All you can do, really, is laugh and shake your head in dismay.

Some people in Northeast Ohio are getting giddy that the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, who got crushed — at home, no less — by the San Francisco 49ers by the resounding score of 30-7 (and it wasn’t even that close) last Sunday in the regular-season opener, have lost future Pro Football Hall of Fame nose tackle Cam Heyward, an ex-Ohio Stater, and talented wide receiver Diontae Johnson to injury for a time. Neither one will be available when the Browns play the Steelers in Pittsburgh on Monday NightFootball.

Will that help the Browns’ cause? Well, yes, of course it will. That’s obvious. It will take a lot out of the Steelers, no doubt about it.

And, even with both teams at full strength, are the Browns better than the Steelers? Yes, a little bit at least. The loss of Heyward and Johnson should make that gap wider, at least on paper.

But anyone who thinks for a minute — even just a moment, actually — that the 1-0 Browns, fresh off their 24-3 beatdown of the defending AFC North champion Cincinnati Bengals last Sunday, are going to march into the stadium formerly and so famously known as Heinz Field and manhandle and embarrass the Steelers for a second straight week, this time in front of a national TV audience, are simply delusional. I just can’t see it happening.

If the Browns win — and that’s a big “if” considering they haven’t won in Pittsburgh with any degree of consistency since the last half of the 1980s — then it will most likely be in a close, hard-fought, knockdown, dragout affair that will go deep into the fourth quarter, if not longer.

The Steelers, especially no- nonsense Mike Tomlin, one of the best head coaches in the game and someone who has never had a losing season in more than a decade and a half, are going to dig their heels in, circle the wagons and pull out all the stops in order to get a win, knowing full well how an 0-2 record, with both losses coming at home, would severely diminish their playoff hopes.

This has all the makings of one of the biggest challenges of the year for the Browns, and that’s nothing about which any of their fans should be even the slightest bit giddy.

Steve King