do you know there's only one undefeated
team in all the national football league
do you know that
i wonder if you've been paying attention
if there's just one team so i've heard
yeah so i heard pittsburgh steelers
remain undefeated uh go to baltimore
in baltimore with the mvp of the league
reigning mvp lamar jackson
and they caused him to turn it over a
bunch
interceptions fumbles just really not a
great day for lamar jackson
they said baltimore still scored 24
points pittsburgh wins it 28-24 and i
got to say
i mean a couple things that stand out
about pittsburgh um
number one oh what a difference a court
a good quarterback makes and i'm not
saying ben roethlisberger
has made the best decisions the last two
weeks
you know in tennessee he had three
interceptions there
against baltimore he was all right um
but just the fact that you have
roethlisberger
the back they gotta get the offense
that's it and here's the other thing
even though uh
uh devin bush is out for the season it
fits bro that's what i was gonna talk
about
that's all i'm talking about i'll just
talk about robert spelaine
robert spelaine is it yeah um yeah
11 tackles two pass breakups
two takeaways i mean when they lost
devon bush
that was the person that i was like i
was like man i don't know like who's
this who's this guy
that's gonna step in for this star at
linebacker they just
talk about well-run organizations as
mike tomlin is fond of saying
the standard is the standard and not
only is he holding it down
not only is he holding it down in devon
bush's spot but he's stepping up
and this is my opportunity to eat crow
man you want to talk about the steelers
being the last
undefeated team well i'm winless picking
against the steelers
i've i've picked against them in
consecutive weeks
pick tennessee to beat them in tennessee
i pick baltimore to beat them in
baltimore
this is two weeks in a row that we're on
the show
where i'm i'm like listen you said you
you coined the phrase and you you owned
this phrase on this show that you
reserved the right to be stupid me not
so much
i don't like looking stupid i don't so
that's the last time the steelers make
me look stupid this year
you know like i'm i'm already racist
no i'm already i'm already i'm not
picking against this team again
you know barring barring some unforeseen
circumstances
you know but you know provided they stay
in decent health provided
ben roethlisberger stays in one piece
i'm not picking against this team again
i mean it came down to the last play um
but that's fine you know like like you
said
good teams win ugly games matter of fact
sidebar i don't even know who first
started calling
wins ugly like like an ugly win like i
mean football is not a
football is not soccer it's not the
beautiful game anyway
like if you won the game it's hard for
me to sit there and say
oh that was an ugly win that's such an
oxymoron to me ugly win
you know it's like they did a lot of
great things
i'm sure the ravens for outgaining
pittsburgh
and running for all the yards the ravens
ran for yesterday i'm sure they had to
trade places with pittsburgh today
and not affected it'll be two and a half
games uh
back of pittsburgh for the division lead
right now so all props to pittsburgh
uh the berg is all the way back um first
7-0 start since 78 which is crazy
yeah now they get to now they're at your
old
your team's old rival their traditional
inner conference rival the the cowboys
uh and you mentioned thanksgiving
they'll see baltimore again on
thanksgiving
but man i mean you you called this early
in the season
you said they were the most complete
team in the league and now
i said i was i said i was fast
forwarding michael this is what i'm
already thinking right now it's like
steelers are chiefs because i still held
on to the chiefs even with even though
they have the best record
as the best team in the league the best
team in the afc
but i mean if it comes down to those two
teams at the end
remind me that i'm saying what i'm
saying right now that i'm not gonna let
the steelers make me look foolish
especially if they end up in pittsburgh
i'm not gonna let them make me look
foolish by picking against them again
well uh just a few things there one i
will remind you no question
and um oh well we'll get back to that
i'll remind you of that the other thing
is uh
the good teams win ugly games that is uh
a quote uh that the great bill cower
uh used to say to his steelers teams all
the time and he's saying ugly games
because i i understand what he's saying
too
you know there's there will be times in
games where it won't go well like
roethlisberger last week those three
interceptions
or uh you won't be able to run the ball
like you normally do
or you your defense will break down in a
couple of areas
but when these games where things go
left
uh how do you respond in these
situations so
bill cower said that and i think that's
instructive because
bill cower hall of fame coach he
succeeded
chuck noll hall of fame coach
and who succeeded bill cower mike tomlin
and i just want to say steelers coaches
we talk about steelers wide receivers
like this is how they just consistently
come up with
good players like what is this they just
know how to pick
hall of fame wide receivers so i mean
you think about it over the years
you know john stallworth and lynn swann
hall of famers and
and uh heinz ward is the hall of fame
wide receiver and
antonio brown he's got hall of fame
credentials i'll put it that way
i don't know he'll be in there and they
just keep going now but their
coaches their coaches in the last 50
years
it's crazy yeah tomlin cower
i don't think there's any question about
it and i think uh let's let's point out
and we'll get deeper on it in this
subject later on but let's point out
that yesterday he passed
one of his mentors tony dungy uh
as the winningest coach among
african-american coaches in nfl history
with 140 career
uh wins that was a major milestone
you know in fact michael i remember i
remember uh
coach dungy you know when i first met
him i first met coach dunje by that time
he was coaching in indianapolis
he was like you need to get down to
tampa you need to meet this mike tomlin
guy
you need to get with coach tomlin so i
remember i flew down to tampa
and i sat uh in the shed which tampa's
old facility
had his outdoor weight room area it was
the shed and mike tomlin you know
then the db's coach of the buccaneers
uh gave me some time and that was the
beginning of our relationship that was
before he went to minnesota for that one
years d coordinator and the rest is
history with pittsburgh
it's not just that they know how to pick
coaches michael it's that they stick
with coaches
yeah and they stick and they don't stick
those coaches
with bad players i mean
listen we can talk about mike tomlin and
as the aforementioned robert spelaine
said i was glad to see him say this that
mike tomlin's a football genius so they
can tell like the peter king
so that he's a football genius great to
hear genius associated with mike t
fine but let's also get some credit yeah
right but let's also get some credit
this isn't at the expense of mike
tomlin's credit but i also want to give
some credit to kevin colbert
and their personnel department for those
aforementioned fines
that they constantly make like whether
it's bill cower whether it's
chuck noll whether it's mike tomlin they
constantly find players
you know the coaches are given the
resources
even though they may play hardball on
some contracts their coaches are
constantly giving the resources
and they're giving the leeway and
they're giving their support
because i mean listen man if if it might
as good as mike tomlin's record has been
never had a losing season even with with
injuries that quarterback that you
pointed out last year that's amazing
you tell me in other cities
have had some seasons on the hot seat i
don't know if he'd have been fired
but he'd had some seasons on the hot
seat in other cities
with his record and the way people have
talked about him and his own fan base
he'd had some seasons on the hot seat
not in pittsburgh because they got a
supreme court justice thing going on
when they when you get appointed to that
bench in pittsburgh you're practically
there for life
i think they're very intentional about
it too the way they do it with their
coaches i mean going back to chuck noll
you know getting a coach in his 30s so
they understand okay we get a coach in
his 30s
he's not necessarily ready yet he's not
ready for everything that's going to
happen he doesn't know
what he doesn't know yet but we're
really banking
we're not only just banking on the coach
we're banking on the man
so we think this is the right kind of
man for this franchise and for the city
that's very important in pittsburgh you
got to be about it because
you want to talk about a really informed
uh fan base that's passionate
year round that's pittsburgh so
chuck noll he had a losing season
losing seasons when he started not a
great start for him
but they believed in him now bill cower
had a great start
but he had some losing seasons after
getting to the playoffs
you know six years in a row a couple of
losing seasons
stuck with him and mike tomlin hasn't
had any losing seasons but he's had some
seasons where
they didn't go as far as they they
expected to make the playoffs yeah
so i just like it's a good
it's a good example it's a good model
for other franchises to follow i
mentioned to you before
it's amazing that jimmy haslam was a
part owner
in pittsburgh because he has done the
opposite
in cleveland what the steelers have done
in pittsburgh
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