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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: your home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive on Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's a Tuesday here in Pittsburgh and it is a

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Speaker 1: it's a nice day. Big storm coming from what I

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Speaker 1: hear though, big storm coming. And uh, the Steelers, Um,

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Speaker 1: they couldn't really lose last night depending on what happened

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Speaker 1: with that Ravens Brown's game. That just was ridiculous. If

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Speaker 1: the if, the if the Browns lost the game, right,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers now their magic numbers now one they just

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Speaker 1: need they just need a win or Brown's lost and

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Speaker 1: they clinched the division. If the Ravens lost and the

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Speaker 1: Ravens were in deep trouble in the playoff race, yeah,

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Speaker 1: big time trouble and have a very good chance not

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Speaker 1: to get in there. So they couldn't lose in that situation.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't lose. It's funny. I thought about it more and

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Speaker 1: a lot of conversations with my buddies before the game

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Speaker 1: who were rooting for all that, and I prioritized it

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Speaker 1: like this that if you're the Steelers, I thought before

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Speaker 1: the game. Priority number one was win the division. Right,

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Speaker 1: so now you're down to a magic number of one

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Speaker 1: with the Bengals on in front of you, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win the division nine point nine. The second thing

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see was make Week seventeen not matter.

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Speaker 1: That's potential is really there, you know, and and maybe

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Speaker 1: that means you fall to the three seat and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: goes past you. So what you know, if you can

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Speaker 1: rest everybody or at least have the luxury to decide

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Speaker 1: to I think that's huge. And then the third priority

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Speaker 1: be it would be great for the Ravens not to

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Speaker 1: go to the the playoffs because they're good, and they were

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Speaker 1: I see, I think they were gonna go regardless because

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Speaker 1: even if they lost that game, they're probably they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be favored in each one of their final three games,

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Speaker 1: so they were gonna get the ten wins. So then

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Speaker 1: you're counting on that on the Dolphins, who aren't playing

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Speaker 1: great to win out. You know, they gotta go to

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Speaker 1: the gonna go to Oakland. They gotta play the Bills

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Speaker 1: the Patriots this week too. Yeah, I mean that's not

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Speaker 1: that's a toss up. So I mean the way I

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Speaker 1: saw it was both of those teams are going to

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Speaker 1: be in the playoffs. Those were two playoff teams last night,

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Speaker 1: and they may meet again, which would be fun. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So what you really wanted if you're you know, you

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Speaker 1: want to clinch, as you said, clinch the division first.

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Speaker 1: That's the first and foremost. And now that's basically done.

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Speaker 1: Now the pressure is off a little, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you still gotta win a game, but the pressures then

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Speaker 1: kind of a week and they could lose Cincinnati, but

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Speaker 1: they they're not. I don't see any possible way they

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Speaker 1: could lose a Cincinnati. I'm sorry. The defense looks so

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Speaker 1: healthy now there, well, not so healthy, but healthy yard

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Speaker 1: if they if they had if they had to resign

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Speaker 1: Paxton Lynch this week and play him against the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: I would pick the Steelers and their chances. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals of the worst in the league. So that

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Speaker 1: worked out great last night. Yeah, I mean, I would

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Speaker 1: love to see the Steelers be able to rest or

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Speaker 1: moderately rest people in Week seventeen. They look like they

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Speaker 1: need it now. I expect them to come out with

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Speaker 1: more gusto and juice on Monday night, and maybe I

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Speaker 1: won't be harpered on that as much after that. But

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Speaker 1: I bet Ben wouldn't mind sitting down for a half

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that would be a nice luxury

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Speaker 1: considering home field advantage of playoffs. To me, he's not

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Speaker 1: that big a deal. I looked at that game last

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Speaker 1: night as well, and I texted you this after the game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Browns now play the Giants next Sunday night. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that because they're playing the Giants, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I necessarily trust the Giants. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: Browns are gonna struggle in that game. I would think

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be an emotional letdown. I would think so.

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Speaker 1: And I remember, and you know, we sat down with

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Speaker 1: Labs at trading camp. It was the year they just signed.

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Speaker 1: It was the off season right when they signed O'Dell

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Speaker 1: now they were the Vegas odds favorite to win the North,

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Speaker 1: you know, like and Labs is like, look at all

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Speaker 1: these pretty new parts they got. Oh yeah, Baker was

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Speaker 1: you know, had his eight game rookie streak that he

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Speaker 1: got to do that five times over the course of

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Speaker 1: the year. You know, little things like that that you

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Speaker 1: just don't think about that a new coach at the

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Speaker 1: things like that. You're right, I mean, you play a

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Speaker 1: very good Giants defense. This week it could be let

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Speaker 1: But it looked like Jones shouldn't have been back in

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Speaker 1: time to yea, look like he should have probably sat

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Speaker 1: him another week. But because they're in the playoff race,

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Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. They don't, well, he's healthy

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Speaker 1: enough to play, let's play him. And that wasn't you know,

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Speaker 1: but they did some good things against Arizona's offense. They did,

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Speaker 1: they did, I mean they did. Arizona didn't move the

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Speaker 1: the runs. Yeah, and that's great Against the Browns. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they have those big horses in the middle of that defense.

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Speaker 1: They're hard to move and I would imagine Bradbury will

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Speaker 1: than Landry. I mean it's not like it's an Adell situation,

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Speaker 1: and Odell's not even really missed. But that was a

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Speaker 1: fun game last night. I mean, even if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: it was just a blast to watch. And you and

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Speaker 1: I texted a bunch, as we always do on Monday nights.

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Speaker 1: And some things I took away from it was Lamar

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Speaker 1: only a Baker credit because I killed the guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he had a one really bad pick that should have

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Speaker 1: been a pick six, But two weeks in a row

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Speaker 1: now he's throwing the ball very very well. But we

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Speaker 1: also texted back and forth too, like everyone's talking about

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Speaker 1: how great this game was and justin Tucker wins it

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Speaker 1: and Lamar and all the heroics. These are these defenses

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Speaker 1: they gave up The only thing that kept them from

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Speaker 1: and it's probably not close. It's probably not close. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, and they even this isn't necessarily the same.

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Speaker 1: But before the two minute drill to end the half,

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Speaker 1: falling down in the pod. It wasn't like because Miles

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Speaker 1: Garrett was whipping people left night. He was falling down

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Speaker 1: he was like Bambi on skin, you know on the ice.

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Speaker 1: Uh brings me the question did the did the Ravens

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Speaker 1: as much win that game as the Browns lost it?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I thought it was a

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Speaker 1: pretty even fight. Boy, A kicker advantage is big in

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Speaker 1: a game like that or any close playoff caliber game.

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Speaker 1: It makes you But they made they made some key

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Speaker 1: mistakes down the street. I see what you're saying, and

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Speaker 1: I don't disagree with it. You know, it's one of

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Speaker 1: those teams is better at winning football games in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you don't. They just don't know how to finish off

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, don't think the Dolphins can do that either,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't trust the Cardinals in a game like that.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't trust Oakland in a game like that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, you know, you have to learn how

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Speaker 1: to have You have to learn. You have to learn

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Speaker 1: how to walk in those games before you can run.

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Speaker 1: Yere's the NBA example. A lot you know, like the

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Speaker 1: Pistons were that way and then they did it to

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Speaker 1: Jordan's and then Jordan's got over the hump after a

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Speaker 1: and the same thing happened to Lemieux. I mean, like great,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing, you know. I know Lamar Jackson hasn't

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Speaker 1: had his playoff success and you know, maybe maybe this

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Speaker 1: they're passing games awful. It's bad. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews. I think is really important. It's Mark Andrews

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Speaker 1: had the big play, but he had three drops at

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Speaker 1: you know Steeler two yard out type stuff. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't you can't expect him to catch the stuff

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Speaker 1: down the field when he can't catch a five yard out. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Like they want to play Dez Bryant. They can't wait

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Speaker 1: to get there. They're not happy he can't get on

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Speaker 1: the field. I mean that's where they're at, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think their lines coming together a little, but it's

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Speaker 1: hard to tell and protection because they never throw and

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Speaker 1: the sacks didn't really count. But so I do think

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Speaker 1: their lines coming around a little, but they live up

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Speaker 1: up almost five yards, right, I mean, you think that

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Speaker 1: defense is really good? It's okay. I thought that that

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Speaker 1: That to me was the most disappointing thing. I thought

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Speaker 1: that their defense would would control what Cleveland did. I

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Speaker 1: with bl too, right, And that really didn't happen, No,

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Speaker 1: it didn't. And again I think the Browns offense deserve

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Speaker 1: some credit for that too. Like we were talking a

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Speaker 1: little bit off the air, I think Higgins and People's

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Speaker 1: or snaps better than I thought. You know, I thought

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Speaker 1: they'd be really short of pass catchers. And Baker's playing

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Speaker 1: he's clearly their best corner, Marcus. If Marcus Peters had

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale, I'll here with Matt Williamson and Matt. Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin held his press conference today. Um didn't really talk

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Speaker 1: in a past mode, and that's just not you know,

425
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Speaker 1: there's no sense of beating Connor up anymore when you

426
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 1: think you're gonna need him and he's not the receiver

427
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: that Samuel's is. I mean, Samuel's is a better receiver,

428
00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 1: and you know that's not smells strong points. So it's

429
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 1: not sells wrong point. But I don't know. I mean,

430
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Speaker 1: I guess I get it. It's just not optable to

431
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 1: me in terms of getting the best people. The less

432
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Speaker 1: time he plays the better in my opinion. But that's

433
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: Terrell Edmonds as a shoulder, uh chooks, a core for

434
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Speaker 1: us an ankle. They're all these guys are all expected

435
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: to play as as as well as I was really concerned. Yeah,

436
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: and then they were down to five offensive linement and

437
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 1: one of them was Gerald Hawkins, so they were down

438
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: to four and a half offensive lineman. Yeah, he's another

439
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 1: one doesn't see the field anymore. Yeah, um, but yeah,

440
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 1: I mean that's so it's not, you know, as bad

441
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Speaker 1: as it look coming out of that game against the

442
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: Bills with with dots and two days rest for this one.

443
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean, like this compared to what they've gone through,

444
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Speaker 1: this is like a long week. This is like a

445
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: semi bible. I bet some guys slept really long today.

446
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you know, and just stay away from the

447
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,959
Speaker 1: facility for a while, getting mind right, Deante, You know,

448
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: as much as you can and you still to come

449
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 1: in and get tested for that kind of stuff. But something, Yeah,

450
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: I know, if you can't do things anymore, but UM

451
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 1: old line questions for you. Fidler's out if Dotson can't go,

452
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: Do you think Gray starts probably? Yeah. I like the

453
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 1: sound of that better. Yeah. I mean it's it's kind

454
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Speaker 1: of just short. I had scouting, but hosses so little

455
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: for guard. Its tiny, and he hasn't been impressed with.

456
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: To me, I just rather take the bird and whatever

457
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: is behind door number two. He's adequate at center. I

458
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: don't want to play the card a big picture. They

459
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: now have two unrestricted free agents that are on injury reserve.

460
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 1: Are you still super interested in both? Do you think

461
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 1: you get a deal on either? Feiler didn't have a

462
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: great year. I mean I expect a little more. I've

463
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: got some numbers here on let's let's dig into this. Um.

464
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Speaker 1: If you look at the run numbers, and I know

465
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Speaker 1: that's what everybody's concerned about, every the thing, and everybody says, well,

466
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Speaker 1: they need if they just run the ball when they're

467
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Speaker 1: under center, they'll be much more effective. I think that's

468
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: they've run the ball. They've run the ball a hundred

469
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Speaker 1: three times while under center this year for two yards. Yeah, yeah,

470
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: not so good. They've run the ball out of the

471
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Speaker 1: shotgun a hundred twenty six times for five and fifty

472
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Speaker 1: eight yards. Okay, Now in when they've been under center,

473
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: runs to the left tackle, they've got they've run thirteen

474
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Speaker 1: times for seventeen yards. Runs to left guard, they've run

475
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Speaker 1: twenty two times for thirty one yards in one touchdown.

476
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Speaker 1: Runs straight up the middle behind the center. It's thirty

477
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Speaker 1: five eighty eight and three touchdowns. That's your quick plunges.

478
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Speaker 1: Uh to right guard under center seventeen for thirty five

479
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Speaker 1: and right to right tackle sixteen for one oh three

480
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Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. You said, what's the difference there, Well,

481
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: most of the time the right tackle, that's your strong side.

482
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Speaker 1: You have that, you have the tight end, they're right,

483
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Speaker 1: not extra lineman lined up next to him. Okay, way

484
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 1: to right. Yeah, when it's under when they're out of

485
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Speaker 1: the shotgun, it flip flops left tackle runs eighteen for

486
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Speaker 1: a touchdown, that's five point two yards. And carry that

487
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Speaker 1: small sample size left guard thirty carries for a hundred

488
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: and ninety three yards a six point four average. Right

489
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: right two center thirty seven for one thirty seven. It's

490
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Speaker 1: a three point seven yards per carry average, right guard

491
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Speaker 1: seventy eight three point one and right tackle sixteen for

492
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Speaker 1: fifty seven, and a touchdown um three point six. Okay,

493
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: I mean obviously better from shotgun period. They're better period

494
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Speaker 1: from the shotgun, and secondly when they're running to the

495
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: These are things like when the way I'm looking at this,

496
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, what can they do to fix this offense?

497
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: Is I'm writing writing a story that will that will

498
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Speaker 1: move later tonight on on d K Pittsburgh sports dot

499
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Speaker 1: Com breaking all this stuff down. They know this, opposing

500
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Speaker 1: teams know this, and I'll have some more. We'll talk

501
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: later about some of the deep passing game as well.

502
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: I guess some numbers on that that, yeah, we can

503
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Speaker 1: do that in the next segment. But so if you

504
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: if you have an idea, the problem has been the

505
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: Castra has missed three games, Posy missed two games. On

506
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Speaker 1: the COVID list. Now you're without Filer. Uh, you lost

507
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: your starting right tackle banner at the start of the season.

508
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of moving parts on that.

509
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: On the offensive line, when they were at their best,

510
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: they had settled in on you know, these starting five

511
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: and let's go in the last month. You know, Posy's

512
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: misses two games now, filers, it's it's just kind of snow.

513
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Speaker 1: Doesn't make it hard. They've had a remarkable continuity over

514
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Speaker 1: the last five six years on the offensive line compared

515
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Speaker 1: to other teams, and that's a great, great strength. This year,

516
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Speaker 1: it's been tested on a week to week basis of

517
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Speaker 1: knowing who's playing next to you, especially on the interior um.

518
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Speaker 1: As for just a quick note, I want to mention

519
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Speaker 1: why you're talking there too. Shotgun runs in short yardage

520
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: make me crazy. Yeah, I mean, I'm still old school

521
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Speaker 1: that and you know a lot of those runs, a

522
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Speaker 1: lot of those runs under center or under center our

523
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: short yardage situations. So yeah, you're not gonna average as much,

524
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, but you still see across the league where

525
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: people are in shotgun on the one yard line and stuff.

526
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: I'm I'm old school thinking that way. You know, get

527
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: close to the line, don't have a long developing play.

528
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: But clearly this team and every team runs very well

529
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: out of the shotgun. Now you get different angles, you know,

530
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: you're already in a little bit more space. You give

531
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Speaker 1: your you know, you give your quarterback and running back

532
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: a chance to you know, if the quarterbacks is the

533
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you know, he's got to look around

534
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: to see where everybody's at. Maybe, but if you're back

535
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: five or seven yards, you get a better view of defense.

536
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: Who's who's creeping up, who's you know, what's this? What's that?

537
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: Same thing for the running back, you're you know, okay,

538
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: I don't have the quarterback blocking my view here, I'm looking.

539
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: We're seeing the same things right beside me. You know,

540
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: we can we can communicate, Hey, that guy's coming up.

541
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: You know, there's all kinds of things that are the

542
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: world The years of operating out the eye or split backs,

543
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,439
Speaker 1: I mean, like ain't happening, guys, right, I mean, it's

544
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: gonna be shotgun with the sidecard, you know. And it works,

545
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: I mean, and clearly it helps the passing game as well. Yeah,

546
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: it also keeps the defensive. Now we're gonna put you know,

547
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: ten in the box here because but that's the other problem.

548
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: Because the Steelers are so reliant on the short passing game,

549
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 1: defenses aren't stepping out of the box, right they get

550
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: to back him out of that. They have to back

551
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 1: him out of it. A deep and intermediate passing game

552
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: would help the running game dramatically and help the offense dramatically.

553
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 1: Um the reason that they don't run the ball is

554
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: so such a long list. I mean, I do feel

555
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: like the offensive line is not moving bodies in the

556
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: run game as well as they have in the past.

557
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: Their peripheral blockers are bad, and that starts with Ibron.

558
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the worst running backs of

559
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: rooms in the world in the league. And there hasn't

560
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: been much continuity there either. You know, they don't have

561
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: a guy hit Tom and talks about all the time

562
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: he's get one guy and get him going, and they

563
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: know how to block for him and leves in there

564
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: every time, and it starts to roll. They've also showed

565
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: no commitment to it, you know, which because their job

566
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: is to win games and they don't trust it to

567
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: win right now. So and I'm sure when in doubt

568
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: Ben checks the pass. Yeah, just yeah. Again, if if

569
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: you're Roethlisberger and you're saying, okay, there's they got ten guys, yeah, yeah,

570
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 1: you're your your automatic check is well we get throw here.

571
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: What's starting to worry me? That we didn't talk about

572
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: yesterday though, is we're also seeing a lot more press

573
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: man coverage and I know that's not ju ju strength.

574
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: Claypool struggling a little with it too, and maybe he

575
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: just doesn't have quite the same spring in his legs.

576
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: And that's the problem. When you take Deante Johnson out

577
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: of the game. He's the one guy that can beat

578
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: press coverage and well, he ke's dropping the football, But

579
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: he's dropping the football, right, He's always the constant and

580
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: I think Washington has gotten better about it too long.

581
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: Arms he's physical, he gets people off his body, and

582
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: he's been around the block a little bit more compared

583
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: to Playpool. So that compounds the problem because we're gonna

584
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: get people act the line of scrimmage, pressing you to

585
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: take away the timing routes that that's all you're doing,

586
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: So why run into that heavy box? You know? Yeah,

587
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: So you know, there there are a lot of issues,

588
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: are there's these are things that they can work out,

589
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: you know. There there are some teams that just aren't

590
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that. You know, there are

591
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: certain teams that can you know, Baltimore with their cornerbacks,

592
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: they can play you that way, and it's gonna cause

593
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: you some problems. Um, but the thing is you got

594
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: to make them pay once in a while, right, you

595
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: get Claypool a step and and if you look at

596
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, if you look at the first Baltimore game

597
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: when both teams had all their guys, while the Steelers

598
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: didn't hit any of those plays down the field, they've

599
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: got some past interference penalties, which has has the same

600
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: effect does and they're so common in today's it's a

601
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: little frustrating. You know, the Ravens had some last night.

602
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: You know, they're grabby and so you're gonna get some

603
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: penalties against them so that you know, you can that

604
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: can work in your favor as well. What they didn't

605
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: get any of those taking shots you usually paid at

606
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: least is something because even if it's a pick and

607
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: it's forty yards on field, it's an arm pot. You know,

608
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: it's not that big a deal. Now, not all interceptions

609
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: are created equal. So to me, that's the underreported problem.

610
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: It's to me that is the problem in the offense

611
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: is the lack of a deep passing game because everything

612
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: would fall off of that maybe you know, maybe you

613
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't run the ball for a d fifty yards a game,

614
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: but you run for more than you know that that

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Speaker 1: would that would help. So let's let's talk about that

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Speaker 1: when we come back. I've got some more numbers for

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Speaker 1: you here. We'll talk about those right after this. He's

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Alli. You're listening to the Drive

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Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. Your tunes about Drive on

620
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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. So, man,

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Speaker 1: I did some digging today in our friend, our friend

622
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Speaker 1: Warren Sharp, but his his website really helped. I was

623
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: able to find a lot of the same numbers that

624
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: I got from on the Running Game site. He's got

625
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: two sites, one of them free and has all this

626
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: information on it, early down, success rate, stuff like that.

627
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Speaker 1: And I was able to dig up the deep passing

628
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Speaker 1: game stats as well. And there's some troubling stuff here.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna steal your words, but we've kind of beat

630
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Speaker 1: around the bush a little bit. This is big a

631
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Speaker 1: problem as the Running Game, if not more. It's the biggest,

632
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: bigger trickle down effect than the other way around. It's

633
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: the biggest problem with their offense. Period ahead take away

634
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Speaker 1: on deep passes down the rights are down the left

635
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: side of the field, so to the quarterbacks left Ben Roth,

636
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: they've complete in fourteen of twenty six for four and

637
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: thirteen yards one touchdown. It's no interceptions. That's a that's

638
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: a hundred and eleven passer rating. How do you define deep?

639
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: Is it twenty and over? I think it's I think

640
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: on there it's like fifteen and over. But completions but

641
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: so but still that's all. Yeah, if you're stretching the field, uh,

642
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: down the middle five for fourteen for one sixty four,

643
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, two interceptions, but sticks out to me is

644
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: fourteens too lotterly. The dominators are problem. Yeah, they're they're

645
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: ignoring the middle of the field. Uh and they're but

646
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: they're having some success there when they do go there.

647
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: But as you see that the two interceptions, that's why

648
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: they are not going there because that's also where you

649
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: put the ball more harms, it gets out overthrow or

650
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: something like that, it turns into interception. And I don't

651
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: mean to steal your thunder here because you've really good stuff,

652
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 1: but it's much safer to throw the sideline pass, and

653
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: most of their deep balls are all goes. Just to me,

654
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: it's a little worrisome. I don't know if they're afraid

655
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: to ben or you're afraid to put it in traffic

656
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: because they're not arm strength throws there, you know, safe throws,

657
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: you know, and people know they're coming down the right

658
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: side of the field. They've attempted forty three passes down

659
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: the right side of the field, which is more than

660
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: they've attempted in the deep middle or deep left. They've

661
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: they've attempted forty to the deep middle and deep left.

662
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: They've completed five for a hundred and twenty three yards,

663
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: one touchdown, two interceptions. You've tried attempts there, and you

664
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: have that's passer rating on those like that. That's and

665
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: everyone gets a picture in their head, I mean, drops backs,

666
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: looks to his right, knows he's going there. Sometimes you

667
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: get single coverage sometimes with the safety whatever and clanks

668
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: off someone's hands or falls out of bounds or overthrown.

669
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: In this case last week it was underthrown Washington. Um,

670
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: it's really bad production in that the field. Obviously, here's

671
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: the thing. Okay, So to Chase Claypool is the primary

672
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: guy that they go deep to, particularly on the right side. Obviously, Uh,

673
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: he's he's gone. They've gone deep to him eighteen times

674
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: down the right side of the field for three catches

675
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: eighty one yards and one touchdown. Three catches on eighteen attempts.

676
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: Uh the middle, it's two for two for four for

677
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: sixty five and a touchdown yeah. And then down the

678
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: left side lines two for six for one twenty a touchdown.

679
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: Of course, that one was the eighty yard or that

680
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: he had. Okay. Deante Johnson four for eight for one eleven,

681
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: hasn't scored down the left side, but four for eight

682
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: for one eleven. Down the middle, one for two for

683
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: twenty eight and it was a touchdown yeah. And then

684
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: down the right side, oh for seven, no touchdowns in

685
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: an interception of James Washington. Has only gotten four deep

686
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: balls this year. There are one for two on both

687
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: of them, one one down the one for two down

688
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: the left side for twenty seven yard game, one for

689
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: two down the in the deep middle for nineteen yards,

690
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 1: one touchdown, one interception, Eric Ebron. This is why folks,

691
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: when people say bench Rick Ebron, they can't do it,

692
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: because then you can't solve your problem. Deep balls to

693
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: the left to Eric Ebron five of eight from one

694
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: oh six. It's pretty good. He's a tight end. He's

695
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: a tight end down the middle. It's one for three

696
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: for twenty one yards. You need more of that, more

697
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: of that, uh, down the right side, one for one

698
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: for one for twenty four yards. He's been their most

699
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: effective downfield guy because typically he's usually on a linebacker

700
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: or a safety. Ben's make capable of making those throws

701
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: you know, showing and so they're not and those aren't

702
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: go routes. Those are those are? Those are seams, are

703
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: crossers or whatever something you know, an outside you know,

704
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: a corner throw or something like that. That I mean,

705
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: there's a rule of thumb in this league too. I

706
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: mentioned how they throw so often go balls outside the numbers. Well,

707
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: you're usually getting their best corner too. Yeah, I didn't

708
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: mention that part. I mean, it's not a safety, it's

709
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: not a linebacker. You're getting someone that covers for a living,

710
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: usually with some length. You know that aren't little guys. Um.

711
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: I mean, how many posts have they run this year?

712
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: Deep post? It feels like none, you know what I mean?

713
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: Like you see that as a staple touchdown the Washington

714
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: on on against the Bills, was I guess technically a

715
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: deep I mean it's a nineteen yard post route where

716
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: he stuck it in there. It's like a real skinny

717
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: night there was a designed in breaking Rounte at least

718
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: right um, you know, Juju out of the slot two

719
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 1: for two forty nine yards See out of the slot

720
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: is where I keep the wheels keep turning. Like we're

721
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: sitting there watching Chief's highlights on NFL network, and they

722
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: motion Tyreek the slot and burn him right down the

723
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: middle of the field. Now they don't have Tyreek Hill.

724
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying that, but if Jujus on

725
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: a slot corner, if he's on a Mike Hilton, he's

726
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 1: gonna run past him the higher percentage of the time,

727
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: or you know, Ebron down the middle. But they're not

728
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: attempting the middle of the field throws intermediate or long

729
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 1: and I think that needs to change. But it also

730
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: makes you wander in the back of your head. Do

731
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: they think Ben can't do it? You know? Is that? Yeah?

732
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: And that's the thing I mean, you know, And and

733
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: if he can't do it, then it's not fixable. It's

734
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: not fixable, right right right, And you might have to

735
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: find new quarterback next year. Right, if he can and

736
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: you're not doing it because you're you're afraid to do it,

737
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: then that's a different conversation. It's time to take a

738
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: step back and say we need to start making the

739
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 1: tempting them throws because opposing defenses know this too. Yes,

740
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: they're looking at these same numbers and going what they're

741
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: five for forty three throwing deep balls to the right.

742
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna let him keep doing that all day. Oh,

743
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: you just think about it. I'd love to think about

744
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: it because last year we talked about this all the time,

745
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 1: like what are the first meetings? What what are Cincinnati's

746
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: defensive coaches telling their guys right now? Well, they all

747
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: abandon the run quick, guys. We we were a little

748
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: bit stout early on against the run. Let's press them

749
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: because everything's gonna come out quick. When they take a

750
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: deep shot, it's gonna be right down the right sideline.

751
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: So if your guy gets a release on you and

752
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: to start running, he's going he's going deep right, or hey,

753
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: that's safety, it's over the top. If Ben looks right,

754
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: he's probably going deep right. But the rest of stuff,

755
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: and I will say this, Clay Pool is drawn eight

756
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: pass interference penalties, which leads the league. That has a

757
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: lot of value to that's a good point. But when

758
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: they don't get those, they're not getting the completions either,

759
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: and so you know that has to change. And I

760
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: don't again, I think the defenses know that. So you

761
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: shade your safety to the left side of the field

762
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: and you say, well, you know, if they want to

763
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: throw the ball the right, fine, we're gonna keep our

764
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: leverage and everything to you know leverage. You know, they

765
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: keep them from going to the left. We're not going

766
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: to show them anything that says, hey, you can throw

767
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: the ball to the left right. Oh yeah, you don't

768
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: beg them to do it because I don't want to

769
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 1: do it, an they don't want to do it, so,

770
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: you know, I think it makes them. It makes them

771
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: just kind of one dimensional in terms of the passing game.

772
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: Extremely they just don't attack enough blades of grass. Yeah,

773
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's too much of the

774
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: field they're not using. It's one of the benefits you

775
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: have is it's a big field and there's a lot

776
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: of geometry you can use in this big field with

777
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: route combinations and attacking different levels. And they're not attacking

778
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: enough blades and Roethlisberg. I've seen him make enough of

779
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: these intermediate Uh here comes a guy, uh, you know,

780
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: across the across the middle and make those throws for

781
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: me to say he can't do it. He made one

782
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: to I think it was the juju on Sunday against

783
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: the Bills. Um that you know, he manipulated the linebacker,

784
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: threw it right in over his head. We've seen him

785
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: make those throws to the ebron as well, where he

786
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: just throws it over the linebacker's head and it's a

787
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen to twenty yard game. He can make

788
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: those throws. And you mentioned the yesterday. You mentioned it,

789
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the skinny post at Washington scored on

790
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: was a laser in a tiny little spot, you know,

791
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: like if it were if it were twenty five yards

792
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: down the field, it would have been a touchdown. If

793
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: it were thirty five yards down the field, it would

794
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: have been a touchdown. Yeah, he'd still be running. So

795
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: I'm not really in the camp that Ben's arm is shot. No,

796
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: I'm not either. I'm not. I worry a little bit

797
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: about the combination of elbow surgery late in the year

798
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: at his age. No matter what, because orderbacks fall apart

799
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: in December that are old, and he had a lot

800
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: of lower body stuff, including some things this year, and

801
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: that's where you generate a lot of torque, you know.

802
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: So maybe all those things are contributing to not being

803
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: able to gun fifteen armstrength throws, you know, but you

804
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: don't need you don't need fifteen you need to get

805
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: You hit two of them early in the game and

806
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: the defense goes, oh, I guess we better back off

807
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, because I don't think it's he

808
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: can't do it. I just think he's maybe I'm just

809
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: being I go back to this game in the first

810
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: game against Cincinnati. He was He made those shows against

811
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 1: Cincinnati in the first But we don't know if he's

812
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: dealing with something, you know what I mean. They're not

813
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: listening to money injury report. They didn't know the Jason

814
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 1: Lackham for report. The Steelers are really concerned about his

815
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: his leg. They didn't list him on an injury report

816
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 1: last week at a leg issue at all. So, you know,

817
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: is he feeling some aches and pains at this point

818
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: in the season. Absolutely, thirty eight years old, ten years ago,

819
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: we absolutely right, Um, you know, that's just the reality

820
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: of the situation. That doesn't you know, might he possibly

821
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: get something cleaned up at the end of the year, Absolutely,

822
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: but so will twenty five other guys on this team.

823
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: But who cares? You still attack those blades of grass? Yeah,

824
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: you have to. You have to attack the book out

825
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: on you. You got to rewrite it. And so if

826
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm the Steelers, I'm looking at and they have analytics

827
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: people who look at this stuff. This isn't just me

828
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: figuring these things out some dumb reporter. If you know

829
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: this is I guarantee they get reports on this stuff.

830
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: And if they don't, shame on them. But I guarantee

831
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: you they get reports on this every week. Here's what

832
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: you're doing, here's what here's what our numbers are. So

833
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: you break this down, you say, well, how can we

834
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: attack this, how can we how can we change how

835
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,919
Speaker 1: can we change this? It's much like the offensive line

836
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: stuff we see where we're having our most success running

837
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: the ball. We we saw you know, we've seen them

838
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: toss out all these long developing run plays. They don't

839
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: they haven't run those as much the last few weeks. Well,

840
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: now I'll make the change with this stuff. You even

841
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: mentioned warrnt are his his pay sight. He has all

842
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: these heat maps, you know, like I haven't really dug

843
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: too much into him, but I think you can pull

844
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: up Juju's heat map, and this is where most of

845
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: us catches are. This is you know, these are all

846
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: the areas that are green and not hot at all.

847
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: Or I think you pull up quarterback ones or the

848
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: next gen stats. You see all their throws. You put

849
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: them all on top of each other and say, well

850
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: they're yeah, it's like seeing you know, Okay, I'm I'm

851
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, getting ready to play somebody in basketball. Where

852
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: is he like to shoot at? Ye, he likes that corner. Okay,

853
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: well we're gonna keep him out of that corner. Don't

854
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: let him get to the corner. I don't care if

855
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: left right, there's one spot he loves, just don't give

856
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,959
Speaker 1: them that right. And the Steelers have one spot they love,

857
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: which tour people up earlier in the the year. People get

858
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: that too. Yeah, and a couple of you know, fewer drops.

859
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: It would be better than it is right now too.

860
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: It's still you don't have to scrap that that works

861
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: really well. But I think in the end you can

862
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: send all the messages you want. And I understand Tomlin

863
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: saying we're gonna with people on the bench to drop

864
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: the ball, and he was right to do so. But

865
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: Deonte and Ebron have to play. They have to play,

866
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: and that's the that's the problem. You have to get

867
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: them out of this funk, and you're gonna die with them.

868
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: The problem. The problem with that was is that Johnson

869
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: dropped two of his first three passes. You threatened it,

870
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: now you gotta do it. If you don't do it,

871
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: everybody's like people were already screaming, when is he gonna

872
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 1: get benched? You know, Ebron barely played in the first

873
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: half of that game, and you saw what you saw

874
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: what the offense looked like without Ebron and Johnson on

875
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: the field, score seven points. There are the guys that

876
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: people don't want on the field, and you're trotting out

877
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: there to the Hawkins and Mclouds of the world. What

878
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: if you're gonna leave Jane on the sideline? Thanks um,

879
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong, though, too, Even before Deonte

880
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: was sat down, they were peppering them with targets after

881
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: coming off a game. He dropped them like a million

882
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: So like they know he's a a B. He's a guy,

883
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: but he's a He's the guy that that is the

884
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: best after the catch. He's the guy they can get

885
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: open on his own leader, yeah, against or his own

886
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: That's why he gets pepper but target. It's not because

887
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: well Ben likes him more. No, because he's the best,

888
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: because he's the best guy. He's the guy that gets

889
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: open the most. He's their best offensive player. I mean,

890
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: I think that's clear. I mean a quarterback aside or

891
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: you don't know how you wreck those things. But I

892
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: would rather lost anybody than him on the office. You know.

893
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: And and Claypool has got all kinds of ability, but

894
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: don't forget he's a rookie and you know he he

895
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 1: has a really bright future. But I think he's wearing

896
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: down a little, and he's playing special teams and he's

897
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: you know, he's doing him now too. By the way,

898
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of tape on this guy.

899
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: He's gonna I don't know enough about releases off the

900
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, but I bet there's some jam that

901
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: he doesn't like that he can't get off right now.

902
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 1: You know that whatever it is, some corner him. We

903
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: saw him catching training camp, And I know you weren't

904
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: over there, but in camp we saw him time after

905
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: time just go up over top of people and catch football's. Um,

906
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that in a game. Yeah. Um, you

907
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: know if he goes down ten yards down the field

908
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: in the corners on him, just throw it up high

909
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: let him go get it. Yeah. So I thought you're

910
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: in a different direction with that, but you're right. They

911
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 1: haven't given him the opportunity to do it as much

912
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: and maybe even by the goal line throw him a

913
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: jump ball. I know that they haven't really done that

914
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: with him, me that they've only thrown him at the

915
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone a few times. Like it's

916
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: I was thinking the opposite though, Like it's been a

917
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: month or so that I've said, wow, that's an athlete,

918
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: like because he slowly down a little bit, you know,

919
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. And all these questions need to be answered,

920
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: but a long week against the Bengals could answer all

921
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: of them. That's the thing. I mean. I think this

922
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: is a game where you need to regain some of

923
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: that confidence in some of these things. Yeah, And that

924
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I want to I want to see him

925
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: throw fifteen passes down the right sideline because they haven't

926
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: been hitting them. No, don't go opposite direction. Yeah, work

927
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: on some of these other things. Show that you can

928
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: do that. Show you can work the deep middle. Show

929
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: you can work the the deep left. And then if

930
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: you hit you know a couple of those things, if

931
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: you get up, then take your shot down the right side. See.

932
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: I don't think gets a chicken or egg situation either

933
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 1: when you say deep passing game verse run game, because

934
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: the run game is not going to succeed the way

935
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: that defenses are playing. Tassing game could, which could open

936
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: up the run game where I'm sure some people are like,

937
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: well if you could get that run game, go and

938
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: then you take your play action shot. I don't think

939
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: it's a chicken or egg thing. I think the only

940
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: passing game has to happen for it has to work.

941
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: It has to you have to get that part fixed,

942
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: get to threaten more. So, therefore you need to you

943
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: need to create some of these mismatches. And whether that

944
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: be Ebrun down the middle, whether that whoever it may be,

945
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: they have guys. Yeah, you know, it just can't be. Okay,

946
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: clay pools on the fields. We're gonna chuck at deep

947
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: till right. That's that's a little predictable with him to

948
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I just haven't seen him on a

949
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: deep end breaking route or you know, deep crossers or

950
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: you know comebacks and things like that too, you know,

951
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: like threatened between the numbers a little bit more. Yeah,

952
00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: I agree, he is. Matt Williamson. I'm Dale. You're listening

953
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: to the Drive here. Yeah, we just fixed it. You're

954
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: listening to Steelers Nation Radio at the Drive. We're gonna

955
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: take a break. When we come back. It's time for

956
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Focus. It's waiver day. We'll get to

957
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: that right after this. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly

958
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: and Matt Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold

959
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here with

960
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. It's time for the Fantasy Football Focus. Hopefully

961
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: you moved on in your in your aim this week.

962
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: You're into the semifinals where you're starting, you're just starting

963
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: maybe just starting your playoffs, depending on your fanily uh

964
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: and you might be looking for some helpt edge something

965
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: and don't just sit on your hands. Yeah, this is

966
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: the time of year. I don't care what you did

967
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: that got you here? Don't fall in love. Well, you

968
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: know this guy got me here, so I gotta keep

969
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,879
Speaker 1: playing Kyler. Kyler Murray is a perfect example. I've played.

970
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: I started Kyler Murray all year long. He carried me here.

971
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: If he's not playing well and they rung is not

972
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: a strategy to right. If there's some at a better

973
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: matchup or a better something they got, you know, cut loose,

974
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: go with it. Yeah. Absolutely, I used this example a lot.

975
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: Is last year, at this time, well right when the

976
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: season ended, the ESPN always puts out these are the

977
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 1: guys that were on the most Super Bowl winning teams.

978
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: And you think it's McCaffrey and Lamar because they were

979
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: great picks for where they were last year and they

980
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: were on a lot obviously they got him there. But

981
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 1: the guys that were the top of the list were

982
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee and Brashod Perryman because and they were late pickups. Yeah,

983
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: or you could have picked them up in you know,

984
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: November or right before it happened. Right, that's the matters.

985
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: So looking at the UH this week's waiver wire, at

986
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, it's pretty much picked over. But Philip

987
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: Rivers still just roster league decent matchups to Yeah, Hilton's

988
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: come on, Yeah, Hilton's gives him another target there that

989
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: you know they're able to throw the ball. Matthew Stafford

990
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: only roster in fifty eight percent of leagues, although he's

991
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: dealing with an issue. He may not play this week,

992
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: in which case you got a downgrade all of your everybody. Yeah,

993
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: but it's swift. I'm not sure if Golliday will come

994
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: back at all this year, but that's something the monitor.

995
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: Swift is always Swift helps. Yeah, Jalen Hurts. He's roster

996
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: in six percent of leagues. He's going to run. Um,

997
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: he's a cheat code. Yeah, Like he's startable. Now, he's

998
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: not gonna go out and throw it with you know,

999
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: two yards for you. But if he throws for one

1000
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: fifty and runs for eighty and one of the one

1001
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: of his runs is for a touchdown and he throws it,

1002
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: that's that's a good Fantasy day. If Taysom Hill startable

1003
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 1: hurts the Startable, absolutely, they're the same guy, the same guy.

1004
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,439
Speaker 1: He may even throw the ball a little better than Hill. Uh.

1005
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: Derek Carr's the only roster and seven percent of leagues. Yeah,

1006
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: he checks down still a lot, but yeah, I mean

1007
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: it's not so bad. They played Chargers on Thursday night,

1008
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: so that's that's one too. I guess that's good. Yeah,

1009
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: but then you gotta jump on him now instead of

1010
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: waiting and seeing if Stafford's healthy year you know. Yeah, uh,

1011
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater or roster and two percent of leagues. I

1012
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: think I'm done with Teddy. They're playing Green Bay on Saturday.

1013
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: That's just there's some Saturday here. Just that's here, the

1014
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: thing to keep an eye on. They're gonna be behind

1015
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: in that game. They will, and so he's gonna have

1016
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: to throw the football. I wonder if d J. Moore

1017
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: will be back. McCaffrey's not. I would expect d J.

1018
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: Moore back. That was that was a COVID issue. I

1019
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: think it's one. Yeah, I mean, Anderson has been great.

1020
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just not a believer in Teddy's game,

1021
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: and I'm prejudice against him for fantasy. I don't love

1022
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: I mean I picked him up. I did spots start

1023
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 1: him once this year when they were playing the Falcons,

1024
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: and it was okay, yeah he won't kill you, Yeah,

1025
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: no he won't. But he's not gonna necessarily win you

1026
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: the week. Either, don't expect a lot of rushing yards.

1027
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: But if you've got somebody, let's say you got uh,

1028
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: I don't know who who's even got what matchups this week?

1029
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: But if you have a tough summer, Cousins has a

1030
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: bad one. I forget who's the Bears, you know, and

1031
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: it's kind of slowed down a little bit more. If

1032
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: you get a bad weather game, that that that's do

1033
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: you have to pay attention to that this time of

1034
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: year too. Running back Jeff Wilson roster nine percent of leagues.

1035
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: That's all dependent on most Are. He was dinged up.

1036
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: Most are to the guy to me, but Wilson has

1037
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: value with most and Wilson seems to be the guy

1038
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: they want to run at the goal line and those

1039
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,359
Speaker 1: kind of things. It's like, yeah, but if most are

1040
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: doesn't play Wilson's gold, Yeah, that's a tough one. Now,

1041
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: that is a tough one. Carlos Hyde roster and twenty

1042
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: seven percent of leagues. Now, last week he didn't quite

1043
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: split her. Two weeks ago, he didn't quite split as

1044
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: many carries with Chris Carson. This week he did this week.

1045
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: It was more of a fifty fifties kind of split.

1046
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: Now they were they were playing the Jets. I mean,

1047
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: but he had seventeen carries for seventeen touches for eighty

1048
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: eight yards. Like, Hides are pretty good player too, Like

1049
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: I know, they're one of those things bags that the

1050
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: guy that, to me is like the biggest failure. If

1051
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Steelers this year, guys like that

1052
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: were available, Yeah for nothing, for nothing, you know, you

1053
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: don't have to pay for the Carlos Hides. I don't

1054
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: even know what he's making, but it's probably nothing much

1055
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: more than one point five and we can come up

1056
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: with five. They're just like him. Yeah, you know if

1057
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: you had Carlos Hide and James Conner on your roster

1058
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: and last year too, yeah, I mean it's two years

1059
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: in a row. You could have used that guy. I

1060
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: think you mentioned you get what you pay for if

1061
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 1: they the cheapest running back room in the in the league.

1062
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that's by design, you know, because you're

1063
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: using it elsewhere. But you had cap space is she

1064
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: had a little bit of caps face. Hides not great,

1065
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: but they would kill for Hide right now. Absolutely, when

1066
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: their leading rusher of the last couple weeks for sure,

1067
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: But Peyton Barber's rosters on nine percent of leagues. Um.

1068
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: Their offense is so bad though, I know, but he

1069
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: four touches last week. It's almost a Frank Gore. Their

1070
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: quarterback doesn't rhyme, and he's better than Frank Gore. He's

1071
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 1: better than is Gibson ever coming back. I don't think

1072
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: he plays again this week. Yeah, for running back. I

1073
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: mean they may be at this point, like, hey, if

1074
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: we can get by here, we might be still win

1075
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: the division if we can get Gibson back for the playoffs.

1076
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: So be it. Um. I guess Barber is usable. I'd

1077
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: rather mkissic mkissic. Yeah, mckissic. They had about the same

1078
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: number of touches last week. Obviously mckissic did a little

1079
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: bit more with his touches for when they get down

1080
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: to the goal Line's gonna be Barber. Yeah. Their offenses

1081
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything. They've been winning despite their offense. You're

1082
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: interested at all in trey Vin Williams or some JP.

1083
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: Ryan talked a little bit about p Ryan last week.

1084
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 1: Williams got more touches this past game. I think Williams

1085
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: is the guy there. Yeah, So sneaky. Yes, he can

1086
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: catch the ball a little bit. He's kind of a

1087
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: geo ish type player. And just in mold um brutal matchup.

1088
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not gonna move the ball. They're not

1089
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: gonna move the ball at all against the Steelers. I

1090
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 1: would not be interested in either one of those guys

1091
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: this week. I don't know who, since he has next week,

1092
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: but maybe you pick him up and don't play him

1093
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: this week and if you have an injury or two

1094
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: and you're happy to pick him up a week at

1095
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: a time. Now, what about DeAndre Washington? Roster leagues? And

1096
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: that was a late, late scratch. Miles Gaskin went on

1097
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: the COVID list Sunday morning. He's yeah, he won't be out.

1098
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: Salvon Achmed still injured. Play the Pats. I don't fear

1099
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: of the Pats defense at all, especially against the rod

1100
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: And you know Washington will catch the football. He will.

1101
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: They're really hurting for weapons right now. Parker's out, Kaseki

1102
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: might be Washington might be an RB two this like

1103
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these other guys are all like flex plays.

1104
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: He might be an RB two this week based on

1105
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: the based on volume. One thing Miami under floor. Has

1106
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: is shown too, is that they use one guy whoever

1107
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: does that game. He gets a high percentage of touches

1108
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: for running backs. So yeah, I pick him up break

1109
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: in a minute. Yeah, frankly, he might be the guy

1110
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: if you're you're hurting everywhere else. That's I kind of

1111
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: like them coming out of school too. Like, he's not

1112
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: a special player, but sars could use him to you,

1113
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: He's not bad at the wide receiver position. Tim Patrick's

1114
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: still rostered in just twenty eight percent of leagues. That's

1115
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: a little surprising. Yeah, he's got a good usable and

1116
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,280
Speaker 1: throws the ball downfield. They're playing the Bills this week.

1117
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: That's not a good defense. No, I think I think

1118
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: they can take advantage of that. No, I think Patrick's usable. Um,

1119
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about this guy over the week,

1120
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilar should he's thirty thirty percent ownership. He's our

1121
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: number one receiver in a pretty good offense. I mean, yeah,

1122
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: I think he's a wide receiver three Like he's a

1123
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: I don't say he's an every week starter, but he's

1124
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: a very startable wide receiver for fantasy. Kiki is now

1125
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: rostered in percent of leagues. He had one good game

1126
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: and now you only got three targets last week? What

1127
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: about the other guy pushed him around the line of scrimmage?

1128
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 1: Who is it? Allen Hanson? Hanson, I'm sorry, Hanson. Hanson

1129
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: is a little bit more physically stout and able to

1130
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,919
Speaker 1: handle the press coverage and things. It's just a bet

1131
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: on Watson, which is a good guy to bet on. Right,

1132
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: They're really bad football team, right there. Sean Higgins owned

1133
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: in eleven percent of leagues. I like what I saw

1134
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: from him. There has been a lot of rumors. I

1135
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: don't think it happened yet, but Cleveland's talking about extending

1136
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: and I can see why. I mean, I think he's

1137
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: a really good three in the NFL and fill in

1138
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: two and maybe better. I like them. They play the

1139
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: Giants this week. That could be a weather game. He'll

1140
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: get I would assume he'll he'll get. Um. I bet

1141
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: number two receivers do well against the Giants because Landry,

1142
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: we'll get Bradbury unless he's in. But they don't go

1143
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: three wide very often, right, That's the thing. Um. Jalen

1144
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: Reagor still in in twenty two percent of leagues. I'm

1145
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: sort of intrigued because I just like I love it

1146
00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: though with that offense with right they're just not gonna

1147
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: throw it around all that much. I mean like he

1148
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: kills Goddard, he kills rds. I don't want any of

1149
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: their pass catchers. Here's one to keep an eye on.

1150
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: See what happens with him, because he's now eligible to

1151
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: come off of I r John Brown ownership if he

1152
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: if he comes off. In fact, even if he doesn't

1153
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: come off yet, you know that may be a situation

1154
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: where they wait until later in the week. You don't know,

1155
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: we don't know. Um, you got to your super Bowl.

1156
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: You might be really really happy. This Dolphins situation is

1157
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: a mess. Uh Lynn Bowden and Mac Collins one and

1158
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: zero percent ownership bound. I like a little yeah, because

1159
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: what's cool about him? In some leagues you can start

1160
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: him receiver or running back. He's not a running back

1161
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: at all. He is their slot receiver now right by

1162
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: default they traded for him. He has He's had a

1163
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: lot of Randall Cobb stuff to him. You'll him throw

1164
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: a pass, you know he can do that once in

1165
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: a while too. You know, like they don't play they

1166
00:58:57,600 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: play the Patriots. I'm not saying run out and start him,

1167
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: but pay attention to the guy. He got nine targets

1168
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: last week. He had eight catches for eighty two yards.

1169
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: He's not a bad football player. Who was They gonna

1170
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 1: throw the ball somewhere. Yeah, and they're easy throats for

1171
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: tow two is all about getting it out. Now, that's

1172
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: slot receiver, you know, slot machine heaven. Yeah. Uh, Laviska

1173
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: Channault and Keeling Cole six percent ownership and twenty percent ownership.

1174
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: Cole went off after after you know, they made the

1175
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks which will announced Minshew period. Chnault went had eleven targets,

1176
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: Cole had twelve. DJ Shark had just two. Yeah, I'm

1177
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: sorry he had not He had nine targets but two

1178
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: catches for it's a d J. Chark type game. Yeah,

1179
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: I think they're all useful. I think Cole's over Chennault.

1180
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: They play the Ravens. Yeah, I would think Humphrey will

1181
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: be on Chark a lot, except for in the slot,

1182
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: which leads me then, Okay, who's gonna get Jimmy Smith

1183
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: in these situations? Um? Uh, these guys, Cause I don't know,

1184
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to touch that past. Yeah,

1185
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,959
Speaker 1: I've been burnt by Charc all year because I really

1186
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: loved how he played last year, but charged by Chark,

1187
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 1: charred by Chart. Yeah, I think i've the respect cale

1188
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: a little bit though. Yeah, I brushed him off every

1189
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: time you bring him up. But I shouldn't. Russell Gage

1190
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: eleven percent ownership. I doubt they rushed Julio back. He's

1191
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: five for eighty two last week at eight targets. Yeah,

1192
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna throw the football. He's out a

1193
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: decent year. Yeah, he's been He's been serviceable when he's played. Uh,

1194
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: there's your Chad Hansen um twelve catches for hundred and

1195
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: fifty seven yards over the last two weeks. Ownership is two.

1196
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: I think he should be he should be owned. He's

1197
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: gonna get eight targets. I bet maybe a lot demere

1198
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: bird his roster and three percent of leagues. It's almost

1199
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: at this point it looks like he has surpassed He's

1200
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: the number He's now the number one guy. Yeah, lucky.

1201
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: Though they have Miami this week. I don't love their

1202
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: passing game. And no, they don't throw the ball. Ever,

1203
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: you're interested at all in a j Green? No? Maybe

1204
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: if they didn't play the Steelers this week. I think

1205
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: about it, but no, they're gonna struggle. They're gonna struggle

1206
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: tight ends Cole Commet six percent ownership. He looks good. Yeah,

1207
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: I mean Jimmy Graham is They kind of looking at

1208
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: him in the near the end zone, which kills the

1209
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: tight end. It's not a high volume guy, but I

1210
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: think Commet's got a bright future. Yeah, and so it

1211
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: could be kind of usable. I could get lucky. This

1212
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: is the guy we talked about last week in case

1213
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph didn't play, and once you know what, he

1214
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: goes off four for sixty three and a touchdown. Smith

1215
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm Smith. Yeah, I've always wanted to say that, and

1216
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: I never was confident enough to. Yeah, they don't have

1217
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: a third receiver. They don't. The tight end possession is

1218
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: such a mess right now. I mean he's the third

1219
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: target in that offense. Talented, you can you can even

1220
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: get you a big play here and there. No, I

1221
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: like Urf Smith. Yeah, they play the bar this week.

1222
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 1: The Bears haven't exactly done well against the tight end.

1223
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 1: Uh Dalton Schultz ownership. Um, he had three for fifty

1224
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: last week. I mean he just Smith has such a

1225
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: higher stealing. Yeah, I like it. Harrison Bryant one percent ownership.

1226
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: He's a good player. I mean I think he's a hit.

1227
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: It's not a huge He's don't get many targets. No,

1228
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: that's that's the problem. They don't throw the ball enough.

1229
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: Here's a guy who just keeps seemed to find the

1230
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: end zone four times in the last four weeks. Dan Arnold, Yeah,

1231
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: tight ends actually a part of their offense. People don't

1232
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: understand that. And he's not a terrible athlete. They look

1233
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: his way in the end zone. He probably won't catch

1234
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: another touchdown, but he might. You know, were touchdown passes

1235
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: in four weeks that Larry's really there tight end too,

1236
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: and he's been out. The problem is he's only got

1237
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 1: six catches. Yeah, so it's almost like you need him

1238
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: in a scoring legal right zero for sure? Yeah? Um?

1239
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: And really that's it, Uh, Troy Fumengali. If Noah Fanse

1240
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: is out, I guess I mean maybe in DFS for nothing,

1241
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, but that's he's just

1242
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 1: not playable. I'd rather play any of those other guys

1243
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: that were just talking about. Yeah, he's a real NFL backup.

1244
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: If a three, Yeah, that'll do it for the Fantasy

1245
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: Football focus. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're

1246
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. It's Tuesday,

1247
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: that means that is h rankings day. We'll go over

1248
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: those right after this your tunes about drive on Home

1249
01:03:37,960 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

1250
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson. It's time to

1251
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: go through this week's power rankings. And you can imagine

1252
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers are dropping a little bit more this ye

1253
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: it was a little hard on him. Um these of

1254
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: course Dan Handis's rankings that could go through every week

1255
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Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com, and uh well, Dan unchanged. The

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Speaker 1: number thirty two team is the New York Football Jets.

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Speaker 1: Can we call them the coming off that performance last week?

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Speaker 1: That's right? I mean the Jets are you know, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't no, that was just that might have been the

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Speaker 1: worst performances, might have been the worst performance of the year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's hard to argue. Yeah, it's bad. I had him

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Speaker 1: thirty one because they almost beat the Raiders, but they

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Speaker 1: had a ticked off Seattle team and I think it

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Speaker 1: Jets are have made all their golf reservations and Vaka.

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Speaker 1: They're not. Uh. Thirty one is the Jaguars. The Jags

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Speaker 1: beat the crap out of the Bengals, I believe, so yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but those three are the obvious bottom tier to me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then of course the Bengals at thirty. Um, I

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Speaker 1: think there's two now in their own tiers. Don't If

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Speaker 1: he agrees, I'm curious what he is. Houston at nine

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Speaker 1: one of them, and then Detroit. I have Carolina. I

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Speaker 1: think Carolina and Houston are both well. He has Carolina seven,

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Speaker 1: So it's been competitive. I think I Detroit reasonably higher

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Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, they're five and eight. They did win

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Speaker 1: and beat the Bears last week. They're just not they're

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Speaker 1: not good. But I mean Panthers and Houston never win. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they get They got Tennessee this week. Oh it should

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Speaker 1: be bad Derrick Henry could run for three hundred yards

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Speaker 1: in that game. He might. He might if it's if

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Speaker 1: it's close, if Stafford doesn't play, it only be one

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Speaker 1: fifty because we'll get him out of there quickly enough.

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Speaker 1: That uh number twenty six up three spots Chicago Bears.

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01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: Baby broke that losing streak six and seven. They're in it.

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01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: There's a decent win. And we've talked about Trabiski is

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Speaker 1: not horrible right now. But yeah, they're but they're not good. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Number twenty five up three spots, Dallas Philadelphia four eight

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Speaker 1: and one half game at the first place. It was

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Speaker 1: nicer to them that than that. I think. I think

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Speaker 1: I Dallas behind them the Cardinals this week. Cardinals are

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Speaker 1: going the wrong Yeah, going the wrong way with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: They've a nice game though they rebounded last week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big Cardinal believer. You know. Twenty four

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Speaker 1: is Dallas. Yeah. Uh, they're four and nine. I mean,

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Speaker 1: beating the Bengals didn't move them. No, that guy rocking

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Speaker 1: them up the list. Twenty three Atlanta down two spots.

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Speaker 1: They're falling apart. That was a That game against the

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Speaker 1: Chargers was you win, you win, you win. Neither one

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Speaker 1: of us know how or to Now they're falling apart.

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Speaker 1: They have no running four and nine. Uh. The Charges

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01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: move up three spots at twenty two with that big victory,

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Speaker 1: they're now four and nine. Gotta put it ahead Atlanta. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is my thing with Justin Herbert. Yes, he's a

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01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: nice talent, and he looks. He's not winning any games.

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01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 1: And their defense isn't horrible. It's not one thing. It's

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01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: really changed too, especially since Ekeler has been back, which

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01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: is three weeks in a row. They never throw the

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Speaker 1: ball down the field night now it's just dumping. I'll

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01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: dumping the Heckler. It's all. It's like the Steelers are worse.

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01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:24,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all short. Yeah, Mike Williams might as

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01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: well not even he's hurt to start the game too. Yeah,

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01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:30,600
Speaker 1: every time he's just running wind sprints. You're not gonna yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco falls a spot to twenty one at five

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Speaker 1: and eight. Yeah, a quarterbacks has been exposed. Uh. Denver

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01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: up up four spots to. It's not over for them.

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01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 1: They're not going anywhere, but they're playing better. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: should rise up, they like Yeah, uh nineteen. The Giants

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01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: fall at five and eight. They had a really bad game.

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01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: They played poorly quarterback and we've talked about that. He

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01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: came back to early. It came back to early. A

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Speaker 1: lot of turnovers, a lot of sacks. I think they're

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Speaker 1: better than that. Though. New England follows a spot to

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Speaker 1: eighteen at six and seven. That might still be being

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01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: kind and that might be tough to argue with any

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Speaker 1: of those teams and then being better. This is the thing.

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Speaker 1: There's no middle ground this year in the NFL, Like

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Speaker 1: New England to me is yeah, they're a bad team.

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Speaker 1: They're a bad football team. They beat some bad teams. Um,

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01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 1: the Vikings fall to seventeen at six and seven. They

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Speaker 1: a tough week, but they missed a lot of kicks

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Speaker 1: and I think they can play with anybody. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't hold that against them. To the Raiders fall three

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Speaker 1: sputs of sixteen and second, Yeah, the Raiders are They're done.

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01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:36,839
Speaker 1: Weeks been really bad. They fired the defensive coordinator. Defense

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Speaker 1: is horrific. I got that. I got that question on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Well don't the Steelers do that? You know they can

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01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: fire accurt and like doesn't So you're holding you're holding

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01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: the Raiders up as your pantheon. This is what you

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Speaker 1: want maybe to do what they've done right? Uh. Number

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Speaker 1: fifteen team we haven't mentioned yet, the Washington football team

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Speaker 1: six and seven. I think that's exactly where I had

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Speaker 1: them to. Their defense is exceptional, it really is. Their

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Speaker 1: offense gets worse every week though, yeah, I mean, you know,

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01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: they're maybe maybe they get Alex Smith back this way,

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Speaker 1: maybe at least one. I think too defensive scores Miami

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: at fourteen at eight and five, I dropped them a little.

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01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: They don't have a ton I think I had him

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Speaker 1: at twelve and moved them to like fourteen or five. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he didn't move them at all. That that

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Speaker 1: was just staying where you're at thirteen. Arizona seven. I

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01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: stopped them a little because looks healthier. I think Miami

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01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: would beat Arizona, would you do? I think I think

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01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: Arizona would struggle to move the ball against Miami. Get

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01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 1: Miami the coaching edge. Yeah, I think they would too. Yeah,

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01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: I think they I think they would beat them. I

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Speaker 1: was really hard on Arizona before this time last week,

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Speaker 1: so I bumped them up. Tampa Bay Fall Winds and

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Speaker 1: Falls two spots to number twelve. Rough. I do think

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01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: these next my hunches, the next five or six teams

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01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 1: are all gonna be very similar and they're hard to

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Speaker 1: bunch up. But it's a little rough. On Tampa No. Eleven,

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans at nine and four. I had the

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Speaker 1: Browns below those two teams number ten the Colts. Then

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Speaker 1: three of those nine and four the Browns fall spot

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Speaker 1: to nine and four their nine. The Browns have beaten

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Speaker 1: the Colts and Titans know that the nuts that that matters,

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Speaker 1: but it matters. I mean I had Baltimore behind those

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Speaker 1: teams too. Number eight up a spot is Baltimore. It's

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01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: a good win that's coming around that game last night.

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01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's all fired up about the game last

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Speaker 1: There wasn't a lick of defense played in that game,

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Speaker 1: not a lick. And they're passing game isn't good. It

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01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,560
Speaker 1: was like a seven on seven pass slash running game.

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01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:43,719
Speaker 1: Right now. I had those guys at like ten and eleven,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore and Cleveland. Number seven the Seahawks. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: I think I had the Steelers in the seven. Wow,

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01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: you're really rough, rough a couple of bad weeks in

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01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,840
Speaker 1: a row. Number six the Rams at the nine and

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01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 1: four Rams at two. I don't know if I'd go

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01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: that far. We'll see who who would you pick? These

1380
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: Saints are down big whoop, they beat they beat the Patriots.

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01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 1: Picking the number two teams really hard for me. I

1382
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: get that. But number five he has the Steelers falling

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01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: two spots number four. The Bills got the Bills three.

1384
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,720
Speaker 1: I was torn between the Bills and Rams. At number two.

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01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: He dropped the Saints down a spot to three. They

1386
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: lost to the Eagles, and they don't throw the ball.

1387
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: I was harder on them than I moved them to.

1388
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: Like five is number two Green Bay. It's a solid pick.

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01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: I mean, they're the number two, they're the They're the

1390
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: top seed right now in the NFC. I don't like

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01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: their defense. I don't like it either, but they keep

1392
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: winning much like last year. He's playing at a ridiculous

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01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 1: level right now. Um, I put the Rams and Bills

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: ahead of them. They were four for me. Yeah, I

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01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,759
Speaker 1: think if I think the Packers played, if the Packers

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01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:51,759
Speaker 1: played the Bills right now, I would pick the Packers.

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01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,679
Speaker 1: What if they played the Chiefs? I trust I trust

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01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 1: Rodgers more than I trust Alan. Oh yeah, I trust

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01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:02,680
Speaker 1: Rogers more and everybody. So therefore I'm gonna yeah, I

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Speaker 1: just think the Bills are a better more around Alan. Yes,

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01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: but I think JayR. Alexander could take Digs out of

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01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: the game and you know a little bit and make

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01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: things tough on all and I don't think it would struggle. Yeah,

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01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: I mean the Packers are carved that defense out without

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01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 1: a doubt, without doubt, the Packers could beat the Chiefs

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01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Yes, they could get in. They

1407
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: could because the Chiefs don't run the football and that's

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01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: what the Packers can't stop. And that's like the only

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01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: game I would not say. The Chiefs definitely have a

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01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: quarterback at Badge. I really think Rogers think he's playing

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01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: better right now. And then the Chiefs number one, sure,

1412
01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 1: but they're not perfect. No, it's you know, it kind

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01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 1: of shows you you know. Yes, the Steelers have lost

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01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,160
Speaker 1: a couple of games, and even though you dropped them

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01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 1: to would you say seven, they're still one of the

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01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 1: best teams in the league. They are because all the

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01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,679
Speaker 1: ones above them aren't great like Seattle. Yeah, they beat

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01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:53,720
Speaker 1: the Jets, I mean, yes, they crushed them. But New

1419
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 1: Orleans just lost the Eagle. I mean I saw a

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Speaker 1: lot of tweets last night. Well, the Steelers wouldn't be

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01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: either one of these teams right now. I don't know

1422
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 1: that that's true because they would play defense against them. Now.

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01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 1: The defense is there, you know, and I don't know

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01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: given the way they played last night, like We're going

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01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: to see the Browns in a couple of weeks. The

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Speaker 1: Brown's defense doesn't scare me at all. They don't have

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01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 1: the they don't have the players. You can say, well,

1428
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna shut down this short passing game, but if

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01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 1: you're not capable, you're not capable of doing it with

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01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,639
Speaker 1: what you have on the field. Play against the Brown's

1431
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: defense than the Ravens defense without a doubt, just because

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01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: the Ravens will throw more stuff at you, they'll impress you,

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01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 1: and banger receivers around and right, probably get the band

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01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Yeah, there's not great teams. I

1435
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: mean every in the world would have case one. But

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01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 1: two through ten is Tennessee much different than whoever you

1437
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,680
Speaker 1: put two or The Saints are not in a good

1438
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:47,640
Speaker 1: other than who they've lost to. That's the only thing

1439
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:49,640
Speaker 1: that's you know, some of it. But who's playing the

1440
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: best right now? Yeah, I think that would be the

1441
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: lowest I have the Steelers because I think they this

1442
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: is their low point. I said that a lot yesterday.

1443
01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:00,640
Speaker 1: If we look at the graph of Steeler production, you

1444
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,840
Speaker 1: know where their stock is. I would buy their stock

1445
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: this week because I think it's as low as it can.

1446
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 1: I think they win this week, and I think they

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01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,439
Speaker 1: beat the Colts next week, and and then we're talking

1448
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:11,799
Speaker 1: with them as a contender again, like a contender condetor

1449
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:13,679
Speaker 1: you know, like one of the best teams in the league. Yeah,

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01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,120
Speaker 1: I do too, and hopefully rest people in weeks seventeen

1451
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: and freshly host a playoff game and go from there. Yeah.

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01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,840
Speaker 1: I just think, I mean, so, yeah, Okay, when you're

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Speaker 1: thirteen and three, we had a bad season, bad two weeks,

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Speaker 1: three weeks. There's not There's not a team on this

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01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 1: including the Chiefs. There's not a team on here that

1456
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: hasn't had a bad at least a bad two weeks stretch,

1457
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 1: three weeks stretch. I mean, even when the Chiefs are

1458
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 1: going through now, they're barely winning. I mean they're not blowing.

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01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: They're winning, but they're barely you know, that's that's fine.

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01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: You went, you'd much like the Steelers when we talked

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01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: about this earlier in the season. Well, they're barely winning. Yeah,

1462
01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: they're finding ways to win. The Chiefs also played the

1463
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: second easiest schedule in the league, and they had a

1464
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:55,439
Speaker 1: stretch where they lost to the Raiders and nearly lost

1465
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:58,000
Speaker 1: the Chargers where where are they in the power rives

1466
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: right now? Atom bade the bottom third Yell by the way,

1467
01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: and Herbert's first career start, Yeah, yeah, a surprise start

1468
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 1: where he didn't get all the first team reps that

1469
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: way either. I mean, I think both of us would

1470
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: say if you'd a bet on one team to win

1471
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Kansas City. But yeah, I feel

1472
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 1: I think they were better last year. If I gave

1473
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: you Kansas City or the field, take the field, Yeah,

1474
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: you get better odds. I mean again, Derrick Henry could

1475
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 1: knock them off like he did to Baltimore. You know,

1476
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: if something, they get a bounce or two, A J.

1477
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: Brown gets behind the defense, Henry runs for one seventy

1478
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 1: where they you know, they play the Ravens in in

1479
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: in the second round. Then all of a sudden, you know,

1480
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's he's coming off his first playoff winning. I

1481
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: got all this confidence. He runs for a hundred and

1482
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: fifty yards on you. I do think Wilson and especially

1483
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:47,520
Speaker 1: Rogers and My Homes, they give you the X factor. Yeah,

1484
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: I mean they're the deodorant though. Yeah, and went in

1485
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 1: doubt the fourth quarter. But there's nobody else but there's

1486
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: nobody else, like if if either if those guys are

1487
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 1: in last night's game, we all know who's gonna win

1488
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,559
Speaker 1: in the end, you know, even if they don't get

1489
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 1: the ball whoever. Yeah, that's the thing with the that

1490
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: this year's Chiefs, whoever has the ball last with them,

1491
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: they have always seems out of the ball last. They

1492
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 1: always seem to have it last. But at some point

1493
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 1: that catches up with you. Oh wait, you know Andy

1494
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: Reid showed you in that game he didn't want to

1495
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 1: give the ball back to toa in that situation. And

1496
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 1: that's too. That's not Rogers in the super Bowl or know,

1497
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 1: and what happens you know if you miss that play,

1498
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you you the the the odds show that. Well,

1499
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: it's fourth and three, you know, it's go for it

1500
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: rather than punt. But if you miss, if somebody gets

1501
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: a hand up or something, you know, ball slips out

1502
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: of the quarterback's hands that received the lion scrimmage or something,

1503
01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of bad things that can happen there,

1504
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how great you are. Yeah, they're still variants. Yeah,

1505
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 1: so that's why they play the games. Yeah, So it's

1506
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: always fun to talk about Yeah, so we're gonna take

1507
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lelly. You're

1508
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,639
Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're

1509
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Gene Territory. He dropped by the DV

1510
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: Morning Show every Tuesday. We'll hear what he had to

1511
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 1: say about this week's games. Right after this your tunes

1512
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 1: about Drive on your home of the Black and Goal.

1513
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Daal Ali here with

1514
01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, and we like to play back some stuff

1515
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,519
Speaker 1: from the DV Morning Show. They get some good guests

1516
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,719
Speaker 1: on there, and one of those who is an every

1517
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: week guest for them is Gene Stator. Uh. He's the

1518
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 1: officiating analyst for CBS. Not much to talk about this

1519
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: week in terms of stuff in the Steelers game, but

1520
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: there's always something that goes on. We don't have time

1521
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 1: at the moment, but boy, the holding we're making me

1522
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,840
Speaker 1: a little bonkers. Maybe we'll chat about tomorrow. Yeah, we

1523
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: we can do that. But yeah, let's hear what Jean

1524
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: Sterrator had to say on the DV Morning Show. It's

1525
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: DV Morning Show. I'm Val Porter with Mike BURSUITA and

1526
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: Bill Crawford, our producer Joe Rakicky, Randy Bauman out sick

1527
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 1: today joining us now And I was gonna call you

1528
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: officiating and rules know at all, but that doesn't sound

1529
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: very nice. And I really like Eugene. Embrace the positions, Bob,

1530
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 1: go for it. You can take a shot if you

1531
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 1: want this morning. It's okay. It's okay, is good rules,

1532
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 1: very zen rules master. I like that one too. How

1533
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: are you today, Jeen Happy holiday in their Happy holiday

1534
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: to you as well, and my best to Randy. I

1535
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:01,719
Speaker 1: missed the morning getting all out here to start my Tuesday.

1536
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 1: But Randy, if you're out there and you want to

1537
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:06,719
Speaker 1: give me a call at any time today, feel free

1538
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 1: and just start screaming. It'll make you feel wonderful. Buddy,

1539
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, I was watching that game last night

1540
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: and everybody was slipping and sliding around, and it occurred

1541
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:24,840
Speaker 1: to me that every time one of those guys in

1542
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: the black and white stripes either slips and falls or

1543
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:31,639
Speaker 1: gets run over by a player or something, everybody laughs

1544
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 1: and seems to like that. Did you ever have I'm

1545
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 1: sure you had to have one or two over the

1546
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 1: years where you got the wrong place at the wrong time,

1547
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 1: or you ended up on your backside when you didn't

1548
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: want to be. Yeah, yeah, it happened, Mike, you know.

1549
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: And and it's funny because most times when someone does

1550
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: take an unexpected fall that the first reaction is to

1551
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 1: check and see if they're okay, and then if they are,

1552
01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: you know, we share a laugh because it looks so funny, right,

1553
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: I mean, but in the referees case, they just laughed.

1554
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 1: They never really asked if they're okay. You know, it's

1555
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:10,680
Speaker 1: just really, let's anything of the game, Mike, Yes, exactly.

1556
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 1: Have you what's what's your most embarrassing situation like that

1557
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:20,679
Speaker 1: on the field because all eyes are on you, you know. Uh.

1558
01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: One of my greatest stories was my rookie year. It

1559
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: was preseason two, my first year as a referee. My

1560
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: older brother Tony was on my crew, and a very

1561
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:34,640
Speaker 1: very well decorated umpire, Carl Paganelli of the famous Paganelli

1562
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: Brothers was my umpire. We were in Chicago and it

1563
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: was my first or it was actually my third replay review,

1564
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 1: but it would have been my first replay review where

1565
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: after review, the ruling on the field wasn't what the

1566
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:52,840
Speaker 1: officials on the field ruled, and Tony and Carl ruled

1567
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:55,680
Speaker 1: on a play that said it was a catch, and

1568
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 1: then we looked at review and realized that it wasn't.

1569
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 1: So coming out of the of the hood, my brother,

1570
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:04,479
Speaker 1: who was the back judge was was the timing guy

1571
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: to let me know when we were coming back from

1572
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 1: television as well, so he would always ask kind of

1573
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 1: quietly for me to give him the answer before I

1574
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: went on air, and I kind of avoided him in

1575
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:16,560
Speaker 1: this case. And I remember getting on the field and

1576
01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 1: soldier field and you kind of pick out a person

1577
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 1: in the stands as well as a fixed point, you know,

1578
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:24,760
Speaker 1: for your eye level, and I'm looking at this guy

1579
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: with a brought in his hand. And this is the

1580
01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: first time that I came out of review and realized

1581
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: I had to overturn it. So I thought I had

1582
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: this all down, and I was, you know, I was

1583
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: already a three game veteran with a microphone, and I

1584
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:38,640
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be so good at it. And

1585
01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: I remember I clicked the mic on and I I said,

1586
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: after review the ruling is and I just blank, I

1587
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 1: red lighted, I froze. I'm staring at this guy with

1588
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 1: this brought in his hand and I said the ruling

1589
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: is and it was like a dead pause, and I said,

1590
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: the ruling isn't good. It's not good, and brought right

1591
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:01,080
Speaker 1: in this guy's face. I mean it, and I just

1592
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 1: froze and it was like not good. And then I

1593
01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: kind of worked my way through it, and I remember

1594
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: clicking the microphone off and I was being stared at

1595
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: by three or four sisters with about eighty years of

1596
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: my experience. Paganelly walked over to me because he's from Chicago,

1597
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, cool, come here, buddy, listen. Everything

1598
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:24,920
Speaker 1: I do on this field is good. What what do

1599
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 1: you mean? I'm not good? You know. So there's a

1600
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:32,480
Speaker 1: lot of those moments, but that's the one that definitely

1601
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 1: jumps out to me, you know. And we don't get

1602
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:41,920
Speaker 1: another take, right, I mean, it's live television, so it's

1603
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: not good. And here's the guy that bron mustards all

1604
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: over his face. He's getting hit by his buddy, and

1605
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:56,200
Speaker 1: I started laughing. I'm laughing right on the field. Good,

1606
01:22:56,479 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: that's not good. You just got to ended up in broadcasting, Gene.

1607
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: You're on national TV. And yeah, as we got them

1608
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 1: all interested early, Mike, I was early in my career saying, look,

1609
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 1: you can trust me. I promise you can trust me

1610
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: with the live microp I'll tell you what else isn't

1611
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 1: good is the way these tackles are allowed to false

1612
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: start every time. Poor T J. Watt had no chance

1613
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: to get in the backfield because seventy five from Buffalo

1614
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: was given a couple of backsteps every down. When are

1615
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: we gonna fix this start, hey, Mike, honest goodness, it's

1616
01:23:35,280 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 1: a good point. And and you know what, we don't

1617
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:39,719
Speaker 1: like the split hairs on those plays, right, And there's

1618
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:41,880
Speaker 1: a lot of times when you're on the field, I

1619
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:43,599
Speaker 1: can tell you, and you're so screwed in on those

1620
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 1: plays because we do know fractions of a second or

1621
01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:48,760
Speaker 1: a flinch is a flinch right at times, and you

1622
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: really have to be on point right before the snap.

1623
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 1: There's score or five officials really at that moment that

1624
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: have to be locked in. There are times when when

1625
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: those interior alignment on both sides of the field, they'll

1626
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: anticipate the movement of the football so perfectly that it

1627
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,559
Speaker 1: appears that their false starts, but actually the ball is

1628
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:11,400
Speaker 1: starting to move right when they move with that said,

1629
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: I will tell you that one thing and I have

1630
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: noticed this year, um, is that they're coming out of

1631
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 1: that stance even earlier than the ball being you know,

1632
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: moving and uh and I have seen the same thing.

1633
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, like there's a trend. They're

1634
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,240
Speaker 1: worthy officials. I don't know if they're being told to

1635
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 1: look make those bigger, you know, or don't split hairs.

1636
01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:35,280
Speaker 1: Don't get too technical was the phraseology they would always

1637
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: use with us. Don't don't be overly technical. But in

1638
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:40,919
Speaker 1: those cases, and in these cases like you have just mentioned,

1639
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:44,679
Speaker 1: there is a it's a great advantage, right, I mean, look,

1640
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: people talk about, oh, that's not a defensive holding. He

1641
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:50,880
Speaker 1: only grabbed it, he didn't really even stop him. But

1642
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: it's a half a step. In precision football at this level,

1643
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:58,360
Speaker 1: half a step is gigantic. The same applause for an

1644
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:01,679
Speaker 1: interior lineman getting that really fraction of a second start.

1645
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,719
Speaker 1: We all know that that first step for that tackle

1646
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 1: creates an angle for him that doesn't allow T. J.

1647
01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:10,679
Speaker 1: Watt to get where he he deserves to be because

1648
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:13,320
Speaker 1: of it. So those are things that when they see

1649
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: that trend, you know, what you hope is the training

1650
01:25:15,479 --> 01:25:18,880
Speaker 1: tape show that. Uh, they emphasize it to the officials

1651
01:25:18,920 --> 01:25:21,680
Speaker 1: to get more technical and get more precise on it.

1652
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: And then usually what follows is we have a couple

1653
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 1: that get called that shouldn't be called, you know, so, uh,

1654
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 1: it kind of works its way through. But that is

1655
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: something that I have seen as well around the leg

1656
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: where you see kind of them getting that little bit

1657
01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: of an advantage on the start gene. Another trend is

1658
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: roughing the passer. Last night Jude On got called for

1659
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:48,160
Speaker 1: one on on Baker Mayfield and Henry Mondo roughing the passer?

1660
01:25:48,240 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 1: What are what are we doing here? Um? How much

1661
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 1: cleaner can he could he have hit Josh Allen for

1662
01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 1: for it not to be a roughing the passer call.

1663
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: He can't do a better job than he did. But

1664
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:06,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you know when you see quarterbacks get hit

1665
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 1: and they that wording and that part of roughing will

1666
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: say at or below the knee, right, So you're giving

1667
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 1: them a little general area too to have this leeway

1668
01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 1: to protect the quarterback if it feels like it's just

1669
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 1: above the knee because it bends that leg, especially when

1670
01:26:23,280 --> 01:26:27,120
Speaker 1: they're in path the prosture to a place where it's dangerous.

1671
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 1: But these are good hits. These guys are being asked.

1672
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:33,640
Speaker 1: We all know their target area is so small for

1673
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: hitting a quarterback like that that you know, you never

1674
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 1: want to see a defensive player get penalized for making

1675
01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: such a tough play now with the rules restricting them

1676
01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 1: so much, and then he does everything you've asked him

1677
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,680
Speaker 1: to do and there's still a flag. Uh, And you

1678
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 1: know what, You've got to get better. You just have

1679
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:55,439
Speaker 1: to get better. It's not a playoff. Want to see

1680
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 1: them put into replay and we start talking about this

1681
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:02,519
Speaker 1: portion or that portion. This is just a flat out statement.

1682
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:05,479
Speaker 1: You've got to get better with roughing the passer. Young

1683
01:27:05,560 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: referees also, and I will say this not as a

1684
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:11,639
Speaker 1: as a slight against them. When you move to this

1685
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,040
Speaker 1: level as a referee defense, you know everyone is faster

1686
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL. We know downfield they get quicker, right everyone,

1687
01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 1: It's a faster game than college. The thing that I

1688
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:23,320
Speaker 1: realized more than anything when I moved from being a

1689
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:28,080
Speaker 1: downfield official to a referee is how unbelievably fast the

1690
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: big guys are. Like when you are six ft five

1691
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:34,160
Speaker 1: three pounds and you can move like they can really

1692
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:38,679
Speaker 1: move that speed differential coupled with that that that body

1693
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:42,679
Speaker 1: being that big, it is unbelievably different at the NFL level,

1694
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 1: so you will see contact and hit. Joe Burrow got

1695
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 1: hit early in the season, legally by a Philadelphia Eagles

1696
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: defensive player, but the hit was so severe that when

1697
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: you're within ten feet of it, your brain tells you

1698
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:59,719
Speaker 1: that's not humanly possible to be okay, it's just too severe.

1699
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 1: Kind of have to react, you know, and I'm dumb

1700
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 1: serious about it. And then really for and this is

1701
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: not in defense of that play, because look, you've got

1702
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,080
Speaker 1: to get the play right and you have to slow down,

1703
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:13,800
Speaker 1: be late with your flag. If you think it's a file,

1704
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,479
Speaker 1: but digested two or three times in your head, rewind it.

1705
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:19,559
Speaker 1: When you see a quarterback kind of bend forward right

1706
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:22,640
Speaker 1: when he's standing still, and it's an awkward way that

1707
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: he goes down because of the severity of that hit,

1708
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:28,240
Speaker 1: you just can't automatically think that that has to be

1709
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:31,000
Speaker 1: a file just because he falls kind of ugly, right,

1710
01:28:31,040 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: You still got to go back to the principles of

1711
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: where was the contact. Did he land on him, did

1712
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: he show me uh if he's falling on him, did

1713
01:28:38,600 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: he tried to move himself, did he tried to brace himself?

1714
01:28:41,320 --> 01:28:44,080
Speaker 1: All of these little triggers that must be run through

1715
01:28:44,120 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: your mind within a second or two. You must go

1716
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: through them before you throw a flag. Uh. And in

1717
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:52,120
Speaker 1: that case, and that's a big play, right, we had

1718
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 1: an illegal formation I believe on the play followed by

1719
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: roughing the passer call, which in the NFL for penalty

1720
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:01,479
Speaker 1: enforcement is called a five team. So you had a

1721
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:05,599
Speaker 1: minor file against the offense in a major fifteen yard

1722
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: file against the defense. And when you do those plays,

1723
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: you you ignore. You don't decline the legal formation, but

1724
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:16,839
Speaker 1: you ignore the minor file, and then you penalize the major,

1725
01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:19,639
Speaker 1: which was the other element that Sean had to deal

1726
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:22,680
Speaker 1: with once he made that call. So that's an unusual

1727
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 1: penalty enforcement as well. But roughing in general, it's not

1728
01:29:26,439 --> 01:29:29,800
Speaker 1: an easy call. But you must stay to the principles

1729
01:29:29,880 --> 01:29:33,439
Speaker 1: of what makes something a foul and checkmark each box

1730
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 1: and it has to meet those elements before you throw. Uh.

1731
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:40,040
Speaker 1: And in that case, he missed the play, I mean,

1732
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 1: we we missed. Those referees missed that play once or

1733
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:46,000
Speaker 1: twice a week. And they're too big of the files,

1734
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:48,880
Speaker 1: too big right, you're it's a it's a the file

1735
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:50,879
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss. It's too big. It changes

1736
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:55,000
Speaker 1: the field, It changes a series in the NFL. When

1737
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:57,800
Speaker 1: you give a team a new series of downs, I

1738
01:29:57,800 --> 01:30:00,040
Speaker 1: don't care if it's the fourth quarter or the a

1739
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:02,719
Speaker 1: first quarter. When you give a team a new series

1740
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:05,599
Speaker 1: of downs on a penalty from from from the people

1741
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:08,720
Speaker 1: on the field, the entire game has changed from that

1742
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 1: point onward. And that's the magnitude of missing a call

1743
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, a new series means three

1744
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:18,360
Speaker 1: more minutes of game time gone, the old position gone

1745
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:21,639
Speaker 1: for the next quarter and a half. My strategy changes

1746
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 1: immediately on one missed call with ten minutes left in

1747
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 1: the first quarter, and you hear about that for the

1748
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,639
Speaker 1: remainder of the week. It's not to be brushed off like, well,

1749
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: it wasn't in crunch time like the general public says.

1750
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 1: Crunch time in the NFL is at the opening kick

1751
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,719
Speaker 1: and it ends when the last second goes off the clock.

1752
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,040
Speaker 1: Every play is that in the grading sense and and

1753
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: for the game, because it's that important, genie couldn't be

1754
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:51,519
Speaker 1: explained any better with any more depth or detail. I

1755
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,800
Speaker 1: was worried you were just gonna say that the call

1756
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 1: against Mongo was not good, but really it really painted

1757
01:30:58,320 --> 01:31:04,519
Speaker 1: a picture. It's amazing how far I've come in twenty

1758
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:10,720
Speaker 1: two years right now. Unbelieve how to embellish direct and

1759
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:12,600
Speaker 1: then try to throw a little bit in there that

1760
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:16,559
Speaker 1: creates conversation at the water pooler later today and then

1761
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:18,760
Speaker 1: usually mess with a lot of hatred, like who the

1762
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 1: heck is this guy think he is? He's trying to

1763
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 1: b s this again to protect the fraternity. So it's

1764
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:33,639
Speaker 1: a wonderful life. Gene, appreciate uh you joining us every

1765
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 1: week this year and looking forward to talking to you

1766
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 1: for some post holiday and some postseason games after the

1767
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 1: beginning of the year. Thanks so much, bout you guys.

1768
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 1: Have a great day, a wonderful holiday, and look forward

1769
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:49,400
Speaker 1: to talking to you when we get to the postseason.

1770
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:54,040
Speaker 1: You two, Jean, have a good one, all right. Take care.

1771
01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 1: That was Gene star toward the CBS officiating analysts that

1772
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:02,680
Speaker 1: does all their games. A good good guy, but that

1773
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 1: is going to do it for our show. Matt Um

1774
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:09,680
Speaker 1: Moving along here, We're on Tuesday. Week from today will

1775
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,840
Speaker 1: be a normal week. Talking about that Bengals game next

1776
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 1: week week. Yeah, how about that. It feels just shocking

1777
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 1: to have this right now. My body is just I'm

1778
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: not used to you know. After the last three weeks,

1779
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, what if what day is today? I

1780
01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: had no idea. Yeah, it does feel weird to have

1781
01:32:25,320 --> 01:32:27,640
Speaker 1: a normal week because usually I become a robot and

1782
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:30,439
Speaker 1: Tuesday at noon, I'll be doing this. And this last

1783
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: weeks have not took us out of our schedule too,

1784
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 1: but that's gonna do it. So for Matt, for Jacob

1785
01:32:36,120 --> 01:32:38,000
Speaker 1: here in site, keeping us on the air, I am

1786
01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 1: Dale Lolly. We thank you for listening to this edition

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01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:42,920
Speaker 1: of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio