The craziest part of all this is that they can still turn this around.

They really can.

Good morning to you.

Good Sunday morning.

I'm Deion Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports,

and this is a special edition of Daily Shot of Steelers.

It usually comes your way bright and early every weekday.

Bengals 19, Steelers 17, last night at Accrochurch Stadium,

an outcome that was every bit as ugly as all of its various ingredients.

An overall picture that's even uglier in that a team that was 10 and 3 will now, not even

limp, and not even crawl, but pretty much just get dragged across the finish

line into the NFL playoffs next week against either the Ravens or the Texans.

And in the immediate aftermath, the emphasis, and this came from Mike Tomlin, and it was obvious that it did because

he brought it up at his press conference, and then all of a sudden, you know, you're going

through the locker room interviewing the players, and all you hear is the same line.

You'll hear it here in a question that I had for Keanu Benton about, you know, how they're

going to move on from this four-game losing streak.

I think our mindset is just a single elimination tournament, which is the playoffs.

You got to go out there and give it our all.

You lose, you go home, so that's kind of what we're at right now.

It's a clean slate.

You have to approach you to the clean slate, don't you? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you learn from your mistakes, but you can home. So that's kind of where we're at right now. It's a clean slate. You have to approach it to the clean slate, don't you?

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