It's a Locked-on Steelers, Locked-on Patriots crossover episode with Mark Schofield of Locked-on Patriots.

I'm John Ledger, your host of Lockedon Steelers.

Mark, it's the week we've been waiting for during the Steelers by week I had you on.

We talked about this week where the teams were at and looking ahead to this type of a game.

The Steelers have openly said this is the game that they've waited for.

The Patriots look like, and I know they never looked past anybody, but they just played

like it the other night against Miami.

I think both teams know how Titanic this matchup has the potential to be, and it could

be the first of two meetings, perhaps, this year between the two.

Yeah, I mean, John, we talked about this game a couple of weeks ago, saying this is going to be the one that probably decides top seat in the AFC, and very very well decide who goes to the Super Bowl.

Because if you think about it, the team that has

home field advantage in the playoffs,

has home field advantage throughout the playoffs,

that's a pretty good path to get to the

Super Bowl. And if this game is played in Foxmore

or if it's played in Pittsburgh,

when they meet, if they meet in the

AFC championship game, that's going to be

a big factor. And so

I know you said there in the intro that,

you know, New England doesn't often look past people. It almost looked like maybe they were

looking ahead on Monday night to this game. But we've been looking at it for a while. We've been

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