Rich Eisen on What’s at Stake for Russell Wilson & the Steelers in 2024 | The Rich Eisen Show 

As coach T would say, we do not seek comfort.

5-1 division record last year with Kenny Pickett mason Rudolph and trubisky… rich we ain’t worried 😂

As long as Russel does better thank picket, their defense will help them through this

Last year Russell Wilson faced the chiefs, packers, chiefs, bills, Vikings, browns, and Texans his team went 5-2. Im sure the Steelers a good franchise can put together a similar run.

Yeah, we have a TOUGH schedule for sure. They have to play us too. Here we go!

These teams have to play the steelers also. People act like they are going to lose every game in the second half. Take a look at the steeler ls record against the division

Boy, that is a tough schedule. At least on paper. If they can keep up the coach’s streak of non-losing seasons, it will be a major accomplishment with that schedule.

Y’all do know Steelers were 5-1 against AFC North last year right?

Toughest schedules I've ever seen tho but they were 5-1 in the division with Kenny and Mason so If they could do that it shouldn't be a problem here

Playing two games within 4 days is crazy, not to mention that against the Ravens and then the Chiefs

Rich and Chris hate Rus. TJ is the only one making any sense on this show. It’s nauseating.

RUSS is good watch!!!

Btw y'all are overlooking our defense 😂

Hey Rich! His first year in Denver was with one of the most incompetent coaches in NFL history. Hackett made Ray Handley look like Vince Lombardi. He played good under Sean Payton. Steelers will take good.

Come on man. Russ scored 26 td last season. Thats 5 more then Kenny Pickett (13td’s) and Mitchel Trubisky (8 td’s) combined the last 2 season’s. If that cooked, we can still make the playoff with that. Just because they are the Steelers. Thats why!

I'd give the Steelers a win floor of 6 and a ceiling of 11, but the end of their season is murder. They're gunna have to go into playoff mode before Thanksgiving...

Russ goes balls deep 🏈

Russ’s VOLUME numbers have only been sliding because his coaching and rosters have been sliding. Look THAT up! Furthermore, do you know what HASN’T been sliding? His efficiency and accuracy. He has also shown that he still has the arm talent to hit anybody anywhere, especially on deep throws and in tight windows. In 2923, he completed 66% of his passes and had 4 of the 5 LEAST probable pass completions of the year. And he has been injured in two of the last three seasons. They weren’t debilitating injuries from wear and tear (age), they were from on-the-field trauma. If you want to make credible arguments, you need to show that you can at least acknowledge facts that may contradict your position and then demonstrate why those facts are irrelevant. *RUSS HAS BEEN INJURED, AND HIS ROSTERS OVER THE LAST FOUR SEASONS HAVE BEEN GARBAGE. PETE CARROLL AND NATHANAEL HACKETT WERE BOTH GARBAGE, AND SEAN PAYTON TRIED TO TANK.* Let’s remember something: in 2020-21 (just THREE years ago), Russ did have a bad squad, yet, he set multiple franchise records and personal highs, and dragged that team to a 12-4 record and a Division title. Again, that was basically three years ago. Andrew Luck hadn’t had a great season between 2015 and 2017, but everybody treated him like he was the sane superstar he had always been. He came back and had a great 2018, btw, but back to Russ… Offseason 2023-24 (current) Offseason 2022-23 (post Y1 in Denver) Offseason 2021-22 (post hand injury in Seattle) Offseason 2020-21 (12-4 record, 4,212 Yds, 40 TDs) Hence, it was only 3 years ago that Russ was coming off a record-setting season, a divisional title, and Pete Carroll’s bickering with Brian Schottenheimer over the offense, costing the Seahawks a legit SB run. It was less than that, the first 5 games of the 2021 season, when Russ was leading the NFL in passing with a 11:1 TD-INT ratio, a 70% Completion Rate, and an NFL best 128 Passer Rating before Aaron Donald injured Russ’s throwing hand, requiring surgery the next morning. Those are Aaron Rodgersesque stats! My point is that Russ is ostensibly 2 seasons removed from being the same MVP caliber player he had been his entire career. People need to get it right. Denver f*cked up Russ’s trajectory, and he never should’ve gone there. If Denver could do it all over again, I think they make a different hire instead of Nathaniel Hackett and still trade for Russ, but Russ wouldn’t come within 1,000 miles of Denver. The Broncos know they didn’t set Russ up for success. Even with Sean Payton’s barking about Russ “kissing babies” and trying to tank for the draft, the Broncos wanted to keep Russ around another year, which is why they asked and then attempted to coerce him to defer his injury guarantee for a year. Russ got benched because patron wanted to lose the final two games for draft position, and that wasn’t going to happen with Russ playing games. Russ is literally in Pittsburgh only because he refused to defer that guarantee for a year, which could’ve put the Broncos on the hook for $100M for one season. They clearly wanted to keep Russ for st least an additional year; otherwise, there would’ve been no reason to request that deferral. Fields is in Pittsburgh because he didn’t get the job done in Chicago and no one else was interested…not the other teams Fields wanted (i.e., Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Seattle).

I swear Rich says some things just to get yelled at. He's a bit of a masochist.

Love you guys but the crosstalk is getting worse, I had to stop playing this because it got so bad. Usually it’s Rich talking over TJ but it was everyone today

Stop hating!!!! Enough already.....he's not a white QB!

TJ Jefferson always has the most intelligent takes. He separates emotion from fact and makes more sense than Brockman or even Rich at times.

"how many wins?" was cold asf 🥶 i cant lie

And we will still end up 12-5. Watch...

Brutal schedule but better QB play will help the defense out.

I'm looking forward to watching Russell Wilson and the Steelers have a good year.

Love Your show man. Been watching since ESPN. Steeler fan for life

steelers went 5-1 in the AFC north last season, remember this

Must be another slow news day for you guys you talk about Russell every week it’s damn near the same topic. Can’t wait to rub your faces in it when they win the division he’s in the playoffs and gets a huge contract extension. He’s already a Hall of Famer Rich he’s not on the cusp of the Hall of Fame, his numbers and most quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame.

Seahawks fan here .. just reading Steelers fans comments make me want to be a Steelers fan. The amount of stupid 12s we have on the Internet is in sufferable. I hope RW3 is great for you guys. Dude has magic in his blood.

How TF are all their division games at the end of the year and back to back or within one game. Their first division game is week 11. They could literally treat the first half of the the year as practice and turn it on in the second. That's insane.

Love the narrative you are creating Rich. RW3's career coming to a full stop, screeching halt his last year in Seattle is not true. He threw 25 TDs in that season on 400 attempts in only 14 games(note: he was injured and rushed to come back to help his team). The following year Justin Herbert also threw 25 TDs but needed 699 attempts in 17 games to do so...never heard Rich talk about his career coming to a screeching halt. Compare their IAY/PA those respective years against the league.

Tough schedule or not, you have to play those games. No such thing as paper champions or schedule winners. Play the game & see who wins. Simple as that.

It’s a gauntlet for sure, but most of the teams we play during that stretch have to go through the same schedule, time frames, days off, everything. It’ll be just as tough for the other teams during that stretch too

Patriots got this treatment the last couple years where they started against NYJ and MIA but then played BUF, BUF, MIA, NYJ over the final 5-6 weeks. Tough schedule for division race.

This is gonna be a great year. Hail Steelers !!!!

Steelers own the browns and ravens! Why do people act like that’s a tough schedule besides the quick turn arounds..

Man, i feel for the Steelers😂. That afterbye schedule is hell

The division games are just that ! They play each other all the time and the Steelers usually give a good account of themselves in those games. The Eagles then Chiefs a few days apart is pretty brutal though.

"Its a 5 Star Matchup Because We're in it" 🖤💛💯

“Steelers aren’t making the playoffs” - National NFL Pundits every year since 2017 lolololol

What’s the over under on how many games Wilson starts this season?

Ever since I watched that video on the high frequency noise coming out of RE Show mics I CANNOT unheard it. Its pretty bad

How are people so hyped for Arthur Smith after seeing what he did with the Falcons offense the last few years? 😂

The tail end of the Bears Schedule is the same. wk 11 onward is where the fun begins for them

As someone who isn't a Steelers fan, that schedule looks gross. I get that the division is tough and they're not worried, but the fact that they couldn't sprinkle a few of those "easier" games from the first half into that 2nd half seems cruel. Good luck Steelers, you're the team I dislike the least in that division!

Tough schedule but don't go thinking that they won't win 12 games. And the division is no big deal. Been beating them up for decades

Maybe that'll give us enough time to get everything truly dialed in

The NFL clearly hosed the Steelers with this ridiculous schedule. Its not right and we all know it.

Russell Wilson has this….Period! Wake Up Bro! Don’t you know Football???

Let's go win this thing Steeler Nation, here we go!

realistically the only thing that makes our schedule tough up top our bye week is the fact we'll be traveling alot.. if where just going off those teams we could really be 6-2 by week 9.. after that depending on the rankings week 15 is where it really gets tough for us because Philly, Baltimore, KC and Cinci could all be SB contenders by that time of the year trying to get certain seeding spots.. but the North is where we play so we dont fear any of the other teams coming out of it regardless of where and when we play em

Keep talking about the hardest schedule? Steelers are about to show you how it's done with no sweat

That's a F'd up schedule to play divisional games that late when all teams are banged up. There should never be a lop-sided schedule made like that for any team.

You know who used to have tough schedules? The 1998-2004 steelers. You know who would consistently win the division those years? The steelers. Why? The run game. Guess what we finna do this year with Arthur Smith and this O Line? We good.

I’m a bengals fan. Looking at there schedule I don’t see how people can say they won’t make the playoffs. Crazy to me. Unless JF is their starter they aren’t going 0-6 in the division and the first 8 games should/could be wins.

That is one tough schedule so I lower my prediction for this season to 15-2

That Defense alone with decent QB play will sneak them in the wildcard alone

Wow, what a Jackyl and Hyde schedule they have. The first half of the season isn't terrible, but the second half is rough. Gotta hope that defense stays healthy. Im not very optimistic about their offense

Did TJ watch the games?

5-1 in the division last season with no qb we do this “this will be tomlin has a losing season, they will miss the playoffs” song and dance every year.

Legacy on the line

Black and gold, here we go!

the 2nd half schedule really isnt that bad. Almost 100% guarantee they go at worst 3-3 in division games and a good chance they split philly/KC. They have only had a losing division record 1 time with Tomlin as head coach. Biggest reason the AFC north is often referred to as the toughest division is because the steelers are in it.

We love the doubt!

We are not sacred at all!! GO STEELERS

I wonder if the NFL is experimenting something because the Bears have all their division in the final half of the schedule too. Easier schedule though

At least 10 wins easy

Man the other afc north teams have to play the steelers too idk y there is such panic the division will be decided during that stretch

I like the schedule and think it’s favorable, even though that wasn’t the intention. It allows the Steelers to build momentum. Everybody needs to relax. Russ will probably play BETTER against the second half than he will the first half. That has been his pattern for most of his career. He plays his best football against his toughest opponents. It was even that way in Denver…BOTH years? So everybody just chill. 😎

Do you guys realize Pitt went 5-1 in division last year?

at Washington week 10 won't be easy

Okay in 2023 in the North division of afc was 5-1 without a good QB make it make sense please rich

I'm not a Russ hater, but I assure you Arthur Smiths offense isn't gonna be the offense that saves Russ. He's screwed. So is fields.

Ur a little late coming to the party to understand that this is a brutal schedule

Stop recycling your doubt and animus towards Russell Wilson. This is going on now three seasons. Why? Come up w fresh material.

It would be best if the Steelers won their first 8 games.

There's cause for apprehension but the Steelers were 5-1 against their division last year. I'm not sure of who should fear who based on that.

The NFL has always actively hated the Steelers. This schedule is absolute proof that the NFL wants the Steelers to fail.

Swesr this was a setup, because we actually won the division last year

It's just shows how much they hate Pittsburgh Steelers lol

What does it matter? It doesn't matter who is on this team, its always going to be the same results. A winning season and one and done in the playoffs. And they won't just lose the playoff game. They will get blown out, like usual. How are you going to get rid of your leading wide receiver and then replace him with a bunch of has beens? And then, to make things worse, you get rid of him for a guy who will more than likely be getting toasted out there at cb. Good job Omar khan. Excellent.

Steelers will be lucky if they win 5 games at best. This is a gauntlet schedule if I ever seen one

Maybe Rooney should forfeit that rough part of the schedule ?

Week 11, Russ will probably be on the bench for those games then. Good luck fields.

Sure the end of the schedule is hard but are they going to ignore that the Steelers might start 8-1 to begin the year. Russ would only need to win like 2 of the final 8 games to make the playoffs 😂

We gotta go 8-0 and tie our division 🤦🏾‍♂️

1 win at a time...

Who else noticed the Easter egg?

Can’t wait for the season to start. Can’t stand these Russell Wilson convos. Mike T and Russ on a redemption tour and we are gonna say they are going to suck? Please, I hate the Steelers, but I hope they destroy that division.

3 games in 10 days is NUTSSSS. I’m a Packers fan but dude, that is so f’d up

The well will run dry eventually Steelers, your Coach and changing staff have been on the hot seat (by Steelers fans) Bad choice in making Wilson the starting QB in my opinion. That decision, will cost you the season, because it will be too late to recover from it come second half remainder of the season. But, no one really knows exactly how your coach will show his cards at first snap of your starting Quarterback Back.

Didn't Steelers go 5-1 in division last year🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🖤💛🖤

Russ is going to kill it, and he has had tough schedules before. These talking heads don’t seem to realize that Russ plays his best football during his toughest schedules. He faced the Chiefs twice in 2022 within a month, and outplayed Mahomes in both games and nearly led the Broncos to upsets in both games. In fact, the Chiefs had to resort to a dirty play to knock him out of the game just to keep from being embarrassed by one of Russ’s classic game-winning drives at Arrowhead. These two are losers!

Justin is like 4-24 record lol don’t care if he can run

Russel wasn't on the defense that gave up 70 points. Broncos had bigger problems than russel wilson they just blamed him

Rich loves Tomlin but hates the Steelers, make it make sense 😂😂😂😂

What if Joe burrow and Watson get hurt then it looks a Lil easier

I started watching football two years ago. What makes Russel Wilson a Hall of fame QB?

I still got em at 13-4 not making a sb but schedule is easy... they just got 4 good division teams to play late 1/2 and they can beat them atleast once... 13-4 the probable .500 teams they got at home so la and dallas...8-0 1st loss at coming week 12 13, 15 16... i dont' see an issue baring injuries and randomness of football.. especially when the team got in last year and i don't think there near as good as this team is. now i am baking on tomlin and wilson lighting it up...and being better then trubisky Rudolph and picket lead team at worst..... 9-8