Welcome inside the Locked-on Steelers podcast. I'm your host, John Ledyard from over at fanragsports.com.

And I'm sorry about the little hiatus this week. I know we didn't have as many episodes of Locked on Steelers as I would have liked.

My grandfather actually passed away earlier this week, and I appreciate those of you have reached out.

He passed away and the funeral. There was a couple days of viewings and a funeral as well yesterday.

And I was just unable to with all that with family in and some people staying with us,

just had to take a couple days and not get to the podcast. But wanted to make sure I got a

Friday episode up for you guys. So we got to talk about the James Harrison situation. I know it feels

like it's almost old news at this point. But I'll touch on it briefly, and we also talk about the Cleveland Browns in this week 17 matchup,

and got a little sneak peek, and we'll talk more in depth after this Sunday, but we'll talk more

in depth about the FC playoff picture, but I want to take a quick look at it as well going into

the week 17 games and kind of tell Steelers fans where they should be rooting for.

Let's talk about James Harrison because I think it's a messy situation.

It should have been handled a lot better by a lot of people, the Steelers Harrison, and then the players after the fact.

It's just another distraction in a season that's been full of them.

Will it have any effect on the team?

I don't know.

Why was Harrison cut?

Why was Harrison not playing?

I disagree with the way Keith Butler runs his defense.

I disagree with dropping your outside linebackers, your edge pass rushers as often as he does.

But Watts dropping, you know,

I think Pro Football Focus has watt dropping into coverage. The second most among all edge

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