Thank you for joining us for another week of the live game blog and discussion thread! The Steelers have a tall task ahead of them facing one of the premier quarterbacks in the NFL especially with Kenny Pickett making his first career start. Pickett flashed and showed a lot of competitive toughness in his first half played in the league last week, so expectations are perhaps higher than they should be going into his first start.
There are some reasons to be optimistic against this normally stout defense as S Jordan Poyer, ILB Tremaine Edmunds, and CB Christian Benford are inactive for the game with injuries.