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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Yes, welcome to the five. I'm Dale

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Speaker 1: Lolly here with Matt Williamson. And well it's Friday. It

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Speaker 1: is Friday. Just had a game and now we have

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Speaker 1: another one right around the corner. Yeah, and uh, well,

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Speaker 1: such is life nowadays. We would love to talk about

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Speaker 1: said game, but having some technical issues, having some technical

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Speaker 1: a big deal. Yeah, it's sort of important for things

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Speaker 1: we reference throughout the show and whatnot. It would be nice,

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Speaker 1: so we will fly by the seat of our pants

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Speaker 1: and see what the heck happens. Great. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: I have no idea where we're gonna go with this

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Speaker 1: or where we can't go with this, but we will

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Speaker 1: go with it for the next two hours. Um yeah um.

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Speaker 1: So Steelers had their first practice today. I do know

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Speaker 1: what the practice report was. I did see that. No

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Speaker 1: Steven Nelson today. Ben Roethlisberger got the day off. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else doesn't go is laying the fill in when

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Speaker 1: when they got when Joe Hay got hurt in game

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Speaker 1: against Jacksonville, they brought Cam Sutton in. I'm in the base,

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Speaker 1: and then when they went to the dime or nickel

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Speaker 1: or dime, Sutton kicked inside and Lane came in to

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Speaker 1: play the outside, and Hilton would be out and base.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well no, Hilton's he's inside. Yeah, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: see what you're saying. So Sutton would be the early

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Speaker 1: if they go to the dime. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna play dime against Washington very often. They're

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Speaker 1: more of a heavier person all the time. I think

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Speaker 1: they played maybe, I know Marcus Allen played three snaps.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing all this stuff completely off memory here. It's

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Speaker 1: a good thing I have a good memory, because you know,

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Speaker 1: I looked at these things earlier in the day and

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Speaker 1: now you know they're kind of ingrained there. But Marcus

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Speaker 1: Allen played three snaps against against the Ravens on Wednesday. Um,

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Speaker 1: so they were I'm assuming they were only in the

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Speaker 1: dime three times. Okay, yeah, I mean he's the dime

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Speaker 1: press box and chart Well there and Nickel there, and

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Speaker 1: I mean I may make note of it. Sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: not like Baltimore is a heavy three or four wide

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Speaker 1: receiver team. I don't think neither is Washington. I sent

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Speaker 1: you some stats last out what I'd love to be

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Speaker 1: able to access him here, but I don't believe I can.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I can't hear h Terry McLaurin um. He's their

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Speaker 1: entire passing game. He really is. Although I meant to

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Speaker 1: send you something back. Gibson's role has really grown lately,

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Speaker 1: but for the season. For the season, it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: And he's he's been targeted twenty seven point three percent

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Speaker 1: of there with twenty seven point three percent of their

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Speaker 1: past attempts have targeted him. That that's fourth most in

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Speaker 1: the Laker Throws that come out of any of their

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Speaker 1: quarterback's hands go to the same guy that everyone's rolling

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Speaker 1: coverage to. His nine eighty three receiving yards are six

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five more than the next closest guy

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Speaker 1: three thirty eight. They are seven hundred and eighteen yards

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Speaker 1: more than the next closest receiver, which is Sims, who

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Speaker 1: has thirteen catches in the beginning, thirteen catches. That's their

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Speaker 1: number two guy. That's the number two guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really is McLaurin or dump at the backs. That's

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Speaker 1: the whole offense. That's the whole offense. So if Smith, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna why would you rushed?

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Speaker 1: If Steven Nelson is you don't play him in this game.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you play him in this game. I

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Speaker 1: mean McClaren moves all over, and you'd like him against

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Speaker 1: Nelson as opposed to his backup. But I'm gonna double

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Speaker 1: him every time he's out there. He anyway, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean exactly, That's that's your point. And you know Gibson

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Speaker 1: targets since Smith has been there. It's starting to drift

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Speaker 1: more towards Gibson. Well, yeah, because all the like Smith

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Speaker 1: that does his swing the ball swing passes all day long,

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Speaker 1: I should say up football outsiders, Oh I love this.

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Speaker 1: I love to. But if you've seen their metric there,

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Speaker 1: alex a l A l e X metric, well they

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Speaker 1: what a L e X actually stands for, but what

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Speaker 1: it means. It means quarterback who refuses to throw the

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Speaker 1: ball down the field is what it means. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: third and eight you throw it six yard pass, it's

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Speaker 1: minus two. If you throw a ten yard pass, it's

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Speaker 1: plus two. Every year of his career he was either

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Speaker 1: before injuries and age. That was him in his prime. Well,

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Speaker 1: other day, but he showed some teams how they can

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Speaker 1: beat the Steelers by having their quarterback do design runs.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna do a design run with Alex. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe Buffalo will two weeks from now, and they

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Speaker 1: there's a reason why, um, the Steelers would always beat

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't challenge the defense at all down the field.

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Speaker 1: It's all swing. They're they're gonna they're they're just gonna

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Speaker 1: That's what their cornerbacks were always built to do. They

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Speaker 1: a good tackling So okay, you hit, you connected that

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Speaker 1: a lot better for the Steelers because it's they're throwing

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Speaker 1: You know. Ekeler got that the other day. But he should.

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Speaker 1: Oh every year they're a little worried of overworking Kamara.

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Speaker 1: fourteen plays, dinking and dunking, have at it, because at

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Speaker 1: and there's so much more that the the you know,

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Speaker 1: the off ball linebackers are all listening by how many

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Speaker 1: tackles they have. You know, it's like you get too

425
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Speaker 1: caught up in the stats and I'm just looking. I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: who would I vote for here? And you know, like

427
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking at the cornerbacks and I'm like, okay,

428
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Speaker 1: where are some of the good cornerbacks here? And they're

429
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Speaker 1: way down the list. Because Jalen Ramsey got one interception?

430
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Speaker 1: Is you nobody throws at it after the day, but

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna you're gonna vote for some of You're

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Speaker 1: gonna vote for. J C. Jackson goes, well, he's got

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Speaker 1: six interceptions. But if you've watched New England play, j C.

434
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Speaker 1: Jackson hasn't been any good this year. That's why he's

435
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Speaker 1: got all the intercept I'm curious. So I guess there's

436
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Speaker 1: been six Player of the Month awards for defense right

437
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Speaker 1: three NFC, three A A, F C. TJ's got to

438
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Speaker 1: I don't know who the others are, but so he's

439
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Speaker 1: gotten a third of these so far. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure no one else has too. I'm sure Donald

441
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Speaker 1: Donalds has won at least one. Yeah, maybe Garrett sting

442
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Speaker 1: them between Garrett won the one and yeah he won

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Speaker 1: he won October. Yeah, I'm just trying to think who

444
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: that's a pretty strong case for the big award. You know,

445
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 1: if you can say, hey, I got more of these

446
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: than anybody, especially if you finish it, if you're getting recognized.

447
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about the Steelers defense and bring us

448
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Speaker 1: up again. I asked Mica Fitzpatrick about it after the

449
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Speaker 1: game in Jacksonville when he had the interception off the

450
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Speaker 1: tip ball down by the goal line. I said, you know,

451
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Speaker 1: just I asked him, do things slow down for you

452
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 1: when the balls tipped in the air like that? Hecaes, Oh, no,

453
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 1: they speed up because you're gonna get there because if

454
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Speaker 1: somebody else will beat you to it. That's kind of

455
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Speaker 1: the Steelers defense in a nutshell, like if you don't

456
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Speaker 1: get there quickly, Like how many times have you seen

457
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Speaker 1: Cam Heyward be the second guy? Oh, sure to the

458
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Speaker 1: to you know, Cam should have about twelve sacks this year,

459
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Speaker 1: but somebody beat him to somebody beat him to it

460
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: because the other guys are really good too. Yeah, there's

461
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Speaker 1: some of that, And I've even heard super Steelers say

462
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like man, I had beat on this

463
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: guy and Joe Green peb two. That kind of stuff,

464
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Speaker 1: And I guess that's common with all kinds of great

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00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: defenses littered with Pro bowlers and Hall of famers. But

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Speaker 1: I even remember a play I don't remember the exact

467
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Speaker 1: way it went yesterday Wednesday, where basically when it's happened

468
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: many times this year, Watton the pre basically met at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and they had this fun little handshake thing

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Speaker 1: go and you know, after the good play, it makes

471
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Speaker 1: me think a little, oh, I miss Bud. But um,

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Speaker 1: you know how many times does those type of things

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Speaker 1: happen where two or three get there at once where

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Speaker 1: it only takes one right and when one guy's getting

475
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Speaker 1: like the sack, the first sack I think it was

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Speaker 1: the first sack against the Ravens on Wednesday. What comes

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Speaker 1: in trips up r G three who kind of stumbles

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Speaker 1: forward and then Hayward and Dupre hit him and there

479
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: was a lot of well Hayward, Hayward was laying on

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Speaker 1: top of him. Dupre came in from the front side

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Speaker 1: and finished putting him on the ground. So the best

482
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Speaker 1: play was made by wat Right and initially the sack

483
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,479
Speaker 1: was was given to Dupri and then Dupri and Hayward

484
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Speaker 1: shared the sack. Then I hear that the chattering behind

485
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Speaker 1: me because I sit right in front of the stat guys.

486
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Speaker 1: And they decided to give the just do They said, well,

487
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Speaker 1: dupri wasn't gonna get to say, he would have gotten

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Speaker 1: the sack had he gone another step forward, but Heywards

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Speaker 1: on his legs. We're gonna give Hayward the sack. Then

490
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Speaker 1: the NFL called and said, no, you're gonna give that.

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Speaker 1: That's what should have that sack because he was going down.

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Speaker 1: He was going down and Hayward fell on top of him. Saying,

493
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: so there were three guys there who could have could

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Speaker 1: have gotten the only one gets it brings up another

495
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Speaker 1: topic that just rubs me wrong, Like there really shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be half sacks. There should not be the you don't

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Speaker 1: give half tackles. You don't give half tackles. And let's

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Speaker 1: say they originally gave it to Cam and Budd as

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Speaker 1: a half each. Well, just because the other one is

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Speaker 1: there doesn't mean that Bud wouldn't have done on his

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Speaker 1: own right. But you know what I mean, like, why

502
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: did my teammates You don't share interceptions, you don't, right,

503
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: But if it's three guys, they'll get a half, right,

504
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: it's not like we needed all three. We've seen You've

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00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: seen situations over the years where three guys met at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. Who gets there first, you know. So that's

507
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: that's part of the problem with this Steelers defense is

508
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: like there there, So now there's one less guy in

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00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: the equation with Bud Dupree. I wonder if we see

510
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: the sack numbers now go up for Hayward. We saw

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Speaker 1: him get to the quarterback once the other day. Um,

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Speaker 1: he would have had a sack and a half in

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00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: that game. Actually they took the half off of him. Um,

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00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: he's not got I think now he right now, he

515
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: has four sacks on the season. Some people look at well,

516
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Speaker 1: he's not having a really good year, you know, watching

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Uh, you don't just measure it. It's

518
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: the same thing that people used to say about two.

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00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: Well too, it's not playing very well. He only has

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Speaker 1: three sacks. Watch what Watch the game. Watch the game,

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00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: especially at that position too, I mean interior players, and

522
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: a lot of the stunts and things they do are

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Speaker 1: to it or Hayward or Lulu taking two blocks. He's

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Speaker 1: grabbing these two guys with him, and it's allowing hind

525
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: or you know, I mean, no kind of things are invaluable,

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Speaker 1: and if they weren't fearing you were getting driven back

527
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Speaker 1: on their heels, it wouldn't have worked, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: so sacks to your point with the Pro Bowl having

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Speaker 1: one big stat like that is really foolish. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sure excuse viewer or voters like crazy. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at you know, tackles for losses, quarterback hits,

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00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: those kind of things. Are you getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: those like we've seen for example, beat Vic Beasley, Yes

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00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: for Atlanta what was it two thousand fifteen quite a

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00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: while ago, and led the league in sacks, but he

536
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Speaker 1: had like he had like sixteen pressures for the season,

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00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: so every time he got a pressure, he got the sack. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't a they were Pro Football focus a

539
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: fair amount. But I think they're right. That's one thing

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Speaker 1: that they do right, pressures. They will always be like

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00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: Brandy Graham's at one of their guys, super high pressure guy,

542
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: but not a mean a good sack guy, not a

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00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: great sack right, like he influences that that was the

544
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Speaker 1: number that was that was the thing on to it

545
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: to get a lot of pressures. It wasn't getting the

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00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: sack again. Somebody else is beating him to the guy right,

547
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: or you're forcing a quarterback to throat and seats or yeah,

548
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: or you force him to go the other way and

549
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: somebody else gets him right. Yeah, I mean high pressure numbers.

550
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: And to pro football focuses credit too. They've been around

551
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: long enough that they'll be like, he's had three big

552
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: years of high high pressures, but not a lot of sacks.

553
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: The sacks are coming. We're predicting the big sack year

554
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: and they're usually. That's why it was easy. I mean,

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00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: it's been easy to predict that two. It's gonna the

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00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: breakout year was coming for to it impacting games. The

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00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: sacks were gonna come, and they have this year. If

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00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: you look at the sack numbers across the league right now,

559
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Speaker 1: what leads with eleven it's Donald Donald with and Trey

560
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Speaker 1: Hendrickson has nine and a half. Yeah, that defense coming on,

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00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: they're coming on. Yeah, Garrett's at nine and a half.

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Speaker 1: People don't know Zadarius Smith is at nine. Garrett wasn't

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Speaker 1: the other one in there. Garrett was. He's tied for third.

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Speaker 1: Uh six is Jason Pierre Paul is having a good season.

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Speaker 1: He's got eight and a half. Bud Dupree is tied

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Speaker 1: with Emmanuel Agba. It's seventh with eight. Um. I mean,

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Speaker 1: with all respect to t J and no one's having that.

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Speaker 1: Shack Barrett way more sacks than games. I mean, what's

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Speaker 1: what's on pace right now for sixteen sacks, which would

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Speaker 1: also be a team record with tie the team record,

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Speaker 1: Let's say that doesn't always lead the league. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, like, sack numbers I'm sure are down overall,

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Speaker 1: they are down. I mean when you when you look

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Speaker 1: at it across the league, they're down except for Pittsburgh

575
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Speaker 1: and Washington. Um, any of the Washington guys anywhere close.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking here, and I don't see I know,

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Speaker 1: young miss some time, they're they're top guy as Montes

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Speaker 1: Sweat was six, that's bed. I mean he was on

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Speaker 1: paste that you know, finished with eight or nine. That's

580
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: a good year. People want to talk about him a lot,

581
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: but I mean Washington traded back in the first round

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Speaker 1: last year. So this is really his this his second season,

583
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: really long lean wasted, you know, combined guy fast us

584
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: is gonna have his handful with Yeah, and he gets

585
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: singled a lot because of who's around him. He's kind

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00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: of their bud dupre a much different style of player,

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00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: but he's got a bright future too. Yeah, I think

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00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: so as well. Ryan Carrigan actually comes off the bench

589
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: for them with he's got five and a half. They

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00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: they spread it around a little bit, but really they're

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00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: a four rush, four men rush team, so it's gonna

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00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how the Steelers attack that. Very

593
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: much like the Giants. Yeah, agreed. Yeah, I would think

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00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: both teams blitz infrequently just because you don't get home

595
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: against the ball comes out so fast. I mean, I'd

596
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: rather leave that guy in coverage. The Steelers. The Steelers

597
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: aren't blitzing as much as they think people they used

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00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: to be, right. Everyone just assumes a lot of pressures

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00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: mean a lot of blitz and I guess Steeler history

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00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: short of shows that, you know, that's just the mindset.

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00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: Keith Butler said that today because hey, we're not the

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00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: heavy blitzing team that we were in the past. We

603
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: still blitz, but we don't blitz as much because they

604
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: don't have to. I mean, certainly the first one month

605
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: of the year, the sixty after the first two games,

606
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: they were, but you look at who they played right, right,

607
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: and there were a lot of run blitzes and stuff

608
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: like that too for Sa Kwan and um you know,

609
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks. But I bet if you look at you know,

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Speaker 1: what's your blitz percentage per game? I'm sure now they're

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Speaker 1: probably in the league in the league you know recently,

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00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, as opposed to the cumulative status for the year,

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Speaker 1: and probably you're still pretty high because they were insane

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Speaker 1: if it start, Yeah, they're still there's still above but

615
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: when you consider they were above six now after the

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Speaker 1: first two games, it's actually like sixty three point seven percent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if memory served, that's what they were after

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Speaker 1: the two first two games. And now they're we're hovering

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Speaker 1: right around, so it's going down and the pressure rate

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Speaker 1: is not going to Yeah, they've also you know, if

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Speaker 1: you remember those first two games, we're exposing the secondary

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Speaker 1: a little bit too much too, because they were they

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Speaker 1: were blitzing so much. Now they're playing a little more

624
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: coverage and the passing numbers have slowly creeped down to

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00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: the point where now they lead a league in past defense.

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Speaker 1: And I would also think the Bush injury affects it too,

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Speaker 1: because what I thought he did the best this year

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00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: was covering backs, and I think they've missed that. But

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Speaker 1: if you don't blitz as much, you don't miss two

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Speaker 1: guys near the back. And you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a way of covering up for that. Yeah, I agree,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williamson. I'm dal Lali. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little

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Speaker 1: more rust Steelers in Washington football team right after this

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Speaker 1: your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson. And such a relief to have internet access. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Greg Rash is the man man, Yeah, Greg guy of

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Speaker 1: course an engineer here for for d V, does the

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Speaker 1: does the game broadcast as well. Uh, guy that keeps

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Speaker 1: everything on the air on game days. Um. So, looking

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Speaker 1: at this Washington football team, we looked at their at

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Speaker 1: their roster yesterday. Um I haven't seen an injury report

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Speaker 1: yet for them, but they haven't played a long time,

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Speaker 1: in a long time. They were on they played early Thursday.

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Speaker 1: They played one of the early games. There was the

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Speaker 1: second game. I think yeah, because Houston played the first one. Right,

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Speaker 1: they beat Dallas bad? Right? Is there a is there

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Speaker 1: a chance? I don't know what Ron Rivera did with them.

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Speaker 1: Did he give him the weekend off? Probably handled like

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Speaker 1: the Steelers were going to write, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: give him a you know, three or four days away.

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Speaker 1: Do do you worry about any kind of rush factor

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Speaker 1: with that? I think it's a factor, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we saw the ravens of Steelers look rusty earlier. Like

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Speaker 1: for much of my media career, I've avoided words like

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Speaker 1: rust and flat, you know, things like that that I

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Speaker 1: think are kind of a shortcut to think. You can

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Speaker 1: always be like maybe they got out schemed, or this

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Speaker 1: guy's hurt. I mean, it usually more to it I'm flat.

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Speaker 1: But this past Stealer game was so bizarre that I

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Speaker 1: think that the scheduling certainly impact the way the game

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Speaker 1: was played, and the Steelers didn't look like the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna keep up, but I do

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Speaker 1: think they seem to keep bringing up three games in

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Speaker 1: twelve days. It's on their mind and they're definitely gonna

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Speaker 1: have a weird prep week, like they're off about that.

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Speaker 1: The three games in twelve days thing doesn't really bother

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Speaker 1: me as much because other teams do it. It's not

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Speaker 1: unheard of. It's actually not as stressful as it sounds

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Speaker 1: when you say it just like that, because you had

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Speaker 1: a nice break before. And yeah, but the only thing

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Speaker 1: they didn't get was the break before because they were

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Speaker 1: practicing and then not practicing practicing than not practicing nice.

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Speaker 1: I get that part of it. That would be unhappy

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Speaker 1: about that too. But you gotta think this whole time,

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Speaker 1: while we've done all this nonsense about when the Steeler

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Speaker 1: gonna play, at least the Washington coaching staff has been

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Speaker 1: watching Stealer tape, right, you know. I mean they've been

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Speaker 1: and boy if they watched this last last game stape there,

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Speaker 1: like hey, we got a chance yet a chance? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean, so it worries me from a Steeler perspective

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Speaker 1: that Washington is way more rested, prepared. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say prepared, because that's selling the Steelers coaching staff short.

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Speaker 1: But all the all the Washington's team team has been

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Speaker 1: doing since sex Giving's focusing on Steelers with steel has

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Speaker 1: been doing a lot of other crap. What it looks

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Speaker 1: like they were they practiced, well, they had to do

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Speaker 1: an injury report for Thursday Friday. Do have that? Um? So,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Anderson is a defensive end. He was limited on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: He was a full participant today. I kind of like

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Speaker 1: him coming out of school. But he's buried down because

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Speaker 1: they've seen you guys, right, he's the Alabama Alabama dude.

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Speaker 1: Morgan Moses, who's there the right tackle. Uh, he was

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Speaker 1: limited with a groin injury on Thursday. He was a

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Speaker 1: full participant today. Well he's got d J Yeah, Deshaun

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Speaker 1: de Cheser Everett, who's the starting safety above. Uh, he's

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Speaker 1: got an ankle. He was a full participant both days. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Cornelius Lucas, who's another one of their tackle, he's a

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Speaker 1: backup guy, full participant the last two days. Terry McLaurin

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Speaker 1: with an ankle. Must have tweaked that yesterday in practice.

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Speaker 1: I gotta blurb this morning. Then something happened with him

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Speaker 1: because he's not listed on the injury report for yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but he is listed for today. I mean, if I

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Speaker 1: were them, besides my starting quarterback, he might be the

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Speaker 1: last guy I want to get hurt. Agree, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Moses will be high as you're playing what But I

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Speaker 1: mean we mentioned Moses says that. Moses says his consecutive

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Speaker 1: games streak of ninety he's gonna play. He's that guy.

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Speaker 1: But McLaurin. Without McLaurin, they're passing. Game is nil. They

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Speaker 1: have not in the first segment. Right, He's a really,

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Speaker 1: really good player and deserves all the targets he gets.

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Speaker 1: But they need to find a compliment to him in

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Speaker 1: the off season that they do. And if you look

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Speaker 1: at his games this year, uh, he has had at

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Speaker 1: least it's pretty consistent, at least sixty one receiving yards

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Speaker 1: in every game except against the Rams. Wow, that's when

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Speaker 1: he got Jalen Regine. That so he had seven targets

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Speaker 1: in that game. Uh, three catches for twenty six yards.

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Speaker 1: I think Ramsey's best corner the league. But yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: really starting to separate himself. But you look at the

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Speaker 1: rest of these games. Seven targets, ten targets, eight targets,

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Speaker 1: four teen targets, seven targets, twelve targets, eleven targets, eight nine, seven, nine,

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Speaker 1: and he's always between seventy and one twenty yards give

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Speaker 1: or take um. These past two weeks, they've only threw

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Speaker 1: in the ball twenty five and twenty six times and

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Speaker 1: he's gotten seven. He's got sixteen targets. That's he's a

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Speaker 1: thirty two of the targets the last couple of weeks here,

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Speaker 1: So that's a big number. Um, he's deserving. I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're ripping on him or it's just

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Speaker 1: the state of the football team right now. Is it's

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Speaker 1: him and not much else. I mean, if they don't

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Speaker 1: go quarterback the first round, it might be Jamaar Chase

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Speaker 1: or the best receiver they could find, or a tight end.

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Speaker 1: It's a difference maker. And yeah, and he's still he's

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Speaker 1: one of these Allen Robinson types that succeeds even though

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Speaker 1: every in the world knows that's where the ball is

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Speaker 1: going and it's not optimal situations. Yeah, I agree. And

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Speaker 1: so you know, he's averaging fourteen yards per touch this

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Speaker 1: season that leads the NFL. Is it number one? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's not a nickel and dimer from me. He ran

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Speaker 1: a sub four or four I think at the combine

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Speaker 1: and has returned skills and last year average fifteen point

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Speaker 1: eight yards per catch. I mean, uh and a lot

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Speaker 1: of it's catch him, run for him. It is, it is.

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Speaker 1: He's a physical guy. Um. Some of our listeners make

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Speaker 1: fun of me because of my Claypool special teams love. Well.

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Speaker 1: One of the big things with McLaren coming out was

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Speaker 1: a great great special teams play, special team right, Ganner

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Speaker 1: runs you know Ohio State and um, so he brings

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Speaker 1: that physical mental he's not. He's a six ft tall receiver,

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Speaker 1: but he's twoter and ten pounds. But he's strong and yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a handful to bring down. And yeah they got

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Speaker 1: a tackle. So to me, I think you I think

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Speaker 1: I like that. You know, if they're if the Steelers

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Speaker 1: in that robber defense with mak in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the field, you know, ten yards off the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make a just shade the mclaurin's side,

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Speaker 1: whichever side he's on. Yeah, they take away that slant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that need to even hide it much

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Speaker 1: And how much defenses really do force them to go

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Speaker 1: somewhere else with football? Yeah, I think Washington and Smith

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Speaker 1: and McLaurin all know Hey, coverages are always gonna be

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Speaker 1: rolled your away. But you're still far and away the

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Speaker 1: best guy. And clearly he's still producing what every game

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Speaker 1: but one. It's the real testament to what he's got

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Speaker 1: going for. It absolutely is. But you know, again to

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Speaker 1: to my point from earlier in the show, if you

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Speaker 1: look at their receptions, Uh, he's got sixty nine. Mckisses,

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Speaker 1: got got forty six for about but it's for three

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Speaker 1: thirty eight yards. Less Logan Thomas, they're tight end has

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Speaker 1: thirty four catches but for three eight yards. He's showed

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Speaker 1: some spurts, but yeah, he's nothing to write home. Gibson

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Speaker 1: has thirty nine catches or thirty two catches, but for

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Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty three yards. I think I'm in

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Speaker 1: the last two or three weeks. Yeah, Uh, then you know,

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Speaker 1: then it's Isaiah wider. Yet Isaiah right has twenty three

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Speaker 1: catches for a hundred sixty eight yards. Um. I assume

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Speaker 1: he's a little slow receiver. Dontrelle Inman, who I know

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Speaker 1: is a little slot receiver eighteen for one sixty three. Um.

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Speaker 1: Then you get to you know, Steven Sims sixteen for

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Speaker 1: one seventy four. Cam Sims is the deep guy. He's

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Speaker 1: got thirteen for two forty five. It's an eighteen point

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Speaker 1: eight average. I think they all came in like one game,

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Speaker 1: like two weeks ago. I mean, honestly, it's the average

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Speaker 1: ten point three yards of catch, which is not good.

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Speaker 1: It's not good. And that's with that's with McLaurin averaging

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Speaker 1: fourteen yards of catch, who's best in the league. Like

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Speaker 1: you met, ye take that away from the from these

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Speaker 1: other guys and they got you know, that's interesting. Just

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Speaker 1: tackle the catch. We should do that between the break

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Speaker 1: and just take his receiving yards off their total and

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Speaker 1: his catches and just see what the all the other

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Speaker 1: Washington guys are yard for catch, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: because if he's a fourteen and leading the league and

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Speaker 1: they're low at ten as a team, they must be

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Speaker 1: like seven like everybody else. Then to your point, I mean,

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Speaker 1: those two were running backs. Mckissic and uh Gibson are

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Speaker 1: good receivers. They're receiving backs, well, especially mckissics only are

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Speaker 1: receiving back. He's there, Chris Thompson type, Okay, here it is,

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Speaker 1: I got it for you. Good. The average eight point

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Speaker 1: five yards of catch that aren't named anybody who's not

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Speaker 1: named McLaurin averaging eight point five yards to catch. That's

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Speaker 1: super low. That's like I've never seen one that low, right, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's receivers and running backs and tight ends combined.

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Speaker 1: But everybody besides McLaurin. Wow, yeah, I mean that's that.

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Speaker 1: They're like four receivers in there too. Like this is

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Speaker 1: a guy who's averaging eight teen point eight yards of catch.

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Speaker 1: Take him out of the equation, what right? Right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the problem. I mean that's something they need to

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Speaker 1: address for sure. This offset. They've also got eleven touchdown passes.

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Speaker 1: So if you bog down their running game again, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm playing a lot of short zones and if they try,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Alex Smith will try to push the

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Speaker 1: ball down. If I don't think he'll be an intermediate thrower.

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Speaker 1: I mean the digs and the deep crossers and things

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Speaker 1: like that. I mean the comebacks that's not his bag,

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Speaker 1: the arm strength throws. I mean, I'm sure they'll take shots,

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Speaker 1: you know, like everybody takes shots. I'm sure they'll play

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Speaker 1: action max protect, throw a bomb the McLaurin or or

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Speaker 1: Sims and if you hit it great, but he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna he's not gonna beat you up in that twelve

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Speaker 1: the twenty. That's the thing. He may just twelve checked

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Speaker 1: out dump its because they're completely i mean, their quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: this year completing sixty nine of their passes, which is

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Speaker 1: what you would expect because everything's a dump off. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Haskins didn't help. He's um, Actually, there's sixty

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Speaker 1: six point one. I don't know what that can that

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Speaker 1: much have been. Their catch rate is sixty nine point

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Speaker 1: three percent. I don't know how it could be. The

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Speaker 1: catch rate could be higher than the unless there's some

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Speaker 1: throwaways in there. M yeah, they don't count. But they're

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Speaker 1: completing sixty six point one of their passes, which you

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Speaker 1: should be when you're you know, wouldn't it that low? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're I did a fun little exercise in

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Speaker 1: the offseason. I just took average depth of target times

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Speaker 1: completion percentage, and I think it's just an idea of

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Speaker 1: you know, like Jamis Winston was really good in that

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Speaker 1: metric because he tried a lot of hard throws. He

841
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: threw a lot of pace, Yeah, threw a lot of

842
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean, like the Saints guys are really low in

843
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: that one, like Breeze has a great completion percentage, and

844
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: even Bridgewater is a saint. But if you multiply the two,

845
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: it's like that's not that you know, right, I mean

846
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: Alex Smith's aree yards per attempt is five point eight yards.

847
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: It's really low, really low, and it comes out quick

848
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: and he doesn't take the chances and right, yeah, that's

849
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: and he's still throwing five interceptions. Yeah, I didn't realized

850
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 1: it was that many. How many games has he played

851
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: so far? He's played, He's appeared in five. He started three, Okay,

852
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: I remember the one he came off the bench and

853
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: kept the job, and the other one I don't think

854
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: he played much. And he had three D sixty year

855
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: three in ninety yards in one game against the Lions.

856
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: And he's got no interceptions. Yeah, he's got one thousand,

857
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards in his five games. Okay, so a

858
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: third of that came in more than a third of

859
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: it came in one game. And he you know, he's

860
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: just is over underpassing yards on Monday. Well, he's averaging

861
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: two yards passing per game this year. Yeah, I think

862
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: it's going under two. Yes, against this defense. I mean

863
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: he's had to under two hundred to last two weeks.

864
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: I mean, if the garbage time thing would would give

865
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: me some hesitation, just because the Steelers might be winning big.

866
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: He's also been sacked fifteen times and it comes out

867
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: quick right both sides. He hasn't got out the way. Well, no,

868
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: he can't move anymore. No, he can't anyways. Let's take

869
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lollly. You

870
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: were listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

871
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 1: When we come back, it'll be time for the Fantasy

872
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: Football Focus. We'll get to that right after this. He's

873
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on Home

874
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goals Steelers Nation. Rady, welcome back.

875
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Welly here with Matt Williamson's time for the

876
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Focus. We'll go through all the games. It

877
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: seems weird to be doing this two days after the

878
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: Steelers played, and there's two Monday nighters to Sunday nighters.

879
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: There's still two teams on by there's a Tuesday game.

880
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. There's a two Monday nighters and

881
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: a Tuesday night and the Sunday night game, and there

882
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: was no Thursday game. Other with other nights, this week's

883
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 1: just perfect, still normal, so you have nothing to recap

884
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: Sunday stuff. So first game on the schedule here is

885
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: Saints at Falcons. The over under is forty five, which

886
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: these days is are really low over under. Right, you

887
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: think about these teams and you think it's gonna be

888
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: thirty to forty. Both these defenses are pretty darned good.

889
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,959
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill at seventy eight yards passing against Denver last weekend.

890
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: He gets sacked three times. Atlanta's D is not bad

891
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: and the Saints D is really good. I don't think

892
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: Julio is playing. Riddley's banged up, but probably will go.

893
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about Umara. Of course he's started,

894
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: like the Falcons in this game. I think they got

895
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,479
Speaker 1: a shot. I wish july I was playing, but they

896
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: got a shot. We'll see, maybe he gets back out there,

897
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 1: but um you know, I I just have a feeling

898
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: about this when the Falcons are that's a big rivalry game.

899
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: There's two teams hate each other. People don't think about

900
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: it up here in the North, but that's one of

901
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: the bigger rivalry games in the league. Yeah, it wouldn't

902
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: surprise me if the Falcons won that football game. Now

903
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: they're playing quite well and that over under forty five.

904
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't know who are you playing in that game?

905
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna the last time Ryan was awful against them.

906
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: They couldn't they couldn't block him. And if Gurley doesn't score,

907
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 1: he's useless and he's questionable. He's questionable. Ye, Ridley could

908
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: be a heavy targeted dude and obviously always preem in

909
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: your line. And I assume Tomas it's Thomas a wide

910
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: receiver too. Yeah, I can't have PMP one with that.

911
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna get eight targets. Maybe a sneaky

912
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: guy on that team lately has been Murray. Yeah, I

913
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 1: don't know that I keep that keeps up though. Yeah,

914
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: that's a bit hard to trust, you know. This week?

915
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: What about Hayden Hurst. He's probably a top twelve tight end.

916
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: Think you're not excited about it? And I don't know,

917
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: then start I'd start him over Cook. Cook doesn't hardly

918
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: do anything. I mean if he talked about how Kamara

919
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: doesn't get the ball thrown to him. Um, yeah, No,

920
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 1: Cook's unusable lately. I would fade a lot of guys

921
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: in that game. I would I would start both defenses. Yeah,

922
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: and that against those teams. On the other side of

923
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: the coin. On the other side of the spectrum is

924
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,879
Speaker 1: Brown's at Titan. See. I think this is an over.

925
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: This isn't is the over unders fifty three and a half,

926
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: which shocks people, but I still think it goes over. Yeah,

927
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: these defenses aren't very good. I want Henry in the lineup.

928
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: I want both Brown's running backs in the lineup. Yes,

929
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 1: um A J. Brown A J. Brown. Cannon Hill isn't bad. Yeah,

930
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: I almost stat I almost put him as my DFS

931
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: stack this week with you. Yeah. Uh, then I moved

932
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: away from I went with Aaron Rodgers instead. I'm not sure.

933
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: I'm excited about Baker, but I think Baker won't be

934
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure. No, they don't rush. The

935
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: pass defenses are very vulnerable, and I think there'll be

936
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays like Chubb and Henry and

937
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: the Browns when they've played a good team of just

938
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 1: hemorrhage points. Oh. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, here's a sneaky start

939
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:47,320
Speaker 1: for you out of this game. Doesn't look like Jonny

940
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: Smith's gonna play start Ferkser. Yeah, that's not bad. That's

941
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: not bad, especially in today's tight end world. Ferkser's Foker

942
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: could get six or seven catches that game. Browns the Browns, Yeah,

943
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: the Browns linebackers can't cover anybody. Ward might be out

944
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: to Yeah, yeah, there will be a lot of points.

945
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: It canna be a lot of points. Uh. Colts at

946
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 1: Texans the over under his fifty sad. I love the

947
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: way Watson's playing, but I think the losing Fuller hurts them.

948
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 1: This game might go under, It might go under. I

949
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: would think the Colts keep everything in front of him.

950
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: They probably won't run well. Cookes will get a lot

951
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: of targets. Yeah, he's gonna have his handsful, and they won't.

952
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: They don't follow. So you get Xavier Rhodes whole time,

953
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: So you get you get some rock of sin in there,

954
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: and he's been you know, not great. Um. I mean

955
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: you start watching, you start Cooks. But that's probably it

956
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. David Johnson could come

957
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: back this week. I'm not interested. I'm not interested in

958
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: starting him, but certainly, yeah, he can't start. Duke Jonathan

959
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: Taylor if he's gonna break open, he's gonna break out.

960
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: This is the game. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, Um

961
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: what about Pittman? Yes, no Roby for them? Yeah. Second,

962
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: I'm talking myself into an over here on this. But

963
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: with the Colts, but they're gonna want to run, they'll

964
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: just run the ball. If they can't, I would think

965
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 1: even Hines will probably catch six balls. Yeah. Uh, Anthony

966
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: Costanzo out who miss this game with the knee, and

967
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: they don't risk fast her that well. Yeah, and if

968
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: anyone think about Rivers, I can understand it. But they've

969
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: really used Brissette as their goal lineback, which takes away

970
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: that would really be a thing. That's the other thing

971
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: about Taylor, Like are they going to do that and

972
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: you know take a touchdown off? Or did they do

973
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: it because he was out or right? That's what you

974
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: don't know. Somebody's rookie running backs was still hard. Yeah.

975
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: Jaguars and Vikings. He over under his fifty and a half.

976
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: I think the Vikes go bonkers, like I would lean

977
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: towards Cousins. The two receivers don't mind starting the Jaguars

978
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: in this game either, because Minnesota's defense has not been great.

979
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: You can make fun of Glennon, but he's an NFL quarterback.

980
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 1: You know, if I think they'll get to twenty, so

981
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna score, probably, I mean, you always start Robinson.

982
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: I think Chark has a good week. I think there's

983
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: more points than this. One of people realize. I think

984
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: that one's gonna be an up and down the game,

985
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: up and down the field game. Uh, start them all. Yeah,

986
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: I agree. Bengals at Dolphins. The over under is forty

987
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: two and a half. I don't think the I don't

988
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: know how they score. Yeah, I don't know how they

989
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: score unless they get another kick return. That's the only reason.

990
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: That's the only reason that game last week was even close.

991
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: Against the Giants, they average three yards of play. Yeah. Really,

992
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: they're awful, and the Dolphins have a good defense. They

993
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: really good defense. Parker, I'm playing fits. I'm playing. They're

994
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: running back situations is very unclear, but they always feature

995
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: one guy. Ackman is doubtful. N I think gask has

996
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: got to come back because the other two guys are doubtful.

997
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: Breeda just went on, Uh, they don't like him anyway,

998
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: but he just went on COVID today. Yeah, Washington is

999
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: doubtful as well, So I think I think they got

1000
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: to bring gasking back and play him. The problem that

1001
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: could start the problem with him is he unscore touchdowns,

1002
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: but the bad defense, that's only there's a lot of

1003
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: points period. I think Baltimore or Miami wins that game.

1004
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: I love gets sicky in this game. That's a good one.

1005
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,439
Speaker 1: They give up the most passing yards to tight ends

1006
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: in the league. It's like sixty two yards of game

1007
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: got started over Hayden Hurst and we talked about Yeah, yeah,

1008
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: I think he's he might be a top five start

1009
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: this week at a tight end position. I mean, because

1010
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: they they're looking for others, they're gonna have to throw

1011
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: the football. If Gaskins is the running back they don't have.

1012
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: They don't have a goal lineback, so you throw it,

1013
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: throw it up to the big guy. There's still a

1014
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: chance to a start, which would make No. I don't

1015
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happens. Yeah, I think it is too

1016
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: Lions and Bears. He over runners forty four and a half.

1017
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:36,280
Speaker 1: No Golliday, Alan Robinson got hurt today and left practice.

1018
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: That was the only guy in the Bears. I was

1019
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: excited about what I want Montgomery in this game. Yeah,

1020
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a nice a nice game.

1021
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm kind of more and more of a believer in

1022
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: when you fire a head coach that everybody hates, like

1023
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,439
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien or Patricia, you usually get a good game

1024
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: or two from the team and they're a little more rejuvenated.

1025
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: Like I think Detroit could win this game. But I'm

1026
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: sure wish it was Goliday. I mean, I'm I'm starting Hawkins,

1027
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: and I wish I knew if Swift was playing. Swift

1028
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: is not playing. He didn't he didn't practice, so you

1029
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 1: might not have Swift. You definitely don't Swift or go Holiday.

1030
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: Maybe not Robinson starting carry On Johnson. Yeah, he's been

1031
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: borderline RB two. Yeah, I mean they dump it to

1032
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 1: him and the problem is he doesn't score the touchdowns

1033
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: because they trot out the old Man and the Bears

1034
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,479
Speaker 1: were a good defense. Yeah, they'll be on the field

1035
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: a lot um Raiders and Jets. The over runners forty seven.

1036
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: Raiders got embarrassed last week. I bet they don't get

1037
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: embarrassed this week. In fact, Jacobs, no, Jacob, Yeah, this

1038
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: is when we talked about earlier in the week. So

1039
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: for book Yeah, Booker is the guy. UM, get him

1040
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: in your line up now. In fact, already have him

1041
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: in my DFS lineup. I think he was like which

1042
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: is which is a nice price for starting running back

1043
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: against the Jet? Yeah? Absolutely, um Waller, you always do.

1044
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: But he's a little worrisome. Yeah, it hasn't been great.

1045
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: They could shut it down. They can shut the passing

1046
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: and get up early and cars okay, uh agilars okay.

1047
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: Yeah if he's playing. He was on the injury report too. Yeah,

1048
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: so be careful with that one. But it's sneakily starting

1049
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: a jet. Crowder is not startable anymore. He was the one.

1050
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: He was the guy. The other the other. I think

1051
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: the other two receivers are better, imperm better players in crowd.

1052
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I I mean maybe in

1053
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: this game against that remember eight or secondary bad. I

1054
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,320
Speaker 1: heard a stat on the way here on a podcast

1055
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: Frank Gore last week had twenty touches on early downs.

1056
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 1: The first or second down was last week, Like about

1057
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: coaching mout practice. You're trying to build something there and

1058
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: the Yeah, I mean he gets the ball. As my point, Yeah,

1059
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: it's the smelly start, but it's he's like he's like

1060
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: eating two pounds of popcorn. It's just empty candy. Nothing, Yeah,

1061
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: getting nothing out of it. Um, do you start the

1062
00:56:56,080 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: Raiders defense? I know it's a great, great start. They

1063
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of sacks. It's Max Crosby and

1064
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: nobody else. I think the defense is bad, But I

1065
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: gotta say I was looking at one of my leagues

1066
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: at the stream defenses. There's not many great options, so

1067
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 1: maybe that's as good as you can do. You know,

1068
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 1: a lot of the obvious ones are picked up, and

1069
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: if you're streaming him, it's probably not so bad. Rams

1070
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: at Cardinals of Runners, Kyler is not right right now

1071
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: with that shoulder, but doesn't mean he won't be this week.

1072
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna get healthy. It's a down week

1073
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: I think for Hopkins, but of course you start him.

1074
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: But Drake has been the benefactor. Yeah, I mean he's

1075
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,959
Speaker 1: getting all the goal line touches he's and they throwed

1076
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: him now because Kyler's him running in right right. So

1077
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: I think Drake's a starter. I think Edmonds is even

1078
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: a flex too. And I saw something today where Kingsbury said, uh,

1079
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: the Rams said that they won't have um Ramsey travel. Yeah,

1080
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: but so he he won't move with it. He won't

1081
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: move with Hopkins um, which kind of makes some sense

1082
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: because they do throw the ball, you know, the Kirkle

1083
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: catch the deep balls and things that I don't have

1084
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: a problem with that. I still better think he ends

1085
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: up on Hopkins a lot. Probably, although if the if

1086
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: the Rams are the Cardinals are smart, if Kingsbury knows

1087
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: what he's doing, you skiming like, Okay, you're gonna leave

1088
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: him over there when we're gonna have Hopkins line up

1089
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: over here all the time, I would avoid him as

1090
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: much as possible. You know, that's your best guy, Rams.

1091
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: I think I'm starting the tight ends aren't usuable anymore.

1092
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: They've canceled each other out. I don't know I can

1093
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: start running back either. I can't. Yeah, I'm not ready

1094
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: to jump off that, not even as I don't like

1095
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: any of it, because they all steal from each other.

1096
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: They steal from each other. Woods and Copper good starts. Yeah,

1097
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: that's a that's Peters is not scary anymore. No, he's

1098
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: not at all, not at all. Uh Giants at Seahawks

1099
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: he over run there's forty seven and a half. No,

1100
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones Ingrams may only giant I'm starting? Would you

1101
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: would you stream the Giants defense against the Seahawks, knowing

1102
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: that they don't ask block well and Wilson w takes

1103
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 1: some sacks, that's a good deed. Yeah, I think they'll

1104
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: get the thirty. Yeah, I mean I'd go to the

1105
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: ball all game. I know in Seattle, not that that's

1106
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: a big deal anymore, but no, the Raiders d over

1107
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: the Giants. Do you even though the Giants this could

1108
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: end up being a locket game of of as opposed

1109
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: to Metcalf. Bradbury will be on Metcalf and he could

1110
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: be just be lock it. Um. What's interesting though, is

1111
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: both Carson and Hyde played last week, and Hyde was

1112
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: the guy. I wonder if that was just because Carson

1113
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: was still coming back from the injury. Tend to think so, yeah,

1114
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: but it makes you a little less confident. But I'm

1115
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: starting Carson, Yeah, yeah, just to start him as like

1116
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: an RB two. They don't expect him to have the

1117
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: RB one production that he was having earlier, and he's

1118
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: better than Hide. I think we all have that. Yeah. Um,

1119
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: do you start Seattle's defense against Colt McCoy? Is that

1120
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: a streamer. They don't sack the quarterback particularly well. But

1121
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: they don't. But they've been playing a lot better on D.

1122
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: I mean it's not respectable. D. Maybe Adams gets a

1123
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: sack or cool McCoy can't throw either. Yeah, he stinks. Yeah. Um,

1124
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: Eagles at Packers the over runners forty seven and a half.

1125
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: The Packers are easy. I mean it's three guys and

1126
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: you start them all. He's starting Jamal Williams or Lazard

1127
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: or I might I might Tanyan is not a bed

1128
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: streaming option because the Eagles, Uh, their linebackers stink. They're

1129
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: one of the worst past defenses against tight ends in

1130
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: the league. Green Bay is always gonna have the ball. Yeah.

1131
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 1: And if you have to figure that, Slay will travel

1132
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: with with Adams. Not that I mean they've done that.

1133
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: They've done that a lot. I mean he's in Detroit,

1134
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,439
Speaker 1: so he's not gonna surprise him. But Adams is still Adams. Yeah,

1135
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: DK ate him out. Yeah, Um, what about the Eagles.

1136
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders really frustrates me. Miles Sander. I I almost

1137
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: went with Miles Sanders this week because of the Packers

1138
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: run defense, and then I remembered, Hey, dummy, Yeah, you

1139
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: watched that game last week and you texted Matt and said,

1140
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: why aren't they running Miles Sanderson right or jumping to

1141
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: him when he's open. Boston Scott had as many touches

1142
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: in that game as Miles Sanders. I think Sanders has

1143
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of Kamara in him and that he's

1144
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: not a super high touch guy. But man, I mean

1145
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: that offense is struggling so bad. Why wouldn't you were

1146
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: in that game? Vocal point. You're down one score and

1147
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: you're not You're not using Miles Sanders at all. You're

1148
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: doesn't dumping the ball off the Boston Scott. You're having

1149
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: Boston Scott run draws. And that's just again coaching male practice.

1150
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: That's bad. Peters is not doing a good job, and

1151
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: everyone blames Wins, but it's deeper than that. They also

1152
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: are missing four offensive one. I guess you start Gardard, Yes,

1153
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 1: ear might return. I don't care. Yeah, um Gregor, yeah

1154
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: you can do a lot better. Yeah, yeah, I gotta

1155
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: see something first, right anything offense? Uh? Patriots at Chargers,

1156
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: he over under his forty seven and a half. I

1157
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: like Harris a lot in that one. Yeah, yeah, I

1158
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: think again will be close. I think I actually think

1159
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots win because they win. Well, Cam's questionable for

1160
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: this game. I expect him to play. I much stream

1161
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: both of these defenses. It's not bad because I think

1162
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: I think Belichick will scheme some things up to confuse

1163
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: Herbert a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, he kills the young quarters. Yeah. Uh.

1164
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: And I think the Chargers will The Patriots just don't.

1165
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: They're not an up and down the field kind of team.

1166
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: Any defense against the Charge, So this game's you know,

1167
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: seventeen or something like that. Yeah. The problem with playing

1168
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 1: against the Patriots is both probably won't have a lot

1169
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: of sacks. You know, like they're not gonna throw a lot.

1170
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: They don't put the ball in Harm's way as much

1171
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: as you'd like. But that's all right. Yeah, um, is

1172
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: James White usable? I guess I think it's pretty clear

1173
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: it's a two headed backfield now. I mean they've used

1174
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: them as a flex yeah, but yeah, I mean, if

1175
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna use they'll be out there every third down.

1176
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: If you're gonna use Harris, you can probably then use.

1177
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: They're kind of the same. Yeah, they're total opposites, but

1178
01:02:53,680 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: they're kind of the same. Hunter Henry Well is okay. Yeah,

1179
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: I think so. I don't know that piece of that

1180
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: that pie is big enough to feed all them though. Yeah,

1181
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: now especially now that can are back. But it's tough.

1182
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: I he almost needs to catch a long one for you,

1183
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: but he can. Yeah, Broncos in Chiefs the overrunners fifty one.

1184
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: I think the Broncos are sneaky starts there, you know,

1185
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 1: like locks, like this year's version of Blake Portles garbage

1186
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: kind guy, you know. I mean, he's got weapons, he's

1187
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 1: an aggressive thrower. They're losing Layton games, so I think

1188
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: he'll throw, he'll put up numbers, and the whole passing

1189
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: game will I don't think Lindsay's playing and Gordon has

1190
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: been anything but great. But if he's the only back there,

1191
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: then then he's gonna get touches. Yeah. The run defense

1192
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: is terrible. I mean early in the game, they'll they're

1193
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: gonna have to try to keep this chief defense. I

1194
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: think you start. Yeah, I would think they have Lock

1195
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: will throw a couple to the other team. It's a

1196
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: good point. Yeah, that's a good start. Um, I can't

1197
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 1: start the Denver d although I respect them. Yeah, I

1198
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: mean I think they'll give him homes some problems, but

1199
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 1: they'll figure it out. He'll figure out and you're starting

1200
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: the course. Well that's this is the game now, running

1201
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: back conversation we're having off the air. Clyde Edwards Hilaire

1202
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 1: has missed the last two days of practice with an illness.

1203
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to play, especially as a rookie.

1204
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: As a rookie established you've got Levi on Bell there.

1205
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 1: If you're them, you can say, well, you know what,

1206
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:24,919
Speaker 1: why don't we give Edwards Hilaire the week off. He's

1207
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: a rookie, He's carried a reasonably heavy workload for us

1208
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 1: this year. We got Bell here, let's see what we

1209
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: got in Lean Williams can play. Yeah, this could be

1210
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: a game where I think Levi on Bell is fifteen

1211
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: touches Bell I think is a good start. Yeah, he

1212
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: looks fine. He doesn't look like he'll catch the ball. Yeah,

1213
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's fine. Now, Yeah, I mean he'll

1214
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: he'll finish that game with I don't know, twelve carries

1215
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: for fifty yards and then three or four catches for

1216
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: another over on those numbers and get to get the

1217
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: touchdowns a goal line plunge. But he ends up with

1218
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 1: over a hundred combine yards. If Edwards Layer doesn't play,

1219
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: he still capable of doing. Yeah, so especially when you

1220
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: have to play the past against these guys. That's the thing.

1221
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you know when I start, I texted you this.

1222
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this in the next segment about the

1223
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: the offensive line ranking stuff run ranking. Um, Yeah, I

1224
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 1: think that's that's solid. Washington Pittsburgh. UM. Kind of expect

1225
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: a low scoring game in this, but not not like

1226
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 1: the over runners forty two. I think it's I think

1227
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:30,959
Speaker 1: it's teetering on the edge of being over that. Both

1228
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 1: these both defenses you start because you have to rush

1229
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, they both rushed the pass where the

1230
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: Steelers haven't given up a sack and a hundred nine

1231
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 1: pass attempts. I brought that up to bend today. Wasn't

1232
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:48,920
Speaker 1: happy about that. Oh this week though, probably Uh, but

1233
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: both of these past defenses are good. Um. We even't

1234
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 1: talked about it much, but they do a really good

1235
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: job against slot receivers. I mean, Juju is still very startable,

1236
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: but might not be his best day. I have such

1237
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: faith in Deonte. I think he comes back in a

1238
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,240
Speaker 1: huge way, and I think they got a little embarrassed

1239
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: the last time. And here's what you can hit the

1240
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: long ball and these guys too, here's one to uh

1241
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. The Washington has allowed six

1242
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: catches this year of fifty plus yards. Chase clay must start.

1243
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: Claypool is gonna get some shots. Yeah, they're gonna take

1244
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 1: your shots. I'm starting Claypool over Juju. Yes, yeah, I

1245
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: think he's their number one start this week. I think

1246
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: height ends of a car with these guys up to Yeah,

1247
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: they've had some they've had some success there too as well.

1248
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: So Ebrons also in the in the mix. The only

1249
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: football teamers I'm starting or Gibson and McLaurin. That's it. Yeah,

1250
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: that's it. That's every week. That's every week. Bills and

1251
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: forty nine over under his forty seven. Um, the Bills

1252
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: are pretty straightforward. You're gonna start. Yeah, but no, John

1253
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: Brown means they're a lesser they're a lesser offense than

1254
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 1: what they are. And that's a big he's on I R.

1255
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: He won't play against the Steelers and people are looking

1256
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: at that Steeler game. That's a huge deal. We'll talk

1257
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: about that more next week. Um, you're gonna start those

1258
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: you guys. I don't know that I start any of

1259
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 1: the guys in the backfield. I think it's Allen and Diggs. Yeah,

1260
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: I think Allan and Diggs maybe their defense, maybe they

1261
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: the defense, but I think they'll get run on. Yeah,

1262
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: I do as well. That game, by the way, I

1263
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: do as well. I think San fran wins as far

1264
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: as San Francisco. Um most Are, it's the guy most Are.

1265
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: It's the guys. You're gonna start him. You're gonna start

1266
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel. Yes, I think his average after the parity

1267
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: was like two yards last week. That's fine, he's right

1268
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: after the catch it's twelve yards per Yeah, but I

1269
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: think that's it. Yeah, I might be back. I would

1270
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: think about it, but I want to see it. Yeah.

1271
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:38,120
Speaker 1: I think it's most dire and and then finally Cowboys

1272
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 1: and Ravens over under all, there's no spread on this game.

1273
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: There's no over runner. Because we don't know what's happening

1274
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. We'll talk about we buys. Wildn't even

1275
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: bring it up. Yeah, I mean, tough road for the

1276
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 1: Dallas offense. Yeah, but I mean I don't think it's

1277
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 1: gonna be a great we don't know. I mean, the

1278
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: the Ravens are getting some of their guys back. I

1279
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna get everybody back in time

1280
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: for this game. I don't know, like clay As Campbell,

1281
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:03,439
Speaker 1: guys of that nature. Dobbins is intriguing. Yeah, and I'm

1282
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 1: not sure that you're gonna start Zeke. You're gonna, yeah,

1283
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: Marcus Brown has been in your doghouse all week and

1284
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:10,440
Speaker 1: I'm watch her. One plays enough to get him out.

1285
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: It is not, It is not, But that's gonna do

1286
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: it for the Fantasy Football Focus. He is Matt Williamson.

1287
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. We'll take a break. Come back right

1288
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: after this your tunes about Drive Home of the Black

1289
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 1: and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale with

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01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Mettu. I texted you a couple of

1291
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: weeks ago about this man. I forgot to bring it

1292
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 1: up on the show, and so I can't remember who

1293
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 1: it was. Put out a ranking of the top ten

1294
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: unblocking lines in the NFL a few weeks ago, and

1295
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,759
Speaker 1: they had like, I think Kansas City was ranked second

1296
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: in that list. Uh, And I was looking at the

1297
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 1: list and I'm like you know Cleveland was on there. Okay,

1298
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: I did that, um tennis, Yeah, some of those. But

1299
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: then there was like Arizona, yeah, Kansas City. Those aren't

1300
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:26,440
Speaker 1: good run blocking lines. They're just not seeing boxes. Yeah.

1301
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 1: Or running quarterback helps when you have Kyler or Lamar, Yeah,

1302
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,719
Speaker 1: that helps you run numbers a lot. Even Mahomes helps

1303
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,599
Speaker 1: that out with Kansas City a little bit. Oh yeah,

1304
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: well they never stack boxes, right. Yeah. So you know,

1305
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you know, the numbers here on Pro

1306
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 1: Football or Football ciders, and they had the Steelers with

1307
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: the number one pass blocking line in the league. I

1308
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: think that's legit. The ten sacks all year, it's number one,

1309
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:58,639
Speaker 1: doesn't get hit. Yeah. Um, that'd be a hard metric

1310
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:01,599
Speaker 1: to create that. It's just a thing. Yeah. I mean

1311
01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:03,960
Speaker 1: you start looking at the offensive lines. They have the

1312
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: Steelers twenty eight and adjusted line yards because of the

1313
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: of the running issues. But I don't know how many

1314
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 1: of those running it like they're they're twenty second and

1315
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: running back yards. Uh power success rate there twenty That's

1316
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: actually a cool metric. That's like short yardage stuff. Can

1317
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: you get the yard when you need it? Like, Okay,

1318
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: that's that adds up. I may I have no problem

1319
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: open field yards their tenth m. I guess that's getting

1320
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: your back into the open field. I think it's getting

1321
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: him in past x amount of yards at the line

1322
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 1: of scrimmage or something second level yards four stuffed, right,

1323
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 1: that's how many negative plays? Which thirteenth I mean you're

1324
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: above average, right, that's not I don't think that's the problem.

1325
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: And then number one in in adjusted you know it's

1326
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: adjusted sack, right, that's the you know you can have

1327
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: you know that whatever you may think about. Well, yeah,

1328
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 1: they they lead the league. They I think it's them

1329
01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: in the Colts are tied for the league lead and

1330
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 1: a few sacks, but they lead the league and as

1331
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:03,879
Speaker 1: just as sack rate, which is I'm not sure exactly

1332
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: how they figure that, but I used to know, and

1333
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:07,720
Speaker 1: it's it's a good metric, it's a good way of

1334
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: doing it. So over overall, I'm looking at that line,

1335
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm going, Okay, they're not. I mean some of those things,

1336
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: like some of the some of that stuff is running

1337
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: back related as well, without question, um, some of it

1338
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 1: is peripheral blocker related. Yeah, it's not just the offensive line.

1339
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,839
Speaker 1: Is this guy sealing the edge or is he allowing

1340
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 1: as we saw against the Baltimore the other day, is

1341
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: somebody coming in on touch and getting the backfield, getting

1342
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 1: in the back in the backfield. The line did its job,

1343
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: but somebody came off the edge. And yes, like I'm

1344
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 1: not saying it's all on the backs, but let's say

1345
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 1: hypothetically they go into next year with the same line,

1346
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: they use the thirty second pick in the draft on

1347
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: Travis eight, the end out of Clemston, take the best

1348
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: back in the draft and steer fans be like, but

1349
01:11:54,200 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: they can't run the boy anyways, they can't block it him. Like, yeah,

1350
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook behind this line, to put the Chubb behind

1351
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: this line, I think it's pretty good. Absolutely, look a

1352
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: lot better than it does right now. Yes, And I

1353
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: really thought that the running backs didn't get enough heat

1354
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 1: for last year's problems pass blocking make the yards on

1355
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 1: their own, and a lot of the last year was

1356
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: there's no fear of the passing game. But how do

1357
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: you think people play against Henry and Chubb and Cook

1358
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 1: and you know right, I mean, how say Kwan's whole

1359
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 1: career is gone and they still put up numbers. They

1360
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: still put up the numbers because they're great backs. They

1361
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: can make that guy miss, yes, and then if you

1362
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: give him a crease, I mean the eight man boxes

1363
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 1: mean I get behind you guys quicker, and there's don't

1364
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:40,640
Speaker 1: want to catch me down like Steelers don't have that

1365
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 1: when it is blocked up correctly, that that ten that

1366
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: ten yard game that the Steelers backs are getting turns

1367
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: into a fifty yard exactly exactly. So Bell got a

1368
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 1: lot of attention to right. He still got his yards yards.

1369
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: It's not all on the backs, but I do think

1370
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 1: the back room it's all part of it. It's certainly,

1371
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,679
Speaker 1: it's all part of the equation. Equation. Yeah, uh, time

1372
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: for us to make our picks in this game. UM,

1373
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:08,000
Speaker 1: I got the Steelers winning this. UM. I think it's

1374
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 1: gonna be a reasonably close game because of both defenses.

1375
01:13:11,400 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: But the Steelers are the more talented team. I'm similar,

1376
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:21,280
Speaker 1: I had so seven point difference. UM. I think that

1377
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: these d lines will be a handful. The rest that

1378
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: the Washington has I think is in their favor, but

1379
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: they're not as good. I don't I don't expect. The

1380
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: Steelers got embarrassed the other night. Even though they won

1381
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: the game, they were still embarrassed. After that game, and

1382
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: you've you've heard the the anger and frustration in their

1383
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: voices and when Yeah, nobody was happy with that perform

1384
01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:47,240
Speaker 1: They will not put up a performance like that. Again,

1385
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean this is going to be an easy win. Um,

1386
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 1: you know, this Washington team has played some teams tough.

1387
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: I'm looking here, Uh you know they lost to the

1388
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:59,680
Speaker 1: Ravens when the Ravens were actually playing well seventeen that

1389
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: was with ask Is They're gonna hang with anybody. The

1390
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,640
Speaker 1: Rams beat him thirty to ten. Again, I don't I

1391
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 1: don't know that I expect a game like that, but

1392
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 1: they've also this is a team that's that's that's you know,

1393
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: lost to the Lions. This is a team that that's

1394
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: that's lost the Giants, lost the Giants twice. Their wins

1395
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:21,839
Speaker 1: aren't real impressive obviously on paper. And back to the Steelers,

1396
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 1: I mean just the nature in history of this organization,

1397
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: their head coach, the stability, their quarterback. I do not

1398
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 1: expect a sloppy game. I think more of a statement

1399
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 1: game because everyone's starting to understand the press clippings. This

1400
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: is a most overrated team in the league. And yeah,

1401
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 1: there's a human nature factor to it, and they're gonna

1402
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 1: embarrass the next team maybe Yeah, Um, I don't know that.

1403
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:45,200
Speaker 1: You know, if if a seven point win would be

1404
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: would be embarrassing. I think it spreads like nine and

1405
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: a half, which I think is too much. But I

1406
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: think there's a chance of a blowout there. Typically though,

1407
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: when you look at these games a f C versus NFC,

1408
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 1: I mean these are two teams don't see each other

1409
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: a lot, and that places that always plays a factor

1410
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: into it as well. Think that helps Washington just because

1411
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: the long week. Yeah, and they're yeah, they so the

1412
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 1: Steelers the coordinators talk today and they talked about how

1413
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,719
Speaker 1: I think even Ben Roethlisberger said, you know, they haven't

1414
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 1: had a lot of prep time for this game, so

1415
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: you just basically do what you do best. You're not

1416
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 1: coming out with any Washington specific stuff, whereas Washington will

1417
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: come out with some Steelers specific stuff because they've had

1418
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: more time to prepare. This more like a Thursday night

1419
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:27,719
Speaker 1: or where each coordinator kind of except one team. One

1420
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: team is working on a Thursday. Yeah, the other team

1421
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: had to buy and this team is working on you know,

1422
01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:33,679
Speaker 1: coming off a Thursday night. So I would worry about

1423
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: that that's a bit of a concert And that's why

1424
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:36,800
Speaker 1: I had this game a little closer than what I

1425
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:40,560
Speaker 1: would have. Not that it'll look like they blow a

1426
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: coverage or something, but I bet they scheme something up

1427
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: against the predictable coverage. And that's what coordinators do. And

1428
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: that's the other side of the other part of this

1429
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: is Ron Rivera sees his Steelers every at least did

1430
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 1: when he was in Carolina, saw them quite regularly. He's

1431
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 1: been around the block. Yeah, and he knows what he's doing.

1432
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: That's a good coaching staff. It's a good coaching staff.

1433
01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 1: And Rivera and I have no idea if they're friends,

1434
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: are not, but they both have been coached this league

1435
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: a long time and it's a pretty elite fraternity. I'm

1436
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 1: sure they know each other pretty well. Yeah, this is

1437
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: not Anthony Lynn coming in here. No, no, no, no,

1438
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 1: or what's his face in Cincinnati that has is new

1439
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: to the game. The stat about him which not shocked,

1440
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: but he's won twenty percent of his games as a

1441
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: head coach. Like, do you think Bengals make a change too,

1442
01:16:21,920 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 1: There would be a lot of change. It's only been there.

1443
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: This is his second year. He can't I don't think

1444
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: you pull a plug on him. I don't think the

1445
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: Brown Brown the Bengals family, right, the Bengals aren't going

1446
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:32,799
Speaker 1: to do that. But I think he's won like nineteen

1447
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 1: percent of his game. Yeah, it's really bad. It's really bad,

1448
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:38,320
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna better. But now I don't think

1449
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: they make a change. Now they've got their quarterback. I

1450
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: think he gets next year and then then then they

1451
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: talk about it like like I've never thought of him

1452
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:46,599
Speaker 1: in that light. I just assumed that he'll be back.

1453
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's Matt Patricia, like it's Adam Gatee,

1454
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: like you know, like, man, you're making up worse. Yeah.

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01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:56,439
Speaker 1: So anyways, we're gonna take another break. When we come back,

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01:16:56,479 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Dave damn Check. It's always good

1457
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: to hear from the act. I'm sure he was well

1458
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:06,720
Speaker 1: not real happy either with that game on Wednesday night.

1459
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see what happens with that, but certainly

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01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: we'll get to a Dave Damna Check from the NFL

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01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 1: network right after this your tunes about drive on your

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01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio, Welcome back.

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01:17:54,040 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally here with Matt Williamson and Matty The

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01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: Steelers can clinch a playoff spot this weekend, the win

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01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:05,120
Speaker 1: in a Brown's loss, that would clinch the division. If

1466
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 1: they do that, there's there's some other things there that

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01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: they can clinch with a win and some other teams

1468
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: losing or tying. So, uh, yeah, it's crazy. It's clinch

1469
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 1: this early, pretty darn early. Yeah that that takes a

1470
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: little bit of the pressure off. Yeah, right right, absolutely so.

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01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: Been a heck of a year, there's no doubt about it. Yeah.

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 1: One guy who's quite happy about that, I'm sure is

1473
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:29,560
Speaker 1: Dave Damnishek of the NFL Network at NFL dot com.

1474
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: He joins the DV Morning Show every week to talk

1475
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 1: to Steelers in the overall NFL, and we like to

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01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: play that back on Friday's Here's what Dave had to

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01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 1: say earlier today on the DV Morning Show, The DV

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01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,760
Speaker 1: Morning Show, your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers one

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01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,200
Speaker 1: or two point five d V and joining us Now,

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: that was heart lie here on the banks of the

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01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:55,559
Speaker 1: Three Rivers. He is situated in Southern California, host co

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01:18:55,720 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: host of the Extra Points podcast Minus three podcast. Dave

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01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 1: Damna Check ladies and gentlemen, Dave d how are you, sir? Well,

1484
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 1: My heart's heavy, fellas as you know, I know everybody

1485
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: who's a Steelers fans feeling a little glum despite the

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01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: victory over the Bald Birdies, a season sweep just one

1487
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: year ago. Who would have guessed that if you would

1488
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:22,640
Speaker 1: have watched the season finale um in Baltimore at the

1489
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 1: off the right arm of the same r G three

1490
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 1: we watched on Wednesday afternoon? Um, who would have guessed

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01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:30,559
Speaker 1: that the Steelers would sweep that series. Maybe that's what

1492
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: we're supposed to take out of it, is that look

1493
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: how quick things can turn. And sadly they turned too

1494
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: quickly for for Bud Dupree there towards the end of

1495
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: the game. What a bummer. Well, it's it was the

1496
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: number one concern of this game was getting out healthy.

1497
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: Now that's all I cared about, right, whether it meant

1498
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: staying away from the coronavirus or season ending injury. And

1499
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 1: it's just we were talking off the butterfly effect of

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01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: this game being bounced around. If this game has played

1501
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving night, Dave, are we frustrated today with a

1502
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: win instead? You know, instead of rejoicing that this team

1503
01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 1: is eleven and oh we feel like we got kicked

1504
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 1: in the gut. Yeah, it's well, yeah, the butterfly effect is.

1505
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: And of course everybody would push back quickly, and it

1506
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:25,879
Speaker 1: would be a hard argument to make that bud Dupree

1507
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:27,920
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt if they just play that game on

1508
01:20:27,960 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: Thursday night, because injuries happen in every football game. But

1509
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:36,799
Speaker 1: of course the sequence, the exact sequence of events, um,

1510
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: doesn't go down the way it went down on Wednesday afternoon.

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01:20:40,479 --> 01:20:42,680
Speaker 1: If the game has played six days prior, maybe it's

1512
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 1: a different Steeler who is lost for the season. Um.

1513
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 1: But there's no way you could talk me out of

1514
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:52,120
Speaker 1: the notion that the exact same sequence of events couldn't

1515
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: have gone down on Thursday night as they did on Wednesday. Ergo,

1516
01:20:57,320 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: you can kind of point the finger that at all

1517
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:03,559
Speaker 1: these um these time changes, day changes of the game

1518
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 1: cost bud Dupree his season and therefore a lot of money.

1519
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: I listen, I'm just sick about it, fellas. I feel

1520
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:13,559
Speaker 1: bad for him, you know, with the franchise tag and

1521
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: now the unknown of the off season. Uh yeah, just

1522
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 1: it's but like I say, um, I also feel that

1523
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: but John Harbaugh really just about like, as we you know,

1524
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,400
Speaker 1: put this to bed and move forward, uh into the

1525
01:21:31,439 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: next week. I feel like, for real, this was all

1526
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 1: about John Harbaugh not wanting to play a game that

1527
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: his team basically had to have. He knew they needed

1528
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 1: to win this game, and it was like, well, we're

1529
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: not gonna have Lamar Jackson. We gotta push, we gotta

1530
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: do whatever we can to kick this thing down the road.

1531
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:50,040
Speaker 1: And you're never gonna be able to talk me off

1532
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 1: of that one either. Oh no, it's for me. The

1533
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: Bud Dupree injury is just another reason to hate Harbaugh,

1534
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: hate the Ravens. And to your point, Dave, my heart

1535
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: is heavy for Bud dupre and for him personally obviously,

1536
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: but for that unit. I I like seeing teams reach

1537
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 1: their potential, and I thought that this defense was so

1538
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: special that I wanted to watch them all get to

1539
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 1: climb this mountain together and try to get to the

1540
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: top as a unit because they were just terrorizing offenses

1541
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 1: and and Bud was having a monster year. He's such

1542
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 1: a key part of what they do, that rush up

1543
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: the middle that just you know, has offenses on their

1544
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: heels all day. It's you know our mutual pal like

1545
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:43,679
Speaker 1: Taylor um talked about. I had him on the Minus

1546
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 1: three a few weeks ago and we were talking about

1547
01:22:46,640 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 1: that what what Mike Tomlin, he referred to it as

1548
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 1: brainwashing in the kindest of sense. He said that he

1549
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:56,600
Speaker 1: he brainwashed t J. Watt and Bud Dupree, who naturally

1550
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 1: both wanted to get a lot of sacks because they

1551
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,800
Speaker 1: get paid and always here that that rhetoric out of

1552
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: the locker room about like it's team, we're playing for

1553
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: each other and it's not about individuals. And there are

1554
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:09,960
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that were on that last Steeler

1555
01:23:10,040 --> 01:23:12,599
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion team, Mike Taylor being one of them,

1556
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 1: who said there's talent in that locker room. This was

1557
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: to three years ago. There's a lot of talent in

1558
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:20,080
Speaker 1: that locker room, but I don't necessarily know that they're

1559
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:22,840
Speaker 1: playing for each other, that it that it's not about

1560
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:27,679
Speaker 1: individual stuff to some degree, And you really felt last

1561
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:31,600
Speaker 1: year that the seven sitting down was galvanizing and that

1562
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,960
Speaker 1: defense really did rally together, and the whole team rallied together,

1563
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 1: and seven bought in as he returned, and and Tomlin

1564
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:42,920
Speaker 1: really did to some degree brainwashed Watt and Dupre into

1565
01:23:42,960 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: playing the run in early downs. It wasn't always about

1566
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: just teeing off and getting to the QB that they

1567
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 1: really were that the difference in this defense was that

1568
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: those two guys were contributing significantly to shutting down the run,

1569
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: whether it was the Ravens or anybody else. And now

1570
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: you take the Pre out of there, it's just but listen,

1571
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:05,640
Speaker 1: I know it's hard to find the silver lining, but

1572
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 1: fellas we got to. We have no choice but to

1573
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: do it. We still have the first ballot Hall of

1574
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:17,600
Speaker 1: Famer number seven there at QB. And you know, I

1575
01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 1: think he likes the chip on his shoulder. Pittsburgh has

1576
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:26,640
Speaker 1: placed a chip on its shoulder. Collectively, everybody does, what

1577
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:30,719
Speaker 1: is this? What is this jive? What is this pap about?

1578
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:34,680
Speaker 1: Calling an undefeated team overrated? This is the word I

1579
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: keep hearing from the national media that that the Steelers are.

1580
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:41,160
Speaker 1: The literal word I keep hearing applied to them is

1581
01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: over How can you overrate undefeated? They have zero in

1582
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 1: the lost column. There's no overrating. That that's it. And

1583
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: yet let that noise continue, let it mount that the

1584
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: Chiefs are an impossible mountain to climb. Crawford. You talk

1585
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:57,800
Speaker 1: about the mountain that you want to be on. Let

1586
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:00,799
Speaker 1: the let Patrick Mahomes a company sit it up high

1587
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: there and the Steelers can't possibly reach them. That's just

1588
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,680
Speaker 1: the position we want to be. And we don't want

1589
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: to be supposed to be him. We want to be

1590
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:13,719
Speaker 1: the plucky gang coming in there. Chris Collins. We're talking

1591
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: about like I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you,

1592
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 1: Mike and Al. I don't know. The ladies in Pittsburgh

1593
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: even they don't believe I gotta tell you that I

1594
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: was talking to them, and they don't. They just don't like, Uh,

1595
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: what are Nickel package looks like against Patrick Mahomes and

1596
01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill? And they don't know who's gonna step up,

1597
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: which covered safety is gonna be able to handle Travis Kell.

1598
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: You know what, That's exactly the spot we want. What

1599
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:44,680
Speaker 1: do we keep talking about fellas journey in especially, not destiny,

1600
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: not destination. Let's get them, Let's go get Washington Whatever's

1601
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:51,600
Speaker 1: And I've talked about, by the way, the passage of

1602
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 1: time that we're still in the week third team, we're

1603
01:25:53,560 --> 01:25:57,280
Speaker 1: taught calling the pro football team the Washington's or whatever. Yeah,

1604
01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 1: I mean you know, Dave again, we play a Thursday

1605
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: night football game on a Wednesday with the Sunday Night

1606
01:26:03,479 --> 01:26:07,520
Speaker 1: Football Crew, and now we are doing a postgame analysis

1607
01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 1: on a Friday before our next game Monday at five

1608
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:14,639
Speaker 1: pm against a team with no nickname. What in hell?

1609
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,280
Speaker 1: What in hell? How did we get here? This isn't

1610
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 1: the way three men make a living. This isn't the

1611
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:23,639
Speaker 1: way that it's supposed to be. We're not men. I'll

1612
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,759
Speaker 1: tell you what they should call him is the Washington Women,

1613
01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:32,560
Speaker 1: because women love football, Washington ladies. I was here. I

1614
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 1: gotta tell you he's just the ancients capital Totius bar there.

1615
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:40,720
Speaker 1: He's just gonna overcompensate now and just be like, I'll

1616
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: tell you what nole bigger fan of football there, women.

1617
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 1: I know that that's the one that gets the heat

1618
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:50,600
Speaker 1: that colins Worth is had they shoe an apology, I

1619
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:53,599
Speaker 1: guess yesterday think about it. But to me, the one

1620
01:26:53,640 --> 01:26:55,439
Speaker 1: that I like even better from him, I mean that

1621
01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 1: that the first one, like even later he's like football

1622
01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's like he's an old man, he's from

1623
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: he's from another generation. And to his credit, he you know,

1624
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:07,639
Speaker 1: he admitted like, oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize that sounded.

1625
01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 1: You know, I did not intend for it to sound

1626
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:13,519
Speaker 1: the way it did. And you know, I mean, isn't

1627
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:15,559
Speaker 1: the goal for people if you want them to come

1628
01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:17,680
Speaker 1: onto your side, then to go, okay, good, you got it,

1629
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:22,120
Speaker 1: you're on our side, not to continually flagellate them. Yeah,

1630
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: well it's it's you know, Boomer Berman has fallen under

1631
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:28,760
Speaker 1: the same thing, which is like he denounced right right

1632
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:32,599
Speaker 1: in front of his eyes. He he went from semi hit. Well,

1633
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:34,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if you would ever call Chris Burman hit,

1634
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: but he went from like he was the voice of

1635
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: football America to being out a step when he started

1636
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: making fun of fantasy football. And it's like, hey, hey, Boomer,

1637
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,639
Speaker 1: you're the only human being who doesn't know anything about

1638
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,120
Speaker 1: fantasy football at this point. It's the same thing Chris

1639
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: Collins where like, yeah, I don't know if you heard Chris,

1640
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:56,519
Speaker 1: women like football now. All right, So here's where we

1641
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: are undefeated, and somehow it felt like a loss because

1642
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:02,560
Speaker 1: we lost Bud Dupree and we watched our team embarrassed

1643
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 1: themselves in front of a bunch of people who are

1644
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:07,200
Speaker 1: used to watching soap operas at that time of day Button.

1645
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: The Washington football team has gotten better and better every week, Dave,

1646
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 1: and they are now poised to win the NFC East.

1647
01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:17,759
Speaker 1: Not a not a huge accomplishment, uh this this season

1648
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 1: in particular, but still not a game to be taken

1649
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 1: likely lightly, particularly after the upheaval of the schedule, the

1650
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 1: getting them out of their routine. Uh that we saw

1651
01:28:30,160 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 1: the results of that we saw on Wednesday afternoon. Not

1652
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,599
Speaker 1: so great for the Steelers. So I think we need

1653
01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:38,639
Speaker 1: to really focus here. And Donante Johnson can't drop every

1654
01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 1: other ball thrown to him. Very true. And I also

1655
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: like how poised is one of those words that used

1656
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: a lot in sports, more than it is in any

1657
01:28:46,400 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: other walk alife. A lot of people in sports poised

1658
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: to do stuff. Not as mighty, not not not as

1659
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 1: much you you mean, you're like when when we finish

1660
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:58,559
Speaker 1: up the show today, when Bowman finishes up, Bowman's poised

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Speaker 1: to take a nap. Yeah, Like, we don't hear that

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Speaker 1: talk as much outside of the world of sports, but listen,

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Speaker 1: I do remember the late great Myron Cope who once

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Speaker 1: said the terrible twel is poised to strike, and so

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01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 1: are the Steelers. We have a Hall of Famer. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of what I talk a lot about

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and we've achieved full QB saturation, which

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Speaker 1: is to say, barring injury. Obviously, if you're starting QB

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Speaker 1: is hurt and you have to throw the backup in there,

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Speaker 1: then that throws it out. But the state of QBAN

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Speaker 1: and pro football is pretty good right now. I mean

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that long ago where like case Keenum was

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01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:44,400
Speaker 1: a viable starter was as good as you could do. Now,

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Speaker 1: like who's the worst starter in the league, There aren't

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Speaker 1: very many awful situations going in pro football. However, the

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Speaker 1: middle class is beefy. There is only a few select

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Speaker 1: fellas that still inhabit the upper class of prof with ball.

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Speaker 1: Guys who aren't just game managers, not just not just

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Speaker 1: the point guard distributing the ball. Shore number seven has

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Speaker 1: done that effectively this year. We heard a lot of that.

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Speaker 1: For Chris, look, get rid of the ball. He really

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Speaker 1: get the rid of the ball. As people of Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: you really appreciate when you're talking about a beefy middle class,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about the city of Pittsburgh. He loved talking

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Speaker 1: about the ladies. Shout out to you beefy ladies. I

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01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:30,120
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know this, but the women

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01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 1: have joined the workforce now and they flow the way.

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Speaker 1: Where the hell is where does collins Worth? Where does it? Where?

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Speaker 1: Where does he uh put his head down at night? Cincinnati?

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Speaker 1: Whether or whether who's he to talk about any anyway? Listen,

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Speaker 1: I have neither the time nor the interest to indulge

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01:30:48,479 --> 01:30:51,920
Speaker 1: Chris collins worst nonsense anymore. I have just one thing

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01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:56,839
Speaker 1: to say. There's a small, small group of human beings

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Speaker 1: walking the planet Earth right now, capable of not just

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01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:05,960
Speaker 1: overseeing victory, but guiding dragging its team to victory. We

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01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 1: just so happened on the banks of the Three Rivers

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Speaker 1: to have yet another hall of fame right arm in

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Speaker 1: the line of Unitus and Nameth and Kelly and Marino

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Speaker 1: and mont Tanna and up on that list also now

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Speaker 1: stands one time, Ohio and pittsburgher forever number seven, Big

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisburger. It's number seven times you've been delivered by

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Speaker 1: this devents to eleven and oh where we go from

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01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 1: here is up to you, number seven. You have my

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01:31:42,120 --> 01:31:46,920
Speaker 1: full confidence, blue collar Pittsburgh, and I love you seven.

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01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 1: Take us to the top. Of that mountain, not fifteen

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Speaker 1: and the rest of those Red Jersey fellas off of it.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Stealers, it's December. Let's round out in style,

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Speaker 1: Go get Washington whatever. Dave Damna that was NFL Network

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Speaker 1: and NFL dot COM's Dave damashek of course Pittsburgh naded.

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Speaker 1: We play him back every Friday to finish the show,

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Speaker 1: and he's a great finish to the week as usual,

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Speaker 1: always fired up and bringing some energy. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: he's very Dave one stat like, Yeah, that's a good

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Speaker 1: that's a good one. Yeah, that sound about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just there. You can hear it, and

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Speaker 1: he doesn't hide it. Soah TV right Yeah, Um, Steelers

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Speaker 1: play the the Washington football team. That's a five o'clock

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Speaker 1: start on Monday. That means no show for us. But

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Speaker 1: to enjoy the show, enjoy the games this weekend. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll have all kinds of stuff and we'll also have

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Speaker 1: the Ravens playing that night. We'll see how many guys

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Speaker 1: they got back off the COVID list. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: all that when we return next Tuesday. Just a few

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Speaker 1: games left, we're down, coming down to stretch now, man,

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Speaker 1: we're in December and it's time for us to unleash

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Speaker 1: hell in December. Yeah. They've unleashed hell up till now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: why not. H So for my partner Matt Williamson for

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Speaker 1: Jacob rect here on site keeping us on the air,

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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lally. We thank you for listening to

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Speaker 1: this edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.