent defense in the
third quarter. So they were up pretty big in this one,
twenty eight to ten entering the fourth quarter, In fact,
twenty eight to three entering the fourth quarter before the

(29:46):
Bengals actually got back on the board with a touchdown.
Jake Browning was pretty bad in this one. Some How
he completed sixty five percent of his passes, but through
the first half, I'm going to pull up the first
half numbers because he he was sell stinketh right fourteen
twenty three for eighty six yards two picks. It was

(30:07):
a thirty two point two quarterback rating for Browning. And
at one point you had Jamar Chase as the leading
tackler on this team from all the turnovers, and that's
like one of the most ridiculous statistics that you'll ever see.
Browning led the team in rushing for carries thirty one yards.

(30:30):
They did not attempt to run the ball at all.
This was all Detroit, Detroit, Detroit, Detroit, and they just
they just beat the brakes off of this team. They
looked scary. Once again. There was a lot to be
said about whether, you know, losing Gus Johnson as their
offensive coordinator was going to be a detrimental to the

(30:50):
offensive side. In fact, they lost both coordinators because Aaron
Glenn went over and is now the head coach of
the Jets. And they still seemed to be doing pretty well,
but they had guys dropping like flies and getting hurt,
and they had Trey Flowers. So they just signed and
he's running out on the field and you could see
him trying to communicate, and it was just funny the
way they were drawing it up. I think it was
Tony Romo. He was doing the telestrator thing. He was

(31:12):
drawing plays on the field as if he were the
offensive coordinator and trying to show, well, you know, Jamar
Chase should likely go out over here. Well, he didn't
get it exactly right, but that's exactly where the ball went.
They just had him run like brought practically to the
other side of the field. He got lost in traffic,
and that's how you know they ended up with three
touchdowns at the end and then safety, which was you know,

(31:33):
just the icy go on the cake there because there
was just the announcers. Sometimes they drive me crazy. It's
like a team's down ten and there's like a little
over two minutes left, which means you have a two
minute warning, but they just burned all their timeouts. Maybe
they have one left multiple times yesterday. So and So
is climbing back in this and I'm like the likelihood
of that happening is just so extreme. I mean, I

(31:54):
know that the Buffalo Bills did that with the Ravens,
but it does not that was it's like historical for
that to happen. So yeah, but the Bengals, I'm not
even gonna say defensively that they looked all that strong either.
This team they have some issues, and I think as
this continues to go on, if they don't change make

(32:17):
any change of quarterback. Even if they do they let's
say they brought Kirk Cousins on her, Cousins not necessarily
has looked sharp as of late. But what's he going
to do with like a week's worth of practice, three
days worth of practice? They hand him the playbook, and
what's he going to be able to do get down
fifteen plays or something. I'm not sure. I don't think
there's any correlation with him and existing coaching staff in

(32:39):
Cincinnati or anybody that they could bring on or get
from somewhere else that's that knows the system or has
you know a similar system, terminology and everything else. And
then you've got to get on page with he's got
They got fantastic receivers, but we saw what it was like.
Remember Michael Vick and Pittsburgh. That guy couldn't find Antonio Brown,

(33:02):
Like if Antonio Brown were the size of Andre the Giant,
he couldn't find him on the field. It was insane.
And so I don't know that it's going to work
or turn them around much. They're lucky they picked up
the first two games that they did. They're two and three,
oddly enough, second place still in the ANFC North, and
they have a division win also, so the Steelers are

(33:25):
the Kings right now at three and one, Cincinnati two
and three, and then Baltimore is just head on a
tiebreaker over Cleveland, but both with a matching one and
four record.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, I mean, look, Baltimore still has a lot of
a lot of possibilities, and I don't expect them to
end the season where they are right now, obviously, but
you know, it's definitely going to be a challenge for
them to win the division at this point. But you know, again,

(34:00):
the same time, we've seen what can happen, right we
go eleven and one and then blow the end of
the year. You know, who knows, it's early, there's a
lot of injuries going on. We're afflicted with it as well,
so we just have to see how things shake out.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
It's funny you mention that, because that's what somebody else
I saw say it on social media. They said, well,
Tomlin will get his like nine wins, so be above
five hundred and then they're just gonna limp into the
playoffs at the end. And I don't necessarily see it
happening that same way. I like the fact that the
Steelers did get their buy right now, so it's like one,

(34:39):
you know, that would have been an extra week, not
only with the travel in that but not having maybe
a Jalen Ramsey and then they're in the same spot
that you know the Ravens are in for example. So
you've got the Browns at home, the Bengals on a
short weekend, then another mini buy and these are both
winnable games even with missing some players. Where you get
the ramp up week eight for that Sunday night game

(35:01):
against the Packers, that's going to be you know, that's
gonna be a slugfest, I think, so that'll definitely be
worth the primetime billing.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, I agree. I mean, then again, Cleveland beat the Packers, right, you.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Know, it looks the scariest on the schedule right now.
It's not even the Lions. I'm glad we're not playing
this one on the road. Indianapolis Colts looks ridiculous right now.
Everything they're doing looks ridiculous. So did they lose though?
Oh they dropped like a real simple one. That's while

(35:34):
we were across the pond, I think, and they.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
And quite honestly, they shouldn't have lost the game if
the idiot doesn't do the fumble thing right. Yeah, yep,
I got it here for you.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Because everything wants to load slow charge. They were close,
yeahs Rams twenty seven, of course, but some people were
talking about whether they were pretenders or not too Miami Dolphins,
Denver Broncos, Tennessee Titans, and then wallop the Raiders. They
get to Cardinals next week. But I mean, these are
these help build the foundation of a team to be

(36:06):
able to compete. We'll see what they do when they
got to go face the Chargers on the road, then
they get to Titans, then they have to come to Pittsburgh,
so I mean their record may even look a little scarier.
Maybe though maybe the Steelers defense will humble Daniel Jones.
But that's what I'm looking at. Over the course of
what that's the next four games or so into Week nine,
we'll see where the Steelers are. Maybe we're reconvene and

(36:28):
do something like this again. But that's about all I got, Brian,
unless you had some further thoughts. I don't remember the one.
It's gonna happen. Somebody's gonna mention it in the comments
and I'm gonna say, damn it, that's the one that
I couldn't remember. I had a good point, I had
a good point, I got a good point, and I
lost it completely. So I'm like I'm looking around everywhere,

(36:49):
and I'm just like, I'm looking there's no notes, there's
anything else here that's gonna jog by memory, and there's
just nothing. I've got nothing. So we'll see which players
maybe come back from Adrie join us later in the week.
We'll have a pregame show. We're gonna like, take a

(37:09):
look at the Cleveland Brown Steelers finally returning home. Three wins.
Those are all road trips. I know Dublin was a
home game, but those are all road trips. Oh, and
that's what it was, that three and one, the one
in the three and one. If Caleb Johnson doesn't allow
that ball to go into the end zone, maybe something

(37:30):
different happens. Maybe maybe you also have that very goofy,
fluky interception that bounced off of Friarmuth with Calvin Austin
standing right there in front of it too, that you're
just like, they're that close to maybe being four and
oh and the league's only unbeaten team. A lot of
three and one teams out there, and the Steelers are

(37:53):
one of them. We should be happy about that.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
So absolutely all.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
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