And we talk about some weird stuff when it comes to this football team, you know?

I cover all three teams in town.

And between the Steelers, the Penguins, and the Pirates, the amount of drama that gets disgust,

and by this I mean, mostly on the outside, it dwarfs the other two.

And as a result, not surprisingly, it usually goes too far.

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Good Thursday morning.

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

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Steelers versus Bengals is a Saturday 8 p.m. kickoff.

And to pick up on the various sediments being expressed on the south side this week,

one would think that they're setting the stage for, I don't know,

like a cereal soap opera or something,

as opposed to a really, really significant football game.

And to an extent, that's just, that's life with the Steelers.

That's life in the high-profile magnifying glass world of the NFL.

And that's life when you only play one game every seven or eight days or every four days or whatever it is. Because there's just so much

time for jibber jabber in between. Now, does that mean that all of the stuff is made up or blown out of proportion?

Actually, no. In the most recent case, in fact, it's been the players, 100% on the players

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