Hot Iron Hot Takes #8: Smelted Opinions from the Steel Mill Rant Room
Our honest, sometimes terrible post-game breakdowns win, lose, or draw.
This stat about the Stillers being winless in their last five games against opponents who suck (i.e., teams entering the contest at least eight games below .500) is not a Mike Tomlin metric. The Stillers playing down to their competition is a tale as old as time.
Classic Stillers: Shedeur Sanders getting the win while Daddy Prime and Karreuche onlook from the suites.
The series of plays on our final drive seemed to be an Aaron Rodgers special, which was working in vintage A-Rod fashion, until he decided to play favourites and throw the ball to former Packers teammate “MVS” on three-straight plays against an All-Pro cornerback, with Kenneth Gainwell flashing right over the middle, unguarded for what should’ve been a walk-in touchdown. Favourites. By the confidence Aaron placed in Marquez Valdes-Scantling, you’d think this duo had all-time performances together in Green Bay. Number 11, albeit a two-time Super Bowl Champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, has a career 49.4% catch rate. In 2023, Scantling suffered from the dropsies, and reels surfaced on TikTok and YouTube, low-lighting his six dropped passes of 30+ air yards since 2019.
It’s either the football gods or Vegas trying to squeeze every bit of drama (read: dollar) out of the 2025 season; are you a bettor or believer? How inconveniently ironic that DK Metcalf’s two-game suspension is upheld with playoff hopes, a division title, and job security hanging in the balance. Sometimes a coincidence is not merely coincidental but rather a conspiracy.