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And the 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.199 quarterback saga in Pittsburgh ever present. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.080 Uh, it won't go away because it's. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.520 Not resolved yet and I'm not sure if we're close 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.280 to a resolution, but I can tell you this. Mike 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.800 Tomlin said on Tuesday that they expected to see more 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.880 from Russell Wilson this week. Yeah, Yeah, more of a workload, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.520 more involvement and well, guess what Russell Wilson talked about 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.959 that after practice today. Russ Mike had told us on 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.800 Tuesday the expectation was to ramp it up this week. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.320 Is that occurring and how's it going. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:17.320 Yeah, you guys are out there. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.679 Yeah, we're definitely ramping it up. It's been good. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.399 I feel great and just getting better every day. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.240 Yeah, definitely been on to hopping the. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.720 Team drills and get more plays and. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.640 Just be able to do that. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.680 That was that's been great this week, and then doing 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:33.280 all the team. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.640 Eleven on eleven and also seven on seven all that 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:36.680 stuff too as well. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:37.960 So it's been good. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.600 Now everybody in the media has been out there shooting 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.920 our videos when they allow us to for the individual 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.280 right position group work, and we've all seen Russell Wilson 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.800 not moving latterly doing ok doing things the quarterbacks do 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.360 throwing the ball, yeah, but like taking third string reps 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.200 and when they do play action boot from under center, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.240 he does gun stationary path. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.560 Okay, so he does different stuff than everybody else. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.960 But you just heard of a moment ago, say he 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:11.240 did eleven on eleven. I think that's a significant shift. 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.680 That's a real shift in the landscape. You concur obviously, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:16.400 no question. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.400 You don't put you out there when you're not healthy 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:19.760 for that kind of stuff, right, So. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.440 What do you think a week or two maybe and uh, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.560 he's declared a viable option or do they do. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.639 You think there's any chance he's the two this week? 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.680 I hadn't thought about it, but that will certainly be 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.840 something to keep an eye on. I mean my initial 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:39.240 suspicion is no, but they don't ask me, right, And. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.679 That's always a weird situation. I mean, well, if he's 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:43.960 the two, why shouldn't he be the one? 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:44.200 You know? 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.720 But I do think if he's the two, I would 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.040 run Fields with a little more reckless abandon you know, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:53.720 knowing that we could go to this guy if he 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.000 gets hurt or whatever, if. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.760 There's something other than be the emergency guy. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.960 And yeah, yeah, yeah, it's interesting. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.440 I mean, yeah, eleven on eleven to me is a 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:04.640 significant step. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.919 It might just be one, but yeah, it's a big one. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.320 It sure seems like he's awful close, whether it's this 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.919 week or next being in the mix, and it's true 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.679 decision time. I think Fields was going to start this game. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.880 I think that's pretty clear at this point on a Thursday. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:23.160 But I really understand both sides. I mean, I'm intrigued 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.800 with both. I'd love to see this offense with Wilson. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.040 He did, he does some good things. It would be 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.960 very slightly different. But I think both players are highly intriguing, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.840 and I don't envy coach Somlin for having to make 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.640 that decision when the time truly comes. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.360 You know, when they acquire Justin Fields, I thought, great move, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.440 doesn't cost you much, great athletic skill set. Maybe you 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.600 take a year and fix this guy. Yeah, and he's 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.920 your option next year because he's ten years a chance, right. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.240 I was also told by people in the league that 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.600 exposure to Wilson and his work ethic and his study 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.960 habits and his general understanding of how to be the quarterback, 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.120 not play the quarterback, but be that was going to 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.720 be beneficial of Justin Fields. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.160 He's gonna have any of that in Chicago. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.040 He has probably come further faster than I would have anticipated. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.240 But that's said. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:16.960 You went out and got Russ for a reason, and 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.960 I think they owe it to themselves to see what 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.320 it looks like with him playing. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.760 But if it's four and one, and the offense keeps 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.440 getting better, and you know what I mean, these are 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:26.159 good problems to have. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.320 That's the tough part of the decision. Fields is in 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.120 line to start again Sunday night against Dallas. It'll be 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.640 his fifth in a row. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.640 He was asked, given the Wilson development today, if Justin 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.880 Fields thought that, well, is there any added pressure or 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.880 is this game maybe an audition to keep the gig? 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.160 Not really, I'm just going to keep doing what I've 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.320 been doing, and whatever decision he makes, he makes at 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.279 the end of the day. So I can only control 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.839 what I do in the field. But now I'm just 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.440 gonna go out there and keep doing what I'm doing. 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.240 So of course we also asked Arthur's Smith, the offensive coordinator, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.839 about this, and this is one of my favorite answers 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.840 of the season. You know, Arthur used to be the 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.880 head coach in Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, he used to have 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:08.880 to deal with this stuff. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:10.360 Not anymore. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.719 That's more question for for coach Tomlin obviously the doctors. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.159 Uh I joke, that's what's more freeing about my job. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.120 Now, don't. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.160 Mike and Gable give me the questions whatever? You know, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.640 decisions they're gonna make, and my job is to executed 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.640 the plan and you know, get the orders right. Mike 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.239 tells me, take Vienna, take Vienna if you get that reference. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.080 So look, every player coming back, whether it's Pro or 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.280 you know, CP or Jalen, you know, as you work 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.039 them back in, you've got to have a customized plan 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.800 or a turn to play, and you know, so that's 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.320 kind of going on the side. And then my focus 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.600 is a who's going to be up? How do we 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.400 put the best plan it could beat Dallas a Sunday night. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.320 You know, full disclosure, I did not get the take 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.720 Vienna reference, and. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.279 I don't know it. I thought he as a military buff, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.360 would I assume it's something that related. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.640 I'm an amateur historian. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:03.359 Yeah yeah. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.080 World War One I'm pretty good. Civil War I'm pretty good. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.280 World War two really good. Okay, this is a Napoleon. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.000 Oh okay, if you're gonna take Vienna, take Vienna. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.680 I loved his answer too, though, I mean, like it's 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.279 coming from a former head coach. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:23.680 He was smiling. Why but I don't have to it's 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 not above my pay grade. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.920 But that's awesome, you know, I don't think it would 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.080 Wilson's still not up to snuff health wise, but that 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.159 day's coming once they clear them. It can't take long. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.400 He's been doing this his whole life. I mean, it's 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:39.679 not like he's gonna need a month. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.200 To row Wilson, I think. I mean, it wouldn't take 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.000 long for the decision. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.440 No, Yah, once I get I don't know how you know, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.760 if it's next week or the week after, he's probably 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.240 ready then oh. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.520 I would think, so if you want, if you want 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.440 to play him, and then it's true decision time. But 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.080 keep gathering information on fields in the meantime, and like 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.800 I said a couple of minutes ago, he's further along 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.880 than I would expect it after five games now. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.000 In addition to Wilson being limited today for the second 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.840 consecutive day, no Jalen Warren knee for the second straight day, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:12.760 no Alex high Smith with his groin, no Michael Pruett knee, 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:18.920 no Corderio Patterson ankle. Line was pretty short of running back. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.760 I bet, how do you like the Harvard kid? Not 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.400 as much as the other two that didn't participate today. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.240 I'd love to see more of Warren and I mean 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.160 Patterson's intriguing, But I thought Warren's been their best back 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.080 for two years in a row. I mean, I think 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.680 he's been missed in a big way. Nick Herbig went 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.880 he was a slight upgrade from did not practice too 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.160 limited today. Mike Tomlin had said at the outset of 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.920 the week that they, you know, it might be some 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.400 limitations early, but push him too hard. He was less 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.680 of a concern. Larry Ogan job he showed up today 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.920 is limited with a groin. I'm gonna assume that's, you know, taking. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.720 Short of veteran, taking care of a veteran. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.760 And I mean he's for a couple of years now, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.080 he's played more than he's practiced, or so it is. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.400 But he's but the groin designation's new, right. Yes, it's 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.200 not a rest, you know, but he has been good. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.600 He's been real good, been real good. The whole front 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.120 has been good. Dallas, Are you worry about Herbig? Not 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.760 particularly Okay, I thought he was pretty safe to play. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:19.760 Heismith's not going to play. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.440 But I'm not right, And I'd probably like to see 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:23.880 a little more out of the marvel leale than I 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.080 saw in Indianapolis. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.200 And Moon could be back in the mix right. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.000 Well, the window has started. They have twenty one days. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.240 He started practicing this week, so they have twenty one 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.920 days to activate him off of reserve injured or leave 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.000 him there for the rest of the year. Two days 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.840 of full participation. He's something of a veteran. I mean he's. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.719 Been on fields, he's been in stadiums. Is oh yeah, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:47.560 right right. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.040 So maybe, I mean might they might need some depth 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.840 at outside linebacker. Dallas has got some issues. They really 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.200 do as well. Cornerback Colleen Carson, rookie fifth rounder out 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.480 of Wake Forest. He's been limited for the last two 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.160 days with a shoulder. Did not play in the Thursday 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.400 night victory over the New York Football Giants a week ago. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.240 Brandon Cook's wide receiver knee hasn't practiced yet this week. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.000 Michael Parson's ankle hasn't practiced yet this week. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.160 I don't think anybody's anticipating he's gonna. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.880 Play or Corks. I think Cook's been rolled out too. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.640 Trayvon Diggs showed up with an ankle as limited today, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.199 and Tyler Goeyiton their left tackle rookie out of Oklahoma. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.800 He was a full participant today, but they list him 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.200 as having a shoulder injury. I would think the Steelers 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:37.400 are sending get well soon cards to Tyler Geyiton. He's 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.880 an interesting player because you know, I want that guy 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.480 playing a fund of Steelers. Absolutely, and Dale's been mentioned 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.000 it a few times that maybe getting Cam Hayward to 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.360 bump a little further away from the ball and bull 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.680 rush Geiton could be really profitable this week. He's a 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.240 promising prospect. I liked him a lot coming out. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.680 But pretty suspect right now. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.240 Yeah, he is and doesn't deal with power all that well, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.439 you know, and he's switching sides too. He's a right 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:01.320 tackle turn left. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.080 Steelers Preview is brought to you in part by the 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.320 Steelers Pro Shop. 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But both of these 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.640 teams are sorting through some stuff. And as we continue 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.199 to do that in advance of Sunday Nights game, it's 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:18.679 time to. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.920 Call on the Factor back, Merril Hodge. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.080 Joining us as he always does here on the preview. Merril, 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.800 I'm gonna hit you with a deep dive here to 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:33.320 start things out, because the quarterback talk continues to be 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.120 all the rage here in town. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.280 Everybody wondering has. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.839 Justin Field's done enough to win the job. Do they 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.480 need to turn to Russell Wilson at some point. How 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.360 close is Russell Wilson to actually playing I want to 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.080 keep it real field specific to open things up here, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.240 how is he played in these first four games relative 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.760 to how you thought he'd play? And then part B, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.439 how is he playing if they had to play Josh 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.600 Allen or Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs tomorrow? 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:03.679 Would you feel about that? 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:05.880 Well? 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.319 Actually, I feel okay with Patrick Mahomes right now and 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.480 even maybe even Josh Allen a little bit with where 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.320 their offense is because those are some of the best 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.600 offenses in football. Right now, I know I'm gonna I'm digressing, 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.320 then I'll get back to your answer question. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.640 I love your digression digress away. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.680 So I will tell you this. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:32.080 The Washington Redskins offense is terrific, the the Lions offense 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.400 is is terrific. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.520 And there's one other offense that's gonna come to me 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:38.280 here in a second. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.520 I think there's some of the best offenses in football, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.840 and the two that you mentioned earlier couldn't hold couldn't 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:50.120 couldn't play with those offenses Buffalo or Kansas City. Now, okay, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:54.640 that's being said, How's justin played. He's played exactly like 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.280 I thought he would play, and they're doing exactly what 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.840 they should do with him based on the experience that 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.559 he has and where his skill set is. Because I 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.679 think I don't I don't have said this before. I 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.120 don't think people understand it enough. This kid has had 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.880 an offensive coordinator, a new office coordinator, and every year 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:12.439 he's played. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.599 And he started Ohio State, Okay, son, he played a 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.400 year there. They went to Chicago, three years, three coordinators, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.000 and now new coordinator. He can I don't care. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.360 Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.319 None of those guys would have been developed in their 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.520 third year where they were eventually developed, had they kept 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.120 changing systems. Okay, Now I'm not making excuses. I'm just 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.600 saying those are raw facts, and he is a very 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:42.080 raw player. He does he hasn't taken some steps from an. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.720 Anticipation aspect of the game. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.120 What's interesting is he'll throw it outside the numbers with 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.520 some anticipation, but he won't throw it inside the numbers. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.280 And I and I can tell his doubt any I 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:53.839 can tell he. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.600 Just you know, he just doesn't trust it enough. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.720 Okay, that might be he never. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.079 Gets over that or it might get the more reps 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.079 and the more he plays, eventually he'll start doing it. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.920 So I mean, so I guess you know you're asking me, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.040 and I'm not sitting in those mean rooms. And I 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.960 know how this is from a coaching perspective too. Okay, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.600 I might be saying, you know, call Russell Wilson's experience, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.840 I can I can open this offense a little more 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.600 with Russell Wilson. Okay, Now I'm beings coach going that 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.160 you can saying that, Okay, I knew everything that Justin 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.760 has been doing, and I might be able to advance 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.800 a little more as far as throwing the football. Now, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.920 I also have to consider Justin gets us out of 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.240 some trouble too athletically. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.760 You know, he does some things that Russell can't. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:41.520 So is that wash or are those pluses or minuses 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.640 worth making the change at three and one? 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.280 You know, And that's a hard decision, you know, and one. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.360 I understand both sides. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.520 Yeah, I clearly would too. And those guys are sitting 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:53.920 in that mediu. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:54.760 I'm just telling they got. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.640 A massive advantage, you know, because you're with those guys 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:58.200 all the time. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.200 And that's what I clearly. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 Don't have the luxury of making that. That's why I'm 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.800 just trying to be as fair and honest as I 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.080 can with with whatever decision is made. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.400 I can understand it, Merril. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.640 Those are the other two things I count on from you, digressions, 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.320 fairness and honesty. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.520 You've checked everybody. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:19.360 It makes it. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.360 It makes it a clean show. 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:21.280 We like about. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.720 So but it'll be interesting what they do. It really 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:28.600 will be interesting. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.920 So it looks I don't know about unlikely, but there's 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.840 a chance Warren and Patterson aren't going to be playing 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.960 this week, which nause. He's always handled a big workload. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.200 He's capable of a big workload, but his efficiency this 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.920 year has been really poor. I mean yards for carry 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.800 getting hit behind the line of scrimmage an awful lot. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.440 What would you do to get him back on track 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.520 or to make him more comfortable as a runner. Do 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.120 you think all this zone stuff is not his bag? 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:56.720 Well? I can. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.480 I can tell you this what we talked about on 0:15:58.520 --> 0:15:59.200 the morning show. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:01.600 You know, when. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:03.840 Would they change? 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.080 They went man blocking schemes and he wasn't in there, 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:07.960 and that's where they hit a lot of big runs. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.600 And I knew exactly what was going to happen. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.800 They're like, oh, you know, the runner gets all the credit. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.840 You know, of course, nobody knows that they changed. They 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.840 changed what they did. They did some you know, different 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.840 things because they weren't having that much success. You know, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.360 you got to give to the I'll tell you this, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:22.360 I didn't. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:23.080 I did not think the. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.200 Colts would play like that up front. They hadn't really 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:30.760 played like that against anybody all year. So you know, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.600 but you know that's why you know, you number undrest 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.440 them a professional, not after they've been embarrassed, but when 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.280 they know they have to stop something to neutralize an offense. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.040 You know, they knew if they could do that, had 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:45.640 been embarrassed for a couple of weeks there. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.480 Yeah, so that has the Cowboys. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.200 Yes, So you know, so that'd be said. I you know, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.480 you did say. The one thing that as I Todd 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.200 his rookie year was probably the most impressing thing is 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.040 that age played almost every dawn. Third downs included, and 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.240 third bounds the hardest in football, not just just from 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:07.119 a mental perspective. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.600 You understand pressures and all the things that. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.919 You've got to do, and really, that guy. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.080 If you're good enough and I thought, nag, was you 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.679 got offset some mistakes that are going to happen up 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.280 front because those guys have people in their face quickly 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.119 and they make the mistakes. You got to just to that. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.320 And I thought instinctively, he knew how to do those things. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.240 So they're not going to be in trouble, you know, 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.280 because it's just him. And you know, I think that 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.280 maybe just talk about him, you know, you know, not 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.680 having the yards he is, that that will work its 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.080 way out because he's going to be on the field 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:39.400 probably all the time. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.800 Mar We've done a lot of shows together for a 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.560 lot of years, particularly this one for several years now, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.000 and I honestly I sit here and I listen to 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.680 you talk, and I take what you say to heart. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.560 You just mentioned one of your standards, never underestimated professional, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.920 who's embarrassed. You always emphasize you got to run the 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.760 ball and set the tone. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.240 And I buy this stuff. I eat it with a spoon. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.000 And another thing that you have continually. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:12.639 Emphasized is running quarterbacks don't win the Super Bowl. So 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.600 getting back to getting back to fields, Actually this is 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.400 going to sound contradictory. I actually want to see him 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.760 use his legs more on design runs. I don't think 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.080 they're taking advantage of his best asset. But my question 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.520 to you is a couple of plays he made it indy, 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.520 he kind of got out of the pocket and threw one. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:29.720 Deep hit pick. It's great. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.080 I looked like at least one of his tds was 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.840 a scramble down near the goal line. Both both both 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.120