Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show.

I'll own this. Maybe I do owe you an apology.

Hey, Pittsburgh, maybe Mike Tomlin is not such a stud after all.

Hey, Pittsburgh, maybe Russell Wilson is still a sack of

potatoes because that was a hideous loss last night. That's the kind of loss that makes you throw the

O word around as in overrated. Overrated. Look, I'm not trying to overreact.

We are still talking about a first place team here.

And besides, it's the snow's fault, right?

It's not about anything but the snow.

It's all the snow's fault, right?

It was the elements that did you in last night.

Not the Browns, not James, not Miles Garrett.

It was the big, thick, white precipitation falling out of the sky that did you in.

That's why you lost.

Because that sudden lake effect blizzard only impacted one

team but not the other. It only impacted the Steelers, right? And what would the Steelers know about

bad weather? I mean, what an embarrassingly horrible take. Obviously, not my take, because that's total

horse crap, that take. That was George Pickens of the Steelers after the game, if you can believe

that. Instead of crediting the Browns, he blamed the elements. Oh, and of course, the refs.

The elements and the refs. Imagine losing

that game, of all games, that game, the way the Steelers lost that game, and then going right

into the locker room and trying to blame the elements and the ref. Well, you don't have to imagine

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