Steelers Face Hostile Environment in Denver After Atlanta Win

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00:00Of course, the Steelers, after the win in Atlanta, back-to-back road games, they will

00:09go to Denver this week.

00:11It will be Justin Fields again.

00:13Here is Mike Tomlin on his team, heading back on the road for a second week in a row.

00:18The first thing that I think about when I think about going to Denver is the environment,

00:23particularly this portion of the season.

00:25It is a hostile and challenging environment in a lot of ways, from a crowd noise perspective,

00:31from a conditioning perspective.

00:35We can't run from that.

00:36We've got to run to that.

00:37We need to prepare with those things in mind this week to get ourselves in the very best

00:43position to perform from a conditioning perspective, to work with crowd noise, particularly on

00:48offense and in those waiting moments.

00:51We did similar things last week in terms of preparation for Atlanta.

00:55It's helpful to us to have that experience under our belt this week as we prepare with

01:00those things in mind.

01:01Well, let's just compare the two.

01:04A, nobody cares about the Falcons, and people barely go.

01:10More people go to Georgia football games and want to go to Georgia football games than

01:14Falcon games, and everyone in Denver goes to the Broncos game.

01:19Literally every seat is sold out, no matter if they're good or bad, and the Steelers are

01:24literally donuts in Denver.

01:26They have never won a game there.

01:28They literally are like 0 and 9,000.

01:31I have been to every single loss the Steelers have ever had there.

01:35It is a bloodletting every time they go.

01:37Like honestly, if they win there, I will keel over, and especially with that field's throwing

01:42picks.

01:43Listen, Denver was okay last week, and then they let it slip through their fingers as

01:48well.

01:49You know, they were playing well, and then they weren't.

01:50The second half was a disaster at Seattle, right?

01:54Wasn't that game at Lumen Field?

01:55I think they lost in McDonald's first game in Seattle.

01:59Look, I don't think the Broncos are better than the Steelers.

02:02I don't think Bo Nix is better than Justin Fields, but I think that city, that stadium,

02:08that atmosphere, at least Tomlin has that right.

02:10He's like, it's a very hostile place.

02:13You know, it's a graveyard for the Steelers.

02:16They go there to get buried.

02:17I have seen more playoff losses and more losses there.

02:21Two of them, you've talked about them, the Tebow game in Nebraska over the top with a

02:24second left, and the Steelers should have won that game all day.

02:27I got on that team plane and flew back with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and all I remember

02:31was getting on the plane and Myron Koepp looked at me and he said, shut up.

02:36Just shut up.

02:37Don't say one word out of your mouth, your fat mouth.

02:41And I just, because you know, I was young and dumb.

02:42I was like, that sucked.

02:43And he's like, shut up.

02:47Okay.

02:48Minus two and a half for the Steelers, one of our many road favorites this week.

02:55And 36 and a half is the total.

02:58So you're on the Broncos this week.

03:00You're on Denver.

03:0136 point total.

03:03How disastrous is that?

03:05That's like having a bad dinner.

03:0736.

03:08Are you kidding me?

03:09That's like inviting failure.

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