Steelers Exposed: Defense Disappoints in Crushing Loss

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00:00All in all, the Steelers found themselves up nine at the break

00:06and then got demolished.

00:09Smoke and mirror.

00:10The defense, here's the thing.

00:13I think a lot of people thought whenever the Steelers season starts to

00:19inevitably show that they're not that good,

00:23the arrow will be pointed towards Aaron Rodgers.

00:25And Mike Tomlin.

00:27Well, no, no, no.

00:28But I thought it was going to be pointed towards Rodgers flatly.

00:33The defense is bad.

00:37And, man, listen.

00:40I know if everyone has said for years of Tomlin's fire to be hired in two

00:43seconds, and I get all of that, right?

00:45But just what is he doing right now to set this team up for success?

00:51I mean, it's the highest paid defense in football, and they're awful.

00:54Is every contract bad?

00:56No.

00:56Like, I don't understand, because, Joe, they went touchdown, touchdown,

01:00touchdown, field goal, field goal, and then they ended the game, right?

01:05They, you know, they took their knees, Green Bay.

01:07Jordan Levin, they had two, three incompletions in the whole second half.

01:1120 straight or 21 straight.

01:13Yes.

01:14I mean, threw for 360, three touchdowns.

01:17He was dominant.

01:17I mean, he's absolutely dominant against Hitchburg.

01:21We can get to the Packers, but for the Steelers, as always, they're done.

01:27Maybe they'll be 9-8.

01:28Maybe they'll be 8-9.

01:30If they make the playoffs, they're an absolute layup.

01:32They'll get steamrolled by a real team.

01:34It's the same team every year for almost a decade now.

01:41I mean, it's ridiculous.

01:42Yeah, and they got exposed by a better team.

01:44The perception on Pittsburgh is absolutely like you're talking about Mike Tyson back

01:50in the heyday, and that's the way we view the Pittsburgh Steelers.

01:54Like, they are this dominant team offensively and defensively, and now that big bad Aaron

02:00Rodgers is on the center, it's Super Bowl or bust.

02:03No.

02:04Yeah.

02:04No, they got exposed in week one by the New York Jets, and it just took a couple of games

02:09and back-to-back losses now to realize they're a 500-football team.

02:14What do they have, eight players over the age of 30?

02:17T.J. Watt, Cam Hayward, Jalen Ramsey, just to name a few.

02:21I mean, this is an old defense, and they were exposed last year.

02:24They have no offensive identity for the most part.

02:28One day they run.

02:29The next day, if they meet a bad defense, yeah, Rodgers could have success,

02:33a la against Cincinnati, but they still lost.

02:35And when you look at Green Bay in this matchup, we had talked about it again in the pregame.

02:41Green Bay had lost or didn't cover in four straight.

02:45This was the perfect opponent to get right with because from an offense and a defensive

02:50line perspective, they manhandled Pittsburgh on Sunday night, and that was the difference.

02:56Pittsburgh is a one-trick pony that when they get out ahead for the most part,

03:01they can dominate or win games.

03:03But you force them to play from behind like they were in the second half, they're done.

03:08The Steelers are barreling towards their eighth consecutive season without a playoff win.

03:17I'll say this right now.

03:18I'm willing to bet at four and three, this is the one year under .500 for time.

03:24I'm willing.

03:25I said it at the start of the year, and I'm not backing down.

03:28This team is pedestrian.

03:30They are not good.

03:32They are not good.

03:33Win total in the market is eight and a half, minus 120 to the under.

03:37But again, you see that the books are not covering this team with a load of confidence.

03:41And so, you know, I talk about this.

03:42Here's why Cincinnati blew an opportunity and why Baltimore is booked as a favorite.

03:46Next two are home against Indianapolis.

03:48They're booked as a dog, and then they go to L.A. to play the Chargers.

03:51They'll be booked as a dog as well.

03:53You can do a little bit of a run out from there.

03:55Cincy, Chicago, Buffalo, Baltimore.

03:57I mean, there's a couple of spots on here for this team to handle business, but let's be very clear.

04:03The Thursday night game against Cincinnati was supposed to be a spot to handle business, and they didn't.

04:08Because every year, they have a game that lets you know this team is to not be taken serious, and that is exactly what they are.

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