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 podcast, we are continuing our Steelers 2018 schedule preview this time talking about weeks 10 through 13, starting the back half of the Steelers schedule today.

And let me tell you, the second half of the schedule is much, much more difficult than

it was these last, these first eight games that we've previewed.

The second half of the schedule, it gets real.

This reminds me of the 2008 schedule and the back half of that schedule.

Of course, the 2017 schedule, when it came out, you thought to yourself, boy, the Steelers

do have a lot of top opponents that they're going to be playing.

Injuries played a large part in, you know, again, the Steelers avoiding some of those

top quarterbacks.

No Deshawn Watson against the Texans meant that that was an easy win.

No Andrew Luck against the Colts meant that that should have been an easy win.

The same thing can be said about the Green Bay Packers.

And so, look, looking at this schedule on paper, again, it looks difficult.

Now, anything can happen throughout the season.

But if we're just talking about on paper, the second half of the schedule is a brutal stretch.

And so we're going to talk about the first four of those games today.

Before we do that, let's start today as we do every day with some Steelers, News, and Notes.

And what I want to talk about today is all stems from this NFL

top 100 show that they do, where they rank the top 100 players from the prior season.

So this is the top 100 players of the 2017 season. They did their top 10 yesterday. The top 100

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