October 31, 2025 -

Season 16, Episode 44 of The Terrible Podcast is now in the can. In this Friday morning episode, Alex Kozora and I get right to talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers as they prepare to play the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night. We discuss the Steelers' injury situation heading into Friday and other miscellaneous items related to the team that have happened since Wednesday.

On Thursday, we once again heard from two of the Steelers' coordinators, Arthur Smith and Teryl Austin, so Alex and I recap the main talking points to come out of those media sessions. We discuss Austin on talking about how he mostly does the play calling on defense and how HC Mike Tomlin has the liberty to call some plays as well.

We go over several key stats related to the Steelers defense as the team enters Week 9. We also talk about the Steelers moving two players to the Reserve/Injured list on Friday and if the offense will stay committed to using a sixth offensive lineman on Sunday should G Isaac Seumalo miss the Week 9 contest with his pectoral injury.

We welcome the Indianapolis Star's Joel A. Erickson to the show on Friday, and he helps us get started with a preview of the Steelers-Colts game. Erickson has covered the Colts for many seasons, and nobody knows that team better than he does. We get his thoughts on several things related to the Sunday game in Pittsburgh against the Colts.

Joel fills us in on the play so far of the 2025 Colts based on what his preseason predictions for the team were. We also discuss the amazing seasons that Colts QB Daniel Jones and RB Jonathan Taylor are both having to date.

Joel talks about the Colts' offense and defense quite a bit, and we get his score prediction for the Sunday game at the end of the interview.

If not already doing so, make sure to follow Joel on X/Twitter at @JoelAErickson and make sure to read his work here: https://www.indystar.com/staff/2647522001/joel-a-erickson/

After finishing with Erickson, Alex and I provide our own preview of the Steelers-Colts game. We break down what we are looking for out of each team on both sides of the football Sunday afternoon.

Alex and I then give our picks against the spread for all of the Week 9 NFL games against the spreads using the lines provided by show sponsor MyBookie.ag. We also provide our own score predictions for the Steelers-Colts game.

This 122-minute episode also discusses several other minor topics not noted above and we end this episode by answering several emails we received from listeners.

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