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Speaker 1: M Welcome back. I am Dale Lally. He is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and this is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. UM

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Speaker 1: Steelers numbers before and after the by fourteen point one

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Speaker 1: points per game, which was last in everything. Was after

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Speaker 1: fifteenth in the league. Yards per game two, which was

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Speaker 1: after the by four, which is point nine rushing yards

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Speaker 1: per game. Before the bye, that's forty six rushing yards

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Speaker 1: per game. After that is seventh. Two hundred four passing

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Speaker 1: that was twenty one. Because there were so many bad

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks playing down the stretch, uh, thirty three point six percent.

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Speaker 1: Third down conversion rate was thirty three point six. They've

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Speaker 1: got one at every three. Well, it's amazing. Before the

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Speaker 1: After the bye, that was best. Yeah, red zone efficiency

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Speaker 1: forty seven point six percent after the by fifty four

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Speaker 1: point eight, which was seventeen. Real quick, just let stop

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Speaker 1: you there. I think I saw some questions about Kenny

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Speaker 1: in the red zone. Don't get me wrong, but the

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Speaker 1: red zone offense as a whole, it seems like an

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Speaker 1: underreported story. Around here drastically has improved lately. Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's why you they don't score touchdowns. Look at don't

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Speaker 1: just look at the season numbers, look at the what

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Speaker 1: they've done. Again, when when NFL teams break things down,

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Speaker 1: they look at the how you're playing right now? Right right?

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Speaker 1: I have some further ones to even take it a

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Speaker 1: step further. Mike's Mike Sando put this out today. He

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Speaker 1: looked at the most improved offenses in the league from

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Speaker 1: a year ago. So this includes the entire Steeler season,

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Speaker 1: half of which was ugly, as you just laid out.

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Speaker 1: Only five teams improved more than the Steelers. It's like

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Speaker 1: the Lions, you know, teams that were awful that went

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Speaker 1: so they vastly improved from a year ago. I ran

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Speaker 1: was nine games, ten to eighteen week and I was

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Speaker 1: a little shocked with the offensive numbers. I mean there

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Speaker 1: fifth on per dropback. Now I don't think they are

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Speaker 1: a top five offense, but in that stretch, but you're

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Speaker 1: you're converting third downs all over you're staying on the field,

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Speaker 1: you're winning the time of possession. Wonder what their time

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Speaker 1: possessions game in and game out. Yeah, that's one. It's

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Speaker 1: got to be as drassic as any of them, without

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Speaker 1: now they're like third in the league. And that's combined.

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Speaker 1: If you look at Football Outsiders d v o A.

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Speaker 1: Last year in d v o A, the Steelers finished

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Speaker 1: overall okay overall, do they were the twenty three best

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Speaker 1: team in the finished the season. Yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 1: where they're at. Right. Like the last time we did

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Speaker 1: power ranks, we had ten teams ahead of them, safely

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Speaker 1: five or six that were in the same neighborhood. And

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Speaker 1: that included teams like the Packers that didn't show so

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Speaker 1: well this past week. You know, I mean, I absolutely

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Speaker 1: Kansas City last year. This year, the teams ahead of

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Speaker 1: them Buffalo, Kansas City, Cincinnati. Baltimore is still up there.

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Speaker 1: sure why it is. Miami is eighth for some reason,

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Speaker 1: that's five. Then you got Cleveland for some reason. They

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Speaker 1: love Cleveland as well, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh. Okay, so they're eight,

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Speaker 1: they're eight, right, but I'll take my chances against Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Baltimore for the year had a better year than Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: been really actually if you look at I'll bet if

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Speaker 1: you broke down Baltimore's numbers pre buy or pre first

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Speaker 1: One thing that two things about Baltimore is their defense

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Speaker 1: one thing that killed the Patriots this year. Is there there?

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Speaker 1: number one going into the season, if your mark. Uh,

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Speaker 1: was just say, there's other things. There are others. The

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Speaker 1: offense was better. You didn't lose, I mean the case,

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Speaker 1: but they came back. They did play some teams that

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Speaker 1: if they if they had what if they have what?

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Speaker 1: They beat the Jets? They have what they beat the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: We said that to buy. Yeah, I mean, like I

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Speaker 1: think they win two more games. Yeah, so some of it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is real. I know, it's definitely real. I mean

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Speaker 1: I just my only qualms with it is like if

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Speaker 1: you told me the Bulls without Jordan's you know what

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Speaker 1: it's really of the team or depends on that Lamu.

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Speaker 1: well yeah, or a cup or you know, there's it's

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Speaker 1: all context. But the watch splits are so extreme to me.

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Speaker 1: Of course they mean something, but I think that the

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Speaker 1: haters will say, well, they should never be that dependent

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Speaker 1: on one player. Well, is it better to have him

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Speaker 1: That means that just means they have a bad contingency

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Speaker 1: can't plan to play without Jordan. If you're the Bulls,

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Speaker 1: I'll just get another one. Okay, I don't care who

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Speaker 1: the backup is. He's the backup. He's not even a show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the other team in the way, there's a salary cap

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Speaker 1: game planning to keep that guy from wrecking the game.

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Speaker 1: And to me, that's the biggest influence what had this year.

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Speaker 1: and for obvious reasons. But they were much better with him,

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Speaker 1: without a doubt, and high Smiths a bad example because

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Speaker 1: he excelled without him. But everybody, you know, everybody steps

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Speaker 1: they don't have to do that otherwise, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's like playing its Somar or not. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were down. They were down low. So they finished eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: I mean, oh line, we would have taken twenty in

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Speaker 1: a heartbeat. Um. Back to the first conversation we had.

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Speaker 1: Rookie quarterback wins more games that he starts that he lose.

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Speaker 1: Any team would take that, anything to take that their

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Speaker 1: offensive line. According these are the basic offensive line rankings

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Speaker 1: know you can? I just don't have in front of me.

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Speaker 1: Do you mind sorting d v O A from week

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Speaker 1: ten on like I did with today, because I bet

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Speaker 1: they're pretty darn close in terms of d v O

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Speaker 1: of While you're doing that, I was a little shocked

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Speaker 1: up offensive d v o A. They were tenth. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that makes more sense than my fourth. Yeah. The teams

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville ninth and in Pittsburgh ten. Passing defense dvo they

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Speaker 1: See that adds up more to me than the twelveth

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Speaker 1: They were a top dozen team for nine games, for

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's

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Speaker 1: eight and a half or nine, which is bigger than

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Speaker 1: that's a better interpretation of a winning team than you

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Speaker 1: nine is somewhere when they factor in the schedules. It

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Speaker 1: Just a little programming update here, Matt and I will

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Speaker 1: be back with you every day this week. I think

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Speaker 1: we go back to three days a week Monday, Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Friday starting next week. Uh, and then I think the

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Speaker 1: week after that I might hit the mobile. I just

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Speaker 1: got my credentials approved today. There you go. Hopefully that

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Speaker 1: all works out for both of us, absolutely so hopefully. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll have some fun done everyone, We'll start getting a

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Speaker 1: look at these young prospects in this year's draft, So

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Speaker 1: lots to go. Get get to here. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: what about eight weeks, six seven, eight weeks, we'll be

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Speaker 1: heading to Indianapolis for the scouting Combine's talking. We don't

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Speaker 1: have a hard time find stuff talking about. No, we

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Speaker 1: got plenty of talk about and the Steelers have premium

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Speaker 1: draft picks this year, so it should be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. These playoff games we fund even in them,

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Speaker 1: you know, lots of Yeah, I mean a couple of

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Speaker 1: division teams in there, and you see what happens with

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Speaker 1: that obviously. Yeah, see if the Steelers can get some

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Speaker 1: of the guys who are pending free agents under contract

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Speaker 1: and see how all this stuff goes. It's it's certainly Uh,

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Speaker 1: the NFL does not give you much downtown. There's about

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Speaker 1: two weeks in July where there's nothing going on in

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Speaker 1: the l and that's it. And we didn't even touch

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Speaker 1: on head coaching. You know, vacancies that are probably a

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Speaker 1: lot more tomorrow for us to talk about, I would think. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: coordinators fired things in that nature. You know who's interviewing

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Speaker 1: all that good stuff? Absolutely so. We'll we'll be back

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Speaker 1: again tomorrow to talk to you about that, but until then,

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Speaker 1: for my partner Matt Williamson for jacobreck here on site

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Speaker 1: keeping us on the air, I am Dale, Lolly. We

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this edition of the Drive

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