WEBVTT - The Point After - Final Lap 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.440 This is the Point After, presented by Parks Casino. Is 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.360 today your Lucky Day bet Parks by Brian Patton and Associates. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.960 It's all about the benefits and by the Steelers Pro 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.120 Shop get it direct from the team at shop dot 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.480 Steelers dot com. Alongside Craig Wolfley and Matt Williamson. I'm 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.200 rob king our final show of the year, guys. This 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.480 is it. We're hoping for a couple more points after. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.240 We're hoping they would go for two at least, right, yeah, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:34.880 games under our belt. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.000 Least come on man. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.640 Unfortunately, the Bills defeat the Steelers by the score of 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.120 thirty one to seventeen. This look back segment is brought 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.720 to you Brian Brian Patton and Associates. It's all about 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.360 the benefits, guys. I will tell you what I thought 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.519 had to happen in this game or would be the 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.880 most likely path to success. So I'll lead off here 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.160 and then i'd you know, like you guys should think 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.080 and just give me an overview of the game. I 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.360 thought you needed to come out in this game, start fast, 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.040 win the turnover battle, and prevent the big plays. Those 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.039 are like kind of my three keys. Well, you didn't 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.399 start fast, you didn't win the turnover battle, and they 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.640 had more big plays than you did. Still, the Steelers 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.480 still had a chance, and they clawed to within seven 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.320 in the second half, but you know, it just felt 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.479 like the entire game instead of being ahead like Green Bay. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.920 Did you know green Bay was against the Cowboys and 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.600 turned that into a blowout. I thought all the things 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.840 that I wanted to see happen in this game to 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.240 get the Steelers on good footing wolf didn't happen exactly. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.240 So I agree with you on two of the three. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:41.880 The third one instead of the big plays, I would 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.679 put time with possession, just because I felt like, you know, 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.960 if you can keep Josh Allen off the field, and 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.080 this guy is just a monster, he really is. If 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.680 you ask me, if you're able to curtail his ability 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.040 to do damage and inflict punishment upon you, you're one 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.600 leg up and a big way in Buffalo, and unfortunately 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.880 they weren't able to. You think about a guy that 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.680 accounted for almost ninety percent of all Buffalonian touchdowns, you know, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.280 twenty nine t d passes, fifteen Russian touchdowns. Ridiculous amounts. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.359 And I'm using this up because I'm using all Matt Samuel, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.240 who he gave to me via his great stats. But 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.680 he's got so much more in reserve. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.400 I'm off the hook down him anymore. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.760 Actually, we got our p shooters and Matt Scott like 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.720 I got an a chest behind him, dragging behind him. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.320 As the late great Howard Kosell once said, it's mere 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:33.840 spit balls at a battleship. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.880 Yeah, so is that it? Are you finished? 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:39.040 That's pretty much it? Yeah? 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.440 And I agree with that. I'll even I'll pick you back. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.960 We're not even let Matt talk yet. We don't know 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:44.959 how much stuff he's got. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:45.560 I agree. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.200 I you know, I was talking to people before the 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.280 game and I thought, you know, I don't know if 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.679 you win the toss or an elector receiver. I thought, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.680 I'd love to see the Steelers get the ball first. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.280 I really would. And and you start to think about, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.480 you know, get the ball, drop five down the field, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.200 maybe get a quick three and out, then get the 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.360 ball drive down the field again. And now you know 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.360 you're looking and there's ten forty one left in the 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.720 second quarter, and Josh Allen's like, I've had one possession. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.680 It's freezing out here. We've got nothing going, so that 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.960 time of possession. I totally agree that that was a 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.560 definite path to victory. The Steelers could have trod in 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.320 this game. And now again, if you get the lead, Matt, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.840 you know, and you're playing with the lead and they've 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.400 got to catch up, that's when maybe you win the 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.360 turnover about I mean, they all are intertwined obviously. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.360 One hundred percent, and I think we all agree the 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.080 Steelers did a lot of good stuff in this game. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.200 This wasn't a blowout, this wasn't garbage time yardage any 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.240 of that type of thing. I thought they did a 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.040 lot of good stuff, but just not early. Yeah, I mean, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.600 really that was the key to me, was it took 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.520 them too long to get into their rhythm and start 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.680 to play clean football. I mean, I'm not calling anyone 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.400 out because there was a handful of different things that 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.240 went against them, but example, pickings, fumbles, the next play 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.600 is a kin Kid touchdown. I mean instead of a 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.000 first down, you just gave up seven points. Handful instances 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.880 like that that were just really tough to overcome. But 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.560 that's a good team on the road, really difficult circumstances. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.160 I wasn't there, but it had to be a really 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:17.200 difficult place to play. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.719 I mean in terms of extremely loud. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.880 Yeah, everyone's talking about the wind in the snow, but 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.240 Bill's Mafia's showed up. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:25.960 Yeah. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.520 There's something about watching guys jump off buses on the tables, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.640 just saying okay, being from there, sharing that that's the 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.880 same blood that I came from makes me go hmm. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.240 Yea, you might not want to land head first. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.440 I don't want my kids to see that it's not 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.000 where we come from. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.640 Yeah, what what was the weather like? The conditions didn't 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.640 seem to affect much better than. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:55.560 What I anticipated. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.080 I had a buddy of mine who is as I 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.480 talked about before, and I talked all week along. He's 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.800 a he drives for the County of Erie, you know, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:07.680 in snowplow one of those massive, huge snowplow trucks, Arctic conditions. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.560 And he kept posting pictures and everything. You know, milestrip road, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.760 can't see but ten feet in front of you, you 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.200 know that sort of thing. And and the day before 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.920 we got there, he had gotten stuck and thigh high 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.839 deep snow. They had to come pull him out in 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:28.800 his truck, which is called Lady Lake effect and it 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.120 was just letting us know that, yeah, it's gonna be 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.880 you know, wild, and it was, but it was not 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.559 by the time game time came. It was great job 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.360 by the snowplow cruise up there and everybody else. Yeah, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.120 because the field was clear. How the fans got to 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.839 sit down? Three quarters of the stadium was still of 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.840 the seats were still under snow. And what were they 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.160 gonna do? Ye, right, Bills fans did it. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:54.520 They got it. You know. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.800 It's funny growing up in central New York State and 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.360 like there's a if you're leaving New York City, there's 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.160 a big sign with an arrow that just says upstate, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.440 like it's all one thing, like the Adirondacks, Buffalo, Westchester, 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.280 it's all one thing. If you leave once you're out 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.120 of New York, it's upstate. I grew up in center 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.680 State New York and Cooperstown. And one thing that that 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.560 Upstate New York and Western New York is really really 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.880 good at is snow removal. They're really good. Like, you know, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.080 you get some snow, they'll get the you know, you 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.760 get like twelve fourteen inches of snow and guess what 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.000 school bus is there in the morning. I remember taking 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.440 my when we first moved to Pittsburgh, taking my daughter 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.960 to dropping her off at kindergarten. I'm like, they got 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.520 like two or three inches. I'm like, where is it? 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.560 What the where's everybody? What's going on? 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:38.960 Oh? 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.839 School was camp? What two or three inches? But I 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.920 mean up there, man, It's like, no, I mean there. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.680 So if you're having trouble, right, you know, there's a 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.760 lot of snow because they're really really good at snow 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.200 removing exactly. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.320 I'll just relay this one one short thing. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.400 When I was growing up, you know, in the seventies 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.760 down and you know, I remember one time we were 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.680 in snowed in for a week, a complete week. If 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.719 you don't want to if you want to see people 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.640 go nuts, it's like living like hamsters in a small 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.760 house with brothers and sisters going completely batcrap crazy. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.000 Right, Okay, So my dadde the mom and trying to feed. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:21.000 Them fought you thought that Grenkowski's had some damage. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.880 So after a week, finally the snowplow comes through. My 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.320 dad tunneled, I say, tunneled from the house to the 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.840 road to walk behind the snowplow to the corner store, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.840 you get bread and head like he tunneled, tunneled and 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.000 for a period of you know, feet towards the road. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:43.600 I haven't seen a lot of them, but you know, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.400 some forty inch snowfalls. I mean you know, yeah, yeah, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.559 there's a nuts yeah. But anyway, like effect, they removed 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.840 the snow, they played the game. It didn't look like 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.080 the conditions were as nearly as troublesome as we thought. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.360 I mean, obviously they moved the game, you know, and 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.560 I wonder if they could have even it sounded like 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:01.920 they couldn't have even played it on Sunday. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.920 They want our buddy Dale Lawley was up there actually 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.880 because he was like half hour he drove there. He's 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.680 like a half hour away before they switched it. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.440 So he's like, I might as let's go to the hotel. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:10.520 He told me. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.320 He's like, there's no chance he could play a football 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.240 game in this When the wins were just that extreme 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.200 and there was so much snow. They said it was 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.840 like up to your waist. Absolutely, you really couldn't unfunctionally. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:21.720 Dale knows he was. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.640 He was like locked in his hotel room without food. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.320 That made me, yeah, you know, and there's a lot 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.720 of topics to get to but one. And I think, well, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.480 if you mentioned this, I mean Josh Allen, just a 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.760 quarterback of that level, It just makes a massive difference 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.679 in a game. He made a massive difference in that game. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.280 He didn't turn the ball over again. The steers never 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.200 stressed him to get him into a turnover situation. But 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.000 the fifty two yard run. And I listened to Matt's 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.600 podcast and I talked to you this morning with with Max. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.560 I think both you guys were disturbed by the fact 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.000 that he was able to not only get the first 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:05.160 down and again man coverage downfield right the pass rush 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.079 comes in. You know they I don't know whether guys 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.000 are supposed to stay in their lanes when you got 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.439 man behind you, but they didn't. They rushed past Allen. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.120 He steps up easily, gets the first down. They're like, okay, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.120 well geez, now they got to see if they can 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.400 hold him to a field goal here, and he just 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.080 kept on going fifty two yards. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.320 They stayed in their lanes by and large, but it 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.720 was due to the fact they basically put their heads 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.360 down in the chests and were bull rushing and they 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.680 didn't see Josh. I don't think when they came by 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.640 they might have caught him late, but they they definitely 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.920 allowed him to escape the the you know, the pocket. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.040 And it was just it was tough. I mean, this 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.280 is a guy that's so capable getting down the field 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.360 and being able to run. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.000 We saw that fifty two yard run. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.880 I didn't think he you know, I certainly thought Demanic 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.480 Casey take him off his feet and Demani probably with 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.760 a little bit of a layoff. That's you know, a 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.240 little bit. You know, he didn't do it. And you 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.040 know there was other guys that had a shot at 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:58.840 him and they just did not bring him down. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.440 Yeah, that play was alarming, to be honest with you. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.440 And we talked about stats. I don't really only have one, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.800 and it's about Allen is since twenty twenty, they're seventeen 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.400 and oh if he doesn't turn the ball over, right, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.880 the running backs may fumble ten times, the guys might muffkicks, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.400 but if that guy doesn't turn the ball over, they win. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.320 And I thought he paid played a very professional game, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:23.800 like I would have bet everything I had that he 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.880 would throw at least one to the Steelers in this game. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.920 But they did get the lead. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.680 Eric Row got that hand up there and just couldn't 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:32.240 pull it down. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.160 Yeah, but if he plays like that within himself, mixed 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.240 with the big plays, they could win the whole thing. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.320 And I agree with you. Like, going into the playoffs, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.240 I thought, you know, the team that I probably least 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.679 wanted to play was Buffalo h even less than the Ravens. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.160 You know, because you're familiar with the Ravens and you 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.160 know there's a lot of history there. You know how 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.559 to defend him. You've done a good job defending him, 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.520 you beat him earlier this year. Buffalo was just on 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.320 an absolute role and they were a team that you know, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.040 I again, I was really rooting for Miami to win 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.360 that game down there, and you know that long punt 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.280 return turned it. But Allen is a terrific player. But again, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.720 I go back to the fact that that's a team 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.320 that you you know, when you allow him to play 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.240 with the lead, yeah right, he doesn't. You don't put 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.640 him in a situation where he becomes impatient or feels 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.840 like he needs the players forcing something. The Steelers never 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.840 really got him to that point. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.240 No, they didn't. I mean because of the early troubles. Honestly, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.240 and yes, he certainly can press, and he can put 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.960 the Superman cape on and all those things. But I 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.440 give him credit for never even really trying to go 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.679 down that road. And you're right, the Steelers didn't stress 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.080 him to the point where he was ever tense or 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.680 probably felt out of control of the game. And they 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.679 they're a good football team. I mean, I give him 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.000 a lot of credit. They did some things that you know, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.200 they played a very high percentage of six offensive linemen 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.120 on the field because they wanted to keep the Steelers 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.000 heavy guys out, keep those linebackers and attack them. They 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.400 did some things that they don't usually do. They're usually 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.280 a super too high safety team. Well, they were in 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.080 single high the whole time, just begging the Steelers not 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:11.560 to run. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:12.160 I mean, they. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.080 Feared and respected the Steelers run game, and and that 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.920 worked out, you know. I mean, the Bills came to 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.600 play and a good football team. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.360 Part of the problem too, is that you I think 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.320 they game planned that beating the Steelers with heavy personnel too. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.440 They ran twelve thirteen personnel, and I think, you know 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.920 the problem is maybe you need to need to go 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.000 as heavy a personnel based on the fact that the 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.640 conditions were better than what your thought. Yeah, and certainly 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.280 I think that's one of the reasons why, like Pat 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.600 Firemouth took front and center with more targets and stuff 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.400 like that, and even more. I think you could add 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.560 more there, But the fact is, you know, it is 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.800 what it is. The running game didn't materialize the way 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.200 we'd hoped wanted to see it. I don't Ed Oliver 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:54.720 was the guy that was. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.000 One of your dudes for Yeah, he's really good, Yeah, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:57.719 and really good. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:59.760 I was talking to Max this more than one of 0:12:59.760 --> 0:12:59.960 the things. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.320 It just honks you off when you do a great 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.280 job of stuff in a pass rusher on the line 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.800 of scrimmage and he didn't get up the line of 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.760 scrimmage because you wired him, and you're like yeah, and 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:09.640 then he jumps. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.640 Up and knocks them all down. You're like, got crap. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.400 Couple they hurt the Steelers a couple of minute passes. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.400 Little things like that were problematic. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.840 But I did think that the Bills, to your point, Matt, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.280 they made a great adjustment. I mean, you know a 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.280 cover two team that plays Nickel right because leading tacklers 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.640 Bernard two hundred and twenty five pounds Poyer one hundred 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.800 and ninety the corner of Johnson right at one hundred 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.640 and ninety pounds right, thinking not only can they run 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.920 the ball against lighter personnel, but they could wear them down. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.480 There was one run, one touchdown drive. I think it 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:43.800 was the one at the end of the first half 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.800 in which the Bills were getting up slowly and looked 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.240 like maybe maybe it was the first drive in the 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.600 second half w they were starting to It felt like 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.960 the Steelers were starting to get things going. But I 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.760 thought a great adjustment by the Bills to come out 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.760 and change your defense. I mean, they're one of, if 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.800 not the highest cover two the team in the NFL, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:05.160 one of the. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.640 Highest high and yeah, and. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.600 They changed with the top of the league. They changed 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:09.160 what they did. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.720 I will say, though, to your point. As the game 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.480 went on and their linebacker injuries started to settle into 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.720 I kind of felt like the Bills defense was holding 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.240 on for dear life a little bit too. I mean, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.400 the Steelers were figuring them out. Rudolph was playing court 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.840 pretty well. It wasn't a traditional Steelers nausey for six, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.440 nause for seven, nausey for eight, but they were moving 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.160 the ball pretty consistently in the middle of the field 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:30.680 was a problem for the Bills. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.160 Yeah, more to get to in this game. That is 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.200 the look back segment, brought to you by Brian Patton 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.400 and Associates. It's all about the benefits. 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I thought on the replay that Mason 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.800 needed to throw that ball wider. Maybe it's a combination 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.520 of the two. Maybe it's just to throw, Maybe it's 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.600 the break on the ball. I don't know what it is, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.360 but that was that was a huge, huge moment in 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:36.200 the football game. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.400 Obviously, well, there's no question about it, especially with all 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.560 the angst we spent over Matt's stats of you know, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.320 the Bills being sixteen and zero when Allen doesn't throw 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.240 an interception or put the ball in the ground or 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.720 anything like that. And you know, and then the fact 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.800 that over the last three weeks prior to the game 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.040 he had thrown four interceptions. I mean, you were just thinking, Okay, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.320 we got something here and Mason hadn't thrown any and 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.120 he gets first. But you know, again, a four week 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.680 sample of Mason Rudolph, you've got five tds and you 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.760 got yourself one. I int, that's pretty good. You can 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.160 extrapolate that in a manner that I can't because my 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:11.800 math fails me. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.240 No, the numbers are good, for sure for Mason Rudolph overall. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.000 But I just think Matt, you know, and obviously the 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.200 Pickens fumble you mentioned it was immediately followed up by 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.840 a touchdown. You can't go on the road and be 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.360 the underdog and turn them all over two times in 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.240 the first half and expect to win the game. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.000 No, and the Bills are a ten point favor for 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.640 a reason. I mean, they're probably the better football team. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.720 They could play that game in a dome or you know, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.640 Kansas or whatever. The Bills probably win more than they lose, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.840 so you probably have a you know, you have a 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.120 smaller room for air for such things. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:45.960 And we've seen that with the Steelers all year long. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.760 That when they can play their style and like you said, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.800 get up early, run the football, you know, win the 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.480 turnover battle, win on special teams things like that. They're 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.920 hard to play against. But they're not exactly built to 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.080 come from behind either. And that interception wasn't perfect. It 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.360 was also a good play the corn. Yeah, he made 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.879 a nice play. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:05.679 There you have it. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:10.120 I mean, you can't have that many game swinging plays 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:10.920 go against you. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.200 And they kind of lucky. The friar moose wasn't called total. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.840 I was on X or Twitter or whatever that gets 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.919 called down people complaining about some of the calls, and 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.240 the Pickens call at the end of the game that 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.879 certainly did look like you could have been called past interference. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.600 On thought, well, let's not forget that fire. I thought 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:28.760 they hit his face mask. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.000 So hard to watch on TV, it's really hard to tell. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.640 It's hard that's what they thought. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.720 Yeah, you know, I believe it was the same thing 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.119 with the IG would be a thing, you know, feed 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.200 in the out of bounds and these are out of bounds. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.959 I'll see him tonight at the you know, we do 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.199 the Giant Eagle Talk Talk tonight, so I'll take him 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:47.960 off the sensus. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.800 So tell me that. I think that's what they ruled though, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.439 but just watch on TV. It was not conclusive. No, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.600 there wasn't a lot they ruled on the field. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.600 I think they said, didn't they that you know, he 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.200 had touched it out of bounds and then they need 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:03.560 a definitive. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.160 Yeah. Yeah. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.239 And you know the other thing going back just to 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.800 the uh, the interception. You know that a lot of 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.720 people I think we're grumbling about is why you're going 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.840 empty set from inside the ten yard. And I'm not 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.760 a big I have to say, with this kind of 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.400 a team, I'm not a big. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:22.320 Yeah. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.399