“Aaron Rodgers will send Joe Flacco to hell tonight” – Canty BOLD predicts for Steelers vs Bengals

“Aaron Rodgers will send Joe Flacco to hell tonight” – Canty BOLD predicts for Steelers vs Bengals

Oh, we don’t have the sound on that. Okay, my bad. Um, so now Aaron Rogers was commenting on the fact that he’s always been friends with Joe Flacco, rooted for Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco has come to his charity event and that those two guys he’s thrilled are still in the league at this point in time and that he watches the old guys on TV, whether it’s NBA, NFL, and he finds himself rooting for him. I don’t know. I don’t know how much of that I believe. Uh, he said it. Why not? Why not? What what old guy is he rooting for? He can’t be rooting for LeBron. He should be. I don’t think based on comments he is. Okay. Steph, I was going to say, do we consider Stephen? I think you like Steph. Yeah, Steph. He doesn’t like Steph. If you don’t like Steph, that’s a you problem. Seriously? Yeah. Yeah. Unless you were a fan of a team that the Warriors beat on their way to being a dynasty, and I can understand that because hurt people hurt people. But how do you not like Steph? Steph’s awesome. So, this is going to sound insane to think considering one guy, Chris Kanty, um kind of wrote Rogers off before the season and another guy, me, uh thought that this was going to be Mike Dman’s first losing season. Uh is the division over tonight if the Steelers win? if the Steelers win. But that is a bigger caveat than I think most people want to acknowledge because the Cincinnati Bengals are a live dog when you have Joe Flacco, a strong armed quarterback, a guy that can still push the football downfield and you got Jamar Chase and T. Higgins on the outside and you got those tight ends for the Bengals working the middle of the field in the intermediate short zone. So, I I think that this is going to be a really interesting game. But if we’re going to take the Pittsburgh Steelers serious as a contender, then this is a game that you have to win. And we know Mike Tomlin’s record against division opponents on the road Thursday Night Football, it ain’t great. Now is the time for Pittsburgh to change that. He’s got a competent quarterback in Aaron Rodgers that has been good and he’s got a defense that has been opportunistic in finding ways of late to put more pressure on the quarterback. So, this is not a measuring stick game, but this is one of those games that I think provides us some insight as to the degree of seriousness that we have to take the Steelers when it comes to championship contenders in the AFC. You asked if it was over tonight if the Steelers won. They’d be five- one. Bengals two and five. Ravens are one and five on a buy. And the Browns are one and five with a chance of a win this week against Miami to be fair. But is it over? Which one of the teams in the division, the Bengals, Ravens, or the Browns, would you think could put together enough wins to challenge the Steelers as they’ve gotten off to this much of a lead? That’s the thing. But, you know, it’s weird because ESPN bet has told you that you should not give up entirely on the Ravens. But my eyeballs tell me I should. The injury reports tell me I should. I agree with you. And I know that Vegas is much smarter than me. They are always right for a reason. But I cannot shake what I’ve seen from this Baltimore Ravens team. And I know a lot of people are going to point to the return of Lamar to help turn the season around, but I saw what they looked like with Lamar when he was out there and healthy. It’s not good. And maybe they’ll find a way to go on a run and and turn this thing around and make it respectable, but I don’t think that they’re going to be able to challenge the Steelers after the head start that they’ve gotten out to and taking the lead in this division. And the point you just made, Smalls, is the one that that that we should focus on because of the misfortune of everybody around them in the AFC North. There are zero excuses for Aaron Rogers or Mike Tomlin in terms of being able to get to the postseason, host a home playoff game, win said playoff game. And so, while I may have been wrong on my prognosis on the Steelers, Aaron Rogers and Mike Tomlin, me, too. That doesn’t change what the expectations are in terms of how we judge whether or not they’ve had a successful season. No question about that. They they have to get to the playoffs. They need to win a playoff game. It’s time. We We’ve talked about it at adnauseium. It’s been three presidential inaugurations since Mike Tomlin won a playoff game. Damn it, it’s time. If you can’t do it now, why would I have any confidence that you’d be able to do it in the foreseeable future? Totally agree. You You said though, the pressure is on Rogers and Tomlin. Let me go one step further on that. I think the pressure is way more on Tomlin than it is Rogers for this reason. Because I believe Mike Tomlin when he speaks and he’s given me 20 years basically of reasons to do that. Remember in the offseason when they brought back Mason Rudolph said we’re comfortable with him as a starter. The number one reason a team would fall apart late in theory is either poor quarterback play or a quarterback injury. That actually should not affect this team. Mike Tomlin told me all offseason, I’m comfortable with Mason Rudolph as the starter. So, god forbid for Rogers he gets hurt. God forbid he regresses for him and that team. They have a guy that they deem to be a starting quarterback ready to go. So, I don’t anticipate this team falling apart. And if they do, a guy that I love in my Tomlin, I will have to be critical of more so than Rogers, I think. Well, they tried to play Mason Rudolph in a playoff game not too long ago. That didn’t really work out. I don’t agree with Tomlin’s assessment, but that was Tomlin’s assessment. He did say that. Yeah, I don’t know how much truth was in that statement. though. Um, but yeah, I I mean, when I look at the Pittsburgh Steelers, there is a clear path for them to get to where they want to go and they have the requisite experience at the key positions in their organization in order to be able to accomplish it. If you fall short of that, yet again, this feels like it might be one of the more embarrassing seasons for Mike Tomlin since he’s been there. I agree. this you you got to get this done and it’s got to start tonight. No, nobody had it on the bingo card that Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson through the first six weeks of the season would miss multiple games. Yeah. Nobody had it on the card that those two teams would combine for a grand total of three wins through the first six weeks. Nobody thought that. And so the fact that those teams have somewhat collapsed, the fact that the Cleveland Browns are in flux with two rookie quarterbacks that they’re trying to decide between, if you’re Pittsburgh, this is a prime opportunity and you can’t squander it. You cannot. And you’re a champion. You know this better than anybody. On the way to winning a championship, you have to have a couple things. You have to have perseverance. You have to have skill. But you have to have luck. A lot of times when you win a championship, the ball has to bounce a certain way. You have to avoid a certain opponent on your way to winning like you guys did. And the Pittsburgh Steelers have gotten the luck part. They’ve gotten the luck. It’s, you know, obviously unfortunate that so many other teams in the division have dealt with consequential injuries. But that’s beneficial to the Steelers. You’ve handled your business up until this point winning games. You need to do it tonight. And to the overall point, if they fall apart and they don’t get this done, that is going to be a shock based on how they started the season and how they started the division. And we are going to have to hold Mike Telman, Aaron Rogers, and the team accountable for that. Yeah. Uh, tonight’s not a must-win. Obviously, it’s g it’s game six for them. No, but it’s a heavy should win. It’s a you better win tonight. There you go. I don’t I don’t know if there’s a difference between a must and you better. Why would you want to give life to the Cincinnati Bengals? Why would you want to give life to the Baltimore Ravens by not putting more distance between you and them? So, you’re saying it is a must-win? I’m if I’m saying that if the Pittsburgh Steelers don’t win tonight, I’m willing to entertain somebody else getting into this division race. I don’t know who that somebody else is, right? It doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to be the Cincinnati Bengals that rise up. But what I’m saying is it could be, but I’m not saying it will. What I’m saying is because the Steelers don’t put as much possible distance between them and the rest of the field in that division. If they don’t win that game tonight, they’re going to regret that. You’re 4-1. You don’t win tonight. Tonight’s the fumble of all fumbles. You should be running away. You should, we should be having conversations late in the season about how they’re going to prepare Aaron Rogers for the playoffs and whether or not they’re going to rest him in week 18. I’m dead serious and I can’t believe that the I didn’t think the Pittsburgh Steelers were going to be this. We should be having the conversation at some point. How many games is Aaron Rogers played down the stretch? Because you got to keep them upright for the playoffs. That’s what And it starts tonight. You got to create that separation and run away with One of the things to keep an eye on tonight, the quarterback situation for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Even though everybody’s going to suit up, Jaylen Ramsey, Joey Porter Jr., Darius Slay, all of those guys have been banged up in the last couple of weeks going in and out of the games going up against Jamar Chase and T. Higgins, healthy guys. I’m just saying watch out for that. This could be one of those nights where Joe Flacco has a turn back the clock moment and generates a lot of explosive plays down the field in the passing game. Tonight better be one of those nights that we set a record. We we did an amazing job last week. Well, not in terms of the winning part, but the participation part with our ESPN bet parlay. We had so many people jump on board with us and we want to beat that number. So, here’s what we’ve got. The unsportsmanlike parlay for Thursday Night Football tonight. DK Metaf 5 plus receptions, Jamar’s Chase 70 plus receiving yards, and the over at 43 and a half. Go to ESPN bet. It is prominently featured on the parlay section right in the middle of the app. Go do it now. Join us. the unsportsmanlike parlay. Get on board. DK five plus receptions. Jamar Chase 70 plus receiving yards and an over on 43 and a half total points. Both teams combined. Boy, that just fits together, doesn’t it? It really does. Let’s get this fits together. Let’s get this done. I feel good about this one. Last week we took an L. Tonight we bounce back. Yeah. If I said that, everybody would be screaming jar. Is it too late now to apologize? We’ll find out if their CC has

“Aaron Rodgers will send Joe Flacco to hell tonight” – Chris Canty BOLD predicts for Steelers vs Bengals