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[Music] Fire. [Music] Hey. Hey. Let’s [Music] show you. [Music] And we’re live and it’s Ravens week. I hate the Ravens. You hate the Ravens. We all hate the Ravens here on Steelers Talk Live. And man, it’s a big one. Week 14, sole possession of first place in the AFC North on the line. A complete shakeup at the wide receiver position for the Pittsburgh Steelers. One of the more interesting football games you are going to see this entire 2025 season, not just for your Pittsburgh Steelers, but in the National Football League at large. Welcome into the Steelers Talk live watch party here for week 14. I’m your host Jack Spar and Ponzi. Um, our producer is here and Ponzi man uh it doesn’t get any bigger than this, right? Week 14, both teams sitting at six and six. The Steelers have lost five of their last seven ball games. They haven’t really been get able to get anything going in the passing game. So, what do they do this week? They have a huge shakeup at the wide receiver position. They bring in Adam Thielen. They claim him off of waiverss and just days after doing that. Apparently, he has ramped himself up enough to start in this ball game or at least he’s playing in this game. Jay Glazer from Fox Sports says to expect a lot of Adam Thelen and MVS who is uh recently elevated from the practice squad. Of course, he played many seasons with Aaron Rogers in Green Bay. The Steelers appear to be shifting off of their smaller wide receivers in Calvin Austin the third uh even though Calvin’s playing today and Roman Wilson who is a healthy inactive today, a healthy scratch. Roman Wilson not playing today in favor of some bigger wide receivers here and Adam Thelen and Marquez Vald descantling to pair with DK Metaf. We got to talk about that because that is the the headliner right now. And I really think that this this this offense they understood that you know maybe we need a lot more physicality. They bring in Adam Than claim him off waiverss and then Marquez Vald scan who it feels like we’ve been waiting for a long time. Yeah, we’ve been waiting for MVS for a while, but really the big, you know, kind of surprise of the day and I thought, you know, with MVS being elevated, I did expect Thelen to get a helmet today, but I thought Scotty Miller was going to be the one that was inactive today. Not Roman Wilson, but Roman Wilson, a third round pick just last year. He’s been starting over the last several weeks. And honestly, Ponzi, I don’t think he’s been the biggest issue. Now, I think people do overexaggerate how much he’s been open uh on Steelers Twitter because he has been open on a couple of deep opportunities. All right? Like I think there’s been three opportunities the last two games where he has stacked a corner on a go route and the quarterback two times Mason Rudolph, one time Aaron Rogers last week couldn’t hit him on a go. And uh it seems like maybe he’s not doing things in the way Rogers likes at this point. maybe uh they don’t feel like he’s in the right positions for whatever the case may be. But we saw last year, you know, he was getting healthy towards the end of the season. He was practicing, but he didn’t play apparently because he didn’t understand the playbook enough and he wasn’t doing the right things. Um, you know, could that be part of why he’s a healthy scratch today and Scotty Miller is getting a helmet over him? I don’t know, but it certainly feels like at this point if Scotty Miller is getting a helmet instead of Roman Wilson, this coaching staff is kind of almost done with him. And it kind of feels like his his days are numbered. It does feels like his days are numbered here. I I I really don’t understand what exactly he may have done wrong. Maybe it’s just because, you know, Rogers wants his guys there. I mean, I feel like though Roman hasn’t played bad. Don’t get me wrong, he hasn’t been a world beater, but he hasn’t played bad at all. Yeah, I don’t think Roman was necessarily, you know, based on my film study anyway. I mean, obviously the Steelers know more than I do in terms of like what they’re expecting him to do. Maybe he’s been running wrong routes and stuff like that and we just don’t know about that. Uh we’re not in that building, but you know, it’s not a good look for, you know, your third round pick from two years ago who was a starter for you. You know, the guy that’s kind of the odd man out here is that guy. So, um you know, it’ll be the Steelers’s luck where they’ll trade Roman for like a seventh round pick in the offseason and then he turns into like a really good player for some other team in the league cuz I still think he’s got talent. I think he showed some good route running chops this year. um he’s had his moments this year and it’s been unfortunate that uh you know this offense and Aaron Rogers haven’t been able to get the most out of him. But you know what’s exciting and what’s intriguing about today though Ponzi is the fact that Adam Thelen and MVS it appears are going to get a lot of playing time in this ball game and they’re going to get a lot of run. And you know the I think what these two guys bring Ponzi is that they bring a level of physicality to the Steelers wide receiver room that outside of DK Metaf they haven’t had. Right. Because when you have Calvin, when you have Roman, two smaller guys, you know, if they get contacted, you know, down the field, they’re pretty much done. Like their route is over. Okay. And I think with Thelen, with MVS, they’re bigger guys that can be a little bit more physical down the field. Um maybe that’s what Rogers feels more comfortable with. I know Adam is a really good option route runner. I think we’ll see a lot of that from the slot today. Um I bet an Adam Thelen anytime touchdown today, by the way. So, like I I think I think it’s coming at some point in this football game and that’s going to be a huge X factor in this game, Ponzi. But another thing that I think is going to be a big X factor, we’ll talk about this as well, um is the Steelers run defense. Can they stop Derrick Henry? They were not able to do it in their final two games in 2024. Of course, last week you give up 144 yards to James Cook. Um you know, you don’t have Kyle Duggar, your best rundefending safety in this game. don’t have Derrick Harmon, one of your better rundefending defensive linemen. How does this team play? And how does this defense and run defense in particular try and contain Derrick Henry? I think that, you know, those two questions, how does the Steelers passing attack look? How does the Steelers run defense look? 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Yeah. Then we have the one from last time. So, we’ll get to those. Uh, it was Blaze, right? Yeah. All right. Oops, I almost sent that in the wrong chat. That would have been embarrassing. All right, there we go. Okay, let’s get to some of these super chats. A big shout out to Eric, one of the real ones. $2 right there. Then $5 from my man Shannon Cassidy. Says, “Jack Mando has changed my life. Thank you. Go Steelers F Ravens.” Yeah, man. Mando’s great. uh one of our great sponsors here on Steelers Talk. So, shout out to Mando. $2. Uh from Bernard says, “If A-Rod can’t go under center, why play him?” Um you know, I think because they feel like he gives them the better chance to win. That’s why I think after they saw their Mason Rudolph performance against uh the Bears, the Bears, it was it was pretty much over for any chance of him starting. Yeah, 100%. You know, I think, you know, I think they feel like even without going under center, um, the Steelers still feel like Rogers with his arm talent and his experience and his football IQ gives them the best chance to win. So, honestly, like if they can’t go under center, Ponzi, what I would want to see them do is spread things out a little bit, you know, spread things out. let Rogers, you know, pick teams apart, pick this defense with the Baltimore Ravens apart with his brain, put multiple receivers out there, line them up, line them up out wide, and, you know, force the defense to declare what they’re doing so Rogers can pick them apart. And then also, what the Steelers have actually done really well this year is that when they spread things out, when they’re in shotgun and they have multiple receivers out wide in the formation, they can run in between the tackles really well. All right. They can’t run in between the tackles quite as well when they’re in their jumbo personnel packages and they got, you know, everybody close to the line of scrimmage because, you know, Jaylen Warren and Kenny Gainwell are not necessarily, you know, power backs. They’re not going to move the pile forward necessarily. Um, they’re more, you know, space guys and they’re more, you know, make people guy make make guys miss in space. When you spread things out and you hand off in inside zone, you know, you got some you got more room because there’s just there’s a lighter box. there’s less, you know, bodies in the middle of the field and there’s more room to operate in between the tackles. I think if the Steelers are going to go jumbo today and they’re going to go heavy personnel, they should be running outside the tackles because that’s where they’ve had the most success. If they’re going to spread things out in shotgun, if they’re going to run the ball, they should run it in between the tackles. I think that’s the best way that the Steelers have gone about things in the run game this year. $2 from Dan Flity says, “Love the show. Love you boys.” Here we go. There we go. Shout out to Dan Flity. Real one. Uh hopefully uh the Steelers can get a win for you today. Here. Dan F, excuse me, Pizzle Fizzle with a $5 super chat says, “Jack, you are literally the only reason I continue to watch and follow the Steelers.” But Henry is going to run wild today. 200 yards. Wow. Sad. I mean, listen, man. I think Derrick Henry’s still a good player. I don’t know if he’s 200 yards. I don’t know. I I don’t know if he’s capable of putting up a 200yard game. I mean, listen, man. This Steelers run defense has been sad, especially when Derrick Henry or Derrick Harmon, I should say, has not played this year. Um, you know, in the three games that they’ve that they’ve played without Derrick Harman, this run defense has given up an average, okay, an average of 182 rush yards in those three games. There’s been a 100 plus yard rusher in every single game Derrick Harman has not played. And then on top of that, you don’t have um you don’t have Kyle Duggar today and Chuck Clark might be getting the start today. And we all know how bad Chuck Clark is. So, um I really hope Jabril Peppers plays today, Ponzi, because I think Peppers is just way better uh than Chuck Clark. But he brings a lot more physicality as well. We’ll just have to see what happens, man. It’s a big key to victory for the Pittsburgh Steelers today, containing Derk Henry. Bernard again with it, too. says, “Rex Ryan said A-Rod looked bad uh to call out his wide receivers.” I mean, I don’t listen, I don’t think so. I listen, man. I think everything that Rogers said last week was was more than fair. And Rex Ryan is a [ __ ] clown. Doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s a blowhard that, you know, you know, screams and talks very loudly. Um, and you know, he’s just a he’s just a joke in my opinion. Okay. And you know, when it comes to what Roger said last week, it was more than fair. He said, “Everybody shows up to the meetings. Therefore, people should know if I go to a certain route and I check to a diff certain route, you should run the route correctly.” Which is more than fair. I mean, like, is Rogers not is is Rogers just supposed to be okay with Jonnu Smith not running the right route? I mean, like, what are we doing here? I I’m hoping I’m really hoping actually that Mike Tomlin or or Aaron Rogers went to Arthur Smith went to Mike Tomlin this week and said, “We can’t play John Smith as much as we’re playing John Smith.” He he doesn’t he doesn’t know my hand signals. He’s not looking for them. He’s not looking for the checks. All this different stuff. He can’t play. I’m really hoping Aaron Rogers said that because honestly getting rid of Jonnu Smith in this offense and like taking away, you know, a large majority of like the 35 snaps he usually gets in a football game would really help out this offense. It would allow other players that are more efficient and are better to get on the field more often. Um so hopefully we see less John Smith today. Black and Yellow podcast uh with a small super chat here says, “What is Adam Thelen playing uh gonna be like uh gonna be like me?” I I Adam Thielen playing gonna be like I just assume that’s Yeah. Okay. I think that was just a an added thing there. Says 20 to 17 Pittsburgh. Um you know, you’re I think you’re going to see him in the slot a lot and I think you’re going to see him run a lot of corner routes, a lot of slants, um you know, maybe even some double moves. We’re going to see him run some option routes. We’re going to see him, you know, be it’s it’s a little bit scary because you’ve only had a few practices with Aaron Rogers, but he’s going to be the chemistry guy with Rogers today. We might see him run a couple slot fades. Maybe they’ll try a couple back shoulders. But the thing about Felen is that he is a pros pro. He like Rogers can trust him to run the right route on an option route, for example, against a certain type of coverage. He’s one of the smartest receivers in the league. He’s traditionally had very good hands. He’s had some drops this year though, so I guess we’ll see if Thelen’s hands come back with a guy like Aaron Rogers throwing in the football. Um he’s got still got very quick feet, very technical uh you know, route runner, can play physically down the field. Um he’s going to the the ideal version of Adam Thielen that we’re getting here in Pittsburgh is the one that we saw, you know, be on pace for over a,000 yards last year in Carolina at age 34. The guy that got over a,000 yards two years ago at age 33 in Carolina, the safety blanket guy, right? the guy that you consistently go to on third and fourth down, the guy that you trust to get open, your route runner. Um hopefully Adam Thelen still has enough left in the tank to be able to be that guy for this offense. With Roman Wilson inactive today, the Steelers are really banking on him being that guy for this offense moving forward. $10 from CJ Ross. He’s in on the raffle. He says, “Hopefully Adam Thielen and MVS provides some kind of spark today. Tired of mediocre offense and embarrassing wide receiver play.” I mean, absolutely, CJ. I mean, we just and honestly, you know, the the the embarrassing wide receiver play, I think, is connected to the embarrassing quarterback play that we’ve gotten from Aaron Rogers and Mason Rudolph. Um, ever since, you know, the Packer game, right? Starting from the Packer game onward. This Steelers offense has been out of sorts. And, you know, Aaron Rogers, when you look at the numbers, those first six games of the year, those first seven weeks, you know, after the Cincinnati game where he played great, he was a top 10 quarterback in the National Football League statistically. All right? like he was top 10 in passer rating, he was top 10 in adjusted EPA, top 10 in completion percentage over expectated, all these different things. And then after that, since Green Bay, it hasn’t been the same. Rogers has not been able to hit those downfield shots that he was able to hit earlier on in the season, right? And you’re hoping that with Adam Thelen in the lineup, with Marquez Vald Scantling in the lineup today, you get a little bit more physicality in the Steelers wide receiver room, a little bit more size, a little bit more catch radius, um that Roduce is going to be able to trust those guys a little bit more than the smaller Calvin Austin and Roman Wilson that really couldn’t be physical out there at wide receiver. $2 from Spencer says, “Here we go. Let’s go, Spencer. F the Ravens. F the Ravens. F the Ravens. F the Ravens. Ponzi can’t get on Q. Oh my goodness, man. Ponzi, I was giving this last one up, man. Jesus, Ponzi, just can’t just can’t just can’t get in rhythm, dude. $2 from Blaze Thaw. We appreciate you, Blaze. This was actually from Thursday’s live show. We forgot to to hit it, Blae. I hope you’re watching. Uh, but we appreciate you, my friend. And then we got Brandon. Brandon Morland coming in with a 10. He’s in with two raffle tickets. Says Jack and Pawns are the goats. hashtag. Here we go. Uh, this is Misfit Trail Rider. So, when you put in his raffle entries there, it’s Misfit Trail Rider. So, shout out to Misfit Trail Rider. Uh, great stuff there, Brandon. We appreciate you. $10 right there gets you into the raffle with two raffle tickets. Again, guys, double your raffle entries today uh when you send in donations via Venmo or PayPal. We got about 30 minutes to go here, a little bit over 30 minutes to go before the biggest game of the Pittsburgh Steelers season to this point. Um, and let’s talk about it, man, because this is obviously a ginormous football game for both sides. You know, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, arch rivals, best rivalry in the National Football League, maybe in professional sports in my opinion. Um, you know, I absolutely love, you know, the dynamic of this relationship because they almost always play at the end of the season and it’s almost always with heavy heavy implications. So, I appreciate the NFL for scheduling it in that way. Uh, but obviously both these teams have had their warts and their scars as Mike Tomlin put it this week. You know, you’re six and six. Steelers have lost five of their last seven. The Ravens just lost last week on Thanksgiving to Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals. They had five turnovers against the worst defense in the league in the Cincinnati Bengals. And now they’re going up against the Steelers defense this week that is top five in the league in turnovers forced. All right, so the Steelers in certain areas, I think that they have the advantage. In other areas, Baltimore seems to have the advantage. But both these teams and both of these fan bases, frankly, you know, they’re not happy with the state of their organization. All right, Baltimore was expecting their team to be a Super Bowl favorite this year, and now they’re fighting for their lives to even make the postseason this year. And then Pittsburgh after a 4-one one start and having a three and a halfame lead over the division early in the year have completely squandered that like I said with five losses in their last seven games. So both these teams are kind of down bad right now and both fan bases want their long head tenur head coaches Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh fired and maybe the team that doesn’t win the division might see their head coach move on this off seasonason. So the stakes are really high. First place in the AFC North at least for now. four games left in the season after this ball game. So to have that oneame advantage would be really really huge. And make no mistake, guys, sitting at six and six, the Pittsburgh Steelers’s chance at making the postseason this year almost solely lies with winning the division. All right? Like the chances of the Steelers getting a wild card spot in the AFC, which is extremely extremely competitive at this point, is extremely low. according to the New York Times playoff simulator. Right now, Pittsburgh has a less than 1% chance of of getting an AFC wild card spot at this point in time. All right, so if you’re going to make the postseason this year, if you’re the Steelers, you got to win the division. And if you’re going to win the division, you got to play your best ball in these final five game stretch. And you got to beat the Ravens at least once. Now, you take a look here at the AFC playoff picture right now. Baltimore technically has the tiebreaker over Pittsburgh with a 6-6 record, but the Steelers obviously can take sole possession of first place today with a win on the Ravens home turf. But you guys can see there, man, you got three 8-4 teams uh at top the wild card standings in the AFC. So, if the Steelers want to make the postseason this year, they got to find a way uh to win more games than the Baltimore Ravens in these final five weeks. And that starts today by hopefully getting a win. But with that said, guys, I will actually make the case that today the pressure is more on the Baltimore Ravens. Not only were the expectations for Baltimore higher than they were for Pittsburgh heading into the year. So, if they don’t make the postseason this year, it’s even more embarrassing for them, but you know, also they got a really tough three-game stretch coming up. All right, they’ve got Cincinnati on the road, the team they just lost to last week at home on Thanksgiving. Then they get the New England Patriots at home, a team that is on a 10-ame win streak and is currently the number one seed in the AFC. And then they get Green Bay on the road in Lambo over the next three weeks. So if they lose today, that means if the Steelers win and they can take care of their business versus Miami and Cleveland, if Baltimore can’t win two of those three really tough ball games in the next three weeks, the Steelers lock up the division before these teams even play again at Acers Stadium uh in the final week of the year. So, if the Steelers can win today, that is absolutely massive. And for the Baltimore Ravens to lose this game at home, a second straight home game against a divisional rival, that would spell a lot of trouble for Baltimore with the tough schedule they got coming up in the weeks to come. But now we can get to the inactives today. And obviously, the big one that you guys need to know about here is Roman Wilson. All right, somebody that that’s been a starter for this team for a large portion of this season. He is a healthy scratch today. Adam Thiel and Marquez Valdis Scaling are in. Roman Wilson is out even behind guys like Scotty Miller who once again gets a game day helmet. Will Howard will be the the emergency third quarterback today, but then a number of injuries for the Steelers. Kyle Duggar, your starting strong safety, is out today. It’ll be interesting to see if we see uh Kyle Duggar or not Kyle Duggar, Chuck Clark or Jabril Peppers out there. Calvin Anderson, your swing tackle, is out today as well. Khan Williams, who’s been a a kickoff return guy for you this year. He’s inactive. So, it’s going to be interesting to see who the kickoff return guys are for the Steelers in this one. And then Derek Harmon, who’s been a very key cog in the Steelers defense this year, is once again out uh with a knee injury. But then for the Baltimore Ravens, not a whole lot to talk about here. The Ravens are relatively healthy. Lamar Jackson did have an ankle injury that popped up this week, but he is good to go in this ball game. Uh honestly the biggest inactive that Baltimore has is on IR which is uh Justin Matabke their excellent three technique who is out for the season with a neck injury. But you take a look here at uh our opponent here in the coaching and scheme breakdown for the Baltimore Ravens. John Harbaugh uh is one of the longest tenur head coaches in in the NFL. He’s second in the league to only Mike Tomlin. Um, by the way, guys, the only coaching duo that has coached against each other more in the NFL’s history, uh, than John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin is George and Curly Lambo. All right, they’ve they coached against each other 49 times. This is the 39th meeting between Harbaugh and Tomlin. Uh, but on offense, Todd Monkin runs a modern prospread style of offense. Uh, and then on defense, Zack O is their defensive play caller. They run a base big nickel style of defense in the in the mold of a Mike McDonald style defense uh that you’re currently seeing in Seattle. But now you take a look here at the offensive roster here for the Baltimore Ravens. You got Lamar Jackson at quarterback. Got Ronnie Stanley, an excellent left tackle for them. Andrew Vorhees at left guard. Tyler Linderbomb, one of the better centers in the league at center. Daniel Falle, the ginormous right guard um for them. Roger Rosenarden their right tackle. Then at the skill position players Z Flowers their number one receiver DeAndre Hopkins de Hop cannot be ignored. Expect Joy Porter Jr. on DeAndre Hopkins and then either James Pierre or Sante Samuel Jr. on Zay Flowers in this ball game matchup wise. Then Mark Andrews is their number one tight end. They also use Isaiah likely. Um and then Dererick Henry is obviously their number one running back. Then on the defensive side of the ball, you’ll see Draymond Jones and Kyle Vanoi as their edges with Travis Jones and John Jenkins on the interior. Not the best uh defensive line in the world. You know, hopefully the Steelers offensive line can get some push against this unit today and try to establish that run game. Uh but then the offball linebackers, Rocoan Smith, is one of the best offball backers in the entire National Football League. Former allp pro obviously. And then Teddy Buchanan has actually played pretty decent for them um at the other linebacker spot. But then in the secondary, this is really where, you know, this defense has really played well over the last several weeks. Nate Wiggins is their number one corner. Uh he dealt with an injury uh recently. Uh but he is back this week. Then you get Marlon Humphrey on the other side of him. We might see some Cheeto Wooier as well today depending on how Humphrey plays. But then Loey Gilman and Malachi Starks, the rookie out of Georgia, is uh the starting safety duo. And then Kyle Hamilton is the straw that stirs the drink in this Baltimore Ravens defense. He plays everywhere. He plays in the box. He plays in the slot. He plays deep. He plays on the defensive line at times. Kyle Hamilton is their chess piece that they move around in this defense. And he’s one of the best defensive players in the National Football League, period. Aaron Rogers needs to know we’re 14 is on the field at all times today. Now, we get to our keys to victory. If the Steelers want to win today, I think they got to contain Derrick Henry. All right. And this is something that they were that they were able to do when the Steelers beat uh the Baltimore Ravens at home last year, but it’s something that they weren’t able to do in the final two matchups that they went up against the Baltimore Ravens. You guys can take a look at King Henry’s dominance versus the Pittsburgh Steelers defense last year. He averaged like 170 yards um you know, per game. He averaged like seven and a half yards per carry. He had two touchdowns in the wildard game. Um, obviously the Baltimore Ravens want to run their offense through Derrick Henry in this ball game. And you know, if the Steelers allow them to, that’s exactly what they’re going to do. So, we’re going to see if this Steelers defense today can hold up. But, there are some two very big losses in that effort in my opinion. Derrick Harmon has been absolutely huge for the Pittsburgh Steelers run defense this year, and without him, this run defense has been completely lost. So, not having him today in such a big matchup uh could could could spell doom, frankly, for the Pittsburgh Steelers today. And then Kyle Duggar, who’s been really good as a run defender for the Pittsburgh Steelers at Strong safety. He is also out. So, that begs the question, who’s going to be Chuck Clark. It’s going to be Chuck Clark. That’s That’s what social media said. Goodness gracious. I mean, I don’t get it. Jabril Peppers had a PFF grade of over 90. He played really well against the Patriots in week three uh in his lone start for the Steelers. Chuck Clark has been terrible this year. So, you know, the fact that you have Chuck Clark in there and you don’t have Derrick Harmon today, um, you know, I I can’t say it’s giving me a ton of confidence that this Steelers run defense is going to bounce back this week. But if you can contain Derrick Henry, you got to execute the Lamar Jackson plan. You got to get after Lamar Jackson. All right? You got to get after this guy. Um, and I do think that the plan for Lamar should be slightly different than in previous years because Lamar is dealing with a number of lower body injuries. All right, he missed multiple weeks with a hamstring issue. I’m sure that’s still bothering him to some degree. Uh, he’s dealt with foot issues. He’s dealt with now an ankle issue because he got stepped on at Wednesday’s practice. He shouldn’t be as mobile as he usually is. Okay, which means that the Steelers maybe shouldn’t run as many fiveman pressure looks as they usually do against the Baltimore Ravens. They should maybe think about putting more coverage out there and, you know, trying to play with a little bit more two high safeties um than than trying to play the way that they usually play against Lamar because he’s just not moving the same way. He’s taking a lot more sacks. I think his pressure to sack ratio is like 23% which is way higher than it usually is. His escape ability isn’t as good. The Steelers need to get after Lamar Jackson. And frankly, Lamar has not played well against the Steelers for the most part in his career. I mean, the last two games that the Steelers lost to Lamar last year, it was really uh Derrick Henry leading the charge, not Lamar Jackson. So, if you can, you know, make this a Lamar Jackson game and make him throw the ball like 40 times in this ball game, I think the Steelers will have a good chance to win this game. But then uh the Steelers need to take the ball away. Plain and simply, this is a Ravens offense that gave the ball up five times versus a terrible Cincinnati Bengals defense on Thanksgiving last week. And what does this Steelers defense do best? They take the ball away. All right, you can say a lot of things about this Steelers defense. They give up a lot of yards, especially in the run game, but they can take the ball away. If you can win the turnover battle today and take it away three, four times, it’s going to give you a hell of a chance to go win this ball game. Uh then on the offensive side of the ball, I want them to get the run game going. All right, Jaylen Warren and Kenny Gainwell, they are the best thing about this Steelers offense right now. Lean into that. All right, run the ball as much as you can. This Baltimore Ravens team likes to live in two high safeties. Um, so you got to make you got to make them pay for that. All right, get Jaylen Warren and Kenny Gainwell the ball early and often. And then in the passing game, you got to stretch the field. And this is something that we haven’t seen from this offense for quite a long time um this season. And I’m looking at the additions of Adam Thelen, Marquez Velda Scaling. Hopefully that gives you some more short and intermediate stuff with Adam Thielen, a little bit more trust there, option routes, stuff that Rogers has been doing for years. But then also hopefully that big body presence on the other side of DK Metaf and MVS uh allows this team to see less double coverage on DK and hopefully that opens up number four today to having a really big game. So, you know, I think the Steelers are kind of making this shift late in the season cuz they’ve kind of acknowledged, hey, the smaller wide receiver duo outside of DK Metaf and Calvin Austin and Roman Wilson just isn’t working. We want to get more size in here. We want to play more physical and uh by the way, Scotty Miller is also in this rotation, but I don’t really think we’ll see Scotty uh in the rotation. So, these are the five receivers that I think we’ll see at some point in this ball game. Um, and you know, you’ve got your big body guy and DK is going to be out there all the time. Calvin will be your short shifty guy. Thelen will be your big body slot. And then Marqueis Valdis Scantling will be kind of their flanker piece um when they want to go, you know, when they want to go two deep routes down the sideline. So, it’s going to be interesting to see, man. It’s a brand new dynamic in the passing attack for Pittsburgh. It could be disastrous. It could be gamechanging. I think we’ll have probably have an answer on that by the end of the afternoon. But then also, you got to play to your strengths if you’re the Pittsburgh Steelers. All right? And you got to put the right personnel out there. Personnel management has been a big problem with the Pittsburgh Steelers this year, whether it’s on offense or whether it’s on defense. Play the right personnel. Get the right guys out there. Don’t put John Smith out there for 40 snaps in this game. All right? Play to your strengths. Do what you do well. Don’t do what you don’t do well and go out there and play good football. And then the and then the final thing on offense that you got to do is is protect the ball. If you’re going to take the ball away, um you know, that’s one thing. We’ve seen this defense get some turnovers these last two weeks, but then you haven’t protected the football specifically in the second half. Okay? And we’ve seen this team give up multiple turnovers um on the offense over the last two weeks in the second half. And that can’t happen if you want to win this football game. But then the final thing here, guys, is that if you know this rivalry, if you know the history of this thing, it’s always close. It’s always close in the fourth quarter. And there’s always a play to be made in that fourth quarter. whether it’s a special teams play, whether it’s a game-winning drive, whether it’s a defensive play, you got to be the one to make the play in this ball game if you want to win. And um you know, we’ll see if they’re able to do that today. Later, u still to come, Ponzi and I will have our uh official score predictions closer to kickoff here. We are less than 20 minutes away from kicking things off there in Baltimore. But before we get into the rest of our pregame coverage here, guys, we catch up on some super chats and Venmos here in just a second. If you guys want to get this awesome Steelers t-shirt for your collection or for somebody in your life that you love for Christmas here, you guys can go to chatsports.com/week1425. Ponzi is going to put that link down in the comments and description of today’s show and in the live chat. 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Um, you know, I guess John Gruden’s prediction that the Irish could win the could win the national championship won’t come true this year. Um, so $2 here from Michaels says, “With a battered offense, is Kenny Gainwell going to step up today? I mean, we’ve seen, you know, we’ve seen uh Kenny Gainwell step up, especially these like especially the last two weeks, and we’ve seen it sporadically throughout the season. Gainwell’s played very well, and you know, he is a legitimate number two running back in this league in my opinion. So, um I think the running back duo here in Pittsburgh is the best thing about this offense right now. We’ll see if we can unlock something with this passing attack today with Thelen and MVS, but um we’ll just have to see. Um, but yes, I think the run game and this running back duo uh needs to play a big part in any chance of the Steelers victory today. All right, man. Um, get your super chats in if you haven’t already. 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Eric Dexter, you’re in the raffle. Eric Dexter, you are in. Lol. Uh, Ravens TV is in the chat and they were they were trying to spell out Ravens and they misspelled it. Come on, Gager. Producer Gage of Ravens Rundown doesn’t even know how to spell Ravens. Just goes to show you how smart they are over at Ravens Rundown. U, by the way, with eight minutes left to go here, I I tell you what we’re going to do. We are going to spam the Ravens chat. All right. So, if you haven’t already, go over right now for a minute, all right, and just spam here we go Steelers in the Ravens chat. Ponzi, do you want to put the link to their chat down there in the live chat room? Get them in the chat. Let’s go swarm them. Let’s go flood their comment section with here we go Steelers or F the Ravenses. Let’s go, man. Go over to their chat right now. Let them know who’s boss. This is the best rivalry in the National Football League and we all know who really runs the AFC North. It is the Pittsburgh Steelers and Steelers Nation. So go over to Ravens rundown right now. Started us off down there. Talk talk your [ __ ] Get the get down there. Represent Steelers Nation. But now I think it’s a really good time Ponzi to get into our score predictions here. Less than 10 minutes away from this monumentous uh rivalry matchup. Um, and honestly, I feel like there’s more pressure on the Ravens to win today than the Steelers. And unfortunately, I don’t really feel like um, well, we’ll get to my score prediction here in a second, but that probably tips you off to who I’m going to pick here. But the trends do predict, you know, a game that could go either way. Right now, the trends predict a 2623 Ravens win. Okay? And, you know, that is within the margin of error. So, they’re not like a clear necessarily a clear favorite according to the trends, but I don’t think with Derrick I think with Derrick Carman out of the lineup with Chuck Clark starting at safety. Um, you know, with with a brand new wide receiver room with guys that haven’t played in a game with Aaron Rogers before, I think it’s going to be a messy game for for Pittsburgh. I’m going to go with the Ravens to win this game. 2417 Ravens win. I think it will be one score because it’s always one score, but I think the Steelers will lose their sixth game in eight weeks. I think the Ravens will take uh sole possession of first place. But with that said, even if the Steelers lose today, I firmly believe that the race for the division is not over. All right, the Ravens have a really tough three-game stretch coming up. The Steelers have two at least two very winnable ball games in Miami and Cleveland that they should be able to win. Um, so even if the Steelers lose today, I firmly believe that the Steelers could still win the division and win three of their final four. Um, but I am gonna pick the Ravens to win this one at home. Ponzi, what do you got? I got the Steelers in this one. I don’t know what I’m right. I hope you’re right. I’m feeling I feel like Adam Thielen, you know, Marquez Valdez Scantland being activated finally. Maybe the physicality is what we need. Gritty AFC North matchup right here. 2114. I think the Steelers will pull away. I think that, you know, I think Lamar’s gonna make a turnover or two. That’s gonna be What are you doing? I think the Steelers are gonna force him to mistakes early and often. And I think, you know, the Steelers get it done today. Yeah. Well, I we’re also getting counterpurged here here. All right. So, everyone type here we go Steelers in the chat. Or actually, just type PIT. Let’s drown these Ravens fans out of here. Type those PITs. Type those pits in the chat to swamp out these Ravens fans. Get them out of the chat. 30 rappers out of here. Get them out of the chat. All right. There’s like 13 people at Mnt Bank Stadium today. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Ravens fans are a joke. I’m sorry. Type those Steelers. Type those PITs. Get these Ravens fans out of the chat, man. They don’t deserve to be in here. Less than five minutes to go till kickoff here and before we kick things off in Baltimore Ponzi and now that we’ve done our score predictions, let’s talk about what’s going on around the National Football League here in week 14. Seahawks versus Falcons like we all expect the Falcons to win that game. Oh, not not Falcons. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The Seahawks to win that game. Uh Bengals Bills. Um interesting game. I think the Bills will probably win though because they can probably run the football and stop the run better. It’s really cold in Buffalo today. I I I don’t know, man. I feel like Joe Burr always has the Bills number sometime. Okay. I mean, well, I guess we’ll see. Uh Titans and Browns. Um two two of some of the worst teams in the league. Honestly, you should look at the spread on that one. So, I’m I’m looking. Rogers is taking snaps under center in pregame warm-up. So, we might see him take some snaps under center today. Keep that in mind. But then we got uh So, Titans and Browns. I’m going to go with honestly I’m cheering for the Titans to win that game be because obviously the Brown f the Browns and Shur but um you know but on the flip side the I want the New York Giants to have the number one pick. So if we trade Tomlin to them we can do a pick swap and get the number one pick and I will say and take Mendoza I would love Mendoza dude. Dude Mendoza looks good. Mendoza is looking good, dude. Sanders, maybe people, the Browns will believe in him and then he’ll suck. Maybe. Colts Jaguars is also a game later today. That’s a big game in the AFC South. That’s a really that’s a really contentious division right now. Colts, Jaguars, and Texans all have pretty decent records right now. Texans knocking right on the door. So, the Jags, if they can pull off the upset there, things get really interesting in the AFC South down the stretch. Commanders versus Vikings. Jaden Daniels is back this week. Ponzi, this is actually the first week where the Commanders have their entire starting offense healthy this entire season. It’s just been a brutal season. That’s how bad the injury luck has been for the Commanders this year. It’s also the the first time since week two that Terry McLuren and Jaden Daniels have been on the same field together. I kind of feel like the Commanders win that game. JJ McCarthy has been really bad. Doesn’t scare me. Yeah, nine doesn’t scare me at all. If I’m the Commanders, I think that I think Washington gets their first win uh since week five today in Minnesota. Then, uh the Dolphins versus the Jets. I expect the Dolphins to win that game. Dolphins are not complete doodoo garbage baby, but the the Jets are. Uh then the Saints go up against the Buccaneers. Tyler Shucks actually played pretty well. Um you know, I would actually you can make an argument, you know, based on the film that he’s been the best rookie quarterback this year. And I will say, you know, and and Jackson Dart’s played well, by the way. Jackson Dart’s played well. Tyler Shuck Tyler Shuck’s been really good for the Saints. And I feel like, you know, it’s ultimately been Chuck or Dart, but I mean, obviously Chuck has been more healthy during the stretch here. And unfortunately, so for Jackson Dart, but he’s looked pretty good. 100%. What’s Sunday Night Football tonight again? Uh, let me see. I think it’s Texas. Oh, yeah. Texans Chiefs is huge, dude. Like, if the Chiefs lose tonight, it’s over for them. They’re out pretty much. Yeah. They can’t win the division and with seven losses, you’re not getting into the postseason. So, the Chiefs pretty much because they have so they’ve lost so many tiebreers with the people in the AFC wild card race. They really have to win out or they’re done. I don’t The Chiefs are not making the playoffs this year. I mean, uh, it’s crazy. They’re going to have to win out. It’s going to be really tough. Patrick Mahomes has never missed an AFC Championship game. And yeah, to just miss the playoffs entirely this year would be crazy. But Broncos Raiders, I expect the Broncos to win that game, but the Raiders did almost beat them in Denver a couple weeks ago. Could Could we see Gino pull off a crazy upset? And then uh the Rams, I think we all expect them to beat the Cardinals later. Bears, Packers, really fun game. Um I think the Packers do win at home today, though. I think the Bears luck finally runs out here. Um and I think Jordan Love and the Packers get it done. Um and I’m I am going to go with the Texans to win tonight. I know that defense is so good. Actually, what’s the weather supposed to be like tonight? Because it’s a warm weather team playing in a cold weather state tonight at at night. Let’s see. So, if it’s cold, I might change my pick to the Chiefs here. Weather warning issued before the game. Yep. Chiefs winning tonight. Sorry, Texans. Sorry, Texans. You’re not winning tonight. I’m gonna go with the Chiefs for that one. But we are so close to kicking things off in Baltimore here, guys. Um, you know, just a little quick recap of the top storylines heading into this game. Adam Thelen, Marquez Valdez Scantling, you know, obviously um being added to the active game day roster uh this week. Obviously MVS has been on practice squad for many weeks now. Adam Thielen being claimed off of waiverss what 5 days ago at this point and now he’s already playing in a game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Um Roman Wilson a healthy scratch today. I’m I’m guessing Ponzi the reason why they have Scotty Miller on the game day roster is for kickoff duties. Yeah, that’s what I would assume. And like they they wanted to play Scoranic because they want him out there in certain blocking situations. So they weren’t going to make him inactive. and he’s been really good too on that. Yeah. And I I just think that it came down to okay, we want a certain amount of receivers on the roster, the game day roster. We have too many and we it has to be either Calvin Austin or Roman that needs to be the healthy scratch. And they went with Calvin because of his experience, because of, you know, uh his experience playing in big games like this. And um frankly, I I’m sure probably behind the scenes Roman is probably not running routes in the ways that Rogers probably wants him to and Rogers probably doesn’t feel super comfortable throwing him the ball. Yeah. And I I also think it could just be like that Calvin Austin has had that experience. Maybe nothing against Roman, but I mean not the development you want to see out of your third round wide receiver year ago. Yeah, man. And the fact that he’s a healthy scratch today tells me that his days might be numbered here in Pittsburgh, which is crazy. Um, which is nuts because he was just a third round pick last year. And, you know, if George Pickkins is any indication, Roman will get traded for like a seventh round pick next year and like but like like ball out for like the 49ers or some [ __ ] Um, but yeah, man, obviously the Steelers are going more towards physicality, size, uh, because, you know, let’s face it, with Calvin Austin and Roman Wilson as your number two and number three receivers, physicality was not an element of their game, and that allowed opposing defenses to double team your only other physical wide receiver, and that was DK Metaf. And I think rely a lot on the tight ends. Yeah, exactly. And I think bringing in Adam Thielen who has been known as one of the more crafty route runners in the entire league for multiple years. He was on pace for over a thousand yards just last year at age 34. Um you know he’s the type of guy, the veteran that Aaron Rogers can trust. Now obviously the chemistry is not all the way there cuz they’ve only practiced with each other a couple times which scares you. But you know I think it’s going to be very interesting to see what this passing game looks like in this game. It could be gamechanging. It could be disastrous. Uh, who knows, man. It’s going to be it’s going to be an interesting afternoon. That’s for damn sure. Steelers have won the toss and deferred. All right, so that’s that’s good. But I mean, obviously the Steelers have won the toss and have deferred the last two weeks and have completely botched the third quarter. So, um, hopefully that’s some big key right there. if they can, you know, not crap the bed in the third quarter. Just don’t crap the bed in the third quarter, please. All right, so type those pits. They are they are lining up the kick. The final five weeks are finally here. It is Ravens hate week here on Steelers Talk. Spam those pits. We’re in black cuz it’s a funeral today. All right, kicks away. It’s going to be fielded at the 5 yd line here and he’s going to be tackled short of the 30 at the 26. Ben Scoranic, special teams ace, brings him down and that is that is where Lamar Jackson and the Ravens offense will take the field. Lamar Jackson dealt with an ankle injury this week. He got stepped on at Wednesday’s practice. He’s also dealt with hamstring and foot issues all throughout the season. Not sure if his mobility is going to be everything that we’re used to seeing from Lamar. Key to victory today for the Steelers is to stop the run. And by the way, Jabril Peppers gets the start at safety. F Ponzi in the chat. Jabril Peppers is out there as the starting strong safety for Pittsburgh. Shotgun for Lamar. Takes the snap. Quick throw to the flat wide open cut. Isaiah likely he picks up eight. And we’ve seen that from the Steelers defense quite a bit. Uh, you know, quick easy throws to the flat or to the slant going for good yardage. And that happens there on the first play of the game. Steelers, you could tell were kind of bailing out to try and defend the run there on first down. It’s a sevenyd gain. Second down and three. Another condensed formation here for Baltimore Shotgun. They’re going to hand it off to Henry up the middle. He fights forward for about six or seven. First down. Ravens down to the 41. Got over 1,500 people in the chat right now. We did pass over 200 likes in the pregame, so we’ll give away a free raffle entry next commercial break. If we can get to 400, we’ll give away another one. And now there’s an injury for the Steelers. It looks like a big guy. Is this Keo Benson? Oh man, the Steelers are already low on defensive line depth. Daniel Aqual is out for the season. Derek Harmon is out and Keano Benson, I believe, is down on the ground. It is Benson. There’s Steelers players on a knee next to him. Oh man, that is potentially catastrophic for the Steelers. That would mean ya black would and zest to miw and you already lost. You already don’t have louderm milk. You don’t have the qual. You don’t have Harmon. Man, you are really low on defensive interior help. And by the way, uh they have behind him a black. YA black. Is that it? Yeah, that’s rough. I mean, they’ve got a zest to Miwoo, but it’s just it’s going to be tough with a threeman rotation. Brick Martin was a healthy was a healthy scratch today. If that’s a serious injury and he can’t go for the rest of this game, that’s going to I mean, Keano Benson’s not a good run defender by any stretch of the imagination, especially in the role the Steelers use him in. Uh, he gets blown off the spot very consistently. But like I’d still rather have him out there than, you know, Odiwu. God, that sucks. He got to his feet and limped off. Okay. That is not ideal. All right, guys. 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They’re going to hand it off to Henry. They’re going to keep doing it until they can, and he picks up a good six yards. They’re going to keep doing it until they can’t, Ponzi. And I there’s a reason why I picked Baltimore today. So, Black is in at nose tackle right now with Benton out. Um, and honestly, I think YA Black might be a better nose tackle than than Benton is. So, maybe that’s that could be a blessing in disguise of some sorts. Obviously, we hope Keano’s okay. Under center here, they’ll hand it off to Henry again. There’s TJ Watt with a TFL. A loss of two. Third down coming up. Spam those threes in the chat. Come on. You want to get off of You want to get off the field right here. Let’s go. TJ Watt still one of the best rundefending edge rushers in the game. Unblocked on the edge. Let’s go. Type those threes in the chat. We got 1,800 people watching live. Come on. Shotgun Lamar. Third down and six. Four down front for Pittsburgh. Takes the snap. Lamar. They send fiveman pressure. He throws down the field. One-on-one. Zay Flowers. Separation. And it is caught down the sideline. That was Chuck Clark in coverage on Z Flowers. What the [ __ ] are we doing, Terrell? Why is Chuck Clark in the [ __ ] game? And why is he one-on-one on Z Flowers? And the ball comes out. This should be incomplete. The ball bobbles. Challenge this Tomlin. And the ball is snapped. No, he No, he challenged it. Good. Good. Ball gets bobbled by Zay Flowers as he catches the ball out of bounds. This should be reversed and it should be fourth down and six. Big challenge and a big call here by the NFL and he does not survive. That ball clearly moves. He does not survive the ground. But like why do we have Chuck Clark out there? He’s our coverage safety. Are we joking? Well, he was he did start. Peppers was out there and then all then they replaced him on third down and six. All I’m saying, why would you have Jerrell Peppers out there to start the game and then take him off on a critical down? It It makes no sense to me. But I do not believe this will be a catch. All right. I don’t think I I’m typing no. I don’t think it’s a catch. The ball clearly moves when Flowers hits the ground. You have to have full control through the ground. The ball clearly moves and by the time he gets possession back, he’s clearly out of bounds. So, this should be no catch. Let’s see if the NFL [ __ ] us. Got almost 2,000 people in the chat. By the way, the call stands. No way. The call stands and the Ravens will have the first down again. I mean, I guess they’re saying he had full control and then he got a knee down in bounds. I don’t know about that. So he can lose control of it. I guess I it’s not confirmed. It stands. So they’re saying there’s non indisputable evidence. Yeah. I think it’s a good challenge by Tomlin. I mean Steelers Twitter right now is saying of course Tomlin loses a challenge, but like it’s a good challenge. If if he wins that challenge and there was a reasonable chance that he won that challenge, the Ravens punt with no points. Exactly. So like I I I think that’s a good challenge. It’s in the first half. All right. be in that situation to begin with though. So, I have no problem with Tomlin taking that challenge. And hell, if I was the one making the call, I know I’m biased because I’m the Steelers guy, but I I would say that that is not a catch, but like why is Chuck Clark one-on-one with Z Flowers? Exactly. Just does not make sense. I mean, that ball moves. Kiano Benson back out there, by the way. So, that’s good news. First down and 10 now from the Steelers 24 yd line. Shotgun. Lamar hands it to Dererick Henry. No push. And there’s there’s TJ Watt again with a great chase down and they might lose a half yard here. No gain. TJ W with some great pursuit here to start this ball game. They’re running away from him and they’re actually not blocking him on the edge, but there’s enough push from the Steelers Dline to stop Derrick Henry’s momentum and allowing for the chase down. Second down and 10. Lamar and empty. Now he brings in a running back from who is out wide. Takes a snap, hands it off to Katon Mitchell who will fight forward for six or so. It’ll be third down and manageable coming up. Third down. Get them off the field. Sub for Steelers dubs. We just passed 400 likes. We’ll give away a free raffle entry next commercial break. Every 100 subscribers we add on today’s show, we’re giving away a free raffle entry. We are here for every single Steelers game this year with our live watch parties. We have the largest watch parties for Steelers fans anywhere here on YouTube as well as our daily and free Steelers content on this channel. Shotgun Lamar takes the snap looking. He’s going to throw down the field again. One-on-one Z and it’s going to be knocked away. Brandon Eckles, who has played so well these last few weeks, knocks it away. Great play by 26. It’ll be fourth down. That’ll force a field goal. Out of boy, Brandon. There we go, Eckles. Another one-on-one man coverage rep there. Lamar went to his guy again, Flowers down the field versus the Steelers slot corner, and he gets the pass breakup. Now Tyler Loop, it’s a perfect 21 to 21 inside of 50 yards this year. 36-yd attempt. Luke puts it up right down the middle. Good. Ravens up three nothing to start this ball game. Now, we’ll see what the Steelers offense has here on the opening script coming up. All right, man. 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How you feeling about the safety room today? Um I like Jabril Peppers in there, but it seems like on like third down situations and coverage moments, they’re going to go with Chuck Clark. So, it looks like that’ll be a little bit of a rotation there, and I don’t feel quite as good about that, but at least you get the better rundefending safety in there on early downs. On early downs. Yeah. So, at least you have that. Also, type those Miis in the chat. We passed 400 likes, so we’re giving away a free raffle entry. Spam those Miis while we catch up on some super chats here. Stephen Oric says, “Let’s go, Jack. Top win today.” I mean, let’s go. If we can win today, time of possession battle, I think is what he means there. Yeah, I hope so, man. It wasn’t a great start there. Baltimore was able to move down the field on you a little bit, but at least you didn’t give up a touchdown on the opening drive, right? So hopefully don’t break. Hopefully the Steelers can can respond here. Uh Brian Walker with a two. Appreciate you, Brian. And then we got $5 here from Chad Christine, who says, “My son Eastston wants to know if you think Tomlin is gone and OC if we miss the playoffs.” Um listen, if we miss the playoffs, I think there’s a chance. I think there’s a chance. I think um you know if after a 4 in one start and having a three and a half game lead in the division and to waste that and to not make the playoffs after that you know especially with the expectations that were laid on this team this year like according to them all right they were going to have the best defense in the league they were going to have Aaron Rogers come in and he was going to be the solution that gets them a playoff win they don’t even make the playoffs that’s a big issue man okay so for me if they don’t make the playoffs I would look to trade That’s what I would do. But I mean, if you believe Ian Rapaort’s report today, the Steelers plan on picking up his option in 2027 regardless of how the season ends, which I just think we’ll definitely see what happens. Yeah, we’ll just have to see how the season ends, I would say. Kick is away. It’s not a great kick. It’s fielded at the 11 here by Kenny Gainwell, who is going to cut up field and get to the 35 yd line. All right, so Kan Williams healthy and active today. Uh which means Kenny Gainwell returning kicks today and does a good job there. Good field position for the Steelers starting at the 35 and Adam Thelen is out there for the first play of this of this game. They do go out in multiple tight ends here. So no MVS yet, but Adam Thielen wearing number 16 is the number two receiver for Pittsburgh here to start this game. Rogers will start in shotgun with Jaylen Warren lined up to his left. They got a bunch formation out to the left condensed to the line of scrimmage. Muth, Darnell, and Thelen with DK all by his lonesome out to the right. Rogers will take the shotgun snap. Fakes the toss. He’s looking now. He’s going to bomb it to DK down the field. And it is caught by DK. We’ve been waiting for it. And it’s here. A 20 plus yard completion down the sideline. A dot from Aaron Rodgers. And we’re already down inside Raven territory. The 40-day streak is over. What a dime by Aaron Rogers. Aloe Gilman, the safety, was coming over. There was only one place for Rogers to put it, and he put it in there. And now the Steelers are down to the 10 yd line after just one play. Metaf beats Marlon Humphrey on the outside. What a throw from Aaron Rogers. his best throw in probably o over a month. Over a month. Huge explosive being aggressive down the field to DK Metaf. It’s what we’ve been waiting for. And now the Steelers, who are still one of the best red zone offenses in the league, have the ball now after a false start apparently. Oh, a delay game. Now a quick throw from Rogers to Metaf. caught for a gain of eight, feeding number four early. Oh, he stepped out earlier. Gotcha. Never mind. No penalty on that last one. They just moved it back a little bit. Rogers with a nice throw on the outside to Metaf. Did he get two feet in? He did. Good job by Metaf to get it both feet in. Feeding Metaf is a good thing, Ponzi. It’s a good thing. He’s making 30 million per year. You better be getting the ball now. Down to the sixyd line. Steelers have their jumbo personnel package out there. Under center now is Rogers. So he is under center and Adam Thielen is in there. Toss play to Jaylen Warren. Outside run trying to find a lane. He’s going to fight forward. He will get maybe two. It’ll be third down and one coming up. Could we see the tush push with Connor Hayward here? Could we see Adam Thelen? I got Adam Thielen anytime touchdown today, guys. Let’s get it right here. Adam Thelen is starting this ball game as the number two receiver for Pittsburgh. Haven’t seen Calvin. Haven’t seen Skiranic. Haven’t seen MVS yet in this game. Multiple tight ends again. Shotgun Rogers. Now he’s going to go to Metaf in the end zone and he dropped it. Ah, tried to go back shoulder one-on-one to Metaf with Humphrey on him. Fourth down and one. Let’s see if the Steelers look to tie this game or if they go aggressive. It’s a good throw by Rogers right in his hands. It’s just an awesome play by Humphrey to knock the ball out. Rogers and the offense are on the field. Tomlin is going to be aggressive here and I love it. Fourth down and one. Let’s go get it. They got the tush push out there and they’re going to push him forward. First downers, let’s go down to the one. They’re going to mark him down actually at the two, but it’s a new set of downs for Pittsburgh. They are knock they are knocking on the door of taking this lead. Scotty Miller got in for a play. He was in on the tush push and instead of Darnell pushing the tush, it was uh DK Metaf. I guess that’ll work. First down and goal for Pittsburgh. Shotgun Rodgers. Multiple tight ends out there. No Thelen. Metaf the only receiver. They send Jonnu Smith in motion. Fake the pop pass. Rogers rolling right. Nothing there at all. He just has to throw it out of the back of the end zone. Incomplete. Muth wanted a holding call on him. He’s not going to get it. It’s second down and goal. Metaf and DW Mount Washington were the two options there and Mount Washington was completely smothered. Rogers threw it up with where Metaf was the only one that even had a prayer. Rogers wanted it, too. Rogers goes, “Dang it.” Second down and goal. Shotgun Rogers. Gainwell the back. Once again, heavy personnel feeling in there now. They’re going to hand it off to Gainwell up the middle. He’s only going to get down to the one. Third down and goal. You better believe this is four down territory. Two more chances to get in. Come on, knock yourself in here, Pittsburgh. Take this early lead. It’s a good tackle by Roan Smith, cutting down Kenny Gainwell at the one. All right, Warren in now. Connor Hayward in as a fullback in the offset eye formation. No receivers on the field. Run it in. Let’s go. Play action. Rogers looking. Nothing there. He’s going to look to run it himself. Can he get in? He will. Touchdown Steelers. And he gives us the discount. Double check. Let’s go Araji. Touchdown Steelers. What a start for the Steelers offense. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. There we go. There we go. Aaron Rodgers outruns the Ravens defense for six. Touchdown Pittsburgh. Woo! Boswell puts up the extra point and it is good as always. 73 Pittsburgh. It all started with an absolute missile from Aaron Rodgers to DK Metaf down the sideline setting up the red zone opportunity and the discount double check for Aaron Rodgers. Mike Tomlin does the discount double check. Oh my goodness. Everybody’s doing the discount double check right now. Man, that makes me happy. That’s the best this offense has looked in months. It’s the best this offense has looked in months on the opening drive. The vibes are really high, too. That the best I I say the best looking the Steelers have looked opening drive. Nevertheless, I mean, no no looks for the on that opening drive. But what I like is that they’re getting it to Metaf. I mean, we we we talked about how adding Thelen and Adam MV and adding MVS to the mix here um could open things up for Metaf. a little bit more. So, you know, I’m not saying that that’s necessarily the case and it’s going to be the case for the entire game, but they definitely made a point to get the ball to their best player on that first drive. Um, and the streak is over. The streak is over, man. I mean, finally, we have a downfield completion. By the way, that’s the guy you should be throwing deep balls to, right? The guy that can run away from people. DK Metaf, you love to see it. Love to see it, man. Make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. Got those discount double checks going in the chat. DTC DDC discount double check, baby. All right, I I’m gonna I’m gonna I’m gonna repost this here. Ponzi. Oh, man. I’m getting that as a short as well. I’m feeling great. I’m feeling great. I’m feeling great after that first drive, man. I’m feeling pretty darn good. Someone said Rogers threw the smelling salt away. I mean he might have man. How the old man Rajie showing off the legs discount double check baby. Apparently mouth I still got it. [Laughter] I mean people were saying start Will Howard. Yeah. I mean, I What a dot, man. All right, man. Well, I mean, we’ve seen good starts from the Steelers before. You got And listen, man. Finish. You You got to play well on defense, and you got to put together four good quarters, man. But if it looks like that for the for this entire game, you know, it’ll feel pretty good by the end of the day, for sure. Type those DDC’s in the chat. Make sure you click that subscribe button. We are uh 50 subscribers. We’re halfway to giving away another free raffle entry. Um we’re now just 70 likes away from giving away a free raffle entry as well. So if you’re watching us, make sure you click that subscribe button. We provide you guys watch party coverage for every single Steelers game just like we’re doing today. But also, we got two Steelers videos on this channel every single day. Excuse me. Letting you guys know about the latest surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shout out to our last five subs. Shout out to Skull, Rye, that one. Toy boy, uh, LD, and Walt kicks away in Baltimore. It’s fielded at the six. And another good job by the Steelers, special teams here, bringing them down at the 26. That’s uh Carson Bruner, the rookie out of Washington, who’s been an excellent special teams player for us this year. Get a stop here. I completely agree with Eric Dexter. Completely agree with Eric Dexter. Get a stop here, please. Discount double check season, baby. It’s discount double check season. Let’s go. A-Rod has more rushing guards than Lamar right now. Eye formation for Lamar Jackson. Play action. Now Watts in his face now has to step up. He’s looking to run. He’s got some room. He’s going to slide down after around five or six yards. That one’s on me. And now Cam Hayward knocks the ball out. Um, but they’re saying that Lamar gave himself up, which he absolutely did, by the way. But I like the heads up play by the veteran in case the refs didn’t call it that way. Good pressure on the interior there by TJ Watt winning with an inside move on Rosen Garden, forcing Lamar to step up. And then Cam Award just trying some things out, you know. Three receiver set for Baltimore. Under center is Lamar. He’ll take the snap. He’ll hand it off. Here comes TJ Watt again. And now Henry’s going to be stuffed after just one yard. Let’s go. Logan Lee in there alongside Alex Heismith. And of course TJ Watt. This Steelers defense can say what you want about the results this season. This group cares about it. They are not indifferent. Good job by Patrick Queen and knife in there as well. Good pursuit by Wad and Heismith. Now it’s third down and five. Let’s get them off the field right now. Let’s get him off the field right now, folks. Let’s go. Third down and five. Type those threes. Bring the juice. Shotgun here for Lamar. Takes the snap. He’s looking. Steps up. Pressure in his face. And now here’s the sack. Brandon Eckles with another third down play for 26. And the Steelers will get off the field. Coverage holds. The pressure gets there. The slot blitz. The Tomlin special. Were you hungry? I’m starving, baby. Sack lunch for Brandon Eckles. Let’s go, baby. Steelers defense coming to play to start. Now the offense will get the ball back. Let’s freaking go. There we go. The punt is away. It was nearly blocked. And now Calvin Austin will field this at the 30. You’ll get to the 32. That’s where Rogers and the Steelers offense will take over for the second time today. Again, past the 30. Steelers playing some good football to start this game. They could looked ready to play. And you know what? What else I’m ready for here? Ponzi for another bang. Darth Shan Emperor’s rap bang. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. ers. There we go. Discount double check, baby. Get those DDC’s in the chat. Woo! By the way, we are just 20 likes away from giving away a free raffle entry. We are also less than $50 away from locking in our raffle today. Let’s go, man. One bang away from hitting the gong. Can we hit the gong? We can get there. Can we get there? How How much do we have in Venmo today? Um, just 15. Okay. Yeah. So, 15 plus 95, that’s 210. So, we’re $40 away from banging the gong. All right. We’re 220s or 150 or 140, whatever, from banging the gong. Throw up the alleyoop. Yeah. Throwing up the alleyoop. Who’s going to come down with it, baby? Mexander with it, too. Says Adam Thielen is a pretty good player. Yeah, man. I mean, throughout his career, the reason why he’s been able to play well and put up like a thousand yard per season production into his 30s is because he’s such a savvy veteran. And he’s never been a guy that relies on athleticism. The guys that you see kind of fall off a cliff at age 30 or whatever are the guys that rely on athleticism to have success. Uh they rely on their speed or they rely on their uh you know, on their just pure natural athleticism, right? But with Thelen, it’s always been about technique. It’s always been about hands. It’s always been about physicality. It’s always been about, you know, intelligence and, you know, being the smartest receiver on the field for his team. And I’m excited to see if we can see an Adam Thelen catch here on this drive. Did not get an opportunity on the last drive. Um, and we didn’t see MVs or Calvin Austin at all on the field for the Steelers. Adam and it was just it was just Thielen and Metaf for that first drive. Two $2 from Kelly Spiker. $4. Kelly, appreciate you. Could have just said four. My bad. $4 super chat from Kelly. Appreciate you. Make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. We did pass 600 likes, by the way. So, next commercial break, we’ll give away a free raffle entry. Let’s try and get to 106,000 subscribers, guys. We’re just about 30 subscribers away. I tell you what, we’ll give away three extra raffle entries if we can get to 106. milestone shotgun here for Rogers. Multiple tight ends, 13 personnel out there. Takes the snap from shotgun. Rogers surveying the field. He’s just going to dump it off here to Jaylen Moore. He’s got a blocker in front of him and he is going to pick up about four yards on the swing. Successful first down play for Pittsburgh. Just stay on track. So, of course, right now, this in November, the Steelers did not complete a pass 20 plus yards down the field. And of course, they just showed that on the first play of December, they of course hit a shot way down the field. I mean, that was what, a 50-yard bomb from Rogers. Completely flipped the field. Second down and six here. Rogers again in shotgun. No, never mind. Sorry. He’s under center. War in the back. Thelen back out there and Scoranic. Three receivers out there. Scaronic, Thelen, and Metaf. They’ll hand it off to Warren who spins and then he cuts inside. He’s going to pick up about four. Be third down and two coming up for the Steelers stay. I mean, the Steelers, this is their wheelhouse. Ponzi, when they’re in third and manageable, they’re one of the best teams in the league in this down in distance. They’re going to say it’s third down and one. They bring on Calvin Austin III for his first play of the day. Adam Thelen goes to the sideline. Honestly, this is the type of scenario I want Theelen out there. The guy that you can trust to get open on these short yardage situations. They’ve got a bunch out to the left. They got MVS out there now with Metaf and Austin. A bunch of speed on the left side of the field here for Pittsburgh. Takes the snap. Get it to Warren. Get it to Warren. Rogers avoids pressure. Rolls out to his right. What a play by Rogers. Now he’s going to throw on the run and it is caught by Calvin Austin on the sideline. First down Steelers. Huge play by Rogers and Calvin. I mean Rogers. I mean people saying he’s like a dead duck in the pocket. He can’t move. Look at this. He dips all the way down to get away from the rusher. Futano gets beat on the on the right side and then he rolls out to the right. Austin sits down beautifully on the sideline, gets the toe tab, and it’s first down Steelers. Calvin stays out there. Now, is this a timeout? There’s a stoppage of play and Rogers is pissed that they could that they didn’t get going faster because now Baltimore’s going to challenge. Don’t tell me Rogers doesn’t care, man. Don’t tell me Rogers doesn’t care about it. Rogers is hot. No. Baltimore’s challenging this. But did he bobble it? If the last one stood, this one has to stand. He clearly has both feet down. Clearly in my Oh, but he bobbled it. No, Calvin. No, Calvin bobbled it. It’s going to It’s going to be fourth down and one. It’s going to be an interesting decision here, but I think with a four-point lead, you you probably just play the field positioning game. And I understand why Rogers is pissed. Like how are we not why are we I think that what they did I think the Steelers made a substitution and it gave Baltimore time to get the to to look at it and it it has been changed the fourth down and one the Steelers will punt. It’s a low snap, but Weightman corrals it, punts it away, and it’s going to be fair caught at the 10 yd line. Long field here for Baltimore, but a missed opportunity, man. It looked like Rogers made a hell of a play to keep the drive alive. And I mean, we talk about why this team brings in Adam Thielen. We talk about why this team has elevated Marquez Valdis Scan. You know, Calvin’s got to catch that. It’s a tough catch. Has to get both feet in and, you know, have full possession of it while he’s catching it. But he’s had a number of moments this year, man, where it’s just he he there’s a play to be made and he doesn’t make it. Maybe next week Calvin should get the healthy scratch. Play Roman Wilson. So, here we go. Next Ravens drive. Starts at the 11 pistol. Hands it off on the outside to Mitchell. Gets outside. He’ll pick up about three. three or four on the first down carry. But like I I I get where Rogers is coming from, man. Like you can’t give up drives. You can’t give up drives in this game. And you gave up a drive because you gave them extra time to challenge and you wanted to get a substitution in. Like in that scenario, you got to get to the line of scrimmage and snap it like Baltimore tried to. Shotgun here for Lamar. He’ll hand it off to Mitchell again. No room up the middle. He’ll pick up maybe two. Patrick Queen filling that hole nicely. Be third down coming up. Let’s get him off the field again. Come on defense. Come on defense. Get me another stop. Ravens playing with a little bit of tempo here. Shotgun. Lamar takes the snap. Looking for the quick option. It’s not there. Now he’s looking to scramble. Now he’s trying to move up field. Can the Steelers get there? He can’t. First down Lamar. Found a lane and he picks up a good gain. First down Lamar. That one’s on the pass rush there. Pass coverage was good. They took away Lamar’s first read. Looked like he tried to go to the stick concept to the right. Nobody could get home for Pittsburgh with just a fourman rush and Lamar was able to step up and through pick up the first down. Condensed bunch out to the right here for Lamar who’s in shotgun with Katon Mitchell the running back takes the snap. They send pressure throws slant and it’s knocked away. Joey Porter Jr. has been excellent in man coverage all season long and they’re going to flag him. Are you kidding me? Did he hook him? One of the more physical corners in the game and Mike Tomlin can’t believe it. And it looked like good coverage to me. Type those booze in the chat. It’s going to be called pass interference automatic first down. Let’s watch this again. I think this is kind of [ __ ] Boo. That is not DPI in my opinion. It’s a subjective call, but I think that’s just awesome coverage of Joey Porter Jr. Boo. refs were eating crab cakes before the game, man. Pistol formation for Lamar on first now. Play action. Roll out to the right. Lamar will throw on the run. He’s got an open receiver. Did he get both feet in? Flowers. I believe he did. No, they’re going to say incomplete. He was out of bounds. Didn’t get both feet in. Second down and 10. Did he get both feet? Nope, he didn’t. His left foot went out of bounds. It’s incomplete. Second down and 10. Shotgun for Lamar. Spread formation. Takes the snap. He’s going to hand it off to Mitchell and he’s going to pick up a decent gain of around six. Looked like Jack Sawyer was a little lost on that one. He was in the TJ Watt pursuit role there and he’s not nearly as he’s not nearly as athletic as TJ is. Third down and five though. Third and pass situation here. Ponzi, it’s time to get off the field. Come on. Type those threes. Got Odiwu and Black out there as the interior defensive linemen. No. Hayward. Shotgun for Lamar. Takes the snap. They send a fiveman pressure. He throws. Incomplete. Zay Flowers dropped it. And once again in coverage, it’s Brandon Eckles. I think even if he caught it though, he would have been short. Brandon Eckles has been unbelievable to start this game. Ponzi. Brandon Eckles is playing his freaking little butt off. And the Steelers will get the ball back. Let’s go. Let’s go defense. Steelers defense is going to finish their first quarter. One of their best quarters of the entire season, I would say. Kick is away. It’s a good punt. It’s fielded by Calvin Austin at the 11. He’s going to get out of bounds at around the 20. So, rather long field here for Pittsburgh, but a chance to flip the field here and kill some clock. Third drive of the game. Now, something that’s been a kind of theme here, Ponzi, is that when Aaron Rodgers gets a little prickly, you know, it can be a theme where sometimes the rest of the team kind of follows suit um with the negative energy. So, hopefully that’s not the case. Stay positive. keep stay together, all that stuff. Hold people accountable, sure, but you got to stick together. Gotta have those positive vibes. But we got a $100 super ted from Randy Taylor. Get it. Hey, we go. Hey, we go. Keep it up here, Ponzi. But we’re back. Under center is Rogers. Thelen out there is the number two receiver. Hand off. This is Caleb Johnson up the middle inside zone. He’s going to pick up a good five yards. There we go. Randy says, “Let’s [ __ ] go. We have to continue to play like this and not just like the Rappers. We have to play every opponent the way we have started this game. Ready to see how they will incorporate the and MVS. I’m right there with you, Randy. It’s been very encouraging to start this game. One of the better first quarters the Steelers have had. And by the way, that will end the first quarter in Baltimore. 73 Pittsburgh Steelers have the ball. Defense showing up multiple stops in a row now on Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore. I haven’t seen Derrick Henry in the last two. Is he hurt? I don’t think so. Why is Dererick Henry not playing? Like it’s been Katon Mitchell. Well, the Ravens do this thing where they do not use Derrick Henry as much as they should. What’s that? I’m saying the the Ravens do this thing where they do not use Derrick Henry as much as they should. They did it in the Bengals game last week. They they just sometimes just don’t use him. Yeah. $20 from Alex L is just tuning in. Let’s go. Steelers talk. Uh, any update on my jersey? Um, I’ll I’ll look into that, Alex. Um, I’m pretty sure we sent it a couple weeks ago, so I’ll I’ll I’ll have a discussion with our shipping department here and make sure you get your jersey. Appreciate you, Alex. 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Uh, every 100 subscribers added and every 200 likes, we’re giving away free raffle entries. So, if you want a free raffle entry, we’re giving away one right now. Spam those me. Quick shout out to the last five subscribers. Phantom Edgardo or Edgardo. Edgardo. I think it’s Edgardo. Wayne, Henry, and Christopher. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. Spam those Mi. Spam those Miis. We’re just 11 away. Come on. Looks like Daniel Jones went down. Uhoh. Well, non non-cont. Non-cont leg. Oh no. I don’t know. That’s bad. Riley Leonard is in I think Riley Leonard is in a football game in the National Football League. Yes. Oh, no. Well, dude, that that might open up the possibility of the Steelers getting him in free agency next year. Let’s give this free raffle entry here to Mindy. Sounds good. Second down and five here. Shotgun. Rogers takes the snap. Play action. Rogers looking. Throws over the middle and Metaf diving, but it hits his hands and it falls incomplete. tried to go to Metaf over the middle. Rogers forced the dive. Would have been a tough catch. And yeah, that’s just an inaccurate throw from Rogers. I don’t think we can expect DK to make that catch. Third down and five. They go empty with Rogers. Now they do have Gainwell and kind of a McAffrey split here. And now they bring him in. Got MVS on the outside along with Calvin Austin. DK in the slot with Darnell in a nasty split. Rogers big play here. Move the ball here, guys. Takes the snap. Rogers has time. He’s going to dump it off. Gainwell’s got to pick up the first down and he does. Good job by Gainwell. Picks up six first down Steelers. Gainwell has been so good these last few weeks. Still no targets for MVS. Still no targets for Adam Thielen. DK’s gotten a pretty heavy workload to this point. Now they go shotgun again with spread. Here we go with the spread again. Ponzi MVS still out there. No feeling. Calvin Austin’s out there in the slot. Takes the snap. Rogers looking. Nothing there. Still nothing there. Now he’s going to throw it to Darnell who’s covered. Incomplete. A little bit of a panic rep there by Rogers. look like Rogers is licking his his his finger. Don’t know if that was I don’t know what that what that was, but second down and 10 coming up. Put yourself in third and manageable here, man. Don’t want to be in third and long. Scotty Miller is out there right now. Thelen in the slot. Rogers gives a hand signal to somebody towards Adam Thelen’s side. Takes the snap. And now there’s going to be a false start on Pittsburgh. Andress Pete the left tackle left early. It’ll be second down and 15 now. Yep. And he clearly moved. Damn it. All right. Come on now, guys. Got to get a chunk of it back here. Second down and 15. Daniel Jones Achilles injury. Looks like he’s out for the year. maybe the start of next year. Second down and 15. Rogers kicks the leg, takes the snap. He’s looking. Pressure getting to him now. He’s going to dump it off to DW. He’s going to be tough to tackle. He’s going to get a good chunk of it back. It’ll be third down and about four coming up. Darnell a little slow to get up. I think he just got hit a little hard there, but it’ll be third down and manageable here. And as far as check down, his his shoulder hit the ground really hard. Hopefully that shoulder’s okay. But in terms of like checkdown options in the league, you know, the Steelers have elite checked out options. It’s just a matter of opening things up for those guys a little bit more. But now Darnell has to be helped off the field here by DK Medaf. That is that is concerning to say the least. Hopefully he just got the wind knocked out of him. I think he hit his head pretty hard there, too. Spirit, I think he probably hit his head pretty hard. And he’s he’s definitely walking slow to the sideline, which of course would mean Jonnu Smith and uh Pat Fmouth would have to would have to take up a lot of the missed snaps. Washington coming into today was just a few snaps behind Jonnu Smith in the total tight end snap count. But if anything, this might give Patmouth some more opportunities here. Third down and three. Big play to stay on the field. Steelers really good on these third and short situations though this season. It’s one of the strengths of this offense. They go they go spread again from shotgun. They go empty now. Rogers takes the snap. He’s going to throw deep down the field to me. He has a win and it’s caught. What a throw by Rogers again. The Metaf putting it in the honey hole with the safety over the top. It doesn’t matter. Rogers throws it up in the only spot Metaf could have caught this. Did he get both feet in though? I think he did. He did. First down Steelers. What a throw. Did he? And now Shotgun Rogers. She’s going to throw down the field again. The net cap back shoulder incomplete. Nate Wiggins in coverage that time. But I love the aggressiveness from Aaron Rogers when he gets a one-on-one opportunity with number four. He’s throwing it up to him. And listen, man, those aren’t necessarily high percentage hits, so you’re not going to hit every single one of them. But yeah, clearly two feet with possession. Yeah, after he bobbled it, too. So, okay. Concussion. Here we go. From the Ravens 33 yd line. Shotgun. Rogers takes the snap. He’s looking. He’s got time. He’s going to throw. It is caught by Kenneth Gainwell. And he’s going to stay in bounds and pick up eight or nine yards. Flag on the play. I think they’re going to get a face mask here. And that’s going to be an additional 15 yards. I think Steelers have now had seven straight passing plays in a row. They are banking this season on Aaron Rodgers right now. They are going spread. Face mask on the defense. That’s going to be an additional 15 and obviously an automatic first down. Is it half the distance at this point? But yeah, Loey Gilman, the safety, grabbed the face mask of Kenneth Gainwell. And now the Steelers are in the red zone here once again. See if Rogers can get him in for another touchdown. An 11-point advantage here would be absolutely massive for Pittsburgh. See if we can get Ankielen his first catch as a Steeler in the end zone. First down and 10. No Metaf on the field here, but Austin and Thelen are. I think Scotty’s out there as well. They send Gainwell in motion. Pop pass to Kenny. He gets a block from Warren just to get back to the line of scrimmage. Not the most successful play in the world. Be second down coming up. Listen, man. The more that the Steelers can extend this lead, oh man, you could see that leg pop. Poor Daniel Jones, man. Poor Daniel Jones, man. Feel for him for sure. Feel for the Colts fans, too. This is such a hopeful season for them now. That season’s pretty much over. Taylor Hineki, get get your arm loose, buddy. Empty formation here for Rogers on second down and 10. Fakes the little screen. Now he throws it to Kenny Gainwell and he’s going to slip one tackle and he’s going to pick up about five. Good job by Kenny. be third down and manageable here. Big play. I mean, this is a this is this is a big drive here, Ponzi, because if you can get a touchdown here, you go up 11, you’re going to make the Ravens more and more one-dimensional as this game goes on if you have a big lead like that and you get the ball at half. So, if you only get a field goal here, you’re it’s still only one score. So, this is a big drive for both teams and this is a big play here on third and five. Can Rogers deliver? Another discount double check. Shotgun here for Rogers. No. Thielen. MVS. Metaf and Austin are the receivers. And Rogers doesn’t like it. Has to call timeout. I mean, if you’re able to go up 11 here. Yeah, this would be huge. Listen, listen, man. This is a super important down right now. That’s why I’m okay taking a timeout cuz if you don’t if like if if it’s not you don’t like the look. If it’s not perfect, take a timeout by all means. Make sure you feel good about this play. Uh JD sent you that short too if you want to post that on Twitter or whatever. Great. All right, man. Wildard spot now up for grabs with the Colts. No. Well, maybe yeah, Colts, that wild card spot is more getable for the Steelers, but like with all those teams eight and four and then Houston at seven and five, like I still think the best way for the Steelers to make the playoffs is win the division. Yeah, they go empty with Rogers. Gainwell in a Macaffrey split. No feeling. It’s MVS Austin and and Metaf takes the snap, throws quickly to Gainwell. Can he pick up the first? He slips and he’s only going to get about two yards. be fourth down. Interesting call here for Pittsburgh. I think they’re going to take the offense off the field and kick the kick the take the points. And now Gainwell is limping off the field. Yeah, he definitely rolled his ankle slipping on the Baltimore turf. Rogers can’t believe it. Tomlin not happy about it either. Boswell comes on for the field goal and that’s a big slip right there. It’s a big play in this game. up and good. Kick is up and it is good. 10 to three Steelers lead, but man, a touchdown would have been massive there. Uh, feels like a big missed opportunity. Gainwell could have had a chance. Also, also DK Metaf was oneon-one and man in single coverage on that last play. Why aren’t we like we’ve been we’ve been going to him all day. Why are we going to Kenny Gainwell on like on that play? I mean, I’m guessing the the Steelers had the numbers for it, which is why Rogers went to that, but like you have the numbers with Metaf. It’s a one-on-one opportunity to go take a lead, multiple scores on the road in a huge rivalry game. Like, what’s the difference in in pay between Metaf and Gainwell? It’s got to be millions upon millions of dollars and we’re going to Kenny Gainwell in that big spot. I I mean, and that’s on Rogers. Rogers makes that decision. That’s not on Art. That’s not on anyone else. That’s on Aaron Rogers to make that decision. And you know, sometimes like I you know, obviously we appreciate Rogers’s great football IQ and I’m sure the Steelers were technically had the numbers to make that work, but like I like my chances with DK as well. And like like Rogers likes to say, you know, if Gainwell picks that picks up that first down and doesn’t slip, we’re not saying [ __ ] But just a really bad time to have gain well slip. Yeah. Really bad time. And it’s one of those things though too of like you have your best players on the field and one-on-one to take care like take advantage of it. Exactly. like we pay DK Metaf to make catches and those kinds of stuff. I understand he dropped one earlier but it was a great play by Marlon Humphrey so like you know well no it was Wiggins. Oh Wiggins. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. And it wasn’t even like a No. Oh, never mind. You mean in the end zone? Yeah. Oh, I see. Yeah, that was Humphrey. My bad. But defense been playing great. Defense is playing good. But like, as we know, I would like to have that cushion because a two possession lead is a lot different than a onepossession lead. I mean, the Ravens can just go right down our throats right now with Derrick Henry if they wanted to and tie this ball game and then it’s a new ball game. like in it’s just so frustrating. But like I will say this is also an opportunity for the Steelers defense because if you get a stop here then you have an opportunity to kill some clock and if you can you know go up two scores before halftime and you get the football with a chance to go up three scores that’s massive. Darnell Washington to the Steelers locker room. Yeah he’s probably for sure got a concussion. Well, I mean the positive with that is that Patouth Patmouth gets to play more. The bad news is that’s going to affect the Steelers run game and I would expect Rogers to have a very heavy workload in this ball game. That’s what I would say, man. I mean, they’ve the Steelers have already been super duper uh pass heavy to start this game. Let’s see what they got here. Steelers have passed it 16 times. They’ve only rushed it six times and one of them is with Rogers and another one is with Connor Hayward. They’ve only had a running back rush four times in this game compared to 16 pass attempts. Kick is away and Mitchell will take it to the 26 before he gets out of bounds. Carson Bruner is there once again. Good special teams coverage from the Steelers. So obviously our thoughts and prayers go out to Darnell Washington. And hopefully he’s okay. Concussions can be nasty stuff for sure. But yeah, man. We saw a very pass heavy approach last week against the Bills. We’re seeing it again this week. Under center for Lamar. Offset eye formation. He’ll take the snap. Fake toss. Now he’s going to try and get it out to Z Flowers and he’s going to be hooked. Flag on the play. Flowers thought he got face masks. He did not, though. I think it’s going to be a legal man downfield or legal formation or something. I think this is going to be on Baltimore. Yeah, and legal man downfield on Baltimore. Penalties declined. It is a loss of yardage, loss of one. It’ll be second down and 11. So, for anyone just joining us, Darnell Washington is hurt. He has a concussion, it appears. He’s going back to the locker room right now. Walking slowly. Took a big hit after making a catch on a checkdown. Last drive. Now, shotgun Lamar. He’s going to look to for the quick tunnel screen to Z Flowers. He’s going to make one man miss. Oh my goodness. That juke is insane. He’s going to pick up about seven, I’d say. Be third down and another opportunity to get him off the field. Type those threes. It’s worked all first quarter. Let’s see if the third down defense keeps it rolling here in the second quarter. Type those threes. Let’s get a stop. Come on. Let’s get after these boys. By the way, does is Derk Henry injured? He has not played since the first drive. Shotgun here for Lamar. Takes the snap. Fourman rush. Lamar stepping up. Nothing there. Now he’s going to look to run. Trying to get to the outside. He’s going to try and dump it up. And it’s intercepted. What a play by James Pierre. And the Steelers have the ball in Ravens territory. He baited him. What a play by 42. Oh, what a play by James Pierre. A spinning onehanded interception in Raven territory. He tried to layer that football to Justice Hill, the running back. His cousin picks him off and James Pierre is right there spinning one-handed interception and the Steelers have the ball with a chance to go up two scores. Huge play for the Steelers defense. I did not know James Pier and Lamar Jackson were cousins. Yes, they are. Picks off his cousin. What a play. All he does is make plays, man. All he does is make plays. All James Pierre does is make plays. You got to love it. Now the Steelers take over on the Ravens 36-yd line. Heavy formation here for Pittsburgh. Metaf the only receiver. They send him in motion. Takes the snap. Hands it off to Warren up the middle. Gets nothing. I tell you what, man. James Pierre, somebody’s going to give him a starting level contract. Dude has balled out all season long on a vet minimum deal. Dude deserves a big payday next off seasonason. Don’t know if it’ll be with the Steelers, but he’s playing a hell of he’s he’s playing a hell of a season right now. Second down and nine. He’s frankly saved the quarterback room for Pittsburgh. Rogers in the shotgun. Thelen in the slot here in a nasty split. Scorronic and Metaf out there. Rogers looking. Nothing there. Now rolling out to his right. Still looking. Now he throws on the run and it is caught by Ben Scoranic for a first down. 15 yd gain. There we go. Scoronic. You go, Benny. Good [ __ ] man. Good [ __ ] 15 beat Marlon Humphrey in scramble drill. Nice sidearm throw from Rogers, keeping it low, protecting his wide receiver. Now they take Scaric out. Still haven’t seen a target to Adam Thielen this entire game. The is in there with Metaf. Under center is Rogers. He’ll take the snap. Quick screen out to Metaf. Bobbles it, but he catches it and he picks up around six or seven. Looks like they’re going to give him around six on the first down reception to Metaf. Steelers now in the Ravens red zone for the third time today. They are one for two in red zone opportunities. And right now, this is one of those you want to get a touchdown for sure, but you got to go up two scores. Just can’t have just can’t have a turnover here, man. Can’t take too many big risks. Shotgun here for Rogers. Got Muth, Connor Hayward, and Jonnu Smith and 13 personnel. Rogers in shotgun. Timeout. Baltimore. Woo. Man, this is a Baltimore was showing cover zero and Rogers was making some adjustments at the line of scrimmage. Um, I’m guessing the Ravens didn’t like that look too much and they decided to call timeout. Touchdown here. You go up two touchdowns. Really put pressure on the Ravens offense to get something going before half. You’ll like this one, Spare Dog. Um, I asked Gage, uh, the Ravens producer, is Dererick Henry hurt? He says he is not. They are not playing him. He’s been on the bench with his helmet off. the what? Yeah. I don’t know. With his helmet off. Yep. That makes no sense. Well, if Derrick Henry is not going to be playing a big role in this game, I mean, and Lamar’s going to throw it a million times in this game. You see the results, man. They don’t score. Like, Dererick Henry has to be the reason why they win this game offensively. All right, so here we go. We’re back. Second down and four from the Ravens 17. Under center is Rogers. Thelen, Scoranic, and Metaf, the three receivers on the field. Takes the snap, play action, roll out to the right, throws, and it is Adam Thelen’s first catch as a Pittsburgh Steeler. It’s going to pick up a decent three-yd gain. It’ll be third down and one. There we go, Adam. Here you go, Unk. Nice little route to get open from Thelen. And now third. And very manageable. Well, they’ll take Felen off the field here. Come on. I want another discount double check, baby. I want another discount double check. Got one-on-one with Metaf on the on the on the outside to the right. Rogers takes the shotgun. He looks his way. He throws to Metaf and he gets contacted, but no call. Incomplete. Fourth down and two. Do you go? Rogers is kind of talking to Metaf saying, “Hey, you got to make that catch, man.” Now the question is, do you go? I think you take the points. I think you go up two scores. Or I think Rogers wanted contact. And listen, man, this is another non-all DPI. It’s [ __ ] [ __ ] Well, the Steelers will take the points. It’s another example of someone holding down the arm of DK Metaf and it’s not called. Kick is up. And it’s kind of a weird angle, but it is good. Flag on the play. Flag on the play. And it’s on Baltimore. Steelers indicating it’s on Baltimore. Please be on Baltimore. Please be on Baltimore. Bos is celebrating. The Steelers are celebrating. Let’s see if they pick it up. If it’s on If it’s a foul, it’s on Baltimore. And they are going to say personal foul on Baltimore. First down. Half a distance to the goal. First down. Steelers gamechanging stupid ass penalty from the Ravens. Get those lols in chat. Laugh at them. Leverage probably. Let’s go, man. Type those LOL’s in the chat. Ravens shooting themselves in the in their own foot. First down and goal for Pittsburgh. And Harbaugh saying, “You call leverage on that?” Yeah, they do. Stop crying. Stop crying, John. Harbaugh, stop crying, dude. So, here we go. Felen and MVS, the two receivers. You got Spencer Anderson and Pat Fmouth as the tight ends. They send Anderson in motion. Toss play to Gainwell. He’s got the exterior. Can he get in? Cuts up field and he’s in. Touchdown Pittsburgh. Two touchdown lead in the first half in Baltimore. And the terrible towels are flying in the qu Oh no. I was going to say the Queen City. That’s not correct. What is Baltimore called? I don’t know. But in Baltimore, baby. Stealers taking over. Touchdown. Kenny Gainwell. Let’s go, man. Ravens shooting themselves in their own foot and we’ll we will take it every day of the week. Boswell puts up the extra point and it is good. 173 your Pittsburgh Steelers lead over the Baltimore Ravens on the road. And the preeason Super Bowl favorites, the current betting favorite to win the AFC North by a wide margin is down to the Pittsburgh Steelers by multiple scores. 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I I will say and because of the penalty um the Steelers will just kick the ball out of bounds. Or maybe not. I think I think I think Bos just tried to pin him deep with a with like a with like a knuckle ball kick. Yeah. Gotcha. All right. So, bad kick. We’ll put the Ravens in good field position here at the 40. We’ll say, man, officiating crew has been pretty bad in this game. Derrick Henry back in the game after missing multiple drives in the first quarter. First down and 10 from the 40. Ravens really feel it really feels like they might need to score a touchdown on this drive. They’re going to hand it off to Henry. It’s not going to get far. Just a gain of two. Steelers run defense doing a pretty good job today. Even without Derek Harmon, even without Kyle Duggar, this group came to play today. Give the coaches credit, at least so far. And you know, John Harbaugh can cry about that call all he wants, which it probably was a bad call, but they should have had the ball at the one yard line with a first down anyway because of the missed DPI. So, I don’t want to hear any crying from Ravens fans. eye formation here. They’ll hand it off to Henry again. He’s got a cut back lane and he’s going to fight forward for a first down gain of around nine. And oh man, Harrison is down. And he got hit hard by Dererick Henry in the hole. And Harrison is one of your better rundefending linebackers. He’s your early down thumper. And without him, that’s that’s going to be a look like Yeah. Oh, a crown of the helmet right to Dererick Henry’s shoulder. That that’s right now you’re almost praying that’s just a concussion. That that does not look good, man. He is up, but man, he fell down immediately. Prayer’s up for 50, man. Prayer’s up for 50. Hopefully he’s okay. We’ll catch up on some super chats here. I do have a Venmo as well. 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So, I’m going to give one here to Mike N or Nike Ninja. I’ll go Mike Hurst, Funny Man Z, and um Diane Lamp. Here we go. Play action for Lamar. Hear throws on the run. Caught by Z Flowers on the outside. It’ll be a decent gain. of around three or or or seven or eight. I would say they’re going to give him nine here. Wow. James Pierre in coverage. Cole Hulcom on the field to replace Harrison. Yeah. Cole Hulk in to replace Harrison. Cincinnati up up 10 on Buffalo. And Buffalo. Wow, man. Second down and one now in Pittsburgh territory at the Steelers 40. Eye formation. Handoff to Henry up the middle. He’ll pick up a first down and a one-yd gain. Good pursuit by the Steelers run defense there. They’ve only given up a couple of successful runs in this game. So despite missing Duggar and Harmon and now Harrison, it’s definitely a tough task here. As long as you stop them from getting a touchdown on this drive, I consider it a successful drive for Pittsburgh. Shotgun for Lamar. Takes the snap. Play action. Pressure up the middle. Now Lamar’s trying to look. He throws to his checkown. It’s caught by likely. He’s going to try and run over a Steelers defender. He’s going to pick up around eight. Ravens moving the ball on this drive better than they have since the first drive of the game. And Odiwa was there to put the pressure on Lamar. Threw sidearm around him to get the ball to Likely. Good play by the two-time NFL MVP. Under center here is Lamar. He’s going to hand it off on a jet sweep to Z Flowers and he’s going to get a yard or two. Be third down and short coming up. Good tackle by Cole Hulkcom coming in off, you know, off the bench. Third down and two. I would say we probably need an impact play to get them off the field here and force a field goal or a punt. So TFL sack. I think this is probably four down territory if it’s fourth down and short. They want to get back within striking distance. Under center here is Lamar. Heavy formation for Baltimore. And now I think they’re going to get I think they’re going to get Highmith. Neutral zone infraction on Highmith. First down. Damn it. Highmith moved. It forced their left tackle to move and it moves the chains. Yeah, he was just getting down into his stance. All right. I don’t know, man. Whatever. First down and 10. 20 seconds away from the two-minute warning. Dererick Henry in shotgun with Lamar. It’s a condensed formation. Two by two. Takes the snap. Lamar will throw quickly. It’s tipped up in the air. Oh, incomplete. Flag on the play. And my guess is this will be on Pittsburgh because Ko Benson’s throwing his hands up in the air. Come on now, defense. Illegal formation on the offense. So, I don’t know why Keano was was as upset as he was. Penalties declined by Pittsburgh. Maybe that he didn’t get to the ball. I’m guessing he wasn’t lined up correctly. And Benton was the one that got his hand on it. Good job by 95. Be second down and 10. 12 seconds to go until the two-minute warning. Come on, defense. Force a field goal here or a turnover. Yeah, I know I said that. Pistol formation handoff Henry and he’s met at the line of scrimmage. He’s fighting his way forward. He gets two. That will take us to the twominute warning. It’ll be third down and seven on the other side of the of of the break here. So, Steelers Steelers run defense came to play today, but the Ravens are threatening. And this is going to be a big play here, uh, Ponzi. Third down and seven. Obvious passing situation. Lamar is 6 for 11 for 59 yards and a pick. No touchdowns to start this game. Rogers so far 13 of 20 for 148 and a rushing touchdown. No picks. Steelers run game not fantastic. Uh they do have two touchdowns on the ground today. Rogers and Gainwell, but Jaylen Warren has three carries for eight yards and Kenny Gainwell has two carries for seven yards. Caleb Johnson, one carry for five yards. So altogether the running backs have six carries for what? 20 yards. Yeah, I’m just talking about running backs here. Right now, receivers that have gotten targets. Metaf has nine targets in this first half. Holy crap. Kenny Gainwell has five targets and then five different people have one target. Scoronic, Washington, Thelen, Warren, and Calvin Austin. Calvin’s the only one out of all those players to get targets with no catches. So, nine targets for Metaf in a half is crazy, man. But I love it. I love it. All right. Like, if he’s going to get one-on-one opportunities and they’re going to try and take away the run game, throw it up to him. All right. I like that mentality from Aaron Rogers. And hey, like there should have been a DPI on that one on that one play in the last red zone trip and they didn’t get it and now they got the leverage call which kind of makes up for it, right? Two bad calls cancel each other out. What hap what’s what was supposed to happen happened. The Steelers scored a touchdown on that drive. But right now, um, Ravens are winning the time of possession battle somehow. Um, and they’re going to probably possess the ball for most of the rest of this game. Um, and right now both Malik Harrison and Darnell Washington ruled out with concussions. So that stinks. The good news about that Ponzi, if there’s any good news to take away from that is that the Steelers have very good depth at linebacker. Generally speaking, they’ve got starter, you know, adjacent depth at linebacker and then they have starter adjacent level depth at tight end. Jonno Smith, Pat Fmouth, more than capable. I mean, Jonno probably not, but he’s played a lot. Here we go. Third down and eight. Type those threes. Force a field goal here. Pittsburgh. Let’s go. Steelers threatening pressure. They send it. Lamar looking. Nothing there. Now he has to throw it. And it’s incomplete. Jaylen Ramsey breaks it up and it’s going to force a field goal. Flag on the play. You got to be kidding me. There is no way they’re going to pull the eye. Ramsay is saying there’s no way that’s on me. Legal contact on Pittsburgh. Are you [ __ ] kidding me? It’s called on J. It’s called on Joey Porter Jr. They’re They’re both fighting. That’s what Oh my god. I I can’t believe that BS in the chat. Steelers were ready to get off the field with a two possession lead and now Baltimore gets a new set of downs. The NFL doesn’t want this to be a blowout, ladies and gentlemen. They don’t want this to be a blowout. Shotgun Lamar hands it off to Henry up the middle. He’ll pick up four, five, moves the pile forward. All right, but the players on the field, Pony, they can’t let that affect their their mindset here. They can’t they can’t let that I will say, man, looking at the replay back, it’s that it’s going to get called every time. He was the one that initiated contact and he maintained contact throughout the entirety of the play. JPJ’s got to be smarter than that. It sucks. Second down and five. Under center is Lamar takes the snap. Play action. Pressure in his face. Lamar’s trying to scramble. throws middle. Caught Baitman close to the first down yardage. They’re going to give it to him. Be first down and goal for Baltimore. There’s a minute left to go. Ravens have two timeouts. Steelers have one. A touchdown here will cut the lead to a onepossession game going into half. The Steelers can turn the ball over. The clock runs out or they force a field goal. They’ll have a chance to go up three scores with a touchdown with their first drive of the second half. Under center here is Lamar. Offset eye formation. Henry the back. They will toss it to King Henry on the outside and he’s going to be stopped about after about a yard. Good play by key by uh Alex Heismith. Timeout Baltimore with 25 seconds. So Baltimore doing a good job here, wasting the rest of the clock, not giving Pittsburgh any opportunity to be back on offense in this half, but they can only really comfortably run the ball what, two more times. Now Heismith hobbles off with an injury. Tell me something. Tell me something new. Alex Heismith has an injury. And now you have the smaller Nick Herig out there for the rest of this game. If ice’s not going to be able to go. Got to say, if I’m the Ravens, I’m I’m trying to run this again. Two de two quarter safeties here for Pittsburgh and a light front with Derrick Henry in at running back. I don’t know if I like this look from Pittsburgh shotgun. They are going to throw it though. Jackson looking. He throws. End zone corner. Incomplete. Chuck Clark in coverage. They’re not going to get a flag. Andrews crying wanting a flag. He’s not going to get it. Throw is too high anyway. I would I would argue that is an uncatchable football. I think that’s good call. Good coverage from from Chuck Clark. Third down and goal. They still have their timeout. They can run it if they want. Derrick Henry is not out there, though. Shotgun Lamar takes the snap. He will pass it. He’s looking looking for an escape lane. Looking to run it and he’s going to get in. Touchdown. just let him run right in there. Brandon Eckles covered his own responsibility instead of chasing Lamar. But once he gets outside the pocket, man, you got to go get him. It’s a big touchdown for Baltimore with almost no time left on the clock. No. Holding on the defense. There was a flag. Obviously, it’s going to be declined. Touchdown Baltimore. The Steelers, I believe, yeah, they Patrick Queen was the spy and he green dog blitzed up the middle and he couldn’t get home. If you’re going to shoot a gap if you’re Patrick Queen, you have to make sure you get home. You have to make sure you get home if you’re Patrick Queen there. That’s his job. His job is to account for Lamar Jackson. So, I think that touchdown is on Patrick Queen. The kick is up and it’s no good. The wi the wind pushes it wide left which means it’s 17-9 and I mean points are at a premium in these kinds of ball games Ponzi especially when the Ravens history of converting two-pointers against the Steelers. Now, I mean, no matter what, the Steelers can’t push it to a three-possession game, even up eight, because even if they get the extra two points there. Yeah. It’s still just a two-score ball game. I mean, it’s still big because the Steelers have an opportunity to go up two scores to start the half, right? Yeah. So, it’s going to be a onepossession game going into half unless something crazy happens for Pittsburgh. They the Steelers do have a timeout. So if you get a decent return here, maybe they think about doing something here. But if I’m the Steelers, I’m not taking any chances. I’m up eight on the road. I’m getting the ball to start the second half. I’m probably just taking a knee. Yeah. Unless you get like what, to the 40? Yeah. If we can get to the 40 plus, maybe past the 35. I mean, all it takes is one downfield shot and a timeout. And they’ve been actually good at that today. But I mean, it’s super windy, so I don’t even know if you even feel like that’s worth pursuing. We’ll see what the Steelers do with the kicks away. I think I just return this and I see if I can return it for a touchdown. Says Jaylen Warren back there. He’s going to be brought down at the 25. I just take a knee. Go to go to halftime. Go to halftime. You’re up eight. have a chance to go up two scores the start of the second half. Get a good plan together for the second half here and and and go get that two possession lead. But man, that’s a frustrating end to the first half for sure because you’re up two scores. You have a chance to put yourself in position to go up three scores and at the start of the second half. And you know that’s a quick way to make this game competitive. Not comp not competitive at all. Well, I was saying like not capitalizing on that, but like you know your chances of going and winning a game when you go up three scores in a ball game is huge. Yeah. So, you know, to not have that opportunity coming out of half sucks. But the fact that you have an opportunity to go up two scores here is is is pretty good. But the thing that I’ll say here, guys, is we’ve been here before. We’ve one possession lead heading into halftime, feeling okay about this football team at halftime. And then we’ve seen very consistently this second the second half performances of this Steelers team has been uh not great and especially coming off a drive where you give up a touchdown there to cut it to one score. Um I can’t say the vibes are as high as they could be at this point in time. We do have some Venmos to catch up on here. We got Kevin with a 20. Says raffle time. Go Steelers. Yeah. So, he gets six raffle tickets there for Kevin. And then we got Rachel Gyos with a 10. Says Steelers TV. Shout out to Rachel. Two raffle tickets for Rachel for a $10 VMO. $2 from Bernard says, “How is A-Rod playing?” Well, we can take a look at his statline here. Uh 13 for 20. That’s not bad at all. 148 yards, no uh one rushing touchdown, no picks. So, I think Rogers has played pretty well, especially because he is pushing the ball down the field in this game. I mean, how many downfield attempts does he have in this game? I mean, I think he’s thrown more downfield attempts in that first half than he has maybe in the entire month of November. Yeah, I’m not even joking about that. like he threw maybe at least four or five fades or goes to DK Metaf down the sideline. He threw another like u intermediate inbreaker to DK that fell incomplete. He had he had he had the one to he had the one to Scoranic. So that’s already what at least six or seven. So, Steelers are pushing the ball down the field more this game and and they’re getting it to DK Metaf in particular more now. We’ll see with nine targets in the first half. How do the Ravens adjust to that? Do they start double teaming DK Metaf? And if they do that, do we see more of Adam Theland in the second half? Do we see more of Marquez Valdis scantling in the second half? Right. It’s going to be interesting for sure. But the Steelers run game not getting going at all. Um, you know, just eight yards on the ground for Jaylen Warren, just seven yards on the ground for Kenny Gainwell. Caleb Johnson has one has one rush for five yards, but they’re not really even trying to establish the run Ponzi. Um, they only have six rushing attempts from running backs in the first half. So, they’re putting the ball in Aaron Rogers’s hands, saying, “You be the conductor. You be the guy that gets us our explosive plays. you be the guy uh that you know takes the little checkdowns and uses uses use those as an extension of the run game. You know, we trust you Aaron with your football intellect to go out there, manage the game, do all those things and so far so good. Okay. Obviously, I think the big the big play in that first half was that interception from James Pierre because that puts you in position to go up by two touchdowns. If you don’t make that play, I mean, who knows? this this might be a tie ball game at half and you know after the way the Steelers played and you know really felt like for most of that half they were the better football team um that that would have been disappointing if that touchdown from Lamar would have been to tie the game right so it it kind of reminds me a little bit of the Packer game where you start off pretty darn well and then you know taper away and then taper away as the game goes on then by the end of the game you just can’t stop Green Bay. So, I really hope that’s not the case. Um, you better believe Mike Tomlin is preaching a fast start to the second half here because this has been the monkey that’s been on the Pittsburgh Steelers’s back all season long. Like, they they they’re no stranger to decent first halves. All right, they’ve been they’ve had a lead in every single ball game this season, but yet they’re 500. Why is that? It’s because they’re one of the worst second half football teams in the league. All right. Especially over these last seven games where you’ve given up a second half lead in most of them in most of your losses over the last seven game, you know, skid that they’ve been on. So, you know, for this to just be a one-sore ball game, this game is far from over. It really is. The Steelers need to come out hot. Guns ablazing in the second half. If they give you an opportunity to DK Metaf one-on-one down the sideline on this drive, take it. All right. do what it do whatever it takes to get up two scores. Yeah. Because if you get if you give the ball back to the Ravens with a chance to tie this game, the momentum will officially switch in this game. This first drive for the Pittsburgh Steelers, I cannot describe enough how important it is. Yeah. I mean, I feel like, you know, this this first drive is a ch and you know, a lot of people are going to point to last week Buffalo how the first drive, first play, fumble, touchdown, Bills take the lead. But that is the worst case scenario. Just do not give the ball away and at least score. Try to score. A field goal even then puts you up two possessions. Yeah. But like we we do have to acknowledge here though, Ponzi, that we we know what the Ravens are doing resting Derrick Henry there, right? They’re they’re saving him for the second half. Yeah, they’re they’re saving him so that they can pound the ball late when the Steelers when this Steelers run defense has been awful in the second half this year. And to that point, they’re already getting a little bit battered, some injuries on the field, you know, I mean, coming into I mean, you already came into today with multiple injuries, Kyle Duggar, Derek Carman, etc. And now you’re going to be losing Malik Harrison. And we still don’t know anything about Alex Highmith yet. Apparently Jaden Daniels got injured again. So, uh, let’s let’s go whip around the league here. Yeah. Yeah. And see what’s going on around the National Football League here before we get into the second half of this crucial week 14 matchup between the Steelers and Ravens. Um Seahawks are up on the Falcons 13-6 in the third quarter now. Return for a touchdown. Field goal return for a touchdown. Blocked for Seattle. Wow. Or for Falcons or for Seahawks? Seattle. Okay. Um and then the Bengals. I mean, listen, man. They probably have to win out to have a shot at the division. Um, and this was kind of the last game on their schedule where you kind of looked at and said, “Yeah, they or and the Ravens next week where like if the Bengals can get through the Bills and the Ravens next week with wins, like they’re back in this thing. They are. Um, and right now they’re up 10 uh in a blizzard in Buffalo. Um, what did I say, Sperry? So, we’ll see. We’ll see, man. Uh, but then the Browns shooter Sanders has two touchdowns against the Titans. Uh, they actually came back. They were down 14 or I think 11. Okay. came back. Now Jaden Daniels has an elbow injury again. Oh boy. That’s not good for him. That’s crazy, man. That elbow might be an issue for him for a long time because apparently he said he was 100% going into this game. So, um 17 nothing for the Vikings. JJ McCarthy. Uh if you’re losing to by three scores to the [ __ ] Vikings to nine to nine, that’s that’s pretty embarrassing, man. 247 Dolphins up on the Jets. Jets are the worst team in football outside of the Titans, but Brady Cook is in. Brady Cook. I thought it was an AIT name. Yeah. Oh my god, dude. So, Justin Fields is hurt and Tyrod Taylor got hurt. God, the Jets are such a joke. And then the Buccaneers are currently up by three points on the Saints at halftime. Uh later today, Broncos will play the Raiders. Oh, that might actually be an interesting one there. Broncos have been losing have been having a lot of close games against bad football teams this year. Now, they always find a way to win them, but they almost I think that glass slipper’s got to come off sometime. They almost lost to the Raiders at home on Thursday Night Football a couple weeks ago, and they almost lost to the Commanders last week on Sunday Night Football. Um, so listen, man, with Chip Kelly not there anymore, anything can happen, especially with it being in Vegas. But the Rams will play the Cardinals. Certainly expect the Rams to win that game after a tough loss last week to the Panthers. Packers Bears definitely America’s game of the week later today. Gonna be real interesting to see uh what goes on in that ball game because if the Packers win they take over first place in the division. Um and right now the Bears are currently what the number one seed in the AF in the NFC. If they lose they just they just go right to the wild card. So that’s a big drop if Chicago can’t win in Lambeau. And then tonight, Chiefs are playing for their playoff lives tonight, Ponzi, where it’s it sounds like it’s going to be a lot of weather uh tonight. So that I think that gives the Chiefs the advantage. I think the Chiefs will win. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it’s going to be hard, but that defense is pretty good. Yeah. And then, of course, we have to mention uh that Daniel Jones Achilles injury likely out for the season. Um which just sucks for him because he’s an upcoming free agent. Now, somebody’s going to take a chance on him. It might even be Indianapolis. I I my guess is Indie will will pay him to come back, but like what are they going to do at quarterback the rest of the season? They got Riley Leonard in right now, I think. Well, Anthony Richardson’s got to come back sometime, right? Yeah, maybe you turn to Richardson at the end of the season. I mean, there’s no point. He’s a for your former first round pick. But like but like with that eye injury that he has, is he even good to go right now? He’s not. He’s on IR, right? He’s on IR. I think they did they designate him for to return yet? I don’t know. So, I mean, for their sake, I hope he I I I hope he’s able to play. Otherwise, they might be going out and getting like Taylor Hineki or some [ __ ] Um, where’s Joe Flacker when you need him? Yeah, exactly. Jagger with a five says, “Personally, I think Pittsburgh should move on from Arthur Smith, especially if we draft young. We need a smarter, younger, and better OC.” I mean, listen, man. I’m I think Art has his strengths and has his weaknesses. Um I don’t know if he’s necessarily been known as a guy that develops quarterback talent at a high level. I think he’s somebody that has a system where if he like if you have a guy that can operate an NFL offense, he can get the most out of them. Like Ryan Tanahill for example. But like when it came to developing Marcus Mariota in Tennessee, failed doing that. When it came to developing Des Desmond Ritter in Atlanta, couldn’t do it. uh when it comes to you know I mean Justin Fields last year I know the Steelers went four and two with him but like that wasn’t because of Fields it’s because this defense was having a generational start to the season. So um I don’t know if I I’m kind of with you there Jagger. Um but at the same time I just unless this offense really really really struggles down the stretch I don’t think Tomlin’s going to fire him. I think I think it has to get to a point like with Matt Canada where like it’s so bad that there’s like almost no choice. Um, and I don’t think it’s gotten to that point yet here in Pittsburgh. $10 from Fluffy says, “Donate to someone. I will be in the US on Tuesday.” And I’m very excited. Here we go. Steelers, let’s give away a free raffle entry here. 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And now Mariota threw a pick. Well, all right. 17-9 is the score. Steelers Steelers up by eight and they will get the ball here. last time when they were leading at half last week against Buffalo at home. Strip sack fumble six which gave Buffalo the lead. Let’s pray to God that that doesn’t happen in this game. I think they’ve turned the ball over in the first drive of the second half in each of their last two games. They won the toss and deferred against Chicago and Buffalo and they’ve had turnovers early in the third quarter very quickly and the Steelers defense forces a turnover. They’re currently winning the turnover battle here. Um, and they’ve done that the last two weeks. They’ve won the turnover battle two to nothing in the last two weeks. Um, and of course they lose the turnover battle two to nothing in the second half in both of those games. So, the Steelers got to play better in the in the second half than they have. The It was a very encouraging first half, but now it’s time to lock in. It’s time to lock in, man. Go get yourself a two-possession lead here to start this half. Set the tone for this second half. That’s not the same old Steelers that we can put together four good quarters of offensive football. If you want the Steelers to score, start this second half right. Let me see you type TD in the comments. Type those TDs, man. We’re 40 likes away from giving away another free raffle entry. By the way, by the way, with that 2002 Super Bowl team in the building today for Baltimore, would love nothing more than to beat than to beat these guys in Baltimore today. Let’s send these phones, these fans home unhappy. Let’s go. I want to see Thelen get the ball a little bit more here in the second half. Just one target. Had one catch for four yards in the first half. Um, but I’m okay. Keep feeding DK Metaf as long as the the opportunities are there and he’s not getting double teamed. Throw the ball up to DK Metaf. Absolutely. So, I think we’re up to less than $100 away from 500 today, guys. By the way, I think we’re about $90 in super chats away from upgrading our raffle item today to a salute to service hoodie. Right now, uh the raffle item is a Steelers hat, a rope hat. 75. We’re $75 away. All right. 75 bucks away from upgrading it to the hoodie. and banging the gong again. Man, I want to bang the gong after a touchdown drive right here. Let’s go. All right, we’re lining up here in Baltimore for the second half. Tyler Loop has it set and we are back in Baltimore. Kick is curving out of bounds. Out of bounds and the Steelers will take over at the 40. So, the Steelers will have excellent field position, but I mean that just goes to show you how much the wind is affecting that football in this game. So, expect the Steelers and the Ravens to be very, very aggressive on fourth downs in the second half. My opinion, this game’s going to come down to which team handles fourth down better or hopefully Pittsburgh can put them away pretty can win this third quarter. If the Steelers win the third quarter, they probably win this football game. All right. So, this third quarter, I cannot stress enough to you guys how important it is. Steelers can win this fourth this third quarter by seven or more. 10 or more would be ideal, but seven or more would be great. I think the Steelers win this ball game. Pistol formation. Rogers looking for the quick shot. Nothing there. All the time in the world in the pocket. Now he steps up out to his left and he’s going to launch down the field and he’s got Metaf and he’s streaking into the 30 to the 25 20. still on his feet down to the Ravens 18 yd line. First down and Steelers DK have it your way. He rules. Let’s go. Rogers all day in the pocket just sticking in there. Then he uses that pocket presence to escape out to his left. Create. He can’t move though. He can’t move. He’s He’s skittish in the pocket. He’s got happy feet. Well, guess what? Just got us a huge gain. Now inside the red zone for the fourth time today to the Ravens 19. Under center here is Rogers. Jumbo personnel package. Metaf the only true receiver. Now he throws a quick screen to Pat Fmouth. He runs over the slot corner. Still going. Picks up about three or four. Get the ball to move. Let’s go. Get the ball to 88. Come on. The TDs are working. The TDs are working. Come on. We need another touchdown here. Steelers switch personnel. They get Scoranic out there. Kenny Gainwell out on the field for second down and seven. Under center now is Rogers. Felen, Scoranic, and Metaf are the receivers out there in 11 personnel. Rogers will take the snap. He will hand it off to Gainwell. A quick loss from Zack Frasier, but Gainwell kicks it back outside on the cutback and he’s going to pick up six yards. Probably be third down and one coming up. Rogers pointing saying that he picked up the first, but he’s not going to get it. Third down and one. Let’s see if the Steelers go tush push here. Zack Frasier lost to I believe that’s Travis Jones right up the middle but Gainwell with a great cut back to pick up six and he extended that football a little bit. People are talking. Third down and one. Shotgun Rogers Spencer Anderson in there. They’re going to run behind him in power. Did he get it? He did. First down. Kenny Gainwell. We’re running power with Kenny Gainwell. What are we doing? I mean, it worked. It worked. I might rather run the ball with DK Metaf than Kenny Gainwell in a straight power run up the middle. They bring out Jaylen Warren here. First down and goal for Pittsburgh. Come on. Goal to go here. A chance to go up two touchdowns in Baltimore. I I I I can’t remember the last time they had a touchdown on their first drive in the second half. This might be the first time all season if they do it. Here we go. Multiple tight ends. Spencer Anderson jumbo. It’s going to be a toss play to Warren outside. Tries to kick it inside. Poor blocking by the Steelers. It’s going to be a loss of two. Looked like McCormack got his ass beat on that one. Second down and goal. Got to have better blocking up front, man. Steelers offensive line kind of getting their ass kicked up front. which is why the Steelers have only run the ball with a running back less than 10 times in this ball game. They’ve passed it 22. Second down and goal. They bring out Austin. They got Metaf MVS and Austin War in the back. Rogers from shotgun takes the snap. He’s looking throws middle and Oh, there’s contact. fact. Are they going to call it? I don’t think so. Rogers wanted a call, he’s not going to get it. And this is once again a situation where you get a field goal, you go up two, you go up two scores, but obviously two touchdowns would be the preferred option. Not I don’t think that was the best option there for Rogers to throw that to Muth. He was well covered. There we go. Big third down. This would be a huge play for Rogers if he can get us into the end zone with his arm. It’s third down and goal from the 10 yd line. Same package as last time. Takes the snap. Rogers looking. Now he steps up. Now he’s going to look to roll out to his left. Now he throws cross body and it’s going to Oh, he dropped it. Kenny Gainwell had it. Looked like a decent throw from Rogers and Kenny couldn’t catch it at the end zone. Be fourth down. Rogers keeping the play alive. What a play by eight. Just Kenny couldn’t get his arms wrapped around it. That’s Oh, the ball was a wobbler and it was off target. That’s on That’s on That’s on me, guys. That’s on Rogers. It might have been tipped, but it was a wobbler from Rogers. He was throwing from a really weird body angle, but now Boswell’s on to take the lead by two scores. Another red zone opportunity missed here for Pittsburgh. Boswell puts it up and it is good. 20-9 Pittsburgh leads by 11. All Baltimore needs is a field goal to get back within striking distance on this next drive. Big defensive drive coming up for for Pittsburgh, man. But hey, you get some points there, you go up two scores based on the way this this offense has played in the first drive of third of of third quarters this season. That’s something that I will take. Obviously, I really wish we would have gotten into the end zone there, but right now they’re they’re they’re 50% 50/50 on their red zone trips. Ponzi, uh, two touchdowns and two field goals. Yeah, I will say points are points. Points are points, especially when you go up a possession, right? So Steelers still very much in the driver’s seat there, but obviously a touchdown would have made it so that Baltimore would have had to score a touchdown to get back within striking distance. Now they just need a field goal to get back within that eight-point margin. And then if they score a touchdown here, they’ll probably go for two to try to make it, you know, a three-point ball game instead of four, right? So um we’ll see what happens on this drive, man. Steelers defense certainly needs to not shoot themselves in the foot as much as they did on the last drive of the first half. You had illegal contact on a third down that would have gotten you off the field. Um, you know, poor play by Patrick Queen to allow Lamar Jackson to escape the pocket uh and get a touchdown there at the end of that drive. You had them on in third down multiple times and you know, you had another one where you jump off sides apparently with Alex Heismith. You know, you had a number of opportunities on that last drive to get him off the field. He couldn’t do it. So, we’ve seen this defense get him off the field on third today. Just a matter of getting it done. All right. It’s a matter of getting it done at this point. Lamar Jackson is seven of 13 for 64 yards passing, no touchdowns, or actually one rushing touchdown and a pick. He has added 19 yards on the ground with three carries. So far, the Steelers defense has done a pretty decent job on Derrick Henry. He only has 34 yards on 11 carries. So, for the most part here, the Steelers defense, I think, has done a pretty good job on Derrick Henry. Um, but they got to keep it up. All right. They can’t allow Derrick to just go off in the second half. Yeah. Now, listen, man. If if he finishes this this game with 22 carries and 68 yards, all right, the same exact half that he had in the first, I’ll take that. I think the Steelers win. I think the Steelers probably win the football game if that’s the case. But, you know, this is a big drive for Baltimore because if they get the ball back to Pittsburgh and the Steelers score a touchdown, you know, this game is going to be very close to getting out of hand. So, you know, Rogers and his boys need to get together and they need to put together a good plan for this next drive because no matter what, this next drive for the Steelers offense will be big. But we are going to shift our focus here to the defensive side of the ball. Boswell has the kick lined up and he kicks it away and it’s going to be perfect. It’s going to be caught at the goal line and he’s going to be stopped short of the 30 to the 28. Another special teams tackle from Carson Bruner. Carson Bruner’s been been unbelievable, man. All right, man. Big defensive drive here. Really? Yeah. God. All right, it’s going to be first down. Hand off to Dererick Henry up the middle. He will pick up around six. Successful first down run for Baltimore. I I think a big storyline in this second half is how well does the Steelers defensive front hold up terms of attrition and and and fatigue. Don’t have Derrick Harmon. Can Benson is fighting through something. Don’t have Malik Harrison. You’re thumping linebacker. Don’t have Kyle Duggar. You’re thumping strong safety. Eye formation handoff. This is Katon Mitchell. He’ll pick up three or so. It’ll be third down and short coming up. Need an impact play to get them off the field here. Ponzi, type those stops in the chat. Come on. We got 3,700 Steelers fans in this chat room right now. I need to hear all of you guys. By the way, just passed a thousand likes. Thank you guys so much for your support. Make sure you click that thumbs up icon and like today’s show. Uh, every 100 subscribers we get today, we’re giving away a free raffle entry. Every 200 likes, we’re giving away a free raffle entry. Shotgun here for Lamar on third down and one. Takes the snap. Toss play. It gets blown up, but now he gets away. And there he goes. There goes Mitchell down the sideline. The 40, the 30, the 20. James Pierre trying to catch him and he does. He gets forced out at the six-yd line. Good hustle from James Pierre to save a touchdown. And Pierre’s a little slow to get up, but I think he’s fine. But now Katon Mitchell gets up limping. So I think what happens here? Yeah. Joey Porter Jr. out of position and Jabril Peppers cutting up field a little bit too much. Looked like the Steelers had a chance to and once again Patrick Queen goes underneath instead of over the top. Poor rep from Patrick. Now offset eye formation for Lamar. Takes a snap. He’s gonna hand it off Henry up the middle. is not going to get much. Gets stuffed. Kale Benson gets up. No, that’s No, sorry. That’s uh Odmiu gets up absolutely juiced. I mean, but there there’s the Steelers run defense, man. Giving up a big giving up a big run there. And that puts the Ravens in striking distance here. Second down and goal to make this, you know, potentially a field goal game. Now they go wildat with Henry. They’re going to give there. It’s going to be Henry up the middle. He’s going to pick up some yardage inside the five to around the four. Third down and goal. Hold strong here, boys. Hold strong here. Two more stops. Hold the line here. Come on. You better believe I I think the Ravens would go for this if it’s going to be fourth down and manageable from goal to go. Come on, defense. Stand up for me here. Stand up for me. Shotgun for Lamar. He’ll take the snap. He’s looking. Now he’s going to look to run up the middle. Now he throws endzone wide open. Touchdown. Isaiah likely. Jaylen Ramsay in coverage. And now they will go for two to try to make this a threepoint ball game. Two straight touchdowns for the Ravens offense. And you can’t help but get the feeling that this Steelers defense after another good starting to crumble, starting to get figured out, starting to get fatigued. That’s just a classic Lamar Jackson play there. A hole forms up the middle. He threatens it with his legs. Patrick Queen, who’s playing zone in the middle of the field, has to come take it away. Leaves the middle of the end zone. Wide ass open. Kick is up and good from Tyler Loop. There didn’t go for two there. Ponzi. So, so I kind of understand why they did that, but I I think I would have gone for two there. But it’s a four-point ball game, 20-6. And now, I mean, the pressure is on Pittsburgh to maintain this lead, you know, and right now the pressure is on Pittsburgh’s offense to keep it up and keep scoring points. And then the pressure is certainly on the Steelers defense to stop the bleeding here. That’s two touchdowns in a row from Baltimore. out. I think you know the logic of going for two there is stays that like if you even if you don’t get it, you’re down by a touchdown. But if you do get it, you’re down by a field goal. And if you kick the extra point, you’re down by a touchdown. Yeah. And if pits and if you’re down five, if you don’t get the two-point conversion and the Steelers kick a field goal, it’s still one possession. So like I I I I don’t agree with that call from Baltimore not to go for it. But hey, I won’t get in the way of them not doing the right thing. So, I mean, and and that drive, the story of that drive, Ponzi, really was the big run given up, you know, cuz they get the ball. Um, and, you know, on a third down and one, a chance to get off the field, you know, you try and be super aggressive to try and get them down behind the sticks. And what does it do? Uh it it it allows the Ravens to get some open space there and create a can and create a lane for Mitchell who’s a big who’s a big play threat. I mean he’s got a lot of speed and frankly Steelers might be a little lucky they tracked down Mitchell but I mean it ended in a touchdown anyway. So Lance Strers with a 10 says time of possession has been our biggest enemy all season. The longer our offense is on the field the better chance our defense has of not being tired. Um and we can take a look at the time of possession battle today. I mean, it’s it’s been more even than in some of the weeks past, but definitely still in the Ravens favor, but the Ravens have still possessed the football for more in this ball game. It’s not by that much, and the Steelers could even take the lead in that regard. Yeah. Here on this drive, it’s been pretty back and forth all game long. Both teams are are are are moving the ball at a similar pace. They’re they’re converting on third downs pretty similarly. Uh the Steelers do have the one takeaway, which is probably the big difference in the ball game. the take away is probably the reason why the Steelers have a lead right now. Um, but yeah, man, you’ve had four red zone opportunities already. The the the deep passing game is working for Aaron Rogers today. This is the best Rogers has looked since the Cincinnati game, the Cincinnati game in week seven. But I it feels like the big question mark in this game is will the defense make enough plays to to win this game? Yeah. And might have to be on the offense again. And yeah, and based on the way this defense has played in second halves of games this year, I can’t in the last two drives giving up touchdowns. I can’t say I have a ton of confidence. Kick is away. It’s going to be fielded in the end zone and knead down. I think it hit inside the landing zone though, so I think they take over at the 20. I think so, too. So instead of at the 35, it’s going to be at the 20 to start it. Good kick by Tyler Loop to put him in that position, but the Steelers will have 80 yards to go down and make this a two-possession game. Again, that touchdown was huge for Baltimore, but this could be a huge drive here. If you’re going to go 80 yards on these guys, make it two possessions, getting close to the fourth quarter, and you force Lamar Jackson to be a bigger bigger facet of that offense in this fourth quarter, that would be absolutely massive. I agree. We’ve seen some deep shots today. Let’s see if the Steelers can connect on another one. DK Metaf’s having a heck of a game. 133 yards already for him. Under center here is Rogers. Thelen and Metaf, the two receivers, two tight ends on the field. They’ll send Theelan in a short motion. take the snap. They’ll hand it off to Warren up the middle and he will get three yards. Roman Fischer, you have a question, let us know in the chat. It’s hard not to have PTSD as a Steelers fan right now, man. You know, pretty decent start followed by defense giving up back-to-back touchdowns. This feels like a big drive for the vibes of this game. Three receiver set with Skiran, Thelen, and Metaf. Pistol formation trying to go to Metaf right away. Nothing there. And now he has to dump it off to Warren. I think this is going to be a legal man downfield. Rogers held the ball for too long. So, I think they tried to get it to Metaf on a tunnel screen and Rogers was just holding it for too long. Ravens took it away. They kind of saw it coming. No holding. How did a holding happen that quickly? Did he just get beat like immediately? Andrew Pete the left tackle and yeah, he holds him. I mean, but that happens to TJ Watt on literally every play. doesn’t get called though. I mean, it’s a hold. Rogers with a no look pass there. Negated with a 10yd penalty. It’ll be second down and 17. All right, let’s see. I mean, getting a first down here could be huge in this ball game. They go empty with Rogers. Need a completion here. They go spread out. Takes the snap. Rogers looking. He throws. It’s going to be Metaf again on a curl. It’s caught. He’s going to pick up some decent yardage. Gets to the 25. It’ll be third down and five coming up. Way to make that manageable by Rogers and Metaf. To get that into third and manageable was big. And now Andrew Pete is down on the ground injured. Oh man, that would mean either Dylan Cook would have to come in or Spencer Anderson would have to come in in that case. It looks like Dylan Cook is warming up or Yeah, Dylan Cook is warming up. Spencer Anderson is helping him warm up. I thought I saw Skiranic hold his leg a little bit, but I’m not sure if he was. Yeah, I don’t know. Steelers already down Brick Jones and Calvin Anderson. Dylan Cook, I don’t think has taken a single snap in the regular season this year. And now you’re trusting him to go play left tackle in a mustwin tackle in a big rivalry game. Not that the Ravens have anyone that on that defensive line that’s been Yeah. I mean, Rogers has had Rogers has had time to throw, but certainly you don’t want that to be the case where your left tackle hasn’t start had a single snap in this season. Man, DK Metaf 11 targets in this game for 145 yards. Is this his most yards in the season? Like season? Um, Minnesota, I know he had quite a few, but I think this might be the most that he’s had. Kenneth Gainwell has six targets. Pat Fmouth is third on the team in targets with two. Adam Thelen, uh, for those wondering, only has one catch. He’s only had one target on the day. But this third and five situation coming up here, Ponzi is kind of, you know, Adam, Adam Felins’s, you know, wheelhouse. Put him on an option route. Let him, you know, trust him to go win. Oh, Roman is asking, “Is it good the Steelers let Pickkins go?” Well, I think it’s a double I think it’s I think it’s good and bad. I think what’s bad about it is, you know, you couldn’t make it work with a top five talent at the position. And it’s a shame that you couldn’t use his skill set better when he was here. Such a good over- the- middle receiver and the Steelers just never threw the ball over the middle of the field when he was here. So, he wasted his talent. And then you took way too long to replace him in the Steelers offense at wide receiver, too. Um, to a point where it might not get fixed the rest of this season and be a big reason why the Steelers are limited. The good news is you don’t have to deal with the antics anymore. You don’t have to deal with you don’t have to deal with the IG post calling out Richard Sherman for comments he made on a postgame show, right? You don’t have to worry about the lack of effort in run in run blocking in route running in a big game by the way like CD Lamb out g a must-win game against the Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football this week and he was running routes 50%. It’s unacceptable. So I think shortterm pain, long-term gain is the best way to describe it when it comes to George Pickkins. Yeah, shotgun here on third down and five. Calvin Austin Metaf and it looks like MVS out there for Pittsburgh. No, Thelen. Rogers tries to go hard count. Now he’ll can the play at the line of scrimmage. He sends Gainwell down to the sniffer. Takes the snap. He’s going to throw it up to Calvin. He’s open. It’s caught. There he goes. Oh, he gets tripped down. But a big time win for Calvin Austin III on the go route. And Aaron Rodgers continues to be nails down the field in this ball game. Beautiful touch right over the top of the defender. Good speed from Calvin. And we haven’t seen Calvin hit a downfield, you know, reception in a while here. Big- time gain, field flipping, big time play for Pittsburgh. That’s not the first time it’s happened today. Rajie is throwing dots right now. He is. Now we’re in Baltimore territory at their 44 yd line. Under center is Rogers. Now they hand it off to Caleb Johnson. No blocking up front. Looked like Isaac Seamalu and Dylan Cook got absolutely obliterated. If the Steelers are going to win this game, it’s going to have to be on the back of Aaron Rodgers. Man, the run blocking has not been good. Run game has been absolutely terrible. I mean, at this point in the game, man, you just got to go with what’s working, and that’s spread it out. Let Ro Rogers do do his thing. Rogers has been by far the best thing about this team today. That’s exactly what they do here. Shotgun here. Thelen in the slot. Keep your eye on him. On second down and 11, MVS and Scoronica are out there. Takes the snap. Rogers looking. He’s just going to dump it off here to Warren who’s going to slide under a guy. He’s going to keep going and he’s going to pick up a decent gain here and make it third and manageable. Could have very easily gotten very little yardage and made it third down and long. Instead, you get inside the 40 yd line. Nice little head duck right there from Warren just being able to slip that tackle. And if this is fourth down and manageable, I think Pittsburgh goes for it. Yeah, Andrew Pete on his way to the locker room. Big play here for Rogers. I think this is probably out of range for field goal with the with the win being what it is. Three receivers and Muth the tight end. Looks like they’re playing Jonnu a lot less today which I really like. Takes the snap. They send pressure. Rogers is just going to dump it off to Warren. And there he goes. He got a bunch of green grass in front of him and blockers. There’s nobody in front of him. Touchdown Steelers. Oh, what an easy touchdown pass for Aaron Rodgers. And the Steelers go back up by two scores. Let’s go. Yes. They put NBS in motion, able to clear it out. Warren wide open and no one touched him. They just have Warren go out there on that little flat route. Nobody. I mean, they sent the house. Baltimore just sent a full out pressure. They had nobody out there to chase down Warren. Great football play there from Rogers to get a quick high a high high uh percentage throw, but to have it be big-time potential to go get a touchdown. Huge play for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Boswell puts up the kick and it is good. 2716 Steelers lead. Aaron Rogers is dealing in Baltimore, folks. Let’s go. Rodie picked a hell of a time to turn it back. He has been borderline unplayable for almost two months now and he’s having his best game since Cincinnati on Thursday Night Football in week seven. 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So, you got to do it today. $5 from Stephen Oric says, “I have preached time of possession on this channel for the last five weeks.” Yes, you have, Stephen. Yes, you have. And now a $2 says, “We need time of possession because we have a soft defense.” Don’t even I don’t disagree with you, man. You know me, man. I’m You’re preaching to the choir here, pal. Uh, but now we can take a look at the time of possession battle here, Ponzi. And the only reason I think that the Baltimore Ravens are even close in this is because Pittsburgh has frankly moved the ball really easily in this game. I mean, and this Ravens defense, by the way, guys, it’s been the strength of this Ravens team for a long time now. All right? Like they like this defense has played really good football. Like they beat like they they were competitive against the Rams. All right? They they shut down the Rams offense and the Steelers right now have 310 yards of total offense. They’re six for 11 on third downs. Um and you can see that they are winning the time of possession battle here and you know with time starting to run out on Baltimore. I don’t think it’s quite to the point yet Ponzi where they won’t run the football. I think they definitely will. Um, but if we can get a stop here and then we get another and then if we can get a stop here, I think it does get to that point, especially if the Steelers go on another scoring drive because if the Steelers get the ball back here, they got a chance with another touchdown to put this game away in the fourth quarter. All right, so a stop here would be absolutely massive. Let’s make it happen Pittsburgh. I know we’re kind of down bad. Alex Heismith is injured. Malik Harrison’s injured. Kyle Duggar’s injured. All this different stuff. I mean, Pat Fouthouth was wide open for a touchdown as well. Like, I don’t I don’t even know what the Ravens are doing on this play. They left Pat Footh unguarded down the field. But, hey, uh, the guy that the linebacker that was covering Warren was was doing a really poor job of it. So, Rogers just dumps it off to him. Nobody’s on that side and he just takes it all the way to the house. All right, 3 minutes and 30 seconds left to go in the third quarter as Boswell boots this away. It’s going to be fielded at around the 10 yd line and squeezes through. Big tackle from Scoronic at around the 35, but good return for Baltimore. What’s an updated number here on uh on before. We got to be getting close to 500 here. By the way, we’re just two subscribers away. One subscriber away from giving away a free raffle entry. Next commercial break. And we are uh 55 likes away. There we go. Well, we got there. Thank you so much. Shotgun here. Play action for Lamar. Roll out to the right. Nothing there. Lamar still looking and he’s going to try and run for it. And he’s going to pick up a yard. God, dude. Just get him on the ground. Lamar Jackson is holding the ball in this game, but the Steelers pass rush only has one sack. He’s been so slippery today. Got $54 away. All right, so we’re a five and a 50 away from upgrading our raffle item to a salute to service Steelers hoodie. 4,200 people watching live. Make sure you guys click that subscribe button. Sub for Steelers dubs. Eye formation. They hand it off to Henry. He’s going to try and bounce it outside and he’s going to successfully do it and pick up around six balls out. Now Henry is down on the ground a little slow to get up, but I think he’s fine now. Cam Hayward limps off the field. I think he’s just tired. Third down and three. Type those threes. Let’s get off the field. Derrick Henry will stay out there. Ravens already at 147 rush yards in this game. Double a mug look for Pittsburgh. Takes the snap. Now they go read option and nobody’s accounting for Lamar. First down Ravens past the 50 yd line. Gets to the 48 of Pittsburgh. And again guys, a field goal keeps Baltimore in striking distance here. TJ Watt crashed down on the run there. Nobody on the exterior to scrape and get Lamar. That was a big That was a big thing in the playoff game last year is they couldn’t find a way to stop Lamar running the ball in those read options. You better believe they’re going to go back to that under center play action. Lamar’s got time in the pocket. He throws downfield. But it is caught at the 30 yd line. First down. That is Rashad Baitman on the catch. And once again, the Ravens offense is moving the ball with ease on the Steelers defense. Little zone coverage from Pittsburgh. A lot of time in the pocket from that play action concept. Pitch and catch for Baltimore. Come on defense. Need a big turnover here. from the Steelers 30. Shotgun. Lamar takes the snap. Play action. Read option again. Now Lamar still going. He’s running and he’ll pick up six or seven. Got to find an answer to that read option. Kzi got to find an answer to that read option. So right now everybody is crashing down on on the running back and nobody is accounting for Lamar. I mean, how is this allowed to happen? It’s either somebody’s not doing their job or the coaching staff is not putting their guys in position to succeed. It’s one or the other. Here we go. Pistol formation for Lamar. He’ll take the snap and hand it to Dererick Henry. More push from the from the Baltimore O line. Easy first down. Gain of around seven. First down Baltimore down to the 15. Derk Henry stacking up rushing yards now. And that’ll be the end of the third quarter. Ravens driving yet again. This has turned into a shootout in Baltimore. Steelers up 2716, but the Ravens have the ball inside the Steelers red zone. Um, right now Baltimore going into the fourth quarter in just three quarters. 170 yards rushing. Katon Mitchell has 76. Derrick Henry has 57. Lamar Jackson has 35. Henry is certainly coming alive. And you you you can see what’s happening, Ponzi, right? Yeah. They’re getting tired. Yeah. They don’t have the depth up front. Okay. Like I feel like this Steelers team gets so hot at the beginning of the game where they lose all of their energy comes to the second half. Like I feel I feel like I feel like they’re playing so hard in the first half and like you’re getting stops in the first half, but like they just run out of gas in the second half. I mean, it’s just got to be a better job of just getting that energy out throughout the game. You can’t burn all your your fuel in the first first half. I mean, we saw it last week. I mean, Ya Black had one of the better first halfs of any defensive lineman on the Steelers last week against the Bills. run stuff after run stuff and then second half bad pad level, poor technique, obviously tired and you guys are seeing the results. I mean, what what were they at with r with rush yards heading into the half? They must have close to 100 yards of rushing in this half with that big run with the way Henry and Jackson are just siphoning off chunks. They got to be getting close to 100 yards in the half in just that one quarter. Yeah. I mean, I I I think within the offense, you know, I think it was what was it? 33 yards for Derrick Henry at the half, something like that. And now, you know, that that rushing total has gone way up. So, listen, man. Now that we’re getting into this position, unless it’s fourth and long, I kind of don’t think the Ravens are going to kick a field goal. I think this is probably four down territory. So, the Steelers need to find a way to stop this Ravens offense four times before they get a first down. And I just the way they’re running it, man. I mean, I’m seeing someone say, “Relax. It’s attrition, but like it’s consistent.” Yeah, it’s it’s every week is the problem. Every week in the second half, you know, eventually the Steelers defense runs out of gas. It’s a big problem. It’s a big problem. And like listen man, as good as the offense has been today with Rogers, how good he’s been today. Is he Is he going to be able to keep this up drive for drive for the rest of the game? I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I hope so. I think it’s what they do here from the Steelers 16. They will hand it off to Henry. And good play here by I think that’s ya black. It is just a gain of one. Good play. Or maybe it was Cam Hayward. It was something 90. Big boy 90. I think it actually might have been Hayward. And now Katon Mitchell to the locker room. It’s going to be Ali, Justice Hill, and and Henry for the rest of this game. Henry comes off the field. Ali number 26 is in at running back for Baltimore. Now Baltimore trying to get lined up correctly. 10 seconds left on the play clock. Under center is Lamar. They send Flowers in motion. Takes a snap. play action. Now he has to try and get it to Ali. He does and he’s going to stay on his feet and he gets to the 10. Now Ali goes to the end zone, but he was down. Yeah. Then he hit the ground. I mean, pressure was getting to Lamar. And I have no idea how Lamar fit it into the keyhole of a little space that he fit this into to Ali. And yeah, his elbow clearly down. Be third down coming up. And now Brandon Eckles getting looked at by the Steelers medical staff. He’s going back into the huddle though, so I think he’ll be fine. Or is he walking back to the sideline? Lamar Jackson and the Ravens are crying about it. They don’t know the rules. They don’t know the rules. Oh my gosh. That’s embarrassing for the Ravens. Embarrassing. That’s embarrassing for the Ravens that they think you can have an elbow down and get a touchdown. That’s crazy. And now Brandon Eckles, another key defensive player for the Steelers, heads to the sideline. And now question is, does that mean they put Jaylen Ramsay in the slot or do they put Asante Samuel Jr. there? About to find another question right now. Looks like they go out and base personnel for this one. Third down and four. Shotgun. Lamar takes the snap. He’s looking. Pressure on Patrick Queen. Now he steps up, throws open drop by Rashad Baitman. That is a huge drop by Baitman. He would have had room to get the first down. Maybe not the touchdown, but now it’s fourth down and four. And it’s a big decision from John Harbaugh. What are you doing here? If they go for it and don’t get it, two possession games. Two possession games. Steelers have the ball and a chance to go on a on a long drive. On the flip side here, Sperry, if you kick the field goal, if you kick the field goal here, you you you keep it within one score. So, I think that’s what they should do. But, let’s see what they actually do. They send the field goal kicker out to make it a one-sore ball game. Keep this thing within striking distance. With the win being what it is, this is maybe not a for sure thing. Loop will put it up and it is good. And they cut it to eight points with 13 minutes and 43 seconds left to go in the game. Big drop from Rashad Baitman. Couple of big drops from the steel from the Ravens wide receivers in this game. I think Flowers had one earlier and then Baitman had another one right then. And I mean if he catches it, it’s at least a first down. And now the Steelers will have an opportunity here to a kill some clock. All right. Like give the Ravens, you know, less time uh when they get the ball back, but also b make this a two-score ball game. So if you can kill So even if listen man, maybe even the best drive here, well the best ideal scenario here is it’s a long methodical drive. You pick up some third downs and you score a touchdown and then you give and then you give Baltimore like no time. All right. Give them like what seven minutes six seven minutes to score twice. All right. With the Steelers not scoring, which is possible, but like it it would be really tough to do. But even if you, you know, get it down to six, seven minutes, six, seven, um, 8 n, you know, um, if you can kill some clock and get a field goal here, that’s big, too. All right. So like this is not this is not a this is this is not a drive where the Steelers necessarily need a touchdown. They just need honestly killing the clock is more important than the actual type of scoring that they have. If you can kill some clock and you can have any score that’s going to put you in really good position to win this ball game. Now obviously you want a touchdown. All right. A touchdown makes it so that the Ravens are going to have to score a touchdown. Score two. They have to score two of them and they’re going to have to get a two-point conversion on at least one of them to tie the game. And then if they want to go for two on both of them, they could theoretically win it, but they’re going to have very limited time to do it. This Pittsburgh Ste can pin its ears back. They’re not going to run the ball, which will help this team. So, the Steelers offense can help out this defense quite a bit here, but it it does feel like the Steelers, frankly, got bailed have been bailed out a couple times in this ball game on defense. Ponzi. Yeah, but hey, we’re not going to get in their way. We’re not going to get in their way. Uh, by the way, we have, I think, a couple Venmos that we still got to get to. I think we have an Elevate, two Elevates, and then a Michelle. So, we’ll get to we’ll get we’ll get to those. Reminder, we’re about um I think 40 bucks away 40 bucks away from upgrading the uh the raffle item today. Uh we’ll upgrade the raffle item to a salute to service hoodie if we can get $40 more dollars. So that’s two more 20s. Right now it’s a Steelers hat. Uh a nice rope Steelers hat. But I mean hoodie is is is is a bigger item. So $40 everybody um you know has a chance to win a bigger item here. We’re back in Baltimore. The kick is away. It’s going to be fielded by Kenny Gainwell at the five. He’s going to change field. Makes one man miss. cuts up and he doesn’t even get to the 25, only to the 23. Uh, but that’s going to give the Steelers plenty of room real estate here to be able and try and go on a on a big drive. Now, the thing is the Steelers run game has been non-existent. They only have 30 yards on the day on 14 carries total. They’ve only run the ball with running backs a total of 11 times. They’ve thrown at it 28. So, let’s see if they stick with that pass heavy approach. You you better believe that this this drive is very much about getting points and then taking and now Rogers talking with the referees trying to see what’s going on. They’re about to make an announcement here. Oh, never mind. First down and 10 from the 23. They put Caleb Johnson out there as the big back. I think they’re going to try and run this right down the throats of the Ravens. They do have DK Metaf out there, but it’s a jumbo personnel package. Look. They send Metaf in motion on a short motion. Play action. Roll out to the right. He throws it to Metaf. He’s going to have to make a guy miss. He does. He’s going to get out of bounds though after a gain of around three. Never mind. They’re going to say he was touched in bounds. And the clock will run. Second down and seven coming up. Did Josh Allen take this all the way? Oh my goodness. What a play by him. That’s a great game in Buffalo. And you better believe Rogers and the Steelers are going to take off as much time as they possibly can. Heavy formation here. Looks like Thelen is out there as the lone receiver. Takes the snap. Toss to Jaylen Warren. He’s going to try and cut up field. He will pick up maybe a yard, but more like a half yard. Be third down. And the Steelers will have to pass the ball here to stay on the field. Big third down coming. Here we go. They go empty with Rogers. They got Gainwell in a Macaffrey split. Trips right with a single receiver. Austin to the left. Takes the snap. They’re just going to get it to Gainwell. Is there a flag? Flag on the play. We going to be delay a game. And that’s on the quarterback. That’s on Rogers. God, man. Fourth quarter of a onepossession game. We’re making these kinds of mistakes. Damn, dude. All right, we’re Rogers got us into this mess. Now he has to get us out of it. Third and 11. Going to have to throw the ball down the field. This would be a huge play if the Steelers can pick it up. Every first down the Steelers get, it’s minutes off the clock. We’re currently sitting at 12 minutes and 8 seconds left to go in this game. They go empty with Rogers. Two high safeties for Baltimore. He takes the snap. Rogers looking. He’s going to throw to fire move his check down. He has to make some guys miss. He cannot. And it’s going to be fourth down. The Steelers will have to punt. Clock will tick down for the remaining 35 seconds of the play clock, but the Steelers offense go three and out. and give the ball right back to Baltimore, a team that’s moved the ball quite well. And they’re going to have their chance to go tie this ball game down eight. Self-inflicted wounds, man. Self-inflicted wounds. Corus Wakeman will punt this away. It’s going to be fielded at the 21. He’s got room to run here. Leonte Webster can can return now. and he’s going to get to the 32 after running around a bit. Decent field position for Baltimore. Steelers defense has given up a ton of yardage over the last what has it been now? Three drives for Baltimore. They’ve had a tough time getting them off the field outside of Rashad Baitman dropping a third down and four pass last drive. This would be a hell of a time for an interception. Catching up on some Venmos here. Hat Guy LTS with a with a one says, “Tomlin is such a joke, man. I don’t care about winning seasons. How about we win a damn playoff game?” Here’s an idea, Tomlin. Stop the freaking run. Yeah, man. It’s just I mean at this point part of it is roster attrition where there’s injuries and all that different stuff but at the end of the day they they haven’t been able to stop the run all season without Derek Harmon in the in the in the game and to be that dependent on a rookie is is not good roster management. Another one says great game plan. Really dude this defense is so disappointing. Um I did I say they had a great game plan? I don’t think I did. I think you might have misheard me there. Elevate LTS. I don’t think I ever said they had a great game plan today. Um, maybe I did. I don’t know. But Michelle West with a $10 PayPal says, “Praying for Pete. I think he’s better than Brick.” I don’t know. I mean, they’re both kind of in that replacement level starter kind of area, high-end backup for me. Neither of them is great in my opinion, but you know, it certainly doesn’t help when you got, you know, whatever it is, your third string left tackle in right now. I don’t know, man. This second half just has a big looming shadow of dread over it where it just feels like it’s a matter of time before the Steelers choke this thing away. And it would be the it would be the hardest loss of the season if the Steelers lose this. You know, you’re up by multiple scores, multiple times. offense finally has a decent football game. And if you just can’t hold this Ravens offense down, like it’s it’s going to be so disappointing. $2 from Steven says, “I want to see more KJ at running back.” I mean, Warren and and Gainwell have been pretty decent, not in terms of running the football today, but as receivers. Warren is your second leading receiver. Gainwell has two touch has a touchdown today um and is fourth in receiving. Um Stephen again says, “Love this channel. Jack Ponzi and Cassie are awesome. Appreciate you guys.” Is there a penalty on this? just manhandling Ben Scoranic. Guess not. Not in Baltimore. Bernard says A-Rod still washed. Nope. Roll out to the right. Lamar’s got all the time in the world to throw. He finds a wide open Z Flowers. It’s caught all the way down to the Steelers 32 yd line. That was fast. That was fast. One play. Baltimore flips the field on a playaction deep shot. And that’s a taking advantage of the of the match rules that the Steelers were in there. Looked like they were playing Rip Liz and they had that double move on there. Good play by Baltimore. Eye formation handoff. Henry up the middle. He trips up and he’s going to get about four. God, there’s just no like there’s like no negative plays for Baltimore. You know what I’m saying? Ponzi, it always feels like they’re getting like at least a three or four yard chunk and they’re Oh my goodness. An inter. Is that Is this going to be a pick six? Pick six. Christian Benford. Buffalo’s on top. Go Buffalo, man. Keep the Bengals out of our hair. Second down and five. Shotgun Lamar from the Steelers 28. hand off to Henry and he is going to push the pile forward for a gain of four. I mean, and Derrick Henry might have got three extra yards after he was contacted like one yard past the line of scrimmage. That’s how powerful and how really how soft the Steelers defensive front is. I mean, once the Steelers get Derrick Harman back though, like I feel like it will change things. You just got to survive this time with Derrick Harman being out. And the question is how long is Dererick Harman out? We have no idea. Now it’s third down and short. They’re gonna go Henry again and he gets stuffed. There we go Pittsburgh. There we go, guys. Fourth down and one coming up. And they got to go for it. They got to go for it. They got to go for it. Get those fours in. It’s fourth down. Should be a big play here if the Steelers can get a stop. It’s going to be tough. Fourth and one when the team has Derrick Henry, but they got to stop last time. Let’s do it again. Come on. Got the heavy personnel on both sides in there. Watch the pass. Watch play action here. Under center is Lamar. Takes the snap. Hands it off to Henry on the outside and he’s going to get it. And he’s going to get to the 20. First down Baltimore stuff play design. Yeah, getting it. Little power play there. It’s hard to stop Derrick Henry on fourth and one, man. It It just is. Cam Cam Hayward’s been hunting a fumble this entire game. Now Baltimore in position to potentially tie this game late here in the fourth quarter. They hand it off to Hill and he’s going to get a yard. Got to get a stop here. They’re going to give him two yards as the official designation there. Type those stops. Man, I think the Ravens have been in the red zone their last four offensive possessions. I’m pretty sure they have. They They have just been going right down the Steelers’s throats. Come on. Big turnover. Big stop. Something. Give me something here. Shotgun. Lamar condensed formation. They send Flowers in motion. Takes the snap. Lamar looking now. He’s got pressure now. Get him. Now get him. He throws it. Incomplete. Dirts it to to Isaiah likely. He got it away. Pressure got there. couldn’t get him to the ground though. As the great John Gruden once said, “Pressers, I don’t want pressures. I want to get to the quarterback and I want to get him on the ground.” I I mean, I just don’t know how Lamar How did Patrick Queen not get him down on this? What is Patrick Queen doing? Get him around the legs and get him on the ground, Queenie. Come on, dude. It’s third down. Let’s get a stop. Third down and long. This is the play of the game. We have Chuck Clark out there. Great. Oh my god. We got Chuck Clark out there. Takes the snap. Lamar looking. He’s got time in the pocket. Steps back. Now he’s tries to step up and in. Now he’s going to be throws it. Incomplete. Pressure got there again. Nick Herbig and Alex Heismith. Let’s go. Fourth down and eight. Are they going to go? I think they’re going to I think I I think at this point you got to take the field goal. That force pit that forces Pittsburgh to score a touchdown to put you away for sure. Yeah. But I mean it’s late enough in the game where you might think about going for this. Nope. They’re going to go for the field goal. Big stop from the Steelers defense there. Big stop, man. Be funny if he missed it. Tyler Loop. This is not a gimme necessarily in this win, but 36 yds. It should be very makeable. Snap. Hold. Steelers not even rushing. It’s up and right down the middle. Makes it a fivepoint ball game. Baltimore. If they get the ball back without the Steelers scoring anything, they would still need to score a touchdown to take the lead, but it would be for the win. Now, the Steelers will have a chance to kill clock kill and ideally score a touchdown and put them away here. The Steelers will have a chance to put the put the Ravens away here in week 14 and retake sole possession of first place in the AFC North with four games left to go. and the Ravens having Cincinnati on the road, a team they lost to last week at home. Then they go then they get New England at home, a team on a 10-ame win streak currently, the number one seed in the AFC. And then you get and then they get Green Bay on the road. So, if the Steelers win this game and if they can take care of their business against Miami and Cleveland, that would mean Baltimore to even be in contention to win the division in the season finale would have to win two of their next three games against those three opponents, Burrow, Drake May, and Jordan Love on their next three. That’s going to be a tough ask for this Ravens team. So, this win would be absolutely massive for the Pittsburgh Steelers and would increase their chances dramatically of making the playoffs here in 2025. Let’s get it done. Let’s get it done. Come on, Rajie. Punch time. Put it away. Kick is away from Loop. Looks like it’s not a great kick. It’s fielded at around the 14. Gainwell looking for the blocks to develop. He finds a nice little lane and he gets to the 40. Great field position for Kenny G for Kenny gotten by Kenny Gainwell. He’s done a pretty darn good job. Now Aaron Rogers and the offense take the field. Got seven minutes left to go in this ball game. You’re up five. A field goal will force Baltimore to score a touchdown in a two-point conversion to force over overtime. touchdown all but ends this ball game aside from a converted onside kick at some point in this game. Shotgun here 2 by two formation. Rogers kicks hard hard count doesn’t go. He sends Thelen in motion to form a dirty bunch to the right. Takes the snap. He steps up. Rogers will throw it low. Oh my goodness. What is Rogers doing? A terrible throw to Jonnu who is wide open in the flat. That one is on eight all the way. You can’t miss that throw, Aaron. This point in the game, dog. Dude, that is a that’s the easiest throw he’s had all day. Is he trying to find the laces? I think he got it. It’s just I don’t Is Janu supposed to stop? Like I think it’s just a bad throw. He tried to do the no looker. Great. Yeah, the receiver. How about we look at the receiver, Aaron, please? Second down and 10. Clock stops. Thelen in the slot with Scoronic and Met and it looks like MVS. No. Metaf takes the snap. Rogers looking. He throws over the middle. It’s deflected and it’s going to be intercepted. Intercepted by Baltimore. It was deflected into the air and it was recovered by Baltimore as an interception. Rogers was fighting for the football and he he just wasn’t going to win a battle for the football with a with a with a defensive lineman or whatever it was. I think the Steelers player comes out of it with the football. Zack Frasier. See what happens here. number 91 tipped it up and then Rogers almost caught it himself. I think Rogers just pushed off the ball. But like if Rogers catches this and has control, I think that might be the case that he’s making that he caught it and he got his knee down. But but like right on the field is a pick. So they would need undisputable video evidence. I mean, he looks like he’s down, I got to say. But like the Ravens player does, so it’s under review. This is a ginormous review in this game. If it’s if it if the call stands or is confirmed, Baltimore will have the ball in Pittsburgh territory and a touchdown, they take the lead. I just I don’t see an angle like cuz his knee is down. his knees down and and like it’s like even if you’re fighting for control, if you still have possessed control, you are like this is going to be the angle that we see. Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know, man. That it’s not conclusive. It’s going to be I think I think if they would have ruled it a catch and and down by Rogers on the field, they would have probably kept that. But you know, whoa, that angle, dude. This is so big. And if if they don’t get it, that means Baltimore is going to have the ball in Pittsburgh territory. The knee’s down. And it looks like Rogers does have the ball. Like I understand they’re fighting for the ball at that point, but it at that point he’s down. Dude, this is such a monumental call just because of the field positioning. Because even if this if this stands, Pittsburgh will have another chance, but it’ll be third and forever, they’re not going to have they’re not going to have much of a chance to keep this drive alive and Baltimore will probably get a chance to go win the game. I’ve never seen I mean I credit for Rogers for like fighting for the ball. Also, I don’t know if he he ever has full control of the ball is the thing because I mean here’s here’s how the wrist thing comes into play. Like he’s got a cast on his left wrist. I don’t think he You can make an argument. He never has full control of this football. Yeah. I mean, I I don’t think so either. And let’s see what the call is here. He says down by contact. Oh my goodness, man. The Steelers just caught a massive break in this ball game. Oh my gosh, that is a incredible call. I mean, I think it’s the right call. I think he has to seems to have the ball with the with the knee down. John Harbaugh can’t believe it. And if I were him, I’d be upset, too. But like, it’s so close. And now Rogers and the Steelers will have another crack at it here. If they get a first down here, that’s that’s huge. Third down at 17. Yeah, third down and 19 is what they have on CBS. Our graphics and our our stats have it third and 17. So, whatever you want to believe, let’s just round it out and say third and 18. Got to have a play here to have some deep shots. You put MVS, a speedster out there. You put Calvin Austin the third, a speedster out there. This would be an incredible play by Aaron Rogers if he can pick up a first down. They go empty. Gainwell is in a Macaffrey split out way out wide to the right. Takes the snap. They’re just going to fake it to him. And now they just get it to him. and he’s going to have to make multiple guys miss, stay in bounds. Like I said, guys, the big thing there is the field positioning aspect of it because now the Steelers have an opportunity to punt this ball away, but also with the amount of time left on the clock, the Ravens could potentially get this clock way down. And if they score a touchdown late here, I don’t know, man. The Steelers might not have much of a chance to get points at the end of this game. So, Steelers defense are going to have to go win this ball game, which is the scariest of words to say. Corus Waitman boots it away or Darius. Here we go. Webster fields it inside the 20 and he’s going to make one man miss, but he only gets to the 21, which is still a long it’s it’s a long field, but the long field means if Baltimore scores the game, you know, changing touchdown here, Pittsburgh’s probably not going to have a whole lot of time. Was a good punt from Weightman. And now I mean it it’s just classic Steelers Ravens rivalry game, isn’t it here? Ponzi lot on the line. Steelers can take full control of this division with a win. Have had a hard time stopping the run in this half. And now Baltimore takes over at the Steelers or at their own 22. They start in eye formation. What? Who else? They’re going to hand it to Derrick Henry. Huge hole forms. There he goes all the way to the 40 down to the 43. And Chuck Clark is injured on the play. Huge gain and another big, you know, explosive play from this Ravens offense to start this drive. And once again, this interior defensive line just getting bullied. Keano Benton being driven back almost a full five yards on that play. And then Chuck Clark, terrible angle, even though he ends up making the tackle. Thank Christ. Why is Chuck Clark on the field? That’s my question. They finally put Jabril Peppers back out there. Under center now in the eye formation is Lamar. You know what they’re going to do. Can you stop it? Handoff. Lamar, he’s going to pick up five. You know what they’re going to do? They’re going to run the football. They’re going to take Derrick Henry off the field for this second down. Try and keep him fresh. He’s got to be tired as hell, man. He’s got He’s got 23 carries, a large majority of those here in the second half. He’s a He’s nearing 100 yards rushing on the day, which would be the fourth game of four games where Dererick Harmon’s out where the opponent has an a plus 100 yard rusher. Got to get some sort of stop here. Shotgun Lamar. He will throw it. He’s still looking. Nothing there. Now pressure on him. Now he sidesteps a man. And now TJ Watts got him by the leg. He throws it. Incomplete. Another play where the Steelers pass rush gets to Lamar and he’s able to throw it away to keep it third down and manageable. This play is absolutely huge. If you get a stop here, YA Black with the pressure up the middle. Great bull rush by YA. And then good job by Watt to get Lamar around the ankle. He was double teamed. Absolutely massive third down here for Pittsburgh. Type those threes. We got to get off the field. Over 5200 Steelers fans in the chat. Sub for Steelers dubs if you want to see the Steelers win. They go spread shotgun. They send pressure to Lamar. He’s going to launch down the field and it’s going to be caught by DeHop. Incomplete. Out of bounds. Fourth and five. They have all three of their timeouts. My guess is they’re going to punt. Did DeHop get both feet in? I doubt it. No, he did not. James Pierre in coverage. Chuck Clark with on Mark Andrews and he was open. Why is Chuck Clark in the [ __ ] game? And now there’s Patrick Queen who’s down on the ground. He was injured last week with a glute issue and they’re looking at something in his lower lower half. Looks like they’re stretching him out. Ponzi, don’t look at me that way. There’s an injury. Can we please Can we please keep things professional? Did we get any updates on Heismith, by the way? I have not seen Yeah, I haven’t seen Heist. Well, I think I did actually see him after the injury. What’s Pete’s injury? Did Eckles come back? You believe Patrick Queen is walking off the field, but he is limping. Yeah, he’s back. Eckles is back. Patrick Queen getting looked at at the sideline. I I think it has something. It looks like he’s kind of massaging his glute. I think that’s probably the same thing he came into this game with. Fourth down and five. The Ravens have their offense on the field. If the Steelers can get us If the Steelers can get a stop here, they will take over in Baltimore territory. Type those fours. Who did? came up. Oh, no way. All right, here we go. This is the game. Well, maybe not the game yet, but this is a big play. Shotgun Lamar. Steelers threatening pressure. Can the Steelers hold up? They take the snap now. They drop out of it. Wide open. Z Flowers caught. Did he get there? He got there. First down. Damn. Too easy, man. trying to do trying to get too fancy with a late rotation. You have a safety that’s in a deep safety alignment covering the flats. That’s as easy as it’s going to get. Terrible defensive play call from Terara Austin trying to confuse Lamar Jackson, an MVP caliber quarterback. Now they had the ball in Pittsburgh territory. New set of downs. Clock now at 417. That’s a big play, man. Shotgun play action here. Lamar just going to dump it off and dropped by Derrick Henry. He had some room in front of him to run. It was left too short. Clock stops. Second down and 10. I mean, this might just be at we we we might just be at the point in the game here where the Steelers need to turn the ball over or, you know, the Ravens are going to score a touchdown cuz they went for it on a fourth and five on their own side of the field. Like unless it’s like really low percentage, I really doubt they’re going to give this ball back to Pittsburgh without turning it over. Defense has to get a stop. Shotgun. Lamar takes the snap. Hands it off to Henry up the middle at Highmith with a nice tackle. Let’s go. Gain of maybe two. And oh boy, he’s back. All right, Ponzi. Here we go. Biggest third down of the game. Third down and eight. If you have a towel, wave it. If you’re by your keyboard, spam those threes in the chat. Let’s go. Come on. Third down and nine. Let’s get after his ass. Shotgun Lamar. Lamar letting time bleed off. He takes the snap. Here comes pressure. Throws middle wide open. Flowers caught. Now he’s running. 30 25 20 face mask and he gets down to the 14 yd line. I don’t think they’re going to call a face mask though. They’re down inside the red zone. Another huge uh possession down win for the Baltimore Ravens playing zone coverage. Nobody even on Z Flowers over the middle of the field. Coverage has just been a joke, man. Steelers are trying to get too crazy. Oh no, it’s a coverage bust. Look like Chuck Clark was supposed to take Zay Flowers and let him go. Why is Chuck Clark in the [ __ ] game? This is a fireable offense to play this dude. Offset eye formation from the Steelers 13. Play action. Tons of time. Throws end zone caught. Touch. No. Nope. Did he drop it? They’re saying touchdown Isaiah likely. He caught it and it was it was knocked out. But they’re saying touchdown. And honestly, I think the Ravens gave the Steelers too much time. The division lead will come down to about two and a two minutes and 45 seconds. Looks like he did get two feet and possession and it looked like he beat Joey Porter Jr. in coverage. Good throw by Lamar and the Ravens will take the lead. So, it’s going to come down to Aaron Rogers, the guy you bring in in the offseason, the guy you waited for. And now I think they’re going to take it away. Dude, this Are they taking it away? I thought I saw I thought I saw two feet in with control. I guess expedited review has taken away the touchdown. Oh, I don’t know. It counts as a pass break up for Joey Porter. And now second down and 10. Shotgun. Lamar says something to Derrick Henry. Lamar will take the snap. They send five. They send pressure. He throws it to Henry. It’s caught. He throws Payton Wilson to the side. He will pick up around eight. Third down and two coming up. Clock continues to tick. Or did they call timeout? I think Steelers called timeout. Steelers obviously want the ball back. And they did. Timeout. Mike Tomlin. I like that move. Give yourself as much time as you possibly can. Man, talk about your heart pounding AFC North match up. Now, I will say, man, I got to say pressure is really on Ravens in this game because if they lose, they got a really tough next stretch of season and they got the Bengals on the road, then they got New England, and then they got Green Bay. So, even if the Steelers lose this game, guys, I will say season’s not over. got two very winnable games out of your next three in Miami and Cleveland, but obviously you want that game advantage and you want to steal this game in Baltimore. Steelers are two plays away from getting the stop they need. Patrick Queen back in the game. Shotgun Lamar Henry the back. I think you got to know what’s coming here. You got to go one-on-one coverage and then try and stop the run up the middle. Lamar will take the snap. And now they’re going to hand it off later. It’s going to be Oh, are they going to get off sides on the Steelers? Alex Heismith comes through, but there’s a flag on the play. Alex Heismith with the TFL. Well, what is the flag? Legal formation on Baltimore. You decline this, right? Yeah, you decline it. It’ll be fourth down coming up and this will this will be huge. All right, folks. If you haven’t gotten in the comments section yet, now is the time to do so. Spam those fours. Sub for Steelers. Dubs are going to be here for every single game for the Pittsburgh Steelers this season. Fourth down and five. Game on the line. This is to get the ball back. Shotgun. Lamar takes the snap. Lamar looking. Nothing there. Now he’s looking to run. Now he’s looking to throw. End zone. It’s incomplete. Couldn’t get to Mark Andrews. He wants a flag. He’s not going to get it. Patrick Queen, the former Raven in coverage. And the Steelers take over. And they’re a first down away from ending this game. Let’s go. Say what you want about the defense. They stepped up at the most pivotal moment. Oh, that was catchable. I think maybe good enough coverage from the Steelers. Patrick Queen with good enough coverage. Good enough pass rush to force a throw on the run. And now the Steelers are in the driver’s seat once again. And one first down and this game is essentially over. Go get us a first down, Rogers. Go get us a first down, man. Let’s go. Sub four Steelers dubs. Steelers go in heavy formation here with War in the back. Rogers will hand it off to Warren. He will go up the middle and get nothing just like he has all day long. Gets maybe a yard. I don’t know why we’re running it to the left side where we have our backup left tackle and we don’t have our blocking tight end. Sub4 Steelers Dubs. Timeout Ravens obviously. Yeah, probably. We might need Rogers to throw for a first down. This run game has done nothing all game long. and once again they have multiple receivers out this time but they are still in jumbo personnel two receivers no DK takes the snap toss to Warren it’s going to make a man miss up field but he’s only going to get about two be third down and around seven Baltimore will use another timeout out and it will be third down and seven coming up if the Steelers get this. I mean, this is why you bring in Aaron Rogers, right? You you bring in the veteran who’s been in the spot before to go win you a ball game. And here on third down and seven, Tyler Shuck’s uh uncle just sent Saints now a $1,000 super chat. No way. That’s crazy because they beat the Bucks today. All right, man. It comes down to this other If we can’t get this, we’ll punt it away and the Ravens will have one more shot. They’ll have a timeout with about two minutes to go to go downfield and win the game. But if Rogers can throw for a first down here, that’s pretty much going to end things. Shotgun Rogers got MVS, DK, and Calvin Austin the third as the receivers. He takes the snap. He’s looking. He’s going to throw MVS and it’s behind him. Incomplete. I don’t know why we’re throwing that. He would have been tackled short of the sticks anyway. And now the clock stops. And they have a timeout left. It’s a bad rep by Rogers in a big spot. Now we will once again put our faith in the Steelers defense. Aaron predetermine that throw. It’s a low snap. Weightman gets it away. Uh lots of room here for their return man and he’s going to break a couple tackles and get down to the 43 yd line on their side of the field. They’ll have a timeout, a minute 56 to go. Plenty of time and a timeout to go and get a game-winning touchdown. You got to turn the ball over whether it’s on downs or whether it is an interception or fumble. They are not going to take any field goals. It’s going to be four downs or bust for the Baltimore Ravens. and the Steelers. Oh, it looks like there’s going to be a penalty on Baltimore here that’s going to pork him back. Holding on the Ravens. So, that’s going to be another 10 yards. One more stop. One more stop. Let’s go. And one more fanatics read here. Go to chatsports.com/week1425 to get 35% off with code frost for this Steelers t-shirt. $25 with that 35% off discount when you use code frost. It’s for today only. chatsports.com/week1425 to get this Steelers t-shirt in your closet today. Sub4steelers [Applause] dubs. We’ve got 6100 people in this chat room right now. I don’t I I want to be abundantly clear when I say this. I don’t think this season is on the line for Pittsburgh. Baltimore’s got a very difficult final four game stretch. The Steelers have multiple very winnable ball games and of course you still get the Ravens again at home in the season finale. So if you lose this game, it’s not the end of the world necessarily, but with the Steelers being up by multiple scores at multiple points in this game, including in the second half, to lose this game in this fashion would be heartbreaking. It would be heartbreaking. All right, plain and simply. And if the Steelers win in this game, just to give you guys the stakes, Baltimore will likely have to win two of their next three against Cincinnati on the road next week, New England at home in two weeks, and then Green Bay in Lambo in three weeks. Those are three very difficult opponents for the Ravens to go up against in the weeks to come. If the Steelers steal this game in Baltimore and the Ravens uh you know have this tough schedule coming up, it’s it’s actually a possibility if the Steelers win this game, they could have the division wrapped up by the season finale. That is a possibility. But if you lose today, obviously it makes things a lot harder. You got to win three of your final four to really give yourself even a chance. You got to really root hard for the Bengals and the Patriots and the Packers against the Ravens in the weeks to come. Got to take care of your business against Miami and Cleveland and maybe even steal a game against Detroit. All right, it makes it a lot more difficult. But I got to say, man, the pressure has to be on Baltimore in this game. They are home. They got that tough schedule to finish this season. If they go back a game in the division at this point in the year, it’s going to be very, very difficult for them to come back. Come on, man. Sub for Steelers dubs. Come on, man. Let’s go. So, a minute 56 to go. Baltimore has one timeout. Steelers have two timeouts. It’s four down territory here. The Steelers need a turnover of some kind to end the game. Shotgun for Lamar. Two high safeties for Pittsburgh. They’re just going to play soft coverage, aren’t they? Takes the snap. Lamar looking. Nothing there. Now pressure in his face. Throws low. Incomplete. Steelers pass rush. Got home. Now a flag. Holding please. Holding please on offense. And it is. Yes. Holding on Baltimore. Andrew Vorhees the left guard. Sub four, Steelers, Dubs. One more defensive stop and the game is ours. The division lead is ours. Hopefully for good. Come on. We’re going to be here for every Steelers game this season. So, make sure you click that subscribe button to never miss a watch party. First down and 20. Lamar shotgun takes the snap. He’s got time in the pocket. Now he’s going to throw sidearm to his checkdown. It’s Ali and he’s going to get brought down at the 22. Get some of it back. Clock continues to tick. Second down and 14. They substitute Keano Benson. Get their disruptive nose tackle in there. They go double A mug. Look, they bounce out of it. Now Lamar, nothing there. Now he throws it. Tip, but it’s still caught by Zay Flowers and he’s brought down inbounds. It’ll be third down and around 10 coming up. Two more stops. Two more stops. Clock continues to tick. Down to a minute 10 seconds. 70 seconds. Hold for 70 more seconds, boys. Come on. Third and 11. Now Lamar has to get people in the right spot. Clock continues to tick. Clock down to 55 seconds as they snap the ball. Lamar steps up. He’s looking to run. Somebody gets held. Let’s see if they call it. Lamar gets down. It’ll be fourth down and two. Clock continues to tick. I think that’s where Baltimore will call their timeout. Baltimore calls their timeout here. It’ll be a fourth and two coming up. Lamar scampers for nine yards to make it fourth down and short. Finish the job, defense. Finish the [ __ ] job right here. Come on. Get this win for me and for us. Let’s go. They’ve got 47 seconds. They’re still on their own side of the field with no timeouts. Something tells me there’s going to be something over the short middle of the field because I think the Steelers don’t want to give up the big play and they don’t want to give up the sideline. So, if there’s something that’s going to be open here quick, it’s going to be over the middle which would be good as well and and that would kill clock. If you’re going to leave an area of the field vulnerable, I would leave the middle of the field to the short area, not deep. Lamar takes the snap. This is the ball game. He’s He’s got nothing now. He’s trying to escape now. He has to throw it. It’s caught. First down likely. Oh my goodness. You were so close. Now you’re down to the 43 yd line. Clock continues to tick. They’re going to spike it, but the Ravens keep the game alive. 30 seconds left to go in the game. Lamar Jackson was under pressure and threw a little looping pass to Isaiah likely for the first down. It’s a hell of a clutch play by Lamar, but they still got a long way to go. Give me a stop. This rivalry never ceases to be entertaining, man. Come on. They’ve got more than 50 yards to go to take the lead. 30 seconds to go. Shotgun Lamar, give me a stop, please. defense takes the snap. Lamar’s got all day. Throws middle. Oh, he just barely sneaks it in. It’s caught to Charlie Colar down to the Steelers 39. They’re going to have to clock it again. 18 17 16 and they spike down to the Steelers 39. They’re now within striking distance of throwing to the end zone. And they were so close to knocking that away. Was that Pton Wilson? Lamar Jackson fit that into a super tight window. And now 16 seconds left. Second down and 10. No timeouts. Got to protect the deep ball here. Timeout Steelers. They want to make sure they’re in good spot. Pretty much what it comes down to is can Baltimore get into the end zone? If they can, they win. If they can’t, they lose. I’m guessing the middle of the field will be the area that’s open for them. Come on, Pittsburgh. Give me this win. Sub for Steelers dubs. If you want the Steelers to lock this thing down, if you want a victory, and if you want to join us for the rest of this season, here on the Steelers Talk Watch parties, click that subscribe button. Going to have extensive film analysis on the channel tomorrow. We’ll have another postgame show. Well, we’ll have our postgame show after this game is over and we’ll have a second one come out during Sunday Night Football tonight. Have two videos tomorrow. We’ll have our live show on Tuesday. Got a bunch of great Steelers content coming your way this week. Getting ready for Monday Night Football versus the Dolphins at home. But one at a time here. 16 seconds to go. Second down and 10. One more stop defense. Lamar takes the snap. He’s got time. He’s rolling out to his left. He’s going to throw sideline. Did he get both feet in? He did. First uh it’s going to be not first down. Third down and one coming up. got out of bounds with nine seconds to go. It’ll be third down and one. I don’t think there’s enough time for the Ravens to throw over the middle of the field. So, the Steelers need to protect the end zone and they need to protect sidelines. Probably two plays left in this ball game. They’re probably both going to go into the end zone from the Steelers 31. Steelers obviously playing deep. Takes the snap. Lamar deep drop. Now here comes Heismith. And he’s going to have to get rid of it. And he’s down. He’s sacked. Steelers win. Steelers win. Steelers win. And the Steelers take control of first place in the AFC North in their biggest win of the 2025 season to this point. Here we go. There we go. Here we go. There we go. Here we go. There we go. The Steelers win a massive ball game in Baltimore in the biggest game of their season this entire year to this point. And we will face these guys again in Pittsburgh in week 18 in the season finale. But we have stolen a game in Baltimore against the team everybody didn’t believe we could beat. Nobody believed we could we could beat the Ravens this year, man. Guess what? We got at least one. We got one in the chamber. We got another one in week 18. All right, let’s go, man. Huge win for this football team. Huge morale boost for this football team. And now we move forward to next week against Miami. Hopefully you can get your first prime time win of the season. You’ve lost every single prime time game of the season so far, but you got a soft Miami Dolphins team that can’t play in the cold coming to play a night game in Pittsburgh in December. So absolutely the Steelers should take care of business next week. And then you get Cleveland again. That should be, you know, a very winnable game as well. And if you win those two games, all right, if you win against Cleveland and if you win against Miami, that means the Ravens need to win at least two out of the next three games. They got to play Cincinnati, who they lost to at home last week on the road this time. Then they got to play the 10 the number one seed in the AFC, the New England Patriots at home. Then they got to play Green Bay, which might be the number one seed in the a in the NFC at the end of the day today. really tough schedule for for Baltimore. And unless the Steelers [ __ ] the bed, which they might, let’s be real here, the Steelers might [ __ ] the bed and the some of these games they should win. You never know. But the Steelers are officially back in the driver’s seat in the AFC North. And if the Steelers take care of their business against the two teams that they should be able to beat if they want to make the playoffs this year, if you beat those two teams, then Baltimore needs to win at least two of the next three, which is going to be really difficult for them in my opinion. What a massive win for this football game, man. For this football team. I mean, losing two straight if, you know, I don’t I don’t think the season was on the line today, but obviously there was a lot on the line today. Steelers pulled it out. Wow. I mean, I haven’t I it hasn’t really come down to the wire like that Ponzi this season outside of I would say probably the New York game. The New York game was was definitely uh pins and needles like this one. Um, but man, this has been this was as entertaining of a football game as we have seen the Steelers play throughout the entire year, you know, since the New York game for sure. And for this one definitely takes the cake. This one is a seminal moment for the 2025 Pittsburgh Steelers. Mike Tomlin, you know, and this team heard a lot of noise this week and um, you know, you can say referees, you can say whatever, but at the end of the day, they finished this game. Their defense stood up multiple times in the fourth quarter. They made the plays that they needed to play and they needed to make and they end up winning this game 2722 in an absolutely massive game in the race for the AFC North Championship. Anthony Jensen with a 10 says, “Why would we go for two pass plays in a row when we are up four with seven minutes left? Uh why not run?” I mean, frankly, the run game just doesn’t work. Run. I mean, our run game might officially be cooked. All right. You get 34 total yards. 34 total yards on 14 uh running back carries today. That’s atrocious. So, I don’t necessarily blame the Steelers putting the ball in Rogers’s hands to win it because he’s the reason why you won this game offensively. He’s the reason why you scored 27. And you know what the big uh what the big difference in this ball game was Ponzi? The James Pierre interception. gave the Steelers an extra touchdown there. Yeah. Um and that ends up being the difference in this ball game for sure. Um Stephen Oric, we says, “We just lost another first half lead by over 10 points and we got it back, my friends.” We got it back. I think we did a little more than that. Well, I think he sent this when the Ravens uh you know, we thought the Ravens might have took the lead. Uh but they didn’t. So, the Steelers actually never gave up their lead in the second half. So, um at least they didn’t give it up. us even they came this close to though. El train with a two says anyone have a spare deliberator for me. I mean it was crazy man. Crazy crazy performance. Crazy crazy ending to that game for sure. $2 from Tony Daniel says great we beat Baltimore. Now we can look forward to nine and eight. Hey man, 9 and eight might be enough. Nine and eight will be enough to get a home playoff game in my opinion. All right. Because you look at Baltimore, they’re at 6 and seven. To get for them to get to 9 and 8, they would have to win three of their last four. They got to play us again, a team they lost to at home. They got to play Cincinnati again, a team they lost to at home on the road. Then they got to play New England and Green Bay. Honestly, I don’t know how the how the Cincinnati game ended up. Cincinnati might have a better chance of catching us at this point. Yeah. I mean, I feel like um they they did choke. The Bengals did. The Bengals choked. They lost. So that So what’s their record now? Let me see. Are I think they only have five wins, right? I should know this. See, RA uh four and nine. Yeah. So great day to be a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, man. Baltimore is 4-9. So if you go nine and eight, B Cincinnati literally can’t catch you. Nine and eight will win the division. All right. So if you win just two of your final four games, you’re there. It’s all you have to do is win two of your final four and you’re at nine and eight. It’s all you got to do. And if you win three of your last four, you get the 10 wins for the third straight season under Mike Tomlin. Oh man, right when right when I’m out on this team, they reel me back in. Ponzi $5 from Deon TS is best anniversary gift ever. [ __ ] those rat birds in their own home. Lol. Trash. Love it. Love the energy, Deon. Love the energy. Bernard with a two says, “What grade do you give A-Rod?” Honestly, second half, you know, had opportunities to put this Ravens team away. They didn’t do it. Um, so I’ll give him a B+. His downfield passing today was as good as we have seen since the ball since the Cincinnati Bengals game. Uh, Rogers finishes 23 of 34 with 284 yards passing, a touchdown, no picks, and a rushing touchdown. So, thought Rogers played his best game in a long time, probably in the last two months today. So, it came at a great time and uh I would I would say he outdooled Lamar Jackson today. Lamar went 19 to 35. Uh so Rogers’s completion percentage was better. Rogers had more yards, obviously had more touch uh he tied for touchdowns, but Lamar threw a pick. So I I would say Aaron Rogers outdooled Lamar Jackson today. I would say that. And unfortunately, the run game did give up or the run defense did give up another 217 yards on the ground today. That issue is not going anywhere. Especially when you got a good running team in Miami coming in next week. I just hope and pray that Derek that Dererick Harmon’s good to go next week because this run defense can’t stop anybody uh without Harmon on the field. Plain simply, $2 from Dan Flity says, “Yippy Cay, [ __ ] Let’s go.” Let’s go, man. I I’m so happy right now. Finally got him on the ground. finally got him on the ground there at the end. Uh definitely not bore me or the fives as that win was worth a donation. You guys are great. Thanks for the coverage. Thank you guys, man. We got I mean we had like seven we had over 7,000 people watching during that final stretch. So thank you guys so much for your guys’ support. $20 from Shannon Cassidy says Aaron Rogers played his ass off. Um I can’t disagree, man, because a lot of those completions that we talked about, especially the guys like DK Metaf down the field. All right. Now, obviously, you would like to see maybe Adam Thelen and MVS get more involved than they were. Um, because it’s not like the secondary receiving options today, Ponzi, were were terrific, right? Thelen only had one target today for four yards. Marquez Valdis Scantling only got targeted once and it was an incompletion there at the end. Um, something I will I I I did notice in the game, Jonno Smith didn’t play nearly enough and what do you know, the offense played its best game in weeks. Shocker. Shocker. Uh Ponzi. So used to it. All right. My game balls are for sure done. Okay. Well, actually actually I’m going to add one more here at the end. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there we go. You want to add Alex Heismith? No. Why game winning sack? No. No. Okay. No. You played a good game, but I don’t think it’s game ball worthy there. All right. I’m going to do takeaways here. Make sure you get your super chats in. I’ll I’ll I’ll continue to take your questions. Sir Alex the Great has just got to love Steelers versus Ravens game. Always a nerve wreck. It’s why we love it, man. It’s why it’s the best. It’s the best rivalry in sports in my opinion. It’s just always good. It’s always close. Um and man, that’s that’s just a terrific win. $2 from JV Free says, “Where are the Rogers haters today?” Zip it. Yeah, man. Uh Rogers definitely showed up today. I don’t know what it was, man. I don’t know if it was Jonnu not being out there. I don’t know if it was, you know, just being more just being more aggressive, get getting it to DK. I don’t know if Thelen and his presence on there, you know, took some of the attention off of DK. I don’t know, man. I’m going to have to watch the film and I’m really intrigued to see what the film says. And, you know, the second half performance today wasn’t the best from the Steelers offense and Rogers, but it was certainly good enough. It was certainly good enough to get the job done. And uh I’m looking forward to seeing what this with this team and really we’re we’re talking about this team now as a pass heavy offense down the stretch. So uh we’ll see what that looks like in the weeks to come. But with this win, you take full possession first place in the in the AFC North. And if you can just win two of your if you can just win two of your final uh four games here, you should be able to make the playoffs. That’s what is so big about this win. And you’ve got three winnable games. All right, just win two out of the three quote unquote winnable games and then who knows what happens against Detroit. You’re playing with house money as far as I’m concerned against Detroit on the road. All right, if you beat Detroit on the road, great. If you don’t, well, I mean, no one’s really I mean, it’s not really the games that I’m looking at and saying we got to win those games. So, um, looking forward to seeing what this team does here in the final month of the season. Ponzi, if you want to take over here for just a little second, I’m gonna get my takeaways in so that you can, uh, start working on these postgame graphics. And of course, we’ll get into the postgame show as soon as we can and then we’ll do the raffle after the postgame show. Uh so make sure you guys stick around. It’s a celebration here on Steelers Talk. Steelers win versus the Baltimore Ravens here in week 14 to take control back over the AFC North. Biggest victory of the season, bar none of the year. Hopefully this is the turning point that leads to a hot December and hopefully that leads into a hot January as well for the black and gold. So Tamzi, take it over here for just a second. I’m going to get my takeaways in. and I’ll be back in a second. I did want to say that we also reached I believe yeah our milestone of getting to 500. So we will be doing the uh raffle just to show you off one last chance before get your super chats in uh with your last game thoughts, you know. I mean great great win great win. I mean, I feel like all the pressure was on Baltimore and, you know, you came out, it may end up in a pretty win, but a win’s a win. Just as a reminder for the last uh little stretch here, uh we did reach to this the salute to service hoodie. We’ll be we will be raffling off this. Um and just as a last reminder for our super chat menu, it’s going to be $10 to get you in, $20 for three raffle tickets, plus your name and the gong. $50, we’ll make it rain. We do have to hit the gong second time. Uh but I mean great win. I feel like you know the division is not wrapped up but it’s in their destiny and that’s that’s all you really want. You want to control your own destiny as you get down to the home stretch here. Got some super chats coming in. Tink McGathi saying here we go. Steelers got my hoodie this week. You guys rock at the Ravens. I mean, f the Ravens. F the Ravens. F the Ravens. Ponzi has no rhythm. My bad. I don’t got no rhythm, dog. Every time. Ponzi, I’m going to have to ban you from the F the Ravens chat, and I don’t want to have to do that. All right. I don’t want to have to do that, man. All right. Oh my goodness. What a win. What a freaking win, dude. Byron Davidson, defense with the dub. Metaf and Aaron A-Rod. Best game of season. Pit versus Baltimore Classic. Can we beat the Pats? We already beat the Pats. Beat them. We already beat the Pats on the road. So, listen, man. The thing about the Steelers is that I’ll just answer this question real quick. Uh, Ponzi. Um, the thing about the Steelers is that we’ve seen them take down the best that the AFC has to offer. We’ve seen them take down Drake May and the Patriots on the road, one of their only two losses this entire season. We’ve seen them dominate Indianapolis at home. Okay. Um and now they’ve beaten the Ravens. And I’m not saying the Ravens are this worldbeating football team. I mean, they shot themselves in the foot a number of times today. Still almost won. Um and they still could win the division, but they’re six and seven for a reason, right? They’re not that good of a football team. And I’m not saying the Steelers necessarily are either, but like we beat the Pats before and we have seen that if the Steelers play their best game, they are capable of winning against, you know, playoff caliber teams in this conference. So, uh, it’s just about putting together your best month of football over this next month, hopefully in preparation of a playoff birth. And if the Steelers make the playoffs, I know a lot of people are going to be upset that Tomlin is not going to, you know, he’s going to, you know, the Rooney’s are going to accept his 2027 option and he’s going to be back next year. But like, listen, man, I’ve said all along if if the Steelers turn it around, make the playoffs, win the division. Hell, maybe win a playoff game would be fantastic. Mike Tomlin, I’m I’m perfectly fine bring them back, but maybe get a different defensive coordinator. Uh Taylor Austin’s contract is up at the end of this year. So we’ll have to see what the defense looks like the rest of the way. We’ll have to see how the rest of the season unfolds. I will say if you lose this lead now with four games left to go Ponzi and you don’t you don’t win this division, that’s going to be a really bad look on Mike Tomlin. But the fact that he bounced that he and his Steelers bounced back here in this really big game on the road in Baltimore, um it speaks volumes, man, to you know, the fact that Mike Tomlin teams do not give up on Mike Tomlin. They do not give up on each other. This group, no matter what, is going to fight hard for their head coach. And that’s something that has been uh something that’s really endeared me to Mike Tomlin over the years is that his teams don’t give up. And even when you start three and seven in a season, even when, you know, you lose three straight after Kenny Picket gets injured in 2023, they find a way to, you know, find a way to win and they find a way to put themselves in contention, you know, despite that. So, big shout out to Mike Tomlin in this game, man. Let’s see if I’m done with this. One more. All right, let’s do this actually. All right, got my takeaways done. All right, man. Let’s take some super chats. Trying to see if I missed any Venmos. I think I did miss some Venmos, actually. Just one. I’ll send it to you, Ponzi. There you go. By the way, guys, again, we are going to be raffling off a salute to service Pittsburgh Steelers hoodie. Yep. Aaron Rogers, we got you the win today, man. No doubt about that. All right, man. Here we go. There we go. There we go. Let’s go. Huge win for the black and gold. In control of our own destiny, as the season goes on, let’s go. Byron Davidson or Pizzle Fizzle now with a five says the Steelers uh ate like that fine ass girlfriend send you uh send you had you couldn’t act right but she kept promising you she’d get it together. Damn. I have no idea what you just said Pizzle fizzle but I mean Oh, I see what you mean. All right. So, so he’s saying that it’s like a poorly behaved girlfriend that, you know, keeps promising you that she’s gonna start behaving and she doesn’t. That’s kind of what he’s saying there. But I kind I mean, yeah, I mean, you can also, you know, flip it on the other end there. You could say it’s the it’s the uh it’s the shitty boyfriend that, you know, love bombs and does all this different [ __ ] says he’s sorry, all that stuff for all the crappy things he does, and then keeps coming back, you know. And you know, this is the love bomb that the Steelers have put on us here. A win on the road in Baltimore to take the division lead and give us, you know, full control of this division with every opportunity to control our destiny. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. We have any more super chats here? Oh, we got a Venmo we can that we can hit here. Venmo, we got another one here. Send it your way. If you guys have something to say, feel free to send in a super chat of any dollar amount. We’re gonna we’re going to talk Steelers football until you guys are done talking Steelers football. All right. Uh we got Thomas Miller coming in with a $1 Venmo and he says Steelers. Appreciate you, Thomas. And then we got Samuel Pew. Uh the original Black Diamond Man, uh $3. Says TJ looks horrible. This the same like Miles had five uh had five on. Uh Cam was getting blown back. Film will show. Dub is a dub though. It’s if it’s close, Ravens will choke 100%. Um and you know, we’ll talk about it in the postgame show, but you know, this game wasn’t just like a perfect game from the Pittsburgh Steelers. They gave the Ravens a number of opportunities to take this thing. Um and there is serious deficiencies. I mean, you give up 217 yards on the ground in this game. Now, this is the first time all season you don’t give up a 100yard rusher. Uh, but Dererick Henry had 94, Katon Mitchell got 76, Lamar Jackson got 43. Um, and then Ali and Flowers combined for four on two carries. So that adds up to 217 yards. That’s not good enough, right? Um, and that’s now two games in a row where you’ve given up over 200 yards on the ground. And I really think the big X factor for the Steelers down the stretch here is going to be can they get Derrick Harman back? And if they can’t get Derek Harman back, I think they should bring in somebody. All right, because Keo Benson getting blown backwards time and time and time again. Um Cam Hayward was clearly getting tired because he had to play too much. Um you know, ya Black, it seems like he runs out of gas in the second half as well. You know, the Steelers defense, they’re just so hot at the beginning of the game. And what I mean by that is they expel so much energy in the first half that they don’t have any left over in the second half. Especially when they’re losing the time of possession battle um and you’ve got a good running back that you’re going up against. They just can’t stop them. So obviously this team needs to figure something out uh to figure out the run game. I mean I’ll throw this idea out there. Do you think about bringing in Christian Wilkins? Is Christian Wilkins healthy enough to bring in character stuff. Yeah, man. I mean, four game stretch, whatever. What? It’s a what? I would put you bring him back on a one-year deal, give him a give him a month. Like the big question for me, guys, for the rest of the season that’s really going to be a big X factor is how bad is Dererick Harmon’s injury and how how long is he going to be out? Because, you know, we’ve seen a four game sample size. is now it’s a month of football sample size with Derrick Harman out of the lineup and this is the worst run defense in the league without him out there. Steelers need somebody that can stop the run. They don’t have Aqual who was maybe their best run defender, you know, before he got injured. He’s out for the season. Louderm Milk is still out. Benton stinks in terms of taking on double teams and holding the line of scrimmage. Like, are we really gonna are we really going to keep going with Logan Lee at defensive end? Like, with all due respect to Logan Lee, but like if there’s a if there’s a decent defensive tackle out there that you feel like can help you stop the run, bring him in next week. Telling you. Um, so Ponzi is almost done here with the uh with the graphics. We’ll get into the postgame show as soon as we can. We’ll take any super chats that come in. We’ll take any Venmos or PayPals. I believe we have uh a new PayPal here that we’ll get to here in a second because Smoost Buddhist comes in with a $2 super chat. Says Perk Rogers was here today. Yeah, man. I mean, he picked a really good time to turn around his season. Really good time. Now, we’ll see if this sticks, but like cuz last week he obviously couldn’t hit the deep ball to Roman Wilson. Um and he he’s had a hard time throwing the ball downfield accurately for almost two months before this game. And now today, you know, it’ll be interesting to go over the deep passing numbers, but he was money down the sideline today. Absolute money to DK Metaf. And you know, he was work he was moving well in the pocket. He had those quick feet. You know, I think people look at Aaron Rogers and they look at him consistently moving his feet and they call it happy feet. They call it jumpy. All that stuff. No, man. He’s like a boxer in there. He’s he’s he’s got such great agility where he can make guys miss in the pocket and you know all that different stuff. Even at 42 years old, he’s not very fast anymore. He can’t run away from people, but like there was a number of examples today where he did a really good job extending the play uh for Pittsburgh. And you know, that’s something that he brings that Mason Rudolph never could. So $5 here from Trent Laam says, “Let’s go Steelers, but damn, man, we could win the division at 9 and eight. Listen, man, a division championship is a division championship.” All right. And, you know, I it kind of I understand that the goal for teams and stuff is to win, you know, a Super Bowl and all that stuff, but it it does bother me at times when people say like, “Oh, you lost in the divisional round. You didn’t win anything.” And it’s like, well, if you if you won your division, you did win something. And that’s not nothing. Now, obviously, winning the weakest division in the NFL, you know, is is, you know, that’s something people can say, but it’s still a division title, right? And you do get a home playoff game. And, you know, you look at the AFC playoff picture and you look at the look at the teams that could be there at the number five spot. You know, you got like LA, which is a good team, but like at home, you know, warm weather team coming to Pittsburgh in January. The Seahos absolutely would have a chance to win that game. What’s that? Herbig. Oh, yeah. And Herbert is is is banged up a bit right now. Had to get surgery, I think. Um, so who knows how good he’s going to be down the stretch. Then you’ve got Buffalo. Um, and obviously Buffalo tough team to play. If we have to play them again, not sure if I if I would love our matchup with them. But like Jacksonville, Jacksonville’s kind of like us where, you know, they’re week to week in terms of how good they actually play. Um Indianapolis, I mean, if they somehow get the five seed with Anthony Richardson, that’s a game that we could win. Like the Steelers with the four seed in the AFC, in my opinion, can absolutely win a playoff game, especially if they, you know, if they can get Derrick Harman back, that means your run defense will be better. And then if Rogers can continue to play that he played like today and throwing the ball down the field with efficiency and hopefully the run game can get going again here down the stretch. You know, we’ve seen this team play well enough at certain points this season if they can put it all together here in the form in in the final month and in the playoff game in January if they make it. You know, this is a team that I still think can potentially, you know, can potentially win a playoff game. Now, I’m not guaranteeing it or anything like that, but like the hope is still alive, okay? That’s what that’s all I’m trying to say, but that’s all I’m trying to say, guys, is that the hope is still alive. Now, you got to you got to find ways to play better still, and there’s still warts on this team. There’s no doubt about that. But but at the end of the day, man, you win the division this year, Mike Tomlin will for sure be back next year. Uh, frankly, if you make the playoffs, I think Aaron Rogers will will seriously consider coming back for another season. And hey, if we get the Rogers that showed up today, sign me up for it. All right. If we’re getting the Rogers that played the last two months though, I’m probably not up for it. But, you know, I’m a big advocate for letting rookie quarterbacks sit for a year behind a veteran. And if the Steelers really do want to, you know, spend a draft pick on a quarterback next year, it’d be nice to get the good version of Aaron Rodgers for another year. I’ll just I’ll just throw that out there. But man, I mean, some players on this Ravens team absolutely balled out. Zay Flowers with 124 yards on eight catches. Um, by far their best offensive player. But then Dererick Henry, Katon Mitchell played really well as well. All right, man. It’s I think we got a $5 super chat if we can hit that before we go here. Ponzi. All right, we got a Venmo. Again, guys, we’ll be live as long as you guys want us to be live. We’re willing to celebrate this win. Um, and $5 super chat here from uh Kerrion. $5 super chat says, “Thoughts on Gainwell being more impactful than Warren?” Um, listen man, it wasn’t a good day for Warren today, but honestly, but I mean, was he more impactful? Jaylen Warren had the touchdown today, my friend. I mean, I know Kenneth Gainwell did too, but like I thought they were both pretty darn, you know. Well, in terms of running the football, the offensive line just couldn’t get anything going today. They just lost the line of scrimmage. So, it’s not many games, guys, where you lose the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and you win. The Steelers did that today. They won this game on the perimeter, uh, not in the trenches. Um, and that can’t be the way things go down the stretch. You’re going to have to find a way to win in the trenches again if you’re the Pittsburgh Steelers. But man, all right. Yeah. No other injuries other than those three, the three concussions. All right, man. Well, uh, for all the people super chatting, we’re going to get to you guys after, uh, the the postgame show here, guys. So, make sure you get your super chats in. We’re going to hit every single super chat that comes in before we officially sign off here on Steelers Talk by Chat Sports. We’re celebrating the biggest win of the season to this point. 2722 Steelers win. Let’s talk about it right now. Welcome in to [Music] Just when you thought that this team was done, they reel you back in, man. The Pittsburgh Steelers get their biggest win of the 2025 season to date, taking firm control back of the AFC North over the arch rival Baltimore Ravens on the road in Baltimore today by a final score of 27 to 22. And there’s a lot to talk about here on the Steelers Talk postgame show. I’m your host, Jack Sperry. Before we dive into this huge win for the Black and Gold and tell you why this was a monumentous win for the black for the Pittsburgh Steelers here um after losing two straight heading into this ball game. Make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. We’re going to be going live uh for every single Steelers game down the stretch. We got four games left to go. We got a month of football left. Hopefully the Steelers saved their best for last here and we’re going to be covering every single second of it right here on Steelers Talk. So, for all of our postgame reactions, our live watch parties, our daily coverage throughout the week, make sure you click that subscribe button and join the largest individually run Steelers news program anywhere here on YouTube. So, what a game, man. Uh 2722, fast start for the Steelers offense, getting a lot of points, get a big turnover in the first half from James Pierre. And, you know, Lamar Jackson, honestly, I didn’t think played like amazingly. I thought he played okay. 19 to 35, 219 yards with a a rushing touchdown and a passing touchdown, but a big interception in the first half. Once again, Steelers run defense not fantastic. Uh giving up, you know, over 200 rushing yards again today. Derrick Henry nearly got to triple digits. Uh Zay Flowers absolutely cooked in this game, 124 yards. But the Steelers offense today found a little bit of a spark throwing the ball down the field specifically to DK Metaf. Aaron Rogers was really good today. 23 of 34, 284 yards, and a and two touchdowns, one rushing, one uh passing with no interceptions. Kenny Gainwell uh led the team in rushing with only 15 yards today. No run game whatsoever. But the Steelers defense, man, they gave up a lot of yards today, but when they needed to make stops in that fourth quarter, they stepped up big time and they were able to get the win 2722, ending the game with a sack on Lamar Jackson. Now, before we get into my takeaways and my game balls, uh we have a trio of concussions for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Darnell Washington, Malik Harrison, and Andrew Pete all leave this game with concussions. They’ll uh obviously be entering concussion protocol this week. And you know, we we concussions can be fickle. You know, some concussions, you know, like James Pierre last week, he can come back and play the following week. Some concussions you might have to miss a couple weeks. So, um, we’ll keep you guys updated on their statuses throughout the week. If we get an update from Mike Tomlin in the postgame presser, I’ll have that in our second postgame show that’ll come out around halftime of Sunday Night Football this evening. But, man, let’s get into the game balls. I haven’t been able to give out some game balls in a while here, but Aaron Rogers, man, uh, speaking of things we haven’t seen in a while, we haven’t seen this version of Aaron Rogers since the first half of the season. Probably since, you know, the Cincinnati game back in week seven. And of course, you lose that game because the defense couldn’t get the stops that they made in this game. But Rogers throwing the ball down the field to DK Metaf to Calvin Austin the third, making big plays happen, extending plays outside of the pocket. Um, I thought, you know, the offense and Rogers slowed down towards the end when, you know, they kind of had to run clock and they tried running the ball more and they were in third and long situations more, but when they were in their pass heavy approach early in the game, Rogers was dealing. He was throwing those beautiful dime pieces down the field to DK Metaf. That’s who gets my second game ball here today. Uh, you know, Metaf incredible statline today, 148 yards. He led the game in receiving yards. He ended with 12 targets and seven catches. Uh, there’s some opportunities that DK missed out on in this game for sure, but when you throw those balls down the field, those are lower percentage looks. There’s going to be some more incompletions. I I would rather Rogers take those opportunities one-on-one down the sideline, and that’s exactly what he did today. DK probably had his best game just winning at the catch point of his Steelers tenure going up and getting those footballs. Um, you know, and Rogers putting it pinpoint accurate on him. Um, certainly made it a big effort to get DK Metaf the football in this game and it showed. Hopefully that continues in the weeks to come. Then Brandon Eckles, uh, you know, had a really good first half in particular, made some big plays to to force the Ravens off the field early in this game. Had a sack on Lamar Jackson. Uh, he had a couple pass breakups. He was all over the place today, man. And u I think he deserves a game ball as well. Then you get to James Pierre who had the big interception. Uh you know, all James Pierre does is make plays, man. He’s been a such a good starting caliber corner ever since he took over like what was it a month and a half ago. He’s just been so good and he’s he’s earning himself a huge payday. Had a one-handed interception. That really was the difference in the ball game today. Um you know, as much as you like Asante Samuel Jr. and want to see him out there at times. You know, James Bear is playing so well. Uh I think he’s got to continue to be starting on the outside and you might even think about bringing him back in free agency next year at this point. He’s playing so well. But then Patrick Queen, um you know, he got injured, he comes back, he gets a big big pass breakup on fourth down with the Ravens driving in the fourth quarter. Um and that is just absolutely fantastic stuff there from Patrick. Uh who certainly wasn’t without his faults in this game. He he made a mistake that led to a Lamar Jackson rushing touchdown. We know Queenie has had his faults both in run defense and pass defense this year. But to have him make that play against his former team in his former home stadium, get his first win as a Steeler in Baltimore. Huge win for Patrick Queen. He deserves a game ball. And then yes, we got to give a game ball to head coach Mike Tomlin who has obviously been feeling the heat after losing these last two games, after losing that three and a half game lead at the beginning of the season in the division. Um, you know, if he would have lost this game three games in a row, six of your last eight, you know, he really would have felt it. So, this was one of the biggest games of Mike Tomlin’s entire career in terms of preserving his status as this team’s uh head coach. And with this win, um, you know, all the reports out there indicate that the Steelers are are are likely to accept his team option in 2027, um, which is due on March 1st. So, Mike Tomlin big- time win. And the thing that I’ll say about this Steelers team, man, and Steelers teams under Mike Tomlin, say what you will about Coach T, these teams never give up on Mike Tomlin, ever and on each other. All right, they can start a season three and seven and finish 9 and eight. All right, they can lose three straight games with Mitch Trabiscy at quarterback and then win three straight to finish the season and make the playoffs in 2023. Like no matter how bad things appear for the Pittsburgh Steelers under Mike Tomlin, uh what’s really remarkable about this leader is that he gets he gets this team to bounce back better than just about any other head coach uh in the National Football League. He’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but he got uh the Steelers a big win today and he deserves credit for that. So, who’s your MVP? Let me know down there in the comments section. Who was today’s MVP for the Pittsburgh Steelers? Let me know what you guys think down there in the comments section. I got to give it to Aaron Rogers who carried the offense on his back today, plain and simply had some great throws and decisions on his film. Um, and I’m looking forward to watching the old 22 tomorrow to see just how good of a performance it really was. Uh, but let me know what you guys’ pick is down there in the comment section for today’s pin question in just a second here. I’ll tell you about our sponsor while I discuss our sponsor today. Let me know who the Steelers MVP was down there in the comment section. With that, let’s have a word from our sponsor today where you guys can get this Pittsburgh Steelers t-shirt. Uh, it’s today only, by the way, so time is running out. 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And hopefully, you know, this is the Rogers we get the rest of the way. And I I I’m look I’m interested to see what the film looks like because I don’t know exactly why he threw the ball to DK Metaf more. Maybe he just said, “F it. They’re double teaming him. I’m going to throw it to him anyway. Maybe, you know, the the gravity of maybe Adam Thielen and MVS or anybody else or the formations was able to get the double teams off of DK today. But all I know, man, is that Rogers really stepped up today. If this is the Rogers we get the rest of the way, the Pittsburgh Steelers can beat any team in the AFC on any given Sunday. Um, but obviously there’s still a lot of football to go and a lot yet to prove for the Steelers offense. But then DK Metaf, man, I mean, you pay him all that money. Obviously, he’s been disappointing throughout most of the season because he has been doubleteamed and there hasn’t been a lot of open opportunities to go get him the football, but Rogers really made it a point today to get him the ball. 12 targets today. That is nine more than any other Steelers player in the passing game. Actually, no, never mind. There’s a Gainwell had seven, but among receivers, I mean, it wasn’t even close. DK Metaf was the focus of the offensive game plan this week. I thought it was a good game plan from Mart. I thought uh Rogers did a good job um executing that. And whenever your top receiver, you know, averages over 20 yards of reception, you know, it was a good day throwing the ball down the field to him. So, you know, this guy’s an absolute monster. If you can find ways to get him open like they did today, he’s going to make big plays for you. So hopefully, you know, this is the DK Metaf we see down the stretch. But even though the passing game got a lot better this week, the run game got even worse. It wasn’t a great week last week in the run game, was even worse this week. The Steelers just got their ass handed to them up front on offense today. And the run game in particular, Jaylen Warren on eight carries only had 13 yards. I mean, that’s just not Jaylen Warren. Now, Warren had a big touchdown as a receiver today on a big third down in the second half, but um the run game just wasn’t going. I mean, Kenny Gainwell led the led the team in rushing today with 15, and he was the only guy outside of Rogers with the discount double check, by the way, uh to have a rushing touchdown today. But they did get Caleb Johnson a little bit of work, but nothing too crazy. Only four yards on two carries. Um, but yeah, man, this has become a really passheavy offense, and I think that’s what we’re going to see, um, as the season goes on. All right. I think that this Steelers offense is a pass heavy offense, and especially with Darnell Washington going down with a concussion, if he has to miss any time with that, you know, Pat Fmouth and John Smith just aren’t good enough blockers in my opinion to ask ask them to play the Darnell Washington role. You know, I would rather go multiple receivers. I kind of like their big wide receiver set today with Scoranic, Thelen, and DK Metaf. I kind of like that idea. Uh getting those big bigger bodies out there. I would like to see Adam Thelen get more involved than he was today. He only had one target today. He did have a catch in a in a four-yard gain, but certainly was a relatively low-end factor. It was it was the DK Metaf show, but um you know, for somebody that hasn’t been in the offense all that long, hopefully after a full week of preparation, we can see uh Adam Thelen’s role grow in the Steelers offense. And um maybe we can give Roman Wilson a roster spot over Scotty Miller. Just an idea. I don’t know. But then you get Kenny G, who I thought I want to give some props to here, who’s really shown today that he’s a good kickoff return man. you know, they they made Kashan Williams a uh healthy scratch today. So, Kenny was the one that was returning kicks along with Jaylen Warren. And, you know, those two did a good job today, especially Kenny G. Um, I think that he’s somebody that’s pretty good out in space. He can make guys miss. And, um, you know, his his value as a receiver, his value as a running back as well, obviously has been showing these last three weeks. And now you add special team return guy as well as a special team coverage guy. you know, Kenny G just wears a lot of hats for this Steelers team. And honestly, at this point, I’d be a little surprised if the Steelers don’t try and bring him back in free agency next year. But then, you know, on defense, and this is really where the crux of the problems with Pittsburgh uh begins if you’re going to be talking big picture here, the defense ran out of gas again today, man. Like, the defense obviously misses Kyle Duggar, obviously misses Derrick Harmon. Um and in the four games now where you’re where you don’t have Derrick Harmon, you know, you’re giving up a ton of yardage. you once again give up over 200 yards on the ground. Um you didn’t give up a 100yard rusher, but you had two guys over 75 and three guys over 40 yards rushing given up in this game in the second half. You did come up with some big stops, and we’ll talk about those here in a second. But like you’re facing some really good run teams down the stretch here. You got Miami coming up. You got Detroit coming up. All right. Quinton Judkins and the Browns can run it a little bit. And then you do get the Ravens again. So, like I don’t I think a big question mark right now and a big X factor is just how serious is Dererick Harmon’s knee injury. How long is it going to keep him out and you know if he can come back as soon as possible that would be great and if he can’t come back really quickly I really think this Steelers team needs to think about adding a defensive tackle this week in free agency. You know give a call to Christian Wilin see if he’s available to come in. I’m 100% serious about that. You know, this team needs run stuffers and you know, plain simply, Keano Benson, Cam Hayward, and Logan Lee and YA Black, you know, and his seo to Miw, you know, that, you know, rotation is not getting it done right now. So, they got to find a solution to that if Dererick Carman is going to is going to miss more time. But, you know, kudos to the defenseman at the end. They did hold strong. It reminded me a little bit of the Jets game at the start of the season where you just couldn’t stop the Jets offense all day and then, you know, the defense gets two big stops at the end of the game to seal it. That’s very much the way it played out in this one. They gave up a lot of yardage, but like in those weighty possession downs in the fourth quarter, this defense showed up and the pass rush showed up in those big moments and forced Lamar into poor throws and he brought him down for a game-sealing sack, all those different things. So, as bad as the Steelers defense has been and as inconsistent as they have been, especially with Derrick Harmon out of the lineup, um you know, you got to give them credit for holding strong there at the end and sealing the victory for the black and gold. And then, you know, my final takeaway here, guys, is that this was such a big win for the Pittsburgh Steelers because of the schedules that the Steelers have for the final four games and the next three games in particular versus what the Ravens have to go up against. All right, with the Steelers, they have a oneame advantage right now. And over the next three games, they got two games where they really should win against the Miami Dolphins and the Cleveland Browns. And if you take care of business against those two teams, if you win two of your next three games, which should be reasonable for a playoff caliber team, if the Steelers think they’re a team that can win in the playoffs, they should be able to beat Miami and they should be able to beat Cleveland. All right, if you do those two things and you win those two games, Baltimore will have to win at least two of the next three uh against Cincinnati on the road, a team they already lost against at home last week. Then they have to play the number one seed in the AFC, the New England Patriots, at home. Uh that’s their final home game, I believe. and then they have to finish the season with Green Bay on the road in Lambo. They might be the number one seed in the NFC this year and then you got to play the P the Steelers again um and in the fi in the final game. So if the Steelers can win against Miami and Cleveland and if Baltimore fails to win two of their next three games that means the Steelers would have the division locked up before they even have to play the Ravens again in the season finale, which would be awesome. Okay, so the Steelers have really set themselves up nicely here. They still got to improve. There’s still things that they got to get better at, especially up front. I mean, it’s not very often where you lose the trench battle on both sides of the ball and you win, but that’s what happened today. The Steelers won with splash. The Steelers won uh with perimeter play on offense in the pass game, and then, you know, they they made the plays that they needed to play on defense or needed to make on defense to be able to get the win. So, let me know down there in the comments section. Great today’s performance from the Steelers in the biggest win of the season to this point. Give me an A, B, C, D, or F. I will give them a A minus. All right. Uh, you know, it’s not a perfect game. they got to play a lot better especially up front on both sides of the ball if they want to be more competitive uh especially once we get into January and into playoff time. But obviously this is a big win and uh it should be celebrated. Now before uh we I say goodbye here just some final thoughts here. You know the Pittsburgh Steelers obviously, you know, still have issues. Okay, they need to get better up front both sides of the ball. I’ve said that a ton. All right, Rogers needs to keep up this level of play. I think you still need to get your secondary receiving options more involved. Whether that’s uh Calvin Austin or, you know, Adam Thelen or Marquez Valdis Scantling or maybe they give Roman Wilson a helmet next week over Scotty Miller. Hopefully, um, you know, you still have areas where you need to get better. There’s areas where you need to prove that you can be consistent in. Hopefully Derrick Harman can come back so that this run defense can get back to u, you know, stopping some of these running backs like Jonathan Taylor and Josh Jacobs like they did earlier in the season. But, you know, getting this win in Baltimore today really sets this team up for success uh and and a chance to win two of your final four and still make the playoffs, right? Nine and eight should be good enough to win the division this year. And honestly, I think the Steelers have an opportunity to still win three of their final four and get to 10 wins for the third straight season under Mike Tomlin. So, um that’s where we’re at right now, guys. I’m going to have more thoughts after I watch the game again later and I’ll get that video out around halftime of Sunday Night Football. So, make sure you guys click that subscribe button if you haven’t already. I’ll have more thoughts for you guys once I get a chance to watch this game back over. Look at the numbers, look at the box score, the team stats, all that different stuff, and of course the postgame press conferences. So, we’ll have more for you guys later this evening. Don’t miss that. Click that subscribe button, turn on those notifications so you know when that video comes out. All right, man. Well, we’ll take as many super chats as you guys want to send in, and then we’ll do the raffle. George Pickinsburg with a five says, “Do uh do you okay will Howard in week 18 if the Steelers if the Steelers already won the division?” That’s an interesting idea. I think so. Honestly, yeah. If you already wrapped up the division, like, dude, if the if the division is won, what do you have to lose? I mean, if the division, Here’s what I’ll say, George Pickinsburg, because you could, it’s still possible that 10 wins can get you into third place in the AFC. So, like, if there’s still an opportunity, we have the updated playoff picture if you want to show that. Yeah, let’s show the updated playoff picture here. Um, like if you if you are locked into the four seed and you can’t move, then absolutely give Will Howard a shot against the Ravens. Why not? Um, it’s great to see the black and gold right there. But now you got Jacksonville at 9 and four. The Colts lose their lead on the AFC South and they lost their starting quarterback today for the season and Daniel Jones. Um, you know, they’re going to be relying, I think, on Anthony Richardson the rest of the way. Um, so we’ll see if they can hold on to that spot. But Houston obviously playing Kansas City, Kansas City, if they win tonight, which I think they will, they’re going to be threatening a little bit there because who do the Colts play down the stretch? See if I play Jacksonville or Houston again. And I will say, Sperry, we were saying less than 1% chance for the New York Times or whatever whatever odds it was. It’s probably higher now, right? Yeah. Because like you hold the tiebreaker over the seven seat. So they get the 49ers next week or never mind. They get the Seahawks next week on the road. Then they get the 49ers on Monday Night Football. Then the Jags, then the Texans. They’re losing all four of those games, right? Maybe they win one. I mean, it’s going to be tough. I mean, if Richardson plays like Richardson has, those are four, you know, playoff teams. And the Jags have the Jets, Broncos, Colts, and Titans. I mean, Jacksonville, I think, has that division right now, man. They got a twoame advantage with four to with four to go on Houston. We’ll see if Houston wins tonight, but yeah. Shane Syen after the game said it doesn’t look good. I mean, if he saw the play, yeah, it it looks like his leg completely like like a pulses. So, that’s that’s that’s the Achilles. But Los Angeles, uh, you know, eight and four, you know, they don’t have either of their starting tackles, which is a bummer for them. But, honestly, the teams that I want to see, it just feels like at this point we’re going to have to see either New England or Buffalo. Those feel like the teams that are going to be uh, you know, at that number five spot. Whoever doesn’t win the AFC East, I think, is who we may have to play at home. Is that really a good sign for Buffalo? A chance to maybe get some redemption. But like here’s the thing. If if Derrick Harmon plays against Buffalo, I think we have a better shot against him against him than we had last week. So, and we we saw that the the Steelers were leading the Buffalo Bills after a half. if they can just put together a more, you know, more complete game, I I would honestly probably still take the Bills to win even if Derrick Harman was playing. But like it’s that’s not an impossible game. The Bills have greatly struggled to stop the run. So if the Steelers But the thing is, if the Steelers are moving to a pass heavy offense now, I don’t know if they’re a great matchup anymore for Buffalo. So that kind of stinks. But hey, a home playoff game is a home playoff game. And if Rogers is playing well, I mean, you never know. He just took down Lamar Jackson on the road. All right. So, you never know. All I want is to win this division, get a home playoff game, and then see what happens. Man, you know, it’s it’s crazy to say this, but like whoever gets that seven seed might have a better shot whoever gets the five or the six or like the four. Yeah. Because you’d get the Broncos. And I think that’s a very beatable team. Yeah, Broncos, very beatable team. Uh, you kind of hope for the Chargers there. We’ll see. What’s up, Intern Sam Sam? Big win, dude. Thank you for updating playoff picture, Intern Sam. Right back at you. Yeah, thanks for updating the AFC playoff picture, dude. Hey, Steelers leave the North. Kings of the North for now. For now. Playoff. Saving his job. $5 from Gage. Oh, he says, Gage. Huge win. Not our Gage. A different Gage. If we get the division, anything is possible regardless of record. I mean, um, just talk about it. Listen, man. Um, so I’m gonna look this up real quick. It’s all about playing your best football in January, guys. It’s all about playing your best football in January. I mean, we kind of saw this with the Steelers last year. They’re playing the best football at the beginning of the season. Yeah, exactly. Like we saw the Steelers completely collapse down the stretch and honestly that’s still possible here, but you know with a game lead in the division now with a really tough schedule for Baltimore, it feels like like you go over to Ravens rundown right now. They they feel like the season is over because it it it feels like it is because you got three really tough opponents. If you can’t beat the Steelers at home, how do you expect to beat Cincinnati on the road when you couldn’t beat them at home? How do you expect that team to beat New England? How do you expect that team to beat an 8 and3 Packers team on the road? They got to win two of those three games in order to keep themselves alive. That is if the Steelers win against Miami and win against Cleveland or or just win. Not saying it’s guaranteed. It’s not guaranteed. Steelers can absolutely, you know, creek the door open for one last opportunity at the end of the season. And by the way, you better believe NF the NFL, watch out for some really bad calls against the Steelers these upcoming weeks cuz the NFL wants the AFC North to come down to that final game. They do not want that to be a Will Howard game in week 18. They do not, which we want it to be, which we definitely want it to be. But and if the Steelers win two of their next three, and especially if they win all three of these next three games, absolutely that’s a possibility cuz the Ravens, I think if they’re lucky, they win two of the next three. Honestly, more realistically, I think they can expect to maybe win one of them. So, they’re right now with the way that things are current currently shaping up, they’re hoping the Steelers lose two of their next three to the Dolphins. Yeah. Trying to lose a game to the Dolphins. Like they’re like I think the Ravens’ best chance is if the Dolphins run all over the Steelers next week, which is possible if they don’t have Derrick Harman. They got Devon Achan in a good run game. I think he actually got hurt a little bit. Achan got hurt today. Yeah. Not I don’t think it was anything serious, but I mean they were up, but I I did see that he got uh he was questionable at a point in the game. We got some super chats still here. Smest Buddhist with a five says Harbaugh. W ref screwed us. Steelers, we do not care. 100% man. Um, I don’t think it was a wellofficiated game, but like even if that touchdown stands, Ponzi, the Steelers with Aaron Rogers, who’s been slinging it all day, gets like a 2 minutes and 45 seconds and multiple timeouts, like you you all they would need is a field goal to win it. Like I still think the Steelers win this game even if that one play is called a touchdown. Um, and then obviously the leverage called, the Steelers should have had the ball at the one yard line anyway because it was a missed DPI. So, like I don’t want to hear any crying from re from Ravens fans. Uh, have fun in second place, buddy. $2 from RJ says it’s a lack. It’s It’s a lock. Derek Carr is a Colt. Aaron Rogers catch won the game. Oh, yeah. What a catch. Honestly, that I How did I not mention that in the postgame show? That was a huge play. Um, now, who knows, maybe the Steelers defense gets a stop there if if but like cuz it’s not like it affected it that much. You know, the Steelers got the ball back obviously, but they punted two plays later and the Ravens still drove it down the Steelers’ defense’s throats into the red zone. So, honestly, it wasn’t that big of a play in my opinion. Steelers defense still would have had to show up on that drive, but um you know, obviously it helped the field positioning a little bit there. Um Derek Carr is a cold. Do you think he comes back for this final stretch run? Can he even come back? Yeah, he can. He can come back. Well, the Saints have his rights. No. Oh, that’s true. So, they would have to But the and he can’t trade anybody. Is he technically a free agent? Let’s see. Cuz I know like when Philip Rivers retired, for example, like he could or like Philip Rivers considered coming out of retirement multiple times. He was released by the New Orleans Saints. That’s right. He was released. So, honestly, I could see it. I could see it. It’s a good football team currently in a playoff position. Don’t trust I’d rather trust bum shoulder Derek Carr than Anthony Richardson fully healthy and he’s not even fully healthy. Give Derek Carr a call. Uh you know because what Riley Leonard did today not good. Not good. Not good enough man. Is that it for the super chats? Yeah. Do we have any Venmos? I’m checking. Doesn’t look like it. Well, I think I sent you another two from Sam Pew that we didn’t show if I’m not mistaken. I think we showed the $3 but not the $2 from Sam. Yeah, we saw we showed the two, I think. Well, I didn’t I didn’t read it. So, um he says, “If this is Harmon’s future, should we dra should we be drafting another one by the third next year?” Uh this injury was his pre-draft bio if I recall. Um, was it did he have I mean pre-season injury. He had a he had a knee issue. Yeah, I think I think it was his shoulder that was the issue coming out pre-draft, Sam. I think it was I think it was his shoulder. I could be wrong on that, but I think um I honestly I’ll have to look back to my to the draft to remember. I think it was his shoulder though. But I will say this too, Sperry. How about you with Tyler Shuck? bowled out. I was ridiculed for even suggesting the Steelers take him, but honestly, you know, he wouldn’t have played this year anyway. So, um, you know, I’m I’m glad they spent their first round pick on Derek Carman because they would have had to spend their first on Shuck. I’m I’m glad they because if we didn’t draft Shuck, that means that this run defense would be this bad the entire season. This season would be over. So, like So, like if we had Tyler Shuck, this season would be over. But like listen man, the Steelers will have other opportunities to take quarterbacks, but Tyler Shuck, man, he’s playing really good football, upset win, and you know that he had that one ridiculous throw at the combine and people just immediately thought this guy can’t play because of that one throw. And it’s like, what are we what are we talking about, man? Like I I remember this off seasonason Ponzi watching his film from Louisville. I’m like, this guy’s pretty [ __ ] good, man. This guy’s got this guy’s got a hell of a deep ball. He can throw it sidearm and all the different arm angles. He’s got good pocket presence when he’s not completely panicking. But like for me, he reminds me a little bit of Derek Carr, only a little bit more dynamic. Yeah. I mean, what you suggested there, Saints went from Derek Carrer. Yeah. I I literally have I think I literally had Derek Carr as my uh comp for Tyler Shot coming out. That’s crazy. So, uh, most Saints pick then, but you know, I good for the Saints. I think they found their guy, which is, by the way, good news for the Steelers because if because if they’re trying to trade up, the Saints Saints won’t be drafting a quarterback if they’re going with Shuck next year. And then also, Chador bowled out. Did he did he did he ball out? Did he ball out? Good for him. I think he had Good. Good. I want him to start for them next year. I want them to believe in Shadur Sanders that he’s a that he’s a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Let me see. 364 yards passing, four touchdowns, one interception. Damn. Three passing, one rushing touchdown. 97.7 passer rating. This is against the Titans granated, but still. Hey man, a great performance is a great performance. Good for him. They did lose. And I do want I do want Cleveland to go I Here’s what I want. I want Shadur to play well enough for them to move forward with him as their starter. So, so they’re not taking a quarterback. I don’t want them trading up for Dante Moore. Kind of worked out today. Yeah, the Titans won and Shador Paul out. Okay, call that perfect timing. Perfect timing. All right, I’m going to give you some uh some names here for the raffle. Yeah, I got you. For the raffle. The raffle. We got Jr. Hollenstein. How do you spell that? Last name. H O L L E N S T E I N. Okay. Thomas Kingsley. Got it. Anthony Mardle, Sasha Watson, and Anne Smith. Then I’ve got Let’s see here. Robert Kirkpatrick. Okay. Is that it? Oh, Eugene Payne, Kevo, Tza Bullwear. Let’s see. And that’s it. Okay, that’s all the ones I got notified of. Okay, let me just get these. Really good day today, man. We added almost a thousand subscribers today. And we got to the salute to service raffle. Hading there at the last second. Perfect. Salute to service hoodie raffle. We got uh still about 800 people. Oh, oops. I sent that to wrong. I sent that to you. I’m sorry. Yeah. Still got about 750 people left in here. We’re going to do the raffle and then we’ll do some final super chats and we’ll get out of here, man, and get that postgame show out as soon as we can. Celebrate this win. Feels like a monumentous win. Yeah, this one’s huge. like this one was more important to the Ravens than it was to the Steelers in my opinion just because the Ravens, you know, obviously you don’t want to lose the home game because, you know, how’s that feel about going into Pittsburgh week 18 if you’ve already lost to them on your home turf? Uh, but also the Ravens have a tougher three-game stretch in between games here. So, their road is tougher here to just even be in contention to win the division in week 18. If the Steelers just win two of their next three, which they should be able to do, all right? Like, if they want to be a playoff team, they should be able to win two of the next three. And that that’s going to force the Ravens to do the same against a really tough schedule. Cincinnati on the road, a team they already lost to at home. The number one seed in the AFC, New England Patriots at home. Um, and if they can’t beat Cincinnati and Pittsburgh at home, how are they going to beat New England at home? And then Green Bay, another team that might be a number one seed this year in Lambo. That’s a really tough schedule, man. And if the Steelers can just take care of their business here, I know it’s a lot to ask. They haven’t been able to take care of their business a lot this year, but if they do it, um, they should be able to win the division and they should be able to to lock it up before we play these guys again. And you can have Will Howard play week 18 and rest Rogers. That would be terrific, man. Give him a dream scenario. Give him a whole week to get right for the playoffs. That would be perfect, man. Perfect. All right, man. Let’s give away a hoodie. No, no hat. No hat uh purchases today. All right, Kevo, uh I’ve got his Twitter information. So, Kevo, if you’re watching, uh send me a Twitter DM. All right, send me a Twitter DM. And, uh that goes to show you guys, even if you don’t donate to the show, you still have a chance to win. He got in on a on a singular raffle ticket today for sharing today’s stream. So, shout out to Kevo. It’s crazy. And I’ll be awaiting your uh your DM there, Kevo. Big shout out to Kevo for winning the salute to service hoodie today. Of course, everybody, even if you didn’t win uh the hoodie today, you are entered into a raffle to win a signed uh mini helmet uh by the by Steelers legend Mean Joe Green. Let’s show it before we sign off here. Ponzi, before we get to the final super chats, uh if you entered the raffle today, you are entered into winning this raffle for the month of December uh for the mean Joe Green signed mini helmet. All right, so really do appreciate your guys’ support. Uh so even if you didn’t win today, you got a chance at the end of the month. So make sure you guys watch all of our watch parties throughout the month of December here for your chance to win. $2 from Michelle says, “I’d rather have Trinidad Chamblas from Ohio State from Old Miss.” Is he going back to school? Is he allowed to go back to school? Believe so. I think he’s going back to school next year, Michelle. But even if he comes out, like, let’s just look at where PFF has him ranked on the Well, let’s look at the consensus big board here. Well, I mean, he’s just landed an IIL deal. Not like that means anything, though. Yeah, he could still come out technically. Let’s see. Where does Chamb has to come out? Does he have to? He’s a senior. Not red shirt. Well, I guess yeah. So, I guess he’s coming out. Chamblas is fun as an athlete. I don’t know if he’s an NFL quarterback though, just because it’s a very like Lane Kein’s offense, very collegeesque offense, lots of spread, lots of room. Now, people said the same thing about Jackson Dard, and he’s looked pretty good this year. But so, right now, Trinidad Chamblas is currently the 202nd or 212th player on the consensus big board. quarterbacks ahead of him. Kevin Jennings from SMU, Sawyer Robertson from from Baylor, Sam Levit, who’s definitely going back to school next year from Arizona State, Brandon Sorsby, Darien Mensah, Carson Beck, John Matar, Cade Cade Clubick, Drew Aller, Jaden Mayava, Garrett Nusmeer, Lenor Cers, Ty Simpson, Dante Moore, and Fernando Mendoza. So, you know, I think if you’re going to take another late round, you know, dart throw on somebody, Chamblas is fine. But like taking him early, I don’t think is going to be in the cards. I’m guessing Michelle, you’re an Old Miss fan. I’m guessing. Um, but, you know, honestly, honestly, if you want ch Honestly, if you want Chamblas, you can get him probably on day three, I’d say. The sixth round. Yeah. Like late like where we got Will Howard, I would say. $2 from Trumper says, “Here we go. Steelers. Here we go. There we go. Back at the top of the division, baby. Do we have any more super chats? Feels damn good, man. That’s it. All right, man. That’s going to We’re going to wrap up today’s show. Awesome watch party. Thank you guys so much for supporting the channel. Over 1,600 likes on today’s show. Almost a thousand added subscribers as well. Um, can’t thank you guys enough for all the support you give to me and Ponzi. Um, you know, you guys give us the platform here to be able to talk Steelers football every single day and to do what we love. So, we know without you guys, we would be nothing. So, uh, want to share my gratitude for you guys and we’re just getting started here on Steelers Talk. Four weeks left to go. When two of the next three, you might be going into week 18 with Will Howard as your starting quarterback because you’ve already locked up the division. So, that would be terrific. Hopefully, the Steelers can take care of their business in the weeks to come. Um, and we’re going to be covering every second of it right here on Steelers Talk. So again guys, we will have another postgame show that comes out around halftime of of Sunday Night Football tonight. So if you guys want that halftime update on my my added thoughts on this win versus Baltimore, make sure you guys click that subscribe button, turn on your notifications. Until next time, guys. Here we go. Steelers. [Music]
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When the last time the Steelers gave up 200 yards rushing back to back games?
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The Ravens got robbed 😂
Rodgers is mvp
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Rodgers is still a G