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Speaker 1: Radio Back. We are back a little while. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: been a while. I'm sure for those of you who

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Speaker 1: are fans of the show, both of you, um and

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Speaker 1: that's both of our wives, right. Uh. We were unable

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Speaker 1: to do a show last Thursday and Friday unfortunately because

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Speaker 1: of some technical issues. But we're back. We are back,

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Speaker 1: right a roll. Steelers gotta win. Yeah, very good one

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Speaker 1: and a very encouraging one. We were on our way

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Speaker 1: to both. I know I was going to predict. I

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Speaker 1: did predict the Steelers win twenty three sixteen in on

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Speaker 1: d K Pittsburgh Sports. I picked them sixteen thirteen in

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Speaker 1: my podcast. So we put both a low scoring right,

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Speaker 1: so we both predicted a win. Uh it went over, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did. I thought it would be tighter to the vest,

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Speaker 1: and frankly, I think the Steeler offense will play as

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Speaker 1: well as he did. Let's talk about that, all right,

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Speaker 1: Gonna start there. Um, they come out first play of

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Speaker 1: the game, I think I believe it was a six

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Speaker 1: they did it again, and they did it again, and

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Speaker 1: they did it again. H Harris finished, I believe it was.

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Speaker 1: They had nineteen first downs in the game. He carried

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Speaker 1: much in the fourth quarter, as saying, they had like

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Speaker 1: you even probably better than I do, because I actually

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Speaker 1: jot this down Roaded in an article too. It was

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Speaker 1: like fourteen out of nineteen first down run yea and

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Speaker 1: he had. He had forty seven yards on first down

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Speaker 1: getting pretty consistent yardage on first down. Well, they clearly

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Speaker 1: committed to it. Yeah, I mean that that's what I

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Speaker 1: there weren't negative runs. I was staying ahead of the chains,

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Speaker 1: establishing a physicality knowing that Denver's probably not going to

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Speaker 1: perfect too. I mean the game script went your way.

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Speaker 1: But even if I think Denver's jumped up seven nothing,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that would have changed. You know, that's

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Speaker 1: clearly what they were looking to do. Yeah, we've seen

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Speaker 1: um thus far this year. When the Steelers have lost

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. And the Steelers have gone right down the

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Speaker 1: I mean coaches think about these things, of course, you know,

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Speaker 1: I highlighted some things. Chase Claypool his touchdown was out

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Speaker 1: Juju's production in the past game. Fifteen catches right now,

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Speaker 1: putting it, because it's not like, Wow, Nazi is good.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that, but you's I'm sure there's some

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Speaker 1: fans that haven't been to practice. I'm sure you've gotten

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Speaker 1: the questions. Well, you still feel good about that running

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Speaker 1: back fixing the running game? Yeah? Yeah, I do. Actually

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Speaker 1: so pick that I would have made. I had a

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Speaker 1: guy coming after me last week on Twitter. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought you said the running back fixes the running game. Okay,

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Speaker 1: did you see the difference between that guy and Benny

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Speaker 1: Snow running back, and even Blage had zero yards, Snow

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Speaker 1: had a couple. But it's night and day. And to me,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't there's so many things to talk about.

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Speaker 1: I would have like, see McFarland. Do you know when

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Speaker 1: when Harris was out here and there? If McFarland gets

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Speaker 1: five touches, he's just a little different. Frankly, he's a

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Speaker 1: better ball carrier than those two guys. Especially that was

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Speaker 1: a special teams player. Yeah, I mean he's really Derek quiet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what the value of the team is.

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Speaker 1: He's good on special teams. Yeah, I agree. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think they've maybe they found something here. We'll see

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Speaker 1: if they you know, if they continue this this again,

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Speaker 1: no reason why they shouldn't be able to run the

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Speaker 1: football this week against the team and then again with

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Speaker 1: the young offensive line. You put together a couple of

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Speaker 1: back to back hundred yard rushing games for your for

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Speaker 1: your running back. Uh. Trey Turner talked to us after

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Speaker 1: the game yesterday and he's like, you know, I could

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Speaker 1: just see I was so glad that that Nausea got

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Speaker 1: his hundred yard game. You could just see him on

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Speaker 1: the sideline. His whole demeanor was different, you know, more smiling, more,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's just he was unhappy, kind of a

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Speaker 1: relief to either Yeah, you know what I mean, and

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Speaker 1: he's used to succe. You know, I'm you know, I

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Speaker 1: go out there and I have success. There's a struggle

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Speaker 1: of those first few weeks. There's no fans or butts

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Speaker 1: about it. So now you know, you wonder where his

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Speaker 1: camp f this is that. You wonder where that offensive

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Speaker 1: lines confidence is that, like, oh, hey, this worked. We

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Speaker 1: found something that worked. Now let's see if you can

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Speaker 1: do it. Teams will adjust. Kendrick Green and Moore don't

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Speaker 1: know what works in the NFL yet, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: oh that was fun. Yeah. I also think that the meaner,

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Speaker 1: especially guard center guard, they want to put they're nasty,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I think they want to be nasty.

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Speaker 1: They want to finish plays, they want to in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. You know, I'm running and I'm you're gonna

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Speaker 1: run it right behind me, and I know you're tired

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get the better of you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that plays to what they've built there on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line as well. Yeah, so interesting game, Uh,

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Speaker 1: interesting outcome. I can't say that I was surprised that

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Speaker 1: they won the game. I obviously was getting pick the win.

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Speaker 1: I was surprised offense, but I was surprised they put

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Speaker 1: twenty seven points on the board and the way they

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Speaker 1: did without a defensive score or something flukey or something

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Speaker 1: like that too. I mean they earned it um. One

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Speaker 1: of the note I want to make about the offense too,

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Speaker 1: is they run a lot of r p o s

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Speaker 1: run past Roethlisberger said half of their runs he said,

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Speaker 1: he he didn't put a number on. He said, when

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Speaker 1: we were running out of shotgun, it was it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of r p o s. He said. We

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Speaker 1: probably had some throws there that I could have made,

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Speaker 1: but we were running the ball. We were running and effectively,

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Speaker 1: so I said, let's keep doing that. It almost felt like,

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Speaker 1: and I know this isn't true because Ben's earned more

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Speaker 1: than this, that some of the oh in run pass

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Speaker 1: option might have been taken away from the quarterback and

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Speaker 1: say we want more r and less peas. But there

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Speaker 1: was probably that conversation like and when we do these

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Speaker 1: run pass options, let's run the ball more because we

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Speaker 1: think we can. We got to establish it. There has

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Speaker 1: to be some kind of fifteen times fifteen carries a

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Speaker 1: game for this kid isn't enough because I mean sometimes

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Speaker 1: you see half the line run blocking, half pass practice

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't even hesitate. I mean he's putting it

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Speaker 1: out there and ended it off. You know, it's not

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Speaker 1: like I'm gonna read this end or what there was.

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Speaker 1: There was one late in the first half for Kendrick

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Speaker 1: Green got called from being illegally downtill field. That's why.

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Speaker 1: That's why RPO. Yeah, and the people realize that by now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you see it across the league. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the It's one of the problems of an r

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Speaker 1: p O is, Yeah, they gotta hold the water a

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Speaker 1: little or and they don't know. The lineman don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you get your back to the quarterback. You don't know

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Speaker 1: if he threw it or not. You're gonna go to

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Speaker 1: block the next guy or if if they running back

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Speaker 1: to me, running up your butt and if he holds

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Speaker 1: it a step longer, you're running down field trying to

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Speaker 1: run block. So it was good, yeah, and we all

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Speaker 1: needed very much so. And it puts them in a

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Speaker 1: position now that we're gonna we'll talk about the A

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Speaker 1: f C and the picture interesting weekly changed a little

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Speaker 1: dramatically here in the A f C H and the

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Speaker 1: division might change dramatically after tonight. Who knows. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens will win, but you know it

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Speaker 1: already changed dramatically, absolutely, But we will talk about that

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Speaker 1: when we come back. He is Matt Williamson. I'm dale Ally.

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