Welcome to the Locked-on Steelers podcast.

I am your host, Tony Serino, and this is your daily dose of all things, Steelers.

Today on the show, we are going to talk about where this defense is at right now,

not just as a Steeler defense, but in comparison to the rest of the NFL,

you know, watching these games on Sunday, certainly watching the Sunday night game,

even watching the game on Monday night.

The Steeler defense, I got to be honest, it may not be as bad as we think of it.

Certainly not as bad as I think it is, at least in comparison to the rest of the league.

I went out and looked at some of the advanced analytics and stats about this defense.

Just get a sense for statistically where is this defense right now.

I think the answer to that question might surprise you.

I also want to talk about Levi-on-Bel.

Of course, this is the week where, you know, will he, won't he show up?

There were reports previously that this is the week he would show up.

Now we have a new report saying he probably won't.

We'll talk about that today. And then, we're going to talk about this all week, but I want to start the conversation

that we're going to be having over the next couple weeks, which is, are the Steelers back?

You know, the Steelers were one, two and one two weeks ago. Again, they weren't dead and

buried, but they were very close. And now we're 3-2 and 1 going into the bye week, and the question is, do we believe in

this team now after two wins over the Falcons and over the Bengals?

Or are we still taking a wait-and-see approach with this team?

So we'll start that conversation today.

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