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Kovacevic: Why it’s absurdly hard, even at 1-4, to bury Steelers

Some dude named Duck is the quarterback.

I mean, with all due respect to Devlin Hodges, that's really where the conversation should begin and end regarding the rest of the Steelers' 2019 season. Because the NFL's a quarterback-driven league, and the franchise linchpin was already lost when the promising protege went down Sunday, as well. And all that remains is an undrafted rookie out of -- hang on, I need to look this up again -- Samford University in Alabama.

It's over.

It's fat-lady-sung, Germans-bombed-Pearl-Harbor over.

It's as over as it could conceivably be with a 1-4 record, a long flight out west to face the Chargers up next, and so much else already having gone so very wrong.