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Week 8 Takeaways: Steelers Survive Another Classic With Ravens, Lamar’s Rough Day, Dalvin Cook Does it Himself

Reacting and overreacting to everything that happened in the Week 8 Sunday afternoon games...

Things That Made Me Giddy

Steelers Survive Another Classic With Baltimore: A week ago, the Steelers were much more dominant than the final score indicated in Nashville. This week, the Ravens defense was absolutely taking it to them. Whether you consider it Lamar Jackson making mistakes or the Steelers defense forcing those mistakes (it was a mix, but maybe a bit more of the former), they hung around long enough to figure it out offensively. The Ravens outgained them 457 to 221, but about half of Pittsburgh’s yardage came on two two long touchdown drives in the final 20 minutes, and situationally they were more than up to the task.