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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And it is Monday, Black Monday in many places around

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Speaker 1: the league, and well, I think it's Black and Gold

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Speaker 1: or Black and Silver Monday. It might be that maybe

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Speaker 1: the craziest, the single craziest Sunday in NFL history. And

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Speaker 1: what a great way just no matter who you're rooting

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Speaker 1: interest there are I guess unless you're the Culture Chargers.

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Speaker 1: But still just an unbelievably entertaining weekend and final game

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Speaker 1: in particular to finish the regular season, first eighteenth game,

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Speaker 1: sky drawlery overtime games, yeah right, and games that matter, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the team needs to win to get into the Giants game.

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Speaker 1: You know, things like that, I mean important games that

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Speaker 1: mattered down the end, all the eyes on them. I

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Speaker 1: mean I kind of forgot that. The National Championship games tonight.

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Speaker 1: You know, what do you think, what do you think

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Speaker 1: the TV ratings were in the Pittsburgh market for that

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Speaker 1: Raiders Chargers games through the roof? I mean, I have

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Speaker 1: buddies that have real lives, and get up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and you know, usually in bed by ten or ten thirty.

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Speaker 1: They were glued to it, of course, and unbelievable turn

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Speaker 1: of events. I mean, I don't even know where to start.

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Speaker 1: Uh there. I remember I was driving back from Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: I finished I wrote a story on T. J. Watt

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Speaker 1: breaking the stat tying this out record. He should he

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Speaker 1: should break it. We'll get into that. We got a

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Speaker 1: little bit the short end of stick there. But um

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Speaker 1: so I wrote that I wrote a top to my

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Speaker 1: to my main story, and I usually do like ten

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Speaker 1: thoughts after that, so I just thoughts in the game.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I get done writing those. I'm like, I

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Speaker 1: really can't do anything else until I know what happens

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Speaker 1: in that game. And I'm not gonna sit here in

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore press box until you know. I just sat

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Speaker 1: there until night was past midnight. Yeah right. Uh So

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Speaker 1: I'm like, it's three hours and fifty minutes to my

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Speaker 1: my house. I'm Washington from Baltimore. I can make it.

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Speaker 1: And so I hopped in the car. I drove like

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Speaker 1: a maniac. I got home to see I listened to

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Speaker 1: the game the whole way. Uh they started, like when

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Speaker 1: I was in like maybe Frederick, Maryland somewhere somewhere around there,

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Speaker 1: and I got home in time to watch the the

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Speaker 1: Chargers last possession, you know, in regulation and then the

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Speaker 1: overtime period. So you I mean that last possession regulation

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Speaker 1: was crazy. I mean, just all the third and fourth

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Speaker 1: dound conversions. It's kind of like the Steeler game a

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Speaker 1: little bit, A little bit. I mean, I forget what

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Speaker 1: it was in the end, I'm guessing, but like an

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Speaker 1: eighteen play drive or something like that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just one play after another, the drama, the way Herbert's

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Speaker 1: throwing the football, and I mean crazy. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: made the right call otherwise you've been home but in

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Speaker 1: the morning, or I just end up getting a hotel

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Speaker 1: room down there. The clutch gene, I hear people talk about.

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Speaker 1: You know this, There's no there's no such thing. There's

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Speaker 1: no such thing as as if a guy is clutch

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Speaker 1: or not. Well. Ben Roethlisberger six game winning drives this season, uh,

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Speaker 1: five fourth quarter comebacks. You saw it with Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: last night. He's right up there with Ben this year

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Speaker 1: in terms of the last second heroics. Some guys have that.

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Speaker 1: Another guys don't I know it's everyone knows. I'm for

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Speaker 1: this market, one of the more analytically based guys out there.

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Speaker 1: I write an analytics call um for Steelers dot Com

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Speaker 1: every week. I still think if you lean on that

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Speaker 1: too much, you're nuts. And the Chargers found that out

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Speaker 1: the hard way. There was a Steeler decision that nine

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Speaker 1: out of ten times I would have done the opposite.

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Speaker 1: But you've got to know the flow of the game,

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Speaker 1: and it just doesn't The clowns. I can't remember who

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Speaker 1: it was last week, it wasn't Wink Martindale. Somebody's defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator said something about the analytics stuff, and they said,

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Speaker 1: analytics is all well and good, but you don't know

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Speaker 1: what the wind conditions are in the stadium. You don't

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Speaker 1: know what the you know is your again things we've

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Speaker 1: talked about, is your right tackle getting his butt kicked

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Speaker 1: the entire game? What's my play again to convert this

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Speaker 1: or whatever? And in your own territory that decision was awful,

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Speaker 1: But the quarterback almost bailed him out. The quarterback almost

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Speaker 1: clutche Yeah, exactly, That's what I say. All this analytics

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Speaker 1: mentioned it many times with Ben this year that his tone,

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Speaker 1: the war is on the line, he's just as even keeled.

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Speaker 1: his ability to play. And Ben wasn't good for three

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Speaker 1: quarters throws for about hundred and fifty yards and a

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Speaker 1: ever a hundred fun and forty night whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: but it was like seventeen and twenty one or something

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Speaker 1: ridiculous three throws or something, right, Yeah, and a couple

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Speaker 1: of those are drops. And it was still windy and nasty.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I wanted to ask you that before

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Speaker 1: worse than the TV copy show. Yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 1: was cold, it was windy. I mean, you're right on

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Speaker 1: which this place. Didn't you have to keep the doors open. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it was fantastic. And Billy Hillgrove was actually gonna come

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Speaker 1: band better be awesome for that place to make any money.

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Speaker 1: it as well. I mean, yeah, but the announcers didn't

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Speaker 1: stress it enough. It was the entire time. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: gonna win. Um, there's a trend. I mean, are they

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Speaker 1: prettiest they execute? Start to finish? Do they have holes?

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Speaker 1: All those things? Are you know questions? And as Mike

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, right, I mean they're eight four and one

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Speaker 1: in their last thirteen. I mean that that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: impressive stretch. No matter what, Um, they're way better as

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Speaker 1: latent games. They're certainly a clutch factor around this team

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Speaker 1: as well as Herbert, and I thought Cark him up

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Speaker 1: on from their interim head coach at this point? I

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Speaker 1: it's fun. Yeah, it really is. And uh, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: last week that came out, seventy five of the top

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Speaker 1: last year, we're NFL game good. I guess we're in

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Speaker 1: people still watch. And those games yesterday I guarantee were

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Speaker 1: watched heavily. Oh man, I'm sure these playoffs will break

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Speaker 1: I mean there were only what three spots up for

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Speaker 1: going to Tennessee. Yeah, absolutely, not to mention Indy Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: So and boy, last night was crazy. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: but the fact that they're this resilient and tough does

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Speaker 1: He actually didn't know, Oh didn't I thought that was okay.

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Speaker 1: bringing in the right kind of guys that don't hang

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Speaker 1: it up, you know what I mean, they really play

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Speaker 1: You know, I wrote about this, uh today, like people

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Speaker 1: who don't want to give him, like Tomlin credit right

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Speaker 1: for this is just unbelievable. Well, they should have had

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Speaker 1: eleven or twelve wins. Really, have you seen this team play?

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Speaker 1: People said, well, if if you'd have made the move

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Speaker 1: to J. C. Hassen hour earlier, or if he had

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Speaker 1: changed punters. No, no, no, no, that's putting a way

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Speaker 1: too much value on those those two spots, is I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've even heard those arguments. But those are minor things.

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Speaker 1: I mean, those are minor roster moves. And you can

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Speaker 1: seventeen teams. You can't sit there on Monday morning quarterback

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Speaker 1: and be like, you should have made this move one

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Speaker 1: week earlier, because I have, you know, six weeks of

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Speaker 1: wasn't like, man, I'm gonna switch out Webby for dirt Dawson,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, oh man, I mean, well,

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Speaker 1: I had the offensive line from center to left tackles,

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Speaker 1: just a bunch of dudes, just a bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: Ravens swept the bronze this year. Yeah, what you want,

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Speaker 1: Steeler fans. I mean I had a buddy text me.

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Speaker 1: be undefeated? Like? I didn't see any I didn't see

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Speaker 1: good than bad this year, folks. If you haven't figured out,

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Speaker 1: it's been an entertaining season, to be sure, and it's

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Speaker 1: going to continue. Uh, we're gonna take a break. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back to

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Speaker 1: talk more about this, the craziness of everything that happened,

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