You can get Lamar Jackson fenced in.

You really can.

The Steelers have proven that for years now.

What you will have a much more difficult time doing, as was seen in their previous meeting, is making sure that nobody,

including Lamar, can then just simply push forward. Good afternoon to you. Good. Wednesday

afternoon. I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, and this is the new double-shot show.

It comes your way every weekday afternoon. Steelers v. Ravens is an 8 p.m. kickoff Saturday night at MNT Bank Stadium.

And as we get deeper into the week here, I'm going to be getting a little bit more football intensive and not so much narrative intensive or drama intensive because ultimately that's what this is going to be.

It's just going to be a football game.

And if it's going to be a game, you know, like the way these things usually are between

these arch rivals, it's going to be because the Steelers defense does a whole lot better

than it did in the last meeting.

And what I mean by that specifically is making sure that the Ravens can't move forward.

That's not as obvious as I'm making it sound.

When the Steelers have handled Lamar, they've done that they've come in from the left

they've come in from the right they've made sure that he stayed in the pocket he stayed in the

pocket to pass he's stayed in the pocket and been prevented from running but what the Ravens

smartly did in the most recent meeting to adjust to this,

finally, was to give the ball to Derek Henry, to throw the ball to the tight ends. And they

got it going. The reason was Steelers A, didn't make the tackles that they needed to along the front,

meaning the defensive linemen, meaning the linebackers.

And, man, these guys just can't communicate.

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