Patriots Facing Major Offensive Challenges, Hope for a Turnaround
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00:03 Now, here's the benefit for Trubisky and the Steelers.
00:07 And I think it says more not about Pittsburgh, but about New England.
00:11 The Steelers are booked as a six point home favorite
00:15 on a short week against the New England Patriots.
00:18 The total is now 30 and a half.
00:21 We expect, we think, Bailey Zappi is going to get the start for
00:26 New England on Thursday.
00:28 The Patriots are abysmal.
00:29 I don't care if it's Zappi, if it's Mac Jones, if it's Malik Cunningham,
00:33 if it's Bill O'Brien putting on a jersey and walking out there to play quarterback.
00:37 The Patriots were shut out last week for the second time this year.
00:41 The Patriots have lost ten games.
00:43 They haven't scored more than 17 points in their last nine losses.
00:47 In their last three games combined, Donny, combined, they've scored 13 total points.
00:53 Give me Pittsburgh, lay the six, take the under,
00:57 maybe just New England's team total if you would like.
00:59 That Pittsburgh defense will do enough to win the Steelers a football game on
01:04 Thursday and improve that record to eight and five.
01:07 >> Yeah, they don't even have to do all that much too,
01:09 because this is the Ezekiel Elliott revenge game, I guess.
01:12 Cuz Romandre Stephens had got a high ankle sprain this past weekend.
01:15 And Zeke has looked decent this year, but he's the only offense,
01:18 when your only offensive weapon is Ezekiel Elliott this year,
01:20 who's ran for about what, 400 yards total in the season.
01:23 You know it's going to be bad.
01:25 And Bill Belichick, sometimes it just bottoms out on you.
01:27 There's no way Bill Belichick behind the scenes told Robert Kraft,
01:30 we're gonna tank the way out.
01:31 You get me a really good quarterback and
01:32 we'll turn this thing around like it was Tom Brady back in the year 1999 or 2000.
01:37 That's not going to happen at this point here.
01:39 They're embarrassing here and they will continue to be embarrassing.
01:41 But also, look at this, again, getting back to this, Ben.
01:45 You had the Arizona Cardinals at home.
01:47 You're not gonna get the Patriots at home on a Thursday night game.
01:49 You should be walking in and with the, hey, we're gonna finish with 11 wins,
01:52 which will be outrageous.
01:54 But with that schedule, they should have a leg up on winning 11 games.
01:58 We'll see what the Steelers have.
01:59 But if the Steelers game plan, and I can't fault them for this one time,
02:02 just take a look at what the Chargers did.
02:05 Laugh at the offensive New England and say,
02:07 as long as we don't turn the football over, this is an easy victory.
02:10 Who cares if we win three to nothing, three to two, or six to three?
02:13 That's how you have to do it.
02:14 So I'm not gonna yell if I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in the stadium and
02:18 boo, because they have a six to nothing lead at the half.
02:20 And quite frankly, they're running the football and just playing field position.
02:23 That's all you wanna do to pick up a victory.
02:25 And you have a mobile quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky who can do that here.
02:29 But my goodness, this is a prime time game we're gonna watch in the NFL,
02:33 maybe the worst of the season.
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