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

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Speaker 1: on your seven home of the Black and gold S

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Speaker 1: n our Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: Scale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. Matt, it's a playoff Monday.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait till we talk about this game all week

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Speaker 1: long and it should be a lot of fun and

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Speaker 1: of course our Steelers Nation Coverage of the Steelers playoffs

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Speaker 1: is presented by fed X and Ford. Um. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yesterday was weird because I came out of

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Speaker 1: that game and I'm sitting here right and you know

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Speaker 1: the general feeling. I know, the Steelers lost the football game,

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Speaker 1: but I really felt like something felt more like a win.

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Speaker 1: I thought the same thing, you know, like everything I

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Speaker 1: wanted out of that game and some of it I

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Speaker 1: wanted as the game went along, all really worked out.

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Speaker 1: It was kind of like the perfect day without the

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Speaker 1: w you got through without any any injuries. Mason Rudolph

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Speaker 1: looked like an NFL quarterback. Those were two of the

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Speaker 1: big ones for me. They ran the football somewhat effectively. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: they made plays down the field, you know, they got

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Speaker 1: they did what we said feature Chase Claypool and a

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Speaker 1: good moved by you yeah, and then the other one.

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Speaker 1: And as I was watching it realized it was going

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Speaker 1: to come to fruition, which is why the W wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been so great. If I could pick any team

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs to play in around one would be

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Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, you know, I think that sets up

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Speaker 1: well for I mean, if you if you look at it,

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Speaker 1: um and I started looking this up today for something

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm writing. The only quarterback in the a f

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Speaker 1: C playoffs who does not have any any playoff experience

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Speaker 1: is Baker Mayfah. I thought about that, but that definitely true, right,

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Speaker 1: And it's different. He's and he's a high strung guy

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Speaker 1: to begin with. He's gonna come out, he's gonna end

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Speaker 1: up making a mistake, probably overthrow a ball, and there's

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Speaker 1: Manko waiting for it's gonna be I don't expect this

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Speaker 1: game to be close. I don't either. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think it sets up really well. Steels JV squad took

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Speaker 1: them to the limit. I mean took them ten rounds.

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Speaker 1: It was very Browns, Like I mean, I'm sitting there

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Speaker 1: is when they when Joel Botonio they had a fourth

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Speaker 1: and one in their own territories, like the forty yard

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Speaker 1: line fourth and one, and they were gonna go for it, yes,

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Speaker 1: and then Botonio false started right um, and it was

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Speaker 1: a one score game at that point. I'm like, the

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Speaker 1: Browns are browning here, They're they're they're they're choking this

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Speaker 1: is and they and they damn near did yea twice

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Speaker 1: twice they give up the touchdown and then on the

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Speaker 1: on side kick that was that was that was dicey

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Speaker 1: right there is. I mean, I'm a fashion of Browns.

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Speaker 1: I'm playing on saying a lot of goods about them

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Speaker 1: this week. I mean, but I feel like they accomplished

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Speaker 1: their goal. As it feel like the teams have different goals,

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Speaker 1: you know, one is to win at all. One was

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Speaker 1: again of the postseason and take that first step. It's

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Speaker 1: been forever for them, and the world's a better place

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Speaker 1: when the brown fans are not just talking about all

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Speaker 1: the all the quarterback names on jerseys and the laughing stock.

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Speaker 1: So good. I'm glad that they're a legit team and

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Speaker 1: they're one of the best seven teams in the a

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Speaker 1: f C. But that's who I want to play, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially with the defensive full strength and the pressure they're

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Speaker 1: gonna put on Mayfield. Um and you know again they

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Speaker 1: got in. In two games against Mayfield this year, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers sacked him eight times. They hit him, I believe,

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Speaker 1: thirteen times in two games with that offensive line. That

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Browns offensive line is good, very good.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just not against the Steelers because I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't know that any offensive line is necessarily

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Speaker 1: good against the Steelers. No, I think, right, I just

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Speaker 1: think that there their pass rush, even without Bud, is

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Speaker 1: to the point where it just gets it gets there's

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Speaker 1: every week. And that was the other thing that I

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Speaker 1: pressures he looks like and that's working against their their

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Speaker 1: was a it was a backup and then a backup

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Speaker 1: took in the first round, who's who was supposed to

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Speaker 1: but I shook my head a little bit, going, uh,

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Speaker 1: he needs to get stronger. He's far exceeded in my expectations.

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Speaker 1: Like now I'm pretty confident, like this defense can overcome

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Speaker 1: the loss of Bud. I mean it's not ideal, but

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Speaker 1: he's not Bud. But he's not. But he's pretty darn

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Speaker 1: good and he would start for any team out there.

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Speaker 1: And it'll be a nice compliment to TJ for the

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Speaker 1: next couple of years. And he gets better every time

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Speaker 1: I watched him. Yeah, the Browns would kill to have

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Speaker 1: him right now with Olivia Vernon. If you haven't heard

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Speaker 1: the news on that yet, Torn Achilles tendon Um didn't

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Speaker 1: think he was gonna be available for this game. Now

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Speaker 1: he may not be available to start next year. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a free agent. Yeah, Um, And he was

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Speaker 1: if you look at it. He had no sacks in

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Speaker 1: the first six games of this season. Um, finished a

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Speaker 1: year with nine, including one yesterday. He was he was

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Speaker 1: their best defensive player down the stretch because Myles Myles

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Speaker 1: Garrett was not playing is not playing well. It seems

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Speaker 1: like it's post COVID with him too, And I'm there's

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Speaker 1: some of that. I was. I was actually watching UM

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Speaker 1: got hurt in that game, it looked like it was

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Speaker 1: it was a kind of a hyper extension of his arm. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I just wonder if that's if that's bothering him

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Speaker 1: for you know, that works out into an eight sex season,

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Speaker 1: which was fine, but that's not what he is. And

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Speaker 1: he didn't really affect the game at all yesterday, right,

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Speaker 1: And actually Claiborne, I think gave all more problems than Garrett.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, and he's not a bad player.

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Speaker 1: I mean he can. He's a more of a rotation guy,

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Speaker 1: But um, you're right, Vernon was is a big loss

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know Ward comes back. He's our second

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Speaker 1: and now you're missing a couple of those guys and

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Speaker 1: Garrett's not the same. That's problematic. Yeah, I just I mean,

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Speaker 1: showns as well. He suffered a concussion in that game.

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Speaker 1: that definitely hurts them as well. Uh That's why you know,

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Speaker 1: to me, the Steelers getting through that thing injury free. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was the that was the main goal. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, winning that game as much as Mike Thomas,

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Speaker 1: you know, we played just to win it and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. You really didn't not the right and everyone

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Speaker 1: tried their hardest on every snap. Of the guys who

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna let this happen. No, but and you

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Speaker 1: did some You showed some daw wrinkles and some things

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Speaker 1: to produce offense, and you game plan for them obviously,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't a preseason and you know environment. But

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Speaker 1: from what I saw, it looked like some of the

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Speaker 1: backup linemen were warming up. They were right before the

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Speaker 1: before the Claypool touchdown, before they converted the fourth the

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Speaker 1: fourth down on the past to Deante Johnson to keep

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Speaker 1: that drive going when it was twenty four to nine.

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Speaker 1: Those offensive lineman Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So which is fine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't if you watched the Eagles game

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Speaker 1: last night, that was an embarrassment trying to lose. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't like that I see. To me, It's not like

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was playing well, No he was not. He

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Speaker 1: really was. So you know, the yelling and screaming comeing

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Speaker 1: know what, you don't go six and ten and then

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Speaker 1: about it. It's not like that. It's not like you

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Speaker 1: was eleven and five or something like that. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: we just missed out. No know, you won six games,

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Speaker 1: he won six games. You got what you deserved. And

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Speaker 1: it just rubbed me wrong. I was watching that game

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Speaker 1: just thinking, I'm not sure that the integrity of the

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Speaker 1: game is in place here for this Philly has any intentions.

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Speaker 1: It rubbed me wrong, And a lot of it was

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Speaker 1: just watching the the faces on the Eagles Lineman and Hurts,

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Speaker 1: and you know, nobody was thrilled with the decision, you

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Speaker 1: but they did go for it. They gave Hurts a

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Speaker 1: chance to put them ahead. Yeah, when they went for

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Speaker 1: it on fourth down, fourth and goal and and didn't

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Speaker 1: do it. I mean, if they score that touchdown there,

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Speaker 1: they might win the game. No, they might. I mean

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Speaker 1: they could have been the better team. And that's kind

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Speaker 1: of my point almost anyway, and the Steelers weren't in

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Speaker 1: I mean they that really was awfully close to knocking

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Speaker 1: the Brownies out, you know, absolutely, And you know, you

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Speaker 1: could make the argument that Chase Claypole was interfered with

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Speaker 1: on that on the on the two point conversion. Um,

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Speaker 1: Browns run on first down when they got the ball

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Speaker 1: back after the on side kick, Vince Williams got tackled

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Speaker 1: in the backfield just completely he yanked down as he

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Speaker 1: shot through. It was gonna have the stopping up the

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Speaker 1: not gonna be an eight yard game, which is what

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Speaker 1: it turned into. Yeah. Um, and he just got tackled

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Speaker 1: in the backfield, just just completely yanked down. Is he okay? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I thought, I mean I thought coach Tomas said that

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Speaker 1: there's no injury concerns, but he didn't really play much

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Speaker 1: the second half. Yeah, I mean they were, you know,

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Speaker 1: taking it easy. You know To it wasn't out there

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Speaker 1: about you Mason Rudolph in his performance from yesterday, because

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Speaker 1: was he better than Mason Rudolph yesterday? I don't think so.

426
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Speaker 1: The Rams would have rather played the Rudolph I believe so. Yeah,

427
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: wolf for completed fifty seven percent of no touchdowns in

428
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: an interception. But I think the biggest thing isn't necessarily

429
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 1: it is a good conversation to compare them to all

430
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: the thirty two backups, because frankly, folks, there's only ten

431
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,360
Speaker 1: good ones. Really, I mean, there's like forty good quarterbacks

432
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: in the world right now, and most teams haven't even

433
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: know there's forty. I don't know if there's forty stretch. Yeah,

434
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: there might be thirty five there, and five of them

435
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 1: are in college or retiring right, and six of them

436
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: are starting every week, you know. I mean Mike Glennon

437
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: started this week. Some guys that are Brandon Allen started,

438
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: you know, and they threw forty yards. Yeah. Um, what

439
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: was gonna say? As opposed to comparing him to the

440
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: their backups? I think the best thing to think about

441
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: with Rudolph is he's getting better. That's the thing is,

442
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: you are allowed to get better. And I'll I can

443
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: tell you this because I've seen it. Uh. The kid

444
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: works hard. He's constantly throwing the football, He's constantly working

445
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: with the receivers on the side. He he goes out

446
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: and gets his own quarterback coach in the off season

447
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: to work on his footwork and things of that nature.

448
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: He's not sitting around on the couch all year long.

449
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: One on the backup and I'm happy with that exactly.

450
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 1: And his feet it showed, and actually he threw the

451
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: ball better and I've ever seen him throw it too,

452
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: I mean just and he's never been a bad passer. Yeah,

453
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 1: you saw the deep when he came out of Oklahoma State.

454
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: You know, the thing on him was, well, he doesn't

455
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: have a super strong arm, but he can. He has

456
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: a nice touch on the deep ball, and we saw

457
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: that drop it in. But it world needs to be

458
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 1: where Ben hasn't had that touch on the rate ball.

459
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure Ben could throw the ball harder

460
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 1: than Rudolph still, but I worry that he's lost some

461
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: of that touch and you know, being able to drop

462
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: it where it needs to be and the control of

463
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: the football at the right. Now as we watch a

464
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: highlight here where he slides to his left, I mean,

465
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: he gave his kind of stuff with him, gave his

466
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: guy a shot on it, you know, gave James Washington

467
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: a chance to catch a jump ball in the end

468
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: zone one on one. And He'll never be Lamar Jackson,

469
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: but I've given him a hard time over the last

470
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: couple of years of being a little statuesque in the pocket.

471
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: He's he looked better than that yesterday. He could move,

472
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: He ran away from pressure a couple of times, and

473
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: then to your point, kept his eyes down field and

474
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: reset him, reset himself, and then through ye and was

475
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: tough and wasn't afraid to take a hit. And I

476
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: mean is he perfect, No, but he's getting better and

477
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: there's tools there to work with. I mean again, I mean,

478
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: if he gets to play that whole Jets game last year,

479
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: maybe we thought of him this way every step of

480
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: the way in the off season. We don't have to

481
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: listen to that. But I mean, he's the backup, folks.

482
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to go get another one. They're

483
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: they're not. He's under contract at a at a very

484
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: reasonable price next year. Um, then it becomes a question.

485
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: Then it becomes a question do you resign him. If

486
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: you do resign him, what are you signing him to? Uh,

487
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: you know, do you feel like you know the number one?

488
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you draft one this year and allow

489
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: him to come in and compete with Rudolph next year

490
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: for for the for the for the number two job

491
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: and then the number one job. I mean, what's the

492
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: what's the long term prognosis? Will be interesting, But he

493
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: is no worse and better than a lot of the

494
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: guys that they ran out there throughout the eighties, right Yeah,

495
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: that's I mean David Woodleys and guys of that nature.

496
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: Pre Ben. I mean there was a pretty stretch between

497
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: Neo and Ben. I mean I saw some things there

498
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: yesterday that you know, he throws a better deep ball

499
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: than Neil o'donald ever did. Yeah, a little rusty on

500
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: my o'donnald table. I mean, I saw a lot of

501
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: Neil o'donnald. He took him to a super Bowl again.

502
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: I think you can win with Meson Rudolph if you

503
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: surround him with He's not to to use your analogy,

504
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: He's not the the engine on the on the train,

505
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: but you could win with him, I think. I mean

506
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: that might. Yeah, I think so. I mean I feel

507
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: like I'm getting a given him a little too much

508
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: credit now because it was I hear you. I mean

509
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: it's one game. Yeah, it's one game. But I'm I'm

510
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: looking back, you know pre uh, you know pre Cleveland.

511
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph last year showed flashes here and there, and

512
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: again was was was winning games. I think they were

513
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: four and two with with Mason Rudolph starting, and one

514
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: of those was his first start against San Francisco forty Niners,

515
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: who were pretty damn good football. They went to the

516
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Defense and if and if James Conner is

517
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: a fumble late in that game, they win it, and

518
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: I'm convinced right now two thousand twenty Mason is much

519
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: better than that. Mason. Yeah, you know. I mean again,

520
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: he's put in a lot of work, all that valuable

521
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: time he got last year, understanding the speed of the

522
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: game at this level when you're not in the Big

523
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: twelve anymore. Like I mean, this is really hypothetical, but

524
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: if if the if Ben fell last year and you

525
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: had this version of Rudolph for every snap since then,

526
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: no Duck involved, I bet they win ten games. Yeah,

527
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: I agree, you know what I mean, Because to your

528
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: point about seeing guys college open and those kind of things,

529
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: I thought he threaded the needle on some some type balls,

530
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger on him, and threw the ball into

531
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: some tight situations and put it on the receivers um.

532
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: You know, they had a couple of early drops. Otherwise

533
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: he'd you know, yeah, it was coping like whoa nice throw. Yeah,

534
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: I didn't know that that would have come out a

535
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: year ago. Probably wouldn't it, Probably wouldn't have. Yeah, he

536
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: probably would have held the football and not thrown it.

537
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: So I think I think there was some progress there,

538
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: and you can see why the Steelers um have consistently said, look,

539
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: we Mason's are number two. You know, he's the back

540
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: of the ptation or right. And it's not just I

541
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: mean the Rams might have been saying that about their

542
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: guy or whatever too, I'm sure they were, but yeah,

543
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: yours meant Yeah. I think the Dobbs conversation these that

544
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: he had too, because I think there's a nice wrinkle.

545
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: I think he has a role. See I was asked

546
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,479
Speaker 1: that and and somebody said, well can't they can't they

547
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: use Dobbs moving forward? What Rootolphs your number two? Yes,

548
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: and he has to be the number two on game

549
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: days because no, you know, especially in the playoffs, you're

550
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: not gonna you're not gonna turn things over to two

551
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: Dobbs in the playoffs. Of course, have to be active

552
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: on game days. But here's the problem. If you make

553
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: then Dabbs active on game days, now you've now you've

554
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: taken another special teams guy out of the equation. But

555
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: you're killing when when New Orleans does that. Taysom Hill

556
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: plays special teams. He's the he's the pump protector and

557
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: he can do some of those things for you. You're

558
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: not gonna do that with Dobbs, and Dobbs are gonna

559
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: play near his make snaps as Hill does on. So

560
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: you take your three specialists, three backup offensive lineman. Yeah,

561
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: that's six, three back up defensive lineman. Now you're up

562
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: to nine players. Um, now you're your linebackers of course

563
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: are all guys who play special teams. And you're sitting

564
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: in your corners, but your wide receivers. So take another

565
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: I mean, do you want to sit Ray Ray with

566
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: Cloud for Dobbs. You know you're not setting them down

567
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: there to run down on their under kicks or something

568
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: like that. Um, so let's say you know you've got okay,

569
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: you can use Claypool in that regard, but you can't

570
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: use You're not using Juju Smith Schuster to run down

571
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: under kicks. You're using Deante Johnson or George. Um, you

572
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: know the numbers start getting thin. Yeah, and then you're

573
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: and then you get issues unless you want to have

574
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman or a defensive lineman running down the

575
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: cover kicks. Monta kind of does that, but that's not ideal.

576
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: That's not ideal. Right now, you're been right in terms

577
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: of putting eleven quality bodies out there on kicks, and

578
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: especially you get a couple of guys hurt, and people

579
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: will get hurt. And right, um, you know a lot

580
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: of defensive packages where you want six defensive backs and

581
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: what if one's out, you need that seventh guy to

582
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: step up and all these things, you know, And I

583
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: think it's worth kind of talking about just because I

584
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: think it was nice to put it on tape, because

585
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: I guarantee you the Browns. The Browns are are preparing

586
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: for it this year. This week they're going to see it,

587
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,479
Speaker 1: or at least have to prepare so at least they

588
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: spend fifteen minutes during practice this week. Okay, if they

589
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: bring Dabbs into the game and they run this outside

590
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: zone options and stuff, again, here's what we gotta do.

591
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: But then they're not protecting against Ben football. And you know,

592
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if Ben would object, you know, like

593
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: Breeze doesn't. I'm not taking him off the field for

594
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's third and four and you bring

595
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: Dobbs into the game, well, you know he's probably gonna

596
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: run the football. Why don't just leave Roethlisberger in the

597
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: game and go from you know, my only reservations against

598
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: what you just said there is they've been so bad

599
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: in short yardage third and fourth and one. That's the

600
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: only time I'd ever tried them out there. But here's

601
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: the thing, they're bad. They're bad in those in those

602
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: short yardage situations with Benny Snell were Anthony McFarland. If

603
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: James James Conner is running those plays, I'm perfectly fine

604
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: with James Conner running those places as opposed to gadgetting

605
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: it up and having Ben take the snap. I trust

606
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: the Connor and Connor will get the first down on

607
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: third and one. Yeah, there's a lot of things I

608
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: want to mention that. I mean, I think it's so

609
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: clear and I'm on a big James Connor fan, but

610
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: he's so much better. He's he's there, Yeah, he's surely

611
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: they're better guy. Those other guys are. They need to

612
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: back this offseason. There's no doubt about it. Yeah. And

613
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: then you know, I was also thinking about roster space

614
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: and game day. One of the reasons they ran the

615
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: ball better. And this isn't a knock on Ebron Raiders

616
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: out there blocking, you know what I mean, Like, it's

617
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: nice that you're playing just Vince McDonald out there blocking,

618
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I wouldn't mind having Raidar active

619
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: on game day and have three tight ends dressed because

620
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: he will help on specialties. But then you're short somewhere else,

621
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, And that's the Somebody asked me about that

622
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: today on my chat and they said, well, what about

623
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: you know, instead of dressing Samuel's dressing Raider. I'm fine

624
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: sitting Samuel's out to be honest. But here's the thing.

625
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: What if Connor gets hurt right now? You now, who's

626
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: your receiver at all the right nobody could trust to

627
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: pick up? And yeah, you want to go to your

628
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: hurry up package, and then who's your back is down

629
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: with two minutes in the in the left in the game,

630
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: and you don't trust, You don't want to snell out there.

631
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: You don't trust. That's why you need That's why you

632
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: need a back. We keep going back to this. Yeah,

633
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: we need to find somebody at that position. And this

634
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: way too early to talk about it, but watching these

635
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: these college games, I would consider a na J. Harris

636
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: or an a T N in the first round. Maybe,

637
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I need to do a lot more draft research,

638
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: but this team with somebody like that on it. I mean,

639
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: it goes back to our our trub conversation. You know,

640
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: there were a couple of times yesterday where the Steelers

641
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: had him in the backfield, stopped and he ends up

642
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,959
Speaker 1: turning into a you know, a five yard game out

643
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: of nothing positive play. And Connor does that way more

644
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: than the other two on the team. But his his

645
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: turning it into a positive play. Okay, I'm I'm I'm

646
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: stopped in the backfield and I get two yards or

647
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: one yard, not seven or it's it's a it's really

648
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: well blocked and he still gets seven where Trub's still

649
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: run Trump's running a day like Yeah, I mean that's

650
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: what they just don't have anybody with that top gear

651
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: with a lot of juice. Yeah, but he's way better

652
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: than the other two. It's not even times you forget

653
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: about it when he's out three or four games and

654
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: you realize how bad that position is. But yeah, they

655
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: need a back yea um. But again getting back to

656
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: our initial conversation, h you know, I don't know Mason

657
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: Rudolph to me is he's not your obvious air apparent

658
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: to Ben Roethlisberger, but his hat is in the ring.

659
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I think so. And and you're gonna look,

660
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna look to you know, he at least gives

661
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: you a bridge maybe if it comes into that situation

662
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: where Okay, you're not in a position this year to

663
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: get a guy, to get somebody that you really like. Okay,

664
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: well you know we we have Mason here. Then you

665
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: bring in the veteran back up. If if Roethlisberger retires,

666
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: he could be your Fitzpatrick. Yeah, you know what I mean.

667
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: And and see when the guy's ready or whatever. Yeah,

668
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: and there's value to that. And you know, let's assume

669
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: Ben comes back. I would imagine there's not a new

670
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: quarterback on the roster. It camp, I would probably draft

671
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: another one, just just again, throw throw another hat into

672
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: the ring. Fourth round type. Yeah, it wouldn't, wouldn't. Doesn't

673
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: have to be a first round guy. But I would,

674
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: you know, just keep because you gotta keep trying every

675
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: couple of years. Right now, you've now you've got something.

676
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: If you get to Dak Prescott in the in the

677
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: fourth round. Russell Wilson, Yeah right, I mean, and all

678
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: your problems are solved forever and you have no money

679
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: invested in I mean, that's the there's a theory you

680
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,280
Speaker 1: should draft one every year, you know, like the Packers

681
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: used to do that, even on date Brett Farve, you know,

682
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's if he's good enough to push

683
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: Dobs off the roster, Okay, yeah, you can trade Dobs

684
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: or six round pick again or something, pick it back up. Yeah, yeah,

685
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: I guess I wouldn't object to that. I mean, I

686
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: don't think this is this the offseason you look for

687
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: the air apparent unless you have a high grade or

688
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: somebody and they fall, you know, Aaron Rodgers falls in

689
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: your lad and you think, yeah, if you love Mac,

690
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: what's his face from the back, Jones or whoever it is,

691
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 1: and he's there, you take them. Sure, you never turn

692
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: your nose up at him. But I would think this

693
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: will be the quarterback room next year and then the

694
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: year after. Maybe it is a first round pick who's

695
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: not quite ready and Rudolph starts Game one and I'm like,

696
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with that strategy, or maybe a trade for

697
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: somebody to add someone who knows. I mean, but it's

698
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: a lot of time beforet between now and then. Yeah. Absolutely,

699
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: But r S and our coverage of the Steelers Playoffs

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701
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,840
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705
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706
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: Ford and Matt, I want to play a little game

707
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: here with you. I'm gonna roll through some roll through

708
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: some names here on the Steelers roster, and I want

709
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: you to grade their season, the whole season, this to

710
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: this point. And we'll start with the obvious. That would

711
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: be Ben Roethlisberger coming back off the injury was a

712
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: big question. Could he get through all sixteen games? Well,

713
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: obviously he didn't play the last one, but he did

714
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: play a full season, thirty three touchdown passes, ten interceptions,

715
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: hundred passing yards. How would you grade his season? He's

716
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: not an easy one because there was a stretch. I

717
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: thought that if we if we're talking about this is

718
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: like in week ten, we're gonna say an a right

719
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: exactly like I really want to be sixteen games worth here,

720
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: not just what you do for me lately, and it

721
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: would it be much different if it was two weeks ago,

722
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: if we didn't see that last you know, obviously that

723
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: last half against the Colts was going to carry a

724
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: lot of weight. That's the last time he saw him play.

725
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: Three record, three record, he played the whole year. Where

726
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: would they be without him, you know, I mean that's

727
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: we saw that the year before. It would not have

728
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: been eight and eight this year without him. I don't think,

729
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm givena be you know. I

730
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: still I'm not gonna say there's limitations, but there are concerns,

731
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: you know, with his style? Yeah, I agree? Um, how

732
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: about Juju Smith Schuster nine seven catches eighty one yards,

733
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: nine touchdown catches. The ninety seven catches and nine touchdowns

734
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: are both top ten in the league. Yeah right. I

735
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: Mean it actually shocked me yesterday when they said boys

736
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: three catches away from Hunters, Like wow. But I guess

737
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 1: that adds up. He's been there every step of the way.

738
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: He's been a very good player. I don't think he's

739
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: a great player, you know. I mean, there's so many

740
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: good receivers around the league, and I don't think he's

741
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: in that year. I think he's a two. I think

742
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: he's a but had probably a better year than any

743
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: of us. Give him credit for he did the job

744
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: and played hard. B plus. Okay, Deante Johnson eight catches,

745
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: eighty three yards, seven touchdowns. I'm gonna go a minus

746
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,720
Speaker 1: because of the drops. I think he's their best receiver.

747
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: I think he's their number one. They treat him that way,

748
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: best route runner, extremely bright future. I mean he missed

749
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 1: about two and a half games. I mean, how many

750
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: times was he in and out of the line up

751
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: during that stretch? To or questionable? And overcame those things?

752
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: The drops you can't ignore. You'll give me an a minus. Okay,

753
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: how about the Chase Claypool with sixty two catches for

754
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: eight hundred seventy three yards, nine touchdowns, eleven touchdowns overall.

755
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not sure what scale I'm grading on

756
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna give him an A even though I

757
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: think Deante is the best receiver on the team, because

758
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 1: he's a rookie and he's a difference makers a rookie,

759
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: he's a massive difference maker. He's a great downfield threat,

760
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: he can block a little. I mean, he's got massive upside,

761
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: and I think he kind of have to draw grade

762
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: rookies a little differently. I mean, he came in and

763
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: made a huge impact. Then it's still doing it, and

764
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: yesterday made that even better. I mean, what more could

765
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: you ask for when you took him in the second round. Yeah,

766
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: this was a tougher one. Eric Ebron fifty six catches,

767
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: five fifty eight yards, five touchdowns. Couldn't block you were me, Yeah,

768
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: I can't block himself, but that's not but that's what

769
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 1: he is. Yeah. I remember when we were talking about

770
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: what what are your expectations for Ebron coming into the season,

771
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: I thought, well, if he gets to fifty catches who

772
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: have had a pretty good season, Well he got the

773
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,959
Speaker 1: fifty six and he does good things. I mean he's

774
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: a matchup problem, you know, you get him on a

775
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: linebacker another thing, but Ben, he's great about finding the

776
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: one on ones and the matchup. He's better than that

777
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: than ever. And he Brown is a big part of that.

778
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you get him on Vince Williams Avery Williamson type,

779
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: he's gonna end up with eight catches for ninety yards

780
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: that day and you're gonna win, you know what I mean?

781
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: But he almost If he had w R next to

782
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: his name, it would just make a lot more sense.

783
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: Is there any Is there really any difference between him

784
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: and Chase Claypool where they lie up, but in terms

785
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: of they walked in the room and what they do

786
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: and how well they block, not much different. No, Yeah,

787
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: I hear you. I'm gonna go be minus though this

788
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: is he's a drop too as well, but that's who

789
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:17,959
Speaker 1: he is. This is a tougher one. James Conner seven

790
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: one rushing yards um. He had six rushing touchdowns. He

791
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: also had thirty five catches for two fifteen yards. Yeah,

792
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: and we just said last segment, he's so much better

793
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: than the other one guys. Yeah, you definitely won him

794
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: on the field as opposed to the other guys. He

795
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: just can't stay healthy. Yeah, the reliability you can't. And

796
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: to me, the biggest issue with the health stuff is

797
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: are the times where you play him and he gets

798
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: hurt in the first quarter and then he's not available

799
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. Yeah, that to me is like, Okay,

800
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: guys are gonna get hurt. It happens. Yeah, I mean

801
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: it's just that there's probably ten games in his career

802
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: where he starts the game and then he's leaving in

803
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: midway through the first quarter. In the second place, at

804
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: some point in the game, he's not available, and that

805
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: just happens to you, right, Yeah, there's a lot of that.

806
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: And I mean even if he I mean, he's never

807
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: gonna be an a I mean, we can easily name

808
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: fifteen backs that are better than him, but he They

809
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 1: are much better when he's out there and he's at

810
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: his best. And I think that's where he's at right now.

811
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: But I mean, would you just run into the wheels

812
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: come off in the playoffs in terms of snap count, Yeah,

813
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: because there's no tomorrow, there's no tomorrow. You're gonna resign them.

814
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: I mean, who cares about, you know, saving them for anything.

815
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: I think you use them up like crazy these these

816
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. I mean, yeah, I know you

817
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: can't afford to lose him, but if you if you

818
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: don't have him, you can't win, Like if the other

819
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: guys are on the field. I don't think that's a

820
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,959
Speaker 1: that's that's not a positive. I mean, if you're winning

821
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: by fourteen and the fourth quarter, that's definitely closer. But

822
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: if it's a three point game, in the fourth quarter.

823
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: He's out there every snap. Yeah, I agree, And he's

824
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: not left Bell I mean him by any stretch. But

825
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: he's the best they got. I mean he's averaging four

826
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: point three yards of carry and Benny Stuffs is three

827
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: point three yards of carry. It's a full yard differences.

828
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: It was that strong. And it doesn't get inflated with

829
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: those Chubb ad yard runs. You know, they can really

830
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: inflate a yard for carry at time. I mean, he

831
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: can break off some chunk runs, but he's not taking

832
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, real quick through some of the defensive

833
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: guys here. Makeing Fitzpatrick a okay. How about Vince Williams.

834
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: I think he's a better coverage player than he used

835
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: to be. Wasn't his finest moment. I thought he kind

836
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: of looks slow and it was coming back. I don't

837
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: know how well he know, but especially if Bush is

838
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: out there, I think he's great to be a lot

839
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: different than if he's the every times different things to

840
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: no fault of his own, but if he's playing next

841
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: to Bush, you're fine there. If not better than fine, Yeah,

842
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bother with t J. Watt Um. How

843
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: about let's look at some other guys here, it's Roll Edmonds.

844
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: Do you think him being inactive was kind of a

845
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: statement to Steeler fans that, hey, this guy is really good. No,

846
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean if it would if it had

847
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: been a playoff game, he's probably he's out there. Yeah.

848
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: I never misses any time, but there's no reason to

849
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: play him in that game when he's you know, let

850
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: him get healed up. B plus. Yeah, I think he's

851
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: been pretty solid. Yeah, I mean I don't see many mistakes.

852
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: Like his name doesn't get mentioned a lot. But that's

853
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: a compliment as well as a little bit of a detriment,

854
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, how about the corners Joe Hayden and

855
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: Stephen Nelson? Will will group them together. I thought Nelson

856
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: was better last year. I thought he got better as

857
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: the season went on this year. Agreed. I think Aiden's

858
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: pretty much a constant. You know. I keep wondering when's

859
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: he gonna lose a step, when's he gonna start getting

860
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: be deep? It really isn't happening. Yeah, I mean he's

861
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: smart enough to know if read receivers the routes and

862
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Um, how about nice, I mean,

863
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: if Sutton's a good player. Sutton Hilton has been been

864
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: good all year, but that's could be the lemon the offseason. Yeah,

865
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,280
Speaker 1: no kidding, let's look at the let's let's we'll hey

866
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 1: Heyward and two it together as well, Louis lou m m, yeah,

867
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: I mean that that, I mean pretty consistent. I wish

868
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: too it were a little more consistent. Guy's double digit

869
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: saxon into you know me, and there's times you texted

870
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: me during the game. I mean there's times he just

871
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: takes why Teller, who's all of a sudden the best

872
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: guard in the world. People seem to think again, the

873
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: same the same guy who loves he loves all things

874
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: everybody else in the a f C. North And his

875
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: question to me today was, um, why did I see

876
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: to it getting pushed around so much yesterday? I'm like,

877
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,479
Speaker 1: was I watching the same game? Because I kept seeing

878
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: sometimes he was walking dudes back, he was taking why

879
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: a Teller and pushing him back into the quarterback and

880
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: why I Tellers? Apparently this is the second coming at

881
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: John Hannah. Yeah, I mean, Teller is a good player,

882
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but kind of came from nowhere

883
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: and everyone's favorite guarding the league all of a sudden. Anyway,

884
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: I think the thing that hurts to it is in

885
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: the public eye is because he's playing next to Cam

886
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: and he's so jaw dropping at times. Do you think

887
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: he should be able to do it every play? Well,

888
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: Joe Green didn't do it every play either, folks, you

889
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it's hard to be finish.

890
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: The finish the season with ten tackles for losses, which

891
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: was third on the team behind h. T. J. Watton.

892
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: Williams finished the season with quarterback hits, which is second

893
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: to Watt and eleven sacks, which is second to Watt.

894
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, was like third in the

895
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: a f C. Yeah right, all right, one of the

896
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: only interior linement with over ten. Yeah, Lulu would give

897
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: me if you're great, not a curve. He would have

898
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: a very high grade too. I thought he'd a really

899
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: good year. Yeah who he is? Yeah, I mean game,

900
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: he's not good to do it, but but he didn't

901
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: miss I'm not having hardgrave no, right, right, I mean

902
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: that that It was a signing that hurt me, Like

903
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: I thought, boy, that'd be a great guy to it

904
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: had for the next year forgetting eight year, ten year career.

905
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: I've been playing well for Philly, but sure they could

906
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: use them, but they got got they were fine without one. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh,

907
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna take another break to come back with the

908
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Focus R S n R. Coverage of Steelers

909
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: playoffs is presented by FedEx and Ford. He is Matt Williamson.

910
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on

911
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

912
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: Williamson on home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

913
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back to us. In our coverage steel playoffs is

914
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: presented by Fanex Ford. It's time for the Fantasy Football

915
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: Focus here with Matt Williamson and Dale Lolly. And if

916
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: you started our draft Kings lineup last week, very nice work.

917
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: You scored a whole bunch of poins. You probably made

918
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: some money. Our lineup scored a hundred and eighty three

919
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: point nine points. I believe somewhere in that range whatever

920
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: it was. But Kirk Cousins Uh with a huge game.

921
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: Uh four five passing yards and three touchdowns. A lot

922
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: of fantasy goodness in that game. In fact, we had

923
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: looking at our lineup, we had the number one quarterback.

924
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: Is that Cousins was number one. Cousins number one, four

925
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: oh five and three touchdowns. Maybe there's some formats where

926
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: Tom Brady scored a little bit. He had three and

927
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: four touchdowns, but he did throw an interception. Yeah. Uh,

928
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: we had Jonathan Taylor in our lineup. He went for

929
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: two fifty three in two touchdowns, did hundred yards of

930
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Yeah. Uh. We had Wilson Um in

931
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: the lineup. He scored twice, so he had twenty three

932
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: point eight points. Uh. We had one Antonio Brown in

933
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 1: our lineup. He scored thirty six point eight points. Yeah,

934
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: we know one is gonna get hurt, but that was

935
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: coming on. Um tore it up. I mean, if you

936
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: want to look for Mrs IRV Smith only had five points.

937
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: That's the tight end position. You're not gonna go get

938
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. When you got some of these other guys

939
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: that we had in our lineup, it would be really

940
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: tricky next year figuring out who to pick. And yeah,

941
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: and Adam Feeling kind of let us down a little

942
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: bit because he's had all those passing yards and ERF

943
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: Smith and Theeland weren't involved. Jefferson was heavily involved and

944
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: but still but he didn't catch touchdown. He like he

945
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: had a bunch of catches and some yards, but no touchdown. Yeah.

946
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: It was a prime matchup against the Lions and a

947
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: lot of points back and forth. But yeah, I mean

948
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: so if you listened, give us a tweet and hopefully

949
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: you made a couple of bucks because that was a

950
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: winning lineup. Now, the only difference I did is I

951
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: went with this lineup for I do. I do a

952
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: lineup every week from my preview pick or from my

953
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: preview in d K Pittsburgh sports dot com, and I

954
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: made one change. We had Gus Edwards in there. He

955
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: got eight points, didn't score, but had an okay game.

956
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: I changed out and putting him high Is in there

957
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: for the same price. He ended up with twelve point

958
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: seven points because he catch with that injury, right, he

959
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: was dealing with something. Yeah, I wasn't sure he was

960
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: gonna play, so I went with Hines instead. He scored

961
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: twelve point seven. That's said, you know they're gonna they're

962
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Jaguars. Oh yeah, right. And I know

963
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: it's weird to start both Colts running backs. It is,

964
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: but they're very different. But I got fifty points out

965
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: of the position. It's not so bad. Yeah, Yeah, a

966
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: couple of things. I assumed DFS works the same for playoffs.

967
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: There's just fewer games to pick, fewer games. Yeah, and

968
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,959
Speaker 1: even at that, there's six games to pick from this weekend.

969
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna set a line up again this week. We'll

970
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: do something and you could either do it for just

971
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 1: a Saturday lineup or the whole the whole playoff slate

972
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: line just a Sunday line up. Yeah, so that's plenty

973
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: to choose from. Yes, we'll do that again later in

974
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: the week. Maybe somebody will actually will make some money

975
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: off of our lineups this week. I bet plenty did.

976
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: Kevin Gerski was sitting right here last week. He was

977
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: putting producing our show, and he was he was writing

978
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: it down and then didn't play it. Didn't he did,

979
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 1: and I talked to him. He's no, I forgot I

980
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: gotta take take the money and run. Absolutely, we were

981
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: having a little conversation. I didn't mean to, you know,

982
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: to go sideways on you, but some of these rookie

983
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: running backs that are finally coming on, I mean, in

984
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: a way, they're heartbreakers because both of us invested heavily

985
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: from day one, but they're gonna be high picks next year.

986
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: I mean, don't hesitate to take Dobbin's Acre, Swift, Taylor.

987
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys are gonna go top two rounds

988
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: for sure. I was. I was just telling you I

989
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: had on my my my main fantasy team, Josh Allen,

990
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: uh Cook's Dalvin Cook. I should say not Dalvin Cook,

991
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, JK. Dobbins, DeAndre Hoppins, and my other two

992
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 1: receivers were Brandon Cooks and Antonio Brown. And I also

993
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: had Juju Smith Schuster and I didn't make the I

994
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs because those rookie running backs and

995
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: now they're just going crazy. And yeah, I mean I

996
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: really think three names you engined there and Hopkins won't

997
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: be far off, but Dobbin's Taylor and certainly Cook, they're

998
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: gonna go in the top fifteen picks. Yeah, I mean

999
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: Taylor might go and Hopkins might go to Yeah, he's

1000
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: off either, he's probably a day and Alan will be

1001
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: what the third quarterback taken right, don't let me have

1002
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: any ahead of him. Man, there's no reason, Yeah, heavily

1003
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: would be investing in those those rookie running backs for

1004
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, I mean it's very just I wish,

1005
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: you know, this is a non protection league. I would

1006
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: have a heck of a decision. I don't think that's

1007
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: a trend, though, Like, did we learn a lesson for

1008
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: next year's rookie running back class? No, because I think

1009
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: it was. I think it was. I think it was

1010
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: tied into the lack of preseason two. I just think

1011
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: it's because it wasn't one of them. It was all

1012
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: of it, and they all exploded about this time of year.

1013
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: And even like Antonio Gibs it, you know what I mean, Yeah,

1014
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: he got injured a little bit down the stretch, But

1015
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: I think it's just coaches not trusting them in protection.

1016
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: I think that was a huge part of it. Like

1017
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 1: you didn't because you didn't you don't want to learn

1018
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: that about your running back protecting rivers. Yeah, watching Lamar

1019
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: Jackson get get his head, you know, taken off because

1020
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:11,479
Speaker 1: because you know Dobbins can't pass block yet that's I thought,

1021
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: that's where I really miscalculated. And it hurt me in fantasy,

1022
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: and I guess it did to you too, because they

1023
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,320
Speaker 1: I thought receivers would have a harder time adjusting in

1024
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: the rookie year, but it was running backs. It took

1025
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: the longest, without a doubt, without a doubt, And I

1026
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: think it has to be protection and just trust. And

1027
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: I actually asked Chase Claypool about that last week. Um,

1028
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, I said, I think I asked ju Ju

1029
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 1: too about the the Is it easier for for young

1030
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: receivers to come into the league now and and immediately

1031
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: step in and play, because it must be. They spent

1032
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: their entire you know, from the time there twelve going

1033
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: to passing camps and seven on seven on drills and

1034
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: things of that nature, and then they go to colleges

1035
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: that are are implementing the you know those things. And

1036
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 1: Claypol said, yeah, you know, the seven on seven drills

1037
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: and the camps make the transition to college year for you.

1038
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: You don't take as long as to learning sense in

1039
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: that situation. And then you know, if you don't have

1040
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: to spend all that time learning in college to get

1041
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: up to speed, well, then that that makes life easier

1042
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: for you. Then it's like taking a p classes before

1043
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: you get to college. So makes sense. Yeah, I also

1044
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: think there's more college principles spread and you know these guys.

1045
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: The NFL is catering more to college than they used to.

1046
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: It used to become learning the NFL way, you know,

1047
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: I think coaches, but he used to take a I

1048
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: mean receivers. There was a hard fast rule three years.

1049
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: Yeah right right, you know there a third year Bray

1050
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: who's the third year break up guy? That's not you

1051
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: don't see that anymore, right, I mean Corey Davis is

1052
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: very odd. You know that doesn't you know, it doesn't struggle,

1053
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: but doesn't take takes a little while and then it

1054
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: has a big year like that doesn't happen If you

1055
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: don't do it in year one or two, then move

1056
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: on from you. Yeah, when you're coming into the league. Now, yeah,

1057
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 1: that's part of it. I mean there's a lot of

1058
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:56,240
Speaker 1: competition there. But looking at this week's top performers again,

1059
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: Cousins four oh five and three touchdown passes. Uh, he

1060
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: won't not be in the playoffs, but Tom Brady will.

1061
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: He had three twenty six and forty one for four

1062
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: touchdown passes against Atlanta. It's Atlanta, Atlanta is not in

1063
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so he does carve up bad defenses. Here's

1064
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: one thing to take note of for fantasy play this weekend.

1065
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do any DFS stuff, the other than

1066
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: the Steelers in the a f C, the best defenses

1067
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: in the playoffs are all over in the NFC. So

1068
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 1: if you're looking for guys to start, tend to lean towards,

1069
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: you know, for fantasy purposes, lean towards those a f

1070
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: C games. Tennessee is a bad, awful Cleveland's a bad defense.

1071
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: Indie has some good rankings, but it's all from the

1072
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: first half of the year when they played garbage. And

1073
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're bad defense, but they're not good.

1074
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: The Ravens are okay. Um, the Bills aren't necessarily good.

1075
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: They're playing a little bit Kansas City's they're off this weekend,

1076
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: but they're not very good. They have thirty two sacks

1077
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: this year after they had forty five last year. It's

1078
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 1: a big difference. I know that you can't take a

1079
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: lot away from yesterday, but their defense is really bad yesterday.

1080
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: I mean, they have holes on that team, is all

1081
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, I'm not positive that the Bills aren't

1082
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: the best tea in the league. They might be. At

1083
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: least they're playing really well right now now yeah, um, yeah,

1084
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 1: So I mean Washington, New Orleans, Tampa Bay. Uh you

1085
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: look at those those defensive Yeah, Seattle has gotten better. Yeah,

1086
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: rams are fantastic. So you know, if you're if you're

1087
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: looking for guys to start, I would stay away from

1088
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 1: the NFC games and look to the to the a

1089
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: f C. Sure there's any fish in the NFC. You know,

1090
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: Green Bay's okay, Seattle's okay. I mean those guys are

1091
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: better in Tennessee, in Cleveland without a doubt. Yeah, I

1092
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: mean yeah, it's so um that's that's how I would

1093
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: lean towards, you know, doing that. Uh, there could be

1094
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: a lot of points scored in NFC games more I

1095
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,280
Speaker 1: think about it. Yeah, I think that that they're more offensive.

1096
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: Derek Carr three seventy one and two touchdowns, DeShawn Watson

1097
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: with the again that that Tennessee defense three sixty five

1098
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns year he had. Yeah, he's the passing

1099
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: leader this year and nothing around him and no help,

1100
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: no hope in sight. I think I called that last year.

1101
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: We were talking about who's who's put them? We talked

1102
00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: about that. I said to Shawn Watson's my my guy.

1103
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: It was a year too late, too early. The reality

1104
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: is his year isn't much different than Alan Mahomes and Rogers. Yeah,

1105
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: he just said nothing around them, and we'll talk about

1106
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: that more in the next second. When we talked to

1107
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: start talking a little a little bit about who got

1108
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: fired and stuff today. Looking at the running backs, it

1109
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: was Taylor with two fifty three, Henry with two fifty two.

1110
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: I mean that doesn't happen too often. You rush for

1111
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: run for twinter and fifty yards and you don't think

1112
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: you don't need the lead that week in Russian it

1113
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: just goes. I mean both against a FC South team.

1114
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: IFC South defenses are awful, right right, right, are horrible,

1115
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: Houston is really bad Tennessee. Yeah, um, Dobbins had won

1116
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: sixty Uh yeah, I was only on thirteen carries to

1117
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: Nick chobb against the Steelers four team for one game.

1118
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: Yeah time Montgomery had yeah, hundred five yards on eighteen carrys.

1119
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: They put up big points without Michael Thomas. What's the

1120
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: last time time Montgomery probably lined up at running back?

1121
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: All right? I mean he's kind of some Camaro traits,

1122
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: so give him credit for using him. Right. Looking at

1123
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: the receiving leaders, you have Marvin Jones with eight, Brandon

1124
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: Cooks eleven for one sixty six and they both had

1125
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Those are monster fantasy days. Both those guys

1126
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: are better than people think. Yeah, you can start them

1127
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: every week, especially Cooks. And again Cooks did that against Tennessee.

1128
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: Yeah A J. Brown ten for one fifty one touch on.

1129
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: They have to. I mean you've got four hundred yards

1130
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: of offense at a two players players, all right, and

1131
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: Corey Davis four or five drops of that game too offense. Yeah,

1132
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy with five for one forty and a touchdown.

1133
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a guy that is going to be

1134
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: interesting player because I actually bet the over on his

1135
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: yardage and because he's gonna be getting so many targets

1136
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: and he was under it until that eight yard or

1137
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: at the end, by the way, and then they end

1138
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: up losing after that. But I end up reading today

1139
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: too that they I think he was first or second

1140
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: in air yards for the whole season, and he's he

1141
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: had some drops and don't sleep on him. And again,

1142
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about it before this season. I

1143
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: think it's really going to be the case next year

1144
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: because those guys are all kind of jelling together. Drew

1145
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: Lock could be a fantasy He's way better for fantasy

1146
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: than the world. Absolutely, and I bet that although we'll

1147
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: get to a PROBA next segment, Elway got elevated, Yeah, elevated, elevated.

1148
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: It's basically got kicked out of the g M. Yeah,

1149
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: you're not this guy anymore, right, So I wonder if

1150
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: Drew will be back or not, or how they're gonna

1151
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: handle that. But oh, he's gonna be back, but I

1152
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: wonder if he'll be the guy. Yeah, it's gonna be

1153
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: interesting to see. And then of course Antonio Brown eleven

1154
00:59:55,360 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: for one eight, Yeah, starting to jell. But Mike Evans

1155
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: got hurt in that game, and they're saying it's a

1156
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: day to day, week to week kind of thing, but

1157
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: it's not like a season ender or anything. Yeah, but god,

1158
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: when had a big game too when he was out. Yeah,

1159
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: not not what you want out of that, but certainly, Uh,

1160
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: the interesting situation has been frustrating for we got a

1161
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: little less so this first week. It just shows you

1162
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: when what two of them can do, if you take

1163
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: a third out, you know they're still as good as ever,

1164
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: all three of them. Yeah, No, I I agree, and Uh,

1165
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: so we'll do our we'll do our our picks here

1166
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: for our team this week later in the week, but

1167
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: I could bet we're probably gonna attend towards starting some

1168
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: of the a f C guys. Good call. Yeah, the

1169
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: defenses are drastically different, horrendously different, right, and it's just

1170
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: not even close. So anyways, he is Met and Williamson.

1171
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to the Drive here on

1172
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio, where our coverage for the Steelers playoff

1173
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: is presented by fed X and Ford. When we come back,

1174
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about some of these coaching openings around

1175
01:00:56,440 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: the league right after this. Well your tunes about Drive

1176
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

1177
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: M H, welcome back to our coverage. So Steelers Playoffs

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01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: I presented by FED EXTRA on board and Matt. It's

1179
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: a Black Monday um on the league and we've been

1180
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: We knew there were going to be some openings. There's

1181
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 1: been some some uh stuff that's kind of happened here

1182
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: over you know. After all, we knew that the Falcons,

1183
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: the Texans, the Lions would be looking for new head coaches.

1184
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: All we've seen, uh, the Jaguars, Jets, and Chargers throw

1185
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: their hats into the arena there as well. And I'm

1186
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: looking here anything, there's usually one more that after the

1187
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: fact that you know, something happens. And Zack Taylor got

1188
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: the stamp of approval, he's gonna be back, supposedly the

1189
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: Eagles did. But I know that Peterson is supposed to

1190
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: be meeting with ownership tomorrow. I doubt that's the fire them,

1191
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: but I don't know anyone else. Sometimes those go south.

1192
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean it's not a guarantee. Yeah, it's

1193
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: it is not um. But as we sit here right now,

1194
01:02:33,880 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: so which one of these jobs is the most attractive

1195
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 1: to you? I'm gonna read off what the what these jobs?

1196
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: How much cap space they have, the draft picks that

1197
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: they have, and you Yeah, so it was starting from

1198
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: the bottom here, the Falcon's job, because they have the

1199
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: least amount of COMMNNA go by cap space ago, so

1200
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,080
Speaker 1: they are this is all estimates on the same on

1201
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 1: the cap stuff. But they're twenty four million over the

1202
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: cap over over the cap is that I imagine or

1203
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: when whatever it is, one seventy whatever, it's gonna be

1204
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: higher than that. But they don't have a lot of

1205
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: cap space, and in folks, they're not gonna get cap

1206
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: relif by trading Julio or Ryan there those arend that

1207
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: doesn't Yeah, that doesn't help um. So they get a

1208
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: first round pick, it's a fourth overall pick, which is appealing.

1209
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: They get the fourth pick in the second round, and

1210
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 1: they've got the fourth pick in the third round and

1211
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: they have three picks and rounds four through seven, but

1212
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 1: no cap space, which I think they're interesting, Like they

1213
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: were four and twelve this year, but they played better

1214
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: than a four and twelve team, and this is two

1215
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: years in rows. They've lost close games they do and

1216
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers have some of that obviously. Would you give

1217
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: Raheem More a set job? That side where I was

1218
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: going with this, he's going to actually interview. The other

1219
01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: interrooms are not yesterday's side. The defense played pretty well,

1220
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: and I fear like if you run it back with

1221
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: Ryan and Julio and that whole group, and you might

1222
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: as well give Morris a year and see what happens

1223
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: as opposed to blowing it up. But then you might

1224
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: get old and be picking up the Papa Draft again.

1225
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: And should you take a quarterback no matter what it

1226
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: for if there's you know, if it's Lance or you

1227
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: know Wilson, or does that help you That doesn't help

1228
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: you win this year? Next year? Yeah, I mean that

1229
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: doesn't help your immediate goal. I mean, Drew Breves will

1230
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 1: probably gone out of division, Brady's not gonna be there

1231
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: much longer to it's Caroline is a mess. You could

1232
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: win that division next year. I mean, I don't think

1233
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: that's crazy talk. That's low on my list though, of

1234
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: ones I would want. I mean, how would you handle

1235
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: the draft back? I mean, I don't know that you

1236
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: could turn away from a franchise quarterback. I don't know

1237
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 1: that you can, but I mean I would be open

1238
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: to trading out of that spot if somebody else wanted

1239
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: to slide up because I need defensive help. If there

1240
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: was a there's no chase you, I'm gonn this track.

1241
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: If you have one of those type of guys, that

1242
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 1: would be ideal. But like, if I could move back,

1243
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, four or five spots and pick up an

1244
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: extra second round pick, now I can get three defensive

1245
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: guys who can come in and give me help right away,

1246
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: working maybe drafting offensive lineman and two defensive guys and

1247
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: make me better. That's not bad or I mean, with

1248
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: with that moment, maybe i'd even consider, like, hey, I'll

1249
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 1: moved down to eight and give me your first next

1250
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: year because I might need to move up to go

1251
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: get right, And then that gives you the ammo to

1252
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: do that and run it back. But I have some

1253
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:34,000
Speaker 1: cards in my hand that I can make moves next year. Yeah,

1254
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: that one's tricky. This one's even trickier. Houston fifteen point

1255
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 1: nine million over the cap next year. No first round pick, alright,

1256
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 1: that goes to Miami, No second round pick. They've got

1257
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 1: a third round pick, and they've got five picks through

1258
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:55,920
Speaker 1: rounds four through seven. But you have DeShawn Watson. With

1259
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: all respect to Herbert and Lawrence and quarterbacks will talk

1260
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: about in this conver station, gimme Watson. Yeah, you know,

1261
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 1: because I know what he is. Yeah, and I know

1262
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 1: he's great and so fantastic. If I'm taking well, I

1263
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 1: think ownership should say I want to win the Super

1264
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: Bowl or be a big time contender in two thousand

1265
01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: twenty two, we're gonna we're gonna struggle for a year.

1266
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: We don't really have a lot of You get to

1267
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: clean up your clean some things up. You know, maybe

1268
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: we'll trade JJ for third round pick and you know,

1269
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 1: do some house cleaning. Sorry to sewn, it's gonna be

1270
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: a tough year, but you're gonna be real happy about

1271
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,919
Speaker 1: it two years from now, because they don't they don't

1272
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: have much to do anything right now. The problem is

1273
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 1: you're bringing in a new coach. He's just awful. Yeah,

1274
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: I mean they almost have to bring in a defensive guy,

1275
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: I would think, because it's just they just do it's

1276
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: it's there. Bill O'Brien hamstrung this franchise badly understanding, right,

1277
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: they really have one good thing going for him. It's

1278
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: a great thing to have, It's yeah, I mean, it's

1279
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: the toughest thing to find is a franchise quarterback. He

1280
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: got your franchise quarterback, but everything else around him is

1281
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: a train wreck. And you know what many resources to

1282
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: get draft picks and things like. It's not like somebody's gonna,

1283
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 1: you know, give you something for David Johnson or you know.

1284
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks came out and said he just absolutely does

1285
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: not want to be traded again. And I'm sure Watson

1286
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: is looking at ang going, I don't want them to

1287
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 1: be traded. I need somebody to third ball, right, And

1288
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 1: I bet if we looked at that team, they probably

1289
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: need eight to ten starters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and no,

1290
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: and they have no no cap space and no draft

1291
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: picks with which you do it. I feel bad for Watson.

1292
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 1: I hope his whole career doesn't go that way. But

1293
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: I don't think next year is gonna be pretty No,

1294
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Either. Detroit has ten point six

1295
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: million in cap space, they have the seventh overall pick,

1296
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: they get the seventh pick in round two, the seventh

1297
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: pick in round three, and two picks in the fourth

1298
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: and fifth round. No six or seventh. It's not a

1299
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 1: great job either. The one thing I think a lot

1300
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: of people look at Detroit, good boy, that's a terrible organization.

1301
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: But they're loyal. Yeah, I mean they probably kept Patricia.

1302
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: You're too long. You know. They don't go through coaches

1303
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 1: left and right. They're also looking for a GM um

1304
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 1: big quarterback situation. Almost. I think in that situation, you

1305
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: have to hire the GM and allow the GM to

1306
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: help hire the coach. And I know they're already talking

1307
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 1: about what they want to get the what's his face

1308
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: from the Yeah he's from Michigan. That's great, fantastic. Does

1309
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:27,679
Speaker 1: that mean he's a good coach because he well he's

1310
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: from here. No, he can't. That's not you can't make

1311
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 1: your coaching decision based on what he's from here to. Yeah,

1312
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: most right. And I don't know one of the things

1313
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: that you know, I get it, um, you know, minority.

1314
01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: We need more minority coaches in the NFL. But automatically

1315
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 1: saying well, Salah and the enemy should be head coaches,

1316
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's I mean, they should be

1317
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: interviewing for these jobs, there's no doubt about it. But

1318
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that I just say, Okay, you're you're

1319
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:01,760
Speaker 1: the best guy, We're going to hand you the job.

1320
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if they've got that strong a resumet,

1321
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: because what did Solids defense do this year when they

1322
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: didn't when he didn't have guys, Yeah, when he didn't

1323
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,720
Speaker 1: have Stunt last year had last year he had Washington's

1324
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: defense with with four first round draft picks up front,

1325
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 1: but they could get after. They didn't have that this

1326
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: year and their defense wasn't nearly as good. I mean,

1327
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 1: by all counts, he's a great leader, he's very fiery,

1328
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 1: he's very smart, and I would want to sit down

1329
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 1: in the room with him and talk to him. Absolutely. Yeah.

1330
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're slam duns to get jobs though,

1331
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: um B enemy gets all this credit for Kansas City's offense. Well,

1332
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 1: Andy Reid calls that. He doesn't make that, he doesn't

1333
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: call the offense. That's Andy Reid's job. Yeah. I mean,

1334
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: a guy like Caldwell has been interviewing, he's at least

1335
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 1: been a head coach, and he's one right, Marvin Lewis

1336
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: has been a head coach. These guys have been there

1337
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: and done you know. That to me is where if

1338
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: you want to talk about where the disconnect is between

1339
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:59,800
Speaker 1: minority coaches, coaching hires and everything else. You often see

1340
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: um like Todd Bowls for example, Todd bowl should be

1341
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:07,639
Speaker 1: getting interviews because he's done it. He's done it as well.

1342
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: That's where that's where the second time around, like the

1343
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 1: minority head coaches don't get the second time the second

1344
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: chance is often might be right about that, I mean,

1345
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:19,799
Speaker 1: and so I would talk to some of those they've

1346
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 1: at least done this, and you're not bringing in a

1347
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: new a guy who's never been a head coach before

1348
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: and say, okay, learn on the job, and you know

1349
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 1: when it doesn't work out after two years, well sorry,

1350
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: and then you don't get another head coaching chance back

1351
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: the Lions, though, Yeah, the big question. And I don't

1352
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: care who the coach George em is, but I think

1353
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:41,759
Speaker 1: they have to have this answer when the second they're hired.

1354
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 1: Are we in with Matthew or we trade? Absolutely? And

1355
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,720
Speaker 1: that would be the first question. Hey, what how do

1356
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 1: you reband? Yeah, what's your plan for quarterback? Because this

1357
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: is what we've got. Is he a guy that you

1358
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: can win with? Or do you want to trade him for?

1359
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:56,919
Speaker 1: I think you get a first round picked for Stafford.

1360
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a win situation where you have

1361
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: to go, you know, the Niners or the Colts. I

1362
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: think would give you a lot for a guy like that.

1363
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: I think you don't have enough pieces in place to

1364
01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: win the next two years. So to me, I'm looking

1365
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: elsewhere from my quarterback and probably dealing Stafford if the

1366
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,600
Speaker 1: price is right. If I know I have, you know,

1367
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 1: somebody on the hook. If I can get a first

1368
01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 1: round pick from the Colts or Niners, I think you

1369
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 1: go with trade Lance or Donald or both or something

1370
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: like here's here's the problem with here's the problem with

1371
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:30,000
Speaker 1: trading him though, lose galloway. Um, he's got a nine

1372
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 1: point five million salary next year, what doesn't that's not bad? No,

1373
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 1: I would say he's feasible. But he's got a ten

1374
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: million dollar roster bonus that you're gonna have to pick up.

1375
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: So he's really gonna cost you nineteen and a half million, which,

1376
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: again in the grand spark, is not awful. Um. And

1377
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: then he's tradeable. Some of these quarterbacks aren't the roster

1378
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 1: bonuses due on in marches. Um, it's due to the

1379
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 1: fifth day of the league here, which mean it'll be

1380
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 1: doing March. So if you're the Lions, you're gonna have

1381
01:11:57,360 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 1: to pick that up. But they're gonna trade them before

1382
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 1: the draft or not at all. But you probably won't

1383
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: do that before the new league here starts. You're probably.

1384
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:07,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that's so there's some urgency there, like, are

1385
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 1: you gonna want to pick up a ten million dollar

1386
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: option on this guy which is gonna go against your

1387
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 1: cap and he's not on your roster. That's that's tough.

1388
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: And then you then you I better be getting a

1389
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: first round draft pick for him, right, I mean, that's

1390
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:23,800
Speaker 1: the thing with with the wind Steel. I believe it's wins. Yeah,

1391
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:26,560
Speaker 1: it's wins. He has a roster bonus duo on the

1392
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 1: third day of training camp, which a lot different. So

1393
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 1: if you trade for him, the team who trades for

1394
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: him then has to has to pick up that they pay.

1395
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 1: Um it's a big difference, a big difference. We're talking

1396
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: about ten million bucks. Um. I could be persuaded also

1397
01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 1: to keep Stafford because I think he's quite good. The

1398
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: problem is, you get the seventh pick in the first round,

1399
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 1: are you gonna be able to get a quarterback because

1400
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: you don't have one on the roster and you have

1401
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,120
Speaker 1: too many holes to trade up to three or whatever,

1402
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: because then you're gonna go sign Then you gotta go

1403
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: sign one. Then you're going, okay, now we're gonna you know,

1404
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 1: bridge with Teddy Bridgewater here again or something like that,

1405
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 1: and that's the Wins into the world. Yeah, that's no good.

1406
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna pay the same money you would

1407
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: have been paying Stafford the top five again next. Yeah,

1408
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: that's a problem. That's a tough one because there's not much.

1409
01:13:09,760 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, Kenny Golladay is probably gonna leave, like

1410
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things you need. Yeah, that might

1411
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: be my last job of all these. Actually, the more

1412
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: I think about it, the Chargers have thirty million in

1413
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: cap space. They've got the thirteenth pick in the first round,

1414
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: the thirteen pick of the second round, the third round

1415
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 1: the same, and they've got five picks and rounds four

1416
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 1: through seven. And that's an awesome job. They've got a

1417
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 1: quarterback right there. Their problem is, is there a number

1418
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: two team in their city and in their division. Yeah? Yeah,

1419
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: and we'll be probably for a little while. But seven

1420
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: teams go every year. I mean, get through when James back.

1421
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 1: Get through, when James back, You get your quarterback in place.

1422
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 1: You got Bosa, you get you got pieces. Yeah, you

1423
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: got guys. I mean you want the last four games

1424
01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 1: in a row. See that to me? If I'm the Chargers,

1425
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: I'm looking at hey, Marvin Lewis, what are you doing?

1426
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: We need to we need to learn how to win,

1427
01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: We need how to rebuild. You know, Jim Calboy, what

1428
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,680
Speaker 1: do you you know? Yeah, it's a bad call for

1429
01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: a team like that. I don't need the young up

1430
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,759
Speaker 1: and comer who's Yeah, we don't need somebody making showing

1431
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: you we need somebody that knows how this works. We

1432
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: get some pieces in place here, we've got some cap space,

1433
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: get us to the playoffs, and bring this quarterback along. Right,

1434
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 1: we got a lot of horses we're gonna you know,

1435
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,599
Speaker 1: I guess they might lose like a hunter Henry, but yeah,

1436
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 1: that's doable. You know, you've got a good draft pick.

1437
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 1: That's a good job. I think it's a really good job,

1438
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 1: because I mean I think Herbert's awesome. Yeah, the Jets

1439
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: have seventy three million in cap space. They've got two

1440
01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:34,559
Speaker 1: first round picks. They get their pick in the uh

1441
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 1: Seahawks pick, They've got a second, They've got two thirds

1442
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 1: and five and rounds four through seven. A lot of

1443
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 1: draft capital, a lot of cap space to picking third. Right.

1444
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 1: Uh So again this comes down to do you love

1445
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 1: Donald or would rather have Fields or Wilson? You know,

1446
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: and I think you'd lean towards the rookie just for

1447
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 1: money reasons to to start over. Um, Joe Douglas is

1448
01:15:03,720 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna be the GM though, I mean he's gonna pick

1449
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: the guy. And they have a couple of things in place,

1450
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 1: Like I think people laughed early, Like no one's donna

1451
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 1: want the Jets job like. I don't think they're a

1452
01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 1: laughing stock. They're just they have resources to build. I

1453
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:17,600
Speaker 1: mean they got a little better as the season went on.

1454
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: They're not gonna be good next year, right, but see

1455
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: los Alan Lawrence heards it. Does I think I run

1456
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:30,600
Speaker 1: it back again with Donald I drafted I draft. I

1457
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: go for the offensive linement with the second pick if

1458
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 1: he can't move out of that spot. Late last night,

1459
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 1: I put out that exact tweet that this was my

1460
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,839
Speaker 1: prediction for the draft. Now you're set at both tackle spots.

1461
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: That's what Douglas is all about too. He loves the

1462
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: big men you've got. You could pick. You got two

1463
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 1: first round picks, like in a second it's it's early

1464
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,200
Speaker 1: and so essentially you got three first round picks, you

1465
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: got two third round picks like you could really rebuild

1466
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: this thing, and a bunch of cap space. The tweet

1467
01:15:57,280 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: I said out last night is I think Jags go Lauren.

1468
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:04,600
Speaker 1: Douglas watches his soul Dude from Oregon and says, I

1469
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: can have Pace and Baselli for ten years as my tackle,

1470
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: but Beckton's a star, and give Sam a friendly deal

1471
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: for three years and get him, get him a true

1472
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,799
Speaker 1: number one running back, get him, get him a quarterback

1473
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: guru type dude, and let's see what we can do

1474
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: here and dominate in the trenches. I think that might happen.

1475
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 1: And then that third pick is, uh, somebody has a

1476
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 1: quarterback forget who The third pick is off the top

1477
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 1: of my head, but anyway, and oh, Miami with from

1478
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: Houston's pick. And then they just say, come and get it.

1479
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: Give me an Orgy three deal for the three for

1480
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: your choice of any quarterback not named Lawrence. I can

1481
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 1: see that happening, but who knows. And then Jacksonville has

1482
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: eighty one million dollars in cap space. I think it's

1483
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 1: a great job. Two first round picks, the number one overall,

1484
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: and the Rams pick two seconds the number one. Then

1485
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,000
Speaker 1: the first pick of the second round in the Vikings

1486
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:01,559
Speaker 1: pick at forty seven, which is right made way through

1487
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:03,679
Speaker 1: the and then at one third, which is the first

1488
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 1: pick in the third round. So you're gonna get five

1489
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 1: quality players in the draft, presumably if you do it right.

1490
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:10,559
Speaker 1: And then a couple early wins last year and they

1491
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 1: got seven picks and rounds four through seven. Wow, yeah,

1492
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And you get Lawrence. But you have

1493
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: to change the culture. You have to change the culture.

1494
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:21,559
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people talk about Urban Meyer going there.

1495
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: That doesn't change the culture for me though. I guess

1496
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: that's what he's good at, though, at least at the

1497
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: college level. The college college levels, like it's just way

1498
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 1: different than the NFL. There's such a young team, but

1499
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: that divisions stinks not so great, right, I mean, the

1500
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:40,560
Speaker 1: Tennessee or the Colts built for the wrong haul. The

1501
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:42,640
Speaker 1: problem is, does anybody want to go to Jacksonville? Is

1502
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: a free agent, you have some of that. They have

1503
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: to overpay to get guys there, and then you get

1504
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: stuck with those contracts because those guys aren't And I'm

1505
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 1: not overpaying to do that. Yeah, I'm not getting the

1506
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:56,920
Speaker 1: eight year veteran and pay paying Andrew Norwell a jillion

1507
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 1: dollars Andrew Norwell. Maybe a Lawrence situation changes that next

1508
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 1: off season. But you know, like if he comes in

1509
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,560
Speaker 1: like Herbert and looks awesome and oh, I want to

1510
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: go play there and get on the ground floor of

1511
01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:09,960
Speaker 1: this dude, but this off season is gonna be tough.

1512
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 1: I think it's a great job, though, just because you're

1513
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 1: dealing me a lot of nice cards that I can

1514
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: deal with, and I can build it my way. You know,

1515
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: we can take this any almost need what they had

1516
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 1: with when they had Tom Coughlin, who was a guy

1517
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: who came in, no nonsense guy. Uh, let's you know

1518
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking about when he first took over. Yeah, not

1519
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 1: not the the second version of him, but the guy

1520
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:36,760
Speaker 1: who is looking to establish himself, establish a presence established. Okay,

1521
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna, uh, you know,

1522
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna I'm gonna go scout the heck out of

1523
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,559
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Colts, and we're gonna build ourselves

1524
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: to beat them. And because I don't know what Jacksonville's

1525
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:53,320
Speaker 1: maybe Lawrence changes all that. Maybe, but you like Burrow

1526
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: with the Bengals, you know what I mean, similar to me,

1527
01:18:57,280 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: But I don't know the Burrow has necessarily changed anything

1528
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:01,680
Speaker 1: with the Bang though, I know, I mean that's what

1529
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: I mean. I kind of using that as a might be.

1530
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: But there's some massive obstacles to overcome those guys. A yeah,

1531
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: that's the problem is. And then you end up with

1532
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and he goes, I'm tired of losing here,

1533
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 1: I went out getting beat upright, Yeah, I mean you

1534
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: gotta hit on the draft picks often. You have to

1535
01:19:20,080 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: bust it immediate optimism. And I think Lawrence is amazing,

1536
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be an easy go. I mean,

1537
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: Luck and Manning and a lot of these guys Aikman,

1538
01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: they came in a league and struggles. I think, I

1539
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,800
Speaker 1: think you have to hit a home run with a

1540
01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: coaching higher here. Yeah, And I don't know that. I don't.

1541
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that Herban Meyer. The college guys never

1542
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 1: work out in the NFL. Ever, I mean it's just

1543
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 1: and by all accounts, he's a massive leader recruiter. Great

1544
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 1: Nick Saban was too, and how did that work out?

1545
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 1: You know? In two years he's He's like, I can't

1546
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:54,720
Speaker 1: do this anymore. These guys don't listen to me like

1547
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: the college guys. That's the thing. You can't. You know,

1548
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take your scholarship from you, gonna bench you,

1549
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna be a pro like you can't.

1550
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm still getting paid, right, right, I mean, I'm still

1551
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: taking home millions of bucks and and well, the biggest

1552
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: thing too, is you can't recruit ten five star guys, right,

1553
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing. They play with the same playing field

1554
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: as everybody else, you know, and you get Lawrence great,

1555
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: But I can't just go out recruit Old miss and

1556
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:22,560
Speaker 1: take everyone I want out in Mississippi in Arkansas and

1557
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, beat everyone in the SEC. Yeah. So I

1558
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, you know, if I were ranking

1559
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: those jobs, I think that I think the Charger's job

1560
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 1: will be number one. Um, I think, to me, I

1561
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:38,120
Speaker 1: guess I'd go Jags too, but I might go Jets

1562
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:43,599
Speaker 1: to maybe maybe Jags. I think it's similar. They both

1563
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: need a lot they both need a lot um. But

1564
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: there's no longer New England there to worry about. The

1565
01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: bills are scary. The bills are a little scary. But

1566
01:20:51,439 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 1: can they can they sustain that? I bet they will? Um,

1567
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 1: Miami could turn into something. Yeah, but two it needs

1568
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: to hit, but they're gonna be much better roster. I'm

1569
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:04,960
Speaker 1: not so all. I'm not either at all. Um. Yeah,

1570
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: I mean I think those two jobs will be after

1571
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:10,839
Speaker 1: that and then maybe and they're similar. Jets and Jags

1572
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: are young quarterback, no expectations. If I can get this

1573
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: team to six and ten next year, that's progress, you know. Yeah,

1574
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: And then I'm you know what I think the Lions job.

1575
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:27,280
Speaker 1: To me, here's why Aaron Rodgers isn't gonna be around forever. Minnesota.

1576
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: Minnesota is what Minnesota is. Kirk Cousins is just in.

1577
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 1: Chicago is in the same boat that you are. Chicago's

1578
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:36,680
Speaker 1: got nothing right now, right right. So I'm looking at

1579
01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:38,559
Speaker 1: that going, Okay, if if we do this right, if

1580
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: I go in and do this right two years from now,

1581
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: two years from now, even with Stafford, because I might

1582
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 1: have the best. You know, let's say Rogers starts, you know,

1583
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 1: he's started seven, he's the same boat the grim they

1584
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 1: just draft a quarterback the first round. He's the m

1585
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:51,880
Speaker 1: v P. But he's still he's not gonna play to

1586
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 1: his four times. You know, we might be able to

1587
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: turn this around in two years. That's kind of what

1588
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:57,200
Speaker 1: I thought with the Panthers last year, like when we

1589
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 1: had this conversation one year ago, and they still might be.

1590
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: But like you look at the South, I bet the

1591
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: Panthers are the best team in the South in two

1592
01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: thousand twenty two. Brady's gone, Ryan's gone, is gone. There's

1593
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:12,720
Speaker 1: three old teams in that division, and the North is

1594
01:22:12,760 --> 01:22:14,840
Speaker 1: kind of that way too. I mean in terms of quarterbacks,

1595
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:17,560
Speaker 1: like student division has some young guys are gonna be

1596
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:19,200
Speaker 1: around a long time to deal with, you know what

1597
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:22,719
Speaker 1: I mean, Like so and yeah, a lot of divisions

1598
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: are but you look at like the South, They've got

1599
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: three old men that might all fall apart next year.

1600
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 1: And I'll be back, you know, right, I mean, the

1601
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: Panthers might win a division next year. And then you know,

1602
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 1: the Saints are a hundred million dollars over the cap,

1603
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: right right exactly? I mean, and the Falcons won four games. Yeah,

1604
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,720
Speaker 1: so that's interesting. We'll see how those how these things

1605
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: play out. But obviously it's gonna be a hot topic

1606
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: here over the next over the next choose and stuff

1607
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,479
Speaker 1: like that coming up this week too. Um. He is

1608
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:53,760
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lalli. You're listening to the Drive

1609
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio, and our Steelers playoff coverage

1610
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 1: is presented by FedEx and Ford. We'll be back to

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01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 1: finish up the show right after this. Your tunes about

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01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: Drive on your home of the Black and Goal Steelers

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01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:36,160
Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome back, our sent Our coverage of the

1614
01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: Steelers playoffs are presented by FedEx and Ford and Matt

1615
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:43,560
Speaker 1: The last time the Cleveland Browns were in the playoffs

1616
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,680
Speaker 1: was two thousand and two. You had not been yet

1617
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: hired by the Cleveland Browns many moons. Uh. They of

1618
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: course lost to the Steelers in the playoffs that year.

1619
01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: I kind of a funny story about you've told that

1620
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 1: one before. Baker Mayfield seven years old. Um, friends still

1621
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: had two seasons left on TV. Rich Gannon was the

1622
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:14,160
Speaker 1: m v P of the National Football League that year

1623
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: as a as a Raider the top movies Lord of

1624
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:27,519
Speaker 1: the Rings, Yeah, Star Wars episode two, and the first

1625
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:32,719
Speaker 1: Toby McGuire Spider Man movie, the first one. They've done

1626
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: what six of those things not with it's been rebooted

1627
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 1: and they've done three movies and it's coming gone and

1628
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: it's new and the new group has come into that. Wow. Um. Yeah.

1629
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:48,439
Speaker 1: Some other things that happened in two thousand and two. Um,

1630
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: let's see here the the United States Department of Justice

1631
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: justice announcement will pursue a criminal investigation of Enron. Um.

1632
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: Let's see here, we've got uh who was the president? Then?

1633
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:07,439
Speaker 1: I probably should know this off top George Bush. Yeah. Uh,

1634
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: we had the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1635
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. Yeah. Um, the Space Shuttle

1636
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: Columbia flies, the Hubble spacecraft, the Space Telescope Service mission.

1637
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:28,680
Speaker 1: It's last before its disastrous sts one oh seven. Um,

1638
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: the US invaded Afghanistan that year. Um, let's see we

1639
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 1: had I mean, there has to be five players in

1640
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: the league that year that are still active, including Ben No,

1641
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: he wasn't active yet. He was college two. And that's

1642
01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 1: about it. Brady might be it. Yeah, a kicker or

1643
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:57,200
Speaker 1: something floating around still. Um. Fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart

1644
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: is kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Uta.

1645
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:04,839
Speaker 1: She's rescued nine months later. Um, now she's like forty

1646
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 1: five kids and grandma or something, right, UM's I mean,

1647
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 1: there's just the sniper and the belt the Beltway sniper

1648
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: if you remember that, that was a that was a

1649
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,560
Speaker 1: thing back then. He said, guy, somebody riding in his

1650
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,960
Speaker 1: trunk and shooting people at gas stations in the belt

1651
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: the Washington belt Way. Uh. The Congress of the United

1652
01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 1: States passed the Joint Resolution authorizing the President to use

1653
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 1: the United States Armed Forces as he deems necessary and

1654
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: appropriate against Iraq. Wow, this is a long I mean,

1655
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 1: this is a long time got together playoffs and Browns

1656
01:26:41,680 --> 01:26:43,719
Speaker 1: fans deserves better. I mean, they're a good fan base.

1657
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: The world's better when they're in it. I'm sure you're

1658
01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna find some more things that are mind blowing. Was

1659
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 1: the what was the thoughts like with you guys that

1660
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,920
Speaker 1: were covering the team about the Browns. Was it, this

1661
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 1: is an up and coming team that we should be

1662
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 1: fearful of in two thousand two. Yeah, because they were

1663
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: in the fourth year back. Yeah, it looked like they

1664
01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: were maybe building a little something there. I would imagine

1665
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 1: that was the thought. Tim Couch got hurt he so

1666
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 1: he didn't play in that playoff game. It was Kelly.

1667
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 1: It was Kelly Holcom. Oh right, okay, remember that right? Um,

1668
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: But then they lost that game. I mean, they were

1669
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 1: beating the Steelers. Tom Tom Reid did a great profile

1670
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:24,360
Speaker 1: of that game on our site and talked to a

1671
01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: bunch of different people from both sides of the of

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01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:31,280
Speaker 1: the game. Um, and you know, Mike Logan had a

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01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 1: big interception in that game that kind of turned to

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01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:36,680
Speaker 1: the tide. He also ripped his knee up on the play. Um.

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01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, and then I mean the Browns were

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01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: winning that game. And everyone that was in the Browns

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01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 1: building that I was there two years later. I thought

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01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: that they should absolutely won that game. And Dennis Northcott

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01:27:50,320 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 1: was not a popular fellow. Like he had a huge drop,

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01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: a huge drop. I mean if they convert that third down. Uh,

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01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:58,839
Speaker 1: and he was wide open, and I remember I remember

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01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,640
Speaker 1: the play like it was right around field on the

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01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 1: brown sideline. He goes up, he had to jump a

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01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 1: little bit to catch the ball, but he had it

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01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: in his hands and dropped it. I mean the Browns

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01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 1: folks think that would have been the game. Yeah, I

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01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: don't remember that. The Specifics. You know, that was the

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01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 1: Antoine Randa Well had a punt return touchdown in the game. Uh.

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01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:18,719
Speaker 1: The Steelers scored laid on a christophilmu Mala Falla scores

1690
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: and then they get the two point conversion after that.

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01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,160
Speaker 1: I mean just crazy term event. I mean they were down,

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01:28:25,360 --> 01:28:27,720
Speaker 1: it was it was over, it was done. Um, it

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01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:29,800
Speaker 1: was like people going home time, right, And that was

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01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 1: a lot of people left at half time, right like

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01:28:32,280 --> 01:28:34,600
Speaker 1: this is a blowout. Yeah, and Tom actually talked to

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01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: some fans who had left that game at halftime because um,

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01:28:38,680 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: you know it just wasn't Yeah, there was just no hope,

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01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:45,720
Speaker 1: you know. So they looked like an upstart organization at

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01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:48,240
Speaker 1: that they did. They led that game, and it was

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01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:51,200
Speaker 1: seventeen seven and a half. They took seven lead on

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01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: a Dennis north cut touchdown early in the third quarter. Uh,

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01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:57,000
Speaker 1: I think he was all on that team, was like

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01:28:57,080 --> 01:29:00,519
Speaker 1: north Cutt and Kevin Johnson and well him Green was

1704
01:29:00,600 --> 01:29:02,439
Speaker 1: the running back. And yeah, I mean so, I mean

1705
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 1: they were Andre Davis again. It was ten seventeen left.

1706
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 1: It was thirty three twenty one on a on a

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01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:12,640
Speaker 1: Wolcomb touchdown past Andre Davis. Then the Steelers get a

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01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 1: touchdown pass from Maddox to Hines Ward h to make

1709
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 1: it thirty. If mala Falla scores, fum Fuma should say

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01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 1: scores with fifty four seconds left. I was actually on

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01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:24,760
Speaker 1: the field at that point. I was in the in

1712
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 1: that end zone when he scored. Uh. And then they

1713
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 1: get the the Jeremy Tuman through the through the through

1714
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 1: the two point conversion pass. Uh. He caught it from

1715
01:29:35,240 --> 01:29:37,559
Speaker 1: Antoine Randall. Well was it the little trick to play

1716
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 1: um quarterback in that game? Tommy Maddox. So Ben came

1717
01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 1: the year two years after that. Yeah, I'm thinking because

1718
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: I was in Cleveland. They scored him twenty two to

1719
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:54,560
Speaker 1: nine in the fourth quarters. But I mean, remember the

1720
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 1: game obviously, all that well, but there's something about learning

1721
01:29:57,479 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 1: how to win in the playoffs and brings us back

1722
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 1: to this, brings us back to this one because this

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01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:04,560
Speaker 1: Browns team has none of that to fall back on,

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01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 1: none of it. No they don't. I mean, there's no

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01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:10,719
Speaker 1: surprised to me. They haven't got a center, a middle

1726
01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:13,439
Speaker 1: linebacker that's an eight year veteran that has two rings,

1727
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, free safety, you know, some

1728
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:18,160
Speaker 1: kind of Jarvis Landry's their guy that they He's not

1729
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:22,200
Speaker 1: never one any thing in Miami. He's been to the playoffs.

1730
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:24,839
Speaker 1: That doesn't know what it's like to win in the playoffs.

1731
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: I know we're right up against it. But here's here's

1732
01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 1: something that's totally unrelated. It's gonna make you feel really old.

1733
01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:31,720
Speaker 1: Trade Lance is gonna be a first round pick. The

1734
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: quarterback from the North Dakota State going to be the

1735
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 1: first NFL player born in the two thousand's. There's none

1736
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: right now, you know. And he's gonna be the youngest

1737
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:45,599
Speaker 1: guy in this draft. It's it's it's time flies by

1738
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,920
Speaker 1: quickly and so does this show. So for my partner

1739
01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:52,280
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, for Jacob here on site keeping us on

1740
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 1: the air, I'm Dale Lally. Of course, our Steelers and

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01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 1: Nation Radio coverage of the Steelers playoffs is presented by

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01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:00,200
Speaker 1: fed Ex and Ford. As I've said numerous times over

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01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:02,559
Speaker 1: the question of the show, we will be back all

1744
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 1: this week bringing all the playoff coverage here. Maybe we'll

1745
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:06,920
Speaker 1: talk even more about that game down the road here,

1746
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 1: but that's going to do it for the show today.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for listening to this edition of The

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Speaker 1: Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.