Pittsburgh Steelers Outlook: Can They Make the Postseason?

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00:00Now, your Steelers, Mike, I'm like a mixed bag for me at this point this week, and I think this week

00:05will get more of a determination in particular as to who they are, a little bit different than

00:10the Colts, because that win against the Jets, I give them all the credit in the world offensively,

00:14but that was the Aaron Rodgers game, and since then, it's kind of gone back to what we saw at

00:18the beginning of the season with the Jets with Aaron Rodgers. They lose to the Seahawks 31-17.

00:23They did beat the Patriots last week, but I mean, look, you give them credit, but the Patriots just

00:29kept fumbling the ball and throwing picks, and this game is really a lot closer than seven points,

00:35and so, you know, Mike, I suppose this week when they play the Vikings, who I think are a little

00:39bit overrated, by the way, I'm actually shocked at their favorite going into this game, we didn't

00:44get a chance to see Carson wins at all, because they didn't need him. They just, the Bengals just

00:48kept giving them the ball constantly, too, so good litmus test for both teams, 9.30 a.m. Sunday

00:54morning, Vikings and Steelers in Dublin. Yeah, I don't like to go on a game like this at all,

01:01because you just don't know who's going to be affected by travel and who's not, but as far as

01:06the Steelers are concerned, the one thing that they can look at is, as I mentioned before, they can say,

01:11we're terrible, but we're 2-1. We got a lot to fix. It may be fixable. They have two, essentially,

01:18two rookie offensive tackles, one who played about half a game last year on the right side,

01:24Faltanu, and on the left side, you have Broderick Jones, who's played two years, but both as a right

01:29tackle and now is in now his fourth game as a left tackle, so you've got two rookies there. You've got

01:35a second-year guy at right guard and a second-year guy at center and one veteran. That's your offensive

01:40line, and it's played like a bunch of rookies to this point. It's got to get better, Craig.

01:46People talk about Aaron Rodgers getting killed and all that stuff. It's not about that. He doesn't

01:52have any time to throw, and that's what it's about. I'm not worried about Aaron Rodgers' health.

01:57I'm worried about does he have time to throw and make this offense effective, and also because

02:03they don't run either. They don't have the threat of the run to keep the rush away from Rodgers, so

02:10the offensive line has got to improve if it doesn't. It doesn't really matter what the

02:15record is now. It won't be sufficient at the end of the year.