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Following the Steelers 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.440 lost to the Chiefs twenty nine to ten on Christmas Day, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.800 but perhaps more importantly looking ahead to hopefully some point 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.120 after touchdowns against the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday night. But 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.680 let's begin by talking about the Chiefs. Our first reaction 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.320 is brought to you by First National Bank. Let's get started, 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.680 Member FDIC, Craig Wolfey, Let's start with you your thoughts 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.240 on what you saw with the Steelers game against the Chiefs. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.800 Well, I think it was summarized quite frankly by head 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.959 coach Mike Tomlin it sucked. I mean, it just was 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.080 not the game that you had expected that was going 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.480 to be out there in front of everybody. They came 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.920 out and they weren't able to establish what they wanted 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.319 to do that. Yeah, they ran the ball well, but 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.119 really it was all about trying to shut down Pat 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.520 Mahomes to some degree, and that just didn't happen. And 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.720 for the Steelers, you know, again it was one of 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.720 those things where you know, you got five sacks and 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.800 you had some ball bounces the wrong way yet again, 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.560 and even though they were able to rush for two 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.920 hundred plus yards, which normally would signify a victory in 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.920 any game, you know, it just did not materialize and 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.240 they lost to the Chiefs. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:44.759 Matt. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.120 Yeah, and you know, I was like to look at 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.960 the opponent in these shows too, and I think the 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.400 Chiefs are probably playing their best ball of the year, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.360 and it was a really buttoned up, clean performance by them. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.640 What they missed an extra point, but I can't remember 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:02.880 really any self inflicted wounds by Kansas. He Mahomes was tremendous, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.840 I mean, to put it mildly, I mean, the ball 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.280 came out of his hands incredibly quick and even like 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.799 unblocked pressures didn't get to him. I mean, the ball 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.400 came out so fast and he was so precise with it. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.040 But it's got to be better. I mean, it did suck. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.800 I mean the Steelers didn't play winning football. And Wolf 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.679 mention it, there's a couple of things that haven't gone 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.120 their way. They've they've caused fumbles, but they haven't been 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.799 able to pick them up, you know, like those things 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.800 will correct themselves, but you got to be better and 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.960 both trenches. I thought the secondary got picked on quite 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.760 a bit and is worrisome without you know, Porter in particular, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.720 but just in general and overall, it's just not good 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.400 enough against the big dogs, you know. I mean he 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.000 played three really good teams in a row, and you're 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.560 not quite as good as those guys. I think that's 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:46.080 pretty clear. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.679 So Matt, let me ask you this because Wolf and 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.320 I have talked about this, and Wolf, I'm gonna get 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.160 your thoughts on this as well. You know, I look 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.320 at this game and try to put it in a 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.679 larger context of what you just said. You know, this 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.840 three game sort of measuring rod and you didn't scoreboard 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.600 says you did not measure up, and I look back at, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:09.560 you know, an uncharacteristic drop pitch by Najie Harris as 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.880 you're marching in potentially to tie the game up again. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.000 I use the word potentially advisedly because we don't know 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.880 whether they would have scored a touchdown, kicked a field goal, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:19.880 what would have happened, whether you could have tied the 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.800 game up, whether that would have stemmed the tide. But 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.280 it could have tied that game up. Baltimore, you know, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.520 you lose it you don't pounce on a couple of fumbles, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.560 but Russell Wilson's taking it in. What happens if you 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.280 score a touchdown there instead of turning it over again uncharacteristically? 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.560 What happens if they don't call what again looked to 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.840 me to be a dubious holding call on Darnold Washington 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.320 that nullified a touchdown, and then the next play you 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.240 throw an interception. You score there, You're actually ahead if 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.880 you exchange field goals in the third quarter, you go 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.120 into the fourth quarter ahead against the Chiefs. Now, it's 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.200 a double edged sword saying that because these these scores 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.240 get you in the game, or tied in the game, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.640 or maybe a slight lead in a game, but you 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.080 still had other chances to respond and did not. So 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.960 I want to have that caveat out there still when 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.520 you look at it in that light, Matt does it. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.920 If you're a Steelers fan, should you be encouraged that 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.840 had you gotten a break or two, had you not 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.360 done some things that were uncharacteristic which you can't do 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.839 to beat good teams, that you could have played with 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.320 all these teams and potentially won one or more of 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:21.880 these games. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.960 No, Okay, I mean it's a lovely way of looking 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.480 at it, and it's an optimistic way of looking at 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.400 it that and you didn't say this, but if Nause 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.960 doesn't fumble that ball on the pitch, well then they're 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.159 in the you know, then they're right in this thing. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.200 I just never in any. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.640 Of these games felt like the Steelers were the better 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.839 team or in control of the game or taking control 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.840 of the game. And yeah, it could have certainly gone different. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.799 But I bet if we were sitting here in Kansas City, Baltimore, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.880 or Philly, we could probably find two or three plays 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.880 at our favorite team uncharacter riistically dropped the pass or 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.919 had a hold or something as well that, oh, we 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.840 could have want even bigger, you know, I mean right, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.440 there's two ways of looking at it, you know. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.680 Sure, and Wolf, I've said this before. The scenario I 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:17.560 just laid out to Matt. I'd feel better about convincing 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.839 myself one hundred percent. And I'm partially convinced. I still am. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.600 I didn't say those things if I didn't think I'd 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.560 be a little bit convinced. But I'd be more convinced 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.440 if you know, some different things happened. So after you 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.520 know Kareem Hunt, or after that, you know Kareem Hunt 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.120 two yard touchdown run. Just in this most recent game, Okay, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.200 they go up twenty two ten. Okay, now you respond 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.720 by going down the field and making it twenty two 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.359 seventeen and turning it into a one possession game with 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.640 say nine minutes left on the clock. You didn't do 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:53.600 that going back to Philadelphia. Maybe somewhere in a thirteen play, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.080 thirteen play and twenty one play. I think it was 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.440 second half. You know the drive lengths for the Eagles. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.960 You made it stopping there somewhere and gave yourself one 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.120 more chance to get back in it. I'd be more 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.800 convinced if those things had happened but I can also 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.000 understand that you said, hey, we didn't play if you, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.719 as a fan said hey, I didn't we didn't play 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.640 complimentary football. We didn't do some of the small things 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.480 that emerge bigger when you're playing better teams. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.479 Well, the whole thing is you can make any sort 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.400 of argument you want. You know, there's there's lies, dang lies, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.680 and then there's statistics. As the saying goes, you know 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.160 what I mean. And I will tell you this quite honestly, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.640 I've never felt like you didn't have a puncher's chance. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.479 I can't help myself. That's just the player's mentality that 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.560 I still have to this day. It is what it is, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.160 you know, And you can sit there and quote me 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.840 stats and I'll just look at you and go, yeah, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.000 but if you know, the buttefs get you nowhere. The 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.520 point being is this, you went into a three game 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.760 Cheese Greater Gauntlet and you were hoping for much better 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.640 success than what you came out with. It cost you some, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.760 You got some flesh taking off, you were a little 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.600 blood letting and everything else. And I do believe that, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.560 I still believe without a doubt that if you've got 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.520 a certain play here a certain play there, you could 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.839 have turned the thing around. It didn't happen. I believe 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.080 in the power of the one eleventh. Everybody's got to 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:15.320 win their one eleventh to a majority of the degree 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.760 of the time. You know what I mean. You cannot 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.960 have one guy not doing it and ten guys doing it. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.440 As who is that? Cam Hayward said. The fact of 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.520 the matter is everybody's got to be on board and 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.240 do their one eleventh. And when you don't do that, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.480 I mean, let's and let's let's be truthful too. Everybody 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.720 in this league is a superior player. If you get 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.560 to this level, you are in a very small percentage 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.440 in the world of guys that can that that are 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.880 able to do it. And the thing about it is, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.520 if you if guys were doing their job at the 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.280 point in time, things could be different. They weren't. You 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.240 got to move on. But you've got to find a 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.840 way to turn this ship around. And it can be 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.000 done with the with the next snap. I've seen it happen. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.120 I've been part of teams that have had that. It 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.920 has happened. When people said there's just no way that 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.040 you could do that, you find a way and that 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.040 can the power of that is still there, and I 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.440 believe in the power of the one snap Rob. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.360 Real quick to how I answered it too, is is 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.160 I didn't mean it like, boy, there's no chance ever 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.720 in the history of the world they can't hang with 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.680 these teams. I mean, that's not exactly what I meant, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.800 But I on those days, I thought it was pretty 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.200 clear on all three of those afternoons evenings whatever, they 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.880 were the inferior team and it wasn't just a bounce 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.439 away or anything like that, you know. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.559 Right, And I will say this so so Wolf before 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.000 we get much further. I enjoy hearing your story of 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.079 early on one season. I think you lost the Browns 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:44.600 at fifty one. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.760 We were just talking about it, get right, So yeah, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.920 you would have to bring that, yeah, but. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.079 Again, you know, tell the people that story, and then 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.280 as you're doing it, tell us all how that turnaround 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.080 possibly could have happened. So go ahead and lay the 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:02.600 story out there. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.640 You know, it was remarkable in the sense of nineteen 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.679 eighty nine we opened at three Rivers Stadium against the 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.360 Cleveland Browns at home, and we lost fifty one to nothing. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.920 I mean, we lost. It was a turn I think 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.920 We had eight turnovers in that game. It was just unbelievable. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.320 Every other time it seemed like the ball was going 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:21.880 the other way. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:22.840 And I can. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.640 Truthfully say that I was so dispirited and so down. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.199 I tried to start a fighting the fourth quarter, and 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.719 I couldn't get thrown out because the referee knew what 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.439 was going on. Yeah, it's like you deserve to stay 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.400 in there. The point being is we lost fifty one 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.520 and nothing, and everybody was kind of traumatized to a 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:39.960 whole thing. 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.760 Are you kidding me? The Browns come in and just 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.040 pound you. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:45.920 If you want to talk about a game that you 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.800 weren't even in before it was over, that was the game. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.000 So then we think, okay, back to the drawing board. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.760 Work hard, you got three hard practices at three rivers. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.120 You're pounding out in full pads on the artificial turf. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.719 You go into Cincinnati, We're gonna whop them, and they 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:06.400 beat us forty five to ten. Now, optimist and me said, well, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.520 we cut out six points defensively. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.840 And we scored ten. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.600 All right, so we're getting better in the right. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.160 This is hanging. You're grasping that straw. Okay, like a 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.080 dying man on the Titanic. You are grasping at that 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.200 life saver. So we've gotten week three. We've got the 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.480 two and zero Minnesota Vikings coming in, who have just 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.440 been terrorizing the first couple of teams that they played 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.360 and everyone just wrote us off. They made a couple 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.959 of adjustments, started this guy that guy a little bit, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.680 but it was just a couple of guys, and boom, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.760 we beat the Vikings miraculously, unbelievably so beat. The Vikings 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.960 finished that season with one drop pass away from going 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.800 to the AFC Championship, and it was one of the 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.440 most remarkable turnarounds ever seen. I certainly the most remarkable 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.680 turnaround I've ever been a part of. But it came 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.200 down to guys that refused to give up, guys that 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.240 refused to accept the fact that we were less than 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.960 what we were, and guys started to win more of 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.920 their one elevenths and then you get this snowball effect. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.160 And that's really what happened. And that's why I say 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.760 I believe in the power of the next snap. Get 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.080 that next snap. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:18.440 And boom. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.199 You never know when you're going to start that comeback thing. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.640 Well, the other thing you beat the Browns a couple 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:24.520 weeks later, didn't you. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.160 Oh yeah we did. Oh yeah, the same team that 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.440 beat that got fifty one nothing. We went into Cleveland 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.520 and beat them. I believe it was four weeks later, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.880 thirty four, fourteen or something like that. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:38.679 Yeah, we beat them. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.719 Well, you know, and it was just it was incredible 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.600 because I don't know how you turn around from fifty 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.520 one to nothing with the same people go in there, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:46.200 but we did. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.040 And that is the questions, how did it happen? 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.960 Well, guys won more than one eleventh. That's the simple 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.360 thing about it. You didn't turn the ball over, you 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.480 were able to win possession downs, Guys made the block 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.520 at key points, Guys covered at the right points that 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.680 you don't all those things come together, and you had 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.880 a determination to stay with it. I will say this 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:14.400 that the the funniest part was after this the second game, Uh, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.719 Chuck Dole had us in the team meeting room and 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.160 h there was a headline in the USA today and says, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.040 has the game bypassed Chuck Nolan. Chuck was adamant and 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.880 making sure, listen, what you put into your brain is 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.080 what's gonna come out in effort all right, you got 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.480 to make sure you you make sure that you're not 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.920 reading a lot of garbage and you're getting that negative, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.960 just as Russ was talking about this morning, the negativity 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.640 that's associated with losing like that, you gotta keep that 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.600 from your brain. So they said, you know, let me 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.360 tell you you got a pool. Well, at this point, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.880 we know Chuck's gonna tell a story, and everybody's already gone, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.520 the eyes are kind of glazing over and stuff. And 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.120 he talked about the you know, amount of chlorine and 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.720 all other constituent parts of you know, doing this, and 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.320 he's and he can tell he's losing. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:57.800 Everybody. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.920 The whole room's like going, oh, you gotta be kidding me. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.920 And finally Chuck gets frustrated, says, what I'm trying to 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.959 tell you is don't let anybody pee in your pool. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.640 In other words, don't don't be taken in by the 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.520 negativity of everybody else, and make sure that you protect 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.120 in your mind what's going on. And I think that 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.719 was the key. You know, the battle cry became over 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.680 the next several weeks, the onlybody pe in your pool? 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.640 Yeah, right, Well, I don't know how we can do 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.480 better than that. I'm Matt's pretty great. I think at 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.200 this stage of the game we should probably go ahead 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:28.760 and take a break. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.360 That's a good one, good way in which, yeah, I 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.240 don't know, there's nothing to add to that. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:34.920 Keep those pools clean, man. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:42.400 Matt Williamson, Oh, former pool cleaner, right, cleaning back of 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:42.719 the day. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.120 I'm surprised you knew that. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.640 That's what I did out through college and then I 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.520 bought the business. And coincidentally, you get winners off whenever 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:55.040 you're a Pittsburgh pool owner. And so I started volunteering 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.360 at Duquine and threw away a very successful pool business 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.040 and joined the Pit Panthers. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:00.920 And we are glad you did. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:01.600 You'll be doo. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:02.559 Yeah, oh good. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.160 That was a good conversation with the wife. Like, I'm 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.160 gonna make twelve grand a year as a GA at 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.680 pitt and throw his pool business away. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.880 What do you think? Yeah, go for it, Matt. I'm 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.160 sure you'll be really successful. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.000 Great. Yeah, that's probably were her love of Halloween started 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.120 years later or whatever. Yeah, yeah, it turned out to 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.960 be a treat for us. We're going to continue on 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.200 clear pool services. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.720 By the way, don't in the pool. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.000 Yeah, that's Matt Williams said, along with Craig hopefully I'm 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.840 rob kidt you're listening to the point after on the 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.040 Steelers Audio Network. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.960 Back to the point after on dv E play. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.080 Action pass rolling out to the left, Wilson trying to 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:45.160 get to the edge. Wilson dies one two step and 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.920 three is in for six touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers first rushing 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:56.160 touchdown of the year for Russell Wilson. Uh. The play 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.600 of the game is brought to you by S and 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.280 T Bank, proudly serving our community since night. You know, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.200 two stBank dot com s and T Bank member fd 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:10.320 I c little nod to to Russell's wife Sierra with 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.200 a song one two step excellent song in case you're wondering. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.640 So there were some moments in that game, guys, as 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.120 we welcome you back to the point after on this 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.160 stee there's audio network. You know, we talked about that 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.960 game and Wolf. You know, Russ is going in against 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.800 Baltimore with an opportunity to give you an early fourteen 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.800 to seven lead. Fumbles they turn around and score. You know, 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.720 when when you look at what's been going on with 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.040 the Steelers and the things to clean up and Mike 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.800 Tom want address the media earlier today. I would think, uh, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.560 turnovers have to be at the very top of the list, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.600 creating more turnovers and having fewer turnovers. You know, we 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.520 talked about, you know, the naugy pitch that never happens 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.520 with Nagee. We talked about Russell Wilson. He's not a 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.320 guy I would expect to fumble against Baltimore or there 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.520 were opportunities I think for the team to get the lead. Now, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.440 the lack of response is one thing, but playing with 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.720 the lead, you know, for me that that imbues the 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.440 team with confidence and also puts you in a position 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.160 to eventually get the game to go the way you 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.280 want to, to not be one dimensional, but to force 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.640 the other team to get one dimensional. Maybe that's just 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.960 an end of half scenario. Maybe it's an end of 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.760 game scenario. But these things go hand in hand to me, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.680 and I'd like to get your your thoughts on that. Well. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.480 It's also a win the first two downs scenario. You 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.720 win the first two downs and you put them in 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.240 a position where they're behind the chains, they're in the 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.640 off schedule, and now you've got to make up ground. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.440 And that's where you always want to be defensively speaking, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.200 you want to have kind of like your foot kind 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.400 of on the throat of the offense, or at least 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.840 a three and out, if not a turnover or a 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.400 takeaway because maybe they got to exceed their reach a 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.960 little bit in a throw or in a run, and 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.360 you know you're always poised for that. And this is 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.400 a team, you know, It's what's amazing is this is 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.080 a team that was plus seventeen going into this three 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.960 game gauntlet stretch here and now you know, everything turned around. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.600 This is a team that the ball seem to find. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.080 These guys where you know, they work each and every day. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.159 I watch them in practice. They work every day on 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.440 ball searching skills, on ball security, offensively, depending on which 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.560 side of line of scrims you line up, they work 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.160 at all those aspects of it. And in my experience, 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.520 you always have the worm turns eventually, you know, especially 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.479 when you stay dedicated to working the fundamentals and you 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.400 stay positive about it and know that's part of your job, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.919 part of what you do. When you get into reflexive 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.199 movements and a pile up and a tackle or you know, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.480 on the other side of it, whether it's offensively and 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.240 protecting the ball and so forth. But these are the things. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.640 You got to have faith that your work is going 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.320 to bear out and provide fruit inside the stadiums in 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:57.480 game day. And that's something that is integral and you're 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.520 working at it, and you can't just kind of like, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.920 you know, breeze through and go okay, I got more 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.199 ball searching. You know, it's drills here or ball security drills. No, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.560 you've got to put your whole heart and effort into 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.480 it and your mindset too, because the person who looks 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.280 for it, who refuses to be discouraged by it but 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.840 keeps looking, is the person that's going to find it. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.199 So Matt, let's get discouraged. Miss You and I do 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:24.720 that together. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.919 So either way, if you get too discouraged, have a 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.280 nice chocolate chip cookie, take a deep breath, and then 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:31.000 get back to work. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.879 That sounds excellent, sage advice. Thank you, my friend. The 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:40.479 last three games, you know, going into this gauntlet, and 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.959 again we understand no pickings for some of this, but 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.919 when I look at the offense first, you're averaging you know, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.000 twenty eight twenty nine points per game with Russell Wilson 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:58.920 as your quarterback. Those opponents are the Jets, the Giants. Okay, Washington, 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.800 you only score eighteen against Baltimore, you lose by scoring 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.439 nineteen against Cleveland. You drop forty four on Cincinnati. You 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.480 score twenty seven against Cleveland. So, on the one hand, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:14.600 the offense looks completely different than it has at any time, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.720 probably since Ben Roethlisberger was your quarterback, and he was 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.639 kind of in his heyday, and even maybe the beginning 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.000 of the twenty twenty season when they were doing the 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.160