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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 to the Drive on

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Speaker 1: Dale Lawley here with Matt Williamson Thursday. Steve, of course,

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Speaker 1: don't play until Monday, so we've got lots of stuff

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Speaker 1: to dig into here at now. And then one thing

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Speaker 1: I did want as we watched the guys here on

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Speaker 1: the NFL network digging into some Saint Elmo's I think

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Speaker 1: we need. I mean, they're in Indie preview in the

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Speaker 1: game on NFL net Work right now, and they get

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Speaker 1: to say almost cocktail sauce out and shrimp cocktail out

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Speaker 1: and makes me unhappy that we haven't been to Combine lately.

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Speaker 1: They're eating the shrimp cocktail on the air and getting

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Speaker 1: the shrimp cocktail horse reddish after effect after effects. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the first bite of this stuff is shocking,

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Speaker 1: to say the least when everyone warns you, but that

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Speaker 1: first bite is shocking. It is our boy Jacob heres

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Speaker 1: went to Indiana, and I guess they used to travel

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Speaker 1: down there just for the shrimp from time to time too,

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Speaker 1: and probably a party or Joe Thomas is just getting

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's he can't stop. It's Andrews Siciliano and

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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas Andrew Siciliana dipped a little bit, say he

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Speaker 1: was kind of Thomas is getting like a full table

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Speaker 1: spoon on his and he's a former offensive lineman. Why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't he Although his facial features have we all have

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Speaker 1: the sound on his facial features have changed a little

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Speaker 1: in the last minute anyway. So Bill Barnwell on ESPN

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Speaker 1: dot com wrote a story which which team will win

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Speaker 1: the a f C North in flaws, surprises, and strengths

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Speaker 1: for the Browns, Ravens, Steelers, and Bengals, breaking down kind

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Speaker 1: of each one of these teams thus far, using a

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Speaker 1: lot of d v L A and things of that.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, first he has the Ravens are the favor

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Speaker 1: and now obviously they're leading the division at five and two.

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Speaker 1: Uh their chances of winning the a f C North

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Speaker 1: are forty seven point four percent um. But if you

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Speaker 1: look at what they've done here this year, um, from

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Speaker 1: through the Ravens had a top twenty D or top

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Speaker 1: ten defense twenty times in twenty two seasons. They're nowhere.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic. Their twentieth in defensive d v O A.

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Speaker 1: Right now, they're not a good defense. Yeah, and is

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Speaker 1: there offfense good enough to overcome that. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: a good offense and he's playing really well. Uh, they're

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Speaker 1: passing games improved. Um, I think the bye will do

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Speaker 1: them well. I mean, I'm hoping that for their sake

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Speaker 1: that you know, the by is is uh revolving around. Okay,

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Speaker 1: where's this offensive line? What's the life without Stanley going

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Speaker 1: to be? Like that? We have a back we can

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Speaker 1: trust or that we can at least elevate to kind

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Speaker 1: of be the guy at least and it's comfortable here. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I think we're on the same page. This is

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Speaker 1: a flawed team, you know, if you're the best team

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Speaker 1: in division, which they might be at this minute. Wow,

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Speaker 1: look at Joe Thomas. He's there anyway, I gotta stop

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Speaker 1: looking at this. In ordering cocktail sauce online and actually

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Speaker 1: on Amazon dot Com, say almost call there, you go

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Speaker 1: right here, I have to make an order and introduce

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Speaker 1: the wife to Yeah, but the Ravens have some issues.

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Speaker 1: There are other big issue to me. Here's what he said.

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Speaker 1: The biggest problem with the Ravens is also something unfamiliar.

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Speaker 1: They can't tackle. That's really bad. Yeah, at the Queens

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Speaker 1: the leader of the clubhouse with this problem. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know everybody's looking at the Steelers a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago in that Seattle games. Well, the Steelers can't tackle.

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Speaker 1: It was a one game situation. It's funny that after

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Speaker 1: that game, we came in here and you know, I

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Speaker 1: the defense, like, boy, tackling was a real problem, and

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Speaker 1: you corrected me, and you were right. You're like, it

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Speaker 1: was really only that quarter and the third quarter was

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and they tackled poorly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not excusing it, but it hasn't been It's not

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Speaker 1: like it's an issue four quarters every week type of thing.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens are missing, on average eight point three tackles

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Speaker 1: per game. Uh. They're allowing um opposing running backs two

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Speaker 1: Their defensive line is good and deep, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure who the killers are there anymore. They don't have it.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a stud. They don't have a stud.

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Speaker 1: And even their nose tackle types aren't quite as nose

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Speaker 1: That doesn't work quite as well. And I keep mentioning

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Speaker 1: keep bringing up Roquan all week too, Like these linebackers

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Speaker 1: Early in his career. He overruns things, he doesn't take

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Speaker 1: your your lead linebacker really sets the tone for the

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Speaker 1: That's one point five yards more than at any point

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Speaker 1: big number. And my immediate thought was, well, if you

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Speaker 1: play a lot of man coverage, you're you're more aptive.

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Speaker 1: You know, miss a tackle or you get beat on

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Speaker 1: the route. But if that's they've always played man cover,

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Speaker 1: you know. Marlon Humphreys to me is a really Um

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Speaker 1: the but he's also he also gambles while trying to

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Speaker 1: get forced fumbles. Yeah, he does. And if you've seen

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Speaker 1: their highlights or low lights a couple of times this year,

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Speaker 1: he's not a great tackler. He's jumping on and trying

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Speaker 1: to and usually they have guys swarming to the ball

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Speaker 1: he'll go into the slot where things are even a

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Speaker 1: little more physical or you know, sometimes you'll see him

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Speaker 1: super physical. I mean he doesn't play soft, but lots

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Speaker 1: without Peters there. How about this stat against teams using

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Speaker 1: play action? Okay, the Ravens are thirty feet in the league,

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Speaker 1: only the Chiefs are worse. Again, that screams queen to me,

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Speaker 1: and also Malie Harrison to another. Young opponents are forty

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Speaker 1: like you're just thinking and dumping it off. You know,

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Speaker 1: a little alarming. I mean, every offense in the league

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Speaker 1: think it hurts them dramatically, like they can't do they

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Speaker 1: can't operate offensively the way they want to operate they

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Speaker 1: You know, we want you to hand it off. We're

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Speaker 1: on Lamar and go ahead. Lamar handed off to Davante

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Speaker 1: we're gonna pinch you on Lamar, but this guy's gonna

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Speaker 1: because you and I really like Dobbins, especially coming out

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they'd clearly be the best team

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Speaker 1: his shoulder square of the line of scrimmage. He's a banger.

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Speaker 1: But there's also a little bit of all that ball

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Speaker 1: knowing one another two and you're just gonna keep shuffling.

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Speaker 1: And these veterans have never done that stuff. Best of luck,

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Speaker 1: offensive line is not No, it really isn't an injuries

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Speaker 1: have been a culprit, But so what everybody, everybody has

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Speaker 1: division games. So if you're the Cincinnati Bengals and you're

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Speaker 1: building that roster, you're building it to beat the Steelers

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Speaker 1: okay that they're a different animal, but you're building it

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Speaker 1: to beat those two teams. They're kind of set up

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Speaker 1: their strengths right now. The Bengals, Yeah, match up very

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Speaker 1: well with Baltimore's weaknesses. I agree. I mean Burrows, you know,

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Speaker 1: are they going to suddenly figure out that past defense

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati's going to throw the football consistently and well against them,

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Speaker 1: and Burrows a quick processor that handles their blitzes and

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Speaker 1: I think he's well equipped to do that. Just in

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Speaker 1: terms of team building. Say what you want about their lines,

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Speaker 1: especially the offense, but their physical you know, they realize

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Speaker 1: playing in this division, physicality is more important than if

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Speaker 1: you play in the South or the West or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and the Bengals will bang you. The reason I said

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Speaker 1: I'd take Baltimore over since he is I trust hard

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Speaker 1: On more than Taylor just do. Yeah. And from the

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Speaker 1: When that's that's kind of the first point here by Barnwell. Um.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the Bengals won the turnover game

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Speaker 1: and beat pretty bad and got beat. Uh. Both teams

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Speaker 1: of two tight end sets and yeah, so that's good

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Speaker 1: because of But I think that they want to do

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Speaker 1: attack Cleveland's defensive tackles. I think I think they went

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Speaker 1: after Malik McDowell because I don't think he's necessarily a

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Speaker 1: great player, and he's kind of a long linear he's

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Speaker 1: an up the field kind guy. Um, And so I

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Speaker 1: thought we saw more kind of back door kind of runs.

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Speaker 1: You know, they would show, you know, the two tight

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Speaker 1: ends are on the right side, Okay, we're gonna run

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Speaker 1: to the left, or vice versa, you're gonna run away

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Speaker 1: from the strong side. You know, more week side runs

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Speaker 1: out of them last week, I mean, seen a ton

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Speaker 1: of that previously to that. No, And we had labs

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Speaker 1: on yesterday and one of the first things you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: kind of unprovoked, was he feels like the quarterback and

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Speaker 1: coordinator is starting to understand each a little bit better,

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Speaker 1: mesh a little better, get back on the same page,

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Speaker 1: understand with each other's strengths and those roles. I think

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Speaker 1: we're seeing that, you know, I mean, I think that's

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Speaker 1: starting to they're building something. And we knew it wasn't

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Speaker 1: gonna happen overnight. And there's a lot of rookies and

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Speaker 1: you know, young guys on the field. Yeah, he'sa he

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Speaker 1: said QBR. And I don't have any understanding of QBR.

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Speaker 1: I'm not super a big fan of it to be

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Speaker 1: I know what passer rating is. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: QBR is. I think QBR was invented because passer rating

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Speaker 1: isn't very telling. I understand passer ratings limitations. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think it fixed the problem. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what QBR is because there's a QBR. S's a

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Speaker 1: diminished player in Roethlisberger. His QBR last season ranked twenty

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Speaker 1: two in the league at fifty two point five. They're

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Speaker 1: saying this years QBR is down to forty one point four,

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Speaker 1: with which ranks because he's taking more sacks than he

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Speaker 1: did a year ago and he's fumbled five times. Is

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Speaker 1: that his fault necessarily? Yeah, I don't know. No, I

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Speaker 1: mean the sacks stuff on there. I kind of cut

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Speaker 1: and pasted the maybe use later because the way that

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Speaker 1: Bill spelled out the past rushed differential from last year,

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Speaker 1: I thought was the most noteworthy thing in the whole

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Speaker 1: Steeler section. To be very honest with you, and Steeler's

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Speaker 1: offensive line is not great in pet protection, but I

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Speaker 1: think that goes without saying. I think it's getting better,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think the line they're improving is run blocker.

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Speaker 1: I think some of that was skewed by the early games.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the last like the last month,

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Speaker 1: I think they've given up like seven sacks over the

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Speaker 1: last four games or something like that. It's perfectly acceptable.

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Speaker 1: You can live with that, you know, you can live

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Speaker 1: with that. It can't be it can't be four in

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Speaker 1: a game, which is what feels. That feels in his

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Speaker 1: last three games has been sacked four times. He time

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Speaker 1: his body's taken a beating, Like I on think Ben's

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Speaker 1: taking a beating. No, I think he feels pretty good,

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Speaker 1: as you know, So I don't know, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the turnovers are obviously the big thing the Steelers

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Speaker 1: right now that they're not they're not getting creating um.

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Speaker 1: Last year they had two or more turnovers in thirteen

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Speaker 1: of their sixteen games. That was the other thing. This

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Speaker 1: year they've had none. You know that that's coming, that's

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Speaker 1: coming maybe as soon as this week. And it probably

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Speaker 1: was a little unattainable last year too. It was at

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Speaker 1: a high level that's not going to keep up. It's

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Speaker 1: ali league works. But you're right, I mean, I I

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Speaker 1: would definitely bet that if we call this the halfway points,

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Speaker 1: I bet they get more turnovers per game in the

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Speaker 1: second going forward then going behind us. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'll bet everybody you know, if we're sitting here two

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Speaker 1: weeks from now after the Detroit game and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about how the Steelers are are still averaging less than

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Speaker 1: a turnover per game, I would be surprised because these

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Speaker 1: are the kind of games that you feast on. As well.

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Speaker 1: They had four against the Bears, and that that's skewed everything.

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Speaker 1: You still had them. Well, last week we were sighting

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Speaker 1: Brown's defensive numbers and look how good this are? Well,

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Speaker 1: they went insane against the Bears. Justin fields first start,

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Speaker 1: the Bears had one passing yard. It was sacked left

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Speaker 1: and right, you know, right? So yeah, uh. In terms

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Speaker 1: of the Browns chances of winning the a f C

503
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: North is now eleven point one percent. I imagine that

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Speaker 1: would go up if they were able to beat the

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Speaker 1: Bengals this week. But maybe we'll mention this again tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I know we're a little short on time. Who do

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Speaker 1: you root for in that game? And I think the

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Speaker 1: Browns could be out of it if they lose this one. Yeah,

509
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Speaker 1: they lose this when they're in deep, They're they're in

510
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Speaker 1: the same spot that the Steelers would have been had

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00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: they lost to the Browns oh and two in the division,

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Speaker 1: you know, and one of those games at home, and

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Speaker 1: you know, now you're you know, now you're you're up

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Speaker 1: against it. There's a most desperation time for the Brownies. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts to tonight, but that's a different story.

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Speaker 1: They have eas your opponent, and the brown were seven

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Speaker 1: and two in one score games. This year they're three

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Speaker 1: and three. That's why we didn't like him as much.

519
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Speaker 1: And you knew that stuff was gonna come back to

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Speaker 1: the meet he comes back to the mean. Yeah, seven

521
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: and two is unsustainable for that team. Just I mean,

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Speaker 1: really for anyone unless you've got Tom Brady or Russell

523
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Speaker 1: Wilson in those games than most. Ben's actually one of

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Speaker 1: the best in the last twenty years, but nine out

525
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: of ten teams don't win your one score games. The

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Speaker 1: other thing that they had last year going for them

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Speaker 1: was that offensive line was remarkably healthy all season long,

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Speaker 1: remarkably healthy. And you know this this year, you know

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Speaker 1: they're missing book tackles. You know. Let's I wonder how

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Speaker 1: May snapped the five of them have played together. I

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Speaker 1: bet it's less and absolutely, and then you add in

532
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Speaker 1: some of the other ancillary injuries. You talked about it.

533
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: You know, they had nineteen guys on the injury list

534
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, and that didn't include Hunting j Ok

535
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: who had gone on. I r like, they're getting banged up.

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Speaker 1: And people probably remember a week ago. One thing I

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Speaker 1: was saying about the Browns was they've added so many

538
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: new pieces that maybe it's gonna come together, especially on defense.

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00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: You know, the eight new starters or seven they're not

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Speaker 1: on the field though. But then if you deal with

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Speaker 1: a normal amount of injuries in addition to new people,

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Speaker 1: well it's hard, you know, right, So interesting nonsense too, Yeah,

543
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: and then they gotta deal with the Beckham nonsense. They

544
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: don't throw the ball very well. Yeah, I mean, to

545
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: be very honest. I mean, that's in your quarterback is

546
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: not it's not gonna get better for him. He's not

547
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: gonna get healthier, and even if he was, that would

548
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: still be their weakness. To me. Yeah, I agree, I'm

549
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: not killing Baker. He's fine, but he's not special. So interesting,

550
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Speaker 1: but we'll see. I think it's gonna be an interesting

551
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: race the rest of the way. Um, it's a fun

552
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Speaker 1: division without. I mean, it's one of the few divisions

553
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: where all four teams could go are competitive. Yeah, I

554
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: mean I don't know if a second team in the

555
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: South or East is going to go. I mean all

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Speaker 1: all four could conceivably get in. Yeah. With the Bengals

557
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: being better this year, everybody's competitive in division. Anybody could

558
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Speaker 1: beat anybody on a given week, so makes it interesting.

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Speaker 1: He is Mett William Sit. I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening

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

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Speaker 1: take a break when we come back, time for the

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