Well, here we are. We've finally crawled out of the basement and into 3rd place in the division (using tiebreakers). And we're playing a game that would put us in 1st. (tiebreakers again, as the Ravens will no doubt beat the Titans...but the Bengals play the Hot & Cold Jaguars, although theoretically, this would be the Cold week for the Jags, especially after dismantling the Patriots). Bottom Line: We're looking to take the lead in the division at the quarter pole! On National TV (for whoever pays for that). I mean, after week 1, who saw this coming?

ANYWAY.....although the Steelers have better numbers than us in every category, nothing shows that we're overmatched. Of course, I've got no category for the effin' penalties! I can hear it now, on Thursday night: Holding! Number 71! and False Start! Number 71! - we survived some crappy officiating last week.

Rogers does NOT want to get hit. We don't have Myles to make Rogers use only the half of the field that Myles isn't on anymore. (Rogers was scared shitless of Myles) But Mason Graham has probably earned some fear from Rogers now. And Root seems to dial up timely Safety blitzes, etc. to try and create sacks.

Unfortunately it's a very short week and there's no time for players to get healthy so I'm not expecting to see Campbell back in at CB. Blackman is a deep bench player who's starting. It's scary. But he didn't do all that bad last week against a really good passing team, PLUS having a player like Denzel Ward on the other side, the opponent is going to focus to Blackman's side...so, he did admirably. He was 2nd on the team with 9 tackles and he had 1 pass defended. Of course Ward only had 3 tackles because he didn't have to tackle his receiver too often.

Steeler Week! We have a pretty good track record on Thursday Night Football. Let's create some more memories! Let's beat the Steelers and TAKE 1st PLACE!