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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I am Dale Lewy is the

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt Bye Week Friday Bye Week Friday

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Speaker 1: ago the last day here that we don't have a

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Speaker 1: Steelers game to talk about this week.

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Speaker 2: Right next week when we come back on.

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Speaker 1: Monday, we will have not just a Steelers game to

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Speaker 1: talk about the upcoming game against the Rams. They'll also

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Speaker 1: be practicing that day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get back normal and all that everything.

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Speaker 1: We'll get back to a little bit of more football

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Speaker 1: type stuff from there on. The rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: We're slamming it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely everything's the same after that week after week. I

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Speaker 2: mean sometimes a Thursday or whatever.

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Speaker 1: That's in the game day has changed, but this has.

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Speaker 2: Been a time doesn't a weird week though. I Mean

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Speaker 2: it's just a little different than usual. I Mean, you

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Speaker 2: get so used to your routine. But I am excited

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Speaker 2: to dig into the Rams. I haven't done a lot

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Speaker 2: of that, but they've they've lost three out of four

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Speaker 2: and the only game they won was in overtime. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: they need to get back on I mean, their their

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Speaker 2: favorite They've been.

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Speaker 1: Competitive, they've done you know, but that division is so weird,

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Speaker 1: Like this team beats that team beat that team beats.

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Speaker 2: You know, yes, there's some of that. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: like they didn't play terrible, but they got smothered by

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Speaker 2: the Eagles last week. I know we'll talk Rams next week,

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Speaker 2: but I do think some of their depth issues are

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Speaker 2: bound to start popping up, especially on defense. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're a fun offense right now, but it's Aaron Donald

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Speaker 2: a bunch of nobody's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've already gotten some of the text, like when

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Speaker 1: I've tweeted it again. For whatever reason, Steeler fans just

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Speaker 1: can't enjoy the moment. They have to they have to

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Speaker 1: fret about, you know that. Well, it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: happens here in the bye week because the Rams are

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Speaker 1: just going to go out there and smoke them. The

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Speaker 1: Rams are This is not the greatest show on turf.

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Speaker 2: No, they're kind of playing with house money. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is a rebuild year with a couple of people,

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Speaker 2: a couple guys, and all kinds of cap issues, especially

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Speaker 2: a defense. I mean, you wouldn't know besides Aaron Donald,

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Speaker 2: you wouldn't recognize many names.

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Speaker 1: I got some some news nuggets notes here, so I

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Speaker 1: was doing some stuff here, and if you look at

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's host by record.

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Speaker 2: I know, it's very impressive.

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Speaker 1: I actually went and looked this up. I did all

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Speaker 1: this stuff on this. So overall for his career he's

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Speaker 1: got a six thirty six winning percentage.

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Speaker 2: Period but period, it doesn't matter when the game is played.

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Speaker 2: But Folks is really good. By the way, six thirty

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Speaker 2: six you said, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, since twenty and thirteen post buy, the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: sixty one, twenty eight and one. Doesn't matter when the

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Speaker 1: bye weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, that doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter sixty eight or sixty one twenty eight

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Speaker 1: and one. That's a six eighty three winning percentage. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's like Belichick's career winning percentag.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like one of the best of all time

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Speaker 2: running percentage. Jeah. Wow. That can't be an accident either.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's not eight and two. I mean that's

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Speaker 2: you know, that's a pretty big that's consistently.

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Speaker 1: That's over a ten year period. We're not talking about

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Speaker 1: all over the last three years. No, this is a

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Speaker 1: ten year period.

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Speaker 2: Week twelve bys, Yeah, it's only fifteen games or.

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Speaker 1: Whatever, and there were some bad ones. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you think back the year they started, what thirteen and

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Speaker 1: eleven and no, okay, the here they started eleven and

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Speaker 1: zero and the buy got kind of screwed up there

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Speaker 1: because of COVID, right, lost three in a row there,

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Speaker 1: and so the post buy record wasn't great.

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Speaker 2: So over again, however, I'm not defending Tomlin, but that

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Speaker 2: year he couldn't do his usual bye week plan either. No,

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Speaker 2: I mean it was completely you know crazy. The shoveled

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Speaker 1: Buy ended up being because of the where the game got.

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Speaker 1: The games got moved around and so the buye went

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Speaker 2: Everything playing on a Wednesday or something.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just all goofy. I'm not sure I

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Speaker 2: It's something that's really impressive, and I'm sure he has

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Speaker 2: that's why did you look at it?

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Speaker 1: Like the early the first few years of Tomlin, the

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Speaker 1: buye was not you know, they were they were fine,

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Speaker 1: but they were not great. And then you learn about

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Speaker 1: midway through, you know, five years into the career, all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Okay, now I know exactly what I

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Speaker 1: want to do on the bye win and it's been

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Speaker 2: I bet it hasn't changed much. But there was a

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Speaker 2: stretch there where Andy Reid never lost after a bye. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: probably still pretty good. I mean, they're a good team.

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Speaker 2: I wonder. I mean, buys are kind of a new thing.

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Speaker 2: If we look over the last twenty years, what's Belichick at,

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Speaker 2: You know, is at a common thread with all the coaches?

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Speaker 2: Are they better post by or verse lifetime winning percentage?

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Is it better or worse

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Speaker 2: post buy? That's interesting to me. It's the Tomlins clearly better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean that's you. You win almost well. Again,

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Speaker 1: that's basically, they've got eleven games left this year. If

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Speaker 1: they win sixty eight point three percent of them or

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Speaker 1: six have a six eighty three winning percent is riskway.

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Speaker 2: That's eight wins, eight out of one. It'll be eight

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Speaker 1: There'll be eight and three in the second half of

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Speaker 1: this if this hold it holds up righteah, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: but even if they went seven and four, you'd take

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Speaker 1: it because three and two take seven. If if somebody,

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Speaker 1: if somebody came to you today and said, Matt, we

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Speaker 1: don't I'm not going to tell you how they get there.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you what they do. But

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Speaker 1: we're gonna put the Steelers down to win ten games

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Speaker 1: this year.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I take it and heartbeat.

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Speaker 1: You're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Probably probably in the playoffs, yeaheah. I mean you definitely

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Speaker 2: take it. And you would think some of the issues

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Speaker 2: you're concerned about have gotten better throughout the year, correct,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And you probably didn't get

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Speaker 2: injury thing I think is important for this one is

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Speaker 2: I'd like their chances against the Rams. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to pick that game right now, but I

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Speaker 2: do think getting a lot of guys back Deonta in

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Speaker 2: particular for this upcoming game certainly boosts your winning chances,

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Speaker 2: you know, without without question, you know, compared to what

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Speaker 2: you played with this past week or.

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Speaker 1: Two, and then maybe in the next couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: you get Cam Hayward back. I mean, those those are.

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Speaker 2: Massive, massive, absolutely, Now you worry.

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Speaker 1: I want somebody else get hurt well, and they will you.

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Speaker 2: Know, but hopefully you don't get crushed and you're you know,

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Speaker 2: is a longer stretch, but who knows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I also think that, you know, having gone through,

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Speaker 1: they've basically played everybody.

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Speaker 2: To this point.

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Speaker 1: I mean they pretty much anybody that you would look

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Speaker 2: Oh, you're talking about guys on the roster, like they

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Speaker 2: played all their hard games.

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Speaker 1: They've they've they've gotten everybody's gotten there, basically gotten their

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Speaker 2: Them right, even the louder Milks of the world, and

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Speaker 2: maybe not even always active on game day.

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Speaker 1: But look if you look at I mean Marcus Golden,

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Speaker 1: you know, if Ky Smith or Watt had to miss

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Speaker 2: I was talking about her Big today, like Herbig's snap

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Speaker 2: counts have dropped the last couple of weeks. I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's anything because of what he's done. You know,

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Speaker 2: they think the top three are just playing. So those

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Speaker 2: three are playing well, and but I don't think they

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Speaker 2: would hesitate with Herbiga in and he's the fourth room,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's still kind of the speedball

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Speaker 1: off the edge. They don't necessarily want him in there

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Speaker 2: I agree. They're very happy with the top three and

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Speaker 2: the three the top three they were Watt Heismith also

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Speaker 1: Watt, high Smith and Golden have combined for twelve sacks

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Speaker 1: in the first five games.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me. How many is Golden now?

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Speaker 1: Golden has too too, yet the same numbers as Heismith.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, ANDJJ is eight. Yeah, Like you'll take that.

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Speaker 1: You're on pace to get like thirty six sacks out

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Speaker 1: of your thirty eight sacks out of your No, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I actually did the numbers on It was forty forty

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: They had forty sacks as a team last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, I mean you take thirty to be honest, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Thirty is a great number. I think when we were

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Speaker 1: outside linebackers. We said, no, I have to get thirty.

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Speaker 1: That's a really good year.

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Speaker 2: Comsider thinking if you told me preseason you got twenty

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Speaker 2: five out of Watton high Smith, I'd have to think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean, I'd probably want to

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Speaker 2: Probably go over. I'm like, that probably means TJ miss right,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's still a big number, twenty five between

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Speaker 2: your two best passwords. I mean, if you asked, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, I mean, the any team out there, if

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Speaker 2: your two best pass rushers could combine for twenty five,

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Speaker 2: would you take it? Most teams would say yeah, there was.

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Speaker 1: A long time. Like if you look at the history

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers outside linebackers, and I've done this in

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Speaker 1: the past, and go back and look at their best season,

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Speaker 1: like I think for a long time, I want to

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Speaker 1: say Harrison. The year that Harrison had sixteen, I think

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Speaker 1: he and Woodley combined for twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, and that was like the high one as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that huge number, you know, high Smith and

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Speaker 2: Okay, Still it's a huge number for two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're gonna double, did you thirty out of

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Speaker 2: If that's that key of a word. They didn't come

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Speaker 2: off the bench all that often. I'm gonna go with Ben.

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Speaker 2: I know he missed some time, but he played more

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Speaker 2: seasons and there was more games per season in his career. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'm going with Ben.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you think Matt is correct on those things,

444
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Speaker 1: you can log on to the Steelers mobile appen, go ahead,

445
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Speaker 1: and I don't know.

446
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Speaker 2: That you can just look the I'm bad at these trivia.

447
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Speaker 1: So yeah, well I knew the answers to those ones.

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Speaker 2: Too, I'm sure. I'm sure, but don't.

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Speaker 1: Tell what they Washington, Oregon when I had to think

450
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Speaker 1: about a little bit.

451
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Speaker 2: But you knew that when top of your head, though,

452
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Speaker 2: Like the draft picks from the fifties and sixties, I

453
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Speaker 2: study this stuff a little. Okay, I wouldn't know that stuff.

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Speaker 2: They're drafts from pre green.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, They didn't draft a lot of

456
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Speaker 1: guys from from the other side of the country.

457
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess the world was different.

458
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Speaker 1: It was a different world.

459
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Speaker 2: You didn't have a West Coast scout the same if so,

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Speaker 2: he was probably low guy in the tote.

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Speaker 1: You were getting a lot of guys from Carnegie Mellon.

462
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Speaker 1: They picked in West Virginia and Penn State. Yeah, you

463
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Speaker 1: know the places, you know.

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Speaker 2: I guess that makes sense. From Southeast Oklahoma state, you know,

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Speaker 2: A and t Probably that.

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Speaker 1: Really didn't start to happen in the NFL maybe until

467
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Speaker 1: more like the sixties and seventies when you started.

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Speaker 2: Really I mean, I know, the Steelers are way ahead

469
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Speaker 2: of the curve on the historically black colleges. You know,

470
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Speaker 2: they weren't as drafted as heavily as they should have been.

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Speaker 2: Obviously they got great players out of there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, just looking here at the around. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about the game last night. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the defensive thing here that.

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Speaker 2: Most of these kind of played pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can still win games in the NFL defensively,

477
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Speaker 1: Like that's one of the things that people will always

478
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Speaker 1: throw at me. Well, you need to go be able

479
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Speaker 1: to go out and score thirty points to beat the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: do you No?

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Speaker 2: I mean Chiefs are not What teams do you need

482
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Speaker 2: to do that with nowadays? I mean, is there anyone

483
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Speaker 2: San Francisco's rolling week after week, Miami's rolling week after week?

484
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Speaker 2: But Buffalo steymy might be well, you know what I mean,

485
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Speaker 2: who do you expect to get maybe four touchdowns? Maybe

486
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Speaker 2: the Chargers maybe, But fortunately their defense is pretty forgiving

487
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Speaker 2: in that regard.

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Speaker 1: The key, the key to the thing, the whole thing

489
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Speaker 1: is is forcing the other team to play your game,

490
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Speaker 1: to play the style football that you want to play

491
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Speaker 1: and keeping it so that when when we talk about

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Speaker 1: the Steelers and what they need to do in the

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Speaker 1: second half of this season, yeah, post By, you need

494
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Speaker 1: to play complimentary football. And when I say complimentary football,

495
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Speaker 1: your offense needs to stay on the field a little

496
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Speaker 1: bit more.

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Speaker 2: Three and outs aren't going to cut. They're not going

498
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Speaker 2: to cut and losing the time possession. So it's not

499
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Speaker 2: gonna cut it.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't, that doesn't. But you also then have to

501
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Speaker 1: score some points. You know, at the end of that,

502
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Speaker 1: I don't care you even care if you kick field

503
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Speaker 1: goals because that worked for you in the second half

504
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Speaker 1: because and even.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, last year they won a lot of

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Speaker 2: games without great field goal kicking. Yeah yeah, I mean

507
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Speaker 2: I expect the field goal kicking and it has been

508
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Speaker 2: to be noticeably better than twenty twenty two. And the

509
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Speaker 2: way the Steelers play it has to be, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, they probably win a game or two more

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Speaker 2: if Boz is kicking like he is now.

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Speaker 1: Last year, the uh, the Steelers, if you if you

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Speaker 1: look at what they do, you.

514
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Speaker 2: Know what they turn like. Kenny didn't throw a pick

515
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Speaker 2: in this game, you know Nomart did.

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Speaker 1: If you look at what they've done in the wins

517
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Speaker 1: versus their I mean they're allowing thirty points per game

518
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Speaker 1: in their losses.

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Speaker 2: Can't do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the two, the two, Yeah, the opponent has scored

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Speaker 1: thirty points in both of those games. That can't happen.

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Speaker 2: Which that was a trend last year to pre buy Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean Eagles, Bills, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at what they've done offensively in

525
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Speaker 1: those games when they when they've scored in their in

526
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Speaker 1: their wins, they've scored in average about twenty two. It's

527
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Speaker 1: like twenty two and a half points per game. Okay

528
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Speaker 1: this year, not blowing up, but doing enough to allow

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Speaker 1: your pass rush to affect the game.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this a lot. I mean really, in

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Speaker 2: Watt's stint here, how many big leads has he played with?

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Speaker 1: You know, many?

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Speaker 2: Not many? Not many. I mean even the COVID year

534
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Speaker 2: was not one. You know that, when is it a

535
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Speaker 2: twelve point lead with four minutes on the clock and

536
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Speaker 2: you know they're not even gonna run.

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Speaker 1: Just pin your ears back and bam, bam bam. Three

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Speaker 1: section in a row. That's basically what.

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Speaker 2: It would be pretty much, and this offense would have

540
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Speaker 2: to come a long way to get to that point

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Speaker 2: where you're playing with substantial leads, but they're still affecting

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Speaker 2: the game with a pass rush when the team's still

543
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Speaker 2: running at you late in the game or trying to

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Speaker 2: put put games away.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a bit of a conundrum because

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Speaker 1: if you look at the Steelers defense this year, they're

547
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Speaker 1: allowing twelve point three yards per completion, which is third

548
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Speaker 1: highest in the league. Yes, but they're allowing a completion

549
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Speaker 1: a fifty nine point three, which is the third best.

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Speaker 2: In the league. Yeah, So people have attacked them deep,

551
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Speaker 2: particularly outside the numbers, and they've also allowed well I

552
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Speaker 2: was a tick that back. They've allowed a lot of

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Speaker 2: after contact in the run game, but not a lot

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Speaker 2: of after catch in the pass game. So they're tackling

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Speaker 2: the catch, but they've allowed some big completions but not

556
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Speaker 2: a high completion percentage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, I don't. It doesn't they those things

558
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: don't add up necessarily, they don't match up. But I

559
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Speaker 1: don't think it's I think it happens because of their

560
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Speaker 1: pass rush.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I'm I'm a little rusty because I

562
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Speaker 2: didn't do a stat pack this week, so I just

563
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Speaker 2: kind of ignored all stats in which was kind of

564
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Speaker 2: a refreshing change by the way. But I think the

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Speaker 2: Steeler defense has a very high aid dot ye team.

566
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Speaker 2: When they're attacking them, it's further downfield.

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Speaker 1: But you do that at your own risk.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I assume it's a lot, and if I would

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Speaker 2: study it, I bet there's a lot of max protect

570
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Speaker 2: take a shot which isn't going to be a high

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Speaker 2: completion percentage situation too, And you're.

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Speaker 1: Not going to do that time and time again. You're

573
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Speaker 1: not going to just we're gonna max protect every play

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Speaker 1: here and send three guys out in pass patterns.

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Speaker 2: Right, And it also probably no question. I mean, we

576
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Speaker 2: know the Steelers pass rush is better than their coverage.

577
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Speaker 2: So if you're going to have a high aid dot

578
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Speaker 2: low completion percentage, I'm sure what high smith et cetera

579
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Speaker 2: are affecting the pocket and the accuracy of the row

580
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Speaker 2: as well, no matter what how you scheme it up

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Speaker 2: with mass protection or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it's it's just strange. I think one thing,

583
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Speaker 1: you know, if you start looking at what could be

584
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Speaker 1: better with that defense in the second half as opposed

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Speaker 1: to you know, not allowing twelve point three yards per

586
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Speaker 1: catch bee start. So since the opener or the first

587
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Speaker 1: two the first two weeks, yeah, when they gave up

588
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Speaker 1: their ungothly amount of rushing. Oh yeah, and the last

589
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Speaker 1: three games are allowing one hundred and eleven yards per

590
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Speaker 1: game on the ground. I think you take that, you

591
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Speaker 1: can you can live with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know I though up your head where

593
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Speaker 2: they were last year? They were I don't remember the

594
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Speaker 2: number they were, like, I want to say, right around

595
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Speaker 2: that number. I thought that was similar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right right around that number. So you can live

597
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Speaker 1: with that in today's nfact because you're playing more coverage anyways,

598
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Speaker 1: you know, you don't.

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Speaker 2: Allow big plays in the passing game. I definitely can

600
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Speaker 2: live with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you're trying to run the football, have

602
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Speaker 1: at because the Steelers defense is built. Okay, you may

603
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Speaker 1: run the ball successfully and then when I say successfully,

604
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Speaker 1: three straight carries, you get four yards, you get five yards,

605
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Speaker 1: you get you get four yards again, but on the

606
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Speaker 1: fourth carry you get negative.

607
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Speaker 2: Too, right, And that was part of the problem with

608
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Speaker 2: the Steelers running game last year is they were I

609
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Speaker 2: don't say they were lucky but they weren't an explosive

610
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Speaker 2: rushing attack. They were consistent one and didn't go backwards.

611
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Speaker 2: But that's a tough way to live. I mean, that's

612
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Speaker 2: that's half court basketball. Yeah, occasionally go to need a

613
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,239
Speaker 2: fast break, you know, but if you don't give up

614
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 2: the fast break, you're okay.

615
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Speaker 1: One thing that could really change in the second half

616
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Speaker 1: is we haven't seen Menka Fitzpatrick come up with a

617
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Speaker 1: turnover yet.

618
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Speaker 2: True, I think his role has been different this year, but.

619
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Speaker 1: He's still he's always been kind of in the middle

620
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Speaker 1: of that stuff.

621
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Yeah, he's always on the ball.

622
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Speaker 1: In sixty one career games coming into this season as

623
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Speaker 1: a Steeler, he had seventeen interceptions, four force fumbles, and

624
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Speaker 1: five fumble recovery. So if you look at that, that's

625
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Speaker 1: twenty six turnover plays in sixty one games.

626
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Speaker 2: That's a high percent. That's like almost half almost half forty.

627
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, through five games he's been involved in none. But

628
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Speaker 1: that's going to change. That will that will come back

629
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Speaker 1: to more to the mean and by the end of

630
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Speaker 1: the season when they got they get twelve games left,

631
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Speaker 1: makea Fitzpatrick probably has seven turnovers, seven involved in seven,

632
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: seven or eight turnovers in the second half of the season. Well,

633
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Speaker 1: they've already been a pretty high turnover defense and your

634
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: best guy hasn't gotten involved.

635
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's like I'm scoring a lot of runs

636
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Speaker 2: with my cleanup hit or in over. Yeah right, I

637
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Speaker 2: mean he'll probably be fine. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it makes sense.

638
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: Because there's enough track record there.

639
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 2: You know, again, when I in the tie ball shows,

640
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 2: it's not like, oh he lost the step.

641
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: Yeahs playing really bad.

642
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 2: No, No, he just hasn't. Some of that's a luck

643
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: factor too, Yeah, I mean, but tip balls and things

644
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: like that. He feasts on that stuff.

645
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Speaker 1: And they've already all all of last season they had

646
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Speaker 1: nine force fumbles.

647
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Speaker 2: Last in the league, last and last and fumble recoveries, yeah.

648
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Speaker 1: They had five fumble recovers. They had eleven. They had

649
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: nine forced fumbles. They've already got eleven.

650
00:27:58,480 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 2: This year force fumbles.

651
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they're getting the ball on the ground.

652
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Speaker 2: And that's that to me, that was obviously not one

653
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Speaker 2: hundred percent, but Watt being out and then not being

654
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: himself his force fumble stuffs off the charts. Yeah, but

655
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Speaker 2: he's not the only one out there causing I mean, that's.

656
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Speaker 1: Pretty good at it. Holcomb has forced a couple of

657
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: already already. So I mean, they've got some guys that

658
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Speaker 1: are getting the ball out.

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Speaker 2: And you wouldn't think the big guys, but ogin Jobi's

660
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 2: hustle play is he got a force fumble. But like

661
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Speaker 2: Adam's hustles to no end, Hayward is historically known as

662
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Speaker 2: a run to the ball guy for a three hundred pounder.

663
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a Steeler D line trait too. Yeah,

664
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Speaker 2: and there three hundred and twenty pounders come smashing it

665
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Speaker 2: from behind from behind, ball flopping up, yeah, big man

666
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 2: fall down, Yeah, and balgos flying.

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Speaker 1: Along with your helmet and pads.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember to it and Hayward running the

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Speaker 2: ball like wow, yeah carry.

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Speaker 1: So I think the defense can be uh you know,

671
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Speaker 1: I think they've they've cleaned up some of the run stuff.

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Speaker 1: And remember as well, they allowed to big run, two

673
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Speaker 1: big runs kind of swing.

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Speaker 2: That's one thing about yards per carry early in the season.

675
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Speaker 2: Like if was McCaffrey and Ford that had those two

676
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Speaker 2: long runs. Yeah, if that ball is snapped at the

677
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Speaker 2: thirty yard line as opposed to the one yard line,

678
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: once you get free, you get free. I mean, you

679
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: could run to the parking lot. It doesn't matter where

680
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: the end zone line is, you know what I mean.

681
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 2: So it does blow things up that way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. But the run, the run defense

683
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Speaker 1: has been better. And you've also played a couple of quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: I said, Lamar played Lamar. Yeah, like Watson can run.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens had one hundred and twenty five rushing yards in.

687
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Speaker 2: That game, and you'd take that on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, right, I mean that was like fifty

689
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Speaker 1: yards under their average.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you bottled him up pretty well after a

691
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Speaker 2: while too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean his last four carries or five carries,

693
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Speaker 1: he got nothing.

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Speaker 2: And they were playing the league a lot as well.

695
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were.

696
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: Trying to run the ball.

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00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they couldn't do it.

698
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 2: Couldn't do it with just couldn't do it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's going to continue to get better.

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Speaker 1: And you're gonna get Hayward back that will help that

701
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Speaker 1: as well. Well. But I think the inside linebackers are

702
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: starting to come into a I thought this a couple

703
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, going into the game against Houston. They

704
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Speaker 1: were starting to get a better idea of how to play.

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Speaker 2: No they were not, and they really have been a

706
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Speaker 2: problem all year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they've already been much better than the

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Speaker 1: group that was there last year.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was about to say two things. It's clearly

710
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Speaker 2: better than the group has been last year as well

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Speaker 2: as really since Zier's injury to me, and I felt

712
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: good about that group. And it's a trio now. And

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Speaker 2: some of these things are what did you pay for it?

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Speaker 2: I mean, your cost on that position is very low,

715
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Speaker 2: you know, by design, you're paying your d lineman, you know,

716
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Speaker 2: I mean you're paying some big guys on defense and

717
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 2: you're getting you know, return on investment is phenomenal. Yeah,

718
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Speaker 2: I mean you're not, but you didn't invest that much

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Speaker 2: in those guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for what you're getting out of that group.

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00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: Again, on investment on Bush was awful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, through five games, these guys already have turned

723
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Speaker 1: in more big plays than last year's group.

724
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Speaker 2: Did all season, and that's an obvious thing to see.

725
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Speaker 2: But I also think that they do their job better too.

726
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,479
Speaker 2: You know, they get to their gap, they make the tackle,

727
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Speaker 2: they're not out of position. I'm not picking on Bush

728
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 2: well kind of, but there was a lot of times

729
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 2: when you tell you I mean, he aligned wrong, you know,

730
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: just from the start, he put himself in a bad situation.

731
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Speaker 2: You're not seeing any of that kind of stuff, and this.

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Speaker 1: Is just I think this is the way to go

733
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Speaker 1: unless you unless you you're you're guaranteed that that guy

734
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Speaker 1: is going to turn into the next Bobby Wagner or

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Speaker 1: the next.

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Speaker 2: Warner or Rokwan you pay, you know what I mean.

737
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Speaker 2: But otherwise I think you you're very happy with not

738
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Speaker 2: being bad there.

739
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Speaker 1: Like I think the Steelers first round draft pick next year,

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Speaker 1: and again we're five weeks into this thing is going

741
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: to be a defensive player.

742
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Speaker 2: I think it'll be a defensive back.

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Speaker 1: I would say that that would be I would either

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Speaker 1: take it taking I'm taking a safety to pair with Menka,

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Speaker 1: or I'm taking another cornerback to put out there. Yes,

746
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: Corey Trice being the wild card there if they you know,

747
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Speaker 1: I mean, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, he wasn't a first round pick that you lost

749
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: camp either, you know.

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Speaker 1: But you know, next year, you know, if you feel

751
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: good about those two, maybe next year is the year

752
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: that you go get your Brian Branch. No, he's going

753
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: to play who's going to be your slockdown slot guy?

754
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Speaker 2: I mean to be honest. I mean, and this could change.

755
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: These guys could get better. The only dudes I'm counting

756
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 2: on the secondary for next year, or Porter or Minka,

757
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: I'm counting on, you know, like these are gonna make

758
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 2: the team. They're going to be on the field a lot. Yeah,

759
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Speaker 2: the other guy's contracts are up or age or whatever.

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Speaker 1: You shuffle those guys. I mean, again, this is the

761
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: beauty of what's happened now in the NFL is that

762
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: you can you can make over a defense or offense

763
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: in an off season. Your your your main parts are

764
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Speaker 1: going to be your main parts. But to those are

765
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: the main parts, the things around them can change because

766
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: everybody's everybody's signing guys to one two three year deals

767
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: at most if you're not a star.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and mix that with the draft, you can find

769
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 2: the equivalent of three starters at a position like that. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And there's a couple of times a Steeler history where

771
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: they really attack the secondary, like the Belton Dalton Hall

772
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Speaker 2: year or whatever. You know, a couple of those times

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Speaker 2: where they just went crazy on the first couple of

774
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 2: picks and boom there's a secondary, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so he could do it, and I think that

776
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: that would be. You know, if I had to put

777
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: a chip down on what's the Steelers first round draft

778
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: pick will be next, I'd see you'll see a lot

779
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: of speculation out there, and it's it's got to be

780
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Speaker 1: somebody in that secondary. I would say, I feel pretty

781
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: good about what they have now on the defensive line too, as.

782
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Speaker 2: I say, because you know Cam's getting up in age,

783
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 2: but Benton and Leal are keepers.

784
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. I mean like, if that's your starting out,

785
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: you're two of your starting three defensive linemen two years

786
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Speaker 1: from now.

787
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, with an Ogan Jobe type out there. You

788
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: know that's making money, but it's not a perennial Pro

789
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Speaker 2: Bowl type.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you feel pretty good about it.

791
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Speaker 2: I can live with that. Yeah, front sevens are not

792
00:33:59,480 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: a problem.

793
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think it is. And again, that's that

794
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: second level thing was something that they fixed in free agency.

795
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Speaker 2: Without going crazy, without breaking the bank. Right and you

796
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: presumably drafted a left tackle. I mean, you don't want

797
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: to be in the left left tackle market could conceivably

798
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know Petna wants to hear this, but

799
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: you might need a right tackle, you might need a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you don't know that, but I mean, you

801
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 2: need better quarterback play than what you've gotten thus far.

802
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: You probably you're probably not ready to take He'd.

803
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 2: Have to be a disaster for the next you know,

804
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 2: ten twelve games or whatever. To say, man, our first

805
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: round picks would be a quarterback or we're going to

806
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 2: go sign Kirk Cousins.

807
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: And you also have Dan Moore under contract for next year.

808
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: Even if Chukes would leave. He bumped in more over

809
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: to right tackle. See there's our there's our offensive line.

810
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Speaker 2: Probably or it's a second round pick or the mix

811
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Speaker 2: or something.

812
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Speaker 1: Maybe a second round center, a third round center.

813
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 2: Center could be in the mix.

814
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Speaker 1: You're not taking that in the first round.

815
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Speaker 2: Probably not. I mean, I guess this Van Prand kid

816
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 2: from Georgia is the best. But he's not even guaranteed

817
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 2: to go in the first round, right, I mean he's not.

818
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 2: He's not pouncy coming out right.

819
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to another break. He is Matt Williamson.

820
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: I am Dale, Lollie. You're listening to the driver on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale, Lolli. He is Matt Williamson, and

823
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Speaker 1: this is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And while

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Speaker 1: the Steelers don't play this week, well, the other teams

825
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: in the AFC North do Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Everyone in the league is up. The Packers do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's the Steelers and Packers off this week.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick look here at the talk about

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Speaker 1: the games for the division rivals.

830
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Speaker 2: I think there's a chance they go owing three. I

831
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Speaker 2: think there's a chance. I'm betting that they end up

832
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: with one loss out of the three.

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00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: At least at least one loss. So I know there's

834
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: gonna be one.

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Speaker 2: Loss, yeah, exactly, and I think the other one's price split.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens are playing the Titans. That game is in London.

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00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: Remember that's a nine to thirty am starts.

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00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, get up and check it out.

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Speaker 1: Baltimore's favored by four in that game. The over under

840
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: is forty one. I would have felt better about that

841
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: if if the Titans had gone over earlier.

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00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 2: That's the thing that's told me back. I mean, in

843
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 2: terms of the spread, I would take the Titans. I

844
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: think it's going to be a close game. I think

845
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a physical game. Two coaches that have

846
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: been around the block. But I wish Tennessee would have

847
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 2: went over when Baltimore did well.

848
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: This is an interesting game from the fact to the

849
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: point that the Ravens are still a run first team,

850
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: despite the fact that they've they brought in Todd Monkin

851
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: and he wants to do all this window dressing on

852
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: the passing game. They still want to just run the

853
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: football as.

854
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 2: Much as they can. Yeah, and their defense has kept

855
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 2: them in games that way too.

856
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: And other than last week against the Colts, the Titans

857
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: have been a very good run defense defense.

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Speaker 2: I mean Simmons and the way their D line is

859
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 2: constructed is hard to move. That's why think it would

860
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 2: be a really low scoring game.

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Speaker 1: I think this is I think both of these teams

862
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: are going to play this close to the vest I

863
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: just know Vrabel will come up with something to slow down.

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00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: How about this, The Titans have scored fewer than thirty

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Speaker 1: points in twenty three straight games. That's the longest active

866
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: streak in the NFL and the longest in franchise history.

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Speaker 1: I know everybody thinks it's the Steelers, right that have

868
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: done that. That is not true. They scored thirty last

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00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: year against the Bengals and they lost. No. They lost

870
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: because that's not how they're built to play. Neither are

871
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: the Races. The Titans are the Titans. Yeah, yeah, they're

872
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: built to win. These twenty to seventeen games.

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00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: Both teams went on special teams. Don't screw it up?

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00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: Yeah right, Derrick Henry. You know, Lamar getting a lot

875
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: of carries, that type of thing that I think it's

876
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 2: gonna be a close game. I mean, a very physical game.

877
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 2: Ravens record post Steeler games isn't great, not great. And

878
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 2: you're you know, had to go across. You've been physically

879
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: taxed in the last seven days, I mean to say

880
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: the least for Baltimore.

881
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they have.

882
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 2: I'm pretty healthy.

883
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: Playing a football game and then hopping on a plane

884
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: for twelve flying back to Baltimore, and then hopping on

885
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: a plane the next morning for twelve hours or eight

886
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 1: hours and nine hours.

887
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 2: That ain't fun, especially after the losing the way they did.

888
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: And everyone's kind of looking at each other like I'd

889
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: kind of not want to hang out with you at

890
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 2: the moment. This didn't go pretty.

891
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: Lamar's looking at his wide receivers going, guys.

892
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: Come on, man, yeah, yeah, man, we blew this lead.

893
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 2: What are we doing. Yeah, But I do think going

894
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 2: over there was smart. I mean, maybe get that out

895
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: of your system. You've been in, you know, in Europe

896
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 2: for a while now. I think the Ravens are the

897
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 2: better team, but I do think Tennessee can play, can

898
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 2: muck it up.

899
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: I want I'll be interested to see if Rabel, like

900
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: he's a bit of a gambler too. Oh yeah, he'll

901
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: do some something out of the outside, something goofy like that,

902
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: something like that to pull it out here, just to

903
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: try to steal a game here.

904
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: Their offense is played better than I expected to. I mean,

905
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,919
Speaker 2: the line's bad, but it hasn't destroyed the whole offense.

906
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: And Baltimore's not a team that's gonna test that tremendously. No,

907
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: they'll test it with the with the Blitzeres and things

908
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: of that nature, but they don't have a single pass

909
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: rusher no, that you look at and go, oh, we're

910
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: scared of that guy.

911
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 2: I do think it's a good defense, but it's not

912
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: that type of defense that you mentioned. You. Hopkins is

913
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 2: going to probably cause them problems if they can keep

914
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: giving it to Henry, who might not be quite what

915
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: he used to be. Ta Jay Spears has been an

916
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 2: impact guy for them too. I mean he's kind of

917
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 2: a spark plug that they haven't had in recent years.

918
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that the key here could be can

919
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: can Baltimore control Justin's era? Not Justin Simmons.

920
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: You just screwed me up now, Simmons.

921
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: Simmons the defensive tackle. Yeah, Jeffrey Jeffrey Simmons, we both

922
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: love him.

923
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 2: Oh, he's phenomenal.

924
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not just him, as Deniko Autry too,

925
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: he's one of the there both good players on the

926
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: interior of that of that line.

927
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 2: No, yeah, and that's why they're hard to run on.

928
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't necessarily love Baltimore's guards.

929
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: No, I don't either. I think they're fine, and I.

930
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: Think Linderbaum's slightly overrated.

931
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's struggling with power like those guys.

932
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: Is could be Simmons right over top of him. Could

933
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: be an issue.

934
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And he is for everybody of course. Yeah.

935
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 2: But no, I think that game's I mean, I think

936
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 2: it's a coin flip game. If you're give me four points,

937
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 2: I'm taking tennis. Yeah.

938
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: If they can force Lamar, if you can keep Lamar,

939
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: if if I'm Tennessee, I'm looking at what the Steelers

940
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: did against him in the second half last week. I say, Okay,

941
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: we're just gonna do that. Yes, we're gonna blitz our

942
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 1: inside linebackers. We're gonna have five guys rushing at all times.

943
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: We know we can't cover anybody in the back anyways.

944
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 2: And and Bateman and Beckman Beckham aren't scary enough.

945
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: Scar Yeah, Scarce. So if they want to throw six

946
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: yard passes to to to the you know, the tight

947
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: end and flowers and okay, we'll do that.

948
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take our chances with that. I'd be shocked

949
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 2: if that's a game's a blowout or you know, a

950
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: ten point win.

951
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked if this game is a blowout. No.

952
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers at five and zero are at the

953
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: Browns at two and two. San Francisco is now six

954
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. The over under just thirty seven.

955
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: We know, we now know, and I knew this before.

956
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's not playing, No, I think it was. Yeah,

957
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: they'd be smart to actually sit Miles Garrett for this

958
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 1: one too.

959
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,240
Speaker 2: Maybe, I mean, if he truly.

960
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: If he's dealing with that foot issue if if something

961
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: that could get better, He's gonna face Trent Williams a

962
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: lot this week.

963
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll move him around. They move him around more

964
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 2: than I.

965
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,959
Speaker 1: Don't think it. Rushing him against Trent Williams isn't gonna

966
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: go anywhere.

967
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's never gets shut down, but they'll

968
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,439
Speaker 2: they'll move him around a lot. I think they hang

969
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 2: on that side of the ball for a while, you know,

970
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: like that wouldn't shock me. If the Niners are winning

971
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: this game by three at halftime, if.

972
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: If it's like last night, well I think it'll be

973
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: more than three, because it'd be more than three.

974
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 2: Nothing sounds like they're'll be yeah. Oh no, I mean

975
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be three and now three and

976
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: now three and out on the other side of ye yeah,

977
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 2: and eventually the Browns d is going to have to crumble. Yeah,

978
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 2: you're gonna be well, I think that.

979
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: I think where that where San Francisco wins this. They

980
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 1: know Cleveland isn't going to score a lot of points,

981
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: so you just say, Okay, we're gonna just turn over.

982
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: If we get two first downs on this possession and

983
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: kick the ball away, fine, so so be it. Because

984
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: they're not going to get a first down.

985
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they're going to push the needle

986
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 2: at all San Francisco, and the second half should still

987
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 2: belong to them. Yeah, so it might be.

988
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: It might be ten nothing at the half and then

989
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: it goes the next thing. You know, you look up

990
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 1: and it's twenty seven to three.

991
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 2: It sounds like there could be weather. I mean, this

992
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: area of the country is always sloppy this time of year.

993
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 2: The one thing that's interesting to me is Schwartz, the

994
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: defense coordinator for Cleveland, has a tremendous record against Shanahan.

995
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is not win losses,

996
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 2: but just Shanahan's points per game, yards per play when

997
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 2: facing Schwartz is like the lowest of anybody. And that's fine.

998
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 2: That's why I think the first half will be close,

999
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: because I do have great respect for Cleveland's defense. I mean,

1000
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: this could be zero zero at half or three nothing

1001
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 2: at half. I don't know how it's a third.

1002
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: We can because if Cleveland actually tries to throw the

1003
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: football and do things, they're going to put the ball

1004
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: in Harm's way.

1005
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 2: Oh and I think they'll be sacks, and I mean

1006
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 2: they'll be negative plays for the Browns offense, and then

1007
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 2: that side of the ball isn't going to be competitive

1008
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 2: to me.

1009
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: I think it's so they lost without Watson twenty eight

1010
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: to three to Baltimore two weeks ago. This is now

1011
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: a three week injury for him, by the way.

1012
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: Oh, this has been a strange situation. Yeah, and there's

1013
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 2: no guarantees back next week.

1014
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean this is this is they're three

1015
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: weeks into this injury. Really, it's kind of a month

1016
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: because he came out of you know that he was

1017
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: first hurt that long, Yeah, because he if you remember,

1018
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: he sat out the game against Baltimore. Then they had

1019
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: their buy a week. Oh yeah, they're coming out of

1020
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: their buy a week. So the injury actually happened.

1021
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 2: In the game before before that.

1022
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 1: So it's been he's been because you know, if you remember,

1023
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: they were practicing for the Baltimore game and it came out, well,

1024
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's limited today on Wednesday, Yeah, oh he's yeah,

1025
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: but he'll be okay, he'll be fine. And then he

1026
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: was limited again the next day. Yeah, and then Friday,

1027
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 1: well he came out and he threw two football through

1028
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: the ball twice and they shut him down again like.

1029
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 2: Oh they did in pre game too. Yeah, he had

1030
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: no chance played and he threw like two or three

1031
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 2: balls and was like wincing in pain. And you know, yeah,

1032
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: that whole situation has been weird. I do think the

1033
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 2: Browns d could keep it close for a while, but

1034
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 2: they're gonna be on the field so much and the

1035
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 2: second half is going to be McCaffrey for a touchdown

1036
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 2: for a touchdown.

1037
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: Against that offense. Yeah, that's not a good No.

1038
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 2: I think that they really have a very slim chance

1039
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: to win that game. They're like ten point dogs.

1040
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 1: Well it's six and a half here, Oh is it? Yeah?

1041
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: I was talking about this morning. It's was ten.

1042
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: We may have risen since I think, yeah, yeah, I

1043
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: think because it was five and it opened at five

1044
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: and a half with Watson expected with Watson iffy, and

1045
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: it's gone really the other way.

1046
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: You can get it six and a half, do it, folks.

1047
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers are four to zero to one

1048
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: against the spread this season with three straight covers.

1049
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 2: Wow, they are only beating people beating them bad and underrated?

1050
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 2: How good there are?

1051
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'll just smash that.

1052
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 2: No, I think they smashed them the second half I

1053
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: think will be ugly. Ugly, yeah, I mean, how point

1054
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 2: did they score? Under ten?

1055
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: Under ten?

1056
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 2: I think under ten?

1057
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, underten. The really interesting game in the division.

1058
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: This week, I think it's one of the best games

1059
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: on the slate.

1060
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: Is Seattle at Cincinnati. Seattle's three and one, the Bengals

1061
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: are two and three. Cincinnati favored by two and a

1062
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 1: half in this game. The over unders forty five. We'll

1063
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: find out in this game if Joe Burrow is actually back.

1064
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 2: I believe he is, and I believe that. But if

1065
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 2: I'm power ranking these two teams right now, even this version,

1066
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 2: the Burrow back version, I think Seattle's the better football

1067
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 2: team today. I mean maybe I would change my mind

1068
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 2: a week or two, or if they beat him bad

1069
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 2: or whatever. But Seattle's coming off a bye, They're getting

1070
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: their tackles back. They are quite healthy on both sides

1071
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 2: of the ball. Pete Carroll has a tremendous record playing

1072
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 2: one o'clock games in Eastern time zones, and he's got

1073
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 2: a phenomenal, like rare record against the spread doing those things,

1074
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 2: and it's kind of like Tom Win. After the bye,

1075
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 2: he's been around the block. He has a plan for

1076
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: these things. I mean, these coaches that have been around

1077
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 2: forever know what they're doing. If this game we're in,

1078
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 2: which stock Kansas it wanted, I would pick Seattle.

1079
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: I also think that you know, with rain hitting the

1080
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: East Coast this weekend, if it's raining there that supposed

1081
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: to be that really favors since Settle and.

1082
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 2: Helps Seattle too. Yeah, and the other thing that's been

1083
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 2: under reported, I don't think the Bengals O line is

1084
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: fixed at all, not at all. Just blames Burrow for

1085
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 2: all the might actually be worse than it is, worse

1086
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: than last year. And Seattle gets after you. I mean

1087
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 2: the Dafe Moway and those guys my way, they're playing

1088
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 2: really well, and some people that aren't huge household names,

1089
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: and they get Jamal Adams back. And should they have

1090
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: traded two first round picks from of course not. But

1091
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: he impacts the game. And I think, you know it

1092
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 2: sounds like Hagans will play.

1093
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: Sounds like Higgins is going to play. The thing about

1094
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: Burrow last week he was sacked three times in a game.

1095
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that he was really pressured like he

1096
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: had been, Like Arizona didn't.

1097
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 2: Really pressure him. Gonna be a tougher challenge, so you.

1098
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: Know, he didn't have to move around a lot in

1099
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: the pocket. I think, you know, if he has to

1100
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: get off of his spot in this game, that's when

1101
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: that's if he has.

1102
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 2: To consistency hit more in this game, move off of his.

1103
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: Spot, that's when the calf injury shows up.

1104
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, and I think that you know

1105
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 2: he could. You know, Arizona didn't challenge him.

1106
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: Money, No, not at all, and they've they've adjusted now

1107
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 1: to where they're getting the ball out of his hands quickly.

1108
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of quick stuff to chase,

1109
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: and then they took their shots when once they got

1110
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: But it's Arizona like.

1111
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 2: The other thing too, is that this correlate with the line.

1112
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 2: I don't think they're running games particularly good. I don't

1113
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 2: think mixing is particularly good.

1114
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: So it's not going to carry you, no.

1115
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 2: I mean, I would expect Seattle to move the ball

1116
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 2: on the ground better than Cincinnati does.

1117
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1118
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: I don't know who wins that game, but it's kind

1119
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: of like the Ravens one. I will take the points

1120
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 2: for sure.

1121
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: Seattle ranks fourth in the NFL and pass pass rush

1122
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: win rate whatever that is.

1123
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 2: They played the Giants.

1124
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they will. They won every pass rush

1125
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: in that game.

1126
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 2: But there used to be a problem for the team

1127
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: and now it's a strength.

1128
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: Now it's a strength.

1129
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 2: They went out and signed Jones, the Ohio State kid,

1130
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: and you know melt Malway that I mentioned. They're getting

1131
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 2: better and you know, and their coverage is good. They

1132
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 2: have good corners.

1133
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, one und percent. So that'd be an interesting game

1134
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: to watch.

1135
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: I think it's the best game to watch.

1136
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't wouldn't surprise me if se how wins that

1137
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: game outright.

1138
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 2: I assume that's on here. I don't think.

1139
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: I mean zone now it's a CBS game. I would

1140
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: think they probably end up having because the forty nine

1141
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: Ers Browns is a Fox game, So.

1142
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 2: Have them at all.

1143
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: You might have them both watch all three of these

1144
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: if you want, I would think so. Yeah, extince the

1145
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: Baltimore game is early in the morning, so that work.

1146
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: I think you Yeah, that'll be good. Anyway, we're gonna

1147
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: get to another break could be.

1148
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think that's crazy, it's not.

1149
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: And boy, that would be the best thing that could

1150
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: happen for the Steelers.

1151
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 2: I'm predicting one and two but I think it could be.

1152
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: And three Okay, yeah, all right.

1153
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale. Allie are listening

1154
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: to the Drive here on Dealer's Nation Radio. We come back.

1155
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: It is time for the Fantasy Football Focus. We will

1156
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: do that right after this