Dave Dameshek

Yeah, well, I hate to say this.

I'm not trying to, especially in a week spent in Pittsburgh, PA, I hate to have to say this out loud.

Much as the Steelers are the hammer to the Browns' nail, that's kind of what the Steelers were to Brady's Patriots, and I can't really argue that.

Mike Fuentes, you make an interesting point.

Maybe it's not just Peyton and Brady.

Maybe May and Knicks have delivered it into transcending just those two cats, and now Broncos-Patriots is the rivalry ongoing.

True.

But that adds to it.

That adds to it because Broncos fans say, well, you know we would have beaten you.

If Knicks would have played, you wouldn't have had a shot in that game.

Well, that's maybe a different generation altogether.

Right.

Well, I mean, you know, the idea that I guess it gets derailed a little bit with J.J.

McCarthy having to sit down, but it's conceivable that that whole draft class will have an ongoing rivalry against each other.

Daniels v. Caleb, you know, who knows if Jaden Daniels hadn't gotten hurt last year, if the commies would have been a different team and would have been a factor.

I don't think they would have, but I think it resumes now in 2026.

And then on the other side, May and Nick.

Well, if you knock the other out from making the playoffs, that counts exactly the same.

That's true.

Look at how the Steelers and Ravens season has ended.