Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I'm your host, Chris Carter, bringing you your daily dose of all things on the Pittsburgh Steelers.

It's Friday, May 8th, and guess what?

It's time to talk about the NFL schedule.

That's right.

It was finally released by the NFL.

We now know the full gamut of who the Steelers will be playing and when throughout the season.

I'll begin the episode, talking about giving a brief rundown of all the games, and then the second segment, I'll break down the first half of the season with a third segment breaking down the second after the season.

No need to get fancy about this week. Let's get into it. with a third segment breaking down the second after the season.

No need to get fancy about this week.

Let's get into it.

All right, everybody, happy Friday to everyone out there.

Hope everyone's been had another safe week that you're doing well and you're healthy and that you had a good time enjoying last night's schedule release.

I'm going to break it all down for you.

Now, if you didn't get the chance to hear about the schedule release, I suggest you check

it out.

We have, it's pretty much up everywhere, ESPN, NFL networked, DK.Pittsburgsports.com,

Stealers.com, all the places.

But I'll give you a brief rundown on the games and then we'll dive into the first half and then the second half and give you some some relatable talks here.

So, first of all, let's look at the overall schedule.

It starts, of course, we knew that the Hall of Fame game for the Cowboys, which is up in the air because that's early August.

That's scheduled, that that's on the schedule for August 6th, but the Steelers preseason games are as followed.

They first, they start off the preseason, well, their second game of the preseason, but week one of the official preseason will be against the Buccaneers at

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