We'll beat them. They have a lousy division and played a bottom of the barrel team today. Cleveland beat them so we can too.
If Steelers reach the playoff, I can think of many situations in NFL history where team won without its star QB at beginning of the season. And, lost their star RB and WR. That's pretty out of the ordinary. 16 points allowed per game in last six.
Not sure exactly what you're referring to, but the Cowboys went 13-3 after losing Romo in the preseason. I believe Patriots made the playoffs the year Tom Brady missed. Cardinals won a SB after losing Trent Green in the preseason. Colts could make the playoffs this year after losing their QB to "injury"/retirement in the preseason.
None of those teams lost a pro-bowl/all-pro RB and an all-pro receiver. Which is what I said originally with a missing star QB. The Cardinals never won a Super Bowl at any point in NFL history. The Rams won the Super Bowl in 1999/2000 playoffs. They'd made a super acquisition in the off-season...Marshall Faulk. They also drafted To try Holy to make the Greatest Show on Earth. The Cowboys did lose Romo, but they got Dak and Elliot from the draft. None of those situations are even remotely close to Pittsburgh unless you think any of their skill players are on par with Antonio Brown and Leveon Bell who were no weaker top 5 at their position.
So what you meant to say was: If Steelers reach the playoff, I can think of many situations in NFL history where team won without its star QB at beginning of the season, and losing a top RB and WR, and made no acquisitions and had no high draft picks and, if they had a backup 3rd round QB, they were not drafted in the same year as they lost their star. I can agree with that. We can also add "and weren't a 2019 team with Steel in the name" as well.
You know the Ravens are the "1" in "Patriots are 8-1 so far," right? Ravens have also beaten the Seahawks. Definitely not saying the Ravens are the best team in the league just because they mauled the Bengals.
I know all that but I think we will roll some heads when we make crow meat out of those dirty birds from Baltimore.