00:00Steelers and Buccaneers going at it this week.
00:02Not a game that anybody's going to want to watch,
00:04but they'll put it on TV anyway.
00:05Neither team can score.
00:07Neither team plays particularly great offense,
00:10but on defense, that's where it could potentially be the separator today
00:14who plays better defense.
00:15Pittsburgh is two and a half point road favorites at Tampa Bay.
00:19One of the lowest point totals I see here on the board at 38 and a half.
00:23Boy, I don't know.
00:24It certainly feels like the ultimate matchup here.
00:27The buy low, the sell high.
00:30Tampa Bay picking up a win at Dallas last week.
00:33Pittsburgh can't get out of their own way.
00:36I think I am going to lean toward the Steelers today.
00:39I'm just not a believer, Joe, in Tampa Bay.
00:41Daniels is a great story.
00:43He was certainly a great college quarterback.
00:45Cowboys are just a gift that keeps on giving every year
00:48when they're big favorites, they lose or they don't cover.
00:51It's the same story every single season.
00:52So I am going to fly back to Pittsburgh this week
00:56and believe that they are the better team against Tampa Bay.
00:59Well, Pittsburgh is the better team, theoretically, on paper, realistically.
01:04But that win that the Buccaneers picked up against the Dallas Cowboys
01:08on the road on a short week with a backup quarterback, undrafted free agent,
01:12it shook me to my core.
01:13So I am a hard pass on this game.
01:16Your hard pass was the Tennessee Titans game against the Indianapolis Colts
01:21with good reason, I believe.
01:22I can understand not liking a lot of things.
01:24Like I said, I think it's a lot of Jonathan Taylor in that game.
01:26We'll get to some more of that in the hour, too, with the props I'm looking at.
01:29But this one, to me, man, this is one of those situations where if the Pittsburgh Steelers
01:35haven't prepared properly for this game and overlook the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
01:39they could be in a bad spot.
01:40It's also Aaron Rodgers traveling with DK Metcalf, who is not 100% going to play.
01:45You got Jeremy Bernard is going to have to step up in that void
01:47because Pittman's out, Roman Wilson's out.
01:49Now you do have Rico Dowder returning.
01:51But let's not screw up all the things that we have discovered here
01:55with Jalen Warren in these last couple of weeks,
01:56who's become a breakout star in 2026.
01:59Are we going to go to a timeshare now?
02:01I don't know, Craig.
02:01There's just a lot of questions I have,
02:03and my confidence with the Steelers on the road is not high.
02:07Steelers should win this game.
02:09They should win this game by more than a field goal.
02:11I just don't feel really good about it.
02:13So I'm a pass.
02:14I'm out on this one.
