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Week 16 Preview: What's wrong with the Pittsburgh Steelers?

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🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

After an 11-0 start, the Pittsburgh Steelers looked Super Bowl-bound and people around the league questioned whether 16-0 was in play? Three weeks later, the situation is very different. Having lost to the Washington Football Team, Buffalo Bills and, on Monday night, the lowly Cincinnati Bengals, the Steelers appear in free-fall. What doesn’t help matters is their Week 16 opponents are the Indianapolis Colts who boast the league’s best defense.After briefly touching on the San Francisco 49ers acquiring former tenth overall pick Josh Rosen from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson kick off the podcast trying to diagnose: what’s wrong with the Pittsburgh Steelers? When the culprits are an aging Ben Roethlisberger, an ineffective offensive line, a defense worn thin by key injuries, the blame can be spread everywhere. JuJu Smith-Schuster losing a fumble after dancing on the Bengals logo for a TikTok video certainly doesn’t help either. (4:10)Later, Terez drops the audio of an interview he conducted earlier in the week with former Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson (née Ochocinco) where they talk about the state of touchdown celebrations and Chad reveals his rankings of the best wideouts of all time (spoiler: Jerry Rice is third). (15:45)In the second half of the podcast, Charles & Terez discuss two disappointing stories coming from the Washington Football Team. First, Charles sheds light on team paying out $1.6 million to settle a sexual misconduct claim about owner Dan Snyder and how this is potentially the tip of the iceberg in regards to damaging nondisclosure agreements. Afterwards, they talk about Dwayne Haskins being spotted, mask-less, at a strip club following Washington’s loss on Sunday to the Seattle Seahawks. (34:00)Wrapping up the podcast, the guys preview two Week 16 matchups as the Los Angeles Rams hope to bounce back in Seattle after their embarrassing loss to the New York Jets; and the Tennessee Titans travel to the Green Bay Packers as Aaron Rodgers and Derrick Henry attempt to make their MVP case. (47:10)Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

It's season 2 of Ball Don't Lie and here's what we've got for you.

0:04.0

Good word with Goodwill, every Monday and Wednesday.

0:08.0

They've been tanking the past two years. It's hard to build a culture.

0:10.0

You can't say tanking. You can't say they tank.

0:12.0

The hell I can. I watch that basketball.

0:14.6

No caprome every Thursday.

0:17.1

Definitely what we need is Joe LMB doing that Degeneration X crotch chops at the Olympics.

0:22.0

Oh yeah.

0:23.0

And introducing divine intervention every Tuesday.

0:27.0

You asked me how I'm doing, I'm terrified.

0:29.0

Subscribe to Ball Don't Lie, wherever you listen NFL podcast. I am Yahoo,

0:50.0

Senior NFL Rider Torres-Paylor. Here my main man and fellow senior

0:53.6

NFL writer Charles Robinson and Charles.

0:56.0

My man, will Josh Rosen finally get his big chance?

0:59.5

Back into the NFC West.

1:01.9

A little bit of drama there. You, signed by the San Francisco 49ers, who obviously

1:07.4

share the division with the Arizona Cardinals. I think, I mean, look, if you're the 49ers and you sign him and you've seen what the backup

1:16.4

quarterbacks have done what do you have to lose at this point right? I mean if you're

1:20.6

gonna if you're gonna take a guy out for spin and your aim is to once again

1:26.8

go into the off season and look for it if there's any upgrade out there. I think the thing about

1:31.5

Kyle Cheney and you and I've talked about it, he'll keep pressure on Jimmy G as long as he believes there's potentially a chance to upgrade at some point over him. He'll keep pressure on Jimmy G. But I also think from a backup situation, he's probably looking at his backups right now and going,

1:48.8

this is shit. Like this has not worked out well. And so I might as well go and get a guy

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