If the Steelers clinch, should Will Howard get snaps?
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Why are Detroit Twitter fans upset with Rowntree?
Fan Twitter brought to you by the South Hills Kia and Peters Township. You can visit them at SouthHillsKia.net. I think I've enraged some Lions fans, perhaps, who are coming at me on Twitter. They're not happy with me simply questioning if this fan did not do anything to disrupt the fan code of conduct. All he did was heckle and chirp. Well, it sounds like there was a previous incident as well with this guy in DK Metcalf in which I think he went above heckling and chirping. So I'm not going to give anybody the benefit of the doubt here in this situation whatsoever. And again, Metcalf is culpable in this as well. He should not have done what he did. Hard for me to believe that that was a totally one-way street
It's not a good situation regardless, and now the Steelers head into Sunday without their biggest outside weapon in DK Metcalf. I am curious, though, of this. And Sean, we'll get your thoughts on this as well. If you're the Steelers, and let's say Baltimore loses Saturday night in Green Bay. Very possible. I also think Baltimore could win. And I think the Steelers could lose in Cleveland. And then we're looking at Week 18, no DK Metcalf, Steelers-Ravens at Akershire Stadium for the division. And boy, what a nightmare scenario that would be going into that. I mean, the Steelers need to do it now. They need to... They either need to have Baltimore lose or they need to win now because I don't want any part of the Ravens Week 18 coming to Akershire with no DK Metcalf.
Not that the Steelers can't win that game, but boy, you would really like the ability to be able to rest your starters.
What did Mike Tomlin say about resting starters if the Steelers clinch?
And I think the Steelers, if Baltimore does win Saturday, they need to go all out for this Browns game. Do everything you can. Throw everything at the Browns you possibly can to win this Browns game if the Ravens do find a way to win Saturday night. If Baltimore, however, loses, what do you do with two weeks of games, something we have not seen for the Steelers? What do you do with two weeks of essentially meaningless football? Now, the Steelers could still theoretically move up from the four to the three seed, but they need a lot of things to happen. They need multiple good teams to lose multiple games to bad teams, essentially. There's a lot of things that need to factor in for that to go down. So, I'm curious of what Mike Tomlin will do.
If he will... rest players, if he will rest some players, if it'll be full hands on deck because all hands on deck because he doesn't want he doesn't want rust to build up. Tomlin was asked about this, and this is what he had to say to the media yesterday during his press conference when he got asked about sitting starters. You know, in May, I hadn't thought about it at all. To be quite honest with you, I just found out this morning that that game is Saturday night. I just learned to be tunnel vision over the years. But as I sit here and make plans today for tomorrow in an effort to lay a foundation to engineer victory, That's something that's of very little relevance to me today. I have plenty of time to ponder those things after we get a little bit more solid about preparing ourselves to play the Cleveland Browns.
Laying a foundation to engineer victory. If that's not like a perfect encapsulation of the way that Mike Tomlin talks, laying a foundation to engineer victory. He hit us with some awesome ones yesterday, I thought. Starkey was loving it, and let me see if I can find the one that really brought the house down. Did you hear this? I just think largely, man, our guys cut their eyelids off and didn't blink. Yeah, but cutting the eyelids thing off is, I mean, that's an all-time Tomlinism. If you're going to blink, cut your eyelids off. He loves that one. He goes down that well. He goes down that well when it's impactful. It's not an everyday Tomlinism, but it's a... Special occasion. Yeah, he definitely tosses it in.
Maybe it's the holidays. I'm not sure. You cut your eyelids off for the holidays. You can't blink and miss Santa coming down the chimney.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are Detroit Twitter fans upset with Rowntree?
0:12–2:08
2
What did Mike Tomlin say about resting starters if the Steelers clinch?
2:08–8:04
3
What are the implications of playing Will Howard instead of Mason Rudolph?
8:04–11:24
4
How can the Steelers prepare for a potential playoff scenario?
11:24–14:43
5
What are the concerns regarding the Steelers' defense in late-game situations?
14:43–16:08
6
How does Mike Tomlin's coaching style influence player decisions?
16:08–27:26
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