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Speaker 1: M. Williamson. We pardon our long intro, our long intro.

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Speaker 1: There's all right, that's a yeah, it's a it's a Monday.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's celebrating today. That was the Jacob was probably eating

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Speaker 1: Kelly and pizza was the problem. But Steelers winning on

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Speaker 1: Sunday beating the New Orleans Saints twenty to ten. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Interesting game. We've now seen two games with t. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt on the football field this year, and the Steelers

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Speaker 1: defense has been pretty dominant in both of both of

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Speaker 1: those games. Yeah. I read your ten thoughts and you

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Speaker 1: laid it out real well about Okay, there was that

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Speaker 1: of momentum, but that was like it, that was it.

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Speaker 1: They didn't do anything other than yeah, and then at

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Speaker 1: forty yard field goal drive and that was it. That

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Speaker 1: you know, drive after drive of just interception, turnover, run down, whatever.

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Speaker 1: So many third and longs for so many Like we

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Speaker 1: did a video today and I kind of chuckled, like

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Speaker 1: they were thirds and twelves. I mean brutal. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers doing a really nice job. And that's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Watt didn't have a sack. He almost had a sack

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Speaker 1: in the game. Came up half a yard short short

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Speaker 1: they gave him a one yard gain on it, but

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Speaker 1: it should have instead. Real reality was it was a sack.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was. I think I made it third

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Speaker 1: and ten instead of third, you know, third and eleven. Yeah, so, uh,

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Speaker 1: the same difference as having a sack because he was

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Speaker 1: flushed out of the pocket. Um, but what blew up

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Speaker 1: the plane? You saw You saw the attention that the

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Speaker 1: Saints paid to him consistently, and they had Ryan Ramschick

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Speaker 1: on that side. It was really their only good remaining

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Speaker 1: lineman at this point, I mean, and they were doubling

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Speaker 1: what helping him out, their best linemen they're helping out

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Speaker 1: because that's that's what the kind of difference that he makes.

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Speaker 1: And they both were first round picks out of Wisconsin together,

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Speaker 1: they know each other extremely well. Obviously they've got and

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Speaker 1: getting to each other. I didn't think of that angle

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Speaker 1: who was talking to it was Mark Madden just a

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Speaker 1: little bit ago. But what kind of impact does what have? Like, well,

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Speaker 1: here's this one example, Like you said, nine out of

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Speaker 1: ten Saints opponents in this situation with backup lineman everywhere else, Ryan,

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Speaker 1: you got that, dude, but you couldn't do in this case.

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Speaker 1: It just can't because they weren't just as bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, and so Alex Highsmith gets two sacks. That's

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Speaker 1: two games. Now with what that Alex Highsmith has played,

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Speaker 1: and he has five sacks in those two games, right right,

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Speaker 1: they should end up with fifteen. Yeah, I mean he's

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Speaker 1: got eight to half already. I mean, then they put

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Speaker 1: that backup left tackle into that dude was toast at

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Speaker 1: some point. Good, you do wonder and they're not going

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Speaker 1: to stop paying attention to what? No, but does everybody

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Speaker 1: then start match protecting against the Steelers on everything just change,

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Speaker 1: which makes your coverage down the field on the backs

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Speaker 1: I've given very little thought to Steelers Bengals. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm recollecting of what happened, of course, but I just

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Speaker 1: thought there as you said that, I'm thinking they're very

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Speaker 1: very predominantly an eleven personnel team. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: teams that want to play eleven might have to play twelve.

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Speaker 1: You know, and we've seen the state and make you

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Speaker 1: play left handed. Yeah yeah, I mean you just prepare

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Speaker 1: all week differently. You put people in there that are

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Speaker 1: But now he's got a chip? What how was that chip? What?

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Speaker 1: Stay in? You know they've been throwing a mix in

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Speaker 1: a lot. Kamara is a tremendous receiver, but he's also

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Speaker 1: how they we're really focusing on Taysom Hill snaps as well.

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Speaker 1: They obviously practiced against all the stuff he brings to

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Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone on defense that was a major liability.

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Speaker 1: I have my thoughts on Spillane and we'll keep it

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Speaker 1: positive for now. But but overall, I mean, you're got

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Speaker 1: to see the ripple effect when the star is in there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara had eight carries for twenty six yards and

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Speaker 1: get the opening kickoff, drove to midfield, punted, got it

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Speaker 1: their best field position in a month, oh year? Probably

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were last in league defensively of where

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Speaker 1: that I did. I watched on TV like most of

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Speaker 1: They couldn't get anything going. They had no foundation. Steelers

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Speaker 1: even the playing field. Yeah, you know, and I you know,

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Speaker 1: Nazia Harris. I thought Um had his best game obviously

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Speaker 1: downhill immediately. There were a couple of times when they

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Speaker 1: half review. They had like a hundred twenty six rushing

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Speaker 1: If you remember they had like fifty eight yards rushing

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Speaker 1: That's so many more rushing yards that they would have

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