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Speaker 1: Your tune's about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Hour number two of the Drive. Here on a Thursday,

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Speaker 2: having some fun getting excited for the start of the

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Speaker 2: NFL regular season this evening, and of course that means

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Speaker 2: the start of the Steelers season not too far away.

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Speaker 2: And with that, one of my favorite traditions all year

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Speaker 2: during the NFL s and is the Matt's Stats packet

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Speaker 2: that Matt Williamson sends them. Yeah, that's when you really

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Speaker 2: know you're getting the game day. That's when you know

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Speaker 2: things are getting serious. And you know, Matt a ton

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Speaker 2: here that is there a specific area that you want

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Speaker 2: to start? Well, I should have asked you that first

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Speaker 2: before we before we got before we got on.

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Speaker 3: This one is the probably the largest one in history,

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Speaker 3: the unabridged version. Much of this is on Steelers dot com,

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Speaker 3: by the way, folks, you can find it. It just

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Speaker 3: went up very recently. But this one was four thousand

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Speaker 3: word word document. I mean it was pretty extensive. It's

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Speaker 3: I think I started it before training camp even started.

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Speaker 3: I started just accumulating notes. You can you find something

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Speaker 3: boom at it at it at it.

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Speaker 2: Like halfway through training camp you sent me your initial,

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Speaker 2: like rough draft of this and you were like, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if there's anything you want to pull out of here

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Speaker 2: that we could talk about.

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Speaker 3: It something you want to chat about for a segment.

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Speaker 3: Here's some topics.

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Speaker 2: Well let's talk about Let's continue along the lines of

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Speaker 2: like point differentials and scoring points and how much it

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Speaker 2: can mean if this offense really takes a step forward,

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Speaker 2: because the line of demarcation is clear. When the Steelers

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Speaker 2: defense allowed nineteen or more points, this is a little frightening.

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Speaker 2: They've gone to and eight. Yeah, they went to and eight.

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Speaker 2: I should say, only give up nineteen, only gave up nineteen.

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Speaker 2: You still you only win twenty percent of your game eight. No,

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Speaker 2: when the defense gave up eighteen or less. And some

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Speaker 2: people might say, Wes, isn't that a defensive stat You

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Speaker 2: said you want to start here talking about the offense

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Speaker 2: and scoring No.

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Speaker 3: No, asking a team to get twenty points isn't that

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Speaker 3: much In today's NFL.

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Speaker 2: If your defense is holding a team to eighteen or fewer,

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Speaker 2: you should be winning every single game or ninety percent

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Speaker 2: of it right now.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, some of those ones when it was over nineteen

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Speaker 3: were well over nineteen. You know, if you give up

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Speaker 3: thirty five. I mean, I'm sure there were some bad

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Speaker 3: ones in there, we know that, but it shouldn't be

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Speaker 3: that stark where Okay, if we came to eighteen and

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Speaker 3: under we win, well most teams, do you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's not the unusual part. Oh, the fact

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Speaker 3: that you're undefeated, well that's nice. But I mean the

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Speaker 3: fact that you know, eight under nineteen you win them

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Speaker 3: all isn't as crazy as allowing nineteen or more if

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Speaker 3: it was twenty five of like, oh yeah, okay, that's.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four twenty five. Absolutely yep.

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Speaker 3: So I know people give Mike tom On a hard

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Speaker 3: time about things, as every head coach gets, by the way,

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Speaker 3: but he knows these things. I mean we mentioned it before. Well,

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Speaker 3: if we give up nineteen points or more, we usually lose.

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Speaker 3: If we throw an interception, we usually loose. So he

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Speaker 3: coaches accordingly, you know, like people give him a hard time.

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Speaker 3: He's way too conservative. You know, he red red paint

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Speaker 3: that he has exactly right, he wasn't. I mean, Dale

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Speaker 3: and I talk about this all the time. When he

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Speaker 3: had Ben and Ab and Lev, they would score an

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Speaker 3: opening touchdown and go for two. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: Like he had a lot of paint and so he

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Speaker 3: tried a lot of different stuff.

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Speaker 2: He used to cosso back his palette.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you have Trubisky and Duck and these

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Speaker 3: guys as your quarterback, and you know, if I'd let

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Speaker 3: up nineteen points and probably we're gonna lose, you got

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Speaker 3: to coach a certain way.

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Speaker 2: You absolutely do, and it makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 2: And that is I mean, it's just that one stood

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Speaker 2: out to me when I started that those earlier this week.

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Speaker 2: Piggybacking off of that, we know that the the touchdown

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Speaker 2: numbers for the Steelers weren't certainly what we wanted them

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Speaker 2: to be last year. You and I have talked about

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Speaker 2: the amount of touchdown passes the Steelers have thrown in

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Speaker 2: their last fifty games being too low, the lack of

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Speaker 2: first quarter touchdowns, opening drive touchdowns. The Steelers did not

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Speaker 2: score a single touchdown on an on an opening drive

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Speaker 2: last year.

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Speaker 3: That's back even longer than last year.

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Speaker 2: It's been bad. It's been bad for for a while.

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Speaker 3: For multiple offensive coordinators, play callers, and quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: And I know, I know I'm preaching to the choir

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Speaker 2: because That's one of the things you see Steelers fans

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Speaker 2: screaming about on social media all the time now.

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Speaker 3: That the world's aware they're under the microscope. Like, I

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Speaker 3: didn't make nothing would make me happy up here than

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Speaker 3: Steelers would turn the opening kickoff to the forty five

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Speaker 3: yard line. Rogers five plays later row as a touchdown,

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Speaker 3: even if they lose thirty to seven. After that, at

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Speaker 3: least be like, Okay, we don't have to talk about

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Speaker 2: We can be done talking about that. Since twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 2: the Jets have thirty games where they have not scored

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Speaker 2: an offensive touchdown.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is crazy too.

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Speaker 2: Not only is that the most in the league, no

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Speaker 2: other team has more than nineteen.

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Speaker 3: I know, So that like, that's so bad, the whole

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Speaker 2: Thirty times in the last ten years. No one else

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Speaker 3: No one's even close. So I bet a lot of

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Speaker 3: people are like, I bet the Steelers are right behind.

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Speaker 2: Oh they are not only seven for the Steelers only

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Speaker 2: the Packers and Eagles have fewer fewer.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, now, that's not a great thing to accomplish.

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Speaker 3: We scored a touchdow score a touchdown. Yeah, okay, great,

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Speaker 3: but compared to the rest of the league over a

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Speaker 3: long stretch, they're one of the best teams and the

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Speaker 3: Jets are by far the worst. Yes, real quickly, you're

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Speaker 3: talking about the touchdown thing somewhere in there. It's either

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Speaker 3: when the Steelers have the ball or the general stuff.

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Speaker 3: Such a low percentage of their points last year came

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Speaker 3: via touchdown. Now that's a compliment to Boz because he

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Speaker 3: never if he did, if he missed a lot.

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Speaker 2: More in one of the greatest seasons that a kicker

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Speaker 3: Righteah, and he probably won't have as good a year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if he has ninety five percent of that year,

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Speaker 3: you're still really happy.

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Speaker 2: It's the Saquon Barkley conversation you and I had when

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Speaker 2: we did Fantasy football mock shofts last week exactly. If

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Speaker 2: he has ninety percent of that year, it's still good,

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Speaker 2: still good. Don't expect him to repeat what he did

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Speaker 2: last year.

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Speaker 3: Barkley's best year as a pro. That's probably Boss's best year.

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Speaker 2: Yes, bro, probably, they're like historically great seasons for their positions.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but too much of their points came from non touchdowns,

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Speaker 3: you know, too higher.

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Speaker 2: Percentage completely completely agree. We touched on this a little

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Speaker 2: bit in the first hour, but just to fully cover it,

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh had the NFL's worst first quarter scoring differential last year,

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Speaker 2: minus three point nine, so basically the average four points

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Speaker 3: The first quarter, you're losing by four every game. I'm

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Speaker 3: not I mean, on average, it's terrible.

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Speaker 2: They averaged just two point seven points in the first

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Speaker 2: quarter last year, twenty ninth out of thirty two teams

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Speaker 3: Which is real bad. But it's not as bad as

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Speaker 3: the d And that's that's.

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Speaker 2: The interesting I think. And you kind of, you know,

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Speaker 2: put me in line with this in the first hour

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Speaker 2: of the show as well too, where I kind of assumed,

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Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people assume that it's

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Speaker 2: just because the offense has been inept.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, it was Arthur Smith Macanada. That's all there for,

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Speaker 3: you know, right, But no, it's worse than the.

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Speaker 2: D defense allowed six points six points in the first

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Speaker 2: quarter last season, thirty second out of thirty two teams,

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Speaker 2: dead last in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Dead last. And I think the sentence after that is

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Speaker 3: it's the same thing as average per but the number

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Speaker 3: of points allowed in the first quarter was pretty They

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Speaker 3: were pretty distant second I mean Dallas was thirty one

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Speaker 2: Yes, and the Steelers allowed thirteen more were first quarter

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Speaker 2: points than than the thirty first place team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, I don't know what to exactly attribute that to,

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Speaker 3: but to be frank, I think you're crazy as a

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Speaker 3: coaching staff if you don't at least evaluate what you're

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Speaker 3: doing from the second the bell rings in week two

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Speaker 3: until the bell rings and winging three, you know, like

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Speaker 3: that whole week of prep. I think you at least

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Speaker 3: have to say, are we doing something wrong throughout the year,

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Speaker 3: Because what's kind of crazy is a lot of fans

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Speaker 3: will say this team doesn't know how to adjust, they

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Speaker 3: don't know how to game plan, blah blah blah. It's

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Speaker 3: not really true. Look at the third quarter. They're awesome

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Speaker 3: in the third quarter.

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Speaker 2: Plus sixty eight scoring differential last year, which was like

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Speaker 2: the Tava League.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: That tells me that they know how to make adjustments

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Speaker 2: and tweaks at halftime.

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Speaker 3: Right. Yeah. So I'm not like killing the staff, you know,

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Speaker 3: but there's some there were some strong try that to

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Speaker 3: the start of the game, right, if you could get

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Speaker 3: a little of that at the beginning of the game

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Speaker 3: for whatever reason, and maybe it's just what we were

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Speaker 3: saying before they come out to conservative and we know

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Speaker 3: we can't throw a pick early, blah blah blah. But

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Speaker 3: no matter what, you've been starting games minus four after

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Speaker 3: the first quarter. And as we said yesterday, if I

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Speaker 3: had Burrow and Chase and Higgins like, all right, well,

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna tell Joe to throw it, well, I

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Speaker 3: don't want it to have to tell Mitch and Duck

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Speaker 3: the three you know, and the guys they've had, you know.

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Speaker 2: Completely agree, Yeah, completely agree. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's first half point

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Speaker 2: differential negative twenty seven, second half differential plus sixty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean again, that tells me that they know what

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Speaker 2: they're doing at halftime. Yeah, they get in there with

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Speaker 2: the grease board and here's how we're going to adjust,

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Speaker 2: and here's what they're trying to do. Here's how we're

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Speaker 2: going to counter. Great, but give me some of that

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Speaker 2: out of the gate as well.

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Speaker 3: Too, Yes, you need way more of it out of

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Speaker 3: the gate now to defend them. I think you could

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Speaker 3: also make the argument that their style of offense, run heavy,

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Speaker 3: heavier personnel, tackling nause Harris all day. Maybe it doesn't

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Speaker 3: pay off in the.

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Speaker 2: First two drive, it's also a great point, but by

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Speaker 2: the third quarter.

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Speaker 3: And mental toughness, stamina, conditioning, physicality, traits that the Steelers

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Speaker 3: have had, like our whole life prioritize, right, Yeah, Like

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Speaker 3: I bet Jerome had more yards per carry in the

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter, right, right, right, So maybe it's a maybe

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Speaker 3: some of it. I'm not gonna say all of it.

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Speaker 3: I'm not here to excuse everything away because you can't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's be last in the first quarter different and then.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think This one really kind of paints

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Speaker 2: Have done it every year, right, you know, Eagles have

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Speaker 2: Of those sixty one offenses, Pittsburgh's offense over the past

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Speaker 3: They're good football teams.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers the last two years to teams that have

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Speaker 3: Think like Tomlin does not a coach, like you're giving.

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Speaker 2: Me that's a statistical anomaly that you could be that

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Speaker 2: Sure, you know, and they want that's a good point

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Speaker 3: You weren't garbage, right, I mean, you're the ugliest girl

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Speaker 3: But they weren't good offenses. I mean maybe the team

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Speaker 2: It's it's absolutely insane.

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Speaker 2: Totally, right, right, right, But what's encouraging to me about

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, Like, just get a little better

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Speaker 3: There's fifteen human beings walking the planet that know how

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Speaker 2: You're talking Sean Payton, Mike Tomlin, Andy Reid eight. I

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Speaker 2: mean like Jim Yeah, Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh, Sorry, like Pete.

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Speaker 3: Carroll and the Raiders are going to New England this

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Speaker 3: week to play Vrabel and the Patriots. Those two teams

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Speaker 2: They're not gonna win, They're not gonna win three games

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Speaker 3: Right, Harbaugh, I said Peyton. Peyton's took over a terrible

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Speaker 2: It's raising that floor.

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Speaker 2: That's a very good way to put it. Is knowing

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Speaker 3: From what I understand from people that were on Belichick's staff,

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Speaker 2: We don't let Antonio Brown run wild, we don't let TJ.

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Speaker 3: Right, we can't have fifteen penalties or you know, turnover

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Speaker 3: The Patriots under Brady and Belichick were the best team

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Speaker 2: And just to put a bow on on this, Matt,

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jets were plus two and explosive play differential that

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Speaker 2: So that's another way pretty well if you could, if

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Speaker 2: Steelers don't protect Aaron Rodgers. They do protect justin fields.

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Speaker 2: You know, they they sacked Aaron Rodgers three times and

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Speaker 3: That's Rogers. That's a good point.

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Speaker 2: Two of the twelve projected teams with a starting new

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Speaker 3: I speculated that on a different podcasts. I'm like, I'm

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Speaker 2: Been a handful of times obviously that a quarterback has

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Speaker 3: That they started for in Week one.

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Speaker 2: First, first time that's happened.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, and so that is That's a pretty pretty

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Speaker 2: Radio, Matt, as we continue to roll through some stats here,

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Speaker 2: I want to focus on the signal callers, particularly the

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Speaker 2: not the veteran that Aaron Rodgers is. Matt. Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: Also six touchdown passes, shy of passing Brett Favre for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's right there with Russell Wilson and Pat

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Speaker 3: Wilson's three. I can't remember who's won right now, if

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Speaker 2: After this, I think they kind of go back and

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Speaker 2: In speaking of that, there's only been one quarterback in

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: probably led the league in goals again this year. Wow,

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Speaker 2: It's Lebron is a great example. Sidney Crosby is a

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Speaker 3: And they're making more money than ever, absolutely right. They're

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Speaker 2: Exactly, Yeah, because they don't want to go to like

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Speaker 3: That is crazy though, but people are playing late.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a lot of it. They got to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of it.

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Speaker 2: They're not laying floors in the off season, like Jack

443
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 2: Lambert was, they're not working for moving companies in the

444
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: off season, like Craig Wolfly.

445
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:25,479
Speaker 3: Was, they monitor their sleep and hyperbolic chambers and crazy

446
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 3: stuff that I absolutely even comment on.

447
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 2: I don't know absolutely, Like I kind of remember that

448
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 2: old adage of growing up of like once you hit thirty,

449
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 2: you start to really regress. Not so much anymore, man, No,

450
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,120
Speaker 2: I mean Jalen Ramsey's thirty right now, and I think

451
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 2: we are still very confident that he's doing it at

452
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 2: a high level.

453
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting.

454
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 2: Where is it here? Of course I just had it

455
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,199
Speaker 2: now the interception number reference to go.

456
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 3: Ahead time great quarterback. So I got a really good

457
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 3: question on my Peacock and Williamson mailbag this week about wanting,

458
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 3: you know how the Steelers say one helmet guys, you know,

459
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 3: like Ben was a one helmet dude, Troy, Troy, you

460
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 3: hope Cam looks like Cam's going to be, you know, EJ.

461
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 3: They want him to be a one helmet guy. And

462
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 3: I didn't really think of this. He's like it was

463
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 3: obviously a Steeler fan. Rode In is like, is Ben

464
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 3: going to be like the last one helmet quarterback that's

465
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 3: like a Hall of Fame type like, and he made

466
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 3: the joke, He's like, I can't wait for the Steelers

467
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 3: to sign Josh Allen or Mahomes in eight years, you know,

468
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 3: like they just signed Wilson and Rogers, you know what

469
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 3: I mean, like Dak Prescott here in another year or two, right,

470
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 3: you know, like if you look at all the all

471
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 3: time great quarterbacks far Manning, Brady blah blah blah, Rogers,

472
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 3: you know that of Lake.

473
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: The Elways and the Roethlisbergers are the exceptions.

474
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's not many in the last twenty years.

475
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 3: I mean since like the Marino Elway year era where

476
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 3: they actually start and finish with the same team Eli did,

477
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: like Rivers at the end, go the Rivers, Theos, the

478
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,400
Speaker 3: Colt Stafford goes to the Rams. Like all these guys

479
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 3: are like hall of fame or borderline hall of famers.

480
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 3: Ben like the only one in two different teams. Yah, right, right, right?

481
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 2: You know that's an interesting point.

482
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 3: And and the point was we just assumed Lamar Mahomes

483
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 3: Alan Burrow will be on those teams for a decade. Sure,

484
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: but his tree doesn't really say they are.

485
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think anybody would have ever

486
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 2: thought that that Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and you

487
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: know that would have been that divorce and all that

488
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 2: that happened there.

489
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 3: I mean, like Manning might have, but he happened to

490
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 3: get injured badly the year that That's why came out.

491
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 2: That why that's why. That one's kind of a unique

492
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: scenario because he had a very serious injury at the

493
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 2: end of the draft and they had the first pick

494
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Speaker 2: in the draft with a generational type quarterback prospect coming out.

495
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Speaker 3: To what I said, I was like, if that was

496
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 3: the year that Miles Garrett was the best prospect, they

497
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 3: might have been like Peyton, let's roll back and with

498
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 3: draft Miles Garrett. You know what I mean.

499
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Speaker 2: If it wasn't the quarterback, if you made me guess

500
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Speaker 2: right now, Patrick Mahomes play his entire career.

501
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Speaker 3: For the Chiefs, I can't imagine.

502
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 2: I'm not he's I think with a franchise like that

503
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 2: that waited so long to win like this, right, they will.

504
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 2: They will let him Hong Kong. They will let him

505
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 2: hang around a year or two extra. Yeah, But like

506
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 2: Alan and Borrow, I would say no, I would be

507
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 2: very confident in making a bet right now that Joe

508
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: Burrow plays for somebody other than the Cincinnati Bengals, and

509
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: sooner maybe rather than later.

510
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 3: He that might happen soon, and Steeler fans should rejoice

511
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 3: if it does trade him to the NFC. But even

512
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 3: like Alan and Lamar I mentioned, they've gotten so much

513
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 3: better doing the old man quarterback stuff that their legs

514
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 3: could could really wane and they still are going to

515
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 3: be really good players.

516
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear from people used to say

517
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 2: when Lamar gets into his thirties and loses his step,

518
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 2: he's done. I don't want to hear that he threw

519
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 2: forty one touchdowns on four interceptions.

520
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 3: R right. I mean he could have a shattered ankle

521
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 3: and still be a really good player. I mean might

522
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 3: not even be the same style. But those two are

523
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 3: over the hump of they don't have to rely on

524
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 3: just athleticism.

525
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 2: I am totally with him, totally with you on that.

526
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 2: That's an interesting point.

527
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 3: But it's crazy. You know, there aren't men actually.

528
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: Quarterback like it's it's really falling off or.

529
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 3: Close to Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Almost all of them

530
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 3: are not one helmet.

531
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Speaker 2: Guy Ben and ELI are going to be the only

532
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: ones who get in here anytime soon that were one

533
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 2: helmet quarterbacks.

534
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the end of ELI was not pretty, not great.

535
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 2: Not great over the last five years.

536
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: Matt.

537
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 2: Here's the number that we referenced earlier, the Steelers thirty

538
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 2: eight and ten when they do not throw an interception.

539
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 3: Is that nuts?

540
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 2: That's nearly an eighty percent win percentage. It's seventy nine

541
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Speaker 2: percent win percentage.

542
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 3: And I'll bet everything I have Tomlin knows that or closed.

543
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 3: He might not know the exact number, but like we

544
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 3: throw a pick, we don't throw a pick, we win.

545
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: And who have been the quarterbacks they targeted the last

546
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 2: two years? Two quarterbacks that don't throw interceptions? Yeah, yeah,

547
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson third best, third, lowest, I should say, interception

548
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 2: rate in NFL history. Aaron Rodgers is currently number one,

549
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 2: so the Holmes is right on his heels, but he

550
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 2: is still currently number one.

551
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 3: So clearly when Duck would be it, I mean Tom

552
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 3: Win even said it, like when Duck was out there, like,

553
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 3: just don't kill us. Yeah he didn't, he.

554
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: Literally just don't kill us.

555
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 3: I'm sure.

556
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 2: I'm sure he.

557
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 3: Said the same thing to Kenny and his rookie year,

558
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 3: Trubisky when he would get in there, went in doubt,

559
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 3: third it, throw it in stands, don't throw it. Pick day, baby.

560
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 3: And that's a tough way to live, you know. I

561
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 3: mean it's it's hard to beat Mahomes in the playoffs.

562
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 3: With that mindset.

563
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: Of course, you can win a lot of games getting.

564
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 3: There, a lot of games getting there. And the last

565
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 3: two years they haven't had the choice of any quarterback

566
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Speaker 3: they wanted. You know, we're gonna we picked Wilson, we

567
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 3: picked Rogers, and I'm sure they were very aware of

568
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 3: the touchdown interception ratio of their careers. Big body of work,

569
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 3: and that's a wonderful stat But I hope if we're

570
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 3: right that they're in the quarterback market next year, they're

571
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 3: not just looking at the leadoff single like swing to

572
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 3: the fences, you know, like when to me in the

573
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 3: quarterback market when you're drafting one high, I don't mind

574
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 3: if I miss, but I am going to swing to

575
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 3: hit a grand slam with known on base, you know,

576
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 3: like I need Josh.

577
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: Adams Kenny Pickett conversation. That's what was my problem with picking,

578
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 2: and I took it and I gave the Steelers some

579
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: benefit there because how often can you draft the consensus

580
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: number one quarterback the twentieth overall, of course, but there's

581
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 2: also a reason that the consensus number one quarterback went

582
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: twentieth overall, something we never see. Guys they reach on

583
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: every quarterback possible.

584
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 3: I understand. Taking Anthony Richardson, yeah, I mean.

585
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: It looked Josh Rosen exactly.

586
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 3: I mean, you got a swing big on trade Zach Wilson,

587
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 3: and if you end up throwing a lot of picks

588
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,479
Speaker 3: with the new guy, that's how you win. I mean,

589
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 3: not that you don't win this league by throwing picks,

590
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 3: but I hope you don't take the strategy of let's

591
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: get the guy that's twenty that doesn't throw picks. Now

592
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 3: give me the guy with twenty with a rocket arm

593
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 3: that runs a four to two. You know what I mean,

594
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 3: Like Leonora Sellers eat yeah, yeah, yeah. Man.

595
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: After his performance in that opener against Virginia Tech, the

596
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 2: Ben Roethlisberger comparisons were everywhere.

597
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 3: I could see him be in the first pick of

598
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 3: the draft.

599
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: Well, something I can't. There might be a chance that

600
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,120
Speaker 2: the Steelers.

601
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 3: Don't that could be bying this guy.

602
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 2: If you if you're picking in the in the low twenties. Yeah,

603
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: he ain't getting he ain't trained up to get the

604
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: first pick. You're not getting the first not happening. You

605
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 2: might get the seventh, but you're but you're but you're

606
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 2: not getting the first.

607
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 3: And that was Alan Mahome, those guys one night.

608
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: Totally.

609
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 3: You can get a superstar not picking one. But I've

610
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 3: done this long enough to be like people were talking

611
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 3: about him as one of the five or six. I'm like,

612
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 3: he could be one some Yeah.

613
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 2: One of those. I think it was one of those

614
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 2: football aggregator type accounts you know that just post highlights

615
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: and news and stuff like that. Someone put a clip.

616
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 2: I should have saved it and sent it to you,

617
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 2: but it was like thirty seconds. It was a play

618
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: Ben Roethlisberger made his rookie season the Steelers where he

619
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 2: like shrugged off two sacks, sidestepped the guy and and

620
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 2: and made an awesome like throw for fifteen yards. Yeah,

621
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 2: And essentially they showed that and then they essentially cut

622
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: to Lenora's Cellars doing the same thing Saturday against against

623
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 2: Virgil like a almost eerily similar play where he goes

624
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: one way, breaks a couple of tackles, comes the other way,

625
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: makes somebody miss and then gets rid of it for

626
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: a Houdini first down.

627
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: So I think people know Dane Brugler is with the

628
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 3: athletic that they should at least they should if they don't.

629
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: Big time draft guy.

630
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: He's I think our number one go to the draft guy.

631
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: He's now.

632
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 3: He hasn't done it as long as like Mel you know,

633
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 3: he's a younger guy, but it's been a while and

634
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 3: he's awesome aut what he does. I was listening to

635
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 3: his podcast after week one of the college football season,

636
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: and he said he said this going in. He said,

637
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 3: Sellers is the strongest quarterback I've ever evaluated. He's like

638
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: Cam Newton was closed, Jaden Hurts was close. He's like

639
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: Ben was before my time. But reference Ben Allen and

640
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 3: just everything about him is strong. I mean the arm,

641
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: the ability to break tackles.

642
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 2: He's a great athlete.

643
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, yeah, I mean just pure strength matters.

644
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 2: Man. I normally hate when people do here here here comes,

645
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 2: here comes the number one cornerback in the draft, and

646
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: let's compare him to Revis.

647
00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you know, like I minds me.

648
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 2: I typically hate it when yeah, let's compare him to

649
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: one of the oh that interior defensive lineman. Let's compare

650
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: him to Warren sapp or to Aaron Donald. You know,

651
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 2: it makes me crazy.

652
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 3: I use Jim Brown as the example to really put

653
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 3: it over thought. Oh kind of reminds me of Jim Brown.

654
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, this.

655
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 2: Wide receiver is Randy Moss two point. Let me tell

656
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 2: you a little faster version. But I get some of

657
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 2: the Leonora's sellers, the Ben Roethlisberger comparisons, I can see, yeah,

658
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: I can see it. Uh, Just to kind of follow

659
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: up and finish on this here. Over the last decade,

660
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh has started nine different quarterbacks Ben Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger.

661
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Speaker 2: Of course, when you get to that level, you put

662
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Speaker 2: your middle name in there. Landry Jones, Michael Vick, Mason

663
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Speaker 2: Rudolph Duck, Hodge's, Mitch Trubisky, Kenny pick At, Justin Fields,

664
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Speaker 2: and Russell Wilson. Only Trubisky had a losing record as

665
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 2: a starter, and he only had like three or four starts, right,

666
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: and it starts it's like one and two or something

667
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 2: like that.

668
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 3: Now, some of these guys didn't start a ton vic sure,

669
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 3: you know, but still that's nine guys.

670
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Speaker 2: And only one of those is well, not only one

671
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 2: of those is going to the Hall of Fame.

672
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wilson's a really good player, no doubt.

673
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: But he and I should he Yeah, Wilson has has

674
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame type critics. He could certainly, he could

675
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: certainly get in.

676
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna say end of career Bean was

677
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 3: the same as mid career band either. But still, of

678
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 3: all those dudes, only Trubisky had a losing record as

679
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 3: a starter. That's pretty crazy.

680
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 2: Since Mike Tomlin has been the Steelers head coach in

681
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, only the Patriots and the Packers

682
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: have won more games than Pittsburgh. Only Baltimore, Kansas City,

683
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 2: and New England have played more playoff games in the

684
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 2: a f C.

685
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, now we all know we want that record to

686
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 3: be better in the postseason.

687
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: Totally.

688
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 3: Tomlin does too, totally. But that's pretty good.

689
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: This is Matt, This is the same and I think

690
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: you'll get a kick out of this before we go

691
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: to break. My expectations as a WVU fan are not

692
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 2: what they are for Alabama fans and Ohio State fans. Yeah. Yeah,

693
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,239
Speaker 2: if those Ohio State was ten and two last year

694
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: at the end of the regular season and trying to

695
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 2: run Ryan Day out of town, and then he won

696
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: the National championship six weeks later.

697
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 3: Like this beats Texas this week.

698
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 2: But I get it. I would rather have Ohio State

699
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: expectations than WU expectations. Yeah, absolutely, I would rather have

700
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: Steelers expectations than Jets expectations. But I still still think

701
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 2: from time to time the grain of salt in there

702
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: is good to have as well.

703
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 3: Agreed. Agreed. Now, if we had every Jets fan on

704
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 3: to our right and every Steelers fan to our left,

705
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,239
Speaker 3: and we asked them both, what do you guys think

706
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 3: about an eight and nine record this year? We know

707
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 3: what the answers would be.

708
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 2: I'll take it.

709
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: The folks agreed, you'd be like, sign me up where.

710
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: Justin Fields did well, We're in the right direction.

711
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 3: Folks in black and goal will.

712
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: Be like, no way, would be like I want to

713
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 2: clean house. If we have a losing record this season,

714
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 2: that's enough, get them out of here. One more segment

715
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 2: to go on the other side, a couple.

716
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 3: More rated this long enough all these winning seasons.

717
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 2: Dude, last year I was laughing. Alabama finished ranked like

718
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: fourteenth or fifteenth in the regular season. Last year in trouble.

719
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 2: That guy's in trouble. They went nine and three and

720
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: finished ranked like fourteenth in the country. Kaylindbor, you got

721
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 2: one more year, dude, you better figure it out. I do.

722
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 3: I think he's lost to more unranked teams than Saban did.

723
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: Ye.

724
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 3: He's been there for like fifteen minutes.

725
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 2: He's already lost to four ranked teams as well, which

726
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 2: is as many I think as Nick Saban lost to

727
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: and like his last ten years, Like Sabin went six

728
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: and six his first year in Alabama, and then after

729
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: that they weren't He like lost six games the rest

730
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: of his entire time.

731
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Speaker 3: Right, You don't want to be the man that follows

732
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Speaker 3: the man.

733
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Speaker 2: You absolutely do not. Especially there do not no chance

734
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Speaker 2: a couple more of these that I want to close

735
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Speaker 2: down with you. When we return on the other side,

736
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Speaker 2: we will go through some of these last Matt stats

737
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Speaker 2: nuggets here to close this thing down. On a Thursday,

738
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Speaker 2: West Shuler, Matt Williamson, it is the Drive on Steelers

739
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Speaker 2: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network, Your teams.

740
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven Home of

741
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation.

742
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Speaker 2: Radio, the final segment of the Drive here on this Thursday.

743
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Speaker 2: As we have waited, we have anticipated, we have got

744
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: the beginning of the NFL season tonight across the Commonwealth

745
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. God bless America.

746
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 3: Matt.

747
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: I did take a look at the tweets here, and

748
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: I totally forgot that we solicited those early. We could

749
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 2: carry tomorrow, and we could certainly carry some over tomorrow.

750
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,879
Speaker 2: But Mark tweets us and says, wondering about a comparison

751
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: of the Tampa Bay Bucks roster that won the Super

752
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: Bowl with Brady to the current Steelers roster with Aaron Rodgers.

753
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 3: I'd have to be refreshed a little, but not much.

754
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 3: I got it here for you because real quick, before

755
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 3: we dig into it, I remember Dale and I talking

756
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 3: about that because the year before he went to Tampa

757
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 3: was the Winston year that he threw thirty thirty five yards, right,

758
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 3: And I remember talking about it going, this team's a

759
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 3: quarterback away. I mean like they had a lot of

760
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 3: pieces in place, and Tom knew it. I mean Tom

761
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 3: picked them going totally. If I don't throw thirty picks,

762
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 3: which he never.

763
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 2: Wins, we're gonna have a really good chance we got noise.

764
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 3: Stuff here going. I mean they had Evans and Godwin

765
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 3: and young Wurfs, and then he recruits Gronk and those

766
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 3: guys too. It's better than this roster, I think. Now

767
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 3: the defenses are maybe something comparable.

768
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 2: I think it is better than this roster. But there are, like,

769
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 2: give me some names.

770
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, like what that team.

771
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 2: Was, madamkan su Vid Golson, Pierre Paul was there was

772
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 2: their line. Those guys were thirty four, twenty six, thirty

773
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: and thirty two rookie Devin White next to veteran Leavonte David,

774
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 2: who's going to play till least fifty five. I'm convinced.

775
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 3: Yeah.

776
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 2: And Shaq Barrett, who had an outstanding year.

777
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good front seven, very good front seven.

778
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 2: I tell you what, though, I like the I like

779
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 2: the I like the Steelers.

780
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 3: Their front seven can hang with anybody.

781
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 2: I like the I like the Steelers secondary much more

782
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 2: than I like that Bucks secondary. Dean Murphy Bunting Winfield

783
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 2: Junior in Whitehead.

784
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 3: Okay, I'd probably take the Steeler d over that one.

785
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: I think I take the Steeler d over that one.

786
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 2: I'd certainly take the Steelers secondary.

787
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 3: Yes, over that one. Yeah, it's a good defense though, Yeah,

788
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 3: you can win a Super Bowl that defense. You absolutely

789
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 3: can a good phenomenal quarterback, you.

790
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 2: Know, but yeah, prime of his career, Mike Evans same

791
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 2: age as DK Metcalf.

792
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Evans is a Hall of Famer and

793
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 3: that Vergil Evans is better than Meccan.

794
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 2: I think, and this is a total digression. We don't

795
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 2: have to go there, but I think Mike Evans might

796
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 2: be the most underrated wide receiver in a history.

797
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 3: It's funny to say that because I agree, you know,

798
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 3: I think he should be compared to like Larry Yes,

799
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 3: you know, like he's not like is he a Hall

800
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: of Famer or not?

801
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: And I don't think he was quite a b or Julio,

802
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 2: but he deserves to be in that conversation and we

803
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: talk about the best wide receivers of this generation.

804
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 3: Like he might be a top ten receiver ever.

805
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 2: Matt, before we go, I think you're right he's again

806
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: and absolutely you can make a good faith argument that

807
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: he's in the conversation.

808
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, before we go. The better than the Steelers.

809
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 2: Offense was was was better, But I think the Steelers

810
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 2: defense could be better. Yeah, yeah, before we go, I

811
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: did want to run this last Matt's stat past you.

812
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 2: The Steelers last year averaged five point one yards per play.

813
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 2: That was eighth worst in the NFL. Where does that

814
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 2: number need to go for this team to get where

815
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: we want them to go.

816
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like much, But if you were five

817
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 3: to three, I'm probably be like, I get it, and

818
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: now don't forget. I mean, the rushing numbers were really low.

819
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 2: Because if that was what four point one per average,

820
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 2: second worst in the league. If you get that to

821
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 2: four three or four four.

822
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 3: Because they definitely had some long balls, you know that

823
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 3: that change, you know, So that's five ones not great.

824
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 3: I'm not saying saying it is. Obviously it was eighth worst, but.

825
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 2: You liked and you get close to five to five

826
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 2: and you're you're in the middle of the table.

827
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 3: I mean, Dale and I do this trick all the time.

828
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 3: I mean, if I said five to four, like, sign

829
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 3: me up, I won't take door number two. I won't

830
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 3: go fish. You know what I mean? Yes, five to five,

831
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 3: of course, I'm sign me up. Five to three. Maybe

832
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 3: five to three I might take because it could go backwards.

833
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: But people never think that, you know, like this time

834
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 3: of year and it's the NFL is so smart. It's

835
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: still we're still in the land of eternal optimism.

836
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

837
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 3: Oh it's going to be better in next year. Yeah,

838
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 3: we're better than we were this time though no chance

839
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 3: were as injured this year as last year. Like no

840
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: one gets hurt. Our first round pick is going to

841
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 3: be a star because they all hit all thirty two

842
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 3: every year. You know, this guy's coming back from injury,

843
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 3: he'll be better than ever. Oh yeah, that always happens.

844
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 2: I do. I do love the eternal optimism, but that'll

845
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: come crashing down very soon tonight. Last last one that

846
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: relates to this, Steelers averaged four point five yards per

847
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: play on first downs last year, last in the league.

848
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a lot of it's because they ran a

849
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 3: lot of first downs, which also has a little bit

850
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: of a ripple effect of running people, you know, beating

851
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 3: people up and wearing them down.

852
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,479
Speaker 2: The Jets were also the league's best defense on first

853
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 2: down last year.

854
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. I forgot about that.

855
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 2: So that kind of whole like four yards or more

856
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 2: on first down thing that I can still hear. Our

857
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 2: brother Craig Wolfley screaming about that. That feels like that's

858
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 2: going to be important on Sunday.

859
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, first down success rate I'm sure was poor for

860
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 3: the Steelers this past year.

861
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 2: It absolutely was. Yeah, And and so those are some

862
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 2: of the things that we will be looking for beginning Sunday.

863
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 2: But we will have another show tomorrow. Of course, we'll

864
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 2: have our we'll have our predictions, we'll get into some

865
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: more of these the these numbers. Will have a matchup

866
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Speaker 2: segment as.

867
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Speaker 3: Well, pick every game and do all that stuff too.

868
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely talk a little bit about whatever happens tonight.

869
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say tonight, I think it's eight

870
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 2: and a half because I'm not going to ask you

871
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: who's gonna win. I know your answer there. The Cowboys

872
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 2: keep it close, though, do they cover? They're eight and

873
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 2: a half point underdogs.

874
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 3: Maybe, I think they're in for a real long night,

875
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 3: But I think that passing game might keep it close

876
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 3: or backdoor cover, you know what I mean.

877
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 2: They score a touchdown, they score a touchdown late to

878
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 2: lose by seven instead of fourteen.

879
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 3: Like it wouldn't shock me if Steeler fans watch that

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Speaker 3: game going. George Pickens is still pretty good.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Let me just say, George

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Speaker 2: Pickens is I have two fantasy football teams. Now, that's it.

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Speaker 2: They're both money leagues, one with my boys, one with

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Speaker 2: my family. I got pickings starting in both I too.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy. There was like a handful of dudes in

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Speaker 3: my both three draft leagues that I picked in both leagues,

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Speaker 3: and he was one of them. And I'm firing him

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Speaker 3: up with confidence tonight.

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Speaker 2: I got them way lower than I thought I should

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Speaker 2: have in both drafts, and I was happy to do so.

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Speaker 2: Me too, Matt, good stuff man. Looking forward to tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: We'll really get this thing ramped up and ready for Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Big shout out to our guy TV in the booth

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Speaker 2: for producing us. We are back on YouTube for all

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Speaker 2: of you that missed that yesterday. If you want to

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Speaker 2: see Matt and I's beautiful smiling faces, you know where

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Speaker 2: to go. That's the Steelers official YouTube account. That'll do

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Speaker 2: it for us today. We'll talk to you tomorrow. For

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Speaker 2: Matt Williams and I am Weshuler. You know where to

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Speaker 2: find us. It's on your twenty four to seven Home

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