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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to another edition of Steelers Preview
Speaker 3: as we get ready for a Week five matchup the
Speaker 3: Steelers and the Cowboys Sunday at Akrosher Stadium Sunday Night
Speaker 3: Football on Mike Persuda along with Matt Williamson, our factor
Speaker 3: back Merril Hodge will be with us directly, but Matt
Speaker 3: a lot to unpack heading into this matchup. And the
Speaker 3: quarterback saga in Pittsburgh ever present.
Speaker 4: Uh, it won't go away because it's.
Speaker 3: Not resolved yet and I'm not sure if we're close
Speaker 3: to a resolution, but I can tell you this. Mike
Speaker 3: Tomlin said on Tuesday that they expected to see more
Speaker 3: from Russell Wilson this week. Yeah, Yeah, more of a workload,
Speaker 3: more involvement and well, guess what Russell Wilson talked about
Speaker 3: that after practice today. Russ Mike had told us on
Speaker 3: Tuesday the expectation was to ramp it up this week.
Speaker 4: Is that occurring and how's it going.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys are out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're definitely ramping it up. It's been good.
Speaker 4: I feel great and just getting better every day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely been on to hopping the.
Speaker 3: Team drills and get more plays and.
Speaker 5: Just be able to do that.
Speaker 4: That was that's been great this week, and then doing
Speaker 4: all the team.
Speaker 8: Eleven on eleven and also seven on seven all that
Speaker 8: stuff too as well.
Speaker 6: So it's been good.
Speaker 3: Now everybody in the media has been out there shooting
Speaker 3: our videos when they allow us to for the individual
Speaker 3: right position group work, and we've all seen Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: not moving latterly doing ok doing things the quarterbacks do
Speaker 3: throwing the ball, yeah, but like taking third string reps
Speaker 3: and when they do play action boot from under center,
Speaker 3: he does gun stationary path.
Speaker 6: Okay, so he does different stuff than everybody else.
Speaker 3: But you just heard of a moment ago, say he
Speaker 3: did eleven on eleven. I think that's a significant shift.
Speaker 3: That's a real shift in the landscape. You concur obviously,
Speaker 3: no question.
Speaker 6: You don't put you out there when you're not healthy
Speaker 6: for that kind of stuff, right, So.
Speaker 3: What do you think a week or two maybe and uh,
Speaker 3: he's declared a viable option or do they do.
Speaker 6: You think there's any chance he's the two this week?
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought about it, but that will certainly be
Speaker 3: something to keep an eye on. I mean my initial
Speaker 3: suspicion is no, but they don't ask me, right, And.
Speaker 6: That's always a weird situation. I mean, well, if he's
Speaker 6: the two, why shouldn't he be the one?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 6: But I do think if he's the two, I would
Speaker 6: run Fields with a little more reckless abandon you know,
Speaker 6: knowing that we could go to this guy if he
Speaker 6: gets hurt or whatever, if.
Speaker 4: There's something other than be the emergency guy.
Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, eleven on eleven to me is a
Speaker 3: significant step.
Speaker 4: It might just be one, but yeah, it's a big one.
Speaker 6: It sure seems like he's awful close, whether it's this
Speaker 6: week or next being in the mix, and it's true
Speaker 6: decision time. I think Fields was going to start this game.
Speaker 6: I think that's pretty clear at this point on a Thursday.
Speaker 6: But I really understand both sides. I mean, I'm intrigued
Speaker 6: with both. I'd love to see this offense with Wilson.
Speaker 6: He did, he does some good things. It would be
Speaker 6: very slightly different. But I think both players are highly intriguing,
Speaker 6: and I don't envy coach Somlin for having to make
Speaker 6: that decision when the time truly comes.
Speaker 3: You know, when they acquire Justin Fields, I thought, great move,
Speaker 3: doesn't cost you much, great athletic skill set. Maybe you
Speaker 3: take a year and fix this guy. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 3: your option next year because he's ten years a chance, right.
Speaker 3: I was also told by people in the league that
Speaker 3: exposure to Wilson and his work ethic and his study
Speaker 3: habits and his general understanding of how to be the quarterback,
Speaker 3: not play the quarterback, but be that was going to
Speaker 3: be beneficial of Justin Fields.
Speaker 6: He's gonna have any of that in Chicago.
Speaker 3: He has probably come further faster than I would have anticipated.
Speaker 6: But that's said.
Speaker 3: You went out and got Russ for a reason, and
Speaker 3: I think they owe it to themselves to see what
Speaker 3: it looks like with him playing.
Speaker 6: But if it's four and one, and the offense keeps
Speaker 6: getting better, and you know what I mean, these are
Speaker 6: good problems to have.
Speaker 4: That's the tough part of the decision. Fields is in
Speaker 4: line to start again Sunday night against Dallas. It'll be
Speaker 4: his fifth in a row.
Speaker 3: He was asked, given the Wilson development today, if Justin
Speaker 3: Fields thought that, well, is there any added pressure or
Speaker 3: is this game maybe an audition to keep the gig?
Speaker 9: Not really, I'm just going to keep doing what I've
Speaker 9: been doing, and whatever decision he makes, he makes at
Speaker 9: the end of the day. So I can only control
Speaker 9: what I do in the field. But now I'm just
Speaker 9: gonna go out there and keep doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: So of course we also asked Arthur's Smith, the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: about this, and this is one of my favorite answers
Speaker 3: of the season. You know, Arthur used to be the
Speaker 3: head coach in Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, he used to have
Speaker 3: to deal with this stuff.
Speaker 4: Not anymore.
Speaker 10: That's more question for for coach Tomlin obviously the doctors.
Speaker 7: Uh I joke, that's what's more freeing about my job.
Speaker 6: Now, don't.
Speaker 10: Mike and Gable give me the questions whatever? You know,
Speaker 10: decisions they're gonna make, and my job is to executed
Speaker 10: the plan and you know, get the orders right. Mike
Speaker 10: tells me, take Vienna, take Vienna if you get that reference.
Speaker 10: So look, every player coming back, whether it's Pro or
Speaker 10: you know, CP or Jalen, you know, as you work
Speaker 10: them back in, you've got to have a customized plan
Speaker 10: or a turn to play, and you know, so that's
Speaker 10: kind of going on the side. And then my focus
Speaker 10: is a who's going to be up? How do we
Speaker 10: put the best plan it could beat Dallas a Sunday night.
Speaker 4: You know, full disclosure, I did not get the take
Speaker 4: Vienna reference, and.
Speaker 6: I don't know it. I thought he as a military buff,
Speaker 6: would I assume it's something that related.
Speaker 4: I'm an amateur historian.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: World War One I'm pretty good. Civil War I'm pretty good.
Speaker 3: World War two really good. Okay, this is a Napoleon.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, if you're gonna take Vienna, take Vienna.
Speaker 6: I loved his answer too, though, I mean, like it's
Speaker 6: coming from a former head coach.
Speaker 4: He was smiling. Why but I don't have to it's
Speaker 4: not above my pay grade.
Speaker 3: But that's awesome, you know, I don't think it would
Speaker 3: Wilson's still not up to snuff health wise, but that
Speaker 3: day's coming once they clear them. It can't take long.
Speaker 3: He's been doing this his whole life. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not like he's gonna need a month.
Speaker 6: To row Wilson, I think. I mean, it wouldn't take
Speaker 6: long for the decision.
Speaker 3: No, Yah, once I get I don't know how you know,
Speaker 3: if it's next week or the week after, he's probably
Speaker 3: ready then oh.
Speaker 6: I would think, so if you want, if you want
Speaker 6: to play him, and then it's true decision time. But
Speaker 6: keep gathering information on fields in the meantime, and like
Speaker 6: I said a couple of minutes ago, he's further along
Speaker 6: than I would expect it after five games now.
Speaker 3: In addition to Wilson being limited today for the second
Speaker 3: consecutive day, no Jalen Warren knee for the second straight day,
Speaker 3: no Alex high Smith with his groin, no Michael Pruett knee,
Speaker 3: no Corderio Patterson ankle. Line was pretty short of running back.
Speaker 3: I bet, how do you like the Harvard kid? Not
Speaker 3: as much as the other two that didn't participate today.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see more of Warren and I mean
Speaker 3: Patterson's intriguing, But I thought Warren's been their best back
Speaker 3: for two years in a row. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: he's been missed in a big way. Nick Herbig went
Speaker 3: he was a slight upgrade from did not practice too
Speaker 3: limited today. Mike Tomlin had said at the outset of
Speaker 3: the week that they, you know, it might be some
Speaker 3: limitations early, but push him too hard. He was less
Speaker 3: of a concern. Larry Ogan job he showed up today
Speaker 3: is limited with a groin. I'm gonna assume that's, you know, taking.
Speaker 6: Short of veteran, taking care of a veteran.
Speaker 3: And I mean he's for a couple of years now,
Speaker 3: he's played more than he's practiced, or so it is.
Speaker 6: But he's but the groin designation's new, right. Yes, it's
Speaker 6: not a rest, you know, but he has been good.
Speaker 6: He's been real good, been real good. The whole front
Speaker 6: has been good. Dallas, Are you worry about Herbig? Not
Speaker 6: particularly Okay, I thought he was pretty safe to play.
Speaker 6: Heismith's not going to play.
Speaker 3: But I'm not right, And I'd probably like to see
Speaker 3: a little more out of the marvel leale than I
Speaker 3: saw in Indianapolis.
Speaker 6: And Moon could be back in the mix right.
Speaker 4: Well, the window has started. They have twenty one days.
Speaker 3: He started practicing this week, so they have twenty one
Speaker 3: days to activate him off of reserve injured or leave
Speaker 3: him there for the rest of the year. Two days
Speaker 3: of full participation. He's something of a veteran. I mean he's.
Speaker 6: Been on fields, he's been in stadiums. Is oh yeah,
Speaker 6: right right.
Speaker 3: So maybe, I mean might they might need some depth
Speaker 3: at outside linebacker. Dallas has got some issues. They really
Speaker 3: do as well. Cornerback Colleen Carson, rookie fifth rounder out
Speaker 3: of Wake Forest. He's been limited for the last two
Speaker 3: days with a shoulder. Did not play in the Thursday
Speaker 3: night victory over the New York Football Giants a week ago.
Speaker 3: Brandon Cook's wide receiver knee hasn't practiced yet this week.
Speaker 3: Michael Parson's ankle hasn't practiced yet this week.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody's anticipating he's gonna.
Speaker 6: Play or Corks. I think Cook's been rolled out too.
Speaker 3: Trayvon Diggs showed up with an ankle as limited today,
Speaker 3: and Tyler Goeyiton their left tackle rookie out of Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: He was a full participant today, but they list him
Speaker 3: as having a shoulder injury. I would think the Steelers
Speaker 3: are sending get well soon cards to Tyler Geyiton. He's
Speaker 3: an interesting player because you know, I want that guy
Speaker 3: playing a fund of Steelers. Absolutely, and Dale's been mentioned
Speaker 3: it a few times that maybe getting Cam Hayward to
Speaker 3: bump a little further away from the ball and bull
Speaker 3: rush Geiton could be really profitable this week. He's a
Speaker 3: promising prospect. I liked him a lot coming out.
Speaker 4: But pretty suspect right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he is and doesn't deal with power all that well,
Speaker 6: you know, and he's switching sides too. He's a right
Speaker 6: tackle turn left.
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Speaker 2: Back to the Steelers Preview show on DVE.
Speaker 3: Welcome back Mike Pursuder and Matt Williamson, getting you ready
Speaker 3: for the steel and the Cowboys Sunday Night football.
Speaker 4: An historic matchup.
Speaker 3: Although both of these teams have seen better days now,
Speaker 3: they've both seen some great days. But both of these
Speaker 3: teams are sorting through some stuff. And as we continue
Speaker 3: to do that in advance of Sunday Nights game, it's
Speaker 3: time to.
Speaker 4: Call on the Factor back, Merril Hodge.
Speaker 3: Joining us as he always does here on the preview. Merril,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hit you with a deep dive here to
Speaker 3: start things out, because the quarterback talk continues to be
Speaker 3: all the rage here in town.
Speaker 4: Everybody wondering has.
Speaker 3: Justin Field's done enough to win the job. Do they
Speaker 3: need to turn to Russell Wilson at some point. How
Speaker 3: close is Russell Wilson to actually playing I want to
Speaker 3: keep it real field specific to open things up here,
Speaker 3: how is he played in these first four games relative
Speaker 3: to how you thought he'd play? And then part B,
Speaker 3: how is he playing if they had to play Josh
Speaker 3: Allen or Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Would you feel about that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 8: Actually, I feel okay with Patrick Mahomes right now and
Speaker 8: even maybe even Josh Allen a little bit with where
Speaker 8: their offense is because those are some of the best
Speaker 8: offenses in football. Right now, I know I'm gonna I'm digressing,
Speaker 8: then I'll get back to your answer question.
Speaker 6: I love your digression digress away.
Speaker 5: So I will tell you this.
Speaker 8: The Washington Redskins offense is terrific, the the Lions offense
Speaker 8: is is terrific.
Speaker 5: And there's one other offense that's gonna come to me
Speaker 5: here in a second.
Speaker 8: I think there's some of the best offenses in football,
Speaker 8: and the two that you mentioned earlier couldn't hold couldn't
Speaker 8: couldn't play with those offenses Buffalo or Kansas City. Now, okay,
Speaker 8: that's being said, How's justin played. He's played exactly like
Speaker 8: I thought he would play, and they're doing exactly what
Speaker 8: they should do with him based on the experience that
Speaker 8: he has and where his skill set is. Because I
Speaker 8: think I don't I don't have said this before. I
Speaker 8: don't think people understand it enough. This kid has had
Speaker 8: an offensive coordinator, a new office coordinator, and every year
Speaker 8: he's played.
Speaker 5: And he started Ohio State, Okay, son, he played a
Speaker 5: year there. They went to Chicago, three years, three coordinators,
Speaker 5: and now new coordinator. He can I don't care.
Speaker 7: Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady.
Speaker 8: None of those guys would have been developed in their
Speaker 8: third year where they were eventually developed, had they kept
Speaker 8: changing systems. Okay, Now I'm not making excuses. I'm just
Speaker 8: saying those are raw facts, and he is a very
Speaker 8: raw player. He does he hasn't taken some steps from an.
Speaker 7: Anticipation aspect of the game.
Speaker 8: What's interesting is he'll throw it outside the numbers with
Speaker 8: some anticipation, but he won't throw it inside the numbers.
Speaker 8: And I and I can tell his doubt any I
Speaker 8: can tell he.
Speaker 5: Just you know, he just doesn't trust it enough.
Speaker 7: Okay, that might be he never.
Speaker 8: Gets over that or it might get the more reps
Speaker 8: and the more he plays, eventually he'll start doing it.
Speaker 8: So I mean, so I guess you know you're asking me,
Speaker 8: and I'm not sitting in those mean rooms. And I
Speaker 8: know how this is from a coaching perspective too. Okay,
Speaker 8: I might be saying, you know, call Russell Wilson's experience,
Speaker 8: I can I can open this offense a little more
Speaker 8: with Russell Wilson. Okay, Now I'm beings coach going that
Speaker 8: you can saying that, Okay, I knew everything that Justin
Speaker 8: has been doing, and I might be able to advance
Speaker 8: a little more as far as throwing the football. Now,
Speaker 8: I also have to consider Justin gets us out of
Speaker 8: some trouble too athletically.
Speaker 7: You know, he does some things that Russell can't.
Speaker 8: So is that wash or are those pluses or minuses
Speaker 8: worth making the change at three and one?
Speaker 7: You know, And that's a hard decision, you know, and one.
Speaker 6: I understand both sides.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I clearly would too. And those guys are sitting
Speaker 7: in that mediu.
Speaker 5: I'm just telling they got.
Speaker 8: A massive advantage, you know, because you're with those guys
Speaker 8: all the time.
Speaker 7: And that's what I clearly.
Speaker 8: Don't have the luxury of making that. That's why I'm
Speaker 8: just trying to be as fair and honest as I
Speaker 8: can with with whatever decision is made.
Speaker 7: I can understand it, Merril.
Speaker 3: Those are the other two things I count on from you, digressions,
Speaker 3: fairness and honesty.
Speaker 4: You've checked everybody.
Speaker 5: It makes it.
Speaker 7: It makes it a clean show.
Speaker 5: We like about.
Speaker 8: So but it'll be interesting what they do. It really
Speaker 8: will be interesting.
Speaker 6: So it looks I don't know about unlikely, but there's
Speaker 6: a chance Warren and Patterson aren't going to be playing
Speaker 6: this week, which nause. He's always handled a big workload.
Speaker 6: He's capable of a big workload, but his efficiency this
Speaker 6: year has been really poor. I mean yards for carry
Speaker 6: getting hit behind the line of scrimmage an awful lot.
Speaker 6: What would you do to get him back on track
Speaker 6: or to make him more comfortable as a runner. Do
Speaker 6: you think all this zone stuff is not his bag?
Speaker 5: Well? I can.
Speaker 7: I can tell you this what we talked about on
Speaker 7: the morning show.
Speaker 5: You know, when.
Speaker 7: Would they change?
Speaker 8: They went man blocking schemes and he wasn't in there,
Speaker 8: and that's where they hit a lot of big runs.
Speaker 7: And I knew exactly what was going to happen.
Speaker 8: They're like, oh, you know, the runner gets all the credit.
Speaker 8: You know, of course, nobody knows that they changed. They
Speaker 8: changed what they did. They did some you know, different
Speaker 8: things because they weren't having that much success. You know,
Speaker 8: you got to give to the I'll tell you this,
Speaker 8: I didn't.
Speaker 5: I did not think the.
Speaker 8: Colts would play like that up front. They hadn't really
Speaker 8: played like that against anybody all year. So you know,
Speaker 8: but you know that's why you know, you number undrest
Speaker 8: them a professional, not after they've been embarrassed, but when
Speaker 8: they know they have to stop something to neutralize an offense.
Speaker 4: You know, they knew if they could do that, had
Speaker 4: been embarrassed for a couple of weeks there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that has the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Yes, So you know, so that'd be said. I you know,
Speaker 8: you did say. The one thing that as I Todd
Speaker 8: his rookie year was probably the most impressing thing is
Speaker 8: that age played almost every dawn. Third downs included, and
Speaker 8: third bounds the hardest in football, not just just from
Speaker 8: a mental perspective.
Speaker 7: You understand pressures and all the things that.
Speaker 5: You've got to do, and really, that guy.
Speaker 8: If you're good enough and I thought, nag, was you
Speaker 8: got offset some mistakes that are going to happen up
Speaker 8: front because those guys have people in their face quickly
Speaker 8: and they make the mistakes. You got to just to that.
Speaker 8: And I thought instinctively, he knew how to do those things.
Speaker 8: So they're not going to be in trouble, you know,
Speaker 8: because it's just him. And you know, I think that
Speaker 8: maybe just talk about him, you know, you know, not
Speaker 8: having the yards he is, that that will work its
Speaker 8: way out because he's going to be on the field
Speaker 8: probably all the time.
Speaker 3: Mar We've done a lot of shows together for a
Speaker 3: lot of years, particularly this one for several years now,
Speaker 3: and I honestly I sit here and I listen to
Speaker 3: you talk, and I take what you say to heart.
Speaker 3: You just mentioned one of your standards, never underestimated professional,
Speaker 3: who's embarrassed. You always emphasize you got to run the
Speaker 3: ball and set the tone.
Speaker 4: And I buy this stuff. I eat it with a spoon.
Speaker 4: And another thing that you have continually.
Speaker 3: Emphasized is running quarterbacks don't win the Super Bowl. So
Speaker 3: getting back to getting back to fields, Actually this is
Speaker 3: going to sound contradictory. I actually want to see him
Speaker 3: use his legs more on design runs. I don't think
Speaker 3: they're taking advantage of his best asset. But my question
Speaker 3: to you is a couple of plays he made it indy,
Speaker 3: he kind of got out of the pocket and threw one.
Speaker 4: Deep hit pick. It's great.
Speaker 3: I looked like at least one of his tds was
Speaker 3: a scramble down near the goal line. Both both both
Speaker 3: of them might have been. I'm not sure about one
Speaker 3: of them. But is he doing enough in the pocket
Speaker 3: to pass your eye.
Speaker 7: Test based on his skill set that he has right now?
Speaker 5: Yes, you know.
Speaker 8: Now, going back to the ability to run the football,
Speaker 8: I've actually thought that a young guy that has the
Speaker 8: ability to do that can actually lengthen his career and
Speaker 8: it is a big ass in helping him develop because
Speaker 8: he can get out of trouble and he can make
Speaker 8: some positive plays. Here's the whole problem. Some never transition
Speaker 8: from their legs. Everything they did with their legs, so
Speaker 8: they're right on or left arm, depending on what's where
Speaker 8: they throw the football, and that's ultimately what has to happen.
Speaker 8: They sometimes guys who run run it really well, they
Speaker 8: just they keep doing it and they never stop doing it,
Speaker 8: and they go to it all the time, and they
Speaker 8: never throw and evolved as a passer.
Speaker 7: And see what they're doing with justin fields.
Speaker 8: I mean, you're gonna come to that hurdle now, It's
Speaker 8: not now, I mean it's not now. This would be
Speaker 8: even next year. I would want to see him run less.
Speaker 8: And I'm five to.
Speaker 5: Your point about him running a little more.
Speaker 8: Using his legs more, you know, designing some stuff a
Speaker 8: little more.
Speaker 3: But when they get closed, I'd actually like to see
Speaker 3: the ball get thrown in the end zone.
Speaker 6: One, yeah, some of the red zone stuff kind of.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, and I remember the offense I was talking about.
Speaker 5: I was gonna mention too the.
Speaker 8: Other the third offense actually probably with the best offenses
Speaker 8: in football is the Ravens and the way they are orchestrating. Now,
Speaker 8: look at the way they use their quarterback. If you
Speaker 8: look at if you studied their running game, it is fascinating.
Speaker 8: I'm challenge here, is mind blowing, incredible. It is like
Speaker 8: I'm never seen a more diverse, complete, powerful running game
Speaker 8: in all this time.
Speaker 5: I've been doing it.
Speaker 8: You know, quarterback gives them that that little wrinkle.
Speaker 5: And I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see those.
Speaker 8: Type of things being put into this offense a little
Speaker 8: more as you grow, as Arthur Smith looks at teams, Well,
Speaker 8: I'll tell you this, this would be a great example
Speaker 8: to do it.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 8: I think this is a great opportunity against the Dallas
Speaker 8: Cowboys to do a little bit what you're talking about.
Speaker 8: They're more justice fields, running with the ball, and there's
Speaker 8: explosive play opportunities based on just what the Steelers really
Speaker 8: do good right now, just their element in the passing game,
Speaker 8: and I think you could have evolved that and create
Speaker 8: some real success in this matchup based on some vulnerabilities
Speaker 8: that the Cowboys have. They struggle with misdirection, and they
Speaker 8: struggle on the back end individually and as a group
Speaker 8: working together. So I think there's a lot of opportunities
Speaker 8: for growth here with justin fields and all the things
Speaker 8: that you mentioned, with little mobility, run the football and
Speaker 8: actually explosive plays.
Speaker 6: What about the old line. I think skintting Isaac seeing
Speaker 6: them all back could go a long way. But there's
Speaker 6: been so much shuffling. The continuity thing just hasn't been
Speaker 6: there at all.
Speaker 5: And that does take a toll. It takes a toll.
Speaker 5: And and you see the difference.
Speaker 8: That's why, you know, I think Arthur was really forced
Speaker 8: to kind of, you know, start some man blocking schemes
Speaker 8: that the.
Speaker 5: The zone stuff, you know that that.
Speaker 8: Just takes chemistry and a lot of reps together and
Speaker 8: a good feel for one another.
Speaker 5: And when you get in the huddle and you're like,
Speaker 5: what's your name, you know.
Speaker 8: You get to introduce to somebody's yeah, we're it's gonna
Speaker 8: make it hard to work together as one. And I
Speaker 8: think that's why he did some of the stuff that
Speaker 8: he's done, you know, And but as a whole I
Speaker 8: tell you that they have done a pretty good job.
Speaker 7: Of adjusting to all these things.
Speaker 5: You know, this Cowboy front is not it's not the Juggernaut.
Speaker 5: You know, maybe some of the other.
Speaker 8: Games that they have they have faced this point. You know,
Speaker 8: they have the best, real I think, real concerns that linebacker.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, even across actually the front seven, I just I
Speaker 8: wouldn't I wouldn't pub would say that this is a
Speaker 8: real dangerous front seven. They're still NFL players, so it
Speaker 8: isn't like a walk in the park by any stretch imagination.
Speaker 5: I never want to give that illusion because of the
Speaker 5: pros and past all last week. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 5: expect the Colts to really play at the level that
Speaker 5: they played, especially early in the game. But they did.
Speaker 8: So you have to you know, you can't go in
Speaker 8: there and get fooled and think that it's going to
Speaker 8: be an easy day.
Speaker 5: You know they're they're gonna have their hands full.
Speaker 8: But I should think, going back to what I said earlier,
Speaker 8: I think there's some really good opportunities for them to
Speaker 8: be explosive and maybe do some stuff with Justin Fields
Speaker 8: that we haven't seen to this point.
Speaker 3: Merrily, you mentioned the misdirection stuff. Given Dallas issues Steelers,
Speaker 3: of course, there's a lot of play action bootleg in
Speaker 3: this offense. Quarterback throw, quarterback run. The play to Darnell
Speaker 3: Washington last week where he caught the short pass and
Speaker 3: stiff armed a guy and then jumped over a guy
Speaker 3: like that, Matt remember the Georgia tape when you're evaluating
Speaker 3: him that and he.
Speaker 4: Did that in college.
Speaker 3: A couple of the players talked about that today, Najie
Speaker 3: Harris and Justin Fields. We were asking them, you know
Speaker 3: what sparked that second half turnaround and they said, well,
Speaker 3: that's played by Washington kind of got us going. You know,
Speaker 3: that was a big play. I'm paraphrasing there, but they
Speaker 3: it had their attention when it happened. I've been screaming,
Speaker 3: throw this guy the ball since they drafted him. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's the biggest target on the field. Is this a
Speaker 3: way to kind of pick up where you left off,
Speaker 3: start looking for.
Speaker 4: Number eighty a little with a little bit more regularity.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, you know, six kind of find when you
Speaker 8: mentioned that, Now they've done that.
Speaker 5: I think I don't even didn't even have a catch
Speaker 5: last year.
Speaker 6: I think I think like eleven targets at most or
Speaker 6: something like that.
Speaker 8: All right, So so he had that. That's why I
Speaker 8: just didn't remember any of them. That being said, you know,
Speaker 8: I thought Arthur, I thought we'd see a little more
Speaker 8: of it, that Arthur would get him a little more
Speaker 8: involved with, especially matchups down in scoring territory. You know,
Speaker 8: and you know you're going to get somebody who's say
Speaker 8: five ten man, put him out there. Put him out
Speaker 8: there because No. Five ten is going to handle him.
Speaker 5: You know, even six ft is going to be a struggle.
Speaker 5: So I think you might see that.
Speaker 7: A little more.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 8: I agree, there's there's always you know, you never know
Speaker 8: who's gonna energize the game, you know, and that's why
Speaker 8: it's I.
Speaker 5: Know it's a cliche everybody.
Speaker 8: You talk about, you know, do your job and play
Speaker 8: every play because you really don't know where the difference
Speaker 8: might be at any point in the game. And when
Speaker 8: you can finally get players to buy into that and
Speaker 8: believe in that and start doing that and list this
Speaker 8: might be one of those things early in the season
Speaker 8: that is real valuable that they learned. You know, even
Speaker 8: though they lost that game, you know, some of the
Speaker 8: feeling I got from it is this team has a
Speaker 8: little different a little different build about them mentally and
Speaker 8: their approach. You know that they're not weak minded by.
Speaker 5: Any stretch, which is a good thing to have, you know.
Speaker 8: Especially they get towards that letter part of the year.
Speaker 8: You know, there's those divisional games are gonna are they
Speaker 8: gonna be the difference maker of who wins that division?
Speaker 3: What has led you to that conclusion The way they
Speaker 3: kept it together and rallied in Indie the comfort the
Speaker 3: comfort level and in the tough, low scoring one score
Speaker 3: games previously, Yeah, what's what's showing tough?
Speaker 5: I think it's a couple.
Speaker 8: I think they know, Okay, it's gonna be this fight
Speaker 8: at the fifty every Sunday. That's how we that's how
Speaker 8: we got to win. Okay, we're not gonna blow anybody out.
Speaker 8: We might have a day a day where turnovers go
Speaker 8: our way. We can't go the other way because we
Speaker 8: got no shot that that early on, I think they
Speaker 8: know how to win and play tough games.
Speaker 5: They're gonna play. It's gonna take us and get tire
Speaker 5: game to win. We're not gonna have an easy Sunday.
Speaker 8: And when they faced some challenges and some adversity, they
Speaker 8: rallied back.
Speaker 5: They came back as a team. You know. It wasn't uh,
Speaker 5: I don't think it.
Speaker 8: Was just one area. You know, there was a spark
Speaker 8: that you just mentioned, but everybody, you know, started to
Speaker 8: play better as a team. And at the end of
Speaker 8: the day, teams win championships. Okay, no offense is gonna
Speaker 8: win a no defense, no special teams.
Speaker 5: But teams do win.
Speaker 8: And when they all play together and they all try
Speaker 8: to do a part to make a difference and chip
Speaker 8: back into a game, which I felt like that they
Speaker 8: did there and that I would rather see that, you know,
Speaker 8: our offense got on a roll of our defense just
Speaker 8: couldn't you know, get their act together. Our special teams
Speaker 8: kept killing us. You know you didn't see that. You know,
Speaker 8: everybody contributed.
Speaker 6: So meryln. Dallas team doesn't run the football particularly well
Speaker 6: at all, which puts a lot on Dak's plate. What's
Speaker 6: your your thumbnail, Scott and report on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 8: Well, listen, I think that Dak is extremely efficient.
Speaker 5: I think that he executes his offense well.
Speaker 8: They you know, they helped him a little more than
Speaker 8: I would anticipate, you know, in the running game. You know,
Speaker 8: I really was trying to focus on that because I
Speaker 8: was like, listen, it's just like like an offense when
Speaker 8: you don't have a quarterback or that quarterback keeps for
Speaker 8: rotating and never consistent with your offense.
Speaker 5: It's just how it is. You look across the board
Speaker 5: or look at the Steelers, okay, since been left, and
Speaker 5: then if you don't have.
Speaker 8: A consistent runner, it's the same way there that that that.
Speaker 6: Becomes the ball carriers are real suspect.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, and you know there's nobody there. Well listen,
Speaker 8: now this is and the probably not gonna.
Speaker 5: Work because the Steelers.
Speaker 8: You know, uh, when I say when you put your
Speaker 8: wide receiver back there, that pretty much sums up what
Speaker 8: you think about your running game. Okay, now the Steels
Speaker 8: have a guy that plays wide receivers. He's been doing
Speaker 8: that and they return guy that he's you know, he's
Speaker 8: a he's a he's a weapon in all of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he has done. That's how he's made
Speaker 5: his career. But not eighty eight for the Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 3: You'd rather see CD Lamb in the slaught or wide
Speaker 3: right not.
Speaker 8: Til I'm just telling you. When when I saw him
Speaker 8: go back there, I'm like, well that tells you everything.
Speaker 5: You know. It's just like two drivers. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 5: have a back.
Speaker 7: They really don't.
Speaker 5: They just don't have it back.
Speaker 8: Now that being said, you know, I think it's twenty
Speaker 8: three who gets the most to carries.
Speaker 5: He's got a wiggle. Yeah, he's got a wiggle to him.
Speaker 8: That you man, don't sleep on him because he does
Speaker 8: make some some impressive plays and you know, get you
Speaker 8: out of trouble, cleans up some dirt.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: So he isn't like he's you know and he's nobody.
Speaker 8: I mean, he's he's a pretty good run, or they
Speaker 8: just haven't established anything where it's their foundation.
Speaker 5: You know. It's uh, it's kind of interesting. You know
Speaker 5: they've asked. They put a lot of it on Dak,
Speaker 5: and I'm going back to kind of finish him out.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't Dak needs that, you know, he's
Speaker 5: He's just he doesn't.
Speaker 8: He's not at that elite stead It's like like a
Speaker 8: band or a Brady where you can offset during the
Speaker 8: season not having some phase of your running game going
Speaker 8: well and I can carry the team. I think Dak
Speaker 8: is at his best when they have that other phase
Speaker 8: to it, and I think that's part of their struggles
Speaker 8: with the struggles we've already documented with their defense.
Speaker 4: Zee Kelliott doesn't look anything like he used to.
Speaker 8: Noeke is as a Joe verse.
Speaker 3: So this is a team coming in here to Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: that doesn't run, doesn't stop the run, beat up on
Speaker 3: both sides of.
Speaker 6: The best two defensive players are out.
Speaker 3: How do you see this from playing out and the
Speaker 3: Steelers team. I can tell you just from being in
Speaker 3: the locker room today. The offensive side thinks they found
Speaker 3: something in Indy and I got the impression today MARYL.
Speaker 4: They can't wait to get back out there.
Speaker 3: Like they know they lost the game, and they know
Speaker 3: they made mistakes that lost it.
Speaker 4: They lost that one more than the Colts beat them four.
Speaker 6: Hundred plus yards every week.
Speaker 3: This offense feels like it's it's ready to hit another gear.
Speaker 3: And I think you got a wounded opponent coming in here.
Speaker 3: What do you see happen in Sunday night at after sure?
Speaker 8: Man, I'm telling you if that, if that focus is
Speaker 8: the ownership of their offense, and that is really how
Speaker 8: they're looking at this thing and not going, hey, listen,
Speaker 8: and we're also playing somebody who's wounded over there, and
Speaker 8: then you let your mind settle into that. If their
Speaker 8: complete focus is, man, we blew some things, we got it,
Speaker 8: but we could build on and we have a chance
Speaker 8: to be great.
Speaker 5: Boy.
Speaker 8: If they carry that into the game, then man, I
Speaker 8: don't have a lot of worries in them.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll just tell you this about their mindset. It's
Speaker 3: hard to read a locker room when you know you're
Speaker 3: in there for fifteen minutes or half an hour. But
Speaker 3: Nazie Harris would normally rather get a root canal than
Speaker 3: talk to us.
Speaker 4: And he was excited today.
Speaker 8: Well, I like that, you know, I like that. You
Speaker 8: know that makes you know, I listen, You're right, you
Speaker 8: have better pulse. I could go in there and you know,
Speaker 8: if I was in the locker room, I have a
Speaker 8: much better field.
Speaker 5: And you know, somebody telling me about it. But you know,
Speaker 5: your approach to things matters. You know, it isn't just
Speaker 5: like on Sunday. It's all week.
Speaker 8: You know, how are you approaching it? If they're approaching
Speaker 8: it with hunger and man, we got we missed an opportunity.
Speaker 8: But man, we're not going to miss that opportunity again,
Speaker 8: and we're going to show it. And there's your focus,
Speaker 8: and that's.
Speaker 5: What you're working on. That's what you're preparing for. Well,
Speaker 5: then you'll take care of the opponent.
Speaker 8: But if you're like, well the opponents wounded, you know
Speaker 8: they don't have that is the cowboy team.
Speaker 5: You know everybody thinks they are and we'll be okay.
Speaker 8: Then that's when you got boy something bad could happen.
Speaker 8: So I like hearing that that is the right approach
Speaker 8: to have.
Speaker 5: The right mindset to have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I would describe it as I think
Speaker 3: they have something to establish less than they have something
Speaker 3: to prove. I think they want to show that that
Speaker 3: wasn't good. You know, the planets lining up right when
Speaker 3: way behind it and they just made a few plays.
Speaker 3: But uh, Meryl, we'll look forward to doing this again
Speaker 3: before the Steelers visit fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well I was just there for the Browns Vegas
Speaker 5: game and so yeah, yeah, well, gosh Ill, if you
Speaker 5: ever want to know.
Speaker 7: About a wounded team, Cleveland Browns are a wounded team.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: We'll see them in a little bit. Yeah, let's just
Speaker 5: take care of the Bells Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Sorry to hear that about the Browns, Meryl, great stuff.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5: I see you guys.
Speaker 4: Merril Hodge are factor back.
Speaker 3: We've still got a lot of ground to cover, and
Speaker 3: Matt and I will do so directly. You are listening
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Mike Pursuiter and Matt Williamson taking you home
Speaker 3: as we continue setting things up for the Steelers and
Speaker 3: the Cowboys Sunday at acresshure man, I love.
Speaker 4: When Merrill gets insightful.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I like the x's and o's, but I
Speaker 3: like to hear him talk about the process in the mindset, absolutely,
Speaker 3: and what's going on.
Speaker 6: I think he was enjoying your locker room touch stuff,
Speaker 6: and yeah, I wish he was air.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed it today.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was a vibe and it's dangerous. You know,
Speaker 3: I've been doing this media thing a long time, and
Speaker 3: guys think, because you get some guys think if you
Speaker 3: get to talk to somebody for five minutes a couple
Speaker 3: of times.
Speaker 4: A week or you're around it, you know what's going on.
Speaker 4: You really don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, of course you can't get an accurate read
Speaker 3: on psychology or motion, but you get suspicions and you
Speaker 3: get vibes.
Speaker 6: But you spend a lot of hours in those walls
Speaker 6: or practice fielder. Yeah, I'm sure you get different feelings.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, good thing with you know, NASA usually
Speaker 3: has to be dragged into those things.
Speaker 6: He was.
Speaker 4: He was fired up.
Speaker 6: Today, Like I bet Raven's week is different than Joe
Speaker 6: blow week, you know. I mean, you definitely get different
Speaker 6: vibes and feelings.
Speaker 3: What to expect is brought to you by Brian Patton
Speaker 3: and associates. It's all about the benefits. I mentioned, uh
Speaker 3: previously tonight, that I'm not real impressed with Tyler Geiton,
Speaker 3: number sixty, the left tackle for the Dallas Cowboys. What
Speaker 3: I expect is that this guy's going to struggle to
Speaker 3: block people, and I based that on his performance against
Speaker 3: the New York Football Giants a week ago.
Speaker 6: Now, it's good at pairadreshers, but yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean Kevon Thibodeau is a real deal.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, Yeah, Burns is really good.
Speaker 3: Sack two holding penalties, another holding penalty got wiped out
Speaker 3: by a defensive penalty, so it offset and didn't count.
Speaker 3: And pressure, pressure, pressure, Uh he said five holding only
Speaker 3: in four games.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's grabby and he's not super strong. He's learning
Speaker 6: the new side and thrown to the wolves to some
Speaker 6: degree too, because the right tackle is not great either,
Speaker 6: and you know the right tackle is gonna need help
Speaker 6: every right tackle does.
Speaker 4: We'll get to that. Yeah, in a minute. Do you
Speaker 4: have an expectation for Steelers Cowboys?
Speaker 6: I hate saying it this way, but this seems like
Speaker 6: the fifth week in a row where I'm not overly
Speaker 6: blown away by the opponent. I mean, at I didn't
Speaker 6: know exactly what to think. But the other four it's like, I.
Speaker 3: Try to watch these tapes with respect and the understanding
Speaker 3: of every or he's a professional.
Speaker 6: And I mean the run defense is bad. They don't
Speaker 6: run the ball well at all. If Parsons and Lawrence
Speaker 6: are out there, I'd be like, whoa, those guys are scary, dangerous.
Speaker 6: They could wreck a game for you. But the rest
Speaker 6: of the defensive personnel is bad. And man, I would
Speaker 6: keep a lot of big bodies on the field on
Speaker 6: offense and just wear down a front that's thin and
Speaker 6: not particularly strong, not particularly good. So Dak's are really
Speaker 6: good player kind of as Meryll mentioned, though, I think
Speaker 6: he's a tier two quarterback. He's not Alan or Mahomes
Speaker 6: and just take the whole world on his shoulders and
Speaker 6: could use some help and hasn't been getting a lot
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: To expect is brought to you by Brian Patton and associates.
Speaker 3: It's all about the benefits now, the Guidon situation you mentioned,
Speaker 3: the right tackle is going to need help.
Speaker 6: Steele. Yeah.
Speaker 5: T J.
Speaker 4: Watt had a tough day in Indianapolis.
Speaker 6: His standards. I mean, yeah, but anybody still wasn't a
Speaker 6: great day.
Speaker 3: Two assisted tackles, no sacks. Terrell Austin, the defensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: talked today about how he's getting held. He's gonna get held.
Speaker 3: That's out of their hands. They just have to play
Speaker 3: through it. They got to figure things out. I know
Speaker 3: that he normally plays on that front side J. Watt
Speaker 3: quarterbacks right, and one of the reasons he does that
Speaker 3: is they like him getting his hands up and he
Speaker 3: can pick the ball.
Speaker 5: Off from there.
Speaker 6: I always assumed he was just because he was more comfortable.
Speaker 4: He chases.
Speaker 3: He chases place down so well from the backside running play.
Speaker 3: Would you consider moving him? You know some guys, they
Speaker 3: all move, Okay, most of the great rosters move around.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: You find you find the weak link, you find the
Speaker 3: matchup you can exploit, and you exploit it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Would you consider introducing Tyler Geyton to TJ Watt Sunday night?
Speaker 6: Absolutely and making it a little easier this week? Is
Speaker 6: Herbig's played both sides. He's been your swing guy, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. Leal's been a swing guy, you know,
Speaker 6: so it wouldn't be making high Smith play left handed.
Speaker 6: And Watt play left handed. If you were to switch
Speaker 6: them where Herbigs probably doesn't care one way or another. Actually,
Speaker 6: he was on the drive with us a week or
Speaker 6: so ago and he's like, yeah, I have preferences, but
Speaker 6: I can do either. I assume the reason the Steelers
Speaker 6: don't switch them around Garrett Boso, all these guys, they
Speaker 6: picked the best matchups and switch sides. I always thought
Speaker 6: that was TJ requesting it and being more comfortable and
Speaker 6: better as the quarterbacks right side. That being said, I
Speaker 6: doubt he stinks coming from the other side, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean.
Speaker 4: One think when think you know they have it's not
Speaker 4: like he's anchored on the right side. I mean they
Speaker 4: moved him over a little bit.
Speaker 6: It happens here and there.
Speaker 3: Handful of snaps last week when Harvey went out and
Speaker 3: Leal came in. You've seen him line up as a
Speaker 3: middle linebacker. Sometimes they try to get him, you know,
Speaker 3: a or B gap pressure.
Speaker 6: I just think you think Guiden's that much of a
Speaker 6: fresh fish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: In addition to doing a lot of shows over the
Speaker 3: year with Merrill, I've done a lot with Craig wolf
Speaker 3: Lee and or departed friend Toun Chilkin and he used
Speaker 3: to talk about they never wanted to be the pigeon
Speaker 3: on the offensive line, and if you saw the guy
Speaker 3: moving to get in front of you, yeah, uh oh,
Speaker 3: I'm the target on the pigeon here.
Speaker 4: I mean, this kid's got to be.
Speaker 6: It just reminds me fresh fish right right.
Speaker 4: He did not have a good game against the Giants.
Speaker 6: And now he's gotta be swimming.
Speaker 3: Now he's gonna come out on the road with the
Speaker 3: crowd always a look across the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 3: see the defensive.
Speaker 6: Player of the year towels flying in that place.
Speaker 4: We would I don't know if I want to be
Speaker 4: him right about that.
Speaker 6: If that's the matter, maybe that's why I'm on the
Speaker 6: injury report. Like you said, like you mentioned before, you know,
Speaker 6: the get well card. Maybe he should. We want him
Speaker 6: out there. I think it's the best set of guards
Speaker 6: in the league. I think both these tackles are very vulnerable.
Speaker 6: I mean, Steel to me is not a particularly good
Speaker 6: right tackle either.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy uh still coaching the Dallas Cowboys, and Uh,
Speaker 3: I've always liked Mike.
Speaker 4: I think he's a good coach.
Speaker 6: I thought he's won a lot of games.
Speaker 4: I thought he.
Speaker 3: Kind of fell into the same if trapp is the
Speaker 3: right word that Mike Tomlin has here in Pittsburgh on occasion,
Speaker 3: you know, you win a Super Bowl and you have
Speaker 3: a really good quarterback, and the fan base pretty much
Speaker 3: expects that.
Speaker 4: To happen every year, and it doesn't.
Speaker 3: That's why they have parades when you do it right.
Speaker 3: But you know, I think he got raw deal a
Speaker 3: little bit. In Green Bay Dallas, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: pressure there. He impressed me in this Giants game. He
Speaker 3: went forward on fourth and inches from his own forty
Speaker 3: with ten minutes left in the second quarter and leading
Speaker 3: only seven to six.
Speaker 4: Cowboys converted it.
Speaker 3: And I think one of the reasons why is one
Speaker 3: of the most impressive components of this Dallas team is
Speaker 3: number seventeen kicker Brandon Aubrey sixty five.
Speaker 6: These are two best kickers in the league.
Speaker 3: Sixty five yard field goal against the Ravens. Made another
Speaker 3: sixty yarder in that Giants game. He's got three career
Speaker 3: field goals of sixty plus.
Speaker 6: He's a monster. I mean, I don't know what he's like.
Speaker 6: Built in a lab. He's only missed one this year.
Speaker 6: It was from fifty one ish something like that. Boss
Speaker 6: has only missed one. It was what from sixty two?
Speaker 6: Tucker is starting to fall off and usually do a
Speaker 6: whole lot of special teams talk, but few kickers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is a fact there in this game.
Speaker 6: I mean absolutely.
Speaker 3: It's almost like that old field you used to get
Speaker 3: playing Baltimore you mentioned Tuck, Like when they get to
Speaker 3: the fifty, you start thinking.
Speaker 6: They're getting points.
Speaker 11: Damn, they're in field goal right now. One more first
Speaker 11: down and yeah, they're changed in the scoreboard. Absolutely, no,
Speaker 11: this guy is that good. I mean, Dallas has some faults,
Speaker 11: there's no question, but the kicker is a absolute strength.
Speaker 3: The other thing that stood out to me about this
Speaker 3: Dallas team, in addition to the problems running and stopping
Speaker 3: the run, I mentioned, they didn't have the rookie corner
Speaker 3: Carson for that Giants game. They started Andrew Booth number
Speaker 3: twenty five. He was getting owned by Malik Neighbors. So
Speaker 3: then they started putting Trayvon Diggs on Neighbors.
Speaker 4: Not every down, but most of them.
Speaker 6: He'll kind of follow sometimes right and pickings a lot.
Speaker 3: Then in the second half they went to Amani or
Speaker 3: Uarie Penn State fans will remember him now. He had
Speaker 3: played fifty five career games with Detroit and Jacksonville in
Speaker 3: the league, but he was a practice squad call up
Speaker 3: for Dallas for that game.
Speaker 6: I mean, and now Diggs is on the all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, it just pops up on the injury report.
Speaker 3: I think they have problems at corner, so yes, to
Speaker 3: anticipate without Lawrence and Parsons and given the profound problems
Speaker 3: they've had stopped in the run for the Giants game
Speaker 3: who they held the Giants to one, but.
Speaker 6: They sold out to do it. They sold the Giants
Speaker 6: are a really bad running team. If they sell out again,
Speaker 6: do you come out throwing? I think so, because I
Speaker 6: I don't know where the pass rush comes from. I mean,
Speaker 6: you're missing your two stars. Blitzing Fields hasn't gone well.
Speaker 6: I mean teams used to blitz him like crazy in
Speaker 6: Chicago and he didn't handle it well. Now he's handling
Speaker 6: it quite well, and they have good answers for him.
Speaker 4: Except for that one and anywhere he ran backwards and slip,
Speaker 4: So there was that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's not all I don't have. I
Speaker 6: mean I said the same thing against one week ago.
Speaker 6: Talking about Yeah, I want to keep I want big
Speaker 6: personnel on the field because I want them in their base.
Speaker 6: But that doesn't mean you can't. What do they deal
Speaker 6: with pickings or priormouth or yeah. I But what I'm
Speaker 6: saying about the Colts is I thought there was no
Speaker 6: wrong answer to attacking the Colts, and I was somewhat right,
Speaker 6: but they didn't win. I don't see any wrong answer
Speaker 6: to attacking this defense either.
Speaker 3: Short of Dak Prescott getting hurt and in Dallas having
Speaker 3: a better backup quarterback than starter, which was the case
Speaker 3: in Indianapolis.
Speaker 6: And I don't think that's respect the Cooper rush. I
Speaker 6: don't think that's the case. I'm an highest pay guy
Speaker 6: in the league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna repeat myself and say, this is a game.
Speaker 3: I don't see Pittsburgh losing at home again. If you
Speaker 3: do Tomlin in prime time at home against the after.
Speaker 6: And getting kind of embarrassed in a game that you
Speaker 6: were probably the better team for most snaps, I one
Speaker 6: hundred percent agree. And you're getting Dallas at a really
Speaker 6: good time.
Speaker 3: That's gonna do it for us. Appreciate Meryll joining us
Speaker 3: as he always does. Thanks to Justin Miller, with his
Speaker 3: wizardry at the board keeping everything on the air. And
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