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Ray Fittipaldo
12:54
None whatsoever. They're 6 to 1 favorites to win it again next year, the best odds of any team in the league. I'd be surprised if they don't win another one with Brady.
412
12:54
Are we still the favorites to win the division this season?
Ray Fittipaldo
12:55
Maybe the slightest of favorites. I could see the Steelers, Browns and Ravens all having between 8 and 10 wins next season. It's going to be a very competitive division.
NickFromVA
12:55
I just want to say great comment by Bones on Gurley! I feel like the Steelers dodge a bullet by not coming to terms with Lev Bell.
john
12:56
Steelers will resign Bell and keep Brown and win the Super Bowl in Miami next year.
Ray Fittipaldo
12:56
You're quite the optimist on this Monday after the Super Bowl.
student
12:57
Do you think Rams were not a good matchup for NE and Saints would have better opponent vs NE?
Ray Fittipaldo
12:58
Drew Brees is a much better QB than Jared Goff. He most certainly wouldn't have been so ineffective against the Patriots defense. What we don't know is if the Patriots would have had an easier time against their defense.
Michael E
12:58
The officials did a somewhat better job in the SB.  What are your thoughts on an extra one in the replay box area upstairs.  Doesn't seem like it could hurt. College & CFL do that.
Ray Fittipaldo
1:01
There was not a game-changing call, but there were a few bad calls that affected the game in my opinion. The one personal foul early on Robey-Coleman was ridiculous. All he did was tackle Burkhead hard. There was a holding call on John Sullivan that wiped out a long gain and put the Rams in a first-and-20 situation in the fourth quarter when the score was still tied at 3. That was a huge call. And Sullivan did not hold. Then there was Gilmore holding Cooks' arm in the end zone. Cooks still has to catch that ball no matter what, but the official missed that... And yes, I'm in favor of anything that will help officials get calls right. The game has to have some integrity and that was brought into question the past few years.
Guest
1:02
I think people are using the Patriots' success to extrapolate too much from the Steelers' problems (which are real). The Patriots have talent. Maybe less than the Steelers, but they aren't a bunch of scrubs. And the Patriots are better at the two most important positions: head coach and quarterback. So this idea that the Steelers don't need to worry so much about talent is silly. You need talent to win in the NFL. But you also need discipline and focus. You can have that along with talent. That's what the Steelers need to add; they don't need to subtract talent.
Ray Fittipaldo
1:02
But they're not going to be more focused or disciplined if Antonio Brown is on the roster in 2019 either.
Mark
1:02
Hypothetical for you, Ray: two teams are making serious offers to the Steelers for AB.  One of the offers is significantly better than the other, but that team is in the AFC North.  Take the better deal, or trade him outside the division?
Ray Fittipaldo
1:02
I take the better deal no matter what.
NickFromVA
1:03
Odds that Brian Flores will be another so so HC from the Pats? Seems to me Bellichick has a very heavy hand in the D. Perhaps Tomlin is trying to emulated him?
Ray Fittipaldo
1:04
The Belichick coaching tree might have a lot of limbs, but not many of his former assistants have been successful head coaches.
Ron
1:05
I have been anti-Tomlin for a while, so perhaps I am a bit biased, but I see him defended despite some very strange in game decisions over the years, along with gross underperformance in games against inferior opponents. During these strange last few years, incidentally, the argument defending his poor in game decisions and management is his record, understandably, and secondarily, the fact that he is such a good player's coach. That second rationale disappears for me as per his contributions to the recent player culture. Do you foresee a new head coach in 2020 with a low level playoff appearance and early elimination or do you think the playoff return will save him regardless? I personally don't see how you miss the playoffs with this level of talent, particularly with a hall of fame QB and a well above average offesvice line.
Ray Fittipaldo
1:06
Honestly, it depends on what happens in 2019. Winning cures a lot.
OK thanks for all the questions this week. We'll do it again next Monday.
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