1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,680
Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I am Dale Lolly. He is

2
00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,520
Speaker 1: the Matt Williamson and well, Matt, we were both right

3
00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,440
Speaker 1: on our predictions of Yeah, I guess we were pretty

4
00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:10,799
Speaker 1: much on the score of the game. It was right

5
00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,440
Speaker 1: around what we thought neighborhood in the neighborhood.

6
00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,000
Speaker 2: That'd be about forty points with a Steeler win. I

7
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,240
Speaker 2: mean I had it closer than that, but you were

8
00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:18,320
Speaker 2: right on. Yeah.

9
00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,279
Speaker 1: So the Steelers get a win. They're now four and two,

10
00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,319
Speaker 1: and people don't want to accept this.

11
00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,520
Speaker 2: No they don't. I mean, I don't get it. I

12
00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,040
Speaker 2: think people will see it's early in the week. I

13
00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,639
Speaker 2: think they'll be a little more accepting than they were

14
00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,880
Speaker 2: after the last win and the bye and all that.

15
00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,839
Speaker 2: You know, they're a fraud and blah blah blah. I

16
00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,960
Speaker 2: don't know, man, I mean I should have it in

17
00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:40,440
Speaker 2: front of me.

18
00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,040
Speaker 1: When you continue to do something over and over and

19
00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,560
Speaker 1: over again, Yeah, you're not a fraud. That's what you are.

20
00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,320
Speaker 1: And in this case, the Steelers are a team that grinds.

21
00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,760
Speaker 1: They're a gritty team that finds a way to win.

22
00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,520
Speaker 1: Was anybody saying that the Cleveland Brown yesterday really in

23
00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,640
Speaker 1: their last two wins if they deserve to win either

24
00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,319
Speaker 1: one of those games, deserve to win, deserve to win

25
00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:04,520
Speaker 1: such a crazy term.

26
00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,440
Speaker 2: As I'm kind of getting tired of, to be honest

27
00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,560
Speaker 2: with you, in this league. I mean, the Steelers are

28
00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,720
Speaker 2: eight and two in their last ten, eleven and four.

29
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,119
Speaker 2: That's why I'm trying to find it. I couldn't remember

30
00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,200
Speaker 2: it to on my head. Their last fifteen, they're eleven

31
00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,600
Speaker 2: and four. Is pick it perfect? No? But he started

32
00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,319
Speaker 2: eighteen games and they've won like eleven of them, I think, Yeah.

33
00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,840
Speaker 2: And the fourth quarter comebacks to me aren't fluky anymore.

34
00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,679
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's one or two, maybe it's fluky.

35
00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,440
Speaker 2: But when it's seven out of eighteen.

36
00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,720
Speaker 1: Or somebody punches you in the face five times in

37
00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,240
Speaker 1: a row and you see them when they walk up

38
00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,640
Speaker 1: to you the sixth time, you're gonna expect to get

39
00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:39,400
Speaker 1: punched in the face.

40
00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean I think that. I think there's

41
00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,119
Speaker 2: a not a misnomer. I mean, there's definitely some truth

42
00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:53,360
Speaker 2: to it that they have benefited from ravens, drops and rams,

43
00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,680
Speaker 2: missfield goals, things of that nature. Okay, fine, I'll accept that,

44
00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:04,040
Speaker 2: But I also think two things, not missfield goals necessarily,

45
00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,080
Speaker 2: but you have something to do with causing the other

46
00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,320
Speaker 2: teams not saying, well, there's twenty two people on the

47
00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,000
Speaker 2: field and half of them belong to you, causing the

48
00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:12,880
Speaker 2: outcome to change.

49
00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,239
Speaker 1: Or were those chip shot field goals yesterday exactly? I

50
00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,560
Speaker 1: mean people in Pittsburgh may take a fifty plus yard

51
00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,480
Speaker 1: field goal for granted, because Chris Boswall he nails them

52
00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,519
Speaker 1: all the time, like he's like made his last eleven

53
00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,480
Speaker 1: or something ridiculously this year. Yeah, but what as I say, Yeah,

54
00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,360
Speaker 1: I mean that happens.

55
00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,440
Speaker 2: I mean a huge, huge Belichick thing. And how I've

56
00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,480
Speaker 2: been told he starts basically every meeting of every week,

57
00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,760
Speaker 2: is how do we not lose against the Steelers Ravens

58
00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,880
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. There's an art to not losing.

59
00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,000
Speaker 2: You know, it's almost harder to not lose in this

60
00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,440
Speaker 2: league than it is to win. And I know they

61
00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,200
Speaker 2: both end up with a W and the standings call them.

62
00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,960
Speaker 2: But take advantage of the errors your opponent gives you.

63
00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that's absolutely a key over

64
00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,920
Speaker 2: these last fifty games or whatever.

65
00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, failed fourth downs, turnovers, yeah, you know, any anything

66
00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,960
Speaker 1: that they make a mistake on if you that's the

67
00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,079
Speaker 1: one thing you know, when you look at picketts numbers

68
00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,640
Speaker 1: over this stretch, you take this the interceptions that he

69
00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,200
Speaker 1: had in those first few few games that he played

70
00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,640
Speaker 1: in the NFL out of the equate. He's he's really

71
00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,880
Speaker 1: taking care of the football. He doesn't make the big mistake.

72
00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,280
Speaker 1: I thought he played better yesterday than with the numbers show.

73
00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,920
Speaker 1: The first half could have been much better. Uh, you

74
00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,760
Speaker 1: know George Pickens route on the one down the sideline

75
00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:37,720
Speaker 1: was was.

76
00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,760
Speaker 2: I know people thought that was a bad throw, but

77
00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,520
Speaker 2: you didn't watch the game on TV like I did.

78
00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,400
Speaker 1: You were there's coming right at me. I'm watching it.

79
00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I forget who it was. It was

80
00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,960
Speaker 2: Mouse Johnson or one of whoever the color guy who

81
00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,520
Speaker 2: had a great point. It may have been a former

82
00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,400
Speaker 2: receiver saying Pickens needs to widen, he needs to get

83
00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,360
Speaker 2: he needs to not get so close to the side.

84
00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,880
Speaker 1: The room to make the player. You give yourself room

85
00:03:58,920 --> 00:03:59,400
Speaker 1: to make the play.

86
00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,600
Speaker 2: You're making them through the keyhole instead of hitting the door,

87
00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,760
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And that's on Pickens more

88
00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,280
Speaker 2: than pick it.

89
00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,240
Speaker 1: And then the one he short armed over the middle

90
00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,480
Speaker 1: on a third down play that. I understand you're trying

91
00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,000
Speaker 1: to avoid the hit in that situation, but that would

92
00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:13,720
Speaker 1: have been a big play.

93
00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,680
Speaker 2: That would have been a big play, and he clearly

94
00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,640
Speaker 2: both of those would have been big plays. He clearly

95
00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,320
Speaker 2: made a business decision on that one. Pickins. It's just

96
00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,680
Speaker 2: kind of today's NFL. I know, I sound wish you

97
00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,200
Speaker 2: wash you on that, but I mean he turned it down,

98
00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,000
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, you know so.

99
00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean he made those played well, yeah, you make

100
00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,240
Speaker 1: those two plays and maybe the game doesn't come down

101
00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,159
Speaker 1: though you needing to win in the fourth quarter.

102
00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,520
Speaker 2: And I also think that he didn't move unnecessarily nearly

103
00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,320
Speaker 2: as much. Frankly, I didn't think the ball came out

104
00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,960
Speaker 2: of his hand super crisp and with a lot of authority.

105
00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,520
Speaker 2: But I thought he was more accurate than he has been.

106
00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,000
Speaker 2: Why I thought of that, but I mean, it just

107
00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,880
Speaker 2: didn't seem like it was a howitzer coming out of

108
00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,880
Speaker 2: his hands, so what it didn't. He got it there,

109
00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,240
Speaker 2: but he would put it where he wanted it to be.

110
00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,640
Speaker 2: I thought he had a really good feel for their coverages.

111
00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,000
Speaker 2: Deontae coming a certainly helps massive, massive mast. You know,

112
00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,160
Speaker 2: we said a couple of not so great things about Pickens,

113
00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,119
Speaker 2: but the back shoulder stuff they got going is great

114
00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,280
Speaker 2: to the rapport of those two have together, gets better

115
00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,760
Speaker 2: and better every week. So yeah, it's trending the right direction.

116
00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,680
Speaker 1: What'd you think of the call on Pickings on the

117
00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,120
Speaker 1: blindside block.

118
00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,640
Speaker 2: They're in call it every time, I know. I mean

119
00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:20,960
Speaker 2: they picked that one up.

120
00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, a few weeks ago he was around the front

121
00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,800
Speaker 1: side that the contact was with the front shoulder. I

122
00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:28,640
Speaker 1: don't like the rule.

123
00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,200
Speaker 2: I hate the rule, to be honest with you, I

124
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,360
Speaker 2: understand you can't break people's jaws, Like.

125
00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that, and you're trying to make it

126
00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,800
Speaker 1: more safe. But if you hate the rule, if you

127
00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,040
Speaker 1: get the guy in his chest area, yeah, that's on him.

128
00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,279
Speaker 2: That's on him, one hundred percent. Agree. I mean, I

129
00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,279
Speaker 2: think people that played ten years ago would be like,

130
00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,640
Speaker 2: I can't believe that's a rule, let alone twenty thirty.

131
00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,920
Speaker 1: But I also said, it's not like he came out

132
00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,440
Speaker 1: and just you know, lowered his shoulder.

133
00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,719
Speaker 2: And he could destroy them.

134
00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,800
Speaker 1: He just he just got in the way. What's he

135
00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,560
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Him on the shoulder as he runs.

136
00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,560
Speaker 2: By, that's the rule. I mean, I just don't like

137
00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:04,839
Speaker 2: the rule. But it's gonna be a.

138
00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,920
Speaker 1: League where offense is struggling. Your teams are struggling to

139
00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:08,760
Speaker 1: put up offense.

140
00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,920
Speaker 2: The only time they don't automatically call it is if

141
00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,479
Speaker 2: you kind of just set a pick, if you just

142
00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,359
Speaker 2: kind of get in the way and look meager, and

143
00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,080
Speaker 2: they happen to quote run into you. But if you

144
00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,480
Speaker 2: do anything in the slightest but aggression, it's going to

145
00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,520
Speaker 2: be a call. And he's no better. I mean, that's

146
00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,080
Speaker 2: just the league. Unfortunately, it is unfortunate.

147
00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,360
Speaker 1: That would have been a big play down to the

148
00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,400
Speaker 1: Steeler eight or the Rams eight early in the game. So,

149
00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,360
Speaker 1: but the Steelers find a way, they get to four

150
00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,320
Speaker 1: and two, they keep pace with the rest of the

151
00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,479
Speaker 1: AFC North. If you're Cincinnati, you're off this week, you're going,

152
00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,200
Speaker 1: You're sitting there going.

153
00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,880
Speaker 2: Everybody else keeps you winning well, same thing out of

154
00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,960
Speaker 2: the Steelers. Yeah, on the couch a week you go too, like,

155
00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:49,960
Speaker 2: is this division figuring it out all of a sudden?

156
00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,120
Speaker 1: Maybe.

157
00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:52,760
Speaker 2: So I was just on with Mark Madden and he

158
00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,479
Speaker 2: asked me, you know, what do you think of the division?

159
00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,400
Speaker 2: I said, two days ago, I would have said Cincinnati

160
00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:00,600
Speaker 2: will come off the couch Burrows cap will be ready

161
00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,400
Speaker 2: and I think they win the division. They might. I mean,

162
00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,800
Speaker 2: they might come back strong. They have their warts as well.

163
00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,040
Speaker 2: I picked the Lions to beat the Ravens. How stupid

164
00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,960
Speaker 2: am I? I mean that was all.

165
00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,200
Speaker 1: Out I looked. I give the Ravens credit, you know,

166
00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,600
Speaker 1: coming off a game in London, I thought they'd be

167
00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,080
Speaker 1: a little flat that. I think we underestimated the the

168
00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,120
Speaker 1: Lamar seventeen and one record against the NFC.

169
00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,320
Speaker 2: No question. I sided the exact same thing with Mark.

170
00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:27,720
Speaker 2: I'm like, I mean, know if all of our listeners

171
00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,559
Speaker 2: know this, but he's only lost once in his career

172
00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,960
Speaker 2: to the NFC. When you don't see him, he is

173
00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,240
Speaker 2: a handful. I think I've also under estimated their defense

174
00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,760
Speaker 2: and their defensive coordinator. He may be a head coach

175
00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,440
Speaker 2: some day. I mean, the Ravens are strong. I don't

176
00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,160
Speaker 2: believe in the Browns at all. I mean, I think

177
00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,440
Speaker 2: they're more dysfunctional than they are. A winning team.

178
00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:45,960
Speaker 1: But you want to talk about a team that was

179
00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,440
Speaker 1: fortunate to win, like they had a a couple of

180
00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,600
Speaker 1: penalties that should have been gone. The Garrett in the game.

181
00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,840
Speaker 1: The Garrett field goal block should have been a penalty.

182
00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,120
Speaker 2: When you leap.

183
00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,520
Speaker 1: Over top, you can't make any contact. Yeah, with alignment,

184
00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,960
Speaker 1: if you make any kind of contact. Un his foot

185
00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,760
Speaker 1: clearly touches the lineman as he's going over the top,

186
00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,760
Speaker 1: and that's not called. That's that's got to be a call.

187
00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,280
Speaker 2: Like, I have no worries about their defense. I mean,

188
00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,280
Speaker 2: I still think it's probably the best in the league.

189
00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,800
Speaker 2: If not, it's definitely top three. And Garrett was great

190
00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,960
Speaker 2: on defense. But they allowed a lot of points to

191
00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,080
Speaker 2: the Colts, and their quarterback situation is nuts to me.

192
00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,840
Speaker 2: I don't get it at all. Yeah, he could have

193
00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:25,720
Speaker 2: went back to the game.

194
00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,160
Speaker 1: They gave up by somebody tweets like five touchdown drive

195
00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,439
Speaker 1: or six truts down whatever it was. Six touchdown drives

196
00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,640
Speaker 1: yesterday five touchdown drives in like four of them were

197
00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:37,040
Speaker 1: seventy five plus ar drives.

198
00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean Taylor Pittman.

199
00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,240
Speaker 1: They were just ramming the ball right down their throat.

200
00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,080
Speaker 2: And I'm also starting to think Colts might not stink.

201
00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:45,959
Speaker 2: I mean, not that they're great, but they might.

202
00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:46,920
Speaker 1: They find ways to lose it.

203
00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,760
Speaker 2: They find ways to lose which might be good for

204
00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,480
Speaker 2: them big picture. But yeah, I mean, they're not gonna

205
00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:52,559
Speaker 2: be an easy game on the schedule.

206
00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,080
Speaker 1: No, they're not. They do run the ball. Well, that

207
00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,160
Speaker 1: was one thing, and I wrote about this in my

208
00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,640
Speaker 1: ten thought the game, and everybody's looking at that. The

209
00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,400
Speaker 1: Steelers defense, he got run all over again.

210
00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,520
Speaker 2: Oh this is a great point. I'm glad you right.

211
00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,000
Speaker 1: I think they were more than content. You want to

212
00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,640
Speaker 1: keep Stafford through twenty nine passes in the game. Yeah,

213
00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:14,640
Speaker 1: he's got Pooka Nkua and Cooper Cup.

214
00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,080
Speaker 2: That's a win. So you said a lot of this,

215
00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,520
Speaker 2: and I kind of expanded on it too, or you know,

216
00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:25,160
Speaker 2: looked into it more so going into this game. Every

217
00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,960
Speaker 2: game the Rams won, they ran the ball like crazy. Yeah,

218
00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,440
Speaker 2: every game they lost, they had like fourteen rushing attempts

219
00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,199
Speaker 2: or something very very slow. There's like a twenty rushing

220
00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,920
Speaker 2: attempts per game difference win or lose. Except this game

221
00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,200
Speaker 2: they made them play a different style. And I thought

222
00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,760
Speaker 2: it was really interesting that the Steelers really, for the

223
00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:51,360
Speaker 2: first time all year, countered eleven personnel with Nickel instead

224
00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,720
Speaker 2: of Dime. He saw a lot of two linebackers on

225
00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,160
Speaker 2: the field together. But even though they did that on

226
00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,480
Speaker 2: early downs, it's a pro football focus that came out

227
00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,440
Speaker 2: this morning. They played with a very light box.

228
00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,840
Speaker 1: It was extremely daring. We talked about it all last week,

229
00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,800
Speaker 1: dare the Rams to run the football.

230
00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,120
Speaker 2: That's exactly what they did. And I think the quote

231
00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,199
Speaker 2: you call them every time they didn't throw the Cooper

232
00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,400
Speaker 2: Cup was a win basically, you know what I mean.

233
00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,680
Speaker 2: Seven targets in the game was crazy, Okay, but I

234
00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,560
Speaker 2: guarantee you the whole goal I'm sure that week was

235
00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,679
Speaker 2: don't let Cup and Donald beat you. Everybody else does,

236
00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,920
Speaker 2: including the KUPA. Were we in it? Yeah? And they were.

237
00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean that's exactly. That was exactly the formula. Don't

238
00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,400
Speaker 1: let the two stars that they have beat you.

239
00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,520
Speaker 2: Yep, and they didn't. And if Stafford has a weakness

240
00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,480
Speaker 2: sometimes he will stare down Cup or force him the ball.

241
00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,240
Speaker 2: And I think TJ. Watt might have been in on that,

242
00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,599
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, I thought it was

243
00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,120
Speaker 2: a really good game plan that they incorporated the whole

244
00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,040
Speaker 2: week going in don't let those two beat you, and

245
00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:56,840
Speaker 2: they didn't. Yeah.

246
00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,520
Speaker 1: I just think sometimes people get caught up in the

247
00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,160
Speaker 1: number and all this stuff, and I get it. You

248
00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,600
Speaker 1: don't want to see, you know, a team run the ball.

249
00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,760
Speaker 1: I kept seeing you know, people tweeting out and tweeting above.

250
00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,959
Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers are giving up all these rushing

251
00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:10,559
Speaker 1: yards against these guys that you.

252
00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,920
Speaker 2: Know, people pretend like they don't care who the back is.

253
00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,080
Speaker 1: And i mean I'm watching this, I'm like, there's like

254
00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,760
Speaker 1: six guys in a box that they didn't care.

255
00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,600
Speaker 2: It was on purpose. It was very vic Fangio, like

256
00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,240
Speaker 2: like four deep. If you're gonna run on us, fine,

257
00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:25,680
Speaker 2: you still can't get enough points doing that way to

258
00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,040
Speaker 2: beat us, right, I mean, it's cool with it. Just

259
00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:29,520
Speaker 2: don't let Cup go for one eight.

260
00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,640
Speaker 1: As much as they ran the ball in the first half,

261
00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,600
Speaker 1: and they ran the ball effectively in the first The

262
00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:39,600
Speaker 1: Rams had fourteen carry fifteen carries for seventy nine yards

263
00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,160
Speaker 1: in the first half at nine points, and that was

264
00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,880
Speaker 1: a fluke of a nine points.

265
00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,640
Speaker 2: And to the opposite of the Steelers. And I'm sure

266
00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:49,920
Speaker 2: we'll get to this over the course of the week.

267
00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,320
Speaker 2: The Rams are a start fast offense. They jump on

268
00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,640
Speaker 2: you quick. I mean, that's what it's a McVeigh thing.

269
00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,120
Speaker 2: And you kind of weathered that storm by allowing six

270
00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,160
Speaker 2: yards to carry as opposed to Cooper Cup going for

271
00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,319
Speaker 2: you know, ninety yards.

272
00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,200
Speaker 1: In the first I mean that's the key too as well,

273
00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,840
Speaker 1: because okay, it gets you for six, they gets you

274
00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,000
Speaker 1: for six, they get you for five, then you get

275
00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,160
Speaker 1: them for a two yard loss and they're behind the sticks. Stafford,

276
00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:15,680
Speaker 1: as the game went on, felt.

277
00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:20,520
Speaker 2: The pressure, and I think that they also fatigued a

278
00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,040
Speaker 2: little on both sides of the ball, especially defense late

279
00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,400
Speaker 2: in the game. In the Rams, I mean, they just

280
00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,680
Speaker 2: don't the depth, they don't have the high quality players.

281
00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,120
Speaker 2: Their athletes aren't as good. And I know Nikua hurt them.

282
00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,160
Speaker 2: I mean Nikua had.

283
00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,040
Speaker 1: He made a couple of a couple of big plays,

284
00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,120
Speaker 1: like yeah, the sideline catch that he had. After the catch,

285
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,200
Speaker 1: what you do is right.

286
00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,640
Speaker 2: I mean they were watching the TV thing and they're

287
00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,760
Speaker 2: hundred percent right. And I think they even quoted Tomlin

288
00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,160
Speaker 2: that that timing and rhythm passing game that the Rams

289
00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,760
Speaker 2: have when the ball comes out in like two point

290
00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,080
Speaker 2: one seconds, I mean like two point fives of magic number.

291
00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,160
Speaker 2: If they're at two to one to two two, it's

292
00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,360
Speaker 2: almost unsoppable, you know. And you did see some of that,

293
00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,520
Speaker 2: and you see it every week with Stafford and McVeigh

294
00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,280
Speaker 2: and one of those receivers. But it wasn't coup and

295
00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,080
Speaker 2: that was the key. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was

296
00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:03,520
Speaker 2: a key.

297
00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,800
Speaker 1: I thought that the tone was set. I mean he

298
00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,160
Speaker 1: dropped the first two passes thrown to him.

299
00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:09,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, you know.

300
00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,520
Speaker 1: You can say that's that's luck. You can call it

301
00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,680
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. He can also look

302
00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:16,320
Speaker 1: at it and say, you know, you have when you

303
00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,880
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys around you defensively, maybe you're here,

304
00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,480
Speaker 1: you know, hearing some footsteps a little bit.

305
00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm sure he'll say he didn't play his

306
00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,680
Speaker 2: best game. He probably didn't. That's his worst production since

307
00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,920
Speaker 2: twenty twenty in a game. Then he started and finish.

308
00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,319
Speaker 1: In two games against the Steelers.

309
00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:32,720
Speaker 2: No, he's like nothing.

310
00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,839
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup has two catches for twenty nine yards.

311
00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:36,319
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to see them again.

312
00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, on like sixteen targets.

313
00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,920
Speaker 2: They're like his two worst games. Oh yeah, yeah.

314
00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,080
Speaker 1: The first time they played him, he had like nine

315
00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,920
Speaker 1: targets and didn't catch the ball. Because he was the

316
00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:47,520
Speaker 1: same guy back then. I was back in the twenty

317
00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,080
Speaker 1: nineteen season. He was a star at that point, and

318
00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,360
Speaker 1: they've just, for whatever reason, have done a good job

319
00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,840
Speaker 1: of keeping him from blowing things up.

320
00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,480
Speaker 2: Yep. And again they begged them to run, even when

321
00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,840
Speaker 2: I think they wanted to pass. Yeah, I think it

322
00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,640
Speaker 2: was they want to pass. I mean to see the Steelers.

323
00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,160
Speaker 1: Was it the first or second time? That first or

324
00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,760
Speaker 1: second time? The Rams said third and it was third

325
00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,400
Speaker 1: and five. Uh, that was the second on their second possession?

326
00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,000
Speaker 1: Did they run it in a third thirty five? And

327
00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,560
Speaker 1: they ran the ball? Yeah, and makea Fitzpatrick makes a

328
00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,640
Speaker 1: stop on for a one yard game and they missed

329
00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:25,200
Speaker 1: a field goal.

330
00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,160
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was funny. Brought that up because dare

331
00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,160
Speaker 2: them to run the ball. I assume he just came

332
00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,200
Speaker 2: to line and be like, there's like no one line scrimmage.

333
00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,120
Speaker 2: I have to run the ball, even though it's against

334
00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,960
Speaker 2: my DNA and that's not what we do at all.

335
00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,360
Speaker 2: I want to throw a deep dig and you know,

336
00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,920
Speaker 2: tarry up, but I'm gonna run it. No, make it

337
00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:41,360
Speaker 2: was really good.

338
00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,120
Speaker 1: Think it was fantastic in this game.

339
00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, curious what his ProFootball focus great is.

340
00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,480
Speaker 1: I'll probably be a sixty two something like that.

341
00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,760
Speaker 2: There are a lot of defenders that played well.

342
00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:54,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I played well as much as you know.

343
00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,200
Speaker 1: Everybody looked somebody tweeted this at me. Wait, the Rams

344
00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,960
Speaker 1: beat the Steelers every offense, major offensive number. There's only

345
00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,080
Speaker 1: one offensive number that counts. There's only one number that counts,

346
00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,880
Speaker 1: and that's the scoreboard. I don't care about the yard

347
00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,360
Speaker 1: age and all that other stand and even.

348
00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,160
Speaker 2: If you look at it through the course of the game,

349
00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,640
Speaker 2: it was about the same. Yeah. Someone tweeted me today

350
00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,920
Speaker 2: that he knew him big on yards for play before

351
00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,200
Speaker 2: the kneel downs. At the end of the game, the

352
00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:20,360
Speaker 2: yards for player exactly equal.

353
00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, if you look at the Steelers running game,

354
00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,520
Speaker 1: would it produced. I'm you gotta realize Kenny Pickett took it.

355
00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,920
Speaker 1: He had eight rushing attempts in this game. Now we

356
00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,640
Speaker 1: know he ran for a touchdown on a sneak. He

357
00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,280
Speaker 1: also converted a third and fourth down on sneak.

358
00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:37,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

359
00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had eight rushes for zero yards and four

360
00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,400
Speaker 1: downs fournel downs. So they end up with twenty nine

361
00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,960
Speaker 1: carries for eighty six yards. That's a three yard per

362
00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,520
Speaker 1: carry average. And people are gonna look like, oh my god,

363
00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,600
Speaker 1: the Steelers couldn't run the ball against the Rams. Well,

364
00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,560
Speaker 1: they're top two. That the two running backs had twenty

365
00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:54,920
Speaker 1: carries for eighty five yards.

366
00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,560
Speaker 2: And what's funny is every one of Pickett's quote carries

367
00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,000
Speaker 2: accomplished exactly what he want to do. Correct, They were

368
00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:01,640
Speaker 2: all successful.

369
00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:01,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

370
00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:03,800
Speaker 2: Mean, I know Neil downs an't hard to accomplish, don't

371
00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,640
Speaker 2: get me wrong, but Dal down Yeah, I mean you

372
00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,040
Speaker 2: lost the yard or whatever. Right, So the running back

373
00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,320
Speaker 2: carries were quite good.

374
00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:11,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we're fine.

375
00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,520
Speaker 2: They weren't. They weren't a detriment.

376
00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,760
Speaker 1: No, you can successfully turned out yardage and as the

377
00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,480
Speaker 1: game were on when you needed to win the game

378
00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,440
Speaker 1: at the end, you were able to run the clock

379
00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:22,760
Speaker 1: out the last five minutes of the game.

380
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you scored three rushing touchdowns you converted in

381
00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,080
Speaker 2: the red zone. Stuff we haven't seen this year.

382
00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,320
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we're gonna get to a break. He is Matt Williamson.

383
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,600
Speaker 1: I am Dale Lawley. You're listening to the drive here

384
00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,640
Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back with more on

385
00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers rams game right after this. Hey, Steeler fans,

386
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,720
Speaker 1: you can get up with the latest sideline apparel, hats

387
00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,640
Speaker 1: or jerseys of your favorite players, authentic memorabilia, custom items,

388
00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,520
Speaker 1: and exclusives you can only find directly from the team

389
00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,280
Speaker 1: at one of the official Steelers pro shops. They're located

390
00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,840
Speaker 1: at Akroscher Stadium, Grove City Premium Outlets or Tangle outlets,

391
00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:58,480
Speaker 1: or visit online at shop dot Steelers dot com. And

392
00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,640
Speaker 1: Matt I have to believe that they might have sold

393
00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,840
Speaker 1: a few more TJ. Watt jerseys over the weekend.

394
00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Steelers jerseys in general. I mean, the team's

395
00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,760
Speaker 2: trending the right way. That Watt character is unbelievable right now.

396
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,120
Speaker 2: I mean, he really is. And there's so many stats

397
00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,240
Speaker 2: that are great. But here's what I heard the other day.

398
00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,000
Speaker 2: I mean, through their first seven seater yesterday, the first

399
00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,040
Speaker 2: seven seasons of their career, two people in history have

400
00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,160
Speaker 2: seventy sacks and seven interceptions.

401
00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:29,320
Speaker 1: And it's not Miles Garrett.

402
00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,679
Speaker 2: To Miles Garrett, the guy named Watt who missed a

403
00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,199
Speaker 2: big chunk of last year. I mean, this is they

404
00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,760
Speaker 2: only care about your first seven seasons. And a dude

405
00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,880
Speaker 2: to war fifty six for the New York Giants coming

406
00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:38,400
Speaker 2: off the edge.

407
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:38,959
Speaker 1: He's pretty good.

408
00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,800
Speaker 2: He was pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. I mean it's

409
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,520
Speaker 2: a nice company.

410
00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know, once again we saw the Rams

411
00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,440
Speaker 1: very aggressive in their blocking schemes, not allowing they weren't

412
00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,240
Speaker 1: going to allow Watt and high Smith right to wreck

413
00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:53,800
Speaker 1: this game.

414
00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,160
Speaker 2: I just did a show with Wolfe a little bit ago,

415
00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,800
Speaker 2: and yes, you saw it on TV and you probably

416
00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,160
Speaker 2: you definitely saw it better than he saw it better there,

417
00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,480
Speaker 2: He's like as much as any game this year, they

418
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,359
Speaker 2: structured things around what Yeah, everyone does. Of course he

419
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,520
Speaker 2: gets extra attention as this Garrett everybody you know, but

420
00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,879
Speaker 2: he thought as much as any scheme he's seen all year,

421
00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,719
Speaker 2: this was conscientious in his favor. And what I noticed

422
00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,520
Speaker 2: was they never played twelve personnel. Well they did in

423
00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:22,040
Speaker 2: this one.

424
00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,560
Speaker 1: They did do something, and they made sure even when

425
00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,439
Speaker 1: they were running the football. Yeah, they made sure they

426
00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,239
Speaker 1: had a backside block on what every time? OK, so

427
00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:31,359
Speaker 1: he couldn't come in and wreck.

428
00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,800
Speaker 2: To play from Horn Taylor like that type of thing.

429
00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's what he's really good at, is sliding

430
00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,400
Speaker 1: down the line and getting the running back behind the line.

431
00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:39,720
Speaker 1: So they weren't gonna let that happen.

432
00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,840
Speaker 2: No, And good for them. I mean that's great. And

433
00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,879
Speaker 2: you're that match with lighter boxes, you're gonna allow some

434
00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:46,480
Speaker 2: production on the ground, but that's part of the game

435
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:47,200
Speaker 2: plan at worked.

436
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was still able to make a game

437
00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:52,159
Speaker 1: changing play.

438
00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,919
Speaker 2: So his pick. If Fred Warner makes that pick, the

439
00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,880
Speaker 2: best coverage linebacker in the league, we'd all be raving him. Wow,

440
00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,560
Speaker 2: what a play. Look at his eye eyes, how kind

441
00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:04,359
Speaker 2: of feels a quarterback feels the route concept coming that

442
00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,480
Speaker 2: he's not even necessarily his responsibility. But that guy's like

443
00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,280
Speaker 2: the best pass rusher in the league. He's not Fred

444
00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 2: warn How.

445
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,440
Speaker 1: How much coverage is he studying over the course of

446
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,760
Speaker 1: the week, how many route combinations and things of that nature.

447
00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,280
Speaker 2: Not what he does. I mean, he has seven picks

448
00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,600
Speaker 2: in seven years, and he does it more than Miles

449
00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,600
Speaker 2: Garrett or whomever. But still that's funny, remarkable.

450
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,719
Speaker 1: I talked to demonte Kaz after the game, and uh,

451
00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,280
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, TJ hates to rush like he hates

452
00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,159
Speaker 1: to drop. I should say he just hates to drop.

453
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,440
Speaker 2: But okay, just a wasted opportunity.

454
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to get after the past. It's the

455
00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,800
Speaker 1: first play of the second half. If you think about

456
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 1: the game, the Steelers had two game changing plays on

457
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,280
Speaker 1: the opening play of the third and the fourth quarters.

458
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 2: I remember the third which one was the third.

459
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,399
Speaker 1: Quarter was the was the pick. The fourth quarter was

460
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,680
Speaker 1: the pass of Deontay Johnson for the thirty nine yard

461
00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:59,200
Speaker 1: game on third down the first Okay, again that route,

462
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,840
Speaker 1: the route there Canny Pickett trusting Deontay Johnson to get

463
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,480
Speaker 1: open that which he really wasn't.

464
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,920
Speaker 2: No, that was a throw you open, trust him to

465
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:08,280
Speaker 2: get open.

466
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,480
Speaker 1: I told Deontay after the game, I'm like, hey, Deontay,

467
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,959
Speaker 1: don't take this the wrong way, but I've seen you

468
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,240
Speaker 1: much more open in the over the course of your career.

469
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 1: Kenny really trusted you on that throw. He goes, yeah,

470
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,080
Speaker 1: I mean he you know, he was coming to me

471
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,240
Speaker 1: and and he trusted me to get to make the

472
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,920
Speaker 1: play and and get open.

473
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 2: So if you listen to the last segment referenced how

474
00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,640
Speaker 2: hard it is when they're on timing and rhythm Stafford

475
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 2: and Cup you know, I mean, Rogers and Adams blah

476
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 2: blah blah. I mean, I'm not comparing Kenny and his

477
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 2: receivers to those guys yet. It's not Ab and Ben.

478
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,479
Speaker 2: I mean, those guys are all Hall of Fame. Those

479
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 2: didn't make going to say, I mean, it's a huge

480
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 2: step in the right direction. You know, that's a great example.

481
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 2: All the back shoulder fades to Pickens like, those are

482
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 2: trust throws. Those are knowing your receiver. That's not just

483
00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,200
Speaker 2: a go route where he's got a staff just lay

484
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,600
Speaker 2: it out there. I mean it's trust and timing and

485
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,159
Speaker 2: all those things that are coming along.

486
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big step. Do you realize while

487
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 1: you were watching a game that Stafford didn't complete a

488
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:08,600
Speaker 1: pass in the fourth quarter.

489
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 2: I didn't until I'd crunched the numbers after and all

490
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 2: those things. And Kenny didn't have one hit the ground.

491
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, pickt had no no incompletions. Stafford didn't have a

492
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: completion in the fourth quarter.

493
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think the Steelers had like one hundred

494
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,400
Speaker 2: and eighty six yards of in the fourth quarter alone.

495
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 2: I mean in the Rams had twenty and twenty and

496
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,399
Speaker 2: over the past two games. This is kind of a

497
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 2: good and bad stat But over the past two games,

498
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 2: the Steelers have produced twenty eight fourth quarter points in

499
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: two games. Now they only have thirteen in the first

500
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 2: three quarters of those games those six. But there is

501
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 2: something to this team in this quarterback playing well when

502
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 2: it matters most down the stretch. And I mentioned I

503
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,719
Speaker 2: did a show with Wolf and Rob King and we

504
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 2: were talking about you know, Rob mentioned He's like, so

505
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 2: a week ago you talked about how the stats show

506
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 2: how worthy the Steelers are in their first fifteen plays,

507
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 2: and they've yet to produce a point. Even this is

508
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,120
Speaker 2: still going in their first drive. And then he brought

509
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 2: up the idea though of well, we just started talking

510
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,199
Speaker 2: through and it kind of dawned on me. I'm like,

511
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 2: that's all true, and that needs to change. Of course,

512
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 2: it'd be great to start fast. But the reason you

513
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 2: script those fifteen plays, and this is very Bill Walsh

514
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 2: thing to do, is to learn for later in the game.

515
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 2: It's you know what I mean, It's.

516
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: Like a game of Statigo or a game of battleship

517
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 1: gathering data. You're right, right, I try Okay, I'm trying

518
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 1: to narrow down here. What way the ship picked you?

519
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 2: I should try be five. You know, Oh that was

520
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 2: a miss. Well I should go to B four, you

521
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 2: know whatever. Whatever. So, yeah, I mean, I know everyone's

522
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 2: to kill Matt Canada, but the fact that they do

523
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 2: produce latent games might not just be Pickett. Is all

524
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 2: I'm saying is maybe the dude that's in his staff,

525
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 2: the running back coach, the receiver coach, are gathering in.

526
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 1: What's working though, what can we come back to if.

527
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 2: We're in thirteen personnel, which they used a little bit

528
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 2: today yesterday, and we put this guy in motion, they

529
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 2: automatically checked the cover two. Well, let's remember that for

530
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 2: when we need it on third and eight in the

531
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. And the other Canada thing I wanted to

532
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 2: throw out there too is they've played Donald, Crosby, Bosa Garrett.

533
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 2: Now they're four of the top easily ten maybe eight

534
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 2: six defensive players on the planet that aren't wearing Steeler colors.

535
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 2: I think they have one sack between them and like

536
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 2: anful tackles. Yeah, Like they didn't destroy the game at all.

537
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: And you know, I think you saw some of that.

538
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 1: You know they gave up a couple of sacks early.

539
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I think they had some protection.

540
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: I think part of that early because of the Donald rules. Yes,

541
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: hey we got to get two guys, like somebody they

542
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,400
Speaker 1: had two guys on the whole time people were early

543
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: in that game. Somebody tweeted at me, you know, maybe

544
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: they should bench Chuokes a Chorapoor for Dann Moore and

545
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: put Roger job. I'm like, if you're blaming that first

546
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: sack on Chuokes of chora four.

547
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are communications.

548
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: He's got two dudes over the over top them. He

549
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 1: blocked one of them.

550
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh a.

551
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 1: That's on the quarterback to recognize that that they got

552
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: two guys over there rushing b. The running back has

553
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: to get over there. That's a linebacker. They got the sack. Yeah,

554
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: you at least got to get a chip on him.

555
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: You can't let them come free. But the quarterback has

556
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: to recognize that and go hot.

557
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: Yeah. And there's another play not farther after dan Moores

558
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 2: blocking his edge. Dude, there's a big gap in the

559
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 2: B gap that Dan Moore's in.

560
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: And the safety comes up the most.

561
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Warren has to pick one or the other.

562
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 2: Only pick one and the other guy came free. So

563
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 2: the first quarter their defensive coaches get paid too, you know,

564
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 2: I mean, and he's Morris is really good. They had

565
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: some nice blitz pass rush concepts, but the Steelers figured

566
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: it out quickly, you know, like it didn't haunt you

567
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 2: for sixty minutes.

568
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: It wasn't. It wasn't the Giants one and you're watching

569
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: sack the.

570
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: Air, like what am I supposed to do to block

571
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 2: four guys?

572
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, it through six games. Teams have

573
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: not shown you everything that they're going to do.

574
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 2: No, of course not you scheme specific stuff.

575
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: Nick Lebo used to do that. All. They would work

576
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: on something in the middle of the of the offseason,

577
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: and then like in week ten, he'd be like, Okay,

578
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: now we're gonna throw this blitz at him. He'd have something,

579
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 1: he'd have a new he'd have a new blitz every week, basically.

580
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 2: Right, that's not that crazy, Yeah, right right, I mean,

581
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. So and even if they had

582
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 2: repped it once in week one, you still may not

583
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 2: have ran it in practice. Right. You can't rep everything.

584
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just don't have time.

585
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 2: No, you adjusted in the game.

586
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: That's great, right, don't let it beat you time after

587
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: time and time. But the quarterback has to recognized.

588
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's a young quarterback thing too, in a young

589
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 2: O line. Side note, I was very much in the camp,

590
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 2: but Roger Jones should be the left tackle. Dan Moore

591
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 2: played great, Yeah, I mean he played very very well.

592
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I think they've got a nice dilemma

593
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: there here. They've got a nice dilemma.

594
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that all these guys stink. We gotta

595
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 2: throw somebody out right, the Giants a million injuries or

596
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 2: whatever too. We got nobody.

597
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: There are there are teams right now that would kill

598
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: for a Chucks co or for or kill for Dan Moore,

599
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 1: and certainly for a Broderick Jones. And there's no reason

600
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 1: to rush it.

601
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 2: But more played. Well. I wanted to get that out.

602
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: How about this, Matt. So, now that the Steelers are

603
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: at this point in the season, they're four and two,

604
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: their next seven games, they do not leave the state

605
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania or Ohio.

606
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 2: It's so weird. And they're not playing in Philly, and

607
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 2: they're not playing in Philly or Eerie or right Harrisburg.

608
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: Like I took my suitcase, my travel suitcase, my big

609
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: one that I take on for my my little one

610
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: that I take on flights. I put it in the

611
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: closet because for the next two months I don't need

612
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: the damn thing.

613
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 2: Wow, which is a nice relief considering some of your

614
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,479
Speaker 2: road trips too, because I read that in you call Them,

615
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 2: and then I also read and you call them all

616
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 2: the tough road trips, the far road trip, the way,

617
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: and I could just see you right in that going, oh,

618
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: thank God. And I can see it on your face

619
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,120
Speaker 2: right now too. I don't think you got a whole

620
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: lot of sleep.

621
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: I did not know in the sleep that I got

622
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: was on a on a red eye flight. You know.

623
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: Actually the real sleep that I got was in the

624
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: Newark airport this morning.

625
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 2: On some crappy airport area. Yeah, lovely.

626
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: I sat down an hour later, woke up and go,

627
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: they're starting to board my flight. That's nice.

628
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 2: At least you got something. But that's not real, real sleep.

629
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: No sunrise over Newark is not.

630
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 2: But a lot of stuff off off. The Niners games

631
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: out of the way.

632
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: They're also four and two and it's sore and to

633
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: at some point here in the next couple of weeks,

634
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: Kim Hayward is going to come rolling back in.

635
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 2: That's a great point. And I was again, I was

636
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 2: just referenced that was on with Madden and we talked

637
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: a little about the Jags, but he really wanted to

638
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: talk to the next three games. He's like, we're Tennessee

639
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 2: and green a Green Bay at right now. I'm like,

640
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: they're horrible.

641
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: You see tennis. Tennessee just traded Kevin byerd Oh I

642
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: did not to the Eagles.

643
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 2: Wow, it's nice pick. Up for the Eagles, pick up

644
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 2: for the Eagles.

645
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, they got Terrell Edmonds back as part

646
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: of the package.

647
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 2: Did that. Wow, So Terrell Edmunds is now maybe we'll

648
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 2: or when we go aund the league. I and hear

649
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: more about that. But anyway, but that indicates to me

650
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 2: it's Levis and Willis.

651
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: Fanny Hill's not going to play in that game.

652
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 2: He's gonna play this week. No, and I don't think

653
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 2: he plays against steel No, it's a short week and

654
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 2: it might be shut him down time. Maybe he ends

655
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 2: up in Atlanta or something too.

656
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: The Packers just lost to the Broncos.

657
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 2: They look horrific, awful, awful. I mean, Love looks bad.

658
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: Love is a great Love is a great fantasy player.

659
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: This is the opposite of so Kenny Pickett is not

660
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: a good fantasy football player. No, but he's not. But

661
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: he's a much better NFL quarterback, right, Jordan Love is

662
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: a great fantasy player and not a good four NFL quarterback.

663
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: It's horrendous. I mean, I think they're the most disappoint

664
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: team the league with that, I mean, they're like now

665
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 2: now they like that. A lot of the really bad

666
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 2: teams won. The Bears New England, et cetera, et cetera.

667
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 2: I think you start throwing Green Bay when we talk

668
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: power ranks, like twenty six.

669
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: They were still ahead of the Steelers last weekend.

670
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're They're not good. It makes me think I'm

671
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 2: going off on tangents here, But the Chargers, I'm deep

672
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 2: down think the Bengals have a head coach that is

673
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: very fortunate who their quarterback is, you know what I mean.

674
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: And I think the Packers are that guy with Rogers,

675
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like when you gotta do

676
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 2: it with what you gotta do with Mac Jones instead

677
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: of about their Brady. I'm not saying Belichick is that

678
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: guy at all. Yeah, I mean it's a lot different

679
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 2: in that way. You know.

680
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: It just changes every day, yeah, right, and finding ways

681
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: to win games like the one the Steelers won yesterday.

682
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: Or their record over the last fifteen or whatever. I mean,

683
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 2: these are young quarterbacks that you can't count on for

684
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 2: that stuff.

685
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: People that are killing this coaching staff and saying, well,

686
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: this coaching staff's a every every day, Well, this coaching staff,

687
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: they're awful. They're all they can't be.

688
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 2: They can't be a lot more.

689
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: Will they just continue to win.

690
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean if you want to say four and

691
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: two's of fluke, I'll listen. But is eleven and four

692
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: fluke over fifteen? I mean that gets you like the

693
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: you win the division doing that stuff?

694
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're in the mix.

695
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 2: They didn't play anybody over fifteen games. They didn't play anybody.

696
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: All I know is this year, if again we're going

697
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: we'll get to the power rankings tomorrow. You think Baltimore

698
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: is gonna be ranked high?

699
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: I bet they're like three.

700
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: They're gonna jump away up this week. You think Cleveland's

701
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: going to be ranked high? They were top ten last week.

702
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 2: I bet they're nine or ten.

703
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Rams were ahead of the Steelers last week.

704
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: I mean they beat all those tames, right, you beat

705
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: all those teams. Yeah, at some point, you know you

706
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: have to look at this and say it's not a fluke.

707
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: You find ways to win the game.

708
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: The other thing I was talking about with Mark, which

709
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 2: is true with every team around the league, is well,

710
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 2: you might have caught the Ravens on one of their

711
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: worst days, Okay, and then I countered with.

712
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: Houston might have cut the Steelers on that one of

713
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: their worst days.

714
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 2: Exactly what I said, I said, I promise you. Houston

715
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: caught the Steelers on their worst day. I'm not saying

716
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 2: they should win that game nine to ten, but that

717
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 2: was the worst of Steelers to play.

718
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah with the to me, the travel was a

719
00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: big part of that.

720
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And hey, the Ravens has got the Lions on

721
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: their worst day. I mean, this happens the Bills.

722
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: It's part of playing in the NFL.

723
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: That's how this league is.

724
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of playing in the NFL. And so

725
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: it makes sense. It's a week to week league. But

726
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: if you can find ways to be relatively consistent and

727
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: have the you know, you may not have to play.

728
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: You may not play up here on the top of

729
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: the tier every week to week to week, but if

730
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: you could keep it pretty close to that upper tier,

731
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: you'll be fine.

732
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 2: I mean a Tomlin thing to me is when your

733
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: team doesn't have its fastball, and the Steelers fastball is

734
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 2: not the same as the Chiefs fast right, Well, my

735
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: home throws one hundred and four whatever, they still find

736
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 2: ways to get people out. I'm sure that's a baseball

737
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: thing that man, I would I didn't have my stuff,

738
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 2: but I went seven innings. Let up three runs. I'm

739
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:50,239
Speaker 2: not sure exactly how I did.

740
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: Because you don't lose the game.

741
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 2: You don't lose the game, right, Yeah, you're not walking batters,

742
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 2: you're not hitting dudes, you know what I mean?

743
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't make it, you know, going for fourth downs

744
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: that you shouldn't go for things to that nature. You know,

745
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: trying a fifty three yard field goal with a kicker.

746
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: That it's bad, it's bad, it's bad. Right, he gave

747
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 2: that you couldn't afford macay and they missed those.

748
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: Two field goals. The Steelers turned those two miss field

749
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: goals into ten points because you got great field.

750
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: Position, turn the ball over. The turns into points. Yeah,

751
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: you know right, I mean, you know when they give

752
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: you a gift, take it.

753
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: When you're playing these games like this, And this is

754
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: what the Ravens Steelers games always turned into a game

755
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: battle field position because Harbaugh and Tomlin both.

756
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: Know if I make the big error, I'm not gonna

757
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 2: make the big mistake.

758
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: So it's we're okay. I've got justin Tusher. They didn't

759
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: try it. Neither one of those teams that in that

760
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: game two weeks ago, attempted a field goal of over

761
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: over I think the long was like forty one yards

762
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: really because weather was a factor. You got the two

763
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: best kickers in the league.

764
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: I don't want to give a team, you know, a

765
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: free three almost if I miss.

766
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: I think Harbaugh passed on one there. The Ravens were

767
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: around the he would maybe just inside the forty. Most

768
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: of the time he sends Tucker out for that.

769
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: He's playing the Bucks in a nice clean DAYA Tucker's

770
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: out there swinging away. Yeah, but no, do.

771
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: You play the field position because you know it's going

772
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: to be that kind of day.

773
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 2: And Harbor and Tomlin have won a lot of games

774
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 2: in this league making the big mistakes. Don't lose the game.

775
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. I don't relay that message well enough,

776
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 2: but I wish I had a better presentation. But not

777
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,719
Speaker 2: losing is at least as difficult as it is to

778
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 2: go win a game in this league. I can't stress

779
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: out enough. There's so many ways to lose. It's a

780
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 2: that's the Belichick's greatest strength is they rarely lose games.

781
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you think of the the Tomlin challenge?

782
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: I know he gets every time Mike Tomlin challenges something

783
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: and doesn't win, he gets killed. Well, there's Tomlin losing that. Actually,

784
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: he's right around forty percent on his challenges, which is

785
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: the league average. Is that's what That's what NFL coaches

786
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: average on their challenges.

787
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I would never say it's a strength of

788
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: his coaching staff, Oran, which is a staff thing. Like

789
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 2: I was with the Browns. The dude that I worked

790
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: with was in the booth next to us, and his

791
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 2: job was to yell down to Butch Davis. I think

792
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 2: you can do it. That's not a it's not a

793
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 2: coach only thing, is all. I'm saying. There's people in

794
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 2: his ears that are helping him with that. That's why

795
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 2: I called it a staff issue.

796
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: In that situation, I had no I had no problem

797
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: with the challenge.

798
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 2: I thought it was worth a shot. But I'm not

799
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: going to avoid your question because my vantage point at

800
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 2: the time is much different than yours. And I've seen

801
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 2: eighty four replays before I could even give it any thought.

802
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 2: Watch it on TV.

803
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: So it happened right in front of the Steelers bench. Yeah,

804
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: it was a thirty one yard chunk play. I think

805
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers had them backed up a little. That was

806
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: right after the wat off side. Actually, yeah, question. It

807
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: was third and three they get the big thirty two

808
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: yard pass. It actually was I'll be honest with you,

809
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: I thought that to me, the rule was when you

810
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: catch the ball, if you're making a toe tap in

811
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: the in the foot is pointed towards the sideline.

812
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 2: Like they were describing that on TV better than I thought.

813
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: When you when your foot was coming down on the ground,

814
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: you had your your heel can't come down out of bounds.

815
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forget how they explained it on it.

816
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened in that situation.

817
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 2: I thought it was worth a shot.

818
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a huge play.

819
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 2: It was a huge flat. It was a huge flat.

820
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: And sometimes you just take that chance that well. I mean, hey,

821
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: maybe he made maybe he made a great play, But

822
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: in that situation, it was you had him in third down.

823
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: We just gave it.

824
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 2: Up to is all that time that they're reviewing it,

825
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 2: you kind of killed the rams momentum a little bit too.

826
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: A little bit even.

827
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: If I lose it, it's like it's like I just

828
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 2: got struck for a big play, but I'm not letting

829
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 2: them run come to the line and hurry up us to death.

830
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: You know, when I'm coaching baseball. I may call time

831
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: out and go talk to the picture. We're not really

832
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: saying anything. I'll tell him when I walk out there. Hey, look,

833
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to change the moment. I'm trying to

834
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: slow them down a little bit here. Let's just let's

835
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: just settle down. Yeah it is. And you just walk

836
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: out there for thirty seconds and we talked, we may

837
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: talk about hey, the you know, if this situation arises here,

838
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: I can I know one one. Uh. We gave up

839
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: a couple of hits. They head first and second and

840
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: there was one out. I just went out there. I

841
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: wanted to slow things down. I went out and reminded them, Hey,

842
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: the infield fly rolls in effect. Here, I'm just slowing

843
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: this down, but I want to let you guys know

844
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: the infield fly rolls in effect. Wouldn't you know we

845
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: got to pop up and the other team, the other

846
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: team screwed up the infield fly roll. I had just

847
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: reminded them that the infield fly rules in effect. So

848
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: they put that in their mind and we made you know,

849
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: we got a double play out of it.

850
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: I mean, if your bulldoor on it and talk about

851
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 2: candlesticks for.

852
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: When I've done that, like, hey, uh yeah, what'd you

853
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: do in school today? Just to slow things down because

854
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: you want to change your momentum.

855
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: Along those lines. And I don't know if it's happening

856
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 2: right now in La or not. I bet not. It's

857
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: a much different fan base than here. What if Tomlin

858
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: didn't have a time out in his bag to challenge

859
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: the spot at the end, like happened to McVeigh this,

860
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 2: this city would have went bunkers. How could you ever

861
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:16,720
Speaker 2: let that happen?

862
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: You rarely win, You rarely win the spot on that

863
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: on something like that.

864
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: That would have been nice if if I was in

865
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 2: McVeigh shoes, though I didn't have that capability with lightly

866
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 2: above two minutes. People people are say mcvay's wrong.

867
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: People were assuming, well, you know, if that happens the

868
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: Rams come back. Stafford hadn't completed a pass in the

869
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter.

870
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you mentioned people were saying Steelers were

871
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: much better or the Rams were much better statistically in

872
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 2: every category. Not anything in the fourth quarter.

873
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: No, nothing really after after that touchdown drive. Second half, really,

874
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: after that touchdown drive, they did nothing.

875
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: They did nothing. I mean, the first half stats were

876
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 2: very lopsided. Yes, the fourth quarter stats were very lopsided

877
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 2: in totally different.

878
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: Directions, totally, very much like the Ravens game.

879
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Now there is something to being a sixty minute team,

880
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 2: being physical, fatigue, all those things matter in football.

881
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, obviously we're going to get to another break.

882
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. This is

883
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. Will we will be

884
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: back with more right after this. Yeah, welcome back. I'm

885
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: Dale Lolly. He is the Matt Williamson and this is

886
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt, once again

887
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: we saw Steelers Nation take over. Yeah, I want to

888
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: ask an opposing stadium. The early estimates that I saw,

889
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: we were saying it was going to be about fifty

890
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: two to fifty three Steeler fans. It was more than that.

891
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: It was more than that.

892
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 1: The Rams had to go silent count on the offense.

893
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 2: The weight team was definitely louder.

894
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: So demoralizing for the home team.

895
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: Great work by all you that went, and I mean

896
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: tremendous stuff. I mean, what an advantage that is that

897
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: a high percentage of your games more than most teams,

898
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: you have that noise advantage and they don't. Yeah right,

899
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 2: I mean, like I would hate to be the Chargers

900
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 2: Raiders Rams.

901
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: That's a loud stadium to it because it's all it's

902
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: got the open around the outside on the upper bowl,

903
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: but it's the roof on it I think brings the sound,

904
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: keeps the sound in. Yeah, it kind of keeps everything

905
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: in the bowl because it's the stadium itself sits down

906
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: below ground. Like when you walk in to Sofi Stadium,

907
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: you're on the sixth level. From what I understand, the

908
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: press box is on the seventh level, which kind of

909
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: gives you the idea that's the that's the top level

910
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: of seven.

911
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 2: I think Michigan stadiums like that. Yeah, walk in on

912
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: top and everything's down. So this is sort of like that.

913
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: It's like that they dug a big hole and they

914
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: put the stadium in the ground. Okay, probably because of

915
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: earthquake stuff. Sense I would think, you, yeah, cool stadium though,

916
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's fine.

917
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like it.

918
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: I like Atlanta's stadium better in terms of the new ones,

919
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: I like Minnesota is better. I mean that stadium is

920
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 1: cool just because of.

921
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 2: I would have liked the open part. I think I

922
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 2: don't love domes, but least Yeah, it's open, you know.

923
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 1: I mean that that part's neat, but I mean it's

924
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: just so big. Yeah, it's just a math and like

925
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 1: nothing's close.

926
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 2: And you know, I know you're not an l A

927
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: fan in general. No, oh, you're good to have you back, getting.

928
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: Showing up, showing up. Yeah.

929
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 2: A couple of defensive players have some quotes about how

930
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 2: much they appreciated Yeah, but T. J. Watt was one

931
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: of them.

932
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's just, you know, it does help

933
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: the team.

934
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 2: It does definitely helps. I mean it is a tangible advantage.

935
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, you just and you know the players

936
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: don't take that for granted, and nor should they that

937
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know that we'll see that many fans.

938
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: Well maybe maybe Indianapolis trying to think of what they

939
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: have left on the road this year.

940
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 2: I mean, the division games won.

941
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: Cleveland, Cincinnati and Baltimore is not going to happen. No, Seattle, Seattle,

942
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: I don't know. I bet probably not.

943
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 2: I me, it's certainly far. There'll be the ten percent

944
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: that are from the area, which is great, but if

945
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 2: Seattle season goes well, they probably won't dump their tickets easily.

946
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: Probably not.

947
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: Indy probably will represent well Indy, Indy will who we missing?

948
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 2: I mean games were left.

949
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: That might be it terms the road, right, we've got

950
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: a big part of the That's the interesting thing about

951
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: their schedule here when you start looking at it.

952
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned the pa Ohio thing, which is nuts. Yeah,

953
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 2: so you know, while you're looking like folks, if you're

954
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 2: if you don't listen to the pregame show, you should, But

955
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: the pre pregame show the very first hour. I do

956
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: the road games. Dale does the home games. And as

957
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 2: I was leaving yesterday the studio with Tim Benz, He's like, man,

958
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 2: I'm not going to see you for a while. I'm like, wow,

959
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 2: we already have a lot of these out of the way.

960
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: There's a lot more home games on the horizon than

961
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: you know. I won't come be in studio for a

962
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: long time.

963
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean really, that's it. So if you look

964
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: at the rest of the schedulehre Jaguars at home this week,

965
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: Titans next week on a short week, Yeah, then the

966
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: Packers at the Browns at the Bengals, Cardinals here, Cardinals

967
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: are here, yeah, Patriots here at Colt's Bengals here at

968
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: Seahawks at Ravens.

969
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 2: So only division? Did I miss? Ay? There's only three

970
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 2: there's three Division road games, Seattle and Indianapolis. Okay, everything

971
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 2: else is there. It'll probably be pretty heavy.

972
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, see people, but everything else is here.

973
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,479
Speaker 2: That's great, that's really great. So Jacksonville has a weird

974
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 2: little anomaly to their schedule too.

975
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: They played like once in like twenty five days.

976
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they have a They played Thursday, so they

977
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: get the ten days before the Steelers and then they

978
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 2: get to buy after the Steelers, So that standalone game

979
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 2: in like a twenty four day window or whatever it is.

980
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: Is that good or bad?

981
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: I don't know.

982
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: I can't figure it. I'm sure they'll be fresh, but

983
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: it'd be easy to overlook it and think about your

984
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: time off and haven't played in a while. I don't

985
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 2: know if it's good for bad, but.

986
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: I would think maybe you feel that more coming out

987
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: of the bye, yeah, because you've only played one game

988
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: nearly a month.

989
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,479
Speaker 2: But they're also hot right now.

990
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if you want to take I mean,

991
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: they've won four in a row. Do you want to

992
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,439
Speaker 1: do you want to take a couple of weeks off?

993
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if you was

994
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: getting a good time or a bad time. I have

995
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 2: no idea. I can't figure that out.

996
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: I do like the fact the game is here.

997
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: No question. Yes, you have to do in a long

998
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 2: road trip.

999
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think, uh, you know, it's just

1000
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are three and oh on the road this

1001
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: year and now one of those.

1002
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 2: One of them is made up. One of those was yeah, London.

1003
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: They actually stayed in London. Those Are they going to

1004
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 1: go eight to o on the road this year? No, right,

1005
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: you know, so maybe you know this is the game.

1006
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: You would think Steeler Nation is more energetic than at

1007
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 2: any point this season.

1008
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: One. Yeah, I would hope so be you know, in.

1009
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 2: Terms of representing and be excited about the team.

1010
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: Teams four and too, Tames four and too, people are

1011
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: It's the same thing last week is the team was

1012
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: three and two at their buy and people were acting

1013
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: like they were two and six, like they were a

1014
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: year ago at the buy. It's not the case. You're

1015
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: four and two. You've beaten some pretty good teams on

1016
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: the road.

1017
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:15,240
Speaker 2: And you're in good shape.

1018
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: You've beaten some good teams here. You've you've you've beaten.

1019
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 2: Some good teams. Oh side note injuries from yesterday in

1020
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 2: noting he came back in the game, that was it. Yeah,

1021
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: so Friar moves still on IR of course, so that's

1022
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 2: three more games of him. Cam could potentially get in

1023
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: the mix for this upcoming one any potentially. But you

1024
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 2: didn't lose anything yesterday, right, No, I mean so in

1025
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 2: terms of freshness and all that stuff, you're almost like

1026
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:42,959
Speaker 2: you're coming off the by again.

1027
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, and it was. We're gonna get to another

1028
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: break here he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale, Lollie.

1029
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. We

1030
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: come back time for the Fantasy Football Focus. We will

1031
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: do that right after this