Chapter 1: How does the outcome of this weekend's game affect the Steelers' season perception?
Which does the outcome of this weekend's game affect how you view the totality of the season as a success or not?
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Which does the outcome of this weekend's game affect how you view the totality of the season as a success or not? The winner goes on.
So I see what Brooke Pryor meant by that question, and I think it's a good one. Because if you lose this game, the vibe and the sentiment around what this season was is a lot different than if you get to the playoffs and even lose a playoff game. Because even in previous seasons during this streak of eight consecutive years, what could be going on nine without a playoff win?
if you go to the playoffs because at this point There were two separate options that you could have had. You could have either been a team that missed the playoffs but won like six games, five games, and had a good draft pick. Okay. Or go to the playoffs and have an actual chance to win a playoff game.
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Chapter 2: What does the press conference reveal about Mike Tomlin's strategies?
And while I do think that they still have a chance to win a playoff game, my confidence level has just dropped after you lose to a 3-12 Cleveland team. And I understand that it's the Browns and they've always given you trouble and it's on the road and the... fine. That's not a good enough excuse for me. That's not strong enough. It's not like they had a high flying offense.
It's not like Jerry Judy is a all pro wide receiver. It's not like Judkins played. They were down two running backs. Shadur Sanders is their quarterback. I mean, come on. And they had like 30 yards of offense in the second half. So I don't care. But it was the Browns. That's what takes my confidence level down.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of losing to a struggling Cleveland team?
Like, I don't care how good or what circumstances, I should say, you want to throw out there. What excuses you want to throw out there. They lost to the Browns. They laid an egg. 28 points per game they were averaging the last three games. And they scored six against that Cleveland Browns defense. They gave up 31 to Tennessee.
So, yes, the winner moves on and the winner continues their season into the next season. And it will change the perspective a little bit. If they go into the playoffs and get boat raced by the Bills again, or they lose to Houston's strong defense, you'd think Cleveland's defense was a problem.
Just wait until Houston comes here and Will Anderson and Derek Stingley has to go up against Aaron Rodgers. That could be an issue. I think with Tomlin, Tomlin understood the question. He just kind of threw it in a direction where it wasn't stating the obvious.
Where if they missed the playoffs after having potentially two games where they could have rested starters, depending on what happened with the Baltimore-Green Bay game, where it didn't happen and they had to play them.
Chapter 4: How can the Steelers approach their playoff potential after recent performance?
You had the division firmly in your grasp. Joe Burrow misses most of the year. Lamar has been banged up all year. Cleveland is terrible. And you completely blow it. Yeah, the perception of the season, the perception of Mike Tomlin, it's going to linger far into the offseason.
Because a lot of the rainbows and the butterflies and the sunshine that has been built up over the last three weeks, gone like that. So what is the game plan in this matchup against Baltimore, Mike?
Mike, you guys had 16 targets between Valdes, Scantling, and Miller, only five for Fryman, four for Gainwell. Is there a game-planning element that you guys can do to get more targets to the guys who have traditionally been your playmakers, or is that something you just trust Aaron Rodgers to handle?
You know, we certainly draw up enough schematics to spread the ball around. We believe all our eligibles are playmakers. There's a lot of variables that go into how the ball is distributed. And certainly schematic approach and matchups of the opposing teams are a component of that.
And so what might have been a story last week or a challenge last week may or may not be a story or a challenge this week.
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Chapter 5: What are the key matchups to watch in the upcoming game against Baltimore?
There are a lot of variables that go into who gets the football. Let me simplify it for you, Mike. Let me simplify this for you, Artie. Throw the ball to your best players. Throw the ball to your most proven players. And when I say proven, I mean with this team. Kenneth Gainwell, who is your offensive MVP outside of maybe Aaron Rodgers.
Pat Friermuth, who is your most highly compensated tight end. One of the most highly compensated players on your entire offense. Why don't you throw it to him instead of MVS from the practice squad and Scotty Miller, your number five wide receiver that's on the field and on the team for special teams.
But that is who Aaron Rodgers was singling out because those are the guys that he feels the most comfortable with. Why he's not billed that report with Pat Friermuth, I don't know. It seems like they have a good relationship. Jonu Smith, it seems anywhere Arthur Smith goes, Jonu Smith has to follow. Tennessee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, five catches, 16 yards.
Chapter 6: How do injuries impact the Steelers' chances in the playoffs?
Really? So how they've deployed some of these offensive pieces, too, This was just kind of a run-of-the-mill Tomlin press conference. He didn't really answer too much. There wasn't anything all too flamboyant other than the fact that the winner goes home, and we're welcoming you to Championship Week. Welcome to AFC North Championship Week, as I like to refer to it. That's fun, right?
Welcome to the AFC North Championship Week. Win and you're in. Let's put names around it, a hat and t-shirt type of game. But how much... Does it truly matter to Steelers fans? I wonder what the vibe is. And you can text in at 412-928-9370. You can also chime in on the fan hotline presented by Sullivan Super Service.
Chapter 7: What are the fans' sentiments regarding the Steelers' current season?
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You go into it against Baltimore and can still win it. And I think they can. It's a true coin flip game in my mind. It is one where Baltimore, similar sentiment as the Steelers. The things that are different in the matchup is obviously roster construction. Baltimore, if they have Lamar, is a little bit compromised. Makes it somewhat even with Rodgers.
But still, I would take Lamar Jackson over Aaron Rodgers. And I've been very critical of Lamar in his career. Coaching-wise, Tomlin over Harbaugh. I don't know who you take.
Chapter 8: What does the future hold for the Steelers based on this season's performance?
Running game, give me Baltimore. Weapons, give me Baltimore. I don't even know who's going to play for the Steelers. Calvin Austin, who knows? Washington's out. Metcalf is out. Those are three of your top targets. Defense, I'd probably rather have the Steelers. So it's a real coin flip game in a lot of areas and a lot of respects. But as Nick Faribault called it, it is the battle of mid.
It is the battle of mid. Not the battle of midway. It is just mid. Just average. Two teams that are going to go to the playoffs, probably not win a playoff game.
They'll have a chance because they have a good home field advantage because they have a decent structure of their team because they can somewhat run the ball if you're the Steelers or they can run the ball if you're the Ravens and you just get out of your own way and decide to give it to Derrick Henry 30 times.
So it's still possible, but there's also that faction of Steelers fans that probably want this to get ugly, that want the Steelers to lose this game, that want Baltimore to come in here and basically do what they did to the Steelers a year ago in Baltimore, where they ran for 299 and made it embarrassing for the Steelers.
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leaves a bad taste in your mouth to end the season.
And it would leave a lot worse of a taste this year than it did last year considering this collapse and considering that there was actually more hope this season than there was last year and the year before that and the year before that as this was the worst Steeler game in Cleveland since the year before that and the year before that and, you know, probably the year before that.
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