Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I am your host, Tony Serino, and this is your daily dose of all things Steelers.

Crossover Wednesday again here on the Locked-on podcast network. I will be joined today by James Rapine of Locked-on Bengals. He and I going to talk about a huge matchup this weekend between the Steelers and Bengals. Look, I know Chiefs Patriots is going

to get all the publicity in the national media, and that's a huge game, huge game in the

AFC, huge game in the NFL, two of the best teams. Of course, the Chiefs are on a role right now.

They just ran right through the Jacksonville Jaguars a week ago and looked to do the same

against a, you know, the defending AFC champion New England Patriots.

But this Steelers-Bangles game is right there with it in my eyes.

This is a humongous game for both teams and really a barometer game for both teams.

For a Bengals team that's 4-1, I think there's a lot of thought in Cincinnati that,

you know, they have to get by the Steelers before they're going to consider this a real team. And for Steelers, for us,

right, we're sitting here thinking, okay, yeah, we beat the Falcons, but much like when the

Steelers beat the Bucks, you go that next week into the division game, then it was against Baltimore.

And you think, okay, if you can get by Baltimore, now we'll believe this, you know, season back on again.

I think the same can be said this week against Cincinnati.

If this team can go into Cincinnati and win this game, I think we're all going to start

really believing in this football team again.

But until then, I think we're all taking this wait and see approach, and rightly so.

The Falcons, again, they're a one-and-four football team. Yes, the Steelers beat them, and yes, they beat them soundly.

But there's a big difference between beating a Falcons team that was going on the road to Pittsburgh

and then going to Cincinnati and beating a red-hot Cincinnati Bengals team.

So we're going to talk about that with James Rapine today.

Also, today we'll go over what Tomlin talked about

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