Steelers NFL Schedule Sets Late Season Gauntlet, but Shows Path to Playoffs | Toughest NFL Schedule?
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- The Pittsburgh Steelers' full NFL schedule has been released and there appears to be a late season gauntlet of AFC North teams and top quarterbacks lined up before a playoff push. But could having to play Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts all in consecutive weeks still lead to a path that gets the Steelers back to the playoffs?
Chris Carter thinks there's still a good chance to get to the playoffs with how the schedule broke, and thinks the key is the Steelers coming out strong in the early part of the season. How does Mike Tomlin and Russell WIlson navigate what might be the toughest schedule in the NFL?
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Pressure bust pipes or create diamonds here we go steelers
Nicccce Quote !!! 😎
True it made the 04 05 and 08 team we shocked the world and it's a 5 star match up cause we in the band of brothers that went from losing 3 or 4 AFC Championship games two winning 3 and going 2-1 in the Super Bowl maybe this is what we need the Steelers are always the type of team that needs to grow from and come together so we can create some diamonds and win it this year or in the next 2 or 3 years but we need to do it for Watt Heyward and Fitz win the big one they are some of the greatest ever to do what they
We need Cam Sutton and Courtland Sutton...Very tuff opponents...Time for smash mouth football teams..We need more backup players with these short weeks..
We need every Sutton we can get our hands on !
Rip to our DBs .. boutta get shredded, they better buckle up!
@@i-know_steelcity9965 front 7 will make our secondary look better than they have to be individually. Don’t be scared. And don’t forget about Corey Trice if that dude’s 100%
@@paladin1726 we got mad DBs tryna earn that slot/CB2 spot. Similar to our WR room. I hope someone surprises us
Great show, and I agree with you a hot start is very important to a high win total this year. the improvement of the o line should add at least 2 wins, a decent linebacker core should add 2 more, and I think we will have a rising star this year either Coery Trice or Calvin Austin will have a great year. don't even get me started on the defense. Here we go Steelers!
Tired of people talking about the Steelers like we scared & have 0 rings, TOUGHNESS IS OUR BRAND, idgaf who we play, WE GON BEAT THEM. 13-3 loading
Nicely Said Bro 👌 👏 👍
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Honestly, I feel that it all depends on health and QB play. I think if we’re ok in both of those areas, then we could make waves this year.
I believe in 2008 the steelers and Ravens both had what was called the toughest schedules, and the Steelers went 12-4 and the Ravens were 11-5.
We gotta start out hot to get 10 wins.. the back half of the schedule is brutal..
Seeing this schedule really makes me feel like we 100% now have to get a big time WR now. To win 10 or more games this year will be harder than last year even with the revamped offense. It’s murders row for more than 3/4 of the season.
Can you show me the murderers row for 3/4 of the season? Cause outside of KC, Phi, LAC and MAYBE the cowboys, we’ve handled every other team on the schedule pretty handily.
Been a fan forever we have all of our best healthy for the last 7 games and we play these teams every year
Hell in a cell type schedule all odds against us. here we go!!
I feel like we go 6-2 into the bye week. The back half is all AFCN matchups which can help us. Have a chance to mesh our line in the beginning of the season and refine our identity. I agree with most people saying 11-12 wins is realistic.
An injury to any WR is an offensive killer. We have to sure up that depth some way
Love the Schedule ❤. If you want to be the best, you gotta beat the best..
It’s looking like another 9-8, 10-7 kinda year lol
It's a hard schedule of teams but if russ plays good not perfect but enough to make us not lose games we should be fine
i believe it’s very likely pittsburgh starts off very hot this season
I see a 10-6 floor and 12-5 floor
Why is everyone so worried? The back half of the schedule features teams the Steelers were 5 - 1 against a year ago.
They're still tough games. Physical games. All back to back with 2 teams that were terrible against mixed in. With no breaks. And the Bengals didn't have Burrow last year.
ITS GONNA BE ROUGH
You did not play Burrow and Lamar sat the last game of the year. Keep harping on your 5-1 record. Its all you got.
Lol some fans acting like they are about to go 0-8 in the second half. This team is better than last year 9 wins floor 12 wins ceiling. They fall some were in the middle at 11 wins. As a fan i do not want a cupcake schedule, this is playoff team in my opinion, they need to be battled test going into the playoffs. Those second half team are likely going a superbowl run
That's a valid point !! If NOT tight n tough NEVER going to compete in Any playoff run !!😎
The layup 1st half at least gives our OL & Offense time to jel together b4 our "hell stretch"
Planing to come to the Dallas game.
All those other teams have the toughest schedule. They have to play us. Bye week in a good spot. Time to develop the rooks and new offense before facing our division. Love it. Lets go!
They better get off to a start or we will on the outside looking in.We definitely needs more depth at WR and CB.
I’ve looked at the schedule over and over and this “gauntlet” everyone is talking about, outside of KC and Phi those other teams we went 5-1 against just last season alone.
Here in the ATL can’t wait to see my Steelers beat up on them Dirty Birds
My main concern is we're going to be playing a lot of young players. They tend to wear down towards the end of the season. Otherwise, looks like a typical steelers schedule.
I can see the Steelers heading into Week 11 and being 9-0 based on Strength of QB. Only One Top QB and that's Justin Herbert of the Chargers without his usual weapons of Mike Williams and Keenan Allen and Austin ekeler. Cousins, and Rodgers coming off serious injuries and both over 35 and 40 years of age. And facing Prescott and Rodgers on Prime Time where Mike Tomlin never loses and have the Steelers ready to play. Week 9 of the last 2 years is when the offensive line started to gel and the Steelers started to Run the Ball and go on winning Streaks. I believe with this new OL that starts in Week 1.
We need to load up on and sign Justin Simmons
It's more like a path to the best QB in the next draft....which may be the plan.
not going to happen, and the qb class next year isn't strong
@@MarvyG23 yet....
I don't get why everybody's saying the back half of the schedule is so brutal. Yeah they got KC on Xmas and Philly on the road but why is everybody so scared about the division games? They gotta play these teams at some point, who cares if it happens in one stretch? We have no idea what kind of team they'll have by that point anyway. So much depends on the QB play and whether they get another WR and a slot corner, which I'll be shocked if they don't. Also we have no idea what shape the other teams will be in by that time. My prediction: the Steelers will be 0-0 at the beginning of the season, that's about it.
Getting into foreign territory ... Adjusting late to a platoon system at running back ... If they can get production from a third running back. Late November and December. Should be fully primed for the playoffs.
should go 8-9 but with Tomlin 6-11
Lets go!! Super bowl time
Lmao this is a HUGE test for Arthur Smith. Play smash mouth if you want to lol also without another stud WR , gonna be major concerns, but one thing I WILL say is that we always play good against good teams and play terrible against bad teams so I see this schedule a good scenario for us
We're never scared of any team we're the Steelers. Go defense 💪💪💪😅
Are the teams in our division as good as they were for the past 3 years ????
It's going to be a stressful season
dont watch
Looks to me the NFL gave the Steelers a Gift with this schedule by allowing them to gel early in the season, mid bye week then make a RUN to the playoffs..
11-6
Chris, why are you talking about splitting with the division? Winners don't settle for 50%. We want a winning team that looks to win ALL of its division games. If that isn't reasonable, then we don't have a superbowl team.
Bottom line Steelers D MUST stay healthy !! Lots of short turn around but they can help or hurt ya depending on TEAM cohesion!! Let's Goooo !!!😎
ifTomlin pulls of a winning season this year it would be impressive this could be the year the streak ends 8 or 9 wins when we think they will underachieve they overachieve and vice versa so who knows
His career is already IMPRESSIVE. HE'S A FUTURE HALL OF FAME COACH THAT'S NEVER HAD A LOSING SEASON.
@@johnwholisticshield5267 my point is the non losing seasons is overblown however if he had one this year it would be impressive dont forget he hasnt won a playoff game in like 6 years
@@michaeljohn4831 You must be European American... Smh
@@johnwholisticshield5267 whats that supposed to mean? are you saying im a racist
@@michaeljohn4831 - correct, he’s calling you a racist. This is the lazy approach that many take towards any and all criticism of Tomlin.
I knew this was gonna be a tough schedule and you never know how things are gonna shake out but that run with all of are division games the way they are is mire proof Gadell and the NFL hates the Steelers I've never seen another team with any streach like that against the best divison in football and the defending world champs as on a short week durring that streach I think Godell and the NFL has paid a lot of attention to us this offseason it's like that Covid year we were undeafted we loss are bye week and have to play like 4 or 5 games in like 17 days it was crazy even more so for an older team or the year year where the changed the rules part way through the year to pervent James Harrison Troy Clark and Woodley from contuning to dominate the NFL year or the video taping of are practices and training camp cause we slaughtered the Pats that year Big Ben and the Steelers were clearly the best team in football in 04 but it was during the heyday of spygate we even won the bowl the next year or the Jessey James TD they stole from us that costed us a first round bye and home field advantage and a mounth later the Eagles win the Bowl on the excat same play to the tight end or the phantom minuet that apperaed on the clock that helped the Pats get a game wining TD in 05 to give Big Ben amd the Steelers his first ever loss week 3 of his sophmore season and just about all of these things the NFL had to issues appollogys for later on and I know this team isn't the 08 Steelers but we had the hardests schedule in modner football history to that point but every game was a 5 star match up cause we where in it or the 05 Steelers having to win there last 4 to make the playoffs and went on to be being the first ever 6th seat on the road to win the big game we need to take a page out of those teams books it's not about who we are playing if we line up and play are best we can beat anybody it's a 5 star matchup cause we in it I would feel better if we had a lot of these pices last year to but we could still do something special if we can put it all togther the only way the Steelerscan do it is if they embrace that underdog it's us against the world mentality
Chris putting a giant schedule in front of your face on a Podcast is not the way to go. Something in sidebar better
Nah we need to see them times and dates
schedule really doesn’t matter.. we play to our level of competition.. we lose to teams we should beat and win ugly but competitively against good teams
Isn't that the Truth .. hopefully things may change ..lol 🙄
It's a completely different Falcons team. Using old information to assess new teams is reckless and pointless. This is why so many of us Steeler Fans are clueless and overrate our team because these reckless media talking heads tell us misinformation and BS fan fodder. Keep thinking everyone is the same as last year and see how that works out. This entire thought process is a joke. Stop counting wins in freaking mid-May like Cleveland fans smfh. This is a JOKE.
Chargers are trash. They lost all of their weapons on Offense.
Steelers run it back with the same coaching staff that required five FA's and a 1st rounder at O-line last year and nearly an entire drafts' worth this year. Same D line that is one of the worst in the league against the run. Same secondary with only a single above average corner. Wr room that features "go route" prima donna Pickens,..and little else. New OC who's offense was near the bottom of the league in scoring last year. (much like themselves) And finally, no AFC north teams on the schedule for nearly the first half of the season to shite the bed and hand them any fluke wins via injury or bonehead plays. Looks like 3-5 going into the bye at best. 9 wins at best overall and no playoff appearance. Sounds like the Tomlin era "Standard" train is right on schedule.
just No!
This guy is delusional, 7-10 season @ best, Tomlin-TJ-Cam out, rebuild for the foreseeable future.
Yall said the same thing when I said double digit wins last season. And when I said they’d get a winning season in Pickett’s rookie year. And when I said they’d make the playoffs in 2020 and 2021.
When fans talk about my Steelers, they need to put respect on it. We've been above .500 with some of the weakest rosters, this year WE are gonna be the team to beat, not the other way around
Not really, this team has been star driven for years whether it was Ben/AB/Bell or the defense headed by its future HOF players. Even the “weak” overall rosters didn’t get those wins vs superior rosters-they were just less bad.
Most look toward to 2019 team to make this point but taking a game by game approach causes it to become far less impressive seeing the massive turnover difference their star studded defense provided vs very inferior offenses.
@@mike2687 bro Idc about none of what you said. My original comment stands
@@steelbltz - my comment was accurate. Care about. Don’t care about it. Be a fan or be a fan-bro.
@@mike2687
Steelers record this season is 15-2
@@mike2687I don't get it are you saying that The Steelers hadn't had wins against superior teams since 2019?
it’s another season of damaged goods at QB. i dont even think russ and fields are good enough for our ceiling of first round playoff embarrassment