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Speaker 1: Welcome on the d. It's a Monday's Steelers getting to

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Speaker 1: seven six and one Sunday with their nineteen thirteen victory

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Speaker 1: over the Tennessee Titans. Um a lot to dig into

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Speaker 1: in that game. UM, Steelers defense forcing four turnovers in

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Speaker 1: that game, the Titans turning it over three times in

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Speaker 1: the second half. Uh, the Steelers offense really not doing

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Speaker 1: a whole lot with it or no in the game

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Speaker 1: for them matter, they have one drive and the one

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Speaker 1: I mean it was not a pretty performance at all

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Speaker 1: by the offense. No running game to se the Titans

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Speaker 1: mean it was not pretty football. I mean, clearly the

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Speaker 1: turnovers were the difference. I mean, it's almost definition. Guy,

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Speaker 1: it was a fuel position game. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: that I'd say it was great defense. I mean it

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Speaker 1: and it was a one yard quarterback sneak. To get

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Speaker 1: an answer, it was a little bit, a little bit yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, both these teams have their issues, and neither

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Speaker 1: but they'd be tough of the Colts to catch them. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll say that I was gonna do this in the

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Speaker 1: next segment. But we can dig into the into the

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Speaker 1: hierarchy in the a f C right now. You got

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs at ten and four steals will see them

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Speaker 1: this weekend. You get the Patriots nine and five. It's

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Speaker 1: just smacked them around a little bit. You got the

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Speaker 1: seed in the a f C, which is amazing but true.

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Speaker 1: They put a lot of money in the bank to

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have clinched just yet because but they still have

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Speaker 1: lose tonight, the Steelers go to the nine spot. Clearly

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Speaker 1: what the Browns to lose? I mean that goes without obviously. Um,

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Speaker 1: already been affected by it. Ben Roethlisberger plays that game

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Speaker 1: I did think on several occasions, what if that was

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry one on one on the third level with

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Speaker 1: a nice head to Steve. You're not liking that, and

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Speaker 1: you're not liking that, I mean, no safety in the

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Speaker 1: world like that. We've seen those highlights or he's stiff

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Speaker 1: arm and dudes and running for eighty but it would

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Speaker 1: have been worse. Although I will say he did a

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Speaker 1: nice job of getting the previous week when he was

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Speaker 1: the last line of defense. You know, he was getting

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Speaker 1: a really good running back on the ground. But it

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Speaker 1: ain't Derek right, It's still I mean, Manka has been

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Speaker 1: tremendous the last couple of weeks, one of the best

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Speaker 1: players on the tap and I thought, I think Edmonds

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Speaker 1: of weeks as well. I mean he's he's reading things well,

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Speaker 1: he's seeing you know, he's not making mistakes. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: you know when they try to run some of these

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Speaker 1: wide receiver screens and stuff on. Yeah, like the Titans,

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Speaker 1: I think midway through the fourth year, early in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter had negative passing yards. Tanny Hill. I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about the Titans. I'm talking about Tanny Hill had

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Speaker 1: negative passing yards in the second half. I didn't notice that,

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Speaker 1: but and a couple of they got him in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: A couple of times they tried to run some of

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Speaker 1: those those little slip screens and stuff, and and they

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Speaker 1: just blew it up in any of it. Um. I

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Speaker 1: don't often cite tackles, but twenty four tackles for your

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Speaker 1: two starting safeties is too many, that much, I know

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Speaker 1: for sure. And good for them for getting on the

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Speaker 1: ground and tackling well and making plays. But if those

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Speaker 1: two are making tackles a game between the two of them,

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Speaker 1: that's also good. You know that that's not what you're

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Speaker 1: looking for. If you're playing the Chiefs, that's one, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's a little different. Little Delsie and downfield and all

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Speaker 1: those things, and then the down the field tackling is

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Speaker 1: gonna be huge in this game. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: watch the coming game, Yeah, if you watch the Chiefs recently,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's you know, throw the ball

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Speaker 1: to Kelsey and he's steamrolling his way through the through

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Speaker 1: the secondary. He's back to looking great. Yeah. Um, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll talk more about it. But I thought both

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Speaker 1: past protections really had a rough time yesterday too, which

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Speaker 1: contributes to not you know, the passing game as well

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Speaker 1: and not being enforceable down the field. Yeah, but the

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Speaker 1: Steelers find a way to win. They did what you

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Speaker 1: gotta do, find a way to win. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's often not pretty. Uh you know, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: here at their offensive and defensive d v o A

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Speaker 1: s in those games. Uh the offense was minus five

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Speaker 1: point nine nine yesterday. Yeah, the defense was thirteen point seven.

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Speaker 1: Said on the positive side, you want it to be negative? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: that was that was no that you wanted to be.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here at the I'm looking at the expected

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Speaker 1: points here on the reference. Yeah, totally different. So they

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Speaker 1: want you want that one to be. On the positive side,

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Speaker 1: the defense played well, that wouldn't add up to the

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Speaker 1: according to In fact, according to the expected points here

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Speaker 1: on the on Pro Football Reference, that was their best

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Speaker 1: day game of the year. Hm, I guess I could

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Speaker 1: buy that. I mean four sacks you get, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean you consider how many on the field. That's

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Speaker 1: why I keep thinking about, is that much and you

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Speaker 1: only let an X amount of points? I think the

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Speaker 1: Titans average four point one yards per play. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was low and it was very which is well below

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Speaker 1: what they've been allowing. So again you can live with

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Speaker 1: that if if somebody again, that's why I had no

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Speaker 1: problems the Chiefs. They might be in the game, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the bottom line as you gave up three

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen total yards. Yeah, and in thirteen points despite

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Speaker 1: being on the field for forty minutes winning football. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the defense I thought was great. Yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 1: you know again, the Titans through the ball thirty two times.

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Speaker 1: You you turned four of him into sacks, an interception,

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Speaker 1: and you got what one two of your fumbles came

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Speaker 1: off of that, thanks, so yeah, because the other one

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Speaker 1: was a fumbled snap, right right, right, So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're you're, you're making plays in the secondary. You are,

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Speaker 1: you are. I mean, there are some bright spots. The

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Speaker 1: biggest one is you won, you want and you stayed alive.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's all those things about. And when we

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Speaker 1: look back in this three months a now, we've got

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Speaker 1: to w that's a now, you know. And they have

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Speaker 1: issues and Tomlin certainly says that he doesn't hide from

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Speaker 1: that at all. Yeah, we got problems. I think he

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Speaker 1: said something like that in the postgame show, postgame press onwards.

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Speaker 1: But they lived to play another day and the uh,

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Speaker 1: the Browns now less than a half an hour away

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Speaker 1: from kicking off in Cleveland. We're gonna take a break.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williams, and I'm Dale Lully. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. When we return, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll take a look at some of the other stuff

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Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend. Again, just a crazy, crazy,

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Speaker 1: crazy crazy week in the NFL. The whole league is bonkers.

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