You know, all those times you can fairly accuse an entity or even just a buddy of overhyping something.

Not this.

Not this.

Good Thursday morning.

Good Thursday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Steelers. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into hockey and or baseball, I also offer daily shots of penguins and the same place that you found this. Steelers versus Ravens, of course, is Saturday

4.25 p.m. kickoff in Baltimore. I'll be heading over there tomorrow in advance of my coverage

of the scene for D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. I can't wait. I'm looking forward to seeing your favorite football team react on and off the field to what'll be this franchise's most important game in dot dot dot dot dot, dot, dot, dot.

I know, I can't do it either.

I guess you have to go all the way back to the most recent playoff victory in Kansas City.

And we're talking, you know, eight years ago.

So sure, while you've got players on the roster

who've come from other teams, who've won other games,

heck, a couple of them have Super Bowl jewelry.

Most of the men in this locker room right now

will not have played a bigger game at the NFL level than this one. How do I know that?

I've covered them all. And you're looking at comparing this to what? Yeah, they've had playoff games.

They've been blown to bits in most of those. Even the one time you thought there might have been some kind of hope,

and that was the COVID year when they started out 11 and O,

Marquis Pounce, he snaps the ball over Ben Rothesberger's head,

and I don't need to go any further with that scene.

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