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Speaker 1: He is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is a It's a Monday in Pittsburgh. It is Monday.

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Speaker 1: Is Monday, the day in the aftermath of the Steelers

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Speaker 1: thirty eight to three uh drubbing at the hands of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and Mat we were talking off the air.

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Speaker 1: I went back and rewatched the first half of that

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Speaker 1: game this afternoon before the show, and you know, honestly,

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Speaker 1: as I watched it, I kind of felt like I

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Speaker 1: did early in that game, like, you know, they're they're

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Speaker 1: holding their own here right right. You get a score

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Speaker 1: on the opening drive, you know, after giving up the

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Speaker 1: you had the defensive stop after the after the muff kickoff,

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Speaker 1: like okay there, you know, you know, things could have

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Speaker 1: gone really bad there. Then you get another punt it's

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Speaker 1: Downd inside the two, uh, and they get an interception

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Speaker 1: in the end zone. I'm like, all right, there, they're

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Speaker 1: hanging in there. And then three touchdowns and eleven plays

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Speaker 1: started by the play to Gabe Davis um one hand,

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Speaker 1: he makes a one handed catch to pull it in

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Speaker 1: and then as he's pulling it in, make a Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: comes in and gets two hands on the football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had better possession of it than Davis. As they're

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Speaker 1: running into the end zone, and I thought, there the

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Speaker 1: end zone there, because we're we have an end zone

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Speaker 1: view in the press box there right. Uh, it's about

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty with that around the league. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: right down at that end zone. It's happening right in

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Speaker 1: front of me, and I'm like, oh, Fitzpatrick's gonna pull

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Speaker 1: this out, yeah, right right, or at least break it up,

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Speaker 1: or at least break it up, but you know, run

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Speaker 1: with him out of bounds and then you know, then

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Speaker 1: let you know, the officials have to decide who had possession. Um. Sometimes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he made a play. I mean, I don't think you're

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Speaker 1: implying that the Steelers win that game. Doesn't go that way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were the inferior team clearly. Um. I

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Speaker 1: was a little nervous when they hit a ninety eight

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Speaker 1: yarder and then Pierre, but again then you know, then

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Speaker 1: they hung around for you know what I mean, And

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Speaker 1: it's been out there where the Steelers didn't put up

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Speaker 1: any fight. Did They did, absolutely did. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: he got away from him. And then you know, the

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Speaker 1: second half was the second half, but they were fighting

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Speaker 1: out there, you know they were, they were holding up.

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Speaker 1: They come up with a defensive stop there and get

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Speaker 1: the missfield goal. They you know again there it's a

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Speaker 1: wrestling match for the football and attend it. It's had

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Speaker 1: three game at that point, and that just opened the floodgates.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not here to inspire confidence. The season

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Speaker 1: is going to be fine. Don't worry. They got this,

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Speaker 1: you know, none of that. But I did say on

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Speaker 1: on an earlier one thing I did, there was about

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Speaker 1: ten plays in this game that were pivotable. Pivotable. That's

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Speaker 1: not pivotable. I don't think that's right. Pivot pivot yes. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you know Deonte almost almost making several spectacular plays. The

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Speaker 1: best examples the one you just said with Maka and Davis,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, and all ten probably went Buffalo's way.

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Speaker 1: You know, most games would be six four, seven, three five,

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Speaker 1: And if it doesn't, it's a different game. It's more competitive,

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Speaker 1: it's not embarrassing, you know what I mean, Like I

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Speaker 1: thought the Steelers hung around pretty well and did some

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Speaker 1: good things, you know, I mean, there was some difficult

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Speaker 1: things in that Steelers running game is a problem. I

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Speaker 1: was really let down by the Steelers pass rush. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I thought they could influence the game more. But and

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Speaker 1: then the injuries. I mean, the coverage was bad across

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Speaker 1: the across the game. But they finished. They played much

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Speaker 1: of that game with their starting Nickel package, only Minka left,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I looked out there

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Speaker 1: at one point, the team right before I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: right before the last touchdown of the half, the one

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Speaker 1: that made it thirty one to three, and again they're

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Speaker 1: running into the end zone where I'm sitting right over

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Speaker 1: top Off and I'm looking at this. You got Jackson

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Speaker 1: out there. The safeties were Norwood and Milette because they

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Speaker 1: had Fitzpatrick up playing the slot because Malette was getting

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Speaker 1: I don't even recognize this. The secondary, Like this looks

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Speaker 1: fourth preseason game starting secondary. Yeah, exactly, the secondary, and

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Speaker 1: that's the awful, awful opponent for that. And when you

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Speaker 1: add that in with no pass rush, exactly exactly against

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, against Josh Allen, who was Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: as good as I've ever seen him too. He was

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Speaker 1: to cover you know, that result is gonna happen a lot,

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Speaker 1: you know, And like the Marvin Lee I think is interesting,

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Speaker 1: you know, but he's kind of playing out of place too,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, they're trying to make up for

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Speaker 1: some things, and it's it's brutal that did you get

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Speaker 1: well to that to Let's talk about that because you know,

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Speaker 1: there was the report late last week the t J.

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Speaker 1: Watt underwent a knee procedure, which he did. Um, I'm

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Speaker 1: here to tell you that he is much better now, uh,

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Speaker 1: but he did it just because he was missing time anyway,

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Speaker 1: might as well get it cleaned up. You're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to do it at the end of the year. It's

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Speaker 1: just like it's it's a couple of week thing. Tires

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Speaker 1: weeks out from that now. Um, give or take, he

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Speaker 1: don't know that he comes off i ARE this week,

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Speaker 1: but it wouldn't surprise me if he comes off next week.

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Speaker 1: What about CAZy? CAZy is eligible to return after this game.

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Speaker 1: They could have really used it. They could have really

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Speaker 1: used another another NFL caliber defensive guy. Yeah. Especially well

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Speaker 1: and again, so if you if you have that and

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Speaker 1: you're missing Edmonds, well then Casey's you're you know you

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Speaker 1: can play him and you want to play Fitzpatrick as

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Speaker 1: the nickel, right, Okay, you can do that because Casey

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Speaker 1: is a legitimate NFL free safety. Nothing against Arthur Milette.

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Speaker 1: Arthur Millette did some good things yesterday seven Arthur Milette,

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Speaker 1: but he should be playing close to the line scrimmage exactly.

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Speaker 1: the worst he is. And really, to me, the secondary

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Speaker 1: and defense is designed for Milette to play some slot,

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Speaker 1: things of that nature. But Sutton's your best slot. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, and the guy I thought got exposed the most,

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Speaker 1: Because they lacked the deep speed. And Splain was out

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Speaker 1: there some more too, you know, so there were guys

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Speaker 1: to pick on and um, yeah, of course Alan did.

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Speaker 1: Brady will do the same. I mean. So here's the

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be out for this Steamer injury, right yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at Edmonds is back though, right you would hope? Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, some of the concussion stuff is now also

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Speaker 1: getting a little convoluted here. I mean, they were taking guys.

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Speaker 1: immediately like, well he's he's in concussion protocol. He's not

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Speaker 1: across the league too, Yeah, like they might go too far.

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Speaker 1: Brady roughing the pass or like that was the and

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Speaker 1: in the explanation of it, Yeah, it was really bad.

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Speaker 1: Was ridiculous as well. It was ridiculous, like it's indefensible

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Speaker 1: that that's a roughing the passer penalty. It almost bothered

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Speaker 1: me to the point where there should be you've heard

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Speaker 1: my magic red button thing, like if someone's up in

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Speaker 1: know this isn't reviewable, but this is so wrong. We

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Speaker 1: have to change it. Yeah, like any common sense, not

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Speaker 1: the eye and this guy. We talked about that before

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Speaker 1: that they're you know, if you're gonna add another official

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Speaker 1: eye and this guy. Okay, yeah, you guys get that wrong.

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Speaker 1: but no that that is an issue around the league.

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Speaker 1: lea By Wallace didn't suffer concussions, right right, I mean

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Speaker 1: we're not. We're not saying this rub some dirt arts.

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Speaker 1: They were like, you know, immediately taking the locker room,

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Speaker 1: did see an instance where was it Teddy Bridgewater? I

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Speaker 1: the first play of the game, passed the concussion test

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Speaker 1: the cognitive tests If that's the case, why are we

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Speaker 1: even giving the test? Well, you know, you we think

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Speaker 1: we thought you got hit too hard. That can't that

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Speaker 1: start playing touch football, you know. But again, I mean,

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Speaker 1: concussions are bad. We're not like down playing that or

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Speaker 1: anything of that nature. But you can overcorrect. You can

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Speaker 1: overcorrect just because bad optics in the tour situation and

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Speaker 1: but um, it could hurt the game dramatically if this

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Speaker 1: is oh, without a doubt, without a doubt, doubt. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: back to the Steelers thirty to three loss to the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. The Bills are pretty good. The Bills are

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah. I actually liked what I saw Kenny Pickett,

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Speaker 1: and I thought there's a few positives. Nothing greater than Pickett. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they couldn't consistently get to him at all, Like I

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Speaker 1: thought that was I thought those are two very positive signs,

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Speaker 1: are not saying it's you're right, um, but no for

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Speaker 1: I did a Steelers live video and that was the

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Speaker 1: first one asked, you know, what do you think of

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Speaker 1: the pickets performance? I said, well, brutal environment, including the

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Speaker 1: very windy day, loud, great defense, extremely well coached. You

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Speaker 1: a deficit basically immediately against what I think is the

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Speaker 1: they'll get an another opportunity to do it. That's the

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Speaker 1: great thing about this. Should get twelve more of these,

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Speaker 1: That's what I wrote. I said, this is this is

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Speaker 1: That's the norm. This is my thirtieth season covering the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: They hadn't lost a game like that since eighty nine,

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Speaker 1: the fifty one nothing game that was the biggest loss

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Speaker 1: you know, you have some faith that they'll get things

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Speaker 1: you know, oh well let's just you know that this

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Speaker 1: this is exactly what can happen if you don't show

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen the Steelers a game yet this year. No,

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Speaker 1: the defense showed us its half in Bengals. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's what they're capable of, right, you know, that was

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Speaker 1: go a long That would go a long way. And itway.

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lali. You're listening, starting corner. Yeah, that was Yeah.

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