Hey, guys, Dan Kovach of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

Welcome to Double Shot of Steelers presented by Fandul.

It's going to be an exceptionally rational, calm, collected, objective.

And at the same time, no nonsense, look at where this football team is right now, the day after losing to the Packers,

35 to 25 across the river at Accresher Stadium.

We know what the things are that are wrong.

We know probably pretty well, maybe all too well, what the issues are, what the weaknesses are.

What we're going to do today, at least we're going to try to do, is to focus on solutions.

And I mean this. I mean this. Because I'm about to say something that's hopefully going to offer just a clean perspective on everything that you're dealing with

right now, you that are dealing with.

Because I'm, believe me, I'm the one's getting the feedback, the blowback from all of this.

And it's been really something these past 12, 14, 16 hours.

Understand this.

If you went back to La Trobe, if you

reversed time,

and someone told you

that your team was going to be in first place

by a factor of 2.5 games when the calendar would flip from

October to November, 100% of you would take it. 100% of them would take it.

If I went further and said that there'd be one player,

a wonderful player, a vital player, but only one who'd go down to a major injury.

That of course being DeShahn Elliott now,

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