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Where I come out on the steers, what do we make of the five and four Steelers?

Right now, the state of them and the conversation about them is extremely reactive,

instant on and on, NFL news cycle week to week to week.

I'm not going to sit here and say this was a great game against the chart. It was a bad game. It was a bad road trip to California and they got housed for the offense. I thought the defense was okay. They held Herbert and checked. They didn't get run all over. They didn't give up any huge runs at all. Because remember a month ago, I'm old enough to remember. Everyone said the Steelers defense was crap. But the week to week thing, guys, one week ago, right before the Chargers game, do you not remember

the Steelers completely housing the sweetheart Colts?

Jonathan Taylor did nothing in this game.

He was completely stuffed.

Daniel Jones, the story of the year, was completely

turned inside out by the Steelers defense. This was not back in week two. This is week nine.

Okay? You have to at least give them some equity for this game in which the number one story

team quarterback, running back. I thought the Colts had the best offensive line in the entire league. Why did Daniel Jones have half a second against the Steelers front? All right? If you want to go quick, reactive hot take on most teams in the league, I would say 28 teams in the league, fine. The Steelers organization, you've got to give them a little bit of equity of, yes, that was a bad game, but year after year they turn into winning product. And I'm going to give them so much equity I'm going to do something that I hate I'm going to do something that hate I'm going to look at what do they say you either die hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain I hate the segment where you put up a team schedule and just say win loss win loss I'm doing it. Go ahead. Right now. Here's the Steelers remaining schedule.

I'm going to do it.

All right, starting in the upper left. The Bengals, remember the Steelers are five and four. They're going to win this weekend. That's the Steelers are six and four. They're going to lose at the Bears. They're going to lose to the bills. they're going to lose at the Ravens.

That's not good.

That puts them at six and seven as we go to the right column.

But wait, it's the Steelers.

It's Tomlin. They will beat the Dolphins to get to seven and seven. They will lose at Detroit to get to a terrible seven and eight. Then they beat the Browns to get eight and eight. And Baltimore likely with nothing to play with unless looking miraculous happens. The Steelers win. Guess what the record is, boys and girls? Nine and eight. And through some sort of tie-breaking scenario that may even involve an actual tie in somebody's record, the Steelers will be in the wild card round. Take this clip, save this clip. That was an awful trip to the Chargers. That game did not look good. Rogers is screaming at people. Rogers is missing receivers. Nine and eight will be there after week 18. I promise you, I'm saying it live and play it back later. There's a couple teams that I just implicitly trust. I see the logo and I just think they'll be okay. Steelers are one of them I talk in the opening segment and then I have

the crappiest logo of all of us, but this is mine.

This is the one we started. This is my

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