The Pomp And Joe Show
12PM - Mark Kaboly on Steelers-Ravens, if the Steelers can win in playoffs; Kaboly on Joey Porter Jr.'s growth, predicts Steelers-Texans
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
That's our cue. It's time for Mr. Mark Caballi, the big boy. And Bob, I might add, as you go back to your seat, I'll tell you a good decision the Steelers made, a great decision, was to let Najee walk and then bring in Kenny Gainwell. Kenny Gainwell had two longer runs than Najee, or was it Warren, in a matter of like eight carries than Najee did his whole career, which was 37 yards.
And that all started with Tomlin watching him, playing against him last year, where he ran for like 125 yards or something against him, marking that the Eagles game.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in the Steelers offensive line?
Hello, big boy.
How are you? Great. How are you guys? Who's behind you now? Hokie had someone behind him.
Oh, my God. He has a frozen person behind him, too.
So you have somebody behind you. Is that you in a younger stage?
I can't believe he has this too. Look at this. That's the infamous fathead on a stick on college game day.
Oh, I see. So it was a plant then, Mark. So you gave it to somebody to plant your face into the crowd.
Or it was a, how can I put this, a replica.
This guy's a hell of a man, isn't he, Bob?
You know where that picture come from, Bob? It came from the showdown maybe eight or nine years ago. Wow. Somebody just took a screenshot off the internet, I swear to you.
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Chapter 3: How has Joey Porter Jr. improved this season?
As you get older. Why haven't you invited limits on the show?
You have to go through a process.
And I told Bob, I am willing and able to be a part of the process. Put me in front of the processing committee and I will do that. I will talk to them.
You know what happened when he froze out Ron? He didn't talk to you for three months.
This is why Ron had totally, he thought I can try. I don't control any of that. They make those decisions. I don't. This is why you called Ron stupid.
I never called him stupid. But I'm being shelled out, Joe.
I'm being held out. I think it's an outrage myself. All right, big boy. Here's my first question for you. You were at the game, correct?
Absolutely.
Take us inside the post-game locker room. Cigar smoke, champagne. What was going on in there?
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Chapter 4: What challenges does Dylan Cook face against the Texans?
That's how many cigars were going on. It was a somewhat of a festive attitude or a festive, uh, uh, place in there with, uh, a lot of party in and, uh, I'm getting, imagine what was going on later that night. They enjoyed themselves, but, uh, I could have did without the cigar smoke, but they didn't ask me.
Well, that normally in my experience going into, and I haven't done it in a while, but a championship locker room or someone, you win something significant. The cigar smoke and there's other smells and the combination of the smells is just too much. You got to get out of there. Other smells? What are we talking about, Pop? Well, I mean, just, you know, game uniforms, dirty.
I thought you were talking about something else. No, no, no. I'm just saying overall, I just think it's like, wow, this is a little pungent for me.
Yeah, the sweaty spandex girdles. And they throw them around everywhere.
Nothing smells worse than a hockey locker room. Do we agree on that? For the same reason.
The wet equipment, all that stuff.
Horrifying.
Yeah, Willie Colon used to smell so bad. That's ironic, too, isn't it?
Willie Colon.
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Chapter 5: How did the Steelers perform in their last game against the Ravens?
Yeah, I mean, just don't lose any yards, too, but I don't know how much that would have made a difference. It's interesting they want it in the middle of the field. A lot of times those kickers go to one hash or the left. For the majority, they go in the left hash because if they're going to lose it, they're going to push it to the right, but they went right down the middle there, but...
All right. Well, tell us about it.
It's a tough catch.
It's a tough kick in that situation. For sure. And there was another kick in the game where we're having our very own dispute here.
Chapter 6: What was the atmosphere like in the Steelers locker room post-game?
Did Chris Boswell's kick get blocked? Limit said no. I said, I guess so, because they had it on the stats right after the game. And Bob said he may have heard that within Steelers headquarters, they didn't think it was blocked.
I think it's something that may get changed. I mean, there was a debate about it. Not that the kick is missed, it missed. But I have a feeling the NFL may look into that and change it. Who knows? All I know is I didn't see a ball react that way. Mark, it looked like one of my golf shots with the Pro Tracer technology.
Was it blocked?
It just zoomed to the right like so fast.
Was it blocked, big boy? It didn't look like it was blocked. However, the NFL is usually really on top of that situation, man. They don't really mess with that, even if it's something as maybe minute as that, just a blocked kick or a not blocked kick that nobody really cared about because, like you said, he missed it. But they're normally on top of that.
And I was telling Limits the other day that ā You know, when Hayward and Highsmith deflected that pass, it was intercepted by Watt. Yeah. They initially said Highsmith deflected it. Within about a minute, you heard in the press box, New York called and no, Hayward deflected that, changed it. So they're on top of it pretty quickly.
So I would imagine if it's still in the game book and there hasn't been a change, that somebody believed it was ā It probably doesn't take that much, Bob, right? I mean, maybe a fingernail, maybe a little deflection. For it to go to that far right. I mean, that seems like an awful.
It was weird, I'll say that.
It looked like it took a hard right, right? Yeah. It looked like it was going to. But you better hope it's blocked. If not, then you're starting to wonder, okay, what's going on with Boswell?
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Chapter 7: How do the Steelers plan to approach the upcoming playoffs?
I'm glad you have clips for us today.
And he said that he talked to Bos after the game to try to give him just words of encouragement to keep his head up and everything, because it seems like Bos is kind of going through it emotionally a little bit with some of these misses.
Yes, he said, I know he's going through some stuff right now. Boz is automatic. I talked to him after the game, encouraged him, upbeat advice. Interesting. It can be hard, and he can lose some confidence right now. How about this, Bob? Who would have thought that Ben was talking to him after the game?
I think he dealt with some things a couple years ago when he struggled as well. So you have to add that to it if that's true.
These are physical things, like an injury.
I don't think it was physical a couple years ago. I don't believe it was.
All I know, I still would trust him. If it came right down to it, I saw the 57-yarder and how he hit it. It was drilled, so I don't lose confidence in him. And I know Mike Tomlin will not lose confidence in him.
Limits, the mere notion of leaving you out of this conversation has the big boy near tears.
Big boy, I want to ask you about the big men up front. He liked that.
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Chapter 8: What predictions are made for the Steelers-Texans matchup?
This season.
That's because Woody Marks has done a pretty good job. He reminds me a little bit of the way Jalen Warren runs. He's hard. He gets the holes quickly. Whether or not he can make a difference there, I have no idea. I still think their offensive line is not as good as the Steelers' defensive line. And I think that battle will be won by the Steelers. Plus, his name's Woody.
You have to love him.
Right. His real name is something you wouldn't be able to pronounce, I don't think. It's like if you look at Kaimi Farron Barron, his is impossible.
Man, do you see his numbers this year? He's been good. He's perfect inside of 50.
44 for 44. His only miss has been outside of 50.
And he's 9 for 13 outside of 50. Could be a good kicking battle.
But has he ever kicked into a blessed end zone before?
Very true.
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