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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal, Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation. It's the Drive on Steelers Nation

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Speaker 2: Radio on the Steelers Audio Network. Lushooler and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 2: with you here on a Friday where Matt, it is

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Speaker 2: not the result we wanted. It is not the mood

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Speaker 2: that we were hoping to meet in as the Steelers

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Speaker 2: follow the Bengals thirty three to thirty one. And hey,

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Speaker 2: weird things happen in divisional games. Weird things happen on

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Speaker 2: Thursday nights. But I did not see it going down

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Speaker 2: like that. I did not. If you would have told

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Speaker 2: me before the game, the Steelers are going to score

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Speaker 2: thirty one points, I would have been like, easy, easy win. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean Cincinnati will get twenty. Yeah, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: not like they're going to blow him out. But thirty

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Speaker 2: one points, that'll absolutely be enough to beat this team.

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Speaker 2: And it was not as as that Steelers defense gave

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Speaker 2: up thirty three to the Joe Flacco, Jamar Chase T

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Speaker 2: Higgins and that Bengals offense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so a couple of things. Forty nine percent of

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Speaker 3: the game was great. Fifty one percent of it wasn't

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Speaker 3: and obviously it would. That line of demarcation was depending

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Speaker 3: who had the fort.

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Speaker 2: Like an election, you know, all you got to do

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Speaker 2: is get fifty one percent of the people to vote

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Speaker 2: for and you control the country.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: And the offense Steeler offense made a few more mistakes

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Speaker 3: than the Bengals offense in a pure shootout that you

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Speaker 3: couldn't afford to happen. Now it's a loss, So I

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Speaker 3: think you start with the negatives and going into the game.

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Speaker 3: Something we talked about a lot were, man, there's not

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Speaker 3: many matchups to favor the Bengals here, you know, but

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Speaker 3: if they're you know, we often have the conversation, how

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Speaker 3: can the Steelers lose this game?

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Speaker 4: Or what could derail them?

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Speaker 3: And the couple things that I stood out were Higgins

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Speaker 3: and Chase Higgins and Chase Higgins and Chase of course,

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously that's the lowest of hanging fruit Steelers

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Speaker 3: on the road in division game Thursday night. You know,

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Speaker 3: that hasn't been great. And the thing that we talked

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Speaker 3: about with Merrill Hodge all the time is, you know,

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Speaker 3: never underestimate a wounded or embarrassed professional athlete, you know,

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Speaker 3: And it was kind of the all the above. And

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Speaker 3: I don't want to blame the It seems too easy

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Speaker 3: or too kind to the defense to blame short week

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Speaker 3: on the road, agreed, And I'm not going to use

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Speaker 3: that as an excuse. But they did not have the

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Speaker 3: energy and juice that they have the past two weeks

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Speaker 3: on that side of the.

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Speaker 4: Ball at all.

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Speaker 3: I mean just getting off the ball, They getting guys

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Speaker 3: the ball, you know, aggression, violence, hitting, tackling.

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Speaker 4: Now it's on excuse you gotta win. Yeah, that's how

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Speaker 4: the league is.

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Speaker 2: I think with some context too of a lot of

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Speaker 2: those guys were sitting down the stretch against the Browns

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, Yeah yeah, yeah, right. A lot of those

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Speaker 2: guys probably got ten snaps less in that Cleveland game

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Speaker 2: than they would have if that was a one possession game.

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Speaker 3: You know, Like Watt had something going on at the

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Speaker 3: end of that that Browns game that wasn't really reported.

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Speaker 3: But he wasn't really himself last night, you know. But again,

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Speaker 3: these are on the.

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Speaker 2: Defense, right right. Cam Hayward had been playing very well.

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Speaker 2: Didn't see it last night. Nick Herbig had been inevitable

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Speaker 2: quiet last night. I thought Patrick Queen was off to

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Speaker 2: a fantastic start this season, didn't play well last night,

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Speaker 2: and then of course whoever you want to talk about

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Speaker 4: Nobody's happy that it was.

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Speaker 2: Nowhere close to good enough. And again you and I

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Speaker 2: said plenty of times leading up to that game, Jamar

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Speaker 2: Chase is going to make some place. T Higgins is

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Speaker 2: going to make some place. Those guys are superstars. Those

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Speaker 2: guys are gazillionaires for a real pros and pro bowlers,

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Speaker 2: and Jamar Chase is going to be in Canton one

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Speaker 2: day for a reason. But my goodness, Matt sixteen receptions

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Speaker 4: Yeah, now, that was horrific. I mean, the passing the past.

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Speaker 2: It expected that the change in the second half, because

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Speaker 2: that's one thing they did do a good job of

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Speaker 2: last year. We talked about that a ton, and they'll

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Speaker 2: build up to this season. Best third quarter differential in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And a huge part.

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Speaker 2: Of that was those halftime adjustments, particularly on defense last

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Speaker 2: year didn't see it at all last night.

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Speaker 3: No, well yes, and no. It bothers me that I apologize.

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Speaker 3: I'm lumping some of you together for Joe, not you.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about the common fan will just be like

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Speaker 3: Chase is lighting you up. So obviously they made no adjustments.

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Speaker 3: They tried different things.

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Speaker 2: They did.

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Speaker 3: Nothing worked. Nothing worked. I mean, I would have liked

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Speaker 3: to see more press.

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Speaker 2: Coverage the one and we're recording.

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Speaker 4: This is kind of a weird time.

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Speaker 3: I've not watched the All twenty two, Like, yeah, they

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Speaker 3: played man, but off man. They were just running right

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Speaker 3: So they did try different people, and they did try

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Speaker 3: different things, and the ball came out really quick two

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Speaker 3: point four seconds. Give Flacco credit. I mean, it's hard

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Speaker 3: to disrupt things, but when you saw the ball coming

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Speaker 3: out that quick, put your hands on. Disrupt the routes

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Speaker 3: from my opinion, just watching TV tape now. Sometimes in

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Speaker 3: this league or in any sport, you know, you just go,

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Speaker 3: holy cow, that guy's the best day who done the

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Speaker 3: ice and he's an unstoppable force and that was Chase Sure,

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Speaker 3: and that's not okay, but it happens once in a while.

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Speaker 3: We go that dude's special, and he's special, but the

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Speaker 4: That bothers me more. That would to me, that's the sin.

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Speaker 2: Chase Brown was averaging fourteen point eight yards per carry at.

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Speaker 4: The half, right right, I almost want to eight holes.

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Speaker 2: You know this, I'm assuming a lot of the listeners

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Speaker 2: do I do the halftime reports from the stadiums wherever

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Speaker 2: we're at, and one of this. You know, it's like

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Speaker 2: a scoring recap segment where we play highlights, then it's

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Speaker 2: an around the league segment, then it's a stats segment, okay,

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Speaker 2: and so it's always it's happens very quickly. Obviously it's halftime.

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Speaker 2: It's like three four minute segments, and so the stats segment,

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Speaker 2: I don't really kind of deep dive look at him.

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Speaker 4: You probably described three or four until the two.

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Speaker 2: And a half minutes that I have in break right

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Speaker 2: And I was like this, I'm looking at the iPad

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Speaker 2: I'm like, this can't be right. Chase Brown is not

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Speaker 2: averaging fourteen point eight yards per carry carry. A statistician

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Speaker 2: that travels with us Denny postofka, great guy, I'm like

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Speaker 2: dead eight. I'm like yelling at the back. They're all

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Speaker 2: and he's like, no.

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Speaker 4: That's right, that's exactly what happened.

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Speaker 2: And he finished with nine point eight. So, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it got a little bit better in the second half,

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Speaker 2: but that's.

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Speaker 4: Still unacceptable, especially for where that running game was.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and eight yards on eleven carries.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it wasn't like he busted one eighty yarder

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Speaker 2: that's not an eighty yard outlier.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't like, well, okay, we had won bad.

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Speaker 2: Believen Samashi p Ryme was going for four and a

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Speaker 2: half yards, big holes, and they were typically in those

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Speaker 4: And the tackling was really poor.

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Speaker 2: Again, that was something I had in my notes to

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Speaker 2: bring up with you after that was an issue. At

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Speaker 2: the start of the season, it felt like it was

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Speaker 2: moving in the right direction. The last couple of night

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Speaker 2: absolute went back to being an issue big time again.

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Speaker 3: Last night, and I really hesitate to keep bringing it up.

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Speaker 3: But you do often see really bad tackling on Thursday

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Speaker 3: night games period. I mean, how many times he was

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Speaker 3: Derrick Henry on Thursday night stiff arming Jags and Titans.

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Speaker 3: And you know, right, I mean again, that's not okay.

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Speaker 3: It's one of the reason I hate Thursday football is

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Speaker 3: you don't give many guys to the ball. You don't

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Speaker 3: arrive with as much aggression. You know, you're just a

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Speaker 3: little off. It's not okay, though, It's it's just not okay.

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Speaker 3: And again, that was not I did a show with

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Speaker 3: triv you know, it wasn't Jim Brown, Chase Brown.

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Speaker 2: No. And I said this to you guys before we

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Speaker 2: started recording. We knew that they were going to make

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Speaker 2: some place. Yeah, you combine it's in their place, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, they had that whole white out thing.

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Speaker 2: The place was jumping, it was loud, it was.

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Speaker 4: It seemed that way. They were ready to go.

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Speaker 2: It was like a collegiate type atmosphere. They were they

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Speaker 2: were ready to go. As you mentioned, wounded animal, embarrassed animal.

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Speaker 2: If we lose this, we fall to two and five

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Speaker 2: in our seasons. Oh yeah, there's a huge Like we'll

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Speaker 2: talk about this with the Steelers. There's a massive difference

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Speaker 2: between five and one and four and two.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's a division. So happy it went this way.

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Speaker 2: There's a massive difference for the Bengals between three and

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Speaker 2: four and two and five.

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Speaker 4: That's a difference of trading. Trade Henderson to Mark.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly right. You combine all those things. It

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Speaker 2: was never going to be. Let's stroll in there and

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Speaker 2: win by three touchdowns and this will be easy, and we'll.

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Speaker 4: We'll be everyone in their building knew they had.

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Speaker 2: We'll beat them thirty to ten, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: or twenty seven to ten or something like that. But

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Speaker 2: it also, Matt should not cannot Thursday night. I don't

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Speaker 2: care if you're playing against the greatest show on turf.

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Speaker 2: I don't care if it's Montana and Rice.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I don't care.

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Speaker 3: If it's a double header from Sunday and you're so

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Speaker 3: tired you can't even walk.

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Speaker 2: They scored on seven straight possessions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like that.

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Speaker 2: That cannot happen. That that just point blank, and I

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Speaker 2: believe I gotta double check this. I'm running on like

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Speaker 2: three hours of sleep. Wasn't it their last seven possessions

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Speaker 2: of the game. They scored on all straight of their

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Speaker 2: last seven possessions of the game.

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Speaker 4: I think so, yes, Like yeah, no.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, they had one punt in there. Seven of their

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Speaker 2: last eight possessions result in point resulted in points. Field

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Speaker 2: goals are touchdowns. Again, I don't care if you're playing

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Speaker 2: Montana in right. That can't happen.

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Speaker 4: It can't happen. It can't happen.

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Speaker 3: And Chase is Rice, you know, yeah, I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: the level of player he is. But you made it

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Speaker 3: too easy on Joe, I mean. And so I didn't

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Speaker 3: bring this up yet because I've been on a bunch

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Speaker 3: of stuff when I've got up a couple of times.

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Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: I remember this Tomlin rival and I've played a lot

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Speaker 3: You know, let's make a run at this thing. I

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Speaker 2: You would still see that from Ben from time to

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Speaker 4: And we've seen it all year with Rogers, which has

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Speaker 3: Blast exactly we saw them Flacca.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly right. And you know, Matt in a game

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Speaker 2: That's a great way to put it. I blame Rob King.

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Speaker 2: But that was you go up ten, you fall behind ten,

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Speaker 3: That's one of the things that bothers me a little

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Speaker 2: God forbid, they shanked that field goal, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that guy just misses the field goal, it hits.

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Speaker 4: That's good, Roger victory.

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Speaker 2: For one hundred and twenty seven yards.

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Speaker 3: They still didn't tackle or do anything to slow down

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Speaker 2: Back on the Drive here on a bit of a

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Speaker 2: discuss Wait, hold on, matt I totally messed this up.

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Speaker 2: We gotta at least get something right here. You gotta

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Speaker 2: What was kind of the temperature like on the sideline

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Speaker 5: I mean you definitely it was bad. Yes, you did

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Speaker 3: So did you also have the feeling early, boy, the

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Speaker 5: it was still so early in the game, and then

438
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 5: it was what twenty unanswered points, You're just like, oh boy, title,

439
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 5: something needs to yeah, yeah, and it was. It happened quick,

440
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 5: and it just felt like they were not able to

441
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 5: stop it or in terms of the defense, and then

442
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 5: on offense they just were not able to get down

443
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 5: the field and get points.

444
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 2: Missy. One thing that I was encouraged by was, you know,

445
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 2: we saw I think some guys that we had been

446
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 2: waiting to have a breakout type game have breakout type games,

447
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,879
Speaker 2: namely Pat Fryermouth I mean five receptions one hundred and

448
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,360
Speaker 2: eleven yards, the two touchdowns, and Jalen Warren as well

449
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,159
Speaker 2: to sixteen carries one hundred and twenty seven yards seven

450
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 2: point nine yards per carry for him. The Steelers as

451
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 2: a team seven point four yards. Yeah, that is exactly

452
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 2: what we've been looking for. And it was nice to

453
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Speaker 2: see it from from thirty and eighty eight last night.

454
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and Max kept saying it on the broadcast, But

455
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Speaker 5: it is exactly what I was thinking. Friarmouth always has

456
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 5: a big game in Cincinnati. Yeah, and who the quarterback is.

457
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Speaker 5: You know, it was with Tunny Pickett, he did it

458
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 5: with Rustlash. It's just it's something about Cincinnati, specifically in

459
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Speaker 5: Cincinnati that he just goes off. And I did feel like,

460
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Speaker 5: you know, he was due for a breakout game of

461
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Speaker 5: you know, not being so involved in the offenses vire

462
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Speaker 5: accustomed to him seeing. I mean, I think he had

463
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Speaker 5: seven touchdowns his rookie with Ben. You know, this is

464
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Speaker 5: a guy that was there's a reason why they gave

465
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Speaker 5: him a contract. So it was good to see that

466
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Speaker 5: that sort of worked. And it is odd because, like

467
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 5: you said, he had a great game Jalen Warren, but

468
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 5: when you look at the offense or like, but it

469
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 5: didn't feel like a great game. And I think it

470
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 5: was a lot of the possession downs, you know, the

471
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Speaker 5: the weight he downs his coach Tomlin calls them, and

472
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Speaker 5: their inability to like get into this rhythm that felt

473
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Speaker 5: that it carried over from drive to drive. So it

474
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 5: kind of stinks for those guys that they had great

475
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 5: games and such a game that was almost like defeating.

476
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,439
Speaker 5: Doesn't you look at the score You're like, oh, it

477
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 5: was close, It's like it didn't feel like it was close.

478
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Speaker 3: So I often ask you about Aaron Rodgers because I'm

479
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 3: so fascinated with him as a human, as a professional,

480
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 3: as a future Hall of Famer, as an all time great,

481
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 3: And it seemed just watching TV as a lot of

482
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Speaker 3: our listeners probably were that boy, he seemed, as usual,

483
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 3: in complete control, total command, understood how to attack the defense.

484
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Speaker 3: But I think it was also pretty clear that there

485
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 3: were at least a handful of times that he was

486
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 3: frustrated with his teammates, you know, for screwing something up.

487
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Like I mean you saw like on the

488
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 5: flee flicker, like he immediately you know, started talking to

489
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 5: Jalen on the field, and then it carried over off

490
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 5: the field. Not in in a bad manner. I think

491
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 5: he is you know, as you said, he diagnoses things

492
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 5: so well, he sees things. He is a perfectionist. He

493
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 5: wants everybody to be on the same page to communicate,

494
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 5: to be perfect too, and it's clear that when there

495
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 5: is miscommunication or one person does the wrong thing, a

496
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 5: play breaks down and it can end badly, which unfortunately

497
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Speaker 5: for the offense, that happened several times yesterday. But then

498
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 5: it's you know, they go over to the field, he's

499
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 5: looking at the surface. Jalen Warren comes over, you know,

500
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 5: he literally told him something. You know, I'm reading his

501
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 5: lips like, that's on me, sorry, gave him a handshake,

502
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 5: Arthur Smith kind of padded Jalen on the back. He

503
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 5: went back over by the riding backs, Aaron and Arthur Smith,

504
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 5: and you know, the quarterbacks and quarterback coach continue to

505
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 5: like go over things. So yeah, I mean even you know,

506
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 5: when the touchdown happened, and he is doing his like

507
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 5: jumping almost like it reminds me of like Mario almost

508
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 5: with like his hands and how he jumps celebration after

509
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 5: that touchdown, and then Broderick kind of like cackled him.

510
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 2: Yeah that social media. Yeah no, And it was weird

511
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 2: because I was clearly like on the Steeler sideline, so

512
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: I wasn't.

513
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 5: Seeing it where I could see Aaron's face when it happened,

514
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 5: and I saw it live and I'm like, what are

515
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 5: they doing? And I said, you know, to one of

516
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 5: the guys on the sideline, like are they fighting? And

517
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 5: he's like, no, I don't know because I didn't see

518
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 5: how they got to the ground, but he looked mad.

519
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 5: And then everyone's like, oh, no, they're good. And then

520
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 5: I mean, Aaron was very excited after that happened, even

521
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 5: when he came over to the sideline, But then I

522
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 5: saw the clip on social medium, like, oh okay, my

523
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 5: first instinct was right. He was not too happy about

524
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 5: being taken to the ground by Brodrick Joe. So yeah,

525
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,239
Speaker 5: he is one of those guys where I think, you know,

526
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 5: he wears his emotions on his sleeve, you know, where

527
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 5: he stands. It's not like he's sugarcoats things, which I

528
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 5: think is what this offense needs and has needed as

529
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 5: we've seen kind of this evolution of them, especially you know,

530
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 5: just from what last year was to this year. You

531
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 5: talk about scoring on opening drive, it's like not just

532
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 5: scoring on opening drives, but like scoring touchdowns on opening drives.

533
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of good, but it just felt

534
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 5: like last night was a very disjointed performance.

535
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Speaker 2: I think that's a very good way to put it.

536
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Speaker 2: Missy Matthews, the Queen of the Sideline, kind enough to

537
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Speaker 2: give us some of her time here on a few

538
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: hours of sleep on this Friday. Missy, thank you as always,

539
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 2: enjoy the weekend, get some rest, and we'll talk to

540
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 2: you next week.

541
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Speaker 5: All right, sounds good, guys, you too, there.

542
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: She goes Missy Matthews. And yeah, I mean, so game ends, okay,

543
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 2: and I think I've kind of walked you through this before,

544
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 2: but game ends, and it's like a mad rush for us.

545
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 4: And yeah, so.

546
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 2: We got to clean everything up, break everything down, and

547
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 2: we've got like twenty minutes to get from exactly right

548
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 2: the buses are leaving to the plane with or without us,

549
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,479
Speaker 2: and so we've got to get the equipment packed up.

550
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 2: We've got to get it to the elevator and all

551
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: the way downstairs into the Steelers equipment truck. And then

552
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 2: you usually want to like grab some food or something

553
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: you're yeah, because you're you're starving and getting you know,

554
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 2: getting on the bus and on the plane and all

555
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 2: that stuff. So that whole whirlwind happens. I get some food,

556
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 2: get on the bus, all that and you finally kind

557
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: of like breathe for a second, and I looked at

558
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 2: my phone. You know, my first thing I do is

559
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: pop up on Twitter, and it is just that Proger

560
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: Jones and Aaron Rodgers clip every everything, everything, every third

561
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 2: tweet in my feed was was was somebody sharing that one.

562
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Speaker 3: I don't know if I misunderstood Missy talking about it live,

563
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 3: but she said it sounded.

564
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 4: Like he got over it real quick.

565
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was just like, what are you doing, idiot?

566
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: Don't you know? Boys being boys almost type of thing?

567
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 3: Right, Like I'm old and I get tackled enough, don't

568
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 3: do that right, And it's.

569
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Speaker 2: It's also it's one of those things too that like

570
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: you hold on and you win that game, and that

571
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 2: becomes kind of like funny bonding rally. So much of yesterday,

572
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: if you hold on to win that game becomes a

573
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 2: bonding rally. Nothing nothing went our way. We couldn't stop

574
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: the run, we couldn't stop the past, we weren't forcing turn.

575
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 3: Just like we talked about last segment, if the kicker

576
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 3: hits you upright as opposed to going down the middle.

577
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 3: All that stuff's funny, you know, and it doesn't mean

578
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 3: it's corrected.

579
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Speaker 2: Funny, how like I amuse like a clown? Well funny,

580
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: how that's so funny, Matt, I do have a not

581
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: so funny stat to run by you. And our final

582
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 2: segment here of the final hour, we'll do that talk more.

583
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: We'll just rapid game reaction. I mean this is I

584
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: feel like we'll do a game rewind on Monday since

585
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 2: we have more time next week, you and I will

586
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 2: both have time to rewatch and have more specific thoughts

587
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 2: and minutia and all that. But we'll continue to just

588
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 2: kind of I.

589
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 3: Would think next week too, we get into a little

590
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 3: more drafts though totally and you know some stuff, you know,

591
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 3: totally got a bunch of days to YEA.

592
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: One hundred percent there with you on that. But we'll

593
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: continue to just kind of download all of our thoughts

594
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: from last night here on this show today and hour

595
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Speaker 2: number two, we will get to some tweets. We will

596
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: do our typical around the league that we do on

597
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 2: a Friday and run through the gambit of games as well,

598
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 2: so plenty to get to as we continue here, we'll

599
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 2: wrap up the first hour on the other side. What Shouler,

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, it is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio

601
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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network, your.

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Speaker 1: Tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven home

603
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Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

604
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Speaker 2: All right, Matt, I know you're the stats guy here.

605
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 2: You might have seen this one last night, but I

606
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: did mention you know that those seven straight possessions with

607
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 2: points eight of their last nine. I think it was

608
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: with points when our seven other last eight eight of

609
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 2: their last nine, something like that. When it all shook out,

610
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 2: I said, I don't care if it's the greatest show

611
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: on turf. I don't care if it's Montana and Rice.

612
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: That can't happen.

613
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 4: It can happen, right, jamar Cha.

614
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 2: Sixteen receptions? Did you see this?

615
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 3: I saw that part, every one of them.

616
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 4: Yeah.

617
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 2: That ties Jerry Rice for the most receptions ever in

618
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Speaker 2: a primetime game. I put in my notes here, Number one.

619
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Speaker 2: I put in my notes here, Jerry bleep and Rice.

620
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: If your opponent is doing something only Jerry Rice has done,

621
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Speaker 2: that's never going to be good.

622
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Speaker 4: Never gonna be good. It's funny.

623
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Speaker 3: Jerry Rice came up a couple times recently. Joe Flacco,

624
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Speaker 3: Jerry Rice, and Jon Stener Rude are the only guys

625
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 3: that got traded that are older than Joe Flacco. Okay,

626
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 3: Jan stener Rud's a Hall of Fame kicker from the seventies.

627
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 3: Tom and I got a big kick out of that.

628
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: I remember, Yeah, he came over from Europe. He was

629
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Speaker 3: like one of the first soccer st kickers. Pittsburgh Symphony

630
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 3: people are like this.

631
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Speaker 4: He revolutionized kicking.

632
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Speaker 3: So Jerry, Jerry Rice and Senrud the only two guys

633
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: in EFL history that are older than Flacco that got traded.

634
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 4: Wow, Like nobody wants you when you're that age. Put

635
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 4: you out the pastor.

636
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: Sure is a great stat That is a great stat.

637
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 2: And I just, Matt, I, yeah, that's not so.

638
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 4: Like you said, if you're doing same things with Jerry Rice.

639
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: It's not good. It's good for him, it's good for him.

640
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: Your opponent, you're yes, if your opponent is doing something

641
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: that only Jerry Rice has done. Not great, not great,

642
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: not great.

643
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: He was ridiculously good last night, by the way he was.

644
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 3: I mean sometimes you just have to go wow, is

645
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 3: that guy an amazing football player? The way he comes

646
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: out of his breaks and how strong he is, and

647
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 3: I mean he moves so well, so well, I bet

648
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: he was really fun to watch live too.

649
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 2: It's definitely that one where he like bobbled it four

650
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: or five times and then.

651
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 4: I think you might take it to the house.

652
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 2: Move got a slave's way that happened right in front

653
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: of the booth, right in front of us.

654
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 4: And you know this coordination and you know balance.

655
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: Working in this industry, and I think you you could

656
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: still obviously relate to this. I mean, you were scout

657
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: in college, scouting the pros. You can get a little

658
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 2: jaded going to so many games. And I always hesitate, like.

659
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 4: It gets somewhat routine.

660
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: I should, and I always hesitate to bring this up

661
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 2: on air because I don't want to make it seem

662
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: like I'm like sticking my chest out. And I get

663
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: to go to so many Steeler games, but I go

664
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: to twenty if you count preseason in playoffs, I've been

665
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 2: going to twenty one Steelers games a year, basically. Sure,

666
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 2: you know, for a long time, ton of WVU games,

667
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: ton of Penguins games.

668
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 3: I mean, you know what I mean, professionals or high

669
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 3: end college athletes.

670
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: When I lived in Philadelphia, I went to a ton

671
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 2: of Sixers games and saw Steph Curry and Klay Thompson

672
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: and those Warriors teams play, saw Lebron and those Lakers

673
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 2: teams play. It's it's very rare, and I'm fortunate to

674
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: say this at this point in my career of the

675
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: hundreds of sporting events that I've been to, either as

676
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 2: a fan or covering professionally, to still be like, Wow,

677
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 2: that guy did something tonight that was different, that was special.

678
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 4: I hope everyone recognizes that.

679
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 3: That's why I brought it up, because what he did

680
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: was as good a receiver day as you'll ever see

681
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 3: in the history of the game.

682
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 4: I mean, like it's.

683
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: When I was in college, LSU came to Morgantown. It

684
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: was the first time Game Day ever came to Morgantown.

685
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: They ranked like third in the country. We were ranked

686
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: eighteenth something like that.

687
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 4: Huge big game.

688
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and LSU beat us. And I'm telling you, if

689
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: they didn't have Tyron, Matthew w W wins the game.

690
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 3: Like he's always said this about Troy and his hair

691
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: made it obvious. But like, I'm not making fun of

692
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 3: my wife, but she has know the first down is

693
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 3: but like if you go to a game and she's like,

694
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: who's forty three, who's sixty six Like, to me, that's

695
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: the test.

696
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 4: People don't know anything. Yo, who's that guy?

697
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 2: When we when my wife would have been last one

698
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: of my wife and I went ten years ago to

699
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 2: watch the Lakers play the Sixers in Philly. I'll never forget.

700
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: Lebron had this play. He took three steps from mid

701
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: court and dunked it, like just yeah, prime athlete. Lebron

702
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: just exploded through the defense and threw it down. And

703
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: my wife was like, that's not normal. I was like, no, sweetheart,

704
00:33:58,960 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 2: it's not.

705
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 3: A good friend of mine. Our sons are the same age.

706
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 3: And he invited us to go and we couldn't go,

707
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 3: but they did the typical let's go up to Cleveland

708
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 3: for a preseason game just so we can see an

709
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 3: NBA game. And he came back and I remember us

710
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 3: having beers with him that night. You know, he took

711
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 3: his son, who was Big Hooper. He was like eight

712
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 3: years old. He was young, and he wanted to see

713
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 3: an NBA game, took him a preseason game. He comes back,

714
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 3: He's like, Lebron didn't play that stuck. But this guy

715
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 3: they called the Greek freak kid, and I'd never heard

716
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 3: of him, but holy spokes, like he like he's six'

717
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 3: ten and takes three strides and he's up and down

718
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 3: the court like everyone on the planet's, like who's?

719
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 5: That?

720
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 4: Yep that was last.

721
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 2: Night we lost by. THIRTEEN i think THE LSU wvu

722
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 2: in that game And Tyron math he played. Unbelievable he

723
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 2: forced two. Turnovers one of them he blitzed from the.

724
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: Slot gino tried to dump it over his head To Tevon.

725
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: Austin he jumped up and tipped it to himself and caught,

726
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: it juked Out Tavon austin and took it for a pick.

727
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 4: Six like he had a great pro, career but he

728
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,959
Speaker 4: was one of the best college. Defense he probably should

729
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 4: have won The high as a defensive.

730
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: Back i'm walking off the field And i'm telling all

731
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: the PEOPLE i work, with Like i'm pissed, off But i'm,

732
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 2: like if they don't Have, tyro if they don't have

733
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: a strong, safety they lose that. Game, yeah you know

734
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: WHAT i. Mean like they don't Have Chase brown last,

735
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 2: night and he's a wide. Receiver there's, more, Yeah Jamar

736
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: chase part of, me there's.

737
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 4: And the other quarterback just couldn't give them the. Ball you're, like.

738
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 3: RIGHT i, mean if it wasn't if they would have

739
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 3: average quarterback play these last couple of, Weeks bengal season

740
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 3: would be.

741
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,439
Speaker 4: A lot, different, Right and he wouldn't do that every,

742
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 4: week but it's probably you.

743
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: Throw them the ball twenty three times a, week he's

744
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: gonna put up some.

745
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 3: Numbers there's not really an answer for. Them but what's

746
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 3: going on the answer is when their quarterback can't hit.

747
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: Him exactly, right. Right what's crazy to me about that

748
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: is he didn't have one Single what they would, classify

749
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 2: we talk about this all the time is explosive, play right.

750
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 4: Right it wasn't, like, oh he had that eighty.

751
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 2: Yarder his longest catch was eighteen. Yards that doesn't even

752
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 2: qualify as an explosive.

753
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 3: Play which is a compliment because he's WHAT i, mean

754
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 3: it makes it more, impressive, right. Right they couldn't do anything,

755
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 3: Again it wasn't like they screwed up once.

756
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 2: And he had and he had an eighty, yarder and

757
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 2: that completely skews his.

758
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 3: Average right, right, right didn't Even Sean jackson gets behind

759
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 3: the defense because he's super.

760
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 4: Fast he did do anything.

761
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: Else, Man he didn't even have a twenty, yarder which.

762
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 4: Is every route wards productive just, insane just just.

763
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 2: Insane and then.

764
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 3: And if you don't care about this, game back to the,

765
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 3: point you should have loved watching that, awesome they're, Right

766
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 3: like if they, do if he Plays Monday night next

767
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 3: week and he beats The Browns moe night Like.

768
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 2: Chase, outstanding and you, know it just felt like to

769
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 2: one of those games where you were just waiting for

770
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 2: the defense to make a big play and they never.

771
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 4: Did, yeah because they so often.

772
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: Do they so often.

773
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 3: Do even like WHEN tj And cam collided for the,

774
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 3: Sack i'm, like there's be another one, Coming there's be a.

775
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 4: Tip they had.

776
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 2: ONE i think it was the first. Possession, yeah that

777
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 2: one LATE tj And. Cam that was.

778
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 3: It when you'll kickball, coming that's gonna end up WHETHER

779
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: TF i.

780
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 2: Want to, say there was no big, plays and that

781
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: is that's the double edged sword of This steelers.

782
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 4: Defense live by it and die by, It.

783
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 2: Live by and, die but live by the, sword die

784
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 2: by the.

785
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 4: Sword and you have to be better on a downtown.

786
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: Basis when they're not all year, long when they're not

787
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 2: winning the sack, differential when they're not winning the turnover,

788
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 2: differential it is it is tough for them to be

789
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 2: the defense that they should, be that they're supposed.

790
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 4: To, be and that part is.

791
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 3: Troubling that they're great at creating, splash great as good

792
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 3: as you're going to, see but it's hard to count

793
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 3: on and the days you don't AND i understand not

794
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 3: it's been a slog like not everybody in the league

795
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 3: has the pass catchers That cincinnati, have not even.

796
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 4: Close of, course a lot of teams wouldn't have still

797
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 4: won the.

798
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 2: Game how much did we talk about leading up To thursday?

799
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 2: Two this is why you went out and Got, ramsey

800
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: this is why you went out and Got, slagh this

801
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: is why you went out and. Reworked that secondary was

802
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 2: for opponents like this, exactly and it looked like.

803
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 4: That, yeah against these, two what you did wasn't good

804
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 4: enough in the, offseason and if they played again tomorrow

805
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 4: or in two, months.

806
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: A few, weeks it could be.

807
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 3: Different i'm, sure, yeah BUT i don't know who's Covering.

808
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 3: CHASE i, mean, frankly this is a problem every defense

809
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 3: is going to. HAVE i, mean maybe certain would do.

810
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 3: Better there's five or six guys that would battle, him,

811
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 3: sure not to a draw, even but Would, YEAH i

812
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 3: mean there's some the elite. Guys but to, think, man

813
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 3: we'll just we're able to shut Down chase now and Then,

814
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 3: higgins it ain't.

815
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 4: Happened, no, yeah it's not.

816
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 3: WORRIES i still Think grahamsy's, Fine porter's a little, grabby

817
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 3: but slave might be a little.

818
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 4: Old and it's it's.

819
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: Mad it's not even because you AND i said, this

820
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: every Reasonable steelers fan or media member said. This you

821
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: knew those guys were going to make some.

822
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 4: Place they will next, week they will the week.

823
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: After you could play perfect defense On Steph. Curry he's

824
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 2: gonna make some. Shots like it's just.

825
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 4: Going from half. Court it goes not a, lot you

826
00:38:59,360 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 4: can do.

827
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: It it going to. Happen but it was way more

828
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 2: than it was way. More obviously it was. Excessive if

829
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 2: those guys just make some, plays you probably get out

830
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 2: of there with a thirty one to twenty seven win

831
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: or something like. That, yeah that's WHY i.

832
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 4: Think that's WHY i said the sin was the run,

833
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 4: defense because that. Bad it was.

834
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 2: BAD i mean, right, yeah six point two yards per

835
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: carry and that includes with kind of, flaccos you, know

836
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 2: skewed with the sack average in there. Too i'm sure

837
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 2: if we take out flacos five carries for three. Yards,

838
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 2: yeah air quotes there that one of those was like.

839
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 4: A sneak and one of them was a push push

840
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 4: or something like.

841
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 3: That, yeah, right, right, Right but, yeah the run defense

842
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: to me is more troubling than, oh you got a

843
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 3: hat trick against, YOU i mean a hat trick against

844
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 3: The blackhawks And capitals later in the.

845
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 4: Years actually just happened to be on the wrong end

846
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 4: of the bad night against the Stud. Well the run, defense,

847
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 4: though especially with their history of being a bad running. Team.

848
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 2: OOH i did not think that we'd get back to

849
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 2: the point of or that we'd get to a point

850
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 2: now where maybe if you pulled The steelers fans today

851
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: and people are. Hyperbolic now you laid this out like

852
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 2: a couple of, plays and we're all singing a different tune.

853
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 2: Today i've said many times football is our favorite sport

854
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: in this. Country it's. Religion and you get seventeen maybe

855
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 2: meaningful games a year if you're lucky for your. Team

856
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: everybody does, This BUT i bet you if you Polled

857
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: steelers fans right, now they might be feeling better about

858
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 2: the offense than the. Defense AND i don't think.

859
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 4: Yeah nobody saw. That we saw it last, night after.

860
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: What Aaron rodgers was able to, do after What Jalen

861
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 2: warren was able to, do.

862
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 4: And we should recognize that as a bad. Defense But

863
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 4: i'm trusting the offense.

864
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: More, yeah, Absolutely, Yeah and you know that is the

865
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: real bummer to, me Because i'm sure you probably do this.

866
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 2: Too once you get to the fourth quarter of, Games

867
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 2: i'm starting to, think what's the, storyline what's the, like

868
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 2: what's the? Headline you know WHAT i? Mean, yeah If

869
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Speaker 2: I'm kabali and Dou lac or If I'm dale AND

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Speaker 2: i had to actually write, stories what's the? Headline what's

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Speaker 2: the my?

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Speaker 4: Angle you?

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Speaker 2: Know and it changed five different times in the last

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Speaker 2: five minutes because you're, Like, okay the the angle is

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Speaker 2: that now the offense did enough to make up for,

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Speaker 2: it and you're feeling great about the, offense and While.

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Speaker 4: Aaron rodgers broke, free holy the.

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Speaker 2: Day, okay now the angle is going to be the

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Speaker 2: defense is going to be able to make the one

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Speaker 2: play they need to win this, game and they were

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Speaker 2: bad for fifty eight minutes but they Made, okay now

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00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 2: the angle switches back to you, know the defense was

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Speaker 2: bad and the offense wasn't able to do, enough and

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Speaker 2: those two turnovers really loom, large and it was.

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Speaker 4: How games go a. Lot that's what People want's why

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Speaker 4: people tune in Every. Sunday you, KNOW i.

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Speaker 2: Am i'll be honest with. You there's times where like

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Speaker 2: going back and watching the game and checking my notes

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00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 2: and taking more notes and all that stuff can become

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a. Task it won't be, whenever you,

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Speaker 2: know Probably sunday, night Sometimes sunday WHEN i rewatch this,

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00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 2: Game i'm very excited to sit down and rewatch. This

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Speaker 2: there's so much back and, forth there's so much to.

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Speaker 4: Get it is entertaining.

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Speaker 2: Game you, Know there's been times in the past. Years

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00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 2: i'm sure you can relate to. This The steelers win

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00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 2: a game sixteen to ten And i'm, Like i'm not

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00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: excited to go back and watch. This drip those games

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Speaker 2: Where Kenny pickett would make a couple of plays at.

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Speaker 4: The end of the game and they'd win.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen to, ten And i'm, Like i'm not excited to

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Speaker 2: go back and watch. This this was not a. Mona lisa,

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Speaker 2: Like i'm excited to go. BACK i don't know if

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Speaker 2: excited is the right. Word But i'm looking forward to

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Speaker 2: being able.

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Speaker 4: To be a lot from.

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Speaker 2: It, yeah because, again particularly that second, half particularly that fourth,

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Speaker 2: quarter there was there was a lot going.

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Speaker 4: On there was certainly a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Action, yes, yes, Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And again it's an entertaining game if you're not in this.

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Speaker 3: Camp everyone thirty one other teams really enjoyed.

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Speaker 2: One if thirty one other teams really, enjoyed.

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Speaker 3: Especially the, tea which we got to get. THAT i,

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00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 3: mean the state of the division changed. Drastically at some

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Speaker 3: point when in the next hour Or, monday we've got

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Speaker 3: to talk about how how it affects The ravens And, bengals.

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Speaker 2: And maybe we could start there when we, back just

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Speaker 2: for a few. MINUTES i, know we want to go

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Speaker 2: around the. League we got a bunch of tweets we

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Speaker 2: want to get. Into but, man if you would have

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Speaker 2: told me at the start of the season The steelers

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Speaker 2: would be four and two after their first six, GAMES

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Speaker 2: i would have, said let's let's do it. Right, man

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Speaker 2: it does not feel that way. Today it certainly does

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Speaker 2: not feel that way today when you open the door

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Speaker 2: for the rest of THE Afc north and you are

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Speaker 2: now four and two instead of five and. One with a,

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Speaker 2: touple a trio of tough games coming up here against The,

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Speaker 2: packers The, colts and The. Chargers let let's let's get into. That,

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Speaker 2: yeah let's get to. Them let's get into that. More

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Speaker 2: to start our number, two get to some of your.

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Speaker 2: Tweets we'll go around the league and give our thoughts

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Speaker 2: on all the Other week seven games as. Well to

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Speaker 2: all of that and more in our number. Two West

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Speaker 2: Huler Matt williamson into The drive On Steelers Nation radio

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Speaker 2: on The Steelers Audio.

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Speaker 4: Network