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Diontae Johnson brashly trash-talked the Bills’ Kair Elam right before he stole a TD from him

Diontae Johnson’s cockiness blew up in his face at the worst time for the Steelers.

While they weren’t quite out of it just yet, the underdog Pittsburgh Steelers needed to show some sort of pulse on Monday afternoon.

With the Buffalo Bills already holding a two-score lead, a crucial early second-quarter Pittsburgh possession felt like it might decide the game. The Bills as a team are simply too potent without an apt response. And for a moment, with a Kair Elam penalty on Diontae Johnson serving as the catalyst, it looked like the Steelers would finally land a punch on the Bills.

Johnson ensured that Elam understood this fact when he started trash-talking the young Buffalo cornerback. Note: Johnson had zero catches for zero yards and zero touchdowns at the time of this sequence.

Naturally, Elam made Johnson eat his words almost immediately when he picked off Mason “Geno Smith?” Rudolph two plays later. Even better, Elam appeared to steal away a touchdown from the Pittsburgh playmaker:

Let that be a lesson to players like Johnson. You should probably wait until your team actually scores a touchdown before a Super Bowl contender like the Bills gets a chance to respond.