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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation.

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Speaker 2: It's the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network here on

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Speaker 2: a Friday, as we rock and we roll on Halloween,

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Speaker 2: last day of October, getting ready, of course for Steelers

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Speaker 2: Colts this Sunday, one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: At Akrocher Stadium. What Sheeler and Matt Williamson with you

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Speaker 1: here for the next two hours on a typical jam

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Speaker 1: packed Friday show. Matt, how we feeling? How we doing?

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Speaker 3: I guess I'm a little under the weather, but I

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Speaker 3: think I'm doing all right and just a normal day

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Speaker 3: here at the office.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you look pretty skinny today. I'm working out,

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Speaker 1: working out. You've been I'm night been a rough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had a little bit of a rough night. I

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Speaker 1: woke up, I lost all my hair. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. That signature head of west

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Speaker 1: Hare is now gone. But I don't know if I'm Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll get through it together here this morning on the

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Speaker 1: show or this afternoon part of me on the show.

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Speaker 1: We will talk to Missy Matthews in about ten minutes

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Speaker 1: or so get her thoughts on the sideline. But Matt,

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Speaker 1: I want to kind of jump right into this with

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Speaker 1: an x's and o's question for you, sure, I know

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Speaker 1: that this Indianapolis Colts defense likes to play a lot

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Speaker 1: of nickel Okay.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is yes, yes.

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Speaker 1: And also with that, we know that the status of

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Speaker 1: Isaac Sayamalu is up in the air for Sunday afternoon's kickoff.

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Speaker 1: Is this still the time to bring out the corn

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Speaker 1: beef packages? We've called it a couple of times. How

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Speaker 1: do you try and use what the Steelers can do well,

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Speaker 1: use their size advantage, use that offensive line, six offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman packaged Darnell Washington, all these things against a Colts

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Speaker 1: defense that is typically lighter that that to me feels

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Speaker 1: like a real kind of game within the game here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great, great way of looking at it.

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Speaker 3: And first off, just so Friday's go quick. The Colts

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Speaker 3: offense might shock people that they use as much thirteen

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Speaker 3: personnel as they do, and they do it a lot,

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Speaker 3: and the reason they do it is because they want

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Speaker 3: to get a lot of linebackers and big bodies on

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Speaker 3: the field and throw out of it. The Colts are great.

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Speaker 3: They're great on first downs in general, but they're really

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Speaker 3: good at throwing when people run and running when people

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Speaker 3: throw and so maybe the Steelers could steal a page

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Speaker 3: out of that book. Now. I think the league as

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Speaker 3: a whole is trying to figure out what's the best

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Speaker 3: way to defend twelve personnel. Is it nickel or is

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Speaker 3: it base? And a lot of it depends on what

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Speaker 3: type of tight ends you have, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: a big reason the Steelers have a wide variety of

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Speaker 3: tight ends. The Colts generally defend twelve with nickel. As

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Speaker 3: you mentioned, they want to be faster, they want to

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Speaker 3: be now. They also have the advantage of playing with

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Speaker 3: the lead sometimes too, you know, which helps everything on

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Speaker 3: their defense this week. I'm not sure how to attack

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Speaker 3: them in the end. I think my number one goal,

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Speaker 3: no matter how I get there, is controlling time and possession,

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Speaker 3: limiting possessions for the Colts offense, helping my Steeler defense

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Speaker 3: to the max. But if that means running out of

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Speaker 3: thirteen or jumbo corn beef as we like to call it,

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Speaker 3: and make them stay in there three to four, you know,

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Speaker 3: or their base, I'm fine with that as well. But

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Speaker 3: I think Mike Pursudo in Maryland I did a show

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Speaker 3: and we were talking about this too, because there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of angles of how do you play offense against

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Speaker 3: this defense, because clearly the Colts' weakest position is also corner.

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Speaker 3: You know, they're on backups, so you would think in

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Speaker 3: a vacuum, let's just Aaron, just throw it all attack,

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Speaker 3: get DK on corners, and we're just going to attack

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Speaker 3: through the air.

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Speaker 1: They do have like the twenty sixth ranked pass defense

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Speaker 1: or twenty eighth whatever it was that we talked about

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Speaker 3: Yes, but that could lead to three and outs and

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Speaker 3: not leading the time possession. So I think that's the

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Speaker 3: real challenge. And I'm not exactly present presenting answers, but

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Speaker 3: I am trying to put avenues of approach here, you

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Speaker 3: this team. It's best, it's one of the best teams

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Speaker 3: in the league. It's one of the best offenses in

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Speaker 3: the league. So how do I balance time of possession

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Speaker 3: bodies on the field which they don't aren't as comfortable with.

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Speaker 3: And that's why I'm on yours offense coordinator. I don't

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Speaker 3: know exactly how to do that now. I do think

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Speaker 3: if you're down and you feel like you have to

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Speaker 3: abandon a run, all's not lost against this group of

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Speaker 3: trust Rogers to orchestrate all the above better than anybody

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Speaker 3: out there, you know, checking a run, checking the PA,

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Speaker 3: attacking one on ones. I think we know at this

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Speaker 3: point whether it's Austin Metcalf, whoever. But if you're gonna

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Speaker 3: get one on ones with their corners, he's gonna throw it,

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, he's gonna check to that call.

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Speaker 3: And I got no problem with that whatsoever. But I

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Speaker 3: still think time of possession has to be your biggest

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Speaker 3: goal to gout this game with the win, because your

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Speaker 3: defense is gonna hold these guys at thirteen you know.

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely absolutely, and I think you're absolutely right. That

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Speaker 1: to me is kind of the biggest burning question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is a Steelers offense that needs to run the football

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Speaker 1: has had success, a lot of success running the football

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Speaker 1: the last.

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Speaker 3: Few weeks, right, and you're good at it.

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Speaker 1: Right, You're good at it. Jayalen Warren is playing in

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Speaker 1: an outstanding level. I think you're as confident in your

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Speaker 1: offensive line as you have been in a long time. Agreed,

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Speaker 1: But it's a Colts defense that is success succepted. The

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Speaker 1: bit easy for me to say. It's a Colts defense

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Speaker 1: that is susceptible through the air. Yes, And so how

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Speaker 1: do you balance that? How do you balance trying to

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Speaker 1: control the clock, the snap count, time of possession, all

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Speaker 1: those things while potentially attacking what is Indianapolis's biggest weakness that,

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Speaker 1: to me, Matt is is really and particularly offensive standpoint. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the biggest storyline or X factor that I'm looking at

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Speaker 3: The thousand percent. And again, I don't feel like I

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Speaker 3: have a great answer of how to do all those things.

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Speaker 3: I've never gain planned for an NFL defense, but I

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Speaker 3: think we have laid it out what the goals should be,

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Speaker 3: you know. And one thing I keep coming back to

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Speaker 3: all week, and I'm not necessarily even blaming him for

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Speaker 3: being conservative, but I would certainly be more aggressive on

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Speaker 3: fourth downs if I was coach Tomlin, you know, just

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Speaker 3: for that reason. Whether that's and the beauty of this

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Speaker 3: it all the time and forth the commanders. It's so

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Speaker 3: much easier on the play caller on third down totally

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Speaker 3: if he knows I got two downs to get this first,

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Speaker 3: not one. You know, it's third and one that you're

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Speaker 3: midfield rogers. Take a shot here, absolutely, because we're gonna

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Speaker 3: come back and can at the war. If it doesn't,

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Speaker 3: you know, connect we're bringing out the big boys. Isn't

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Speaker 3: gonna pound it, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, Third and seven here, let's pick up five yards

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Speaker 1: instead of the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: That's the thing I say all the time is third

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Speaker 3: and medium, Third and even long can often be a rundown,

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Speaker 3: you know, like Saquon but busted a ton of long

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Speaker 3: runs against Nickel dime in third and seven's last year,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Because you still have your

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Speaker 1: They sure do, they sure do. So there's kind of

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Speaker 1: a scene setter to get us started here today on

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Speaker 1: this Friday, this Halloween Friday, we will talk to the

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Speaker 1: great Missy Matthews, the Queen of the sideline when we

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Speaker 3: And get better than us. At the moment, she looks

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Speaker 3: a lot.

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Speaker 1: Better than us. Well, I mean every day, but especially

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Speaker 1: today and so just like I did yesterday. If you're

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Speaker 1: kind of wondering what if you're listening on audio and

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Speaker 1: kind of wondering what the Hecker Matt and West talking about?

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Speaker 1: Why does Wes sound a little muffled? Maybe make sure

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Speaker 1: you're watching this opening segment on YouTube and hopefully you're

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Speaker 1: gonna out of all of that. We'll talk to the

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Speaker 1: great Missy Matthews when we return. Watch your aler Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson having some fun on a Friday. It's the Drive

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network. Back

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Speaker 1: on the Drive here on a Friday, getting you ready,

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Speaker 1: of course for Steelers Cult Sunday one o'clock at Akroscher Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Joining us. Now you'll hear her on the call with

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Speaker 1: Rob King and Max Starks. You'll see her roam in

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Speaker 1: the sidelines on Sunday. Of course, it is the great

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Speaker 1: Missy Matthews. Missy, thank you for taking the time for us.

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Speaker 1: As always on a Friday, let's jump right into it

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Speaker 1: here as as this is a big one for a

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Speaker 1: lot of different reasons, but I think particularly for a

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Speaker 1: Steelers team that knows they have not been up to

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Speaker 1: par in their last two performances, not wanting to drop

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Speaker 1: back games at home, you know, keeping some distance between

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Speaker 1: them and the rest of the division, all these different storylines.

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Speaker 1: Do you sense, like, I don't missy. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say, a sense of desperation, because we're halfway through

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Speaker 1: the season. It is, it'll be November by the time

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Speaker 1: this game kicks off, but it is still October. But

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Speaker 1: do you maybe sense of urgency Maybe that's the best

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Speaker 1: way to put it, you set, Do you sense any

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Speaker 1: it relates to Sunday against the Colts?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's like panic, you know,

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Speaker 4: that kind of thing. But I think, especially with the

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Speaker 4: We're in the middle ish portion, you know of those

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Speaker 4: Steelers twenty twenty five scal But knowing you haven't played

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Speaker 4: the Raven Jet, you still have to placency in Cleveland

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Speaker 4: one more time as well. Oh, by the way, the Bills,

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Speaker 4: you know, the Lions. You know, you're just you're going

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Speaker 4: this is where we kind of need to come together.

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Speaker 4: And I think the defense just has a nasty taste

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Speaker 4: rid of it is to get a win and to

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Speaker 4: show people that the past two games are not who

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Speaker 4: you are and go back to the sacks, the force fumbles,

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Speaker 4: the splash plays, just being a stout defense that we

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Speaker 4: saw prior to that.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the nasty taste in the defense's mouth. I mean,

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Speaker 3: what was the what was the temperature anxiety on the

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Speaker 3: were really going rough.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I've only experienced one person throw

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Speaker 4: gatory cooler in my time on the sidelines, and that

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Speaker 4: was Antonio Brown. I you know, it's it's more of

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Speaker 4: like looking at the tablet, talking to each other, talking

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Speaker 4: to TA, talking to their position coach. It's really trying

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Speaker 4: to figure it out and to stop the bleeding. There's

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Speaker 4: really nothing else you can do at that point.

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Speaker 3: But it's tantrums and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, you're not seeing that. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Well, I think because Jalen Warren is kind of doing

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Speaker 4: So it's, you know, this complimentary football thing that we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and kind of staying with that, Missy. You know,

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Speaker 1: all of honor one day. But you also don't want

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Speaker 4: Oh one hundred percent. I think you have the perfect

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Speaker 4: I was going through mats lovely notes that he sends

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought up there the Colts kicker and

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Speaker 4: More one percent. I mean, I remember, you know, even

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Speaker 1: Missy great stuff is always I.

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Speaker 3: and candy bards. I steal it. Okay, it's been a

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Speaker 3: great debate always well.

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Speaker 4: I'm a yay. I love, I love enjoy like I Yeah,

434
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Speaker 4: I can do it. I know that's not everybody's preference.

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Speaker 1: But candy corn next, Missy No.

436
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Speaker 4: Heck no, no candy corn. But no one in my

437
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 4: house likes coconut but me. So like I, no one

438
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Speaker 4: else is gonna take Yeah, so like I know, that's

439
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,880
Speaker 4: just a gimme. And that's why I steel the reasons.

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Speaker 3: That'd be a nice position to be in. I'm always

441
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Speaker 3: trading my own.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go. Yeah, no, I'm I'm a fan

443
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Speaker 4: of coconut chocolate.

444
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Speaker 1: Okay, So what's on your don't like Halloween candy list?

445
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Speaker 3: M marshmallows? Low on my list?

446
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:59,199
Speaker 4: Oh anything marshmallow? Heck now, I'm out of cut Nickers,

447
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 4: Milky ways, They're okay. Kit cats aren't my favorite. I'll

448
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 4: eat them, don't get me wrong.

449
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Speaker 1: Do you have a opinion on nerds gummy clusters?

450
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Speaker 4: I mean, my children are obsessed with them. I find

451
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 4: them in my car, in covered in their rooms, in

452
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 4: cockey bags. They're the bane of my existence. I think

453
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 4: they're disgusting. I like I literally cringe when they eat

454
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Speaker 4: them because I know it is just like a sugar

455
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 4: rush about to explode. And I'm always like fine, yeah,

456
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 4: like here we go, and I can only imagine how

457
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Speaker 4: many they're going to consume just tonight, so it should

458
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Speaker 4: be fun. I found some actually the other day, and

459
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Speaker 4: I like threw them in the top of one of

460
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Speaker 4: our cupboards that like I can't even reach some. I'm like, well,

461
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 4: they're going to get enough anyways. They don't mean to

462
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Speaker 4: know about these ones.

463
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Speaker 1: That's great stuff, Missy, you'll laugh. We've kind of been,

464
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Speaker 1: you know, asking our guests throughout the week just some

465
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Speaker 1: you know, some quick hitter thoughts on Halloween candy and

466
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Speaker 1: that type of thing. Yesterday, we had, of course, Bob

467
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Speaker 1: Labriola on like we do on Thursdays and before we

468
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Speaker 1: have him on Matt's. Like I wouldn't ask him about

469
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Speaker 1: Halloween candy. Save that for Missy tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Hey, labs nose. He's a fan of the Resis family.

471
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Speaker 4: He introduced me to the animal crackers that are covered

472
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Speaker 4: with the peanut and chocolate from Reese's. Didn't good, Yeah, Lab,

473
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 4: don't let Labs you know for you. He knows the

474
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Speaker 4: thing you're two about.

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Speaker 1: Good labs, nose, football, labs, nose candy. We'll have to

476
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Speaker 1: all right, Sunday Sunday in the booth, I'll ask him

477
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Speaker 1: some candy questions. I'll, i'll, I'll muster up the strength

478
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Speaker 1: and do it. By then, the great Missy Matthews, the

479
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Speaker 1: Queen of the Sideline, kind enough to join us here

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Speaker 1: on a Friday. Missy, have a good Friday, have a

481
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Speaker 1: happy Halloween, and we'll see you on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: All right, happy Halloween. Do you guys to see a Sunday?

483
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Speaker 1: Thanks Missy. There she goes. Good stuff from her as

484
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Speaker 1: always touching on a lot of different bases there. And yeah,

485
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Speaker 1: I I.

486
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Speaker 3: Was long overdue to bring up the kicker and indoor

487
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Speaker 3: outdoor thing.

488
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Speaker 1: That was great.

489
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you did.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm you know what, because that was one of

491
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Speaker 1: the things I kind of jotted down some last minute

492
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Speaker 1: notes of things that we hadn't talked about. That was

493
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Speaker 1: one of the things that I had in there. And

494
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Speaker 1: I think, matt if you're talking about Chris Boswell or

495
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Speaker 1: Justin Tucker.

496
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Speaker 3: I don't care where they can, I don't care where

497
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Speaker 3: they kick or what they've done or right yet.

498
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Speaker 1: But for a kicker that's on a little bit of

499
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Speaker 1: rocky footing that they clearly don't, not that they've needed to,

500
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: but they haven't.

501
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Speaker 3: They've never had to rely on them. He's definitely not

502
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Speaker 3: their MVP.

503
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Speaker 1: He's definitely not in the consideration for team MVP. Hey,

504
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Speaker 1: if it ends up being a close game down the stretch,

505
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: or maybe that's one of the things that makes it

506
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Speaker 1: a close game, you know, maybe he misses one that

507
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Speaker 1: we would otherwise think as a chip shot. Something like that.

508
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Speaker 1: Certainly certainly something to keep an eye on. Oh, it

509
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: absolutely does. It absolutely does. As much as Chris Boswell

510
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Speaker 1: has gotten the Steelers out of stadiums with wins, a

511
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Speaker 1: lot of kickers around the NFL have cost their teams

512
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Speaker 1: getting out of stadiums.

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Speaker 3: With the Colts, you know, like, man, I don't want

514
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Speaker 3: our kicking situation to be what the rails Us.

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Speaker 1: Agreed absolutely, because hey, when you're playing the way they

516
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: are and you have the best record in the NFL,

517
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: it's hard to find weaknesses. But that could certainly be

518
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Speaker 1: something that could be won. And maybe we'll see if

519
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Speaker 1: that plays out. Sunday afternoon at Akroshure Stadium. One more

520
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Speaker 1: segment to go on the other side. You know what

521
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Speaker 1: that means. It's time to get into our Friday matchup segments.

522
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Speaker 1: Here for a little bit a little five star Friday.

523
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the key matchups between the Steelers and

524
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Speaker 1: the Colts on both sides of the football. We'll do

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Speaker 1: all that more as we roll along. Wat Shooler Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio on the

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Speaker 1: Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 5: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

529
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Speaker 5: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, little hectic start to the show, Matt, But

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Speaker 1: I think we're on track now.

532
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, We're back where we need to be.

533
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Speaker 1: I had had some Halloween shenanigans in the first segment.

534
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Speaker 1: For those of you that did watch on YouTube or

535
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Speaker 1: didn't watch on YouTube, we did a little little Halloween

536
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Speaker 1: thing in the first segment. That mask that I was

537
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Speaker 1: wearing a great creepy mask. But it's was made in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. Yes, so I borrowed it from one

539
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Speaker 1: of our neighbors.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to uh oh, I figured like your parents had.

541
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Speaker 1: Shout out to Nikky and Dan our neighbors. It was

542
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Speaker 1: their dad's. He bought it in the Strip District in

543
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. It has the engraving on the back of.

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Speaker 3: It's still holding up.

545
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Speaker 1: Well, it's great, it's scary, it's terrifying right well, but

546
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Speaker 1: being from the seventies, it doesn't breathe.

547
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Speaker 3: Very well at all, I bet.

548
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Speaker 1: And we got about three four minutes into that opening

549
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: segment and I was sweating like a greased monkey. I mean,

550
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: it was not comfortable.

551
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Speaker 3: And you wouldn't think our jobs and they're not are

552
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 3: physically demanding, but you do have to be up and

553
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 3: you got to talk with some energy and you know,

554
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 3: like you're not breathing. Great, it's yeah, getting really hot

555
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: and sweating.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like trying to look through the one eyeball

557
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: like how much times on the clock and make sure

558
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: all the.

559
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 3: The mouth isn't exactly perfect for a great audio.

560
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: Right, But having some fun here on a Friday. But

561
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: now for the rest of the show, we will obviously,

562
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: uh turn our attention to Steelers Colts get a little

563
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: serious and uh some unfortunate news Matt Uh, Deshaun Elliott,

564
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: and daniel A Qualley. It's happened that they have both

565
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: been placed on injured reserves, So we'll see what that

566
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Speaker 1: means for the rest of the roster. There will obviously

567
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: be corresponding moves with that, but for now, unfortunately that yes, yeah, yeah,

568
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: so that that's a good point. That's kind of a

569
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: one from one swap there. Now the question obviously becomes

570
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Speaker 1: how long are those guys going to be out? Is

571
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Speaker 1: it going to be you know, four weeks on the

572
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Speaker 1: IR and then they can try and return, or could

573
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Speaker 1: it be something longer term? Obviously not great there, Matt,

574
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: but that is life in the National Football League and

575
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: the Stylers. The Steelers defense a big week, a big

576
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: challenge that they're gonna be a little shorthanded as well too,

577
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Speaker 1: particularly on the back end of that secondary.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick, on Equalley, I'm a fan. I wasn't

579
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 3: real blown away when they signed him, but he kind

580
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 3: of won me over when Harmon came back. Though, not

581
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Speaker 3: that he's been phased out, but he's never had e

582
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Speaker 3: quas many snaps as I would have guessed. I mean,

583
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Speaker 3: he's always been like eight nine ten, especially with Harmon

584
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Speaker 3: in the mix. So he's a loss, but I get

585
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Speaker 3: the impression he's probably out for the year. Is the

586
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Speaker 3: way that they made that sound that he's not a

587
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Speaker 3: temporary deal. We could keep an eye on Elliott though,

588
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Speaker 3: I mean, like some reports, I don't know what the

589
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Speaker 3: trust but some are like, oh, this could be really long.

590
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 3: We know it's four or more. At least four. Isn't

591
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Speaker 3: the end of the world War is? I mean, it's

592
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Speaker 3: not an end of the world. But it's not great.

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Speaker 1: It's not great. That would you know? You would that

594
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Speaker 1: would that not? You think God does take him out

595
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Speaker 1: until the end of November.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: That means he'd missed that game against Buffalo after thank Giving,

598
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: which of course will be one where you'll really need

599
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Speaker 1: that secondary and tip top shape. But certainly something we

600
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Speaker 1: will keep an eye on. But unfortunate, again, we kind

601
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Speaker 1: of saw it coming. You could. You could read the

602
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Speaker 1: writing on the wall, on the wall, read the tea leaves.

603
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Speaker 1: But now it is official with those two moving too,

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Speaker 1: I are I really.

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Speaker 3: Am interested what the safety allocation of resource is gonna be?

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Speaker 1: Me too, And maybe as we kind of start talking

607
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Speaker 1: about matchups and all these different things. Here, hold on, Matt,

608
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Speaker 1: let me let me hit the sounder so we can

609
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Speaker 1: make it official, and then we'll then we'll really dive

610
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Speaker 1: into this.

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Speaker 5: It's a five star matchup because we're.

612
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Speaker 1: In and Matt. I know this isn't a specific matchup,

613
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Speaker 1: but it's got to feel like that Colts offense, Stiching,

614
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Speaker 1: Danny Dimes, Tyler Warren, all those wide receivers. Doesn't matter

615
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Speaker 1: who's lined up at safety, We're going to attack them.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean this is what coaches do, folks,

617
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Speaker 3: is I mean, you watch the tape and frankly, there's

618
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Speaker 3: not a abundance of places not to attack right now against

619
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Speaker 3: Steeler defense, and there there's plenty of spots to say, well,

620
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Speaker 3: we're gonna test that, We're gonna test that they haven't

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Speaker 3: handled this adjustment well blah blah blah. I mean, we

622
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 3: know that there's issues, but I gotta think priority number

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Speaker 3: one is boy Elliott was a pretty good player for

624
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 3: these guys, and the other safeties have been in a

625
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 3: lineup and consistent, not real playmakers. You go back and

626
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 3: watch the tape when Elliott was out, so you have

627
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Speaker 3: something you know just to you approve.

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Speaker 1: There, right. There is plenty of sample of that this year.

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Speaker 3: So I absolutely think that we are going to attack

630
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Speaker 3: those safeties and most likely with Warren, but also with

631
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Speaker 3: deep routes. Pierce goes deep like no one else in

632
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 3: the league, getting anyone you possibly can. And my hunch is,

633
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 3: when there's four defensive backs on the field, I think

634
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Speaker 3: it'll be Ramsey at safety and.

635
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Speaker 1: Eccles, Ramsey at safety, Porter and Eckles.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and some other That's what I don't I mean,

637
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 3: I'm not even sure who safety one is a Peppers.

638
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Speaker 3: I kind of hope it's not Clark. Is that asking

639
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 3: too much out of Dugger? Immediately? Pepper's is my favorite

640
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 3: of the group, But the day he the game, he

641
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 3: played a lot when Clark was inactive, I thought he

642
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 3: was a real asset that played well and was noticeably

643
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Speaker 3: better and certainly more athletic than Clark. But since then

644
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Speaker 3: he hasn't played much, which I don't know how to

645
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 3: read those tea leaves and Thornhills still in the mix too,

646
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 3: and my hunch, and then it brings a question of okay,

647
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 3: what about when you have five defensive backs on the field, Well, Ramsey,

648
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 3: Eckles and Porter will be three of them. Will slay

649
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 3: keep Ramsey at safety and have to be your third

650
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 3: corner because I think Eckles gone past Lagh. I think

651
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 3: people probably caught onto that at this point. Yeah, or

652
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 3: is Slay that much in the doghouse or maybe even

653
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 3: an active that Ramsey becomes your slot, Eccles goes to

654
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 3: the outside, and two of these safeties were figuring out

655
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 3: are your safeties? I just don't know. I'm just gonna

656
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 3: be really intriguing.

657
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: Answer.

658
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 3: Obviously, they're not the easiest puzzle to build.

659
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 4: It is.

660
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: It is absolutely not the easiest puzzle to build. In fact,

661
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: it's probably a more challenging one than most to build.

662
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: I did want to. By the way, Missy texted me this,

663
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: so big shout out to her. Remember with the personal

664
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: day for Darius Slay yesterday, there was a lot of speculation,

665
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: what's going on there? All the things. He went down

666
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: to Houston. It was his son's senior night for his

667
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: high school football team today. Okay, so he went, he

668
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: flew down yesterday to be with his to be with

669
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: his son for senior night and all those things. That's

670
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: what his absence was for. So it fair enough, fair

671
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: enough something that you know, again, a lot of people

672
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: had been speculating about. I thought it was good to

673
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: just kind of put that to bed.

674
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 3: I'm not certain the pot and that doesn't sound fishy

675
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 3: to me at all. That sounds absolutely fine. That is

676
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: a fine excuse to miss a practice in the middle

677
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 3: of the week, in the middle of the season. But

678
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 3: would everybody have gone I don't know. I mean, I'm

679
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 3: just sorrying, I'm not trying to stow the pot. Sure,

680
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 3: if it was Aaron Rodgerson, I don't think it had

681
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 3: been there, you know what I mean?

682
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get what you're saying in that regard. But

683
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: a nice follow up there from from Missy at least

684
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: to some of the where for for Sleigh and his

685
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: kind of you know, listed as a a personal day.

686
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: I believe it was on the Steelers Thursday practice, which.

687
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 3: Did raise some red flags. That's weird.

688
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: And again with the timing and the trade deadline and

689
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: all these things, there was Trice looming. There was some

690
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: fair speculation there, I think, But that at least is

691
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: some rhyme to the reason Matt, it's I don't know,

692
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: do I want to go to the trenches here? Next,

693
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: Let's stick with the secondary since that's what we're talking

694
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: about obviously, the talented wide receivers. But man, it feels

695
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: like this Steelers team, and we just saw a perfect

696
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: example of it Sunday night against Tucker Craft. Your boy

697
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: has struggled against tight ends and now maybe the guy

698
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: who was the most reliable in that department, and Deshaun

699
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: Elliott is no longer there. Not only is Tyler warranted talented,

700
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: not only have the Steelers struggled in that department through

701
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, they also do a

702
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: lot to just scheme him open as well too. It's

703
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: not just running past people, it's not just in and

704
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: out of his routes, and and you know, in timing

705
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: and things like that. He also finds himself wide open

706
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 1: a couple times throughout a game as well too. How

707
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: are you matching up against him? What are you looking

708
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: for from him? How can they go about limiting you know, again,

709
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: a guy who was putting up rookie tight end numbers

710
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: that have only ever been done by Mike Ditka and

711
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: Brock Bowers.

712
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, and to go back to the draft, even Loveland

713
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 3: from Michigan, Yeah, went ahead of him.

714
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: You know, they were two high tight end picks.

715
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, they both were between ten and fifteen or whatever overall,

716
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: So they were high picks. They weren't super super high,

717
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 3: but they were pretty high picks for a tight end

718
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 3: for sure. Now, one of the reasons I believe, I'm

719
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 3: pretty much certain of it. Loveland was better in college

720
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 3: of beating one on one matchups, and Michigan didn't have

721
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 3: a ton around him, you know, like he had to

722
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 3: beat man coverage a little bit more than joe average

723
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 3: college tight end at the end his last year, you know,

724
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 3: not the you know, they won it all with McCarthy,

725
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 3: and he was just better refined route runner beating man coverage.

726
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 3: Where Warren even at Penn State, to their credit, to

727
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 3: his credit, he's a great player. Schemed him up more,

728
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 3: you know, like we're gonna get him designed touches. You

729
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 3: guys all make it easy on Warren to get the

730
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 3: ball in space, and the Colts and psych and have

731
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 3: done a remarkably good job of translating that from college

732
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 3: to pro. Yes, with all respect to the Big Ten,

733
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 3: it's a lot different.

734
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 5: It is.

735
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: It plays good football, but it's not the AFC in

736
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: the NFC.

737
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, everything's a little bit.

738
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: Just real quick, I love you. You see this every

739
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: year if Ohio State played the Jets, what would the

740
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: line be Jets minus thirty five. Get out of here

741
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: with that, right, drives me nuts.

742
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 3: Even like if you even if it was the U

743
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 3: back in the day, when you look at the roster

744
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: and be like, there's thirty future pros on here, that's still.

745
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: The Browns teams that won one game in two years,

746
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: like the oh to sixteen and the one and fifteen Browns.

747
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 3: They would lose every time.

748
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: They would be a four or five touchdown underdog. Yes,

749
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just get out of here with that.

750
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 3: And there's times they maybe even have better athletes. It

751
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all. I don't have

752
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 3: a great answer for Warren either. Again, there was a

753
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 3: bright spot. I thought Peyton Wilson played well. Yeah, and

754
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: he's gonna linebackers have a lot to do.

755
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: His kind of task Number eight.

756
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: I mean, I think just physically the way they look

757
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 3: and the way they run and his height, he's not

758
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 3: a bad matchup for him. I don't know how much

759
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 3: you ask a dugger. I tend to think as a

760
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 3: whole we might be drifting further away from as much

761
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 3: man coverage as we've seen, and we haven't seen a

762
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 3: lot of press, but there are pretty high percentage man

763
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 3: coverage team and it just isn't working that great, you know.

764
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 3: Not not that the zones are beautiful either, but it's

765
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 3: probably going to be a group effort, as it always is.

766
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 3: You got to tackle better, and you've got to be

767
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 3: better with your assignments and your recognition. But you do

768
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 3: have Wilson, Dugger Peppers who really haven't been the culprits.

769
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that the two safeties are good or bad.

770
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 3: We just haven't seen much of them. But they could

771
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 3: have new people doing it.

772
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: Then that, Matt leads to me of you better win

773
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: in the trenches in this game. Yeah, both sides of

774
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: the ball, but particularly for this Steelers defense, because if

775
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is running wild again, to use your Michael

776
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: Jordan analogy, he can score twenty five points, he's gonna

777
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: he can't score forty.

778
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 3: Five yeah, yeah, yeah.

779
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: And if you can limit him in that regard, at

780
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: least become a little bit more predictable, get them into

781
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: down in distant scenarios, thank you, Captain Obvious. That'll make

782
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: things easier on your secondary as they're trying to figure

783
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: everything out on Sunday and Matt kind of the biggest

784
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: individual matchup in that regard to me, I mean it's

785
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: got to be Cam Heyward, right, Oh yeah, yeah, a

786
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: guy who is I know this might surprise some people,

787
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: but he's actually you tweeted this out this morning. He's

788
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: the third highest graded defensive player behind Michael Parsons and Miles.

789
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 3: Garrett for Pro Football Focus.

790
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: He also it's a small sample size, it's only been

791
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: a couple games, but he has had Quintin Nelson's number

792
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: over the course of his career. That to me is

793
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: a big, highlighted circle it matchup. If Cam can do

794
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: his thing there, that would mean a lot for the

795
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: rest of the trenches, which would mean a lot for

796
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: the rest of the defense.

797
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's clearly a one on one heavyweight fight.

798
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: Oh it's Tyson and Alie.

799
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're gonna square off many snaps because Cam

800
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 3: doesn't really move off that spot. You know where Nelson's

801
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 3: gonna be. He's the left guard. Now, Nelson's always been awesome,

802
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 3: but the last couple of years he's been a little quieter,

803
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, he hasn't been the best left

804
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 3: guard in the league. He's not an every week, every

805
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 3: year all pro type guy. This year, he's better than

806
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 3: he's been in the last couple of years, you know,

807
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 3: And I know, I tweeted out about Pro Football Focus

808
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 3: and I love Cam and I think that people. I

809
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 3: put it out there just so people, Oh, this whole

810
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 3: defense thinks everybody's terrible. No, that's not the case. Now.

811
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 3: I don't think he's playing better than every defensive player

812
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 3: on the planet besides Parsons and Garrett either. Yeah, I

813
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 3: mean that's pretty high praise. That would be by far

814
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 3: his best season of his awesome career. But that one

815
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 3: on one matchup still about as good as you're gonna get.

816
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 3: And you're gonna get it a lot.

817
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,919
Speaker 1: Yes you are. That is uh one that is unavoidable.

818
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know it's it's not a wide

819
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: receiver and a defensive back and could you move this

820
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: guy around those different things? And how do you get

821
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,919
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf away from Sauce Garner or all those types

822
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: of conversation. This is two grizzly bears in a phone booth.

823
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean, And you're right. They've

824
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 3: done it before, and Cam has won more often than not.

825
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: He has, he has and hopefully that will continue because,

826
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: like I said, Captain Obvious, the trenches are massively important

827
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: on every Sunday, Thursday, Monday, whenever the game is played,

828
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: every matchup, but particularly in this one, particularly for the

829
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: Steelers defense, because you have to at least make the

830
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: Colts a little predictable, You have to at least win

831
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: on first and second down in the run game, where

832
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: Indianapolis has been doing a ton of winning. Matt to

833
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: speak to that.

834
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 3: Real quick too. I mean, Nelson's their best lineman, but

835
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 3: their O line overall is definitely top three. I mean,

836
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 3: it's a very good group. It's yeah, it's well coached.

837
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: Certainly, if you were making a if you were power

838
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: ranking the thirty two offensive lines in the NFL, they

839
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: might not be number one, but you wouldn't get too

840
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: far down there until you would until you want. No

841
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: one's playing better, and especially right now. Yeah, yeah, Matt

842
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: speaks to that because you know you have a lot

843
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: of success on first down. That means you're running the

844
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: ball well, that means you're winning in the trenches and

845
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: you're setting your offense up to have to move the

846
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 1: sticks to have a lot of success. The Colts offense

847
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: on first downs in the NFL, second best in EPA,

848
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: fourth best in success rate.

849
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again a lot of it's because they want

850
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 3: your heavy personnel on the field. So this is something

851
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 3: that I just want everyone to understand and just take

852
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 3: a quick sidebar. There's a linebacker shortage of the NFL,

853
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 3: just off the ball, Fred Warner, and then there's who

854
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 3: knows who number two is. The Steelers are above average

855
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 3: in that department. I still believe that. I still believe

856
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 3: that no matter how the defense is played the last

857
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 3: two games. So this has been a Shanahan thing forever.

858
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 3: This is why you check so important and Kittle and

859
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 3: they don't go three wide because they want to make

860
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 3: team put linebackers on the field. I mean that is

861
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 3: an offensive minded thing, is how can we get this

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Speaker 3: team to put as many linebackers position right?

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Speaker 1: But nobody in the NFL ball linebacker at it. So

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Speaker 1: keep two of those guys on the.

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Speaker 3: Field and maybe even three, which is rare, but I mean, yes,

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Speaker 3: we don't want you in your dime and putting defensive

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Speaker 3: backs out there extra pass rushers. So they're really good

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Speaker 3: about that, and that's when they use their thirteen personnel.

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Speaker 3: A lot too is to keep you in personnel groups

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Speaker 3: to their liking, and they make you kind of play

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Speaker 3: left handed out of it, and Steelers have to be

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Speaker 3: very aware of that, which I'm sure they are, don't

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Speaker 3: get me wrong, but this team's really really good at it.

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Speaker 1: They absolutely are. They certainly are. They are really good

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Speaker 1: at offense.

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Speaker 3: They're good at everything right now, I mean they are.

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Speaker 1: They've got one or two areas of the defense where

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Speaker 1: it feels like they're a little suspect. Okay, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say bad, just maybe they haven't been challenged.

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Speaker 3: Playing with the lead really helps to one, absolutely one hundred.

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Speaker 1: And I also think that's part of Listen, there, their

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Speaker 1: second and we'll get to this on the other side

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Speaker 1: in a minute, their secondary gives up, you know again

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Speaker 1: like the fifth most yards in the NFL. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: do think part of that is kind of chicken or

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Speaker 1: an egg thing of they're playing with the lead so often,

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Speaker 1: so teams are throwing against.

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Speaker 3: Them, and the fourth quarter, Buckner's got a baseball cap on,

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Speaker 3: and they're playing the Titans last wards getting some garbage

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Speaker 3: times exactly right. So some of these numbers get skewed

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Speaker 3: a little because the Layton game stuff doesn't matter because

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Speaker 3: they beat everyone so much. One thing I wanted to

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Speaker 3: mention about their offense though, and this is by no

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Speaker 3: means discrediting what they've done, but they're they're their play

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Speaker 3: caller stich In. It's kind of on a roll right

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Speaker 3: now too.

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Speaker 1: Boy is he you know, like all him butter because

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Speaker 1: he's on a roll.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's really good. The offense is the best in

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Speaker 3: the league. I'm not saying I mean, but he's also

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Speaker 3: that hitter that every every pitch looks like a beach ball,

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Speaker 3: you know, like he can't do anything wrong right now.

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Speaker 3: You know, he'd probably even sit here and tell you that.

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Speaker 1: He's shooting free throws in the basket is like times

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Speaker 1: the size.

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Speaker 3: Like this is, this is as good as it gets

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Speaker 3: it and that's bound to get back to them means

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Speaker 3: a little bit, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And again, hopefully you're the team that can do that.

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Speaker 1: Right they have maybe get some frustrations creeping into their

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Speaker 1: game that they haven't faced yet this season.

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Speaker 3: And they've been really healthy on offense.

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Speaker 1: And they certainly have they certainly.

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Speaker 3: Have begging for injuries, but see if they can overcome something.

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Speaker 3: If it's in game, you know.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope that that transpires. Certainly, so, there's kind of

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Speaker 1: a five star Friday focus Steelers defense, Colts offense. When

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Speaker 1: we come back to kick off our number two, we'll

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Speaker 1: spend the block, we'll talk to Steelers offense against the

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Speaker 1: Colts defense. More thoughts, more numbers from Matt here as

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Speaker 1: we continue to break down the big one Sunday at

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Speaker 1: Akroschure Stadium halfway home here on a Friday. It is

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