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Speaker 1: Your list is The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your seven Home of the Black and Gold

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

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Speaker 1: Lolly here with Matt Williamson and well, like everybody else,

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Speaker 1: we're a waiting, uh with bated breath. What in the

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Speaker 1: world the NFL is going to? Uh I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: here with this with this football game that's supposed to

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Speaker 1: take place in about twenty hours. Yeah, right around to

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Speaker 1: right around the corner here, Like, do we know if

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Speaker 1: Baltimore has traveled? They have not. No, they're still in Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: which is it's not like they're coming from Seattle, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean they essentially have. Uh, they're in a holding

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Speaker 1: pattern as well. Uh, much like the Steelers here. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers did make a couple of roster moves together.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Dotson and Isaiah Bugs activated from the COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: reserve COVID nineteen list. Uh that The Steelers also signed

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Speaker 1: place kicker Matthew Right to the practice squad and elevated

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Speaker 1: Antoine Brooks Junior to the active roster from the practice

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Speaker 1: squad as a COVID nineteen replacement. One of the reasons

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Speaker 1: that people might win, why are they signing a kicker? Well,

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Speaker 1: as we've seen this week, Yeah, I mean you want

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Speaker 1: to have somebody available just in case you don't want

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Speaker 1: to position getting wiped out and you don't have a

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Speaker 1: like Chris Boswell could punt. You could get were Ben

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger could punt for Anybody could punt, but you probably don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't. You could, You know, Vance McDonald could be

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Speaker 1: your long snapper, get you through a game. But what

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Speaker 1: you don't want to happen is, Okay, you gotta go

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Speaker 1: into a game and you're playing Buffalo in two weeks

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Speaker 1: and you don't have a kicker. It's fourth and seven

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Speaker 1: and it's an obvious you're down. You know it's a

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Speaker 1: tie game and you have to go for it or

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Speaker 1: you can't make an extra point right and you lose

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Speaker 1: by one. Could hold or root off. Somebody can hold,

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Speaker 1: somebody can snap. But if you don't have the kicking skills, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everyone should have a kicker on the on the practice

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Speaker 1: squad tomorrow. I think about Pinter, it doesn't matter as much.

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Speaker 1: Butter Well and we saw this, you'd go for it too.

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Speaker 1: We saw this situation arise um with the Denver Broncos

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Speaker 1: where they had to play a game yesterday without a

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Speaker 1: quarterback on their roster because they screwed up. People are

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Speaker 1: looking at this like it's the same situation, is what

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Speaker 1: happens with the Ravens, and then it's not their two

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Speaker 1: separate incidents. From what I what I understand of what

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Speaker 1: happened with Denver was all three quarterbacks were cohording. They

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Speaker 1: were all together without masks four four right, including practice

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Speaker 1: squad dudes, and one of them was positive. So therefore,

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Speaker 1: by association, you're all positive. Because we know you're all together,

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Speaker 1: we're at least close. They were close contacts, right, and

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Speaker 1: I guess they didn't have mass on and there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of documentation of that, and they were all in

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and room together, like I think teams. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I should maybe should know this are all

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Speaker 1: teams keeping the third quarterback away? Now? I mean, like, no,

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Speaker 1: I bet they will from here on out. Well some

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Speaker 1: will and somewhat like the Broncos were asked about that.

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Speaker 1: Vick Gang was asked about that and he said, no,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to do that. Wow, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: comes when it comes. Down to is you can't. You

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Speaker 1: have to be diligent about you can't. You can't sit

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Speaker 1: in a room together with your face masks off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's not in the team facility. You just can't

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Speaker 1: do They can't do it. Right. It's a different walk

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Speaker 1: of life than if someone at Melan Bank right now

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Speaker 1: is doing it or whatever, because nobody's paying attention, like

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get caught. And well, you know, there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot and there. I've gotten a ton of questions

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Speaker 1: about this regarding like, for example, the Ravens strengthen and

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Speaker 1: conditioning coach who was who was apparently the cause of

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Speaker 1: this entire breakout here. Why didn't the NFL know this sooner? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't wearing his his his contact, his his uh,

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Speaker 1: wasn't wearing his mask and they have that on film,

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Speaker 1: but they don't have somebody sitting around watching. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: a hundred cameras in each team facility, Uh, twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours a day going there's a violation. There's a violation.

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Speaker 1: It's it's after the it's like solving a murder here.

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Speaker 1: Something has to happen. Yeah, something has to happen, and

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Speaker 1: then you go back and look at the evidence. So

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Speaker 1: you can then like this guy to this guy, to

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Speaker 1: this guy, and here's where the here's and because you

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Speaker 1: could Steve Saunders could have could have picked up because

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Speaker 1: every day when they go into the building, they have

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Speaker 1: to pick up their contact tracer. Here's yours. Wear this around. Well,

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Speaker 1: he goes into the weight room apparently and just takes it,

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Speaker 1: it's it's showing that it's in the building as he is.

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Speaker 1: They're like, oh, he's sitting at his desk for four

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Speaker 1: hours or whatever. Who the heck knows. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: he's a coach with every player. Yeah, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: not like he's even just a position coach. They see

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Speaker 1: if he's not being diligent about wearing his masks. Oh

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Speaker 1: you mean the players. Yeah, like he has of it on,

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Speaker 1: watched that mine on right, that kind of thing, right,

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Speaker 1: And you know again he's you know, he's culpable in

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Speaker 1: this because he was having symptoms and then didn't say

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Speaker 1: anything about it. That that's part of it too. If

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Speaker 1: you're not feeling well, you have to report them, stay

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Speaker 1: home and stay home and let everyone know, and you know,

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Speaker 1: then they can trace from there. And so in a way,

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Speaker 1: I kind of feel bad for the guy because it's

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Speaker 1: not like he's making five million a year, and you know,

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Speaker 1: trying the world. The Ravens world would probably get on

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Speaker 1: without him for a week or so, and I think

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Speaker 1: I think they suspended him for the rest of the month.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's never gonna work for the Ravens again,

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Speaker 1: at least he shouldn't. Once they get a once they

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Speaker 1: get a you know, five or whatever fine that comes

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Speaker 1: out of this, whatever punished they do, you think they'll

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Speaker 1: get penalized. There's gonna be a punishment, because I remember

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Speaker 1: our Tennessee conversation and there really wasn't. But there's been

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Speaker 1: some since then to make me think that they might

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Speaker 1: lose a pick there. I would definitely think that they

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Speaker 1: lose a pick, because, yeah, like a third rounder, I

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Speaker 1: mean like something. Yeah, I mean the Raiders lost a

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Speaker 1: sixth round pick and we're fine, I think five hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Just last week, the Patriots got fine three

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Speaker 1: for a postgame celebration. Yeah, I saw that where they

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Speaker 1: got caught. They got caught on Like, if I'm a

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Speaker 1: head coach, you're you're not bringing those NFL films cameras

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Speaker 1: in my locker room. You just cost us five hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Three guys. I need to be here, these guys,

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Speaker 1: These guys all just played a game on the field

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Speaker 1: together without a mask on, right, Yeah, and now you're

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Speaker 1: of us are celebrating after a pick six, it's fine,

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Speaker 1: locker room. Yeah, there's some ridiculousness to it. But like

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Speaker 1: the Broncos, I mean, maybe the biggest penalty that Baltimore

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Speaker 1: tomorrow are substandard. And let's put put it that way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're going to be in a massive

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Speaker 1: uphill climb. I wanted to put you on the spot

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Speaker 1: and ask you do we know who's not playing? And

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Speaker 1: I know that we don't really And since then I

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Speaker 1: figured out we don't have those answers completely. All we

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Speaker 1: know is who they have on there, who's on the list,

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Speaker 1: who's on the list. But some can come off any

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Speaker 1: minute now or right. The only one like Brandon Williams

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Speaker 1: could come off. He was a contact tracing thing. But

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Speaker 1: again with with Brandon Williams, he was already hurt like

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Speaker 1: he didn't play in their In addition to so what

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Speaker 1: they had the guys on their on their list right now?

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Speaker 1: Are you're looking at Calais Campbell, Morgan Cox, who's their

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Speaker 1: long snapper? Back? These names cannot play again. We don't know.

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Speaker 1: The teams don't have to tell you if these guys

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Speaker 1: involved in all kinds of you know, they're just on

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Speaker 1: the COVID list. Yeah, it doesn't mean that they have

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Speaker 1: been paused, that they've been found. But even if they

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Speaker 1: get some of these guys back, they haven't been around

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Speaker 1: the team all week, they haven't practiced, they haven't practice

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Speaker 1: just haven't had a practice in nine days or something.

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Speaker 1: I know Ben did it, Yeah, you know, but that's

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Speaker 1: a little that's one guy, the one guy right, J K.

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Speaker 1: Dobbins obviously Khalil Dorsey, who's cornerback. I believe he was

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Speaker 1: Uh Jalen Ferguson, one of their outside linebackers, plays uh

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Speaker 1: DJ Flucker. They're starting right tackle. They don't want him

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Speaker 1: they're they're searching for the right tackle. Bad because they

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Speaker 1: moved Brown from right tackle to left where he's worse.

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Speaker 1: And this is a terrible domino effect. Mark ingram Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson just a Matta Bouquet. Matta Bouquet plays and he's right,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, second third round A defensive line is

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Speaker 1: just uh and Mon Marshall. Another cornerback, uh Per Nell McPhee,

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Speaker 1: who's another edge guy like Ferguson, plays, Trace McSorley, Patrick McCarthy, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have replacement for him. No, they might have some defensive

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Speaker 1: another defensive Broderick Washington, another defensive line Brandon Williams, who

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Speaker 1: wow do we know, like when this all came out,

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Speaker 1: Sneed is nothing? He Yeah, he went on yesterday and

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Speaker 1: they're using him more and more like like he's our

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Speaker 1: they seem to trust lately. Oh that I missed him?

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Speaker 1: I guess that did I miss him? When he's still

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Speaker 1: listed on their active roster. But he went on COVID

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Speaker 1: when this was a Sunday game. We knew for a

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Speaker 1: fact that Dobbin's Ingram, both centers, and Lamar can't play.

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Speaker 1: That's still true, right if they they tested positive, they

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Speaker 1: can't play. These guys, the guys that tested positive went

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Speaker 1: on the list late in the week, are definitely not playing,

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Speaker 1: whether they're close contact. So that means the guys that

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Speaker 1: went on like Saturday, and they had six six players

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Speaker 1: So there's six players on that list that definitely aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna be on there that aren't the five I just

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Speaker 1: mentioned before. But some of those guys are like Dobbins

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Speaker 1: and some of those guys, there's those weren't close contactsive

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Speaker 1: they were positives, so they're not gonna come not playing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you have to be you have to be on for

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Speaker 1: ten days, and most notably Lamar is one of the positives.

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Speaker 1: Like that's come out. Wow, it can't be as bad

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Speaker 1: He's got a twelve point three sack percentage. That's higher

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Speaker 1: than what the Steelers have this year, and they lead

424
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Speaker 1: the NFL and sacks. Yeah. We talked about him a

425
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: little bit last week, and again Mark just asked me,

426
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Speaker 1: what should we expect already three. I'm like, he's a

427
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: tough eval because the track star he was. I'm sure

428
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: he can run. Puts himself in harm's way a lot.

429
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: He's always taken big hits and is not a well

430
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 1: built guy like Lamar's lean, but he's very wiry and

431
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: he's very strong. Griffin is not strong. He's a track guy.

432
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: He used to have a great deep ball, but I

433
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: haven't seen that from him. And who's gonna throw two?

434
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if it's still happens coming

435
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: out of Baylor. He could throw deep well, but I

436
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 1: don't know if he still can him his yards for

437
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: attempt is five point nine yards per a tempt. Yeah,

438
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: they always the very subpar. Yeah, holds the ball in

439
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: pocket a long time. And as like Watson and Wilson

440
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: used to get sacked a lot and everyone just blamed

441
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: the old line. Well, they ran around like crazy and

442
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: you know, held the ball for four seconds here to

443
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: get sacked a lot. Well, I think that's who RG

444
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: three is. He isn't a great diagnosur of defenses or

445
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: a precise passer, So I think he's probably a good

446
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: mentor for Lamar. You know, of I'm member being the

447
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: second overall pick and I was Rookie of the Year,

448
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: and you know, there's things that keep an eye on

449
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: in your career, young man. But I don't know that

450
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna move this offense. Um. Continuing with Graziano's uh um,

451
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: he said, Baltimore's team facility is scheduled to reopen this evening,

452
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: at which point the team will discuss its options. What

453
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: options are you discussing? They travel options. There is some

454
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: concern among players about playing tomorrow, but also the understanding

455
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: that if the game is canceled, no one gets paid.

456
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: You don't get if they voted, they vote to not play,

457
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: that's a forfeit. That's a forfeit, and the Steelers should

458
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Speaker 1: get paid. The Steelers should get paid. And if I'm

459
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: the NFL, you know who's paying that bill, right, the Ravens, Right.

460
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I know a lot of people out there

461
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: aren't crying for athletes financially, but that's not fair. They

462
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: put the full week of work in for this game.

463
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 1: I wonder what would be going through your mind to

464
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Speaker 1: forfeit against the Steelers. Part of me just thinks, we

465
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: don't want to get embarrassed by our best rival, you know,

466
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: like we just don't want to get totally abused and

467
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: everyone in the world's watching and just utterly embarrassed. So

468
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 1: would rather just you know, not come out of our corner. Yeah,

469
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: put the white flag up if and again, you know,

470
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: this comes back to this comes back to a situation

471
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: where if that's the case and the and they refused

472
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: to play, then the league really needs to hammer him

473
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: because you should have done that Sunday. So Steelers have

474
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: a full week to prepare for the Red Skin this

475
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: comes back. This comes to me comes back to John

476
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: Harbaugh being a baby. He's been he's been trying to

477
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: manipulate this the whole time. He closed the facility on Friday,

478
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: and and and there were some there some people going

479
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 1: back and forth with the NFL closest facility. No, John

480
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 1: Harbaugh made the decision to close the facility in an

481
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: effort to try to get the league to push that game. Yeah,

482
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: that's what they need. I mean, that's that's what they want.

483
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: That's what they need. And if that's the case, you

484
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: don't get it. You don't get any draft picks this year. Hardball,

485
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 1: you're suspended, like again, you you refuse to play, like

486
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a team in high school, if

487
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: you're a high school football team. I know, and I

488
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: know this because there are a few years ago when

489
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: I was still working at the news at the Observe

490
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: Reporter in Washington, the Avella football team started the season

491
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: with eight team players, had a bunch of injuries and

492
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: wasn't going to have enough players to feel the team

493
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: ended up getting Uh, one of their cheerleaders to come

494
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: out and play, so they had that gave him like

495
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: a twelfth player and she end up playing snaps I believe.

496
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: So they didn't have to forfeit because if you forfeited

497
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: a game, the w p i L could come back

498
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: and say your program is dormant for the next two years.

499
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: But those four kids had to play every snap and

500
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: got absolutely and they're playing like Clareton. In fact, I

501
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: think one of their games was against Clareton, which had

502
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd probably had a good day. Wow. I mean,

503
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: obviously it's not that bad but yesterday. But if you

504
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: refuse to play, yeah, I'm sorry, you're losing first round

505
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: draft picks. You're fine, You're getting fine. Millions of dollars

506
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: in your head. Coach to me is looking at a suspension.

507
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: The NFL can't ever let that be an option. You can't.

508
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: You don't get to decide whether you play or not.

509
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: Do you think NBC is cool with that? Absolutely not.

510
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: That's and and that's where the like NBC is gonna

511
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: come back and say, where's our game at we paid

512
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: for a game or we're planning on Not only that,

513
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: but if if you read Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback

514
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: Tonight or today, and King of course works for NBC,

515
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: talk to there's the NBC staff the Monday, the Sunday

516
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: or Thursday, and football staff that was here. They came

517
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: into town Wednesday expecting to play a game. So they've

518
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: been hanging here this whole time. Yeah, Sunday Tuesday. I mean,

519
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: that's small potatoes compared to TV contracts. But tell those

520
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: people have to who were away from their families on

521
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. The oh, by the way, that this game

522
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: is not being played. It's been a massive inconvenience for

523
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: everyone involved, absolutely, and and for the Ravens to then

524
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: come back and say, oh, no, we're not going to

525
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: play this game. They can't. They can't throw the book

526
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: at them nearly enough. No, I don't think that they

527
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: can have that. The hammer cannot come down hard enough

528
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: in that organ In fact, I wouldn't just take away

529
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: one first round draft pick. They wouldn't get a draft

530
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: pick for the next two years. But how can they

531
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: even be allowed to do that. You could say, oh,

532
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: we're not gonna play. I mean, I guess I can

533
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: say we're staying in Baltimore. But but the league then

534
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: would have the I mean again, you gotta bring the

535
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: hammer down, right. I can't imagine that their owner, he'd

536
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: be out. That would be my first if I'm Goodell,

537
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, hey, hey, what's this stuff about you

538
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: guys not potentially not playing here? Because our doctors are saying,

539
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: it's okay, we're gonna you're cleared. This game is gonna

540
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: go on. And if you don't show up, here's what's

541
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: going to happen. We don't really care who you who

542
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: you draft. We don't care if you want any quarter.

543
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: I don't care if you pick up a bunch of

544
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: high school kids in burn right, But you're gonna put

545
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: Raven uniforms on and you're gonna play this game. Yeah,

546
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: because there will be a game on television tomorrow. Yes,

547
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: and it will and and some people like the league

548
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: has played with with with players when they had player strikes,

549
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,959
Speaker 1: guys off the street. And you're gonna tell yeah, you're

550
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: gonna tell me that you can't feel a team you've

551
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: got You've got fifty healthy players to play with, right,

552
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: this is this is your own doing too bad? Yeah?

553
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: I wonder like who are the leaders there? They're saying,

554
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going the coach, I'm not gonna go do that.

555
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: We're just gonna go get smoked by a really good

556
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: team and look terrible against our top rivals and get embarrassed,

557
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like these are unprecedented times. Uh,

558
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: I can't imagine they would even try to do that.

559
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: But it's odd to me that they're getting together tonight

560
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: to review their options. Does that mean there's a plane

561
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: waiting and they're all gonna go from there? I mean

562
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: maybe it means that maybe they maybe it is. The

563
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: option is to travel tonight or travel tomorrow. You guys

564
00:30:58,480 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: will come back in an hour and we'll get out

565
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: of here, or we'll go tomorrow, or maybe that's what

566
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: we're But there are no options about whether you're going

567
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: to play this game. You signed up for this or

568
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: do you ask everyone in the room who's in, who's out?

569
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: If you're healthy, you're playing, you play. This is what

570
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: you signed up for. You want to get paid this

571
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: week because if you don't play, you don't get paid. Right,

572
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: But again, I know Big Ben is gonna be able

573
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: to pay his bills, but that's not cool if the

574
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: Steelers don't get pay what they do. Well, here's the

575
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: thing to anyone would get a free way most like

576
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: when I when I mentioned a couple of weeks ago

577
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: that Robert Spillane got fined for that hit on Derrick

578
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: Henry for lowering his head. He got a fifteen thousand

579
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: dollar fine that was like half of his paycheck. I know,

580
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: I get sixteen of them a year, right, I mean,

581
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: so you know, and and you know the NFL p

582
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: A still wants it's cut, your agent still wants. It's

583
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: kind of like, yeah, and you only you're one of

584
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: these end of the roster guys, is you know, let's

585
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: say you're even like if one of us could find

586
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: the same amount, what if you're what if you're one

587
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: of these practice squad guys who's getting actually getting called

588
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: up to play in this game? You'd like to play.

589
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: You'd like to play because you just got a huge

590
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: rays and you get to put some pape against an

591
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: NFL play there and maybe somebody notices, and oh I

592
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: would lose my mind if they came back, and so

593
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: we're not playing, and again the book would be thrown

594
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: at them so hard it would make spygate look like nothing.

595
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: It would make the flate gate look like nothing. I mean,

596
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: I think the thing we've seen most is, Okay, player

597
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: safety is pretty important but the show going on is

598
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: really we're gonna we're gonna take two planes to Pittsburgh

599
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,239
Speaker 1: tomorrow just to be safe or whatever. You are, right,

600
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: this this bull crap that that in Hardball obviously floated

601
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: this out there too. Well, it's supposed to snow tomorrow

602
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I'm gonna get two two to four inches

603
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. What's a concern about traveling in the snow

604
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: or what that was some of somebody tweeted that out

605
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: earlier today where the Ravens are concerned because it supposed,

606
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, if they fly out on or Tuesday, they're

607
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: supposed to be snow in the Pittsburgh area. Come on, man,

608
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: I've I've I've been on an NFL charter for a

609
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: number of years. They don't care about two inches two

610
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: inches of snow. I've flown into we flew in the

611
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: Green Bay one year and it was like two ft

612
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: of snow, right, the game had to go on? Right,

613
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: care about that? So that's that's a ridiculous argument. A

614
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: little puddle jumper plane. No, they take all the precautions

615
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: and you sit there and you and the in they

616
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: de ice you for forty minutes to make sure that

617
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: you know right or right you can stick on stick

618
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: everybody on a train or a bus or whatever. I mean,

619
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: you can get here again, put them in cars and

620
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: send them up. So it sounds like there's another shoot

621
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: to drop in terms of news though that something might

622
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: come out to night from there little meeting. But I

623
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: gotta think that there's going to be a game now Tuesday,

624
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: which is great. Yeah, um, but what do we see

625
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: on the field is what I don't know what to

626
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: talk about. I just don't know how to analyze this game.

627
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: Like I don't envy you for having to write four

628
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: thousand words and what we're gonna see on Tuesday night? Yeah, this, this,

629
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: this thing better take place at this point because um yeah,

630
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: and now, according to Jeffson Rebeca here we go. One

631
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: option being considered for the Ravens Steelers is the game

632
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: being pushed back to Wednesday night, which would give one

633
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: more day to make sure COVID outbreak with the Ravens

634
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: is under control, and also give them a day to practice.

635
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,320
Speaker 1: I don't care if they can practice. That means nothing

636
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: to me, and it should mean nothing to the NFL.

637
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: They did this to themselves. Right now, the Steelers got

638
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: a players. The Steelers are supposed to play on Sunday

639
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: against a Washington team that, oh, by the ways, you know,

640
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: they're not very good, but they're in first place in

641
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 1: their division, and you're gonna you're gonna make the Steelers

642
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: play on on a Sunday after playing Wednesday. No, that

643
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: doesn't fly with me. That doesn't fly at all. No,

644
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: that that that's not cool. One. Nobody should care about

645
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: the practice time. I mean, no, one seems too concerned

646
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: about changing the Steelers practice. Nobody seemed that they the

647
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos didn't get the practice with that they

648
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: didn't push the game to Monday. Well, he needs a

649
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: week that he needs, he needs a day of practice.

650
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 1: He's never he doesn't played quarterback and four years wait

651
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: for us who was a wide receiver in his senior year,

652
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: since right at one point he played some quarterback. Can

653
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: we bump the game back? Does that change anyone? No? No,

654
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: that that should not fly. That would be bad. Yeah,

655
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 1: I mean there's legit concerns. If another positive or something,

656
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: I'll listen. I mean, if it means Steelers possibly getting

657
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: in fact, right, that's the only way this thing gets Yeah,

658
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: but they had no they had no they had no positives.

659
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: Today you're playing pal that's it. Get your butts on

660
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: a plane, get up here, and let's play some football.

661
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. He is Matt Williams and I

662
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: am Dale Alli. You're listening to the drive here on

663
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. This is like breaking news on the radio.

664
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: We're just this is unbelievable. Um. Some of this, some

665
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: of these conversations that are taking place on social media

666
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: and stuff right now, just unreal. Um. Something I'm sure

667
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: knew will happen as we take this break. But we're

668
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: gonna do that right now. We'll be back in just

669
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:32,280
Speaker 1: a moment. Well, this this thing just keeps getting weirder

670
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: and weirder as we go on. Uh. This according to

671
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: uh to Jonas Schaeffer and uh he works for the

672
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: Baltimore Sun and Pro Football Talk. Uh Jonah Shaffer reports,

673
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: I've heard that there's a group of Ravens unhappy about

674
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: having to play Tuesday, given how everything has been handled.

675
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: I'm betting that group of Ravens is led by one

676
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. I would imagine, I mean, I don't like

677
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 1: their chances to win. I'm sure they don't like it either.

678
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: I didn't like the chances to win pure if if

679
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 1: both teams were in full strength. And I see being

680
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: as competitive as possible to give yourself every advantage to

681
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: possibly win a game that you need so bad. But

682
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: I don't care one bit if you liked how you know,

683
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: they're a handful of players doesn't like how it's been handled.

684
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: Who if I'm Goodell, I'm like, don't come back to

685
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,439
Speaker 1: me with that. I don't want to hear it. Here's

686
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: the here's the here's the kicker on this way. One

687
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: source told me the NFL had offered Wednesday as a compromise,

688
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: but that's but that some players wanted Thursday. No consensus

689
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: was reached. They wanted to push this game back to

690
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: Thursday because they don't play again until next day, Monday.

691
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: So what do they care? Wow, you can't. You can't

692
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: say yes to that. No, absolutely not. You can't say

693
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: yes to that. That's mind boggling to me that you

694
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: would even ask such a thing after it's been postponed

695
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 1: twice already. Remember talking to Labs on Wednesday. I keep

696
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: thinking about that conversation because Lab has been around the block. Obviously,

697
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: he took a much more jaded tone towards this whole thing.

698
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: And if this is postponed to Wednesday or Thursday, I'm

699
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,919
Speaker 1: going to take the that maybe this wouldn't be true

700
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: for every organization. You know what I mean that they're

701
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: getting favoritism. To be very honest with you, I'm not

702
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: saying that I'm with I'm with you, and I was.

703
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: I argue with Bob about this vehemently, like, no, I'm

704
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: gonna leave this. I'm gonna take this at face value,

705
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty. You know, if they get you know,

706
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: and we watch the NVER play without quarterbacks, quarterback, they

707
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: have a roster, They've got a roster. They've got guys.

708
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: Here's this from Pro Football Talk for a source, there

709
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: are new fears of Ravens players refusing to play tomorrow night,

710
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: which technically would be a wildcat strike. I don't know

711
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: what that means, but it means they're they're refusing to play.

712
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: You're walking You're not gonna play, you're walking out. It

713
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: could create major issues between the NFL and nfl P

714
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: if it happens, potentially could jeopardize the balance of the season.

715
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: And I don't believe any of that. That's Mike Areo

716
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: with his with his lawyer talk. He likes to. He's

717
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: I kind of called proofootball focusing. But if if if

718
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: they refused to play, I don't care. You've got thirty players,

719
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: you got twenty five players, you play. If you talked

720
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: about last segment, if you refuse to play, I'm with you.

721
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: The more I think about it that I would find

722
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: you and penalize you drastically harshly. It's never happened before.

723
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: It's never happened before. And I would force your organization

724
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: to pay the Steeler every member of the Steelers that

725
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: loses money, whoever that is. I mean maybe it's just

726
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: probably just the players, but everyone that loses money, you

727
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: need to put that bill. You get a loss, Steelers

728
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: gonna win, which isn't fair. You know, I wouldn't be

729
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: happy if I was Kansas City, right, absolutely, you know

730
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not fair to them, It's not

731
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: fair to Cleveland. It's not you know, I mean, I

732
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: wasn't I wouldn't be thrilled if I was Tampa and

733
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: the Saints got to play the Broncos. Guest, right, that

734
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: wasn't you know that wasn't necessarily fair, But it's no

735
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: different than if they at least they went out there

736
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: and put the ads on the plane. They had to

737
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: put them elves at risk, right, I mean it's like

738
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: playing the Jets right at that point? Right, Yeah, I

739
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: would be very hard on Baltimore. You agreed, as as

740
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: the NFL p A voted to play this season. You

741
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: agreed to this. You knew going into this thing. I

742
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: talked to players. They all knew that they were going

743
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: to be things that happened during the season. Yeah, that

744
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: couldn't be like any other year. They could potentially these

745
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: kind of situations could arise. And now you're gonna tell

746
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: me you're gonna refuse to play. You don't get to

747
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: make that decision now. And it all seems like it's

748
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: a football thing, like it's not fair for us our

749
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: chances to win the game, right, So what? Yeah, that's

750
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 1: parts that's different than hey, we have if we sat here,

751
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: we sat here and watched all these games on Sunday

752
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: and realize, oh boy, we really need to win this game,

753
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: so now we don't play. Yeah, right right, It would

754
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: be different if it was our doctors say, we still

755
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: have positives and we think it's dangerous to our organization

756
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: and the Steelers. Okay, I'll listen. Not we didn't get

757
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: the prep and we don't have enough good guys. I

758
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: don't want to hear any of that. Right, that's that's

759
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: your problem. You put yourself again, much like the Broncos,

760
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: you put yourself in this situation. The league didn't do that.

761
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: The Steelers didn't do this right, we prepared for this day.

762
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: You're not pulling people off the street. You're not getting

763
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: to marriage. And by the way, we want to push

764
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: it back to Thursday because if we do that, then

765
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,479
Speaker 1: maybe Dobbins and some other some of these other guys

766
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: get fat. I'm sure that's the logic behind it is

767
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: we can get a couple of our good guys where

768
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: if we can force, we'll force the league's hand and

769
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: we'll get this thing pushed a week eighteen. No, No,

770
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: you don't get to decide this. And frankly, I have

771
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: a hard time and it's really barked up the wrong tree.

772
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: Thursday football shouldn't exist if you really cared about league.

773
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: Body say it was before COVID ever existed. But in

774
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: terms of keeping these guys safe and player safety that

775
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: they preach and you can't lead with your head and

776
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: all these things. We don't have Thursday football. Well, if

777
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask me to play Thursday and then on

778
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: Day or Monday, you don't care at all about us.

779
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: I mean that that that would be a hard thing

780
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: to prove. But let's say the Steelers play Wednesday or

781
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: Thursday against the Ravens, mop the floor with them, play

782
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: Washington on Monday night and have five huge injuries or

783
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: pools or things like that that you can't prove wouldn't

784
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: have happened. It's probably just bad luck. But your body

785
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 1: needs to heal too. Yeah, I mean there's a reason

786
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: they wait again, through nothing, nothing that they did wrong

787
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: on their end, right, just for being compliant and changing

788
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: their kickoff time twice already. It's bad enough that the

789
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: game got pushed to Tuesday and they have to play

790
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: on a short weekend. Now you want to move to Thursday.

791
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: Screw you. I mean, if and then, if Tomlin and

792
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: the staff knew this was not going to happen on

793
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving last Tuesday, you could have been like, take the

794
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: whole take the weekend, the week off, right. We could

795
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: treated things much like the Tennessee situation. We used ore

796
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: by week differently, you know, I mean we got everybody

797
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: out the building for two days and done a self

798
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: scouting session. And you know, the more I think about this,

799
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: if they refused to play, I go back to him

800
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: and say, when the Baltimore Ravens season, the rest of

801
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: your season canceled, you don't get any draft picks next year.

802
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: It's like you didn't exist this year, none, nothing, Because

803
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: this is unprecedented. You don't get to make these decisions. No,

804
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: you don't get to make these decisions our league. You

805
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: you're you're a one of thirty two members in this league.

806
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: If the other and I would, I would let all

807
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: the other owners vote on this and say, okay, what

808
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: do we do with them? Emergency owners meeting? All right, Okay,

809
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: Baltimore forfeits the rest of its uh, the rest of

810
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: its season. They did their their season, wipe them off

811
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: the books. So about all the games already played those

812
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: alterns to wins. I guess other opponents all don't know

813
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 1: as you can do that because the games are played,

814
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,919
Speaker 1: but they don't get to play any other ones. Man,

815
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you don't think you can be

816
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: harsh enough with this. No not if you were, it's

817
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: like refusing to do your job right, so you get fired. Yeah,

818
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happens. That's exactly what happens. If all

819
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: you people listening, whatever it is you do for a liveing,

820
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: if you decided I'm not going tomorrow, I refused to go,

821
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: what would your employer do? You would not be employed

822
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: any longer in doing so well anymore, you have to

823
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: find another thing to do. Yeah, I can't imagine it

824
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: goes that way. But these blurbs that we're getting in

825
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: real time, well, these are coming from somewhere, and these

826
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: are all per a source, per source. Yeah, so this

827
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: is coming from within the Ravens organization. They're trying to

828
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: manipulate the system to get what they want out of this,

829
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 1: and there's no way on God's green earth that should happen.

830
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: Is the ultimate goal to get weak a team, Absolutely, yeah,

831
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: absolutely has been since day one. They can get their

832
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: guys back. We're gonna close our facility, We're gonna you know,

833
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: coaches don't take time off of We're just not going

834
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 1: to practice today because we don't want to. That doesn't happen,

835
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: doesn't happen that that didn't smell right from the beginning. Yeah,

836
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: it's crazy. We're gonna take a break. Uh, we typically

837
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: should come back with the fantasy football focus, but that

838
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: seems a little, uh the way it was streamingly every

839
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: time we take break, something that half the hardest shows

840
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: for me ever to do. And the drivetory. We're just

841
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: chatting about this as it happened. It happens. So we're

842
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: gonna take another break here. We'll be back Matt and

843
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 1: Dale right after this. He's the Drive with Dale Lolly

844
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: and Matt Williamson on Home of the Black and Gold

845
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back, and uh, I'm Dale Lolly

846
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: here with Matt Witch and as expected Matt that we

847
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: get more news while we're in the break. The Steelers

848
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: Ravens game has now been postponed to Wednesday, because well,

849
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens need a day to practice. That's what it

850
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: came down to, right Like when it came down to,

851
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: it's not fair to us not to have practice. If

852
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. If the NFL does not now push the

853
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: Steelers Washington game to Monday, that's I'm if I'm the Steeler,

854
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,479
Speaker 1: if I'm Art Rooney, the first. I'm making a call

855
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: right now. I'm going, Okay, what's going on with this? Yeah,

856
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do for me next? You know,

857
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: like you say, because my players would push for it

858
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: to be Tuesday, My players need days off. Like now,

859
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we get one day of practice

860
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: to go play the Washington And for example, to like

861
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: the Steelers probably did a walk through today, Well, they

862
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 1: would have had a full practice today if they would

863
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: have taken a full press. Absolutely back that, Well, we

864
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: were prepared differently if we knew it wasn't going to

865
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: be this day. For the third time, now you've moved it.

866
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: And if you ask him to play Sunday at one

867
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: or whatever, I refuse. I refuse if I'm the steel

868
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm this Dealers players, if I'm Cam Heyward,

869
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: who's their player rep? I call everybody and together right now,

870
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: I said, okay, well it worked for them. We're gonna

871
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna say we're not gonna We're not gonna play Sunday.

872
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: I mean, at a minimum, I think it has to

873
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: go to Monday. And I'm sinner thinking I would want

874
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: it to be played Tuesday. It's you know, here, you

875
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: can make that happen, and then you're short yourself against

876
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo the following week. I we just keep kicking it

877
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: down the road. Then can we make Buffalo Monday and

878
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a big game, or least a Sunday night,

879
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: you know, like, can we okay, at least get an

880
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: extra day here and there. I don't know how to

881
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: take this. I'm a little shocked and a little not

882
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: impressed with the league that they would caved and say, okay,

883
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: we'll give you a practice. They didn't give Denver a quarterback.

884
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 1: You know, I'd rather have a practice quarterback than a

885
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: practice just in terms of being able to win on

886
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: and win a football game. If that's really the reason, Hey,

887
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: you didn't get any practice. We want you to have

888
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: a practice. That's crap. You know, that's not enough to

889
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: change things and hurt the Steelers the you know, on

890
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: the on the back end of this thing, and have

891
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: to play the play the football team on a shorter week. Absolutely,

892
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: I just use your resources and time. Well, I think

893
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: the league has just bungled this drastically, just completely completely,

894
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: just made a farce of this, all right, I mean

895
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: to keep changing it and not to be very assertive

896
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,919
Speaker 1: with why. And they don't look good. It doesn't look

897
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: good at all. And and and here's the other again.

898
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: Now if if they start getting players back off the

899
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: COVID list, now I'm not now it looks really fishy. Yeah, Lamar,

900
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: all of a sudden can play that day, but not

901
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: the day before, you know, because unless that's the case,

902
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: because this was all about practice, right, all of a sudden,

903
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: Dobbins and Ingram are way, We're we're okay, we're ready

904
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: to play them. Practice report tomorrow. Dobbins practices in full

905
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: and we both are centers back, like, well, that works

906
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: out pretty well, right, Yeah, I mean unless that happened.

907
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: And it's not like it's going to be a better

908
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: product than if it was tomorrow. No, you know what

909
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: I mean, Like you get it over with pull the

910
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: pull the band aid off. Yeah, this this is just again,

911
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: um ridiculousness. This game has now been postponed three times.

912
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: This game was scheduled to take place in November on

913
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day. It will now take place in December. And

914
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,959
Speaker 1: there was even before that game that that game didn't

915
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: get changed, but because of the Titans mess, there was

916
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: stuff getting changed of going up to the game so

917
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: the whole raven Steelers and do a little bit to

918
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: greet Titans. Interaction this year has been miserable. It's been

919
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: bungled just over and over. I'm I'm at a loss

920
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: for words here. I just so maybe some people as

921
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: if some people are saying, well, you know, the Steelers

922
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: are crying about this, I guarantee you right now if

923
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: this were happening to the to their team, or if

924
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: this if this, you know, I don't care one way

925
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: or the other doesn't affect me. I'm going to cover

926
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: the game one way or the other. I don't have

927
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: a rooting interest whatever. Okay, maybe we'll have an episode

928
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: of The Drive tomorrow. We didn't think we would. Absolutely,

929
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: but this is patently this is patently unfair to one

930
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: team and not the other. Right it it's certainly benefits

931
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: one more way way more than the other. When you

932
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 1: I've been I've been part of football teams. I was

933
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: never a coach, I was never a big time play

934
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But I learned very quickly, and

935
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: I was shocked to the degree of this. Those dudes

936
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: that practice and the coaches and the players are unbelievable

937
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,879
Speaker 1: creatures of habit you know, like it's remarkable to me.

938
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: I mean as a civilian coming into that environment. I

939
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: was shocked that Wednesday at noon, they all know exactly

940
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be, and they're gonna do this and

941
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks center exchange and and when you messed with that,

942
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: it messed with the team. And I give Tom and

943
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: all the credit in the world for keeping the ship

944
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: right a during all this. But it's harder on a

945
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: team than you would think. It's not just one person.

946
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: You get a meeting you didn't know about, you know,

947
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: like you got it's a it's a battleship. You gotta

948
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: keep on track. And it doesn't turn easily. You know,

949
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:16,479
Speaker 1: it's not a malleable substance that I bet. It's making

950
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: the team crazy behind the scenes. Like I planned on

951
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: I would have practiced red zone three days ago. Now

952
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: I gotta do it today. You know, stupid things like

953
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: that people don't think about. How almost do you keep

954
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: the team humming? That's the thing about you, You're You're

955
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: absolutely right. These guys are creatures of habit time. Um,

956
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: you know they want everything is the week again. My

957
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: wife always says she knows exactly what my schedule is

958
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: going to be during football season, of course, because I'm

959
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: there during practice on this that you know. So it's

960
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: the same thing week after week, going to be here

961
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: at Friday at two o'clock, you know whatever. It's very

962
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: much laid out, unless there's a Monday night game or

963
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: something like that. If it's just Sunday to Sunday to

964
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: Sunday to Sunday, you do the same thing every week.

965
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like ground all day. Just it's monotonous,

966
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: but you got your routine down. I mean, you know,

967
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: you and I do a show the day the schedule

968
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 1: gets put out, and I guarantee every player looks at

969
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: that and be like, Okay, every week's and be the same.

970
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: Here's my bye. Maybe I can push a little harder

971
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: in my training and then I can pull it back.

972
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: And then I got that Thursday game against the Ravens,

973
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: you know, like they let this stuff out, let alone,

974
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: the coaching stabs and all that type of deal. And

975
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: I get that this year is not the same, But

976
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: it's harder on the Steelers than you think. I can

977
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: promise you that it absolutely is. And you know, yeah,

978
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: they haven't had to play without their quarterback like Denver

979
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: did yesterday or any But you can't tell me that

980
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: this doesn't have an effect, Like it's just again patently unfair.

981
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: And then again who cares about power ranks and the

982
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 1: public perception? But I wonder the Steelers gonna how well

983
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,720
Speaker 1: with the Steelers gonna play? I mean, could they stub

984
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: their toes here? And I was up for this game

985
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: twice already. I want to be over with I'm starting

986
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: to think about Washington, you know, I I don't know.

987
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 1: I mean, there is a human element to it, or

988
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: we're gonna beat these guys by a hundred again. And

989
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: this this hasn't been a bye week. They didn't get

990
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: a bye week the first time against the Titans. They

991
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: were practicing in the Thursday. They had to practice Thursday,

992
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: and then the league canceled the game on Sunday. And

993
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: I guess they got a couple of days off when

994
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: the Thursday game was rescheduled, but not the way they

995
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: wanted because they had to prepare for a Sunday game.

996
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: Right this that's not a that's not a bye week.

997
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 1: The bye week is again, you know, to pull back

998
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: the curtain on this when Mike Tom has when they

999
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: have a bye week, they practice Tuesday, they practice Wednesday,

1000
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: and they get the rest of the week off. And

1001
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: when I say they practice, it's all the young guys practicing.

1002
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: The old guys don't practice that week. Those guys get

1003
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 1: the full week off. It's bull week for you know,

1004
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: young guys on set, right. And you know we talked

1005
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: about this when the Titan thing went down. Tom has

1006
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: been doing this every year for a long time and

1007
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: he is I'm sure perfected like Harbor and carol In Belichick.

1008
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: This is what I'm going to do on my bye week,

1009
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 1: and my offensive quality control coach is going to break

1010
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: down our linebackers and we're gonna prepare for our defense

1011
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: as if we're playing them, and we're gonna self Scalt

1012
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: and I play on getting Rudolph this many snaps and

1013
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: installing one new thing on one new protection that I

1014
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: thought we could didn't have time for before. Things like that.

1015
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: I mean, like, and I'm gonna give you guys all

1016
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: this rest, and they're gonna get one more day of

1017
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: heavy lifting that I couldn't have got in before. And

1018
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: you know, the training staffs, like, boy, I get a

1019
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: lot more training time and I can work on this

1020
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: guy's knee a little better or whatever the heck it is,

1021
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: has been bugging people that they had to practice through. Like, man,

1022
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Uh. One of our listeners who of course

1023
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: always listens and it's a hup. We always appreciate role. Uh.

1024
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: He did bring up the fact that one thing, Buffalo

1025
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: has a Monday night game next week, which I didn't

1026
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 1: realize next week. So if you move Washington Pittsburgh to

1027
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: Monday night, both teams are on equal. I would push

1028
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: for that if I were a Steeler, they had that

1029
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: that game has to be moved on Monday night has

1030
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: to be because and it's not that hard on the

1031
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: stadium staff or they mean there's nobody there anyways, or yeah,

1032
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: like the only thing about that would be there because

1033
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: then you gotta you gotta negotiate that out with the networks.

1034
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 1: Well there's that aspect of right, like they can't be happy,

1035
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I mean, you know, plus it's a Steeler Like,

1036
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: here's here's what, here's the problem. So that game, I

1037
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: assume Washington in Pittsburgh, which I don't know this for certain,

1038
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that that's a Fox game. I'm assuming

1039
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: because they all they had the NFC. Now that's that's

1040
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 1: there's some cloudiness say that now, but I'm gonna assume

1041
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: right now that was a Fox game without looking Okay,

1042
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: so if you say, okay, we're gonna play that thing

1043
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: Monday night, Now, all of a sudden, NBC goes or wait,

1044
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,479
Speaker 1: who's no ESPN, which has the monthy has the Monday

1045
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: night games? Well, whoa wait a second, we're supposed to

1046
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 1: be the only game here. We got the Bills game.

1047
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: We don't want to compete, We don't want competition stealers Washington, right,

1048
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: and when you there's many many people Steeler fans are

1049
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: gonna watch the game. Washington fans are gonna watch that game,

1050
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: but they would have watched the other one, absolutely, and

1051
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: most of the people out there that don't have a

1052
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: dog in the fight one day, fifty or you or

1053
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: the other where a hundred would have went the other

1054
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 1: and you would have had you would have had you know,

1055
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: a twenty rating as opposed to the fifteen you're now

1056
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: going to get because you've just siphoned off a bunch

1057
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: of your the you know, eyeballs from the game, and

1058
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 1: not let alone, how many would have gone on Thursday,

1059
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving night when everyone in the world was, or Tomorrow

1060
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: night where everyone in the world was, and you've already

1061
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: put like that. That's why the Ravens game against Dallas

1062
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: I think was scheduled for like five o'clock. Yeah, something strange,

1063
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: something strange like that, because again they don't want those

1064
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: games competing against each other. And I mean, I've thought

1065
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: it was odd that on Sunday The Stealers was played

1066
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: at one fifteen, not one, I mean, without change as much,

1067
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: but strange. I know so little about networks and I

1068
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: know by football. I don't know about networks. And I'm

1069
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 1: sure things are different now because teams aren't are NBC

1070
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: is not putting out C S I, n C I

1071
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: S whatever they're usual programming at the same level they

1072
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: usually do. But maybe Wednesdays their best night of shows

1073
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: and now the right and Tuesday's John they'll glad they'll

1074
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: gladly take. But something's getting bumped, you know who, whatever

1075
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: it is like, so that's not what they want, you

1076
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like they have a set schedule too,

1077
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: and the little grandma wanted to see n C I

1078
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: S and it's not on or whatever. She's not she's

1079
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: not happy. You know, there's more to it than we

1080
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: didn't get a day of practice. We're gonna move the schedule,

1081
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: so there should be more to it than that, But

1082
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: I guess there isn't. Yeah, I honestly I can't imagine.

1083
00:57:52,640 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: I can't outside of favoritism. There's there's no other reason

1084
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: for the league to do this none. There's been no

1085
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: precedent that I can remember in two thousand twenty of

1086
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: the league caring about you getting a practice bending over

1087
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,439
Speaker 1: backwards like this or a quarterback. It's a bad look.

1088
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: It's a bad look. It's a really bad look. It

1089
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: should be a really bad look, and most people won't

1090
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: notice it. If Scura and Calais, Campbell and Ingram all

1091
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: happen to be able to go right, you know, I

1092
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: don't know, but I guess the next thing we be

1093
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:32,640
Speaker 1: looking for is week I would hope is it is

1094
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: a Monday night er, especially with the Bill. I like

1095
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: that tweet that you mentioned that at least the Bills

1096
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: will be working on a Monday night game to Monday

1097
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: night schedule too. But it's in their building. I mean,

1098
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: it's still traveling from Monday night or from Monday to

1099
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: Sunday on a short week and you're the road team. Yeah. Um. Honestly, again,

1100
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: I have no dog in the in the fight, I

1101
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: care one way or the other. But I've got a

1102
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: feeling the Steelers are going to take out some frustrations

1103
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: on these guys. I'm sure Wednesday not like okay. And

1104
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: there's more to this story. There's absolutely more to the story,

1105
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: and the Steelers know every bit of it. I'm sure

1106
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: I would I if the if the NFL doesn't come

1107
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 1: down hard on these guys over this situation, Roger Goodell

1108
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: should be fired. There should be a penalty, and not

1109
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: just And I'm as big a goodelve backer as you

1110
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: will find. I think he gets a bad rap. I

1111
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: think he absolutely this is not an easy job. But

1112
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: if he doesn't come down hard in this situation on

1113
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: this Baltimore franchise, he's not the guy for the job.

1114
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: I've been I've been thinking about this a lot that

1115
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 1: going someday, there's gonna be a thirty for thirty or

1116
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: a Football Life or a documentary on the two thousand

1117
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: twenty NFL season. And I would start it back at

1118
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: the combine when they were talking about labor stuff, and

1119
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: you know when that that seemed like a big story

1120
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: compared to everything's happened since. But there should maybe be

1121
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: a whole chapter on this, like five years from now,

1122
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: when the truth comes out teams, you know, like all

1123
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 1: the ange things that happened in week twelve or what

1124
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: was really going on behind the scenes this team. Uh,

1125
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that they faked Havin COVID or

1126
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: something like that, but really got a chance to move

1127
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: their game and this guy got healthy. And I just

1128
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of underlying things probably going on,

1129
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: and not all of it's probably on the up and up.

1130
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: It is probably No, I mean again, this whole situation

1131
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: now looks like the Ravens are manipulating this, right, And

1132
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: like the word on jude On and Snead and all

1133
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: those other guys that came out over the weekend, they

1134
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: were just placed on the COVID list this afternoon. They

1135
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 1: kind of make it look like, oh, look, we had

1136
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: these new guys that went on. No, you didn't do

1137
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: you know about those ones over the weekend? Right, No,

1138
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 1: that's a good point too. You did that for public perception, like, oh,

1139
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,680
Speaker 1: we just put four new players on the let That's

1140
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: not what happened. You knew about those ones. The average

1141
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: fans out there going, oh, there's another day with the positive.

1142
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: There's another day with the positive. Yeah, that's not the case.

1143
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: They're only positive to day was a guy who was

1144
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 1: on injured reserve, who had no contact whatsoever anybody else.

1145
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: That shouldn't change. That should change hasn't been around anybody. Yeah, Wow,

1146
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williamson. Absolutely,

1147
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: he's Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the

1148
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Your tunes about Drive

1149
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

1150
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson and

1151
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: Matt song. That was just playing run like Hell Yeah

1152
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: off of the Wall, which was released November, which is today.

1153
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: How about that? How about that? Also released my number

1154
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: one album, also released today, Thriller? How about that? How

1155
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: about that? I just saw this because Sean mcdeal tweeted

1156
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 1: this out and also also done today. And this is

1157
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: a big one too. If in nineteen I believe in

1158
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies seven and maybe seventy six was the

1159
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: special with Bing Crosby and David David Bowie doin a

1160
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: little drummer? Boy, what you still hear all the time?

1161
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: You still hear that all the time. I remember seeing

1162
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: that live when I was a kid. My mom was

1163
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 1: like David Bowie, guy, I don't like him, right, but

1164
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: we watched it because it was be It was a

1165
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 1: big Crosby special. Was pretty cool. Yeah, it's always easy.

1166
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: That was all right. Yeah, that's not bad. So The

1167
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: Walls number one on my list of all albums. If

1168
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Speaker 1: I was talking to a a desert island with one album,

1169
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:50,439
Speaker 1: it would be The Wall, and a lot of people

1170
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: would pick thrillers there. I'm sure they would also cheat

1171
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: because it's a double you get more songs, that's true, right, Yeah,

1172
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm a big guy. I like the theme album too.

1173
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 1: The world is lost on theme albums now days, Like

1174
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: kids can't listen to the Wall in their iPad and

1175
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: stop comes on for thirty nine seconds or you know

1176
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:06,479
Speaker 1: what I mean. You got to hear one after another

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: after another. Certainly they don't do albums anymore. That's they

1178
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: don't do albums anymore. Dropped this track. Yeah, it wouldn't

1179
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: be wouldn't fly as well nowadays, no, they would not

1180
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: know a lot a lot of groups. Um. So, according

1181
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 1: to Jason lacaphora Um, the NFL is working through the

1182
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: logistics of the scheduled Steelers game against Washington which could

1183
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: be moved from Sunday again. We just went over and

1184
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: say Monday. No, it could be moved from Sunday again.

1185
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: There if you're looking at the schedule for for week,

1186
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:45,439
Speaker 1: which is that is um. You know, the league can't

1187
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 1: just say hey, we're gonna do this and move this

1188
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 1: game now to get the Okay, you know, these games,

1189
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: after all, especially with no fans in the stadium from

1190
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: many of these places, these don't happen in a vacuum.

1191
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 1: I would think it's easier with no fans, but it isn't.

1192
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: Because Okay, here's the schedule right in now is it

1193
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: State Cowboys Ravens at five o'clock? At five They're playing

1194
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 1: at five o'clock because again, that's on Fox. Okay, because

1195
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: you don't want you don't want to go head to

1196
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: head with ESPN, which has the Buffalo forty San Francisco game,

1197
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: which is being played in Arizona right by the way.

1198
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a crazy schedule. Yeah wow,

1199
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: so okay, wait Ravens Cowboys is scheduled for Sunday at five. Yes, well,

1200
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 1: aren't the Ravens gonna complain that we can't be ready

1201
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: for a Sunday game after this? Either no, that's there

1202
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: on Monday or they're on Monday. They were already they

1203
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: were already moved to Monday because they were already getting

1204
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: a bonus whole thing, a little another crumb throwing their way.

1205
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 1: I didn't realize. Um, so there's been maybe three Monday

1206
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: night games. Uh so that Steelers game looking here was

1207
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: on is on Fox scheduled for one o'clock on Sunday

1208
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: right now current here, So what they could do one

1209
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: or two? They could do two things here. They could

1210
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: play that game at one o'clock here on Monday because

1211
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: there's no fans in the stadium, or because that game

1212
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: the forty Niners game, the forty Niners of the home team.

1213
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 1: They could make that in late game, push that back

1214
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: to like a ten o'clock start. Maybe it would happen.

1215
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: But if you're ESPN, you don't want that. You don't

1216
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: want that at all, Like would you better throw me

1217
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 1: a big check? And if your Fox you're going, I

1218
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:33,439
Speaker 1: don't want to want o'clock game on a Monday. Who's

1219
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: gonna watch that either, right, I mean's different times. People

1220
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: be home and they'll make it, they'll get viewers. But

1221
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: Monday one o'clock game. So you're saying, maybe there's a

1222
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: triple header Monday back to back. I would tell the Ravens,

1223
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: you know what, you don't want to play on Wednesday.

1224
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: Guess what now you're playing on Sunday. Yeah, you have

1225
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: to flip those games out. Yeah, you get the one

1226
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: o'clock spot because you'll get a practice in before then.

1227
01:05:56,960 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that Steelers Washington won't be Tuesday again.

1228
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: Now now that's fair again, Yeah, because you get a

1229
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: super short week to prepare for a Monday night or

1230
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: against Buffalo in Buffalo and the and if I'm if

1231
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: I'm Washington, I don't want that either. I don't know

1232
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 1: who they play, and no, they don't want to get

1233
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: bumped to Tuesday for nothing that they did. I mean,

1234
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 1: quite frankly, neither one of these teams today anything wrong.

1235
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: Of course, of course one team that's something. And they're

1236
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: both in the middle of a playoff of course, right right,

1237
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: So Washington play goes to San Francisco to Arizona if

1238
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:36,040
Speaker 1: the following sun. So they're not follow up back to

1239
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 1: back road trips. You're not gonna make them go out

1240
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: there on Tuesday. And originally they would have had a

1241
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: seven day week to prepare for a long road trip.

1242
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna probably have a six, possibly five, you know,

1243
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: after playing an undefeated Steelers team. And oh, by the way,

1244
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: the Ravens are at Cleveland Monday, December four teens, so

1245
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: that they're they're losing nothing in this whole thing. Wow,

1246
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 1: with all the Monday Okay, so they got Monday Monday

1247
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: the next two weeks. Wow, it's great for them. Absolutely,

1248
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: this gets better and better for that. They come into

1249
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: this thing smelling like a rose. Right. They don't care

1250
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 1: that they lose on the back end of the cr

1251
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: game as long as they can buy more time on

1252
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 1: the front end, because they got all the time in

1253
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:18,919
Speaker 1: the world. Wow. I hard to write my head around

1254
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: it a little bit, but man, it's settling with me.

1255
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: Worse and worse. It looks worse and worse for the NFL.

1256
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: The more this goes on, the more they can tell

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01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore franchise, which I repeat put itself in

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01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: this position, and the only thing I've heard is they

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01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: want to practice. Not we're worried about more tests. We

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01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: want the practice. Well, you don't get that luxury anymore,

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01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: you know. I keep going back. The Broncos wanted a quarterback. Actually, hey,

1262
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 1: we want a quarterback. No, you can't have one, but

1263
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 1: you can have a practice. I'd rather have a quarterback

1264
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: than a practice. Actually, yeah, if you ask the Broncos, Okay,

1265
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna push this game back one day so you

1266
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: can practice with your prey, the squad wide receiver at quarterback,

1267
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: or we're gonna push you back a day so you

1268
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: can get one of these quarterbacks back, even if it's

1269
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: the fourth string. Dude, they'll take a fourth string quarterback.

1270
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: He's an NFL quarterback. He is. At least he practiced

1271
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: at quarterback complete more than one pass, Yes, the course

1272
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: of the day, most likely, right, you much they got

1273
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: They got a shorter endo stick than anybody. Absolutely. I mean,

1274
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 1: did you see Taysom Hill stats from Misty He didn't

1275
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 1: do anything. He didn't do anything. He completed two passes

1276
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: in the first half. And by the way, I didn't

1277
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: get it a tweet at me from Chris. Chris Holker,

1278
01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: if you're listening out there today, I did not get

1279
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,000
Speaker 1: a text from you this week or tweet from you

1280
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 1: this week about how well Taysom Hill played, because to

1281
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, when I said Taysom Hill beating out

1282
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 1: Jamis Jamis Winston was like Chase Claypool beating out Jamis Winston,

1283
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston signing with the Steelers, and Chase Claypool beats

1284
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: him out to play quarterback next week I watched He's

1285
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,080
Speaker 1: a great special teams player, He's all that. He's a

1286
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: football player. Taysom Hill's a football player. He's not a

1287
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in the NFL. And watching that Denver game,

1288
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 1: by no means so I feel any better about him

1289
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: being a starting quarterback. No. I think he at thirty

1290
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 1: four yards passing in the first half and that was

1291
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: the only thing that made his day passable is that

1292
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: the the other side could complete a pass. That game

1293
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: honestly looked to me like Red Grange in leather helmets.

1294
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 1: I mean it was just quarterback run, quarterback sweep. You know,

1295
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 1: nobody drops back and pass. No NFL concepts whatsoever. Defense

1296
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: is all over the line of scrimmage. I don't even

1297
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 1: know if they're deep safeties. You know, Michael Thomas is

1298
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: out there running around, you know I can get him

1299
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 1: the ball. Jerry Judy on the other side, Yeah, I'm

1300
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 1: just gonna keep running. Pet doesn't matter. We're not gonna

1301
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: put a safety over the top because no one's going

1302
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: to complete a pass. You know. Bad, I mean it

1303
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: was bad, and I'm not sure if this game would

1304
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 1: be much better. I don't know. It has to be

1305
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: better than that, But there are low water marks. I mean,

1306
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: you're not helping your product here. You were not and

1307
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 1: you're know something weirdness was gonna happen this year. This

1308
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: is beyond weirdness now, this is this is reached critical level.

1309
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: Should happen tomorrow. This should not have a Wednesday. They

1310
01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: should not be telling the league when they're going to play, right,

1311
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: because we're not what other teams are gonna pop up. Absolutely,

1312
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the next thing that happens. Now while

1313
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: we don't want to play that day, I mean, I

1314
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: want to say, weren't the Niners hit real hard? And it? Yeah,

1315
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:15,880
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been another on Thursday. On Thursday, right,

1316
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 1: and there's been more coming forward. Well, now apparently you

1317
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:20,600
Speaker 1: can just say, hey, we're not going to play. We

1318
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: need to practice, we need to have a practice. We

1319
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,480
Speaker 1: we can't do this. It's not safe. I don't feel safe, right,

1320
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 1: And the safety thing is if it was we're going

1321
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 1: to spread COVID to our opponents, okay, if we need

1322
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 1: another practice, not okay. You know, we just didn't get

1323
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 1: enough time to practice our new plays. We're talking about practice,

1324
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: I mean, just going on. We're not talking about a game,

1325
01:10:45,320 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 1: we're talking about practice. Uh, maybe you should write another

1326
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: pregame or another report. I guess maybe I should have

1327
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: four thousand words and in case somebody different plays addresses.

1328
01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm at a loss with this whole thing. This, this

1329
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: whole thing is iculous. It's it's and it just so

1330
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: happened to be the Steeler's biggest rival. You know, it's

1331
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 1: been a bad time right now, Like I don't care

1332
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 1: about anything. Like the Steelers didn't say when Ben Roethlisberg

1333
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: got hurt last year, they didn't say, hey, we're gonna

1334
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 1: give up on the season, right, We're gonna keep playing.

1335
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: In fact, we're not only not only were we gonna

1336
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,600
Speaker 1: keep playing we're gonna make a trade for making Fitzpatrick

1337
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 1: right right, or hey, Cam Newton had had Corona. They

1338
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:29,759
Speaker 1: didn't change that game, or they did. That was because

1339
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 1: he tested He tested positive on a Saturday, so that

1340
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: was that was a little different. But they did make

1341
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: him play the next week. They didn't get to cancel

1342
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: their game. No, they din't cancel in the game or

1343
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: change it to get him an extra practice, right. Remember,

1344
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: I remember he played a lot without any practices whatsoever

1345
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: the Patriots for two weeks and they lost them both.

1346
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: They lost them both and now they're five and six.

1347
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: They could have said, hey, if we didn't have this situation,

1348
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: maybe we're six and five or you know, seven and seven,

1349
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: four for our games. But yeah, it's it's it's just

1350
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: a bad look. The NFL is screwing this up royally.

1351
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: Um Honestly, I think if you start looking at this, uh,

1352
01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: I've been accused of being an NFL apologist, and usually

1353
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: I do side on their on their side of things.

1354
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 1: This I can't on this the way I can't on

1355
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:18,879
Speaker 1: this one, the way they've handled this entire season compared

1356
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 1: to the other leagues. I realized they couldn't do bubbles

1357
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: that's not realistic in this situation for over a hundred people.

1358
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean, by the time you get players, staff, support staff,

1359
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: you're talking about a hundred and fifty people. I mean

1360
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: you even point before about we don't have thirty two

1361
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: practice fields laying around somewhere. That's the other Yeah, I mean,

1362
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,200
Speaker 1: it's just not realistic. You couldn't You couldn't tell the

1363
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,639
Speaker 1: the equipment guy or the field manager. These get like, hey,

1364
01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: you got to move into this bubble with us for

1365
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: the next seven months, and yeah, no contact with your family.

1366
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 1: You're making I know you're making thirty dollars a year,

1367
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: but here's where you gotta live next. Like that's not

1368
01:12:55,000 --> 01:13:00,560
Speaker 1: really but very not for as long as this, Like that,

1369
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 1: they were in playoff situations, teams are getting eliminated left right.

1370
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,959
Speaker 1: This is a full season. You couldn't do it like baseball.

1371
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: Even with baseball, they play sixty games instead of a

1372
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: hundred sixty two. So much short like okay, if the if,

1373
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 1: the if, the if, the NFL going, okay, we're gonna

1374
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: play in eight game season and we're gonna bubble up,

1375
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 1: then you can Okay, now you can do it because

1376
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: you're looking at two you know, two and a half months.

1377
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: But you can't tell somebody, hey, we're gonna bubble up.

1378
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna put you in a bubble in July and

1379
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:32,280
Speaker 1: you may not get back out of this until February.

1380
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,720
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna sign up for that. And there's too many

1381
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:39,639
Speaker 1: bodies and not enough facilities anywhere, too right, and each

1382
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: game takes is a six hour segment block. By the

1383
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,679
Speaker 1: time you get warm ups, the game itself clean up out.

1384
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 1: Like I mean, you could not realistic all the a

1385
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 1: f C in one city and all the NFC in

1386
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: one city and just play the you know, within those conferences.

1387
01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: But I think you can for the playoffs. Sure, you know,

1388
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,559
Speaker 1: if it's seven teams and three of them go home

1389
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: after a week or even Bubba, you know you can.

1390
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 1: You can then once you get to the postseason, put

1391
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 1: all the teams in hotels in their and their hosts

1392
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: in their home city. Yeah, you can say, Okay, we're

1393
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: not gonna allow you any contact over the for the

1394
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 1: next month. A month is one thing in one travel

1395
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: day and that's it, you know, but it's on a

1396
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,600
Speaker 1: team charter, right. A month is one thing. Seven is

1397
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 1: something completely different. That's a heck of a lot. I

1398
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:27,960
Speaker 1: don't care how much money you make it in groundkeepers everybody.

1399
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final break. He is Matt Williams

1400
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: and I'm Dale Lawley. Maybe we'll have some more news

1401
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: while we're on the break here. That seems to be

1402
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: the way it's going today. We're gonna take We'll be

1403
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 1: back right after this with the final segment of the

1404
01:14:39,240 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 1: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale

1405
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: law you hit with Matt Williamson, and uh, we do

1406
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: have a little more breaking um. Texas wide receiver Will

1407
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: Fuller has been suspended six games for a p D violation.

1408
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm having a really good year. Sometimes they had to

1409
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,600
Speaker 1: go hand in hand. Yeah, Kenna, he was gonna be

1410
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: a free agent at the end of the point. He

1411
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: put out at a Instagram post. It says, earlier this year,

1412
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: I saw treatment from a medical professional who prescribed me

1413
01:15:39,479 --> 01:15:43,160
Speaker 1: medication he believed to be permitted under the NFL's drug policy.

1414
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: As it turns out, my trust and his professional was

1415
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:48,760
Speaker 1: misplaced because his medication was not a permitted substance under

1416
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:53,920
Speaker 1: the NFL player performance enhancing substances um. That's on the

1417
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 1: players for people don't know, like those things happen like

1418
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: that may have been a very innocent mistakes, may have

1419
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: been innocent mistake. It's also an easy cop out if

1420
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 1: you know, you can always say that if you're I

1421
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 1: took off medicine, I shouldn't have. But there's somebody on

1422
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 1: call for every team that you can call at any

1423
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 1: time and say should I put this in my body

1424
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 1: or not? And they will tell you. They will tell

1425
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: you or nay yes, so that that resource is available

1426
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: to every NFL player. So inevitably you're responsible for that. Yeah,

1427
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've covered Steelers players who you know

1428
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: took this tree bark or what you get suspended for. Well,

1429
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 1: it's a natural substance, doesn't matter it's on the band list.

1430
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 1: You're responsible. You're responsible for what goes into your body.

1431
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: And if you're on the list, you're out of luck.

1432
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: And I've seen players over the years that you know, uh,

1433
01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, went to Mexico on vacation and took something

1434
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,160
Speaker 1: and it shows up as a positive. I mean, there's

1435
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: definitely and yeah, you're responsible for what goes into your body.

1436
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 1: He's been pretty adamant about that. That's one thing you've

1437
01:16:56,840 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: been adamant about. And I mean I'm here, people have

1438
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: had exotic meals that had something in it that they

1439
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: didn't know about, never thought twice to ask, or you know,

1440
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: mixed drink or something weird. I don't know, but inevitably

1441
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:12,839
Speaker 1: that's the way it goes. It's your responsibility. And Houston's

1442
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: obviously in trouble. They're playing better. He's been a really

1443
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: good player. I'm sure he'll get money either way. He's

1444
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 1: unknown as a problem child, but he is known as

1445
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:24,320
Speaker 1: somebody that's very injury prone. And then he's taking something

1446
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: to help him stay on the field. Well that ends up.

1447
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not accusing him, but he's got busted.

1448
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: Looking here real quickly at the games from yesterday, Uh,

1449
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: the Raiders go to Atlanta. It's unbelievable and just got demolished.

1450
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: They couldn't have played worst on offense. I mean it

1451
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: was they made every mistake you possibly could. And what

1452
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: was the final on that one six and Matt Ryan

1453
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 1: threw for like a yard? Yeah, like it's Brian Hill

1454
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 1: played running back for that. Think he had like thirty years,

1455
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: no girl and no Julio Jones. They didn't do anything

1456
01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:05,280
Speaker 1: special defensive scores, but it was penalties and turnovers like

1457
01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: they couldn't have inflicted more wounds on themselves. That was

1458
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 1: a miserable performance by the Raiders. Um, the Bills beat

1459
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers, but it didn't blow my socks off to

1460
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: and that It was a very back and forth game.

1461
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 1: And the Chargers are just you see how they mismanaged

1462
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: the clock to at the end of both halves, but

1463
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 1: especially at the end. I mean, he needs to go.

1464
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: We did see one coach fired this weekend. Yeah, Detroit

1465
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:32,799
Speaker 1: has moved on that. Patricia finally gets the axe in

1466
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: in the Detroit That's that was inevitable. Yeah about Romeo Canell.

1467
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:39,040
Speaker 1: Cornell did it too. I wonder if did they don't

1468
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,719
Speaker 1: get along on this because Houston was like running trick

1469
01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:43,400
Speaker 1: plays and stuff. At the end of that game they

1470
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:46,560
Speaker 1: did to run kind of run up. Yeah, I know

1471
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: Romeo and I was round him with the Patricia just

1472
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: went to and said, hey, dude, get me out of here.

1473
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: Do it on Thanksgiving and everyone can see and we'll

1474
01:18:54,479 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: all be moved on and I'll keep getting my check.

1475
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 1: I figured out their thanks racking, I don't know. And

1476
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: then the Jags let their GM go. I'm sure there

1477
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:06,439
Speaker 1: would be a lot of coaching changes, a lot of

1478
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 1: coaching changes already, some GM moves that have like it's

1479
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: gonna be a big year of movement. I think. I

1480
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 1: think the Chargers Bears or a couple more that that

1481
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 1: you must have dropped to. Yeah, the Giants beat Cincinnati,

1482
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: not that was a surprise, but it was closer than

1483
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: I think we expected. I thought the Giants will blow

1484
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,799
Speaker 1: him out, and since he hung around, since his offense

1485
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: didn't do anything nothing, I mean nothing is the lowest

1486
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: yards per attempt I've seen all year. Um, they had

1487
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: a big return, as they sometimes do, and that's where

1488
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:37,800
Speaker 1: they got their points, and that was it. And then

1489
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: Dan and Jones got hurt. Uh, Tennessee smoked Indianapolis without Buckner.

1490
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,920
Speaker 1: That defense is not nearly They were exposed a little bit.

1491
01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 1: I didn't see it coming to that. You could now

1492
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:51,600
Speaker 1: make the argument and maybe the forced Buckner's easily m

1493
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: v P. Yeah. I mean they probably don't win the

1494
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:56,559
Speaker 1: game with them because they got beat bad pretty much

1495
01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: thoroughly the whole day, and they didn't do much on offense.

1496
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,439
Speaker 1: They had no answer. Then running game, they're not equipped

1497
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: to come from behind the Colts and it was Derrick

1498
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: Henry and A. J. Brown And Tennessee is pretty good.

1499
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're one of these teams that are up and

1500
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: down like every like there's a lot of jackal and

1501
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 1: hides on. Yeah, Um, Minnesota comes back and beats Carolina.

1502
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: Speaking of jackal and hide type stuff, Uh, I mean

1503
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: just and I went down to the wire too. I

1504
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: mean Minnesota had some teddy. Bridgewater is just good enough

1505
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: to get you beat. I think so too. I think

1506
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 1: Teddy's not the answer, and I bet they know that too.

1507
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: But if they're kicker nails a fifty four yard or

1508
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: they went it too. And but the Vikes have really

1509
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: turned things around. Cousins played well, Justin Jefferson's a star.

1510
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:44,840
Speaker 1: They didn't even have feeling. Uh, Vikes don some good things. Uh.

1511
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 1: New England comes back and beats Arizona or actually they

1512
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 1: led that for them. Yeah, they kicked the late field goal,

1513
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: but when that seventeen um Arizona is a fraud. A

1514
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 1: couple of things I took away from that one to like,

1515
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: if you look at the box score, you wouldn't think

1516
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots won that game. They didn't produce much yardage um.

1517
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:08,880
Speaker 1: They won on special teams as well, hidden yardage Belichick esque.

1518
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:11,720
Speaker 1: I watched Kyler Murray though, and thought his shoulders really

1519
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 1: bugging up. Yeah, he was really favoring it. Didn't run

1520
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 1: as much as he usually does, wasn't as sharp as usual,

1521
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: But the pat says usual had a good pass rush

1522
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: plan kept him where they could, you know, keep their

1523
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:24,560
Speaker 1: hands on them. Not a good defense, They're not a

1524
01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: good Yeah, you should score more than seventeen points against now,

1525
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 1: uh and they you know, I don't think Arizona is

1526
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: a contender. I think they're fraud right. But Patrick's offense

1527
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I think Cam completed two balls in

1528
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 1: the first half. Miami beat the Jets twenty two three.

1529
01:21:38,120 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 1: That was kind of expected. Yeah, Ryan Fitzpatrick two fifty

1530
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 1: seven passing yards in that game. Dolphins totally shut down

1531
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: Donald and the whole and the whole Jets offense. There

1532
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: are people somewhat competitive games. There are people saying, well,

1533
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 1: they need to go back to too when he's healthy.

1534
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 1: You're in the playoff fund. Sticking with Fitzpatrick, I think

1535
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 1: so too. You could think a bunch of better at

1536
01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:00,240
Speaker 1: football right now than two and the argument as well.

1537
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: They were three and one with twa he didn't do

1538
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: anything that wasn't him. They beat the Rams with two

1539
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: defensive score, you know, defensive special team score. The week

1540
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: after that they got another. The Jets are miserable, but

1541
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: they didn't get embarrassed in that game, kind of like

1542
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 1: the Jags of the Browns. They did only score three points,

1543
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 1: so they weren't moving at all. Um Cleveland, speaking of frauds,

1544
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 1: UH barely get past jackson Mike Glennon. It was Mike Glennon.

1545
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is missing a bunch of people. Coaches attempt at

1546
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: the end from tying that thing up. The Browns have

1547
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: a negative point differential, like twenty points and they're eight

1548
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: and three. They've been outscored in their three losses nine six,

1549
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to sixteen against the good team Steelers Raven.

1550
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember the third and the Raiders only beat

1551
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: him sixteen to six. Mind you, it was in a

1552
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: a bad you know. So they've squeaked out eight wins.

1553
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:59,160
Speaker 1: They're they're not a good football team. I don't think so. Either.

1554
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,439
Speaker 1: They're gonna win. They're gonna win ten or eleven games

1555
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: and they'll be in the playoffs, and they'll celebrate that,

1556
01:23:05,040 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 1: and they're they're gonna you know, Baker Mayfield, he's the answer.

1557
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:11,599
Speaker 1: He missed some open throws yesterday, just awful. He's bad.

1558
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: They hide him a lot that they do not want

1559
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:17,920
Speaker 1: to put anything on Baker's plate. To their credit, I mean,

1560
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:21,759
Speaker 1: just in terms of building an organization and a culture.

1561
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:23,760
Speaker 1: This will be the first year that they have a

1562
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: winning record, you know, it's the first. They're guaranteed not

1563
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,000
Speaker 1: to have a losing record in a million years. They're

1564
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: gonna go to the playoffs. Most likely, they're gonna win

1565
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: probably double digit games. They're gonna get smoked. It'll get

1566
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:36,560
Speaker 1: killed in the playoffs. But I think Stefanski's in the

1567
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year conversation. But they're narrow wins, let's

1568
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 1: just put it that way. Yeah. Um, we talked about

1569
01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:45,280
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, Denver. There's nothing more to say than

1570
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:48,759
Speaker 1: Jason Hither for seventy eight yards in a game. Ys.

1571
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Um mentioned the Rams. Yeah, they had

1572
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 1: a tough one. They get swept by San Francisco and

1573
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,400
Speaker 1: you get bad match, get that division Shanahan McK bay

1574
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: knowing each other so bad, so well, the Rams came back.

1575
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:08,480
Speaker 1: They were in trouble early on a lot of turnovers

1576
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: in that game. It's been in golf. Look, golf had

1577
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: one of his bad like that's the thing with him,

1578
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:16,920
Speaker 1: and he's like things didn't go well and he's a

1579
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: fair weather quarterback. Yeah, there's no there's a wrecking machine though.

1580
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't hold that against the Rams too much.

1581
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 1: It's just one of those The Niners are a little

1582
01:24:25,240 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: friskys too. Yeah, they're alive in this thing. Uh, they're

1583
01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: alive in this thing because well, uh Tampa, and Tampa

1584
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:37,880
Speaker 1: loses the Kansas City. Tampa's now seven and five. They

1585
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,599
Speaker 1: came back to make it respectable and Chiefs D has

1586
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,760
Speaker 1: some issues. Chiefs D's here's the thing about that. Everybody's taught, Well,

1587
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:45,760
Speaker 1: my home street for four and sixty two yards and

1588
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:48,639
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill had to sixty nine receiving. They scored twenty

1589
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: seven points. And it's not like they started they tried,

1590
01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: they stopped trying to score. No, they were still throwing

1591
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: the football throughout that game. They only ran the ball

1592
01:24:57,120 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: by fifteen times. Tyreek had over to a yards in

1593
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Yeah, I mean, so it wasn't like

1594
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 1: the floodgates had opened. I think some of that was

1595
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:08,679
Speaker 1: I love Todd Bowls in that defense, but you don't

1596
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 1: play man coverage single on Tyreek. Yeah, that's not knowing.

1597
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:13,559
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, are we're good enough to get this done?

1598
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 1: I know you weren't. You weren't. You're not asking too much.

1599
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:18,759
Speaker 1: I would much if I'm playing, they made some adjustment.

1600
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 1: I'm playing. I'm playing zone against Kansas City. If if

1601
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:25,680
Speaker 1: Kelsey catches eight passes for a hundred yards, that's better

1602
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 1: than Tyreek Hill catching four team for two sixty nine.

1603
01:25:28,760 --> 01:25:30,639
Speaker 1: You can't let him have eight arders over your head.

1604
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,639
Speaker 1: You gotta play death by a thousand paper cuts against

1605
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: that off They'll still score. But I thought the offense

1606
01:25:37,200 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: looked great. I didn't think their defense was great. The

1607
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,799
Speaker 1: Bucks they allowed Tampa Bay back into that, and Brady

1608
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,360
Speaker 1: did not look good. No, he didn't play well. It's

1609
01:25:45,360 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: a disjointed offense in Tampa. They actually have their by

1610
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:50,680
Speaker 1: coming up, perfect time to have a bye. If you're

1611
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:52,519
Speaker 1: a team they need to reassess. Yeah, which is a

1612
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:55,600
Speaker 1: little bit of a little too late for byes. I

1613
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 1: think I don't know that there's only two teams that

1614
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 1: buys playroline as together. Uh and then finally a Chicago.

1615
01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: They're awful, just awful against awful against Green Bay. Um

1616
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: put their leading pastor in that game was actually Mitch

1617
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 1: Robiskie with two two yards Aaron Rodgers did they just

1618
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: he threw four touchdown passes just okay, made it look

1619
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:20,760
Speaker 1: very easy. Rogers to me, continues to impress is playing

1620
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 1: another level. I wrote something about the Bears though, like

1621
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 1: GM to coach, the quarterback is as bad as any

1622
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 1: team in the league. It's Jacksonville as I mean, it's

1623
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:36,400
Speaker 1: wholesale changes time. That offense is horrible. Yeah, I agree,

1624
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: and that's on the field of time. And I don't

1625
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,640
Speaker 1: say they gave up, but come on, I mean they

1626
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 1: look frustrated out there, like I saw Cleil Mac had

1627
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 1: a big play and doesn't even celebrate, you know, like

1628
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: we had no chance. Yeah. Apparently the Steelers game Sunday

1629
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 1: is now being moved to Monday. I don't have a

1630
01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 1: time yet on that, but somewhere between one and the

1631
01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:59,439
Speaker 1: game against Yeah, the game against Washington will be played

1632
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 1: now on Monday instead of next Sunday. That's what you

1633
01:27:02,160 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: want to hear as a Steeler fan, I think, I guess,

1634
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: but a miserable mess. It is one big miserable mess.

1635
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:13,680
Speaker 1: It's just just to uh give a quick synopsis here.

1636
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:18,000
Speaker 1: So the Steelers game, which was originally scheduled for Thanksgiving night,

1637
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: was then moved to Sunday, then moved to Tuesday eight,

1638
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: now has moved to Wednesday, I assume again at eight fifteen. Uh.

1639
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: Their game against the Washington football team, which had been

1640
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:37,400
Speaker 1: scheduled for Sunday next Sunday at one, which they would

1641
01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 1: have had a really long week to prepare for. Yes,

1642
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,840
Speaker 1: they would have had Thanksgiving to Sunday, it would have

1643
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: been nice, has now been moved to Monday at a

1644
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:51,120
Speaker 1: time to yet be right. And then you get the

1645
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 1: Bills the following week. Who also, we're playing on Monday

1646
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: night of week thirteen. So I assumed that one other

1647
01:27:57,320 --> 01:28:01,919
Speaker 1: than that other not not much happening here, and Steelers

1648
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:07,760
Speaker 1: have been sort of historic things going down. Um yeah,

1649
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,519
Speaker 1: I don't know how to break down the game Wednesday,

1650
01:28:11,600 --> 01:28:13,800
Speaker 1: but I guess we'll be together tomorrow. We'll be together

1651
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:15,680
Speaker 1: more to do that. I'm sure there'll be more. We

1652
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:17,800
Speaker 1: have no idea who's playing, who's not playing, but well,

1653
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:19,639
Speaker 1: i'm sure the Ravens will get some more guys back.

1654
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: I would think, yeah, one more day goes a long

1655
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:23,599
Speaker 1: way in the world of COVID of just getting people

1656
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:27,080
Speaker 1: off the list, I would think, you know, there was

1657
01:28:27,160 --> 01:28:30,000
Speaker 1: talk that they might have twenty guys not being able

1658
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: to play. It's like five eight then when it's all

1659
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,320
Speaker 1: said and done, but it might be more than that maybe,

1660
01:28:36,840 --> 01:28:41,479
Speaker 1: but we'll see. Um. Yeah, the whole situation just not

1661
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 1: a good look for the NFL. It looks like they're

1662
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: really flying by the sea of their pants and this

1663
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:48,800
Speaker 1: and again allowing the Ravens players to kind of direct

1664
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: they shouldn't would dictate anything. Yeah, and it'd be nice

1665
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: for the Steelers to know what players are we playing against?

1666
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,160
Speaker 1: You know, when is this thing going to happen? And

1667
01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: again it bothers me like Tomlin would have handled his

1668
01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 1: Monday much different if you yes, and you know it

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01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:07,759
Speaker 1: is Saturday, and you know you get a bonus practice.

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01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: But so what, we already have everything installed. You know

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01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 1: what's he having his coaching staff do these next twenty

1672
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: four hours? Like you don't know anything more about the opponent. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you had to walk through today, you can have another

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01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:22,600
Speaker 1: walk through to another walk through tomorrow, like great, two walkthroughs,

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01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,760
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. We've had a real practice today something,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, it's not like you want

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01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: to start with Okay, we gotta start breaking down film

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01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 1: on Washington. They probably got another game. You have another

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01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 1: game to worry about first, right, I would maybe i'ld

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01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 1: having a defensive assistant and offensive assistance. I suppose start

1681
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 1: pulling tapes right, more so than advanced scouting usually happens.

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01:29:40,360 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 1: But still, you would have practiced yesterday, or at least

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01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 1: you would have said, hey, Mason, this is your practice.

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01:29:45,840 --> 01:29:47,639
Speaker 1: You would not a walk through. We have done nothing,

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01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:50,839
Speaker 1: then you can do tomorrow. I agree, it's a nightmare.

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01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 1: It's one big mess, but we gotta We do have

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01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 1: a game tonight. Still, that would be Seattle and Philadelphia.

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01:29:57,120 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 1: I can't pick. I can't pay Philadelphia either, I think.

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01:29:59,680 --> 01:30:01,680
Speaker 1: So it was like twelve days to prepare for this

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01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 1: one too. I mean they were a Thursday night or

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01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 1: last week cross country road trips. Don't bother that team

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01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 1: at all. Um. I look at the Eagles and think, yeah,

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01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:13,559
Speaker 1: you're a little healthier, but Seattle's d's a little better

1694
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:17,439
Speaker 1: than it's been to like Dunlap and snacks Harrison and Adams.

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01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:21,519
Speaker 1: It's not horrific on defense anymore. I bet Wentz throws

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01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: a couple of picks. I bet Wilson dozen't, you know.

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01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 1: I would think Lockett and Metcalf do quite well. Chris

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01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:31,840
Speaker 1: Carson's back. I think Seattle wins pretty big. Yeah, the

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01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 1: winner of the a f C or the NFC East

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01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:38,200
Speaker 1: probably finishes with six, I think so I think seven

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01:30:38,240 --> 01:30:40,680
Speaker 1: would definitely do it. And and I did this a

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01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: week or so ago. Like you look at all four

1703
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 1: of those teams schedules, there's not many wins. They all

1704
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:51,559
Speaker 1: pretty makes good football teams. And I thought the Giants

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01:30:52,520 --> 01:30:54,839
Speaker 1: might have been my pick. And then they lose their quarterback.

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01:30:54,920 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 1: Not that he's a superstar, but now you got and

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01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:03,559
Speaker 1: we're gonna see Washington. I mean they're better, They're not good.

1708
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:05,360
Speaker 1: They're not a good team. Somebody as well. You know

1709
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:08,679
Speaker 1: they have the league's number one pass defense. Yeah, because

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01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 1: they you know, they've they've played they they played against

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01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: the Cowboys without Dak twice. Oh yeah, yeah, they've had

1712
01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 1: some nice match They played the whole second half of

1713
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 1: the game against Cincinnati without Burrow. It's kind of a

1714
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:23,960
Speaker 1: big deal. I mean he had two hundred passing yards

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01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: in the first they had Cincinnati neck game had like

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01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:31,640
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty yards in the first half, and

1717
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 1: then they had thirty yards in the second half because

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01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 1: he couldn't get out of their own way. I mean,

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01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: Washington is doing some things. It's a nice defense, but

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01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,240
Speaker 1: it's not on the level with the Steelers defense. Their

1721
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: d line is comparable, isn't Alex Smith is better than Haskins.

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01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:46,599
Speaker 1: I mean, he knows where to go with the football,

1723
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: but he's not to zone him up and say, okay,

1724
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 1: here you go. Yeah, pick us a part. I think

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01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 1: Gibson's a good young player. I know McLaurin is a

1726
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 1: good dumb player. But the best thing Washington's going for

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01:31:56,040 --> 01:31:57,880
Speaker 1: him is the steel was dealing with all this night. Yeah,

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01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:00,880
Speaker 1: that's the only I mean again, it's goods Mike Tom Lincoln.

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01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: Get this team through this from navigated through all this

1730
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:05,600
Speaker 1: stuff and keep them focused. He should be coach of

1731
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:08,559
Speaker 1: the Year, hands down. This is really looking ahead because

1732
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: a hundred things will change at this rate. But the

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01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo game scares me. Now, if if they're gonna if

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01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:17,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna stumble one of these weeks. Buffalo after two

1735
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: weeks of craziness and they're building on a short week,

1736
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: doesn't look so great. Buffalo is on a short week

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01:32:23,160 --> 01:32:26,360
Speaker 1: as well. But we will be back tomorrow to once

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01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:28,840
Speaker 1: again break down this game that we've broken down seven times.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it some more for my for my

1740
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:36,960
Speaker 1: partner Matt Williamson, for Jacob erect here on the site,

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Speaker 1: keeping us on the air and well trying to keep

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Speaker 1: us sane. I'm Dale Lally. We appreciate you listening to

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Speaker 1: this edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.