 We're really close to the season kicking off. And last time you were on the show, and it was a long time ago, we were going into week 14. Your Steelers just went too straight, and you made a prediction on how your Steelers would finish the season. Let's take a look at that. To me, I made a bet with one of my friends, and I was telling him, hey, I bet the Steelers go nine and seven to finish. I mean, they go nine and seven, so the Steelers finish, like they win, they're gonna finish with a positive record. So I was like, we're gonna win seven of our next nine games. Excuse me, what did you know? Hey, it's a combination of believing in the guy that coached you, but then also understanding just how the team has built, how the franchise is built, and believing in Kenny Pickett. And that's one thing that I believe in Kenny. Obviously I know him personally, but I also believe in him because what I've seen with him when he was at the University of Pitt in just his progression from the first start he had all the way into the second half of the season, and I just felt real confident about it. I mean, they finished seven and two, you nailed it, you won the bet with your buddy, I hope you got something great in that bet, but we gotta keep this thing going, you're on a heater here on the F&M show. So if you look at the teams right here that finished in 2022 with the best records in those last nine weeks, they were all playoff teams, every single one of them, besides, is this not right? Oh, besides your, sorry. Oh, besides your Steelers. So I wanna put you on the spot to run it back here. What is the Steelers record going to be this year and how far are they going? So you're telling me, you asked me for the record. That one is gonna be tough. So I think this season, I have them maxing out at about 12 wins, but I think they're gonna be around 10 to 12 wins. Why do you think they're getting so slept on a little bit? I mean, people are talking about the more and more, Kenny Pickett looked so good, obviously what happened against the Bills, it's just pre-season action, but I mean, I know the Ravens are the supers team and the Bengals deserve their respect because they've been there the past couple of years now, they have borough, they have all that, but this Steelers team, like I made the case it's disrespectful to Mike Tomlin that they're at the bottom of the barrel by pretty much every national media head. I think the reason that they're slept on is because for the last 20 years, they've had a staple in Ben Roffensberger. So with them having been Roffensberger, everybody knew a Ben would do anything when it comes to winning and Coach Tomlin would do the same thing. But what people feel to realize is where Kenny Pickett has achieved compared to a lot of other quarterbacks that are now in the National Football League. Kenny Pickett has won and I'm not trying to pull up college stuff, but Kenny Pickett won the ACC when nobody in the world thought Pitt was going to win the ACC. So that kind of showed me that, hey, he understands how to win games. But then also with him, I don't think it's about all the accolades. I think it's about just getting to win. So if you look at the back half of the season, in the most important games, he only threw one pick. Obviously everybody looked at his stats at the beginning, but every rookie their first year, their first seven games, they're going to look ugly. So I thought that they did a good job of building pieces around him. Jalen Warren and Najee Harris are running the ball really well. So with that one-two punch, I think that's going to be well added to Allen Robinson. He was a number one receiver in the league for a while. It just didn't work out in LA, but I think it can work out here. So I- So what's the problem? Like what, you know, and then you have Tomlin, it's they out of the NFL, they have one of the highest floors of any team. Like they're not going to implode. They're not, we all kind of knew, like you called your shop, but we've got to give Tomlin his respect. Like he's not going to have a team that's losing. He might at some point, but he certainly hasn't. And they ended the season really well. The offensive lines improved, their run game's okay. Pickett's going to reel it in, hopefully like curb the interceptions a little bit. What is the one thing holding them back? Do you think are the biggest challenge this season for this squad? I think it's not West holding them back. I think it's kind of like the Floyd Mayweather kind of thing. This is like, like Coach Tomlin has a winning record his whole career and everybody just kind of wishing upon like, oh, when are they going to lose? Think about it. Coach Tomlin had went nine and seven with Doug Hodges and Mason Rudolph. So why you don't think he can do the same thing with a first round quarterback? So that's, that's the first, that's the first thing that comes to mind. And then the second thing that comes to mind is the Bengals have show why they're great. Joe Burrow show why he's great. Lamar Jackson show why he's great. But Lamar Jackson record versus Distillers is not a positive one. Coach Zack Taylor, his record versus Distillers, I think it's even. And then the Browns, Kevin Skavansky record versus Coach Tomlin isn't well either. So when everybody else looks inside our division, they see all these big name quarterbacks and they're like, oh, they're, they're going to win that division because of these quarterbacks, but they don't think about like, Coach Tomlin got here because of his defense and understanding how to beat those other teams. If we split with everybody in our division and then actually beat the people that's everybody else on our record that they're supposed to beat, they're going to end up 12-5. I mean, 12, I think 12 is a beautiful number for the Steelers and I can easily see it happening. It's, I mean, it's a very human reason why we want the failure. We're waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like it's probably right. You're probably dead on about that.