The Steelers have won two straight and sit in control of the AFC North, but we've heard that before last year.

Are they better suited this year with Aaron Rogers at the helm to make a late season push?

I talk about that with Alan Saunders and go over our stars and skulls grades for their win over the dolphins.

Let's get into it here on the Lockdown Steelers podcast.

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Alan, the Steelers right now sit at 8 and 6.

I believe they were at this point in time, 10 and 4 at this point in time last year.

And they were just starting their four game skid into uh into going into 10 and

seven but they're eight and six the ravens are hot on their on their heels set seven and seven

and it's looking more and more like they're going to need to win the division to make the playoffs

but is this team suited the way it's built with Aaron Rogers at the helm, with the defense that the defensive changes that they've made, with the growth that they've had and with the struggle that they've had?

Is this team better built to make a late season push this year than last year and also considering who the opponents were and are?

I think yes to both of those questions.

I think for the first part, you know, last year the Steelers Retirement four, and I don't

want to say they didn't go through any adversity, but it had been pretty smooth sailing

for them to this point in the season.

And then things started to collapse. And we've seen this from Mike Tomlin teams before. You remember, you know,

2023, back to back losses to New England and Arizona. Kenny Pickett gets hurt. It looks like the sky is falling. And then they sort of found that answer, right? They found that, that rebound. And last year, they'd never found it. They never found that, that, that's, if it was baseball, that stopper, right? That starting pitcher who's like, I'm going to stop the, I'm going to stop this losing street this losing street exactly they never found that i think this year they found it right they they stopped that two

games skid where they led both games at half and let them both fall apart they stopped it in his tracks

they won two games in a row and i think that alone puts them in better shape than they were last year.

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