Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the team's 31-28 loss to the Chicago Bears, the team's continued problems on defense, and what that means for not only 2025 but for the future of the organization.

The team's defense, hailed as historic before the start of the 2025 season, is ranked 13th in scoring defense. The entire theory of this team was that a strong defense would keep them competitive until they were able to rebuild the offense in the post-Ben Roethlisberger years. 

After Sunday's bashing by the Bears, that plan does not seem to be working. Alan breaks it down.

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Join Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith to discuss the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-28 loss at the hands of the Chicago Bears.

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Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers.

On today's episode, Derrick Bell joins us to give injury updates, game statuses and then preview and predict the team's upcoming matchup against the Chicago Bears.

Let's go for another Steelers Afternoon Drive and discuss all this!

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Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the narratives surrounding the recent performance of quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Rodgers wasn't great before leaving last week's win over the Cincinnati Bengals at halftime, but he wasn't as bad as he had been the previous week, either. Back up Mason Rudolph only slightly performed better, and most of that was do to his receivers running after the catch.

Is there really a lot that Rodgers could be learning from Rudolph if he is unable to play against the Chicago Bears this Sunday? Alan breaks it down.

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Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the Pittsburgh offense, which is currently 12th in scoring in the NFL.

But while Arthur Smith's unit is doing well enough on the scoreboard, they are 22nd in passing yards per game and 29th in rushing yards per game. They're 28th in total yards pre game, and only 22nd in yards per play.

So how are they scoring at a level that far outpaces their statistical contributions? Alan breaks it down.

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Welcome to Steelers Night Shift! Our new LIVE audience interaction broadcast across YouTube, Twitter, and Facebookhosted by Jobe Morrison! Zachary Smith joins to preview Steelers at Bears.

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Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League. Today, it's the play of safeties Kyle Dugger and Jalen Ramsey, who have stabilized the team's secondary since their installment as starters, with Dugger coming over in a trade from the New England Patriots and Ramsey moving from cornerback to free safety.

Against the Cincinnati Bengals the second time around, the Pittsburgh secondary did much better facing Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins and the play of the safeties was a big part of it.

Alan breaks it down.

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Alan Saunders and Zachary Smith discuss all things Pittsburgh Steelers.

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