Confused ... do we care if we lose to the Browns?

[Ernie]

Is he though? Aren’t the Steelers 7-1 on the road and 5-2 at home? Was he in Jacksonville when he threw 5 INTs?



I respect your opinions. We can be on different sides. I just like to debate. Enjoy the game, Pappy! If the Jets and Bryce Petty pull off the biggest upset of the year, I’ll be ecstatic, because I think we can beat the Browns at home with our backups.

Not to steal Pappy's thunder lol.. but I think he was referring to Ben in broader terms... not just this year.

and yea, I'm ready for Bryce Petty to pull of the upset of the decade. HERE WE GO!!

[birtikidis]

I understand resting the killer Bs. But if we lose, we also lose the bye week, is that right?

So if we start falling behind, do we put Ben and Bell back in?

They're inactive

[buccoray61]

The Steelers D is far from impressive so far.

[Steel Maniac]

Do we want the #1 seed? I know home field is important but it’s all about the matchups. While I would love to play the AFCCG at home I wonder if there is a matchup we want to avoid.

I have no idea who we would play it how it plays out but I’m just throwing it out there as a possibility.

If the jets are close in their game , we need to play hard. Period.

[Steel Maniac]

Steelers secondary still giving up big plays. They’ll have two weeks to work it out

[pittpete]

Its ok though, no one trying on defense

[Ernie]

Looks like (with 8 minutes left) the entire 1st team defense is on the field other than Cam Heyward (who is inactive)... so to answer the question of the OP...yes, "We" collectively care if we lose to the Browns. Tomlin understands what a loss to an 0-15 team does to our "Psyche"... going into the post season.

[Steel Maniac]

Why do the browns constantly hit us with screen passes exactly when we blitz?? Are we tipping our blitz??

[Ernie]

Why do the browns constantly hit us with screen passes exactly when we blitz?? Are we tipping our blitz??

If you mean walking our Nickle up to the line... most of the time yea.

[Steel Maniac]

This needs to be the last season we see Landry Jones in a Steelers uniform

[Sugar]

This needs to be the last season we see Landry Jones in a Steelers uniform

Why? If the Steelers had any problems today it wasn't the backup QB.

[AzStillers1989]

Why? If the Steelers had any problems today it wasn't the backup QB.

agree. He was like 23/27 today without LB, AB and a multitude of oline starters.

[buccoray61]

agree. He was like 23/27 today without LB, AB and a multitude of oline starters.

He wasn't awful. He made some good throws, he also made some equally bad ones. He's a career backup and there is nothing wrong with that.

[Sugar]

He wasn't awful. He made some good throws, he also made some equally bad ones. He's a career backup and there is nothing wrong with that.

I would submit that he's probably better than a few starters in this league.

[Steelerphile]

I thought Landry looked pretty good. He was poised and seemed to know what he was doing. He threw accurately. He threw the bad pick into coverage and gave up another fumble. Hubbard was sometimes not giving him good snaps in the shotgun. I wondered why he didn't go under center more. But this was one of his better performances.