Aaron Rodgers, Steelers may start hot - but Pittsburgh needs patience
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We watched Jared Goff, I mean, a five-interception game.
We forget a five-interception game that was just dreadful.
If that happens for Aaron Rodgers, my God, it's just gonna be apoplectic.
Like, everything's coming to a crashing, screeching halt, like fire Tomlin, get rid of everybody.
The Steelers are bums.
Like, there has to be some wiggle room in all of this to me.
And that's what's maddening about it: I genuinely believe the Steelers have a really favorable open to the schedule, and then there's a lot of tough games.
I could totally see the Steelers coming out of the gates hot and then coming back to Earth.
And I don't think that has to mean that anything went tragically wrong.
It's just like this is a process for Pittsburgh, and I don't, Jordan, I don't just, I don't know that the noise surrounding the Steelers will ever let that process play out the right way.
Right.
The Steelers start out with the Jets, Seahawks, Patriots, Vikings, bye, Browns, and then week seven Bengals.
I wouldn't be surprised if they go on to the Bengals game undefeated.
I mean, that's what, five and 0, and they'd have to buy it already, and Aaron Rodgers could be pretty fresh.
This defense is good, and yes, they lost Minkah Fitzpatrick, but they got Jalen Ramsey, TJ Watt back.
I mean, they've got a lot of good pieces.
They picked up Darius Slay in the secondary.
They extended safety Sean Elliott.
And then you have the offense, and Aaron Rodgers is definitely the best quarterback they've had since Ben Roethlisberger, and especially Ben Roethlisberger at the end of his career.
Aaron Rodgers is better, and I know you could say, oh, what did he do last year?
He actually was not bad last year, and that was in his first year off the torn Achilles.
So, I'm not saying he'll for sure play great, but I think there's a lot of reason to think he could.
The question will be, can Aaron and DK get on the same page?
Because they did lose George Pickens, and so it's not like they're super deep at receiver, but I think they have a lot of talent.
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