If the NFL season ended today the Pittsburgh Steelers would be the No. 3 seed in the AFC. There'd also be a lot of disappointed people who want to see several more weeks of regular season football before the playoffs begin. Mike Tomlin has authored many spectacular coaching performances in his soon-to-be Hall of Fame career but doing all this with a combination of Justin Fields and Russell Wilson is among his best—though they are slightly better than the duo of Duck Hodges and Mason Rudolph, which actually worked enough to play into mid-January back in 2019.
The Steelers are riding especially high this week after vanquishing the hated Baltimore Ravens last Sunday. ESPN's Dan Orlovsky was there, though, to bring them back to Earth with variations of the same take on Thursday morning's programs. First on Get Up he said that Pittsburgh is not a Super Bowl contender if even its defense is Super Bowl-caliber.
