The Terrible Podcast — Talking Steelers Vs. Bengals Recap, Inactives, Injuries, Playoff Outlook & More

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The Terrible Podcast

Sports, Football

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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January 5, 2025 - Season 15, Episode 74 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Sunday morning episode, Alex Kozora and I get right into talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers' Saturday night home loss to the Cincinnati Bengals that resulted in the team limping into the playoffs with a four-game losing streak. We start this show by going over how the loss to the Bengals was actually a winnable game on the final drive and how the Steelers' offense blew that opportunity. Alex and I go over the inactive list from the Saturday night game that included Steelers CB Donte Jackson missing the contest with his back injury. We discuss two defensive linemen being healthy scratches for the game so that OLB Preston Smith could get a helmet. We also quickly go over the few injuries the Steelers had during the Saturday night loss. Alex and I go over several key stats from the Steelers' Saturday night loss to the Bengals and a few stats related to the history of the franchise as a result of the team losing their final four games. As usual, Alex and I start breaking down the game and we start on the offensive side of the football. We discuss the failures in short-yardage situations, the play of QB Russell Wilson, the poor game that WR George Pickens played and much more. We spend a lot of time talking about the Steelers' final offensive possession of the game as well. After a long discussion about the play of the Steelers' offense against the Bengals, Alex and I then go over the play from the team's defense. We discuss positive performances, a few negative ones, and how CB Cory Trice Jr. played in his extended action as a starter. We make sure to highlight what a great game DT Cameron Heyward had against the Bengals and how OLB T.J. Watt failed to crack the official stat sheet. Alex and I make sure to quickly hit on the play of the Steelers' special team units on Saturday night and how that phase of the game could have been much better. The Steelers will now face either the Baltimore Ravens or the Los Angeles Chargers in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, so we quickly go over the well-known scenarios related to their potential opponent next week. Alex and I chose not to hit listener emails in this show because we will be back on Monday with another episode to cover those. steelersdepot.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Terrible Podcast with your host from Steelers Depot.com, where you can find all your latest and greatest Steelers News.
0:11.2	It's Dave Brian and Alex Kazoro.
0:14.4	Always lit talking Steelers.
0:17.3	And now, here's Dave and Alex.
0:27.0	Thank you. And now, here's Dave and Alex. Welcome to the Terrible Podcast Season 15, episode 74.
0:32.7	He's Dave Ryan.
0:33.7	I'm Alex Kizora.
0:35.2	Steelers Depot.com.
0:37.3	Thanks for being back with us this Sunday Steelers Nation
0:40.9	as the Pittsburgh Steelers continue their skid of the postseason falling. The Cincinnati
0:46.2	Bengals 1917 on Saturday night. Pittsburgh now 10 and 7 on the season guaranteed to be a wild car
0:53.2	team that was really known before kickoff by virtue of Baltimore, taking care of business and beating the Cleveland rounds. And so Pittsburgh will await their playoff fate, either going to Houston or more likely to Baltimore for the wild card round. So just the short show today, Dave and I wanted to kind of just check in, get and kind of vent their thoughts
1:11.5	out about this game. We'll do a show on Monday as well with a fuller playoff picture. But Dave,
1:16.4	welcome back. New Year, more of the same Steelers. Yeah, happy New Year. And back to you, Alex.
1:24.4	And we're done. You, you sure, boy, you sure flipped the switch there.
1:30.8	That's pretty good from turning on, it sounded like you've been up for about six hours and ready to analyze and pushy-tail.
1:40.4	And I know otherwise.
1:42.2	Yeah, and it's all in act.
1:43.3	As soon as we end, my head's hitting the desk. I'm going back to sleep. I hear you. But yeah, and it's all in that. As soon as we end, I'm my head's hitting the desk.
1:45.4	I'm going back to sleep.
1:46.4	I hear you.
1:48.2	Gloom despair and agony on me.
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