This is the Late Round Podcast with your host, JJ Zacharyson.

What's up everyone, it's JJ Zacharyson, the editor and chief at Fandall and at NumberFier

dot com.

And this is episode 207 of the Late Round Podcast, one of the many shows that are part

of the NumberFier podcast network.

Thanks for tuning in.

So the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't in the playoffs.

For being 7, 2, and 1 after 10 games, they lost 4 of their final 6 games and they're

not dancing as a result.

And we've got takes, we've got lots and lots of takes.

And I've got them too.

On Wednesday's show, I talked about how team record isn't everything.

It isn't the sense that it's all that matters for a team when trying to make the playoffs,

but it isn't everything when we're evaluating how a team actually performed.

And that's key with the Steelers.

We can sit and look at their season and say it was a massive failure.

And it was.

The Steelers are far too talented of a team to not be playing in the playoffs right now.

But it's not like they went 5-11.

And it's not like they didn't play well throughout the season.

According to NumberFier's NerdMetric, which tells us how many points a team would be expected

to win by against an average one on a neutral field, the Steelers were the ninth best team

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