{"id":37815,"date":"2025-05-10T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37815\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T01:20:10","slug":"radio-host-not-confident-steelers-will-make-playoffs-thinks-things-could-get-ugly-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/37815\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Host Not Confident Steelers Will Make Playoffs, Thinks Things Could Get ‘Ugly’ For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going into the 2024 season, many analysts expected the Pittsburgh Steelers to be bad. Considering how many question marks they had, that made sense. However, they managed to prove many doubters wrong, going 10-7 and making the playoffs. Unfortunately, the end of their season was so bad that it didn\u2019t really matter. Now, looking towards the 2025 season, things once again look bleak in<\/a> Pittsburgh, especially after trading George Pickens. Analyst Zach Gelb believes this season might not be a pretty one for the Steelers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a feeling, with [Aaron] Rodgers being one foot in, one foot out, that this is going to get ugly with the Steelers,\u201d Gelb said recently on his show.<\/a> \u201cI know, the Steelers, every year it feels like we\u2019re saying, \u2018This is finally the year Mike Tomlin\u2019s gonna be below .500. This is finally the year that the carpet\u2019s gonna get pulled out from underneath Mike Tomlin and the Steelers.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying they\u2019re gonna be bad, but just making the playoffs, I\u2019m actually gonna put my eggs more in the basket of the unknown of the Cowboys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now, it\u2019s fair to question whether or not the Steelers will make the playoffs. Without Pickens, wide receiver becomes a huge need for them again. There aren\u2019t many great options to replace him, either.<\/p>\n

Also, the Steelers don\u2019t even have Rodgers on their roster yet. It seems like he\u2019s going to join their team, but that\u2019s not guaranteed.<\/a> That leaves Mason Rudolph as their starting quarterback. While Rudolph helped the Steelers make the postseason before, if he\u2019s their starter for an entire season, that doesn\u2019t inspire a ton of confidence in them as a playoff team.<\/p>\n

However, the Steelers\u2019 roster is still full of talent. In the past, they\u2019ve made the playoffs in spite of poor quarterback play. If they get Rodgers, they should be in a good position to fight for a playoff spot. Last year, with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields under center, the Steelers were in control of the AFC North for most of the year.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve shored up other parts of their roster this offseason. That includes infusing some life into their run defense, which was their Achilles heel to end the 2024 season. Although they aren\u2019t Super Bowl contenders, the Steelers have been in worse situations recently.<\/p>\n

Maybe this will be the year that Tomlin suffers his first losing season. It\u2019s not over until it\u2019s over, though. Tomlin has willed Pittsburgh to a winning record before. Without Rodgers, that might be difficult this year,<\/a> but there aren\u2019t many things in the NFL that are easy.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going into the 2024 season, many analysts expected the Pittsburgh Steelers to be bad. Considering how many question…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[1586,7,467,1255,6,520,57,2360,426,14036,14037],"class_list":{"0":"post-37815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-george-pickens","11":"tag-mike-tomlin","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","15":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-the-zach-gelb-show","18":"tag-zach-gelb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114480914507659848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}