2023 Schedule

[cincygrad]

Steelers are set up to ground and pound, then use defense to disrupt and disable.

just a matter of them being steady and healthy. key players like Watt need to be healthy. if they can do that, we'll likely have 3 teams in our division make the playoffs, 4 if Cleveland and Baltimore can figure their stuff out.

I'm not convinced Watt has more than a year or two left of being a dominant performer. It's easy to find a perfect comp for him in his own brother, JJ. Obviously similar genetic gifts and unbelievable performance at the same position. TJ is entering the point in his career where JJ started to break down and started to lose some of his ability to dominate for entire seasons. Aside from the 2018 season, JJ was somewhat hit or miss in terms of health and production. And while he put up 12.5 sacks as a 34 year old last year, I don't think he was close to taking over games like he was in his prime.

Maybe TJ will avoid the injuries that plagued JJ.... But the amount of shit he started to experience since 2021 suggests otherwise.