I can’t remember at this point whether or not last week was ‘put up or shut up’ time, but this week certainly is. Of course, whether or not the Pittsburgh Steelers ‘put up’ tonight, they’re certainly not going to shut up, and we wouldn’t want them to—it’d make our job here a lot harder, for one thing.
Still, tonight is the night. It’s difficult to see a realistic path forward coming out of tonight’s game with anything other than a victory, over the AFC-leading, 8-3 Baltimore Ravens. A loss drops them to 5-6-1, and probably puts them two games out of a playoff spot at least, with a logjam for the final Wild Card spot, and as you already know, the schedule doesn’t get easier from here.