Steelers Win and Rodgers' Injury Concerns Could Impact Week 12

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00:00all right so the Steelers beat the Bengals relatively easily yesterday and the story

00:04really coming out of that is twofold on the side of the Steelers it's will Aaron Rodgers be able

00:11to play next week with a wrist injury and on the side of the Bengals Jacob as I'm sure that you've

00:16looked at this video many times I'm not really sure if Jamar Chase did what everyone is alleging

00:20he said he did which is spit on another player if he did he's going to miss time for the Bengals as

00:25well yeah I think this second edition of spit gate after we had Jalen Carter and Dak Prescott in week

00:33one where Dak Prescott spit at the ground Jalen Carter thought he was spitting at him so he spit

00:37at Dak he got ejected they treated that as a one game suspension basically so what's going to happen

00:43with Jamar Chase if they do rule that he spit in the video and the Bengals are going to be without him

00:48it's going to be really hard for them to get a win next week against the Patriots and you know they're

00:54already facing a massive uphill battle to get anywhere near the playoff race without Joe Burrow

00:58so it feels like the Bengals season is probably winding down and the only excitement they have

01:04to look forward to is Burrow potentially returning as early as Thanksgiving but we'll see if they end

01:09up sticking to that timeline if you know they're completely out of it as for the Steelers Aaron

01:15Rodgers injury will be intriguing to watch it sounds like he has a small fracture in his non-throwing

01:21wrist so he might be able to play through that if he can grip the ball well enough but it's one of

01:28those things where if you're the Steelers do you really want a 41 year old quarterback out there with

01:32a bulky wrist trying to will you to the playoffs I'm not sure I would trust him I'd rather see him on

01:39the sideline for a couple weeks just to get a little bit healthier we saw Mason Rudolph is capable of

01:44keeping that offensive float and let's be honest Aaron Rodgers hasn't been all that explosive this year

01:49he's been a good dink and dunk distributor but Mason Rudolph could certainly do what Rodgers can

01:54do at this point in his career and as long as he can avoid turnovers then the Steelers should have

01:58a chance to win games if Rodgers needs to be sidelined so I'll be interested to see what approach

02:02they take with Rodgers if he'll push to play but I think the Steelers will be okay if he's out short

02:09term he's out long term it's going to be harder for them to probably make any sort of noise in the

02:14playoffs than it already would be