The Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens are two teams trying really hard to keep their heads above water.

They are both 6-6 and will meet Sunday, and the winner will be in first place in the AFC North — and mostly because the other two teams in the division are horrific.

I can’t help but wonder if the best thing for the collective psyche and mental health of Steelers fans would be that they not only lose but get rocked in a way that makes it very clear they are no longer a team on the brink of some sort of miraculous run to the Super Bowl.

It would be over, and we could stop clinging to the idea that all they have to do is get into the “dance” and once they do anything can happen. That is what I call the cycle of delusion that Steelers fans, apologists, observers, Teflon Tomlin media fan

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