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What are the highlights of the Steelers vs. Browns game?

Austin Bechtold 0:03

Listen to the Pomp and Joe show every Wednesday to hear about Starkey's Car of the Week from the Baseball Car Castle in Cranberry tomorrow with Joe back in the saddle for tomorrow's show. Austin Bechtel from behind the glass in the big chair today and for the guys, contests run every Wednesday through Friday at noon. at the 937thefan.com contesting page and we'll be able to say Happy New Year to the General. Happy New Year to Brian Batko. The Batconian Mongoose joins us now on the Fan Hotline presented by Sullivan Super Service. Pittsburgh's trusted plumbing and HVAC provider for over 50 years. Hello, Brian. Do you think the Cleveland Browns are making their New Year's resolution to make Shadur Sanders their franchise quarterback?

Unknown 0:42

I don't think so. I think that was a pretty rocky second half for him yesterday and Even the touchdown pass that he did throw was basically one guy blacking out and forgetting how to play safety and make a play on the ball in the air. Not really the greatest showing for Shador, although kind of a signature win, his first AFC North start. He keeps the streak of beating the Steelers in Cleveland alive, but no, I think the Browns will have to do some soul-searching this offseason. I think they'd be a team that would make sense to go get a veteran and have him compete with Shadur and I guess Dylan Gabriel to some extent.

What challenges do the Browns face in their quarterback situation?

Unknown 1:24

But maybe they just need to run it back with Joe Flacco for a third time.

Austin Bechtold 1:27

The amount of wounded ducks made hunting season jealous, I think, Brian, that Shadur threw up there.

Unknown 1:32

Maybe they should go get duck Hodges.

Austin Bechtold 1:34

What veteran would the Browns go and get? Kyler Murray? Kyler Murray, Deshaun Watson. Oh, Mason Rudolph, throw him in there with Shadur and Dylan Gabriel.

Unknown 1:43

And Miles Garrett. Could you imagine?

Austin Bechtold 1:45

Miles Garrett playing quarterback?

Unknown 1:46

Could you imagine that?

Austin Bechtold 1:47

Playing both sides of the ball?

Unknown 1:49

No, Mason Rudolph and Miles Garrett on the same team.

Austin Bechtold 1:52

As teammates, yeah. No, I could never imagine that.

How does the Steelers' offense perform under pressure?

Austin Bechtold 1:55

I could never imagine that. Okay. So Brian, what did you make of the game overall against Cleveland? Because there are multiple takeaways to take from it. For me, we built up this huge confidence that, hey, maybe this is finally different. Maybe this is a Steelers team that can go into the playoffs and can win a playoff game. Can maybe win two playoff games. It's a wide open AFC. I still don't think they can win a playoff game depending on the matchup. If it's Buffalo, I say no thanks. It looks like the Chargers are going to be the seventh seed. They're just conceding and not starting Justin Herbert, I guess just for the extra rest and go play in New England or go play in Denver or however those chips fall.

Austin Bechtold 2:32

So it's either going to be, if they win on Sunday, the Chargers or Buffalo or Houston, and I don't really feel good about any of those options.

Unknown 2:44

No, it's hard to feel good with the way that they just played in Cleveland.

What are the implications of missing key players for the Steelers?

Unknown 2:47

And I say they, but I almost want to just keep it to the offense because, again, the defense's failing was basically one brain fart at the goal line. Otherwise, yeah, I mean, the Browns strung together some good plays. Like, a Kevin Stefanski coach team is going to do that at times. They're going to scheme guys open and have a good starting script and a good first drive. They did that against the Bills as well the week before. They went right down and actually finished it in the end zone. The Steelers didn't even let them do that. Now, maybe they would have scored on that drive that Harold Fannin caught the touchdown anyway, but I sort of doubt it with the way that Schroeder played the rest of the day.

Unknown 3:24

So, it's such a It's just a spotlight, a glaring blame game on the offense coming out of that one. And I just got the feeling, whether it was not having DK and having to operate for the first time like that this season for this group, or really being such a Miles Garrett-centric game plan, or just going through the entire week last week not knowing if you would have to win this game. or not, or if it would just be one that you can play it very conservative, close to the vest.