DK’s Double Shot of Steelers: Not third down

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today's episode: This isn’t just a third-down issue, contrary to Mike Tomlin’s words today Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's three Daily Shot podcasts -- one each on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates -- every weekday morning, plus the all-new DOUBLE SHOT show that follows up at 4:00 p.m. Eastern!

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0:00.0	Hey guys, I'm Dan Kovachovich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports.
0:13.3	Welcome to another episode of Double Shot of Steelers presented by Fandul.
0:19.4	As your football team prepares to erase any and all memories of Englewood, California,
0:28.4	and replace them with more pleasant memories, ideally, of Ackershire Stadium this week against the rival Bengals.
0:40.1	There, all expunged, right?
0:43.8	Not exactly.
0:45.6	Not exactly.
0:46.5	Mike Tomlin had his press conference today,
0:49.5	and we're going to be talking about that with Chris Halleck,
0:53.2	our beatwriter who was there covering it.
0:56.0	I have one thing to say before we get going.
1:00.9	That is that there is cause, there is effect.
1:07.3	There is the thing that happens, and there is the thing that results.
1:16.2	When Tomlin is talking about the offensive struggles or asked about the Steelers' offensive struggles,
1:23.7	he very predictably comes back with third down, with situational football,
1:33.0	which means nothing.
1:36.3	There's no relevance to that statement.
1:39.0	There isn't a third down football play.
1:43.9	That isn't anything other than saying there's a situation and we didn't execute to that
1:52.1	situation.
1:52.9	It's blaming the players.
1:55.1	He's not doing it.
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