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

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

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

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. West Ruler and Matt Williamson with you here

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Speaker 2: for the next two hours on a Thursday. As the

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Speaker 2: snow is falling here.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's winter all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: I'm nervous about driving home two hours from now.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie good at three hours.

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Speaker 2: Good news is you know. I bought myself a Toyota

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Speaker 2: equipped to now.

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Speaker 3: We're supposed to.

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Speaker 2: Get a lot. I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: But it just feels cold out there. I've been cold

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Speaker 3: all day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tough to really see anything now because we are

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Speaker 2: in these ray studios with no windows. But yeah, we

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Speaker 2: might be able to sledder at home. We'll see whenever

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Speaker 2: we get up out of here. But we have got

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Speaker 2: plenty to get to on this Thursday, as always, we're

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Speaker 2: going to begin scouting the Miami Dolphins game. They sure are.

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Speaker 2: We have got to have our weekly Thursday conversation with

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Speaker 2: the Dean of Doom, the lord of living in his

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Speaker 2: fears Bob Lavriola. We have to get to Matt's stats,

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Speaker 2: which we will begin to do here just momentarily. But first,

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Speaker 2: some significant news that has come out in the last

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Speaker 2: few hours, and it revolves the involves revolves around whatever

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to say here, the health of TJ. Watt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So, on Thursday, the Steelers released a statement regarding linebacker TJ. Watt,

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Speaker 2: who was hospitalized on Wednesday. Here's what they said, and

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Speaker 2: I quote, TJ. Watt is currently in a local hospital

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Speaker 2: for further medical evaluation of his lung after experiencing discomfort

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Speaker 2: at the practice facility on Wednesday. He will not be

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Speaker 2: at practice on Thursday, and his status for Monday night's

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Speaker 2: game versus Miami is in question. Mike Tomlin will provide

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Speaker 2: more updates at the appropriate time. And then Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 2: did speak after today's practice Matt, and here's what he

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Speaker 2: had to say, as it relates to.

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Speaker 3: Teacher, I didn't hear any of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Here's what he had to say, is it relates

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Speaker 2: to TJ. Watt's health. I'm a little bit cautious about

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Speaker 2: what to say because I am not a medical expert,

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Speaker 2: said Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we've been that down that road.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, same coach, same Back to his exact.

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Speaker 3: Quiescuse again, this isn't like a broken bone or a

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Speaker 3: pulled hamstring or right right.

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Speaker 2: But to make a long story short, he was experiencing

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Speaker 2: some discomfort when he was at the facility yesterday, so

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Speaker 2: we took him to the doctors and they're going through

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Speaker 2: some procedures. He stayed overnight in the hospital. He has

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Speaker 2: a lung situation that's being addressed. I think he has

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Speaker 2: some testing and so forth ahead of him this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: That's all we know at this juncture. He and I

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Speaker 2: communicated last night. He was comfortable. That's all I really

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Speaker 2: have to stay at say. At this point, his status

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Speaker 2: think what transpires this afternoon is going to provide more

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Speaker 2: information for us. I just don't have a lot to

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Speaker 2: he was, you know, asked a follow up question or two,

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Speaker 2: and he added, I don't specifically know when it occurred.

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Speaker 2: I know he was at the cafeteria at one point,

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Speaker 2: and that's when I got wind of it. And that's

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Speaker 2: kind of what we know from Mike Tomlin and the

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Speaker 3: I think that's a perfectly understandable way for Tomlin to

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Speaker 3: handle it. And again, I mean, it's not a normal

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Speaker 3: football injury obviously, And the first thing you think about

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Speaker 2: Hope, he's good, Hope, it's just a little scared serious.

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Speaker 3: Could that be something that happens to any of us?

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Speaker 3: Is this sports related or not? Who knows? I mean, again,

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Speaker 3: I know less about than Tomlin. I have a tough

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Speaker 3: I mean I think that that goes out saying, but

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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe his sack numbers are down, but he's

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Speaker 3: I also think that since you have herbig, who I

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Speaker 3: certainly don't want it to be. I'm just talking football

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Speaker 2: That kind of stuff is never fun. That kind of

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Speaker 3: Not trying to scare anybody. I don't know, but it is, right, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anything, And it gets back to what we joke about

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Speaker 2: all the time and what Mike Tomlins said, like, none

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Speaker 2: of us are medical experts. None of us are doctors.

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Speaker 3: I don't really about lungs, you know, yeah, if.

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Speaker 2: You're a doctor, like I remember my I forget who

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Speaker 2: was I was nervous about a procedure that I was having.

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Speaker 2: He's like, but he's like you got to think he's

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Speaker 2: like for this doctor, this is like him going to

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Speaker 2: It's another day at the office. It's it's it's very normal.

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Speaker 2: And so I think for all of us a lot

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Speaker 2: of times when there's health scares, that's not part of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great way looking at it can be.

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Speaker 2: It can be very daunting when you know, and hopefully

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Speaker 2: but it's nothing that's you know, insane or where you

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Speaker 3: And the other thing I would add to it is

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, right, exactly right, So all the best of

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Speaker 2: TJ will hope he We hope he is well and

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Speaker 2: doing well, and obviously that's something if we get more

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Speaker 3: It might be on the practical tomorrow and a role

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Speaker 3: who knows, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, or it might be something that truly you know,

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Speaker 2: that's where we kind of begin today with unfortunate news,

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Speaker 2: but hopefully again it'll end well and nothing too serious

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Speaker 2: for the health and for the future of t J Watt.

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Speaker 2: But that's what we know as we sit here. As

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Speaker 2: we stand here right now, there's no way to transition

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Speaker 2: easily out of that. So let's just jump right into

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Speaker 2: Matt's stats here. What do you say? Does that work

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Speaker 2: for you? Matt? I want to talk about the Steelers,

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Speaker 2: want to talk about the Dolphins. This is typically how

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Speaker 2: your stats. Yeah, yeah, kind of set the set the

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Speaker 2: There's some things to like here, there's some things to

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Speaker 2: be concerned by here, Let's let's start with something positive,

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Speaker 2: because I feel like we've spent so much of the

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Speaker 2: talking about, Hey, a lot of good from the Baltimore game, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but also a continued wide gap in run production from

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Speaker 2: I think particularly from a Steelers defensive standpoint, the Steelers

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Speaker 2: fewer than two hundred and thirty yards passing, and I

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Speaker 2: think that's encouraging. Hey, and we could talk about some

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Speaker 2: of those opponents, like the Bills are built to run

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Speaker 3: To run Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Still yeah, and I look at that into Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: They're built to run the football with a chain, but

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Speaker 2: they got wattle as well, who can really hurt you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, If the Steelers are able to make that six

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Speaker 2: think that would go a long way. That's kind of

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Speaker 3: Was it five games? Five games out? So I threw

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Speaker 3: this on Twitter two days ago or so, and many

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Speaker 3: many people said, well, if it's that easy to run

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Speaker 3: on you, why would they bother throwing? And I would say,

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Speaker 3: that's what's saying. You're you're right for the last two games, folks,

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Speaker 3: everyone that wrote me there the last two games. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure Josh Allen could have put up more passing yards.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure Lamar Jackson, but especially Allen could have put

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Speaker 3: up more passing yards if they weren't so successful on

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Speaker 3: the ground time and time again. I mean that Bills

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Speaker 3: But we go back five games here, I mean, then

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Speaker 3: there's some substantial passing games the Bears and some other

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Speaker 3: good teams as well at Burrow, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: pretty good. But I also think the eyeball test is

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Speaker 3: helping here too. I think the defensive backfield, the Dugger

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Speaker 3: fit together the best they have all year, you know,

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Speaker 3: like they try. I don't know that I can remember

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Speaker 3: having so much turnover at one position. I'm just going

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Speaker 3: to call the whole secondary from the end of last

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Speaker 3: year until now. I mean, think about how many people

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Speaker 3: tons of them, you know, they Dugger Peppers people. Everybody

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Speaker 3: And they've run the ball and they've shortened the games.

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Speaker 2: Sure it was, like it could be right.

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Speaker 2: Monday Night Football. Wes Uler, Matt Williamson, just getting started

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Speaker 1: Your tuns About Drive on your twenty four to seven

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

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Speaker 2: Back on the Drive here on a Thursday, as we

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Speaker 2: are digging into Matt's stats, diving into the stat packet

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Speaker 2: here scouting these Miami Dolphins, helping you paint a better

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Speaker 2: this one scares me a little bit, yeap, Miami has

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is thirty first in explosive run rate just two

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: in the first segment when we were talking about you

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Speaker 2: were talking about how Miami runs. The Miami games average

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Speaker 2: the fewest amount of plays per you know, poor per

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Speaker 2: the organization. It's them in their opponent over sixty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Miami held the ball last week over thirty six minutes

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Speaker 2: against the Jets. Steelers. As we know, it's been a

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Speaker 2: conversation point. It's been an issue all year two twenty

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Speaker 2: six sixteen. Last week against Baltimore. The Steelers are the

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Speaker 2: worst of the NFL in time of possession just to

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Speaker 2: shade under twenty seven minutes per game on average, Miami

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Speaker 2: for the year is a little over twenty nine minutes,

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Speaker 2: so not outstanding. But if you look as of late,

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Speaker 2: they're averaging over thirty one minutes. So again, this is

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Speaker 2: a team that's it's almost like a tale of two

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Speaker 2: seasons of stats for the Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can almost take their first month of the

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Speaker 3: season and the win. Yeah, like I was a throb

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Speaker 3: king today and you know all the work he does

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Speaker 3: and he's like he's a psycho game. I mean, he

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Speaker 3: wants to watch every game of every opponent, which obviously

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Speaker 3: gets harder later in the year because there's one more

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Speaker 3: game each week. I'm like, don't even watch the first month.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna learn anything about this same right, I

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Speaker 3: mean Tyreek was out there, they were horrible, that nothing

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Speaker 3: was adding up. Do not even bother because they might

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Speaker 3: as well have purple and blue jerseys on or so,

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Speaker 3: I mean like they're not even the same team. No,

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Speaker 3: Now that being said, I also think this last week

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Speaker 3: against the Jets is a bit of an anomaly in

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Speaker 3: their favor too, Like that team was a disaster.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, h Han had ninety two yards

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Speaker 2: on seven carries.

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Speaker 3: And then they got a rib bugged them a little bit,

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Speaker 3: and they got them by the game like we don't

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Speaker 3: need you anymore. We're like twenty four to three and

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Speaker 3: Tye Rod's out and Fields is out and some guy

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Speaker 3: named Cook is in there. And so those thirty six

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Speaker 3: minutes of time possession, they still I mean, even without

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Speaker 3: their best back, they ran for well over two hundred

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Speaker 3: yards and getting nothing from their quarterback position too.

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Speaker 2: So a little bit of an outlier, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean that was a very weak opponent. You know

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Speaker 3: that you got the right time too.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers, Matt have run one hundred and eighty seven plays.

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Speaker 3: This is what I hate the most. It really is,

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Speaker 3: and we talk about every week every day.

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Speaker 2: I maybe kind of buried the lead here. Yeah, maybe

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Speaker 2: this is like, you know, I don't know, you bring

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Speaker 2: flowers home and cook a nice dinner, you know, before

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Speaker 2: you tell your wife that you you got a two

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars speeding ticket on the way home or.

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Speaker 3: Something I wrecked the car or yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers negative one hundred and eighty seven play differential

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Speaker 2: in terms of on a per game basis, how many

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Speaker 2: more plays they're an it is running than they are.

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Speaker 3: So, folks, the Steeler defense is run one hundred and

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Speaker 3: eighty seven more plays than the Steeler offense.

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Speaker 2: That's over insane. Three games.

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Speaker 3: That's three games.

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Speaker 2: Three games.

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Speaker 3: It's like usually it's about sixty per game, sixty five,

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Speaker 3: So that's really like they've played three more games.

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Speaker 2: But this, and that's damning, don't get me wrong. Right,

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Speaker 2: that's great.

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Speaker 3: We've talked about that a lot, but the next part's

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Speaker 3: way worse.

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Speaker 2: This is what really puts it into perspective, and it

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Speaker 2: really paints it in a concerning light. The next worst

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Speaker 2: team in the NFL is the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: They stink, so they must be like minus one eight.

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Speaker 3: I mean they're terrible, right right, minus eighty seven, one

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Speaker 3: hundred plays better.

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Speaker 2: Steelers defense has played a hundred plays more than the

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Speaker 2: next closest defense in the National Football League, Right, That

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Speaker 2: is wild?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, differential not even this defensive defense, it's the differential

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Speaker 3: of how many minus your offense.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that can be understated.

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Speaker 3: And the Raiders are hideous. I mean again, we don't

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Speaker 3: talk about teams giving up much, you know, but you know,

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Speaker 3: can'tcuon all that is. But that team has cashed it.

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Speaker 2: In more than anybody.

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Speaker 3: Right, they have no talent whatsoever. It makes all the sense.

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Speaker 3: Like if there was only thirty one teams in the

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Speaker 3: league and the Steelers weren't one of them, and you

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Speaker 3: looked at the Raiders, You're like, man, they played eighty

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Speaker 3: seven more plays than their defense than their offense. That's

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Speaker 3: really rough, no wonder, they're in a mess. And then

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Speaker 3: you take it to a next level with this one.

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Speaker 2: You know, and if you woke up a football fan

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Speaker 2: who had just been in a coma for the last

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Speaker 2: ten years, Yeah, and you said, the Steelers defense has

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Speaker 2: been on the field for it's mid December. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: Steelers defense, he's been on the field for one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty seven more plays than their offense. What do

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Speaker 2: you think their record is?

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Speaker 3: I would think they have the second pick in the Dragons.

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Speaker 2: They're picking in the top five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, there's no way you can live that way.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I bet you're eleven and opening day starters,

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Speaker 3: seven of them are hurt and you're on your fifth

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Speaker 3: safety off the couch. That wasn't even the league in

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Speaker 3: training camp. I mean, that's what And frankly, that's the

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Speaker 3: road you are gonna are you're spiraling down because they've

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Speaker 3: been fortunate and they've showed some toughness and some good

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Speaker 3: players that it hasn't gotten to that point, but it

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Speaker 3: could at any minute if you keep that up, you know,

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Speaker 3: like you're really walking, yeah, and then it's gonna get worse,

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Speaker 3: and then the differential every week's can get worse because

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Speaker 3: you're out. I mean, it's this problem compounds itself, you know,

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Speaker 3: if you don't nip it in the bud, which they haven't.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing to me that it hasn't totally derailed the season.

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Speaker 2: It's the it's the it's the shoulder. It's the broken

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Speaker 2: shoulder collar bone that ends up messing up your elbow

547
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Speaker 2: and your wrist, and you're.

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Speaker 3: Like, then you're amputating the arm and then you look

549
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Speaker 3: like the Black Knight and Monty Python.

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Speaker 2: We'll call it a draw.

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Speaker 3: But I mean people wonder, like, oh man, they get out, coach,

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Speaker 3: why they letting up so many fourth quarter points? That's

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Speaker 3: on there too. They've been out there for a million

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Speaker 3: snaps over the course of a year.

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Speaker 2: I think the as you also outlined a few times,

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Speaker 2: the Chargers game was the perfect example of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, some good and I know, by the way, the

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Speaker 3: last two weeks you've had a major rest disadvantage.

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Speaker 2: Major over over the Bills and the Ravens. Absolutely some

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Speaker 2: good news in this regard, though, Miami is sixth worst

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Speaker 2: in the league in terms of play differential.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 2: Again it's a it's a it's a pretty significant gap

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Speaker 2: between the Steelers and everybody else, but Miami is not

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Speaker 2: the best team to exploit it. They also kind of

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Speaker 2: struggle in this regard sixth worst in the.

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Speaker 3: League because I don't think their defense is great, and yes,

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Speaker 3: they're running the ball well recently, but they have an

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Speaker 3: all year. They're not the most physical team that just

570
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Speaker 3: pounds you with Jerome Bettison a full back over and

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Speaker 3: over block. And I found it interesting too, is that

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Speaker 3: the benner at the bottom of that general section just

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Speaker 3: points allowed and gained per quarter. It's kind of It's

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Speaker 3: pretty interesting about Miami too, because you know, the Steelers is,

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Speaker 3: as as stated, their fourth quarter stuff is bad, but

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Speaker 3: they also I think that whole section is kind of

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Speaker 3: interesting both both teams.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well let's do this then, let's take a break now. Cool,

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Speaker 2: Let's take a break now and we'll hit that heavy

580
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Speaker 2: because I want to I don't want to have to

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Speaker 2: short change that, and we'll dive deep into that. You've

582
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Speaker 2: also got some good stuff in here about the twenty

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Speaker 2: first century of Miami Dolphins and their record when playing

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Speaker 2: in the cold, So we'll get into we'll get into

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Speaker 2: all that to close down the hour, to close down

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Speaker 2: the Matt's Stats conversation here on this Thursday on the

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Speaker 2: Drive Euler Williamson Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network,

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Speaker 2: your tuned.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, so let's get into it. Continuing to comb

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Speaker 2: over Matt's stats here, and you want to do the

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Speaker 2: quarter breakdown. There's some good.

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Speaker 3: Stuff in here, especially with this opponent.

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Speaker 2: The Dolphins pretty two point one points on average in

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Speaker 2: the third quarter of games. That's worst in the National

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Speaker 2: Football League. The second half in total, they produced just

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Speaker 2: nine point two points per second half. That is sixth

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Speaker 2: worst in the National Football League. But the other side

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Speaker 2: of that equation, yeah, they allowed just three point seven

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Speaker 2: points in the first quarter of games, that's sixth best

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Speaker 2: in the NFL. Yeah, but they really struggle in allowing

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Speaker 2: points in the third quarter both of these teams. That's

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Speaker 2: maybe one of the games within the games. They're twenty

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Speaker 2: seventh in third quarter points allowed, twenty fourth in fourth

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Speaker 2: quarter points allowed. Yeah, so pretty good, pretty stingy in

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Speaker 2: the first half. Completely different story in the second. The

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Speaker 2: second half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't think it's necessarily Boy they got

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Speaker 3: out coached or figured out things. I mean, they have

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Speaker 3: not been a great time possession team all year. I

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Speaker 3: just don't think they have a lot of good players,

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Speaker 3: and they don't have very much depth. I mean, they

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Speaker 3: traded away guys, you know what I mean, Like there's

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Speaker 3: probably I'm sure they're well, they just fired their gym.

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Speaker 3: But I mean if you looked at like their front

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Speaker 3: office and said, these are our twenty five defensive players, well,

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Speaker 3: I'm counting on about ten of them not being with

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Speaker 3: us next year, you know what I mean? Yes, and

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Speaker 3: upgrading on the others, you know, yes.

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Speaker 2: Now to kind of spin the block here to the

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Speaker 2: other side for the Steelers, right, Pittsburgh gives up ten

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Speaker 2: point one points in the fourth quarter of games. That

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Speaker 2: is second worst in the NFL, only behind the Giants,

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Speaker 2: who were currently slated to pick first overall or yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: first overall, yeah yeah, which is really troubling.

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Speaker 3: But when you play or one hundred and eighty seven

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Speaker 3: more plays than your offense, what do you.

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Speaker 2: Think you can draw a direct parallel there. I think

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Speaker 2: it's safe to say the Steelers allow fourteen point seven

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Speaker 2: points in the second half of games, thirty first in

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Speaker 2: the NFL, only better than the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Which had a historically bad defense for most of the year.

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Speaker 2: Now here's some good news for the Steelers. They produce

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Speaker 2: thirteen points in the first half of games. That's seventh

636
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Speaker 2: best in the National Football League, which is.

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Speaker 3: Way different than it used to be. You know, opening

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Speaker 3: drives they never score. And then there's a stat going

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Speaker 3: around that they haven't got to ten points in the

640
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Speaker 3: first quarter and forever and.

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Speaker 2: Ever since Reagan was president.

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Speaker 3: I think it's right, right, right, And they're putting the

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Speaker 3: points in the first half.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they's hard to argue with they have. It's it's

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Speaker 2: almost done. A one eighty in terms of last year

646
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Speaker 2: where they really struggled out of the gates, but then

647
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Speaker 2: they were great, outstanding, the best in the NFL. Out

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Speaker 2: of the locker room at halftime.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, third quarter was very kind to the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Best margin in the entire league last year in the

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Speaker 2: third quarter.

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Speaker 3: So can you can you put a fit? I don't

653
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Speaker 3: know that I can put a finger on why I

654
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 3: can late in games. Yes that I can, but it.

655
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: Is it's it's weird. Now they're top ten in the

656
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 2: first half and their second worst in the in the

657
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 2: in the third quarter.

658
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 3: Now, my hunch is that Tomlin and the coaching staff

659
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 3: examined their problems in the off season and said, we

660
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 3: probably have to prepare different during the week. You'll be

661
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 3: nuts if you did.

662
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 2: That's what they That's what they spend the off season doing,

663
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: other than scouting and all that stuff.

664
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Speaker 3: But like, hey, we're starting things really slow, especially offense.

665
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 3: We know that these maybe we script things different, or

666
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 3: we don't script, or we script more, or you know,

667
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: whatever it is, or we practice different or whatever. But whatever,

668
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 3: your week of prep is clearly needed examining because this

669
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 3: has been a couple of years in a row where

670
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 3: they were slow starters. Well, that's gotten better, but nobody

671
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 3: seems to give them credit for it.

672
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: You know, it's a weird it's a very weird juxtaposition

673
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: in that in that regard and.

674
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 3: I feel like every time we talked to Rob, he

675
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 3: brings up rightfully. So, how many of these losses did

676
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: they come out of halftime with a lead, because I'm

677
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: scoring in the first amount A good amount of them.

678
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 3: Green Bay, I mean, there's a lot of.

679
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: Them, Seattle, Green Bay, or maybe Seattle they were tied.

680
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: Were they tied against Seattle? But Seattle, Green Bay, Chicago,

681
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: I know for sure they were tied, that they were tied.

682
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that Thursday said maybe since he actually

683
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 2: maybe they did have a lead at that way, they

684
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 2: either had a leader, were tied. They weren't team No,

685
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 2: they weren't winning into three, but they.

686
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 3: Were still winning win often got the ball.

687
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: Weird man. Almost all those times they got the ball

688
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: against Buffalo, they did against Green Bay, they did in

689
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: Chicago they did.

690
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 3: Buffalo's fresh on my mind because it's like, boy, they're

691
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 3: getting beat pretty bad in the first half, but they

692
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 3: gott nder to break, they're winning, and they get the football. Okay,

693
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll roll the dice on that.

694
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 2: Totally red zone defense. Another thing to keep an eye

695
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: on here in this one. Matt h Steelers red zone

696
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 2: defense seventh best in the National Football league, allowing a

697
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 2: touchdown just to shade over fifty two percent of the time,

698
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: seventh best in the league. Really good Miami, though even

699
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: stingier just about forty nine percent of the time for

700
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 2: fourth best red zone defense in the NFL. Got to

701
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: make account when you get down close. Remember Sunday in Baltimore,

702
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 2: you settled for field goals three times in the red zone. Now,

703
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: one of them Travis Jones, the penalty you lucked out

704
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: next play Kenneth game well punches, so it ended up

705
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,959
Speaker 2: only being two technically, but you settled for the one

706
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 2: and got the personal foul penalty that allowed you to

707
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 2: elongate the drive. That might be a recipe to lose

708
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 2: a close one if you do that again on money.

709
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, or you could look at the other ways or

710
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 3: the other way to Steeler. Red zone defense might be

711
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 3: the reason they won because reid zone offense is falling

712
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 3: off a cliff from last.

713
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: Year, and Baltimore kicked some red zone field goals too,

714
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 2: and they had that turnover on downs in the red zone,

715
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: which was perhaps the sequence of the game.

716
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 3: Now, I remember us talking like after three or four

717
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 3: games this season, it seems like one hundred years ago.

718
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 3: But the Steelers red zone offense was on fire to

719
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 3: sort of season.

720
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 2: Yes, it was.

721
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 3: And Rodgers is historically shocker is really good in the

722
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: red zone.

723
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Speaker 2: Two typically those quarterbacks that are so sharp above the

724
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Speaker 2: neck that it's one of their calling cards without a doubt.

725
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 3: I wish you could rely on the run game a

726
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 3: little more for those I mean run in you know.

727
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 2: Agreed, Agreed. Both of these defenses struggle on fourth downs

728
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: when teams go for it on fourth Steelers thirty first

729
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 2: in the league. Seventy five percent of the times teams

730
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 2: convert fourth down against the Steelers.

731
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought that up.

732
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: Dolphins twenty sixth in the league. Not much better, sixty

733
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: seven percent, because.

734
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 3: That's an opportunity for a turnover that you don't get.

735
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and you got a big one again

736
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 2: red zone in that moment, Patrick Queen breaking up that

737
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 2: pass in Baltimore.

738
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Now, I don't know if there's any rocket

739
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 3: science to it, but I do think obviously I count

740
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: a fourth dound conversion or a fourth dound failure as

741
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 3: a turnover, which it directly is.

742
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: They call it a turnover on downs, Matt. It's in

743
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: the name the word turnover is in the name.

744
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 3: I mean, if it was third down the quarterback botches

745
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 3: a snap and the ball falls on the line of

746
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 3: scrimmage and Keanu Benton falls on it, they call it

747
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: a turnover. It's the same thing as on fourth down.

748
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 2: Completely agree.

749
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 3: I don't know how you get better at fourth down defense.

750
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 3: There's probably a lot of toush pushes and stuff on the.

751
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 2: Are nob a short yard of stuff. I think it's harder.

752
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: I think it's harder in that regard now than it's

753
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 2: ever been before.

754
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 3: That for defense, Yeah, definitely, But those are opportunities for

755
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 3: even more turnovers. If you were just league average and

756
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 3: fourth down defense, you might be number one in true

757
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 3: turnover differentially, you know what I mean, Yeah, instead of

758
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: two or three.

759
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: Before we get to the weather element here to kind

760
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 2: of close down this exercise, one last one that I

761
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 2: wanted to run by you, Matt. We do this everybody

762
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: who does radio, whatever, television, shows, podcasts together. You spend

763
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 2: hours a week, you know, day by day, hours a day,

764
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 2: thirty segments a week. As you always say, there's a

765
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 2: lot of things that we talk about in a negative

766
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 2: light or a concerning light, like time of possession. There's

767
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 2: a lot of things that we continue to talk about.

768
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 2: Being a strength sack differential one of those things that

769
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: we always mentioned in that regard again another one. This

770
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 2: really stuck out to me because it paints a picture

771
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 2: of just how good the Steelers are at it. We

772
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: talk about this all the time, particularly Cam Heyward, but

773
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: he's not the only one that batting down passes at

774
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage to remarkable. We saw that in

775
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 2: a big moment on Sunday in Baltimore. Steelers defense is

776
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 2: batted down a league high twenty passes so far this season.

777
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 3: I didn't put it in there, almost certain number twos

778
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 3: all the way down to fifteen. Okay, so they're twenty

779
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 3: five percent better than the number two guy in the league, which.

780
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: Again really paints a picture, right Miami. So Steelers best

781
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 2: in the league. Twenty deflected passes at the line of scrimmage. Yeah, Miami,

782
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 2: worse than the league just two two.

783
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 3: I think this was last time I was talking to

784
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 3: Tom and Tim. It's like it's almost hard to bat

785
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: down only two over the course of the year, Like.

786
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: You should be getting at least one every other game.

787
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 3: You would think, I mean It's not like they only

788
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: run against Miami or for some reason because of the

789
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 3: heat or the way they're built that they are inequipped

790
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 3: to do it. You would think they'd get you'd hit

791
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 3: someone in the helmet a couple times a year, or

792
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 3: I mean how I mean these guys all get their

793
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 3: hands up. I mean the only batdown two passes and

794
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 3: we're deep into December is.

795
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 2: Nuts, crazy, real crazy.

796
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 3: I mean I should The short thing is, I'm sure

797
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 3: the Steelers D line coach, Carl doun bar it's part of.

798
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: The it's part of the lexicon. It has.

799
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 3: It has to be a practice thing, you know. I

800
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 3: bet one D line coach is really preaching it and

801
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 3: practicing it and the other one isn't. There's no doubt

802
00:36:59,280 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 3: the Steelers are.

803
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 2: Great because I was gonna say it's it's it's about

804
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 2: as it's about as consistent as them being at the

805
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: top of the NFL in sacks every year, right, I

806
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: mean that it's it's something that they do, they do well,

807
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 2: and they consistently do well.

808
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 3: The best guy I've ever seen at it is JJ Watt.

809
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 3: I mean JJ Swatt Wasatt every year. Cam's right behind him.

810
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 2: Ever seen after outstanding.

811
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 3: Now.

812
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 2: I think the last couple of years.

813
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 3: Brother on the team might have they have dinner one

814
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 3: night and JJ's I was joke about that, the three

815
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 3: of them just sitting there eating steaks and drinking martinis

816
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 3: or whatever. Like came on a little tip you like

817
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: tamp on, how to get a timp, you know, after

818
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 3: I retire, you're inside pass rush you and learn how

819
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 3: to bat down passes.

820
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 2: Over under two hundred ounces of RIBBI consumed when those three,

821
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 2: when those three break broke together. Okay, here we go,

822
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 2: a few more minutes left here before we.

823
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 3: Check, and I'll tell you a little tip here.

824
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: You know, Cam, you're you're battened out an average of

825
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 2: three passes a season. Those are rookie numbers in this

826
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: We gotta pump those numbers up.

827
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 3: I know how you play. I can get you up

828
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 3: to ten mm, which turns into turnovers due mad passes

829
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 3: go in the air and you pick them off.

830
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 2: Since the year twenty twenty first century here twenty five

831
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 2: years a quarter century, so a sizable sample size. Sizable

832
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 2: sample size, that's a little redundant. Whatever. The Dolphins are

833
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 2: six and thirteen when playing in temperatures under thirty two degrees.

834
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 2: They're past ten games in below freezing weather. They are

835
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: just one and nine. And Matt, that's a.

836
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 3: Kickoff, by the way, that is it kickoff. It can

837
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 3: change as the game goes on in the three hours.

838
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 2: And as I look at my phone here right now,

839
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: it looks like it's about to be approximately fourteen degrees

840
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: at kickoff on Monday. Steelers have been in a bad

841
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 2: stretch of rest disadvantage, right They got Cincinnati coming off

842
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: of bye, they got Buffalo and Baltimore coming off of

843
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: Thursday night football. This is the pendulum swinging in the

844
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 2: other way, getting.

845
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 3: You get something that goes your way, getting.

846
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 2: This game in mid December, not mid September or October,

847
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: and getting it Monday night eight o'clock at night, the

848
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 2: coldest part of the day, as opposed to one o'clock

849
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 2: in the afternoon when the sun could still be out

850
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 2: a little bit.

851
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 3: And o side note, they're twenty two and oh on

852
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 3: Monday night home games in the last twenty two games,

853
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 3: you know, correct, Monday night and weather is a pretty

854
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 3: terrible combination for the road team here from South Florida.

855
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: And even if you go to fifty degrees, which isn't

856
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 2: very cold. It's not cold at all. Right, Tua is

857
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 2: one and eight in games under fifty degrees, right, I

858
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: mean he's a Southern boy, went to Alabama, plays for

859
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins, grew up in Hawaii.

860
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 3: LIKEWAYI Tobama to Miami is not exactly the cold belt.

861
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: And I know that that's crazy to some people, Like,

862
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: how's the only Remember James win Remember James Winston last

863
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: year he was like, this is the first time I've

864
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 2: ever played in snow in my life, right, Like, yeah,

865
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: guy from the South, went to Florida State, spent a

866
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 2: lot of his career with Tampa Bay and New Orleans. Sure,

867
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 2: one win now was last week at MetLife Stadium.

868
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 3: But against that ball a million times.

869
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 2: That's the only time to ever won a game when

870
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 2: the weather's been under fifty degrees at kickoff, the like.

871
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: You said, that's not that's not it's even close to snow.

872
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: Or it was like fifteen.

873
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 3: Right, the ball's not like a rock.

874
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 2: Right, there's a lot of games it's like forty eight

875
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 2: degrees in sunny and you're like, it's perfect football weather.

876
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it feels like autumn.

877
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 2: You know, you put a hoodie on and then a

878
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 2: hat and you're good to go.

879
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 3: Good to go. So last note, there is just a

880
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 3: dolphin thing. We just covered the two aspect of it.

881
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 3: They got a warm weather quarterback for a warm weather team. Now,

882
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 3: like if this was an early game, like Miami's September

883
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 3: home record standing is like eighty percent winning percent.

884
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 2: They pull out the Ferraris and the Lambous and the

885
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,879
Speaker 2: Porsches and that and that Miami Sunshine and all those

886
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: pasty boys from Buffalo come down and melt and that.

887
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 3: One of my favorite things in the league is the

888
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 3: way that stadium is designed. Miami is all total shade

889
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 3: the whole time, and they're just in direct southern equator,

890
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 3: you know, Africa.

891
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: Hot call that home field advantage.

892
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean it was exactly how it was built.

893
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 3: And so smart.

894
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 2: Let's bring those Let's bring the where the black jerseys

895
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 2: while you're at it. Yeah, exactly right, Let's bring those.

896
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 3: Not equipped for the cold. They overly compensated for me

897
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 3: in terms over the years, they've got a little better.

898
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: Like the last The first two draft picks this year

899
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 3: were Kenneth Grant, who's a three hundred and thirty pound

900
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 3: nose tackle type and big Jonah from Arizona who's a

901
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty guard. You know. So they finally

902
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 3: got some dump trucks are starting to but too little,

903
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 3: too late. But they've been built for speed and they've

904
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 3: been built for good weather. But the thing that they

905
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 3: overlooked or didn't give enough consideration is the other three

906
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 3: teams in their division aren't. This isn't the NFC.

907
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 2: South, it's all domel That's the craziest part to you

908
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 2: got to go.

909
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 3: To Buffalo in New England, in New.

910
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: York and if you're consistently winning thirteen fourteen games a year,

911
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 2: you know, and now they got to go and now

912
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 2: they have to go there, right sure, but you know, you're.

913
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: So much different than the other three, so.

914
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: Much different, right right right, And even like if you're

915
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 2: hosting home playoff games every year, say they find a

916
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 2: Unicorn quarterback and they go on a stretch of you know,

917
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 2: winning the division seven times in ten years something like that,

918
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 2: still not then in January, it's not that much of

919
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: an advantage, Like it's still sixty seventy degrees.

920
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 3: One seed, but it's not like Buffalo's like, oh no,

921
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 3: I got to play in fifty degree.

922
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 2: Oh well, it's gonna be sixty five in Miami this week, right,

923
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

924
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: Like Dallas is like that that division where there's so

925
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: much different geographically than the other three teams.

926
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: The one thing I know, we got to get to

927
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 2: break and get to Bob Labiola here. But if and

928
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 2: when I become commissioner of college football, you know when

929
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: around campus really takes off enough and they let me,

930
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 2: they let me fix the sport every like every other

931
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 2: year something. I want the Rose Bowl and the Sugar

932
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 2: Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl. I want them play in

933
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 2: the North all right, Ohio, Ohio State's always got to

934
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 2: go to southern California, you know, notre names gotta go

935
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 2: to Miami. Uh it give me those California and those

936
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: Florida boys up in Columbus for a bowl game in January.

937
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 3: Baby.

938
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 2: We saw that last years Tennessee. Tennessee had to go

939
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 2: to coll for that first round playoff game and those balls, man,

940
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: they froze and that game, that game was over by

941
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 2: the second.

942
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 3: Tour enough in the year that I won't fight you

943
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,959
Speaker 3: on it because I don't want like ice bowls. No, okay,

944
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 3: but in college it wouldn't be as bad.

945
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 2: I mean, we're actually sitting we're seeing it. We're seeing

946
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: it now with the you know, the home field advantage

947
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 2: in the first round of the playoffs.

948
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 3: Like I don't want Green Bay to host the super Bowl, and.

949
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm not talking I'm not talking that extreme, Okay,

950
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 2: but I do like it now that I.

951
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 3: Want pastors to be able to pass in most important

952
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 3: games I want.

953
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 2: I want Georgia going to South Bend in January. Right now,

954
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: I want Alabama going to Columbus in January. Let's see

955
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 2: that shoe on the other foot fellas uh hour of

956
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 2: the books another hour ago. We'll talk to the Great

957
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 2: Bob Labriola when we return on the other side. Here

958
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 2: on the Drive on the Steelers Audio Network.