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Speaker 2: us for segment number two as we get you ready
Speaker 2: for the home opener the Steelers and the Chargers Sunday
Speaker 2: at Actorshre Stadium. And Matt, the news that everybody was
Speaker 2: probably waiting for came out a while ago. Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: Limited in practice again today for the Steelers. All arrows
Speaker 2: pointing to Justin Fields getting another start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think this should come as a
Speaker 3: huge shock. They definitely are not rushing him back. I
Speaker 3: get the impression next week has a pretty strong chance
Speaker 3: to get Wilson back in the lineup, and if it
Speaker 3: were me, I would immediately insert him when he was ready.
Speaker 3: We'll get another game of Fields and we'll see. I
Speaker 3: think Fields has played well. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 3: he's swept anyone off their feet though.
Speaker 2: Nor do I, but he's not turned the ball over
Speaker 2: and he has walked off the field a winner both times,
Speaker 2: which is the oh yeah right right of the exercise.
Speaker 2: He certainly sounded today like a guy who is expecting
Speaker 2: to start on Sunday. Justin Fields asked after practice today
Speaker 2: if he came to Pittsburgh to kind of reboot or
Speaker 2: restart his career, and if he did, how that's been
Speaker 2: going so far.
Speaker 4: I think it's definitely a blessing being here. You know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of bittersweet when I first got here that,
Speaker 4: you know, I was happy to come to an organization
Speaker 4: like this, and you know, I couldn't even be more
Speaker 4: happier now. So I just got to get the opportunity
Speaker 4: to go out there Sunday and meet my teammates onto
Speaker 4: the field and help it come on to.
Speaker 2: Be glad I get the opportunity to go out there
Speaker 2: Sunday and lead my teammates. This will be the third
Speaker 2: such opportunity, and uh, it's got a lot of people
Speaker 2: wondering if this might get to the point where Fields
Speaker 2: gets a whole bunch of opportunities. Is there any concern
Speaker 2: that the longer you're inactive, the depth chuck could change. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm just focused on on me every day.
Speaker 4: Just focus on me being fully healthy, and I have
Speaker 4: full confidence in our football team, and that's really what
Speaker 4: really matters to me.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, Uh not worried that he could lose this
Speaker 2: through in activity. You said a moment ago, Matt, you
Speaker 2: would play him when he's healthy. I would. I would
Speaker 2: play him when he's healthy. But at what point? Is
Speaker 2: there a point where they get to four and oh,
Speaker 2: five and oh and you start righting? You know what,
Speaker 2: it's a.
Speaker 3: Good problem that has working the way it's working. It's
Speaker 3: working the way it's working. I mean when I was
Speaker 3: saying that just a minute ago, I was saying in
Speaker 3: the back of my mind. Well, what would Fields have
Speaker 3: to do Sunday to change that opinion? You know, if
Speaker 3: Wilson's ready to roll during practice post chargers, what would
Speaker 3: Fields have to do to say, well, maybe we'll go
Speaker 3: back to you and probably something that not that he's
Speaker 3: incapable of, but is out of the stratosphere would be
Speaker 3: my answer to that. I mean, really dominate on the ground,
Speaker 3: not turn the ball over again, which he's been phenomenal at.
Speaker 3: His accuracy percentage is way up, and then his Bears days.
Speaker 3: I mean, so he's become somewhat of a different player.
Speaker 3: But it's only been two games stretch too.
Speaker 2: And it's only been one touchdown in two games. And
Speaker 2: there's that for the offense. And you're right, you know penalties, Hey,
Speaker 2: they're penalties, Yeah, yeah, a lot of times they're critical
Speaker 2: to the result of the play. Oh, that would have
Speaker 2: been a touchdown if there wasn't holding. It also might
Speaker 2: have been a.
Speaker 3: Side fumble return for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: I'm saying specifically the fifty one yard touchdown to George Pickens,
Speaker 2: which was a gorgeous throw.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was a heck of a play. Like, it's
Speaker 3: a shame that didn't count.
Speaker 2: It was, no doubt. But if there's not holding there,
Speaker 2: I think he's getting.
Speaker 3: Tackled potentially, or he doesn't get the ball off, or
Speaker 3: he scrambles or whatever, or you know the other pickings. One, well,
Speaker 3: if he doesn't pick two players, he probably isn't wide
Speaker 3: opening the end zone.
Speaker 2: It might have been at least right, Yeah, coverage right.
Speaker 2: The rest of the practice participation report for today, Roman
Speaker 2: Wilson gets upgraded from limited to full. That also occurred
Speaker 2: last week. Yeah, he didn't get in the lineup yet.
Speaker 2: Do you have any hope that he sees the lineup?
Speaker 2: He said he wants to play. You know, it's not
Speaker 2: his call. I'm starting to wonder on him. The other
Speaker 2: receivers aren't exactly lighting it up. No, but how much
Speaker 2: time can a rookie miss? And again, now this goes
Speaker 2: all the way back to the first padded practice of
Speaker 2: training camp, right, and you know he's been working his
Speaker 2: way back the last couple.
Speaker 3: Of weeks because you know, coaches are about trust and
Speaker 3: how to trust. You know, that's gonna be a hard
Speaker 3: thing to gain.
Speaker 2: That's a tough one there. And the Isaac say Moula
Speaker 2: did not practice for the second consecutive day, So it
Speaker 2: doesn't appear as if he's going to be getting a
Speaker 2: helmet on Sunday. You never know because he's a veteran, but.
Speaker 3: That sounds highly unlikely. But maybe next week. I mean
Speaker 3: that sounds out of the question from what I understand. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for the Chargers, much different story for them.
Speaker 2: Quarterback Justin Herbert Ankle didn't practice yesterday, limited today. Sounds
Speaker 2: like he's trending toward playing, But I wonder will he
Speaker 2: be affected.
Speaker 3: Right and Damn and I had a really good conversation
Speaker 3: to Drive about this because don't forget he had planned
Speaker 3: or fasciitis.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the same foot or not.
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but.
Speaker 3: That's something I bet he still feels as well.
Speaker 2: Kept him out of camp about three weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was a lot of takers he can
Speaker 3: be ready for week one. He hasn't looked great despite
Speaker 3: being two and ozer. He's missed some throws and I
Speaker 3: wonder if his lower body is bugging him.
Speaker 2: Safety Alloyd Gilman, one of their starters on the back end,
Speaker 2: limited for a second consecutive day, and edge rusher Joey
Speaker 2: Bosa hip limited for a second consecutive day. Gilman didn't
Speaker 2: play last Sunday against Carolina Bosa did Bosa probably, you know,
Speaker 2: working through what he's got to work through.
Speaker 3: Gilman's a quality player, though, I mean he's a legit
Speaker 3: starting safety.
Speaker 2: That would be loss. The remarkable thing about this game, Matt,
Speaker 2: is that Jim Harbaugh has arrived in Los Angeles and
Speaker 2: taken over, and to me, the Chargers look like what
Speaker 2: you might expect if the Baltimore Ravens in the University
Speaker 2: of Michigan. Yea had a kid, Yeah, I mean Herbert
Speaker 2: as a quarterback. There's a lot of ex Ravens coaches.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of ex Ravens players. Yes, they are
Speaker 2: running the ball way more than they are throwing it.
Speaker 2: They are running it with great frequency and success as
Speaker 2: well as frequency. Yes, I mean they got three number
Speaker 2: one picks on that offensive line. They have a three
Speaker 2: hundred pound defensive line. But he's playing full back. The
Speaker 2: full back is crazy, right. They played two tight ends
Speaker 2: as much as the Steelers do and JK. Dobbins two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty six rushing yards. Here's all you need
Speaker 2: to know about JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: He averaged seven point seven yards to carry against the
Speaker 2: Panthers and his average went down.
Speaker 3: Went down to nine point nine for the season.
Speaker 2: I mean, he looks like the guy he was coming
Speaker 2: out of Ohio State, which is my favorite back in
Speaker 2: that class.
Speaker 3: And I'm happy for him because he was a really
Speaker 3: good player that injuries were just the only negative on
Speaker 3: the guy. I don't know if you know this, but
Speaker 3: anyone with five hundred carries in the history of the game.
Speaker 2: He now has the best yards per carry average. I
Speaker 2: did not know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just these two games have put him over that.
Speaker 3: I mean playing for the Ravens helps because lamar Gus
Speaker 3: Edwards had a nice yards per carry out average too,
Speaker 3: And he's kind of just a guy. But he's another
Speaker 3: former raven We're gonna see a lot of They feel
Speaker 3: like the Ravens a lot.
Speaker 2: So they have Justin Herbert. But I mean, yeah, he
Speaker 2: hasn't thrown for one hundred and fifty yards yet. No,
Speaker 2: his stat lines look like Justin Fields or Kenny Pickett's
Speaker 2: did last year. Yes, Now, this is a guy who
Speaker 2: averaged two hundred and seventy five passing yards and change.
Speaker 2: Yeah in his first four seasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean like even his attempts are down from
Speaker 3: hat almost fifty percent, almost from what he's used to
Speaker 3: his whole career.
Speaker 2: Up till now.
Speaker 3: Now, I think what we have to acknowledge for the
Speaker 3: Saints and for the Chargers is they got to play
Speaker 3: the Panthers. I mean, the Panthers are not an NFL
Speaker 3: team right now, and really bad, I mean like really bad,
Speaker 3: like hard to imagine that.
Speaker 2: They made never look competitive exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: So that being said, I'm sure the Chargers could have
Speaker 3: dropped more points on him at the end too, but
Speaker 3: that was not a challenge that team.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot more to get to.
Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: in our Factor back. Merril Hodge joining us as he
Speaker 2: always does. And Merrill, Uh, I know we got a
Speaker 2: lot to talk about as it relates to the Steelers
Speaker 2: and the Chargers, but I gotta start with my tape
Speaker 2: review of the Chargers and the Carolina Panthers. Oh Man.
Speaker 2: Five plays into the game, there was a flag thrown
Speaker 2: for illegal hands to the face, I know, and it
Speaker 2: was thrown on the one the only the man, the myth,
Speaker 2: the legend, Jadeveon Clowney. I saw that and I immediately
Speaker 2: thought of you, Meryl.
Speaker 6: Y, I love at you.
Speaker 5: They actually later in the game, did you see they
Speaker 5: just start dropping him into coverage. I'm like, that's how
Speaker 5: I'm like that. Geam's a mass already.
Speaker 2: We too, have you see just reaching memory? Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's really if I racked my brain,
Speaker 5: not competitive my brain.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's and they had they've only had a year
Speaker 6: to well that.
Speaker 5: Well, listen, we we do a whole show on that,
Speaker 5: on that team and what they've done and the decisions
Speaker 5: they've made.
Speaker 6: But that that's gonna hot in for for years.
Speaker 2: All right, So before we let that go. Should I
Speaker 2: be wary of Carolina now this week because you always
Speaker 2: worry about a professional who's been embarrassed or are there
Speaker 2: some professionals who are just destined to continue being embarrassed? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well, based on well, you know, I say this the
Speaker 5: one bright spot they you know, bention Bryceyeng is a
Speaker 5: good move. They mean, that gives them some hope offensively,
Speaker 5: you know, they can do some things. They're not going
Speaker 5: to be as limited And what's unfortunate for Bryce Jong
Speaker 5: and you didn't bring this on itself. Anybody would want
Speaker 5: to be the first round overall pick in the National
Speaker 5: Football League. But he's just limited skill set is just
Speaker 5: it just it doesn't transition to the National football It
Speaker 5: just doesn't. And no matter how hard he works or
Speaker 5: what he does, he's going to be five to nine.
Speaker 5: He's not going to change from five to nine. And
Speaker 5: that is always going to be an arduous challenge no
Speaker 5: matter who coaches him, and how that you can function
Speaker 5: offensively consistent enough.
Speaker 6: To win, to win and win consistently, let alone a championship.
Speaker 3: Does watching that game make it difficult to really get
Speaker 3: a good bead on the Chargers a little bit?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, a little bit. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: I you know, I watched the first two games, and
Speaker 5: you know, and the Raiders weren't, you know, the Juggernaut.
Speaker 5: You know, they played so much better against Baltimore. So
Speaker 5: they they haven't played two great offenses. And I'm not
Speaker 5: saying the Steelers are a great offense right now, either.
Speaker 6: You know, they they are I think a.
Speaker 5: Little better than the two that we just talked about.
Speaker 5: Other than the Raiders, I think they get better. They
Speaker 5: got better quarterback play there, you know, than the other two.
Speaker 5: I mean the two they got the best quarterback play.
Speaker 5: And you know he does he knows how to play
Speaker 5: in the game. You know, he's not elite, but he
Speaker 5: knows how to play and he knows how to play
Speaker 5: that position.
Speaker 6: So between the the both.
Speaker 5: Of them, though, I think I got a good feel
Speaker 5: for what it comes down to. I think they're the
Speaker 5: box players. Listen their edge players, and we talked about
Speaker 5: this on the morning show. I think this game could
Speaker 5: be like a an edge game. I mean, if you
Speaker 5: want to watch the best edge players, you can give
Speaker 5: them all in one arena. I mean combination. I can't
Speaker 5: beat two better, I mean a combination of four better.
Speaker 5: I guess for me that you don't see that often.
Speaker 5: You know where those dynamic things enter entering game. But
Speaker 5: their edge rushers are incredible. Steelers are incredible. So the
Speaker 5: Chargers do haven't better better tackles than then did Seattle.
Speaker 6: Then they got a better chance of you know, dealing
Speaker 6: with them and you know, keeping them up bathing the
Speaker 6: first two opponents.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about that. I agree with that. I
Speaker 2: think that's a highly compelling matchup. I'll be at the
Speaker 2: game Sunday. I may have my binoculars trained on the
Speaker 2: two offensive edges no matter who has the ball, and
Speaker 2: just watch it that way. But is there a favorable
Speaker 2: matchup TJ. Watt against anybody both against Troy Utan who
Speaker 2: making his second career start, Khalil Mack against anybody who's
Speaker 2: got the edge edge.
Speaker 5: Well, listen, either one of those guys, you know, can
Speaker 5: give a rookie a problem Platanu. I will say this though,
Speaker 5: you know, he's fundamentally so much better than Jones, just
Speaker 5: something you know, from deep pits to hands, just so
Speaker 5: much better. You know, he gets a little nodicon, you know.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize he had not played right tackle. So
Speaker 5: that's a big ask for a kid who's never played
Speaker 5: right tackle and just make that transition in the NFL.
Speaker 5: I don't know if people can appreciate it because just
Speaker 5: because he played.
Speaker 6: Left doesn't mean you can play right. Just because he
Speaker 6: played right doesn't mean you can play left.
Speaker 5: You know, It's it's like linebacker, It's like but Khalil
Speaker 5: Mack is the most incredible player.
Speaker 6: I've ever evaluated. Coming out of college.
Speaker 5: He could play inside, outside and defensive end, and he
Speaker 5: looked like all world at all three, which was just
Speaker 5: like incredible. But he'll open his hips up a little
Speaker 5: bit at times and ill him the corner a little bit.
Speaker 5: And with these guys, you can't give anything. I mean,
Speaker 5: you got to be your most buttoned up against these
Speaker 5: two because they're so good. They have so many different
Speaker 5: ways to attack you. So but you know, I'm sure
Speaker 5: that from a scheme wise, Arthur Samathy in that idiot,
Speaker 5: he knows what he's doing. I mean, that's one thing
Speaker 5: if you watch us. He knows how to protect quarterback.
Speaker 5: He knows how to maximize the guys he's got. You know,
Speaker 5: I don't I don't see that putting just the build
Speaker 5: in a position where he's gonna be vulnerable very much.
Speaker 6: Now, there's gonna be times you gotta ask guys to block.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying that, but you can do some stuff
Speaker 5: scheme wise and play calling wise that can hold those.
Speaker 6: Guys at bay a little bit.
Speaker 5: But there's going to be those times where you've got
Speaker 5: a block and you didn't have to make that happen.
Speaker 3: So obviously, these edge players, they are really really good.
Speaker 3: And I'm really impressed with the Chargers tackles but staying
Speaker 3: out a third and long is going to be pivotal
Speaker 3: for both these teams. Which team is more better equipped
Speaker 3: to stay out a third and long?
Speaker 5: I think the Chargers are them, you know, and I've
Speaker 5: just kind of watched them, you know, their running game,
Speaker 5: they you know, they built on the running and you know,
Speaker 5: their first week they were just inside zone, inside zone.
Speaker 6: You know. Then they brought.
Speaker 5: Some some whams stuff and that might have been specifically
Speaker 5: for what the Panthers had.
Speaker 6: I don't know. That one's hard to tail, you know,
Speaker 6: but they added a little to their running game. But
Speaker 6: they're very versatile.
Speaker 5: You know, they do seem to want to attack you
Speaker 5: inside zone wise, seems to be their their strength and
Speaker 5: what they like right now. It's worly lead too, and
Speaker 5: they're passing game.
Speaker 6: You know. The week one it was a really a quick.
Speaker 5: Contective and almost I almost thought that they're treating a
Speaker 5: quarterback like he was a rookie the.
Speaker 6: Way that they had dialed stuff up. Now that evolved.
Speaker 6: Then they then they opened it.
Speaker 5: Up a little more against the Panthers and they started
Speaker 5: doing half field reads, a little some more explosive stuff,
Speaker 5: a little more run action stuff and taking shots.
Speaker 6: Down the field with the Steelers, I think they will.
Speaker 5: Be somewhere closer to the Raiders just because of their
Speaker 5: head dressers. You know, you know on that quarterback in
Speaker 5: that in that pocket too long, you know, the ball's
Speaker 5: got to come out.
Speaker 6: And you know when they do.
Speaker 5: Like they were, the run action stuff when they take
Speaker 5: their shots, I think that's what you'll see because you
Speaker 5: can get max protection and you can give either or
Speaker 5: see you can double both guys and just get a
Speaker 5: two receiver route, which the which I That's what I
Speaker 5: anticipate when they take shots they'll do.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Chargers tackle, specifically Joel Up the
Speaker 2: rookie right tackle. Uh they call him control all the
Speaker 2: lead out there. That's pretty good. Uh handle Max Crosby?
Speaker 2: Can he handle? T? J? Watt?
Speaker 6: Hey? Where was that kid from Notre Dame? Okay?
Speaker 2: His dad was a.
Speaker 3: Big, real good player in the league for ten years.
Speaker 5: John, Oh yeah, okay, Okay, I was. There's actually so
Speaker 5: many good tackles. That's why I asked. I'm like, I
Speaker 5: get I get these these guys lost because the kid
Speaker 5: in Oregon State, which who was the right tackle? That's
Speaker 5: what I was I was thinking him actually who was
Speaker 5: a beef.
Speaker 3: Yeah, had switch sides too. He was a left at
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. They're playing him at right.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, because I was like, well he was a left,
Speaker 5: yeah name, So I was like, that's that's somewhat interesting.
Speaker 6: But anyway, let's say it. CJ.
Speaker 5: Watt is a special football player. I know you were
Speaker 5: talking about not me and not letting him hit the
Speaker 5: quarterback and sag quarterback. But he's gonna play every down.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm love what TJ. What does when he
Speaker 5: doesn't get a sack.
Speaker 6: Quite honestly, the plays.
Speaker 5: He makes when he doesn't make the tackle, the things
Speaker 5: that he does that helps, that's just good sound football.
Speaker 6: That's what I love about him. That he's gonna set
Speaker 6: the edge, he's gonna.
Speaker 5: Make tackles, he's gonna blow things up, he's gonna constantly penetrate,
Speaker 5: he's gonna be He's just a constant.
Speaker 6: He's a disruptor on.
Speaker 5: Every play and that will be even now, I'm jarge
Speaker 5: rookie is that that's a lot to ask, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, that's why you know he's got to say.
Speaker 5: But both guys, you know, from a skill set in
Speaker 5: college to the NFL was pretty unique and special, and
Speaker 5: you can see how they've played now there's not a
Speaker 5: lot of.
Speaker 6: I can't tell how how young they.
Speaker 5: Are unless you really study him hard and you just
Speaker 5: see little things that they will get clearly better on.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 6: There'll be interesting, though, which guy breaks down.
Speaker 5: Fundamentally, because I think that's probably where it comes down to,
Speaker 5: is in those moments you have to block a guy,
Speaker 5: you don't have to help, you don't have a chip,
Speaker 5: and you just don't break down fundamentally against those pass
Speaker 5: rushers because you do, they're giving you chip.
Speaker 2: Well, I think people might be surprised the way the
Speaker 2: Chargers are playing. They have Herbert, who is a perceived
Speaker 2: franchise caliber quarterback average close to three hundred yards a
Speaker 2: game is first couple of years to seventy five and
Speaker 2: changed his first four seasons this year under one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty both games. But this team has been built
Speaker 2: by Harbaugh to play hardball football, has it not. I mean,
Speaker 2: all these tight ends and the line and the great
Speaker 2: running backs, they're they're doing what they should with what
Speaker 2: they have, correct because much like the Steelers, there's not
Speaker 2: an overabundance of great wide receivers on this team.
Speaker 5: No true story, you know, and you can is it Roman,
Speaker 5: I forget their offensive coordinating with the offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah heavy the least.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Just just so people know.
Speaker 5: I mean, they got their office coordinator from the Ravens
Speaker 5: and so, and I got talked to him many times,
Speaker 5: and he is just you talk about a guy who
Speaker 5: knows the running game in depths. That is just like
Speaker 5: I was just sitting there in aug going while and
Speaker 5: we just and then we start talking about Chuck Noll
Speaker 5: in the.
Speaker 6: Trap game and you know, could you bring that back?
Speaker 5: And we started going, we started going off off the
Speaker 5: charts where you'd be like most people probably bored, but
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, the guy's fascinating. You know,
Speaker 5: that's why they're running game is I could they're committed
Speaker 5: to it. You could tell they're committed to it. They
Speaker 5: decided that a.
Speaker 6: Long time ago, that staff game together.
Speaker 5: That's why you know, I'm sure that they're gonna have
Speaker 5: something for the Steelers and the things that we I
Speaker 5: just mentioned I saw, I clearly expect you know what
Speaker 5: I did not see, which I was actually surprised.
Speaker 6: Not long he was foundationally a power. Oh guy, you know,
Speaker 6: the power was like the one.
Speaker 5: Of the most physical runs that exists in football. Okay,
Speaker 5: and in fact, in Chicago when I was there, we
Speaker 5: were committed to that. And when somebody's committed that, I'm
Speaker 5: not to me, that means they mean business. That means
Speaker 5: they're gonna run the football. They even just putting this
Speaker 5: in just to put it in, and putting it in
Speaker 5: because they're like, this is who we are. I didn't
Speaker 5: see much of that, you know, and I don't know
Speaker 5: why that is. You know, now that could be the
Speaker 5: thing you see this week.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm sure they have more than they're gonna
Speaker 6: add to because they do a lot. You know.
Speaker 5: I like they run the strong side on the weak
Speaker 5: side too. You know, they're not They're not heavy on
Speaker 5: right or left. They're not heavy on stronger a week,
Speaker 5: especially after two weeks, they probably have very few tendencies
Speaker 5: that you can really put your finger on, which makes
Speaker 5: it harder against a team, a team like that that's
Speaker 5: going to bring out more wrinkles in their running game.
Speaker 3: So you were talking off running scheme there, and I
Speaker 3: think it's noteworthy that through two games we've seen very
Speaker 3: very maybe none pulling lineman for the Steelers, and I
Speaker 3: thought that was a real weapon the second half of
Speaker 3: last year. It's not really an Arthur Smith thing. I mean,
Speaker 3: do we think that's a thing of the past. Do
Speaker 3: you have mixed feelings about that? Or you know what
Speaker 3: do you think of the Steelers stramatically?
Speaker 5: Actually yeah, I actually was surprised at that too, because
Speaker 5: they did it so well and the guys are so
Speaker 5: listen pinning and Poland. I think some I go back
Speaker 5: to the trapping system. I'm telling you, I've always felt
Speaker 5: that there was an advantage. I love the counter game,
Speaker 5: I think I think you know, I mentioned the power
Speaker 5: runners like that, I mean a missleaning business. But I
Speaker 5: still think the counter is the most dorsal run in
Speaker 5: football and give you inside outside I mean physical. It
Speaker 5: gives you everything as from a runner. It's the one
Speaker 5: of the I think from my perspective, it was just.
Speaker 6: It was one of the one of.
Speaker 5: My the things I like the most to run because
Speaker 5: it gave there's so many options in it, and the
Speaker 5: timing in it that had to be from a running
Speaker 5: perspective had to go along with the blocking. I love
Speaker 5: that aspect of it, but I love to just just
Speaker 5: have all the versatility in it.
Speaker 6: But I don't know.
Speaker 5: I actually thought that they would. I thought they would
Speaker 5: look at and we really did this.
Speaker 6: Let's keep those things. Now that this artist doesn't mean
Speaker 6: that he.
Speaker 5: Doesn't build on stuff too, you know, and had stuff
Speaker 5: that happens all the time, you know, as you get
Speaker 5: going on in the year and you need to add somewhere,
Speaker 5: an opponent does something that they're struggling with, and you're like,
Speaker 5: let's add it this weekend. You do it so well,
Speaker 5: you just keep it. That does happen too.
Speaker 6: But I was too.
Speaker 5: I surprised that they didn't do a little because of
Speaker 5: the athletes that they have, and they're obviously lying. You know,
Speaker 5: as a whole has played so good. I've been really
Speaker 5: impressed with them. And now they played, you know, guard
Speaker 5: two rookies. I felt like I've been outstanding as a whole.
Speaker 6: They played well together and done well in.
Speaker 5: The running game. So it's gonna have to build on
Speaker 5: that because this will be their best test.
Speaker 2: We don't have a huge sample size, only a couple
Speaker 2: of games, but the Chargers are number one in scoring defense.
Speaker 2: The Steelers are number two in scoring defense. They're both
Speaker 2: allowing less than ten points a game, which even in
Speaker 2: a small sample size is pretty impressive. Sure, if you're
Speaker 2: Arthur Smith of the Steelers Merril, or if you're Greg
Speaker 2: Roman and the Ravens and you're coordinating an offense against
Speaker 2: defenses of this caliber, does that change how you go
Speaker 2: about it? Or do you rally your room and say,
Speaker 2: you know what, guys, we are running the ball down
Speaker 2: their throats anyway, because that's what we can do. Is
Speaker 2: the quality of How much does the quality of the
Speaker 2: defense affect what you try? And how often on offense?
Speaker 6: A lot? I mean I'm telling you a lot, but
Speaker 6: I would just say this.
Speaker 5: Both of them have a formula to new plays pass rushers.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know the best.
Speaker 5: I remember when when the Bears came in and they
Speaker 5: still had that eighty five defense.
Speaker 6: But we knew this. We knew that.
Speaker 5: We knew that you're going to have to if you
Speaker 5: want if you don't want these pass rushers, Richard Dan specifically,
Speaker 5: we don't want Richard Dan to have a day and
Speaker 5: get going, then we're gonna go around the ball at
Speaker 5: him like four five straight times, which we did and
Speaker 5: Richard Dan was so we started getting angry after three
Speaker 5: and you can tell he just started losing his mind.
Speaker 6: He was like he didn't want to play that.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying all these guys don't want to play it,
Speaker 5: but that's the best way you got to keep those guys.
Speaker 6: That day number one a great way to do it.
Speaker 5: And then those run action plays I'm telling you about,
Speaker 5: And what makes that different than play action is one
Speaker 5: line Nalvsey line attacks the line of scrimmage and they
Speaker 5: play on the other side for like a yard. That's
Speaker 5: run action and when you do that, you paralyze the box.
Speaker 6: And then you can take shots down the field.
Speaker 5: And I just think both teams will try to generate
Speaker 5: their shots that way versus the drop back and nothing.
Speaker 3: So I look at this defense and they're playing really well.
Speaker 3: They haven't had real, you know, stiff tests, especially Carolina
Speaker 3: who's totally dysfunctional, but they're big guys on defense. For
Speaker 3: the Chargers to me, are a real liability. Like I'm
Speaker 3: not sure how many of their true defensive linemen would even.
Speaker 2: Make this team.
Speaker 6: No, are you talking about the Panthers or No.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the Chargers defensive tackles. Those tackles big
Speaker 3: guys on the Charger d I should have been more specific.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, I'm gonna tell you like their box players,
Speaker 5: you know, I.
Speaker 6: The whole, you know, the first you know, I'll just
Speaker 6: say that I like the.
Speaker 5: Steelers rotation and their box players better than the Chargers.
Speaker 5: If we're talking about depth and rotation and and versatility
Speaker 5: of everything.
Speaker 6: You know, if I had to take the box, I
Speaker 6: would take the Steelers box.
Speaker 2: Meryl, do you think there is a path to justin
Speaker 2: fields turning the tables on the depth chart and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, winning enough games and playing well enough to
Speaker 2: still be the starter when Russell Wilson is deemed healthy.
Speaker 5: Listen, I've always thought it was hard to venture winner.
Speaker 5: You know, he doesn't. Here's where his girlth has to happen.
Speaker 5: He misses some some throws, some throws from an anticipation aspect,
Speaker 5: you know, like a deep curl instead of sitting on
Speaker 5: it and waiting for him to get the girl completed
Speaker 5: too late. You know, bald needs to come out. You know,
Speaker 5: there's a couple of those on the field. What is
Speaker 5: a little bit of concerning this one is they missed
Speaker 5: a hot Now he got him out of it with
Speaker 5: these legs, but they didn't see it.
Speaker 6: He didn't see it.
Speaker 5: And I'm just gonna tell you from experience, the Charger
Speaker 5: saw that. And don't think for one second the Chargers
Speaker 5: aren't going to dial that up and whatever else they
Speaker 5: can to see.
Speaker 6: If they can handle it, you know.
Speaker 5: And that that and you have to you have to show
Speaker 5: growth in that too, because you can't.
Speaker 6: You can't miss those. You got to punish people to
Speaker 6: do that. You know.
Speaker 5: Now, he got a out of trouble with these legs,
Speaker 5: but you're not always going to in that one with
Speaker 5: your legs, you know. So those are two things areas
Speaker 5: that if he got better at I would find it
Speaker 5: hard to pent you. You know, as long as he's
Speaker 5: better and you're winning, you know, it would be there
Speaker 5: would be a It would be as you know, those
Speaker 5: coaches in those meeting rooms no more than what we do,
Speaker 5: and that that's the advantage they have.
Speaker 6: But I would find it hard to sitting down.
Speaker 3: So Merril Justin Fields has been one of the most
Speaker 3: if not the most blitzed quarterback in the league since
Speaker 3: he's joined the NFL, and Denver came at him a
Speaker 3: very high percentage of the time, and he completed a
Speaker 3: really high percentage of his past first blitz I mean,
Speaker 3: is that something that everyone's gonna do. Do you assume
Speaker 3: the chargers I would imagine, right, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, Well I told you that they
Speaker 6: missed them too. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, were those
Speaker 6: those those are the.
Speaker 5: Ones that there are, They're they're they're looking at So
Speaker 5: they're not gonna take it easy.
Speaker 6: They're gonna the ratchet up.
Speaker 5: And come on, be prepared for that. I you know,
Speaker 5: that could be the difference too. Listen, good or bad.
Speaker 6: You know, they either get there and we don't clean it.
Speaker 6: He doesn't clean it.
Speaker 5: Up, or he cleans it up and he makes them
Speaker 5: pay for doing it.
Speaker 2: Maryl Last thing I got for you tonight. What's Broderick
Speaker 2: Jones going through? You know, he mentioned his technique, three penalties,
Speaker 2: getting yanked mid series, losing his job. He's a young guy,
Speaker 2: highly touted, highly drafted, and he's struggling right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what's his path here?
Speaker 6: Well, Talent tells you what you can do. Motivation tells you.
Speaker 2: What you will do.
Speaker 5: I think they could need a moment of self reflection
Speaker 5: where he looks at himself and takes ownership.
Speaker 6: If he wants to be really a.
Speaker 5: Contributor and a really good player, and keep mind, he
Speaker 5: does have that potential. I saw him do a down
Speaker 5: block and literally smashed the tackle and destroy the linebacker,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, where's that man?
Speaker 6: So I've seen enough of it, even though it's been glimpses.
Speaker 6: He knows how to play and play right, he just
Speaker 6: for whatever chooses not to. He is sloppy fundamentally. I
Speaker 6: mean he is. I can't tell you how many.
Speaker 5: Times his feet, hips and hands pad level is atrocious,
Speaker 5: hands not existing.
Speaker 6: You can't play like that.
Speaker 5: In the NFL just to be successful, you just and
Speaker 5: he's it's almost like he's freelancing and you know, and
Speaker 5: he has no purpose and he has no passion about
Speaker 5: being a pro of a kid, you know, and only
Speaker 5: you can do whatever you know.
Speaker 6: You can bench a kid.
Speaker 5: You can do all these things until they take ownership
Speaker 5: and wake up.
Speaker 6: There's nothing to do. I seen what you can do.
Speaker 3: I've seen his feet get too close together or even
Speaker 3: cross and then rarely said yeah.
Speaker 6: Yes, he said I stopped to play, And I'm like, okay, how.
Speaker 5: In the world he I'm gonna hit his legs there
Speaker 5: and scissors okay, crossed? Well, yes, his his arms are
Speaker 5: beside his hips and he's straight up. I'm like, that
Speaker 5: is the most that is one of the most like
Speaker 5: what I'm saying awful, that's awful from every platform you
Speaker 5: can think of, feet, hips, hands, because that's how like.
Speaker 3: You can't get much worse. Like that's the hardest way
Speaker 3: to block someone on the whole planet.
Speaker 5: And he got stuck right back into the quarterback's lap
Speaker 5: and you know, and but then I've seen him do it, right,
Speaker 5: Like I'm telling then I've seen it, you know, and
Speaker 5: what here's what about me?
Speaker 6: He came back and was he seemed to be jawing
Speaker 6: at the fireman.
Speaker 5: That they had a double that's probably is Actually who's
Speaker 5: a guy who's actually improved his blocking by the way
Speaker 5: in his his credit, I mean, he is really playing
Speaker 5: like being a complete.
Speaker 6: Tight end, by the way. But he the way that
Speaker 6: Comba block worked. He blocked the right guy. Fireman blocked
Speaker 6: the right right and did a good job.
Speaker 5: He misses the linebacker who makes the tackle when he
Speaker 5: comes back, and it was John at Friars And I'm like,
Speaker 5: what what could.
Speaker 6: He possibly be saying to him other than why could
Speaker 6: you block better than me? That's the only thing I'd
Speaker 6: be saying.
Speaker 2: What is he doing?
Speaker 6: But and I was like, why would he be yelling
Speaker 6: the farmers? He didn't do anything, he fired, just got
Speaker 6: to walk away like whatever. But I was like, the
Speaker 6: kid has obviously talent, but that just tells you what
Speaker 6: you can do. You know, he's got to he's gotta
Speaker 6: get he's got to change his approach to things and
Speaker 6: take ownership.
Speaker 5: He does that, you know, the kid could be a
Speaker 5: massive contributor.
Speaker 6: You know, to that offensive line. But not playing like
Speaker 6: he is, he's killing. He's killing.
Speaker 5: That's why I got credit him for for putting him down,
Speaker 5: because he was killing that team in the short period
Speaker 5: he was there.
Speaker 2: Merrily. I'll tell you to enjoy the game, son, but
Speaker 2: I'm sensing about eighty combined rushing attempts. I think you
Speaker 2: got the popcorn already fired off your kind name. You're
Speaker 2: gonna be like DiCaprio, and I mean just pointing it
Speaker 2: to the screen. Look, they ran again, they ran again,
Speaker 2: We run the football.
Speaker 6: Game might be over two hours, hours and thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: Hey, Meryl, great stuff. Well we'll do it again next week.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, go Stealers, Sea guys.
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Speaker 2: and h I don't think Merrill's calmed down yet. No,
Speaker 2: I think he's really looking forward to this one.
Speaker 3: And this is right up his alley, and these two
Speaker 3: head coaches are going to be stubborn, tough.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a fun game.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I liking it. I think I've told you before. I
Speaker 2: try to go to the Army Navy game every year. Okay.
Speaker 2: And one of the things, now, this is not going
Speaker 2: to be triple option football, no no, but it's going
Speaker 2: to be run the football, and it's going to be
Speaker 2: first downs are important and field position is important. Fundamentally,
Speaker 2: and field goals are important, and they both have good
Speaker 2: field goal kickers. And you know, a good rock fight
Speaker 2: at the fifty, yeah, or fist fight at the fifty,
Speaker 2: however you want to, you know, sum that up. That's
Speaker 2: that's fun stuff. We like Steelers Ravens, right, those are
Speaker 2: kind of the same. And hey, it charges a lot.
Speaker 3: Of Ravens DNA, like you mentioned to start the show.
Speaker 2: Chargers are trying to be the raven the Baltimore Wolverines
Speaker 2: or the you know, the the under pound fullback. I
Speaker 2: gotta love that. The University of Michigan Baltimore campus. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but it's I think it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, he had a first round rookie and they
Speaker 3: only threw the ball what twelve thirteen times? Sometimes at Michigan.
Speaker 2: Oh the pacer right right, they threw They attempted two
Speaker 2: passes in the second half and one because they were
Speaker 2: just running the ball. Yeah, and do that. Why would
Speaker 2: you stop if it's working on I don't know that
Speaker 2: either side is going to have consistent success because I
Speaker 2: think both these defenses are good, but hey, that's why
Speaker 2: they play the games. What to expect is brought to
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Speaker 2: I've kind of gone into the weeds on this the
Speaker 2: first couple of weeks, and I'm gonna do it again
Speaker 2: because I saw something in Justin Herbert last week and
Speaker 2: again assuming he's going to play. Yeah, he was up
Speaker 2: from uh did not work to limit it today. But
Speaker 2: he likes to run the ball. He likes to scramble.
Speaker 2: He likes to either extend or just take off and go.
Speaker 2: But sometimes he starts to take off and then he
Speaker 2: gets an idea in his head or receies something and
Speaker 2: he'll pull up right before it gets to the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage and try to prova pass. Somebody will break open.
Speaker 2: He'll try to play a little street ball. Two times
Speaker 2: he turned it over against Carolina doing that once. He
Speaker 2: once he pulled up and threw the ball and threw
Speaker 2: it the bad spot and it got picked. And another
Speaker 2: time he got crumpled and he fumbled and Carolina got it.
Speaker 2: I expect Justin Herbert to turn the ball over at
Speaker 2: least once doing something.
Speaker 3: Like that, especially against his front not necessarily dropping.
Speaker 2: Back and just oh, I didn't see the safety or
Speaker 2: oh I sailed it, or oh the cornerback jumped the
Speaker 2: route like a goofy turnover on a goofy kind of play.
Speaker 2: And if Justin Field stays as disciplined as he has
Speaker 2: and the Steelers don't turn it over as they have not,
Speaker 2: maybe that's the difference. But I think Pittsburgh's gonna win
Speaker 2: takeaway giveaway at least plus one.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I expect. Well, that almost always results
Speaker 3: in a Steeler win. I mean, the numbers are bonkers
Speaker 3: when they don't throw an interception. Even when they right,
Speaker 3: I mean, even when they tie the turnover battle, the
Speaker 3: Steelers win. They don't lose it. They're a really really
Speaker 3: hard team to beat. And say what you want about fields,
Speaker 3: they have not produced touchdowns with them. But that has
Speaker 3: changed drastically from his Bears days. I mean he was
Speaker 3: negative plays, sacks, turnovers, huge positive plays too, but he
Speaker 3: has not been that roller coaster good or bad here.
Speaker 3: And I think there's something to do with coaching staff.
Speaker 2: So you got an expectation. I think it's goun be
Speaker 2: a really physical game.
Speaker 3: I think special teams favors the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that really is.
Speaker 3: We didn't talk a lot about JK. Dobbins, but he
Speaker 3: scares me. I mean, I think limiting explosive plays by
Speaker 3: him is extremely, extremely important.
Speaker 6: To do it.
Speaker 3: I think this defense is the best in the league.
Speaker 2: I really do. I really do.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to like get people all excited excited.
Speaker 3: I think it's the best in the league and I
Speaker 3: don't see a lot of weaknesses with it. I think
Speaker 3: the front is tremendous, the speed on the back end
Speaker 3: off in a big way, and I think Pickens has
Speaker 3: that breakout game that he shown. No kidding, yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it's not certain. It's not Terrell. Their corners are okay,
Speaker 3: but I think Pickens' eyeball test has been a lot
Speaker 3: better than his numbers.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go with one. Justin Herbert turnover, You're
Speaker 2: gonna go with George Pickens gets a blowing up. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: It's all about the benefits, you know, we talk about
Speaker 2: these defenses and how low scoring it's gonna be. I mean, again,
Speaker 2: small sample size, but just consider this the last time
Speaker 2: two teams met in week three or later, that we're
Speaker 2: both allowing ten or fewer points in a game. Was
Speaker 2: Week four in two thousand and six. Wow, that was
Speaker 2: Baltimore and San Diego.
Speaker 3: Little coincidental, okay matchup the irony there.
Speaker 2: Ravens won the game sixteen to thirteen.
Speaker 3: That's actually the score I'm picking for this game, is it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, if people are wondering when is the Steelers
Speaker 2: offense going to break out? And if you hear Arthur
Speaker 2: Smith through Troy Toda, we told a bunch of us yesterday.
Speaker 2: Coach Arthur told us, were like, a damn, that's about
Speaker 2: to break. You know. Some other guys have talked about that,
Speaker 2: and guys have referenced the first half in Denver and
Speaker 2: how close they were really putting up points there. I
Speaker 2: think it's not gonna look like it's looked the first
Speaker 2: two weeks eventually, but I don't think Sunday's gonna be
Speaker 2: the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I still think the Chargers defense is good, not great.
Speaker 3: I mean I understand they have not I don't think
Speaker 3: they've been challenged all that much. And the two things
Speaker 3: I keep coming back to in this game. We talk
Speaker 3: about all the similarities, but of the four units, I
Speaker 3: think the Steelers defense stands alone as the best.
Speaker 2: Of the four offenses are about to push. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: they also have a quarterback, you know who they're treating
Speaker 2: like a game manager, right, But they've also got some
Speaker 2: injury issues. They got the they got single early in
Speaker 2: that game, and he threw a twenty nine or thirty
Speaker 2: yard touchdown pass for a touchdown to his wide receiver
Speaker 2: Quinton Johnston, who was disappointing last year coming out of TCU,
Speaker 2: and he's already had two touchdowns against Carolina. He had
Speaker 2: two all last season. And the word from the Chargers
Speaker 2: camp is it's the quote unquote new Q okay Quinton Johnson.
Speaker 2: He gets it now. Marboys pumped his tires. He's playing
Speaker 2: with confidence second time around the block in the NFL.
Speaker 2: He gets it that kind of thing. Herbert will take
Speaker 2: the occasional shotdown field, especially if you give him single,
Speaker 2: But for the most part, I think they're going to
Speaker 2: try to bludge in you.
Speaker 3: Oh and Johnston has had two very good games and
Speaker 3: he is a first round pick. But if Porter follows
Speaker 3: him like he did Sutton in London, I don't think
Speaker 3: we'll hear.
Speaker 2: Much from Johnston.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's nearly at the level of those two,
Speaker 3: especially London.
Speaker 2: Here's a crazy observation, all right, for Joey Porter in
Speaker 2: this game, is it more important that he tackle well
Speaker 2: than shut down the other team's best receiver?
Speaker 3: Their receivers are so light if you could play ten
Speaker 3: on ten with Johnston and Porter are just doing their
Speaker 3: own thing somewhere else. I think that favors the Steelers
Speaker 3: dramatically as opposed to tackling and all.
Speaker 2: They'll tack the edge with Dobbins getting them outside. Oh,
Speaker 2: they definitely will.
Speaker 3: I mean they love the run outside behind those tackles
Speaker 3: with tight ends and Dobbin's speed.
Speaker 2: But that that's a that's a good point.
Speaker 3: I mean he's going to have to tackle Dobbins in
Speaker 3: space and that's dangerous.
Speaker 2: Terrell Edmunds, the Steelers defensive coordinator, was asked about that today.
Speaker 2: Has Porter improved his tackling? He said absolutely they. I
Speaker 2: don't see it as a problem right to the point.
Speaker 2: They've been working on it and it's way better than
Speaker 2: it was because we were talking last year. At times
Speaker 2: he ain't tackling anybody.
Speaker 3: No, and that goes back to Penn State, because like
Speaker 3: his last nine or ten games of Penn State, they
Speaker 3: didn't even throw at them.
Speaker 2: I think the other guy, uh Jackson, will be fine
Speaker 2: Steelers corner Jackson. Yeah, I'm impressed.
Speaker 3: I think the secondary as.
Speaker 2: A wholes of playing physical oh yea yeah yeah, gals
Speaker 2: stick his face in there. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: I bet they challenged Beanie Bishop to tackle too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Run right at him, right, and you know that's
Speaker 2: a guy that h Well, the word coming out of
Speaker 2: West Virginia was, at least the word I got was
Speaker 2: he was a better physical player than you would think
Speaker 2: given his stature. He's made some tackles. I haven't looked
Speaker 2: at him as a I don't think he's been great.
Speaker 3: But that's if that's your weakest link of the defense,
Speaker 3: I think you're in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2: Anything like that. Just last thing I got tonight, the
Speaker 2: second touchdown drive for the Chargers against Carolina, I think
Speaker 2: pretty typical for them. Levin plays sixty five yards six
Speaker 2: minutes in one second. They ran it nine times for
Speaker 2: fifty five yards. They had one penalty on the defense
Speaker 2: for five yards. They were one for two passing for
Speaker 2: five yards. Now they threw it in the end zone,
Speaker 2: but to matriculate the ball down the field is Henk
Speaker 2: Stram would say nine carries and Dobbin's Gusta bus, Edwards
Speaker 2: and Herbert all carried multiple times.
Speaker 3: It sounds like exactly what both these head coaches want
Speaker 3: to do. I mean, who can force the other team
Speaker 3: to play left handed?
Speaker 2: That's the whole key. Here they coming, here we go.
Speaker 2: That's gonna do it. For the preview tonight. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Merrill for joining us as he always does and bringing
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