Mark Schlereth has never been much of a Russell Wilson fan. From the start of his tenure with the Denver Broncos amid his struggles, Schlereth blasted Wilson but admitted earlier this year that he may have been wrong about him when Wilson was lighting up scoreboards to start his Pittsburgh Steelers tenure.

The Pittsburgh Steelers will go into the playoffs on a four-game losing streak after Saturday's 19–17 defeat to the Cincinnati Bengals. Only two other teams have begun the playoffs on such a streak, as ESPN's Brooke Pryor pointed out afterward.

After Mike Tomlin insisted on Russell Wilson entering the starting lineup, the record through his first seven games had many believing he was a mad genius. However, since then, the team has looked far from its usual self,