First of all is on the side.

Let me say this first taken.

Every show is always better when Ryan I agree with.

That's my brother right there.

Let me just be very, very clear about that.

Having said that, the steel is traded that he is.

Okay, let me say this.

Let me say this.

It's when you really, really think about this When I said, Listen, what you talking about?

Whoever loses this game, the bigger impact to me, it depends on how the Ravens NewsMax to me.

It's all about Lamar Jackson.

I don't care.

You listen.

I care about the outcome from the standpoint of Steelers fan, and I'm root for the Steelers and I'm picking them to win this game.

But what I'm saying is this steal his defense is gonna show up.

We all know if you watch Bart Scott, Bart Scott on this morning with Keyshawn and and Jay Williams in the book.

I mean, this brother bought Scott just crystalized for you.

What?

The Steelers Ravens brothers already?

Oh, everyone knows.

Especially so.

It's a beautiful business, A beautiful, beautiful thing because you're playing smash mouth football, and it's about what?

What time is it?

It's me against you.

Let's get it on.

And so you expect they're gonna have their moments.

But you expect a nail biter.

You expect you don't spectacular things to take place.

Just smash mouth football.

Rather, here's what I'm looking for.

Lamar Jackson is the quarterback.

Are the 31st ranked passing team in the National Football League that is second to last?

For those of you who don't know this 32 teams in the National Football League 30.

When you know 30 for I want you on you ranked 31.

That means only one team in the entire NFL is worse than you.

I'm looking for Lamar Jackson to see what he does in this game.

You know what?

You can win 22 17.

You could win 27 20 for you could you could win 32 20.

Whatever, whatever.

What I'm saying is he can't have, ah, horrible game.

He can't look like trash throwing the football.

That's all on what everything else I expect.

I expect Ben Roethlisberger that have his moments.

I expect him to have other moments where he is not so bright.

I expect both defense is to show up, play smash mouth football.

I expect James Connor that you aware of some yards, but he's no Levy in Bell or anything like that.

Okay, I expect Mark Ingram to get his a little bit.

I expect Lamar Jackson to run the football effectively because he's so elusive coming out of the quarterback position.

But in the end, it comes down to How does he look, throwing the football you could produce?

This is amazing, because if you know, like whoever your sports enemy is right, your sports enemies, the people closest to you, whatever it could be your brother, your father, your mother, your says whatever your best friend, your colleague work right?

It's whoever even if you're rooting for the same team, dammit, you'll find something to argue about right on whatever they think, you'll find that So So thinking about this game last night, I'm thinking, Oh, Stephen A is gonna be all hyperbolic.

What a big deal this game is that I'm gonna be like it is slow down.

But you know what?

Because you just undersold it and you're my sports enemy.

I gotta tell you, there's a bigger deal than you're making it out to be.

I was prepared to say the opposite.

I'm gonna toe pump the brakes.

There's a bigger did.

This is Ravens Steelers.

Let me tell you something in the NFL right now, it is the number one rivalry.

I'm a Giants fan theory.

NFC East is trash garbage.

There's no rivalry that matters in the NFC, even though Joe Judge is not doing that bad of a job.

But But the NFC I'm not going to sit here and say the Giants rivalry would stop it.

They're meaningless right now.

The A F C East got no rivalry like this.

If you look throughout, football is not like the Bucks in the Saints are natural longtime rivals.

If you look at the NFL, you could say Seattle and San Francisco right now.

Maybe something like that.

But guys, the number one rivalry in America's number one sport at this moment is the Ravens and the Steelers, the Steelers and the Ravens.

And the reason is not just because they're battling for supremacy in the A F.

C.

North at the moment, it's because it also goes back.

It's because it's been a great rivalry and it's a great rivalry right now, and it's because Lamar Jackson and Ben Roethlisberger have never faced each other.

So I was gonna stay here.

Hey, Whoa, Stephen A.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Ryan.

This is a Onley, A medium deal, right?

Because it's still, you know, early issue in the season, and both these teams could still make the playoffs and not, let's Let's not over sell it, but I think you undersold it.

This is a big This game is a big deal compared to what you said.

Yeah, this is this.

This is huge.

This is huge, and the reason is huge because it's back to what it's supposed to be.

The reason this became a rivalry was because whoever won this game was gonna win the North.

That that wasn't in question, but usually the winner of this game had an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.

You were you're gonna have an opportunity to be the elite.

I mean, there were two years that we played to see who was gonna be a Super Bowl champion or a F C Championship representative and that's what made it a great rivalry.

And on the other side, it was the way that the games were played.

I made a statement this morning that it never mattered to me who I played the week before the Ravens, but it always mattered who I played the week after, because what I played the week after they were going to get a lesser Ryan Clark.

They were going to get a lesser Pittsburgh Steelers because of the body blows you take the week before because of the intensity of the game.

So this is highly important.

Here is the other reason that it's more important for the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson than it is for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Lamar Jackson is not in question.

That that he can win football games is not in question.

That Lamar Jackson in the Baltimore Ravens are a good football team, but it is in question.

Can you win meaningful football games?

The Kansas City Chiefs regular season football games for the Baltimore Ravens in the last two years have been meaningful.

Football game Lamar Jackson hasn't won knows The divisional playoff against the Tennessee Titans last year was a meaningful football game.

They didn't win that the year before the wild card round against the Los Angeles Chargers.

They didn't win next.

So now you're going up against the undefeated rival, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have who have Ben Roethlisberger, who have t.

J.

Watt?

They have.

But Dupri, Cam Heyward, all of these stars that we know that we see and that no, that coming into a game with you, you do one thing really well.

So they're gonna force you to do the other thing.

So when all of this wraps around, when we talk on Monday morning, we're gonna talk about exactly what Stephen they said we are Or were we're gonna talk about Lamar Jackson.

How did he play?

How did this offense look?

How did the team that sacked him last year that turned them over last year?

How did they play against him?

This is, unfortunately going to be a referendum or an indictment on Lamar Jackson's entire career.

The MVP won't matter.

What he's doing this year won't matter.

It's gonna talk.

We're gonna talk about Sunday and what that means for Lamar we all agree about in the Baltimore Ravens future.

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