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September 30, 2026 -

For Episode 2,036 on this Wednesday afternoon, Alex Kozora discusses the noticeable improvements made by Steelers DL Derrick Harmon.

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September 30, 2026 -

Season 17, Episode 29 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Wednesday morning show, Alex Kozora and I discuss the Pittsburgh Steelers' Tuesday injury report ahead of the team's Week 4 Thursday night road game against the Cleveland Browns. We go over how all eyes will be on CB Jalen Ramsey (wrist) and CB Brandin Echols (concussion). We also discuss whether this will be the game that CB Joey Porter Jr. finally makes his debut in.

On the heels of us finally getting through the all-22 tape from the Steelers' Week 3 home win against the Cincinnati Bengals, Alex and I give our thoughts on what we observed from the offense, defense, and special teams units.

We move on and go over what Steelers HC Mike McCarthy had to say this past week during his two press conferences. We also discuss what kind of workload we should expect from RB Jaylen Warren on Thursday night following his great Week 3 game and with this being a short week.

Will or should the Steelers make DT Derrick Harmon a team captain for the Thursday night game versus the Browns? We discuss that question after first talking about how he's played through the first three games of the 2026 regular season.

With the Week 4 road game against the Browns coming up on Thursday night, Alex and I are joined by Scott Petrak, who covers Cleveland at Brownszone.com. Scott provides his insight into the 2026 Browns ahead of the game and answers several questions we have about Cleveland's offense and defense. At the end of our interview, Scott provides us with a final score prediction for Thursday's game in Cleveland.

If you aren't already doing so, please follow Scott on X at @ScottPetrak and read his online work here as well.

Following our interview with Scott, Alex and I provide our own full preview of the Steelers' game against the Browns. We close out that section of the show by giving our final score predictions.

This 98-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted in the recap above, and we end the show by answering several listener emails.

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September 29, 2026 -

For Episode 2,035 on this Tuesday afternoon, Josh Carney hopes the Steelers learned that Jaylen Warren has to be the feature back moving forward after his career performance.

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September 28, 2026 -

For Episode 2,034 on this Monday afternoon, Ross McCorkle wonders why Max Iheanachor wasn't in from Week 1 after what we saw on Sunday.

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September 28, 2026 -

Season 17, Episode 28 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Monday morning show, Alex Kozora and I get right into discussing the Pittsburgh Steelers' 30-27 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday to move to 2-1 on the season.

Alex and I discuss the team's perceived health coming out of its third regular-season game in addition to going over the seven players who were inactive for that contest, one of which was once again CB Joey Porter Jr.

The trade chatter surrounding Porter Jr. continued to pick up over the weekend so Alex and I go over the possibility of him being jettisoned to another team before Thursday night.

The Steelers made several roster moves on Saturday with one of those being rookie OG Gennings Dunker being placed on the Reserve/Injured list. We also discuss the two elevations from the practice squad the team made on Saturday in addition to RB Travis Homer being signed to the 53-man roster.

The Steelers offense really looked great against the Bengals, so we start on that side of the football as part of our game recap. We discuss OG Brock Hoffman and OT Max Iheanachor starting against the Bengals on the right side and how both players performed really well.

RB Jaylen Warren had a fantastic game on Sunday as did QB Aaron Rodgers. We discuss the effectiveness of the running game against the Bengals and especially when using 12 personnel. The Steelers schemed up several great plays on Sunday with three of those resulting in touchdowns. As great as the offense played on Sunday, Alex and I discuss a few other plays that could have been made in the win.

While the Steelers certainly played well enough defensively on Sunday to win, they still allowed the Bengals' offense to move quite easily throughout the game. Even so, we discuss how the defense got big plays from DT Cameron Heyward and DT Derrick Harmon in the fourth quarter to help secure a key AFC North victory. We talk about several snap counts players on the defense registered on Sunday against the Bengals and how the zone-heavy plan on that side of the football only yielded four explosive plays of 20 yards or longer.

The Steelers' special teams play against the Bengals was just good enough on Sunday. Alex and I discuss the good, bad and ugly from Sunday’s game when it comes to that phase of the team.

Can Steelers now move forward and avoid a letdown Thursday night when they play the Cleveland Browns on the road? We discuss how important it is for such a thing to not happen after such a huge win on Sunday against the Bengals.

This 79-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted in the recap above and we end this show by answering several emails we received from listeners.

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September 27, 2026 -

For Episode 2,033 on this Sunday morning, Dr. Melanie Friedlander talks about Mike McCarthy's plan to get the offense back on track and how that could backfire instead of helping the players succeed.

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September 26, 2026 -

For Episode 2,032 on this Saturday afternoon, Joe Clark argues that the Steelers need to move on from Joey Porter Jr. if he doesn't play this week.

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September 25, 2026 -

For Episode 2,031 on this Friday afternoon, Jake Brockhoff explains why it's starting to feel as if this will be a lost season in the first year under Mike McCarthy.

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September 25, 2026 -

Season 17, Episode 27 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Friday morning show, Alex Kozora and I get right into discussing the Thursday injury report the Pittsburgh Steelers released ahead of the team's week 3 home game against the Cincinnati Bengals. We go over how all eyes will be on WR Michael Pittman Jr. (foot), RB Rico Dowdle (toe), OG Gennings Dunker (knee), and CB Joey Porter Jr. (NIR/conditioning) when it comes to the Friday injury report.

Will the Steelers make a few practice squad elevations on Saturday? Will the team have new starters on the right side of their offensive line on Sunday against the Bengals? What will the Week 3 pregame inactive list look like? Alex and I attempt to answer those questions early in this show.

Porter Jr. met the media on Thursday, and it marked his first presser since the regular season started. We go over what Porter Jr. did and didn’t say on Thursday in addition to talking about him potentially seeing his first game action of the 2026 season on Sunday.

With the Week 3 home game against the Bengals coming up on Sunday, Alex and I are joined by Jay Morrison, who covers Cincinnati for Sports Illustrated at BengalsTalk.com. Jay provides his insight on the 2026 Bengals ahead of them facing the Steelers, and he answers several questions we have about Cincinnati’s offense and defense. At the end of our interview with Jay, he provides us with a final score prediction for Sunday's game in Pittsburgh.

If you are not already doing so, please follow Jay on X at @ByJayMorrison and make sure to read his work on online here as well.

Following our interview with Jay, Alex and I provide our own full preview of the Steelers' game against the Bengals.

With the rest of Week 3 of the NFL season now close, Alex and I pick all of the remaining games against the spread. We also provide our final score predictions for Steelers-Bengals game.

This 95-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted in the recap above and we end this show by answering several emails we received from listeners.

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September 24, 2026 -

For Episode 2,030 on this Thursday afternoon, Josh Carney questions Mike McCarthy's comments regarding the O-line, and then his actions in practice ahead of Week 3.

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