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It doesn’t sting as much if you have realistic expectations. There’s been multiple games like this during Mike Tomlin’s tenure. The result shouldn’t be too surprising. Don’t want to hear about injuries. Every team has them. Coming out flat against a supposedly inferior team is a tomlin tradition.

What momentum?

Nah. You get used to losses against bad teams. The browns don’t make it any more or less special.

The browns were playing for something. The cardinals weren’t. I am not shocked that we played down to the cardinals. I am disappointed we didn’t even play up to their level.

Whether you think Kenny is they guy or not, you gotta feel for him here. Dude finally gets a chance to prove that he can be an NFL starter and Canada was limiting him, and this happens. He looked so deflated when they showed him with the boot on, and I feel like his confidence was finally starting to recover.

It stings in the sense that it was even more embarrassing. But no, non-conference loss vs divisional loss.

I was yelling all week at the jerks on our local sports radio stations talking about how the Steelers will be 9-4 by the end of this week. Sorry, this crap is predictable for a Tomlin coached Steelers team. BTW, is anyone surprised it would rain on the new sod after WPIAL playoffs? Edit: Yes, I get sick of all those experts like Mark Madden and the B Team talking like games have already been won.

Trap games. Steelers are notorious for playing down to their opponents.

The browns are actually competitive this year and their defense is insane. I accept that loss.

Losing to the cardinals by this much is embarrassing and nobody should get paid for the performance today.

Browns have a top tier defence, the Cardinals objectively suck. It hurts a lot more because it tells me that we really aren’t good or ready for any meaningful football.

Absolutely. The Browns at least have a well coached, very talented defense. The Cardinals are a genuinely horrible team

With all the injuries added on, yes

Any given Sunday, eh?

Nope. You can go back years and see we are notorious of losing to shitty teams