1PM - Ranking the AFC's quarterbacks and coaches in the playoffs; Mike Tomlin's relationship with Aaron Rodgers is strong going into playoffs
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What a 1 o'clock hour we have planned here. Of course, it is almost a quarter of the way over because limits went over the limit at 1 o'clock, ironically.
Yes, sure.
We have lots of things to talk about. The Pirates' first over-under win total is out, and I think it'll surprise you. At least the first one I've seen from Jimmy Shapiro. In the meantime, there was a little faux pas. We have Brian Batko from the Post-Gazette on. I don't know if you were listening, Brian, but the TV went out. We do our Tomlin News Conference through a TV feed, I believe. And the TV feed went out and there was panic in the streets. Can we hear what happened, Limits?
Yeah, this was not good for a moment here, Brian. In possession down moments where we were allocating the appropriate number of people. Limits? Joe, I think we lost the signal. Let me try to fix this here.
I know we lost the signal. It seems rather obvious at this point.
And then it came back. The pause was much longer, Brian, but for radio purposes, we had to cut it a little short.
I think we lost the signal, he says, as there's complete silence on the air, Brian.
I wasn't listening at the time. I was listening on the Steelers' YouTube page, but I did click it on right when it ended because kind of like a coach... If I'm able to, I want to do a little pre-scouting of the segment so I wasn't taken aback by this coach ranking exercise.
Okay. Well, that's fair. And now let's get into it. We're ranking the AFC quarterbacks and coaches one through seven. And this was way more difficult than I can ever remember. We do this every year and it's obvious some years. This year, it's just like, like we've been saying for a long time, the AFC is wide open and, and there's a lot of like parody here. And I mean that P-A-R-I-T-Y, although you could take it the other way, the Chiefs aren't in anymore. They used to be the automatic and Mahomes would be at the top of the list, him and Josh Allen. So let's do this quickly. Let's do it succinctly. First, I want your rationale for the quarterbacks before you tell me your ranking. What was the rationale you used here?
You go in career resume, you go in this season, you go in some combination, you asking yourself a question. If I had to win a game, what would you do? That's what I did. if I had to bet everything I owned on one of these quarterbacks to win me a football game, so I don't lose my earthly possessions, that's how I ranked them. What was your criterion, Brian?
Mine was similar because it's the start of the playoffs. I looked at myself, uh, at my criteria as, okay, you give me 52 other random guys around the league. Who do I want as my quarterback to go into a playoff run? Um, Let's say we're the number one seed and we've got a bye in the first round or whatever. So that's what I kind of use, not going on career resume or anything like that. Just right now, today, who I feel the best about playing good football in this postseason.
Limits, what was your criterion?
Yeah, it was similar to that. Basically, coaching-wise, who do I trust the most in big moments? And quarterback-wise, if it's a final drive of the game, who do I want the ball in their hands of? And that's why I went with the list that I did.
I think that's a little different, but okay, limits.
That was very creative by the limits.
Mary Mike Tallman of you, you don't want a two-score or three-score lead going into the fourth quarter. You'd prefer to have the game come down to the final seconds.
Oh, if we could be up 35 to three, Brian, I'd take it. But that's just not how the train rumbles on the tracks.
He wants to engineer victory less fluidly, Brian. All right. Who do we have as our number one? Everybody. Number one quarterback in the AFC playoffs. Let's go. Brian limits Joe.
Josh Allen. And I assume we all will unless Joe volts Bo Nix ahead of him here.
I'm going with Josh Allen, but I think Joe is going with Bo Nix.
Everybody wants to poke fun at good old Bo Nix. Well, they do belong together because Josh Allen, Bo Nix, and I think, is it Lamar? There's a third person in here, have the most combined rushing and passing touchdowns through two seasons in NFL history.
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