Steelers 3-0 Against the Spread: Will Their Streak Continue?
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00:00Not just 3-0 straight up, but 3-0 against the spread for the Steelers, including Joe
00:10in their last two as the favored side.
00:13They're a slight favorite in Indianapolis on Sunday, and here was the point I wanted
00:17to bring up on Pittsburgh, when we think Mike Tomlin, we think never a losing season, never
00:22less than eight wins, if they're an underdog, boy is it going to be a gritty football game
00:27where the Steelers are going to keep it close.
00:29But since the end of the Big Ben era, in the Steel City, Ben Roethlisberger's final
00:33year, 2021, so since the start of 2022, the Steelers are the best favorite team in the
00:39NFL.
00:40They have the best cover percentage as the favored side, 10-5 against the spread, again
00:44it's a point-and-a-half spread, it's a virtual pick-em, it's minus-124 on the money line.
00:49Will Pittsburgh leave Indianapolis on Sunday still unblemished?
00:54I don't think so, Ben.
00:56I mean, the Steelers have, listen, you can only play, right, the teams that are in front
01:03of you.
01:04But when you look at what the Steelers have so far here, week one they played Kurt Cousins
01:10in his first game off an Achilles, right, and a new offense.
01:13They played Bo Nix in his second career NFL start, and then a banged-up Justin Herbert,
01:19who ended up getting banged up again in the game and left with an ankle injury, was their
01:23third win, and they have basically handcuffed Justin Fields to the point where they're
01:29not letting him or putting him in a spot in which, in any way, are they going to allow
01:34him to lose the game with his arm.
01:36But I'll say this, Anthony Richardson's going to have to beat him with his arm, and I do
01:42think he is more than capable at home in this spot in a desperate Colts team to be able
01:47to do just that on this secondary in Pittsburgh.
01:50I don't know that they're going to run on him, but I bet you Richardson, with his legs
01:55and his arm, is more than capable of beating a Steelers team that you have to sell high
02:00on at this point in the season.