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I’VE SAID, I DON’T THINK THERE’S 1 MARQUEE PLAYER ON THAT SIDE OF THE FOOTBALL RIGHT NOW, IT’S AMAZING TO SEE IT. IT’S SAD TO SEE IT AND AVERT YOUR EYES. IF YOU’RE A STEELERS FAN, IF WE HAVE THEIR THEIR SCHEDULED GRAPHICS. IT’S LIKE HOLY CRAP. BA BATMAN, WRITE 4 AND 3, IT COULD END UP BECOMING 6 AND 11. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEIR UPCOMING SCHEDULE, AFTER THE COLTS, THEY’VE GOT THE CHARGERS. NIGHT FOOTBALL. YEAH. SUNDAY, NIGHT WEEK, 10. THAT’S AT THE CHARGERS. WE’LL SEE THAT 1 OKAY, WELL, BUT THE BENGALS BEAT THEM ALREADY. EXACTLY AT THE BEARS BACK IN SOLDIER FIELD, YOU BETTER, YOU BETTER MAKE SURE YOU’VE YOU’VE GOT YOUR PINK SLIP FOR THE BEARS, AARON RODGERS, THEY MAY THEY MAY REPOSSESS YOUR OWNERSHIP OF THE BEARS THAT DAY, YOU’RE GOOD. YEAH. RIGHT. THEN THE BILLS. RIGHT. OH, AND THE RAVENS, YOU KNOW A COUPLE WEEKS AGO OH WE WE GOT A COUPLE OF CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK RAVENS WEEK 14, RAVENS WEEK, 18, NOT ANYMORE, NO WORRIES, RAVENS ARE FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES NOW. YEAH SO YEAH YOU KNOW THERE’S THERE’S I MEAN, THEY GO TO CLEVELAND AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE BROWNS ARE GOING TO DO AGAINST THEM IN CLEVELAND BROWNS ARE SCARY, RIGHT? WE KNOW, I MEAN GOSH, THEY’RE THE TEAM, THEY’RE LIKE PITTSBURGH IN THE OLD DAYS THEY CAN WIN GAMES WITH THEIR DEFENSE, A STRIP SACK FUMBLE, A PICK 6 AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN YOU’RE GOING WHAT? WE’RE DOWN TO THE BROWNS, 10, NOTHING OR 13 TO 3, THEY’RE SCARY. AND LIKE YOU SAID ABOUT THE RAVENS, THAT’S ANOTHER GAME I WATCHED ON FILM UH ON MONDAY AFTERNOON BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, MAN WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT GAME? I MEAN THE RAVENS WITHOUT LAMAR JACKSON, KIND OF DOMINATED AND CONTROLLED THE GAME AGAINST THE CHICAGO BEARS. WELL, HERE’S THE FIRST THING. I’LL TELL YOU THE RAVENS DEFENSE IS HEALTHY, IT’S ALL HEALTHY. EVERYBODY’S PLAYING WHERE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY AND YOU WENT OH WHOA, OKAY, THE RAIDER, THE RAVENS GOT TO FIGURE IT OUT, ON THAT SIDE OF THE BALL AND I I I THINK WE KNOW OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL BUT LAMAR’S IN THERE, THEY FIGURE OUT THINGS IN A HURRY SO I’M NOT COUNTING THE RAVENS OUT OF ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, 2 AND 5 THE WAY THEIR SCHEDULES SETS UP, WE COULD BE SITTING HERE IN 4 WEEKS AND GOING. WELL, THE RAVENS ARE 6 AND 5 WATCH OUT. AND THAT’S WHERE I FEEL LIKE IT COULD GO RIGHT NOW, SO WE’LL SEE. BUT YEAH, EVERY GAME IS GOING TO BE, THERE’S NO GIMMIES FOR PITTSBURGH. THEY HAVE THEY’RE OUT OF THE CATEGORY OF. OH THAT’S A GIMME FOR THEM EVERY GAME. EVERY TEAM IS GOING TO BE TOUGH FOR THEM WHEN YOU PLAY DEFENSE LIKE THAT AND THEN YOU’RE AN OFFENSE. OF COURSE, THAT’S THEY’RE, THEY’RE CONSERVATIVE, THEY’RE THEY WANT TO CONTROL THE BALL. RUN THE BALL, SHORT PASSES, MOVE, THE CLOCK, THAT WAY, OKAY? YOU GET OVER AGGRESSIVE STOPPING THAT BORING STUFF. OH, WE TAKE A SHOT DOWN THE FIELD TO DK METCALFEI ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT THEY’RE LIMITED ON THE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL TOO. RIGHT? YOU HEARD ME SAY ON MONDAY AARON RODGERS FOR AS GOOD AS HE’S PLAYING. RIGHT? YOU WATCH THEM. I WATCH THEM ON FILM. DOES HE EVER DROP BACK 67? STEP DRIVE. TAKE A HITCH AND THROW A 20 YARD IN CUT. DO THEY EVER HIT FRYER? MOVE OVER THE MIDDLE AND ANYTHING? EVERYTHING IS SLANT HERE. FLAT HERE, BACK SHOULDER HERE, FADE OVER HERE. THERE’S NOTHING DOWN. THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD EVER. THAT REALLY HAPPENS TO THAT OFFENSE. SO THEY GOT ISSUES EVERYWHERE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL RIGHT NOW. MIKE, I WONDER IF HE’S BANGING ON ANYONE WITH THE STEELERS TO TRY TO GO GET HELP WITH THE TRADE. DEADLINE A LIKE YEAH, LIKE THIS IS THE PIECE THAT PUTS US ALL IN OVER THE TOP AND PUTS US IN POSITION TO MAKE A RUN FOR THE SUPER BOWL NOW, IT’S FEELING LIKE A DESPERATION, BY WHO’S OUT THERE THAT CAN MAKE THIS SLUGGISH TEAM BETTER WHO’S OUT THERE DEFENSIVELY? WHO’S OUT THERE OFFENSIVELY? I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HALL. BRUCE HALL MAY BE AVAILABLE. THEY COULD USE A GUY TO STABILIZE THE RUNNING GAME. PUMP IT UP, MAKE IT EASIER TO THROW PLAY ACTION AND WHATNOT. JUST GET MORE OUT OF THAT PART OF YOUR OFFENSE. SO, WE KNOW THAT THE JETS AFTER 1 YEAR OF AARON RODGERS, BEING DEAF FACTO GM DECIDED HE’S NOT A VERY GOOD DE FACTO GM, BUT HE’S GOT HIS LEGACY TIED TO THIS, THIS WAS HIS MOVE, THAT WAS AIMED AT FROM THE LAST TASTE. SEASONS COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK JETS AND THROUGH 5 GAMES, IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS GOING TO BETTER ENDING TO HIS CAREER BALANCE. TOWN. THE AFTER THAT, AND HE MAY END UP NOW ALREADY. I’M CONFIDENT THEY’LL WIN 1 MORE SOMEWHERE BUT THIS COULD GO SIDEWAYS. DIDN’T LOSE IN THE PLAYOFFS THIS YEAR BECAUSE MAYBE YOU DIDN’T EVEN GET THERE, THEY HAVE TO START WORRYING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY’RE EVEN I AGREE WITH YOU THERE. THEY DEFINITELY HAVE TO START WORRYING ABOUT WHETHER THEY THEY GET THERE. I MEAN WE KNOW THAT YOU, YOU LOOK AT THE AFC RIGHT NOW AND WHERE IT’S AT. SURE. YEAH. THEY’RE WINNING THE AFC NORTH, BUT WE SHOULD, BALTIMORE IS COMING AND THEY GOT A TOUGH SCHEDULE HERE WHERE NOTHING’S A GIMME. AND I JUST GO BACK TO, TO KIND OF WHAT WE’VE SAID. I MEAN, I DON’T KNOW IF THERE’S A WHOLE LOT ON THEIR FOOTBALL TEAM RIGHT NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, THAT SCARES YOU, AND THAT’S THE BIG THING. THE DK MEDCAFE SCARES YOU ON THE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL. OKAY, WE GOT THAT. THAT’S FOR SURE. WE TALKED ABOUT TJ WATT. OKAY, HE SCARES YOU ON THAT SIDE OF THE BALL BUT WHEN YOU’RE JUST ABLE TO NAME 2 PEOPLE LIKE I THAT THAT MEANS YOU’RE YOU’RE MORE THAN 1 PLAYER AWAY, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT IT’S, IT’S MORE THAN THAT, THEY’RE, THEY’RE, THEY NEED A PLAYER OR 2 ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL. THEY NEED A PLAYER, YOU KNOW, A THE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL TO MAKE THEM SCARY THAT WAY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THE ORGANIZATION WANTS TO LEVERAGE ON A FOOTBALL TEAM RIGHT NOW WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE OKAY LIKE WHAT’S ITS TOP END POTENTIAL GET INTO THE PLAYOFFS AS A 7 SEED AND JUST GET IN. I THINK THAT’S WHAT IT IS. I’M I’M CERTAINLY NOT LOOKING AT THEM RIGHT NOW TO GO. OH THEY ARE. THEY’RE THE TYPE OF TEAM THAT WHEN IT’S JANUARY, YOU KNOW, THEY’RE BUILT FOR THE PLAYOFFS AND THEY CAN, THEY CAN WIN A FEW GAMES. THEY’RE, THEY’RE NOT THAT TEAM RIGHT NOW. I I HEY, I DON’T THINK THE 7 FOR THEM. WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE SECOND PLACE TEAM IN THE AFC EAST, HE’S GOING TO BE THE BILLS. THE PATRIOTS, YOU’VE GOT THE CHIEFS BRONCOS CHARGERS, RIGHT? YOU’VE GOT THE JAGUARS IN TEXANS AND COLTS. I THINK THEIR BEST PATH IN IS GOING TO BE TO WIN THE DIVISION. PROBABLY I I I MAY BE THEIR ONLY PATH IN. YEAH, I I I HEAR YOU THAT THAT MIGHT BE PREDICATED ON DO. BUT YES, IT’S GOING TO GET IT’S GOING TO GET SCARY FOR THEM TO TO THAT POINT AND YEAH, AARON RODGERS ISN’T THE TYPE OF GUY ANYMORE, LIKE HE WAS 567 YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO WORK WITH YOU WHERE I WAS LIKE MAN, AARON RODGERS IS IS MAYBE THE GREATEST QUARTERBACK IN TALENT I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. HE CAN CARRY A TEAM BY HIMSELF, RIGHT? YEAH. IF THIS WAS 2016, 2017, AARON RODGERS, 2018, I’D GO, OH, DON’T WORRY, THEY’LL BE OKAY ON THE OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL. HE’LL MAKE IT HAPPEN. HE’LL DANCE AROUND AND BOOM. BOOM. AND THROW LASERS HERE AND THROW LASERS THERE AND THEY’LL BE OKAY, BUT HE’S NOT THAT GUY AS WE KNOW ANYMORE. AND HE’S VERY CONSERVATIVE IN HOW HE APPROACHES THE GAME. UH, AND IT’S JUST NOT MATCHING UP WITH TOTAL TEAM FOOTBALL RIGHT NOW IN THE OFFENSE AND DEFENSIVE SIDE OF THE BALL. I EXPRESSED MY DISMAY ON MONDAY ABOUT THE CROWD AND HOW MANY PACKERS FANS WERE THERE AND HOW THE STEELERS FANS FELT FLAT AND UNINSPIRED IN COMPARISON TO WHAT I HAD EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST AND I ALL THE TIMES I’VE BEEN TO STEELERS GAMES, I MEAN, YEAH. I I’VE I’VE BEEN TO GAMES IN THE 70S. I WAS IN A PLAYOFF GAME AGAINST THE DOLPHINS IN THE LATE 70S. I WAS THERE THE DAY THAT THEY WERE 0 AND 2. THEY’VE BEEN BLOWN OUT TWICE AND THEY BEAT THE VIKINGS. AND I I WAS EMOTIONALLY KNOW. FROM ALL THE HARASSMENT. I WAS TAKING VERBALLY. NOT NOT. THERE WAS NO, THERE WAS NO FISTICUFFS INVOLVED. THANKFULLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, NOW IT JUST WAS SO CHILL, AND I’VE GOTTEN DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS FROM PEOPLE. I KNOW UP THERE AS TO WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED. IT’S IT COULD BE AS SIMPLE AS PACKERS FANS, DESPERATELY, WANTED TO GO TO THAT GAME AND THE STEELERS FANS PAID FOR THEIR WHOLE SEASON TICKETS OR HALF, THEIR SEASON TICKETS IN 1 FELL SWOOP BY CITY OUT 1 GAME BUT REGARDLESS THEY GOT TO GET THAT BACK. THEY GOT 5 MORE HOME GAMES, RIGHT? REGARDLESS, THEY GOT TO RECAPTURE THEIR EXCITEMENT ABOUT THIS TEAM AGREED THAT THEY HAD ANY EXCITEMENT, THEY GOT TO RECAPTURE IT OR THAT’S GOING TO ONLY MAKE IT WORSE REGARD. YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, REGARDLESS OF ALL THAT, RIGHT? THE ONES THAT WERE STILL THERE LEFT. WHEN THE GAME WAS A 1 SCORE GAME IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. IT WAS SO WEIRD AND THEY’RE LIVING IN THE RIGHT. AND WHAT I WHAT UM WHAT I WOULD WOULD HAVE BOTHERED ME TOO AND AND YOU KNOW ME I WANTED BECAUSE AS I’M DRIVING INTO THE SET TO DO MY MY POST GAME PODCAST AND ALL THAT, YOU KNOW? YEAH. THERE’S 11 MINUTES IN THE GAME AND I SEE STEELER FANS ARE COMING OUT BY YOU KNOW, THE HUNDREDS. AND A LOT OF THEM ARE GOING FIRE, MIKE TOMLIN AND I WANTED TO GO GET YOUR BUTT BACK IN THERE AND BE A DAMN, BE A DAMN FAN OR YOU FIRE YOU AS A FAN, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU’RE FIRED AS A FAN. I MEAN, YOU YOU CAN’T EVEN STAY HERE TO 1 SCORE GAME AND THIS BIG OF A GAME, RIGHT? SO THAT THAT ANNOYED ME, YOU

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27 comments

  3. Groundhog day….This season should be Tomlins end of days in Pittsburgh. A decade of embarassment. The fans deserve better. Rooney is a moroon for keeping this lousy coach around through all this substandard achievement

  6. As a Steelers fan, it is incumbent upon me and other Steeler fans to remind this team and its staff that true Steelers tradition has not been represented for years. When the coach says the tradition is the tradition, I wonder if he's trying to build a new tradition of irrelevance and mediocracy. If so, give him an A for effort. It starts and ends with Ownership and Coaching, period. How can a coach have his contract extended after 0 playoff wins in the past 8 years. With all due respect, this is not the Jets or Cardinals, etc. This is the 6-time SB champion Pittsburgh Steelers. And, who cares that he's never had a losing record. Does anyone hold the 5-11 season against Bill Belichick or do they prioritize 6 SB wins and 10 AFC conf games in 20 years.

  7. Well you know there was some controversy about Aaron Rodgers signing with the Steelers in the off-season remember does he want to be a stealer

  8. Their not going anywhere for 5 years the steelers are done an embarrassment to Pittsburgh pathetic to nfl they are the worst defense in nfl thats pathetic and what gets me Tomlin says this terryl austin is doing a great job really they will never make playoffs with that defense now they went out got wide receiver mvs and Derrick Forrest and dugger and offense tackle really mvs played with Rodgers years ago that defense was the same defense when Brady picked apart of the middle of defense for years and you want to see a number 1 offense and defense wait til Sunday when colts blow the steelers apart and make them cry lmao 🤣

  9. I've been saying all year that this will be tomlin's first losing season of his tenure here in Pittsburgh but you know at the end of the season when Rooney talks to the Press he will say well you know we have to give him some time. Pittsburgh football has become the joke of the NFL we can't even make fun of the stains anymore

  12. Fired as a fan? Give me a break. This team has been in a death spiral for close to a decade now. Mike Tomlin is the most overrated coach in the history of professional sports, and at every turn, you guys run defense for him. People are sick and tired of watching the legacy of this franchise get trampled by the complacency of its ownership. We have to stomach enough of that with the Pirates.

  15. Does Florio even watch Steeler games? Jalen Warren is not the issue at all or the Steelers running game . The Steelers don’t need Breece Hall , we need a Rod Woodson type corner and the second coming of Troy Polamalu.We also need a receiver

  16. I still have a sliver of hope for the defense. Love and that offense played great. Flacco and his receivers played great the week before and it was a Thursday. The first few weeks a ton of our starters were out. We still got time to figure things out

  18. The real steeler fans know what’s up. Mike T is a great person by all accounts. But he’s running the organization like an evil dictator 😂 he should have been gone in 2020. The owner is making money so.. another year of MEDIOCRITY

  20. There are so many things about what they're saying that don't make any sense at all. These national guys get harder to listen to every year. Pittsburgh has lots of problems to be sure, but they are so far off the mark that it's laughable. Hall? Thinking playoffs already? Cold, miserable weather doesn't help them? Good lord guys, think about what you're saying.

  21. If Tomlin ever finishes below .500 this season, he'll loose his last excuse to remain in Pittsburgh. People say 9-8, but I'm sure they'll be closer to 7-10 this year.

  24. What's with this idiotic Breece Hall suggestion? Jaylen Warren has been fantastic. Then we got Gainwell and Johnson as backups. Our running back room is fine. We need a WR2 (never should have traded Pickens) and we need a new defensive scheme entirely.

  25. Yes I agree we don't need another running back when you start talking about bringing in another back that's not the solution warren and gain well are doing a great job guys are beast fix the defense that's where the problem is at we have the talent but we need to do better go Pittsburgh

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