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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive home of the Black and Goal

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lally

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Speaker 1: here with Matt Williamson. It is a Monday, and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a get right Monday and extra Monday for

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. Um they had some team run today, look

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Speaker 1: at some film with the Jets and do some things

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Speaker 1: like that, but no real practice today for the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Did have an open locker room. Had a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk to a couple of guys down there, and UM,

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Speaker 1: I spoke to Mason Cole Matt and he was talking

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Speaker 1: about He says, look, we're really close. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: we're you know. And I said, I said, you've had

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Speaker 1: a drive, You're you know, you had some drives in

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Speaker 1: there in the yearly games where things look pretty good,

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Speaker 1: and then against the Browns you had the entire first

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Speaker 1: half where it looked really good. Now the next step

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Speaker 1: is the next step putting together the full game. He's like, well,

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Speaker 1: that's the idea, obviously, he says, yeah, but yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what we have to do next. And you know, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I I started looking at some of the offensive numbers

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Speaker 1: around the league because I watched a lot of football yesterday. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different for you. You really got

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Speaker 1: to absorb the whole league. It's a little eye opening

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Speaker 1: the league as a whole. Where did Where's the offense?

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable right now, and so I don't think by

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Speaker 1: any means are you condoning what the Steelers put on tape.

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Speaker 1: But it's not a unique problem across the league right now,

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Speaker 1: and I know you have to have it up so

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Speaker 1: let everyone know where they stand. They are right now.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's nineteenth in scoring offense. Yeah, they're averaging

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Speaker 1: eight team points a game. Uh. The Los Angeles Chargers

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Speaker 1: at nineteen point three points per game and the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings at nineteen point three games points per game are

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Speaker 1: just ahead of them, just ahead of them, and they're

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Speaker 1: good offenses, as are the Rams at three. Those are

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Speaker 1: the teams ahead and now off like team. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: team's behind them. The Bears, okay, I get that. The

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Speaker 1: they're pretty bad. The Saints. The Saints have had all

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Speaker 1: kinds of problems right The Buccaneers. The Bucks are at disaster.

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Speaker 1: The Green Bay Tampa Bay game yesterday. You have two

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterbacks on the field. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: care if they're playing with me. You and me at

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Couldn't move the ball um the Patriots, I'm

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Speaker 1: still struggling to score their quarterbacks at this time. Now.

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Speaker 1: The Texans, the Packers, the aforementioned Packers, the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty Niners. I mean, everybody talks about what an offensive

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Speaker 1: genius he is. You know, anybody there are your fifteen

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Speaker 1: points seven points a game. I mean you mentioned on

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Speaker 1: Denver and Sam I mean they're struggling and okay, they're

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Speaker 1: decent defenses, but they're not the five Bears, Bears a

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Speaker 1: Green Bay, Tampa looked like that. Yeah, those are good

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Speaker 1: defenses too, but man offenses are so far behind, uh Seattle,

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Speaker 1: which we kind of expect. Denver is third. They paid

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Speaker 1: two fifty million dollars for Russell Wilson. Right, Yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: totally lost on that side of the ball, and their

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Speaker 1: their defense has been carrying them. It's amazing. They're every

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Speaker 1: being fourteen point three points per game. They've they've got

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Speaker 1: forty three points in three games and they're two and one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're two and one and somehow they have a

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Speaker 1: winning record. We've gotten through this. The Colts the culture

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Speaker 1: averaging thirteen point three points per game. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: exactly sure how they won that game too, because they

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Speaker 1: didn't look any better. I mean, Kansas City kind of

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Speaker 1: lost it more than another way. Ryan looks shot. The

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Speaker 1: old line is not good. Boy. Did they need Pittman?

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Speaker 1: You know? It needs a big difference with them. And

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Speaker 1: then the Cowboys go into tonight's game averaging eleven and

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Speaker 1: a half points per game. They were the number one

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Speaker 1: offense in the league last year. Now, I get that

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Speaker 1: they haven't had Dak Prescott for they had them for

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Speaker 1: I mean they've lost Tyrone Smith already. They're one of

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Speaker 1: is not half per game the three games, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers are everaging ninety rushing yards game. After finally

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Speaker 1: getting a hundred two hundred four yards whatever it was

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Speaker 1: the league they're up to. So they're averaging ninety. The

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Speaker 1: But you would think, lean on your running game, lean

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Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna catch up to them at some point.

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Speaker 1: They can't run the football. They've thrown so much and

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Speaker 1: been very successful doing it. And that strange, strange game

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Speaker 1: That's what they want to do. Run the football, that's

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Speaker 1: what they want to do. Um. The Raiders are ravaging

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Speaker 1: eighty four. Rushing yards per game because they throw every play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Flacca has led the league in pass attempts.

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Speaker 1: them with a lot of Yeah, the Buccaneers are at

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Speaker 1: I was, I was, uh, you know we look at

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Speaker 1: football siders. Is I was looking at the d v

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Speaker 1: but they're also not league leader types. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: And a lot of that's based on what I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if it is or not. Who you played, what

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Speaker 1: you know, right. So all that stuff is encouraging to me.

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Speaker 1: And I've been asked this for whatever reason. I've been

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Speaker 1: like everyone's asking the same thing. Who's to blame for

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Speaker 1: been good. They've been good. I mean, you can win

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Speaker 1: if it's but gets Amberg, Green, Blunt, Woodson, you know,

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Speaker 1: They've been They've been playing way too much football on

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Speaker 1: a hundred forty two point seven yards rushing per game. Now.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks ago on Steelers dot Com, I wrote this

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Speaker 1: this two game stretch that they just got through against

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Speaker 1: bringing me back to the number of plays they ran,

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Speaker 1: Like this isn't defending the Steelers, but this is fact.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers were asked, after playing the most plays in

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Speaker 1: it's it's a teams are struggling. It is a consensus

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Speaker 1: it's just I think there's parody across the league, and

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Speaker 1: I think anybody can beat anybody this year. Yeah, to

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Speaker 1: a large degree. I mean, I don't, you know, I

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Speaker 1: thought the Bill, the Bills are a jargonaut, like how

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Speaker 1: they won their first two games and they go down

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Speaker 1: there and just and some. Some of these good teams

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Speaker 1: are dealing with things you mentioned. Buffalo their secondaries all backups.

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Speaker 1: They're a line was totally overmatched and that's not going

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Speaker 1: to improve. You know, Kansas City is still trying to

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Speaker 1: find their their footing. Chargers are gonna be without Bossa

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Speaker 1: Allen Lindsley, you know, I mean, they got problems left

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Speaker 1: Patriots without their quarterback for probably the next six years. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: You know the Ravens. I watched that Ravens Patriots game.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens can't line up and just run the football.

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Speaker 1: It has to be the trickery. It has to be

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Speaker 1: Lamar doing stuff. I think he's playing out this world.

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Speaker 1: He's playing great. But if it wasn't that, they can't

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Speaker 1: They can't just say Okay, we're gonna just grind out

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Speaker 1: you see Clyde Edwards Hilaire's statist It was Jerome Bettis

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Speaker 1: two thousand four, two thousand five. He had like seven

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Speaker 1: nobody's closed anybody out. Yeah, it's it's amazing. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's happened across well, I know what's happened across

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Speaker 1: the least. It's offensive line play. It's really bad across

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Speaker 1: the league and that's not the issue for the Steelers

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Speaker 1: right now. That's what I do. I do too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think in the line keeps getting better, if it

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Speaker 1: if it's still keeps baby stepping forward, you'll be okay there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I look at the Eagles and say,

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Speaker 1: there they might be the best. You know, they're going

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Speaker 1: on both sides, on both lines, and they're you know,

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Speaker 1: they're actually churning out yardage. They're probably the best offense

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Speaker 1: in the league statistically, at this point guessing you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here

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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio, and uh you know you can

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Speaker 1: check out the Steelers Weekend Review. It's hosted by Wesley Ueler.

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Speaker 1: It's a recap of the previous game as well as

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Speaker 1: a look at the Steelers next opponent. New episodes drop

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