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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Now were number two of the drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 3: Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network. All is well,

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Speaker 3: that ends well, And of course it was a victory

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Speaker 3: for your Pittsburgh Steelers at MetLife Stadium to kick off

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Speaker 3: the season.

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Speaker 4: A little bit opposite than you know that.

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Speaker 3: It was still Chris Boswell heroics Matt oh Man, not

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Speaker 3: quite like it was in Atlanta last year for the

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Speaker 3: opener where he had all eighteen points.

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Speaker 5: Totally reliant on him right, and a crucial.

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Speaker 4: Punt at the end too to get you out of

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Speaker 4: that stadium.

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Speaker 5: But you know what special teams are big though, you have.

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Speaker 3: To remind me of the special teams were massive. Good

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Speaker 3: starting field position for both teams throughout the day for

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Speaker 3: the most part. That new dynamic, the new dynamic kickoff,

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 4: I do too.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's through a tweet out last night. I'm like,

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Speaker 6: this new kickoff rule is growing on me.

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Speaker 5: It's just action.

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Speaker 3: Just a few years ago that NFL teams were almost

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Speaker 3: always starting their drives at the twenty. Yeah, now more

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Speaker 3: often than not, they're gonna be starting them at the

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Speaker 3: thirty five.

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Speaker 6: There's definitely gonna result in more points mass. I mean

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Speaker 6: that's a big deal. That's a more that's a first

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Speaker 4: You don't have to get massive, massive, massive difference.

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Speaker 6: And more more than anything, you just don't go get

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Speaker 6: a beer or use a bathroom during a kickoff. It's like,

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna watch this because a lot's going on and

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Speaker 6: special real quick. Special teams were great for the Steelers

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Speaker 6: yesterday and maybe the phase that won them the game

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Speaker 6: as much as anything, or more than anything. I mean,

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Speaker 6: the game well strip was humongous. I mean, those are

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Speaker 6: the two biggest players possibly, but I am a little

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Speaker 6: worried going back to last year, kickoffs has not been

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Speaker 6: their friend, you know. I mean I think n or

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Speaker 6: nine out of ten times Steelers have a special team advantage.

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Speaker 6: And Danny Smith has a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin has a lot to do with that. Their

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Speaker 6: roster construction of keeping core guys has a lot to

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Speaker 5: Boswell's awesome, you know, that has a lot to do

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Speaker 4: A serial killer, he's.

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Speaker 5: A serial killer.

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Speaker 6: But kickoff coverage and kickoff returns and ela work and

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Speaker 6: they matter now more than they did.

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Speaker 5: It's not just.

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Speaker 4: They've mattered more now than they have in a long time. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Do you think quick question for you, Yes, do you

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Speaker 3: think when Halloween rolls around here and what like six

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Speaker 3: or seven weeks? I think the Steelers would lend us

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Speaker 3: Chris Boswell jerseys to wear one day in here and

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Speaker 3: we can both dress up a serial killers like Halloween

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Speaker 4: To get in Reagan's ers and all that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll have to talk talk to Wagon, talk to

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Speaker 3: the good people at the Steelers pro shops, see if

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Speaker 3: maybe we can dresses Chris Boswell serial Killers Halloween week here.

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Speaker 6: At some point on the drive so our guy TV

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Speaker 6: sent me this that the it was only an eighteen

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Speaker 6: And that's a sizement a lot more and more to watch,

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Speaker 4: A lot more benefit for the offense.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, theree breaking big ones and pay attention to kickoffs.

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Speaker 3: Kind of another Uh, I could hear Arthur mos yelling

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's definitely happening.

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Speaker 4: It's always about the offense.

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Speaker 3: Certainly wasn't an offensive masterclass in the AFC North in

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Speaker 3: got plenty that they're going to discuss and want to

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Speaker 1: Matt.

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Speaker 4: The number that I.

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Speaker 3: Teased for you, Oh yeah, yeah was the Bengals had

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Speaker 3: seven yards in the second half of total offense and

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Speaker 4: I tried.

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Speaker 3: I spent probably fifteen twenty minutes looking from the stat

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I could like it's.

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Speaker 6: So it wasn't like they're winning forty to nothing at

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Speaker 3: It's so it's such an outlier that there's not even

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Speaker 6: So that game in a way, I mean, I think

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Speaker 6: You know, I can't even imagine them guys going to

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Speaker 6: the playoffs. Blah blah blah. Now, neither team's got to win.

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Speaker 6: But I think you're feeling better about your team if

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Speaker 6: have good players and are definitely trending the right direction.

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Speaker 3: You can get some type of That was maybe the

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Speaker 3: best game Justin Field has ever played.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it was.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not going to say he's got to play

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Speaker 3: his best game of his career seventeen times this season.

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Speaker 4: But if you can get but.

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Speaker 5: He's gotten better every year and maybe got better again.

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Speaker 3: You know, to stay in that relative zone, relative stratosphere

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Speaker 4: That's the biggest win of the day for the Jets.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I thought Cleveland.

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Speaker 6: I know that the or the Bengals really struggle in

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Speaker 6: but the Browns had a good game plan. They they

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Speaker 6: got after Burrow in a big way. They really limited

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Speaker 6: like weaknesses defense O line, things that have been a

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Speaker 3: Seven yards in the second half. Well, you know, unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: They were fortunate to get out of there with the W.

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Speaker 3: But for a team that in the last five years

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they're not apologizing for for a win there.

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Speaker 3: They will certainly take it. And much like we've talked

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Speaker 3: about with the Steelers, same church, different pew, plenty to

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Speaker 6: It is similar win to win. And that's all those

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Speaker 6: two teams that are want to know in the division.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned Matt that first time in seventeen one score games.

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Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes takes an l in that regard. Friday Night

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Speaker 3: Mahomes might be the best way to describe it.

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Speaker 6: We saw one last night, but we saw one Friday

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Speaker 6: night to two primetime games where big time AFC quarterbacks

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Speaker 5: Who hits the ball that? You know?

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Speaker 6: I mean, I hate to like, I'm not trying to

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Speaker 5: But there's still some really good ones.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing? Can we get some of these

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Speaker 6: And Herbert might be knocking on the door of being

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a huge win for the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: Not loving that, certainly, certainly not loving that. Speaking of

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they ran the ball well. Giants hung around,

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Speaker 5: He's quite good as well. Yeah, I mean I think

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Speaker 5: they're in good shape with him, obviously.

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Speaker 3: I thought one of the funniest things of the NFL weekend,

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Speaker 3: there every Monday. Cam Scattaboo had an absolute signature Cam

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Speaker 5: Five yard game, but well earned, Yes.

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Speaker 4: Very well earned, very well earned.

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Speaker 3: A team that I think you're higher on than most,

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Speaker 4: Than most, and Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 3: It's the Carolina Panthers, one of those proverbial worst teams

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Speaker 6: Absolutely and that one I might be as worried about

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Speaker 6: The winner Carolina was kind of a disaster. I thought

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Speaker 4: But two interceptions, is that right?

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Speaker 6: Nothing went well on offense for that team, or really

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Speaker 6: a pretty dominant performance by the Jags. But I did

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Speaker 6: the Chargers in instead, which looks all right too, but good,

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Speaker 6: real promising first step for Jacksonville. Maybe they could win

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Speaker 3: It was and again it is so early, like it's

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Speaker 5: I was, let's not get crazy.

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Speaker 3: I just did it in the last segment, like what

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Speaker 3: if the Chargers win the division? There's sixteen games to play.

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Speaker 6: There is, and we meant they kind of used threw

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Speaker 4: I got a game the next day or something like that.

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Speaker 5: You're not allowed to have a bad day of the NFL.

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Speaker 3: And especially again Week one, when everybody has been hyper

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Speaker 5: It is the Magnifla.

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Speaker 3: The second Monday in September, which is always the Monday after,

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Speaker 5: Exactly. That's the thing too, like when Alan and Lamar

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Speaker 3: As long as long as they're playing the way they are,

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Speaker 4: When you've got good not great, yes, and the.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's like, Okay, they lost a lot, a

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Speaker 5: And we'll see the night too.

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Speaker 3: But how about Buffalo and Baltimore last night, Matt forty

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Speaker 6: That may turn into a ridiculous rivalry. Just going back

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Speaker 5: Are scarier right now.

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Speaker 6: I mean, they're just are They might be the two

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Speaker 5: They're awesome.

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Speaker 3: I was cracking up a bunch of Chiefs. Chiefs fans

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Speaker 5: But he makes uh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, Chiefs fans, you've had it so rough.

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Speaker 5: To witness an amazingball game.

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Speaker 4: Incredible, incredible.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if tonight's Monday Night football will live

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Speaker 5: We've had some good Sunday, some good primetime.

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Speaker 3: On we have, we have, and hopefully that will continue

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Speaker 3: Two teams that the Steelers will see this season, one

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Speaker 3: Shueler Matt Williams, and it is the Drive on Steelers

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

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

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Speaker 3: Driving along here on a Monday, a victory Monday, of course,

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Speaker 3: for your Pittsburgh Steelers as they take down the Jets

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Speaker 3: at MetLife Stadium thirty four to thirty two, a high scoring,

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Speaker 6: So it's funny, Like I am a believer that weird

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Speaker 6: Whoever plays the Jets next at least has this game

446
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Speaker 6: to go off of of what this coaching staff wants

447
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 6: to do, So I think there's less surprises, and I

448
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,639
Speaker 6: definitely I know in week one the players are not

449
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 6: in his good condition I mean, that's just a fact.

450
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 6: None of these guys have played a full game since

451
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,120
Speaker 6: the day they got eliminated last year.

452
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 5: That being said, I.

453
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,199
Speaker 6: Think you could pull out Week twelve and put it

454
00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 6: in Week one and be like that was weird too.

455
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,360
Speaker 6: I mean, every week's weird. It's a great league to watch.

456
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 6: There's always stuff that goes on. You know, didn't see

457
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 6: that coming, right, There's always an upset.

458
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 3: You know, they're always and that is I mean most

459
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 3: of these games, you know, week to week are one

460
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 3: score spreads.

461
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, even what they want.

462
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 3: Even when it seems to be lobsided. It is why

463
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 3: the National Football League has such a hole.

464
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 4: They are pretty good at this thing.

465
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:26,920
Speaker 3: And and turn this, you know, this model of clearly

466
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 3: the most popular, absolutely proven, the most financially lucrative league

467
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,439
Speaker 3: in the entire world, not just in the United States.

468
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 6: But and I don't mean to ram on Pittsburgh's parade,

469
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,199
Speaker 6: because everyone in Pittsburgh is happiest could be, and they

470
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 6: should be, and you and I are in a great mood.

471
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 6: But if Boswell's kick doesn't go through, it's a sixty yarder,

472
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 6: it's it's still a low. I mean, he's not going

473
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,399
Speaker 6: to make that ten out of ten times, that's not

474
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,439
Speaker 6: a chip shot. Just imagine what the narrative would be

475
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,199
Speaker 6: today though, be like, oh, Rogers played well, but this

476
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 6: team lost. The Jets are the worst team in the league.

477
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 4: And defense still stinks.

478
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 6: Defense is horrendous. You know, just that one play if

479
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 6: he if he mishits it, just the smidge. The whole

480
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 6: game is totally different way of thinking through for a

481
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 6: mending people.

482
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 3: And I was going to save this to bring up

483
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 3: like Tuesday or Wednesday, when maybe we needed to kill

484
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 3: a couple of minutes, but you just led me right there.

485
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 4: So let's do it.

486
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 5: Let's do it.

487
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 4: Can can we? Can we stop? We do this weird thing?

488
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,920
Speaker 3: And by we I mean people that do football media

489
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 3: like you and I football just fans. I think people

490
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 3: that are like executives and coaches. The whole football ecosystem

491
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 3: does this thing of downplaying special teams. I think particularly

492
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 3: kickers and where they kind of slot into the pantheon

493
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 3: of greatness for their franchises or for the league.

494
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 4: Right, is there one kicker in league history that's in

495
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame? Is that correct? Yeah?

496
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 5: And I think Tucker will go.

497
00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 4: I think Tucker will go. I think might eventually Lee.

498
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:01,880
Speaker 5: I think he will too.

499
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 3: I hope he's yea the all time league leader employ

500
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 3: like and had some big Super Bowl moments, right.

501
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 6: But it's very few select company. I know that it

502
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 6: will go in the next twenty years.

503
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 3: That that kind of that is a bass awkwords logic. Yeah, yeah,

504
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,439
Speaker 3: because when you have someone like Tucker, when you have

505
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 3: someone like Chris bos Well, like awful.

506
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 6: Was the play against Tucker? They'd get past midfields, Like, well,

507
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 6: they're getting points.

508
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't tell me kickers. Kickers can't be in the

509
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 4: in the in the Hall of Fame, don't tell me,

510
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 4: you know.

511
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 5: And and what Bosworth's doing is hall of Fame esque

512
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 5: right now.

513
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, And like every time someone suggests, maybe, you know,

514
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 3: kickers have too much of an impact on the game now,

515
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 3: maybe we should make it more, maybe we should shrink

516
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 3: the goal. But you know, in these off season conversations

517
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 3: where people are looking for things to talk about, that's

518
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 3: something that comes up every year.

519
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 6: Yeah, guys, my buddy's got a theory kickers are too

520
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 6: good now, which I get, you know, like you watch

521
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 6: that Jaggs game, guy, it's a seventy.

522
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 3: Yarder, but I'm not doing this to like out your buddy,

523
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,439
Speaker 3: But the same people that will tell you kickers are

524
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: too good now and something has to change will also

525
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 3: tell you and they don't belong in the Hall of Fame.

526
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 4: They're just a kicker. They don't tackle, they don't blo.

527
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 3: We gotta, we gotta, we gotta find a common ground here,

528
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 3: We gotta find a middle point, because these guys are

529
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 3: crazy important and they are in the NFL where every game,

530
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 3: for the most part, is a one score game. Yes,

531
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 3: don't don't tell me that you just love the kicker

532
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 3: when he hits a sixty yarder, like scream and yell

533
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,959
Speaker 3: about how important this guy is and how he deserves

534
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:29,479
Speaker 3: more credit.

535
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 6: And I'll be honest. I mean, like, the fifteenth best

536
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 6: kicker in the league now would have been by far

537
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 6: the best kicker in nineteen eighty or ninety or whatever.

538
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 5: Too now.

539
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 6: I also believe that there's still somewhat of a kicker shortage.

540
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 6: It's less true now than it was five ten years ago.

541
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 6: But there's three to five teams that don't have a

542
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 6: guy like the Steelers a boss and he's up here

543
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 6: and he's awesome and blah blah, blah, and most people

544
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 6: are just really happy with theirs. They're in this bulk area.

545
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 6: But you're one of those teams that doesn't have one.

546
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 6: You're one of those three to five that every Tuesday

547
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 6: you're bringing in a new guy or churning out or

548
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 6: I'm not sure I can trust them. You know how

549
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 6: much different that is and has them having bass in

550
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 6: all your coaching decisions. And you know that was points

551
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 6: over the course of a year difference.

552
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 3: How was the Jets last year? They were like one

553
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 3: in seven and one score games. I think it was

554
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,479
Speaker 3: or one and six something like that.

555
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 5: The kicker made seventy one percent of.

556
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 3: Us and they had the worst field goal percentage in

557
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 3: the league. Yeah, imagine if he would have made ninety

558
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 3: percent of his kicks instead of seventy something.

559
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 5: Maybe they may be average.

560
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 4: Maybe there's seven and ten.

561
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 3: Last year, which isn't great, but it's not like, oh

562
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 3: the stinking Jets, you.

563
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 6: Know, right, right again, right, I mean that's a big thing.

564
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 6: I was saying this on another show too. Just watching

565
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 6: this Jets team, you were reminded they do have quite

566
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 6: a few good, really good players and Quentin Williams stuff.

567
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,640
Speaker 6: They a lot of guys are real high quality players

568
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 6: that if this staff can get average kicking and not

569
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 6: lead the league in penalties and not be just funk,

570
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 6: you probably win six seven, eight games and they are

571
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 6: a lot more competitive. And this staff looks like they're competent.

572
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 5: You know.

573
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 3: There's again the way that they lost is frustrating. But

574
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 3: I think if you're a Jets fan, there is a

575
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 3: lot to be to be optimal. I think they'll be

576
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 3: singing more of a positive tune in New York. Now

577
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 3: that actually sounds dumb when I say it out loud.

578
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 4: Because they don't do that. It's New York.

579
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 3: All they do is don't talk about how much everybody

580
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 3: sucks all the time.

581
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 4: The Yankee's been ten years since the Yankees won a

582
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 4: World Series.

583
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 5: They suck.

584
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge sucks, the Knicks suck, everybody sucks. I think

585
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 3: you should you should be there's a lot of reasons

586
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 3: for they should be speaking more optimistically on Jets Nation Radio.

587
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 3: Yeah than I think we would have if the Steelers

588
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 3: would have lost that game today.

589
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.

590
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 3: Speaking of that kicker shortage that you mentioned, it's so

591
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 3: weird to me, Like I I just I looked up

592
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 3: here to see if Ben Sous had landed anywhere. He's

593
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 3: still out there and like after the I know he's

594
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 3: a lefty that a college career that he had the

595
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 3: preseason that he had this kicker shortage that you rightfully

596
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 3: mentioned around the league.

597
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 5: But all.

598
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 3: Some special teams coordinator to start to feel the heat

599
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 3: need to do something different.

600
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 6: I mean, unless you're one of the elite guys like Boz.

601
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 6: You have two or three bad games in a month.

602
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 6: See you, oh man, now down, your seat's on fire.

603
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 3: Even when Boz had that season twenty eighteen, every week

604
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 3: everybody wanted to cut him.

605
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 4: I do too, I just wanted to the probably moved on.

606
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they should have known. I mean when he

607
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 3: had James Harrison standing there just try out, talking about

608
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 3: you've heard that story, right, you heard that story. They

609
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 3: brought Chris Boswell in for his tryout, and then ultimately

610
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 3: is it from the Jets practice score? I forget exactly Giants?

611
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 3: Maybe was he with the Giants, but however it worked out.

612
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 3: When he had his tryout with the Steelers in the

613
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: practice facility, James Harrison was standing there watching them because

614
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 3: the Steelers had had some kicking issues.

615
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 4: Debo was like, I'm sick of this.

616
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I stink.

617
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 6: And when they were on that feris, they were on

618
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 6: that wheel for a long time.

619
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 5: It's a terrible place to be.

620
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 3: And when Boz was having his audition, his try out,

621
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 3: whatever it was, James Harrison was standing there right next

622
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 3: to him, was like, if you miss one of these,

623
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: I'm make you wash my back in the shower. I

624
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: can't believe you haven't heard this story with Bos. Boz

625
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: told it, I think on Christian Koons's podcast, I want

626
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 3: to say or something.

627
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 5: And then like a couple of months handle pressure.

628
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: A couple of months later, like Mike tom was asked

629
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 3: about it on like the Pivot podcast and he told

630
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 3: the story and talked about it as well too. From

631
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: that moment, they should have known this boss, Well, guy's nails,

632
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: he's goods.

633
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 5: If he's not shocking. I'm left at this point because

634
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 5: I guess.

635
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin was standing there. Tom was like, Bos, no

636
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 3: matter what happens, do not wash his back, all right, I.

637
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 4: Don't care how good you are. There's no coming back

638
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 4: from that, all right, not no matter what happens.

639
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 5: I mean, he's an all time great Steeler.

640
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 4: He is a Hall of Honor guy.

641
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no doubt.

642
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 4: There's a Hall of Honor Pittsburgh Steeler.

643
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 5: And that's not an easy haul to get in.

644
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 3: I think very soon, actually, like maybe this month, will

645
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 3: become the all time leading scorer in franchise istuty. I

646
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 3: think he's not gonna right on Gary Anderson's heels. Yeah,

647
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 3: like right there, So that'll happen this season definitely, might

648
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 3: even might even happen this month, Matt Monday Night Football tonight.

649
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 4: K Yeah, I don't have a.

650
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 5: Strong feeling on him. I'm looking forward to it.

651
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 6: I'm hoping Caleb Williams career gets back on track and

652
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 6: McCarthy's like a rookie, you know, so that the two

653
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 6: quarterbacks are really interesting to me.

654
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 3: That's I think the storyline is much along these same

655
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 3: same lines of like week one overreactions m h either

656
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 3: in Chicago or Minnesota tomorrow morning.

657
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 5: Oh, it's not gonna be.

658
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 4: One of these quarterbacks is gonna get skewered.

659
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 5: Yea.

660
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 6: If it's like Lamar and Allen last night, there's nowhere

661
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 6: to know arrows to shoot and.

662
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 3: One of the team's wins thirty eight to thirty five

663
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 3: or something like that, and both quarterbacks play well. If

664
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams struggles, it's gonna be like here we go again.

665
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 3: This guy isn't gonna get it. It's not gonna click

666
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 3: Bears having a quarterback in my life life.

667
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Speaker 4: You know, Bears just can never have a quarterback. And

668
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 4: this isn't the guy to break the curse.

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Speaker 3: If JJ McCarthy goes out there and struggles, and I

670
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 3: think you're right, he might get a little bit more

671
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Speaker 3: of a of a leash a little bit his first

672
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Speaker 3: start because it's his first start, albeit in year two

673
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Speaker 3: when he essentially picked the draft. First picking the draft,

674
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Speaker 3: Daniel J. J McCarthy was a top ten guy. Oh yeah,

675
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Speaker 3: and they just had a great year last year, won

676
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Speaker 3: fourteen games, and then let Sam Donald sail off for

677
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Speaker 3: this guy. Yeah, and I'm not saying I think Sam

678
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Speaker 3: Donald is walking into Canton one day, obviously, but he

679
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 3: won fourteen games last year.

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Speaker 4: This one, to me is quarterback storyline, obviously.

681
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Speaker 3: Huge and just which fan base is going to be

682
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Speaker 3: screaming about their signal caller tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's one hundred percent. And it's a

684
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Speaker 6: good matchup too. I mean, I'm excited to see this.

685
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Speaker 6: You know, Johnson, the new head coach, is the higher

686
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Speaker 6: and I totally understand that. I would have been all

687
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 6: over him too what I know about him to run

688
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 6: my team. But it's a little different calhin play when

689
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 6: Dan Campbell's your head coach and you've got all these

690
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 6: good players and things are in place in Detroit, as

691
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 6: opposed to being the guy on game day and prep

692
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 6: and you know, being the CEO and all those things.

693
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 6: A lot of guys, including the great Dick Lebow, hit

694
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 6: their head on the ceiling of being awesome play caller

695
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,479
Speaker 6: coordinators and not head coaches.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing different set, nothing wrong with that, totally different

697
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 4: skill set.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of great head coaches that aren't that

699
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 6: good coordinators, you know, Right, So I am really interested

700
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Speaker 6: to see where the Bears are at.

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Speaker 5: And I think the Vikings are a super interesting team too.

702
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Speaker 6: I mean, they made a lot of changes they've they've

703
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 6: been out and got a lot of big people to

704
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 6: add to the interior both their lines, you know, is

705
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 6: that gonna pay off or not? And Justin Jefferson's just

706
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 6: a blast to watch, period.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, Jordan Addison for the first three games, right, right

709
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Speaker 3: for Minnesota.

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Speaker 5: Feelings back home, though, feeling is.

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Speaker 3: Back Yep, this is this is a fun one. These

712
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 3: these early season divisional matchups are always fun.

713
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's like it's a swing.

714
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a you know, it's almost like a

715
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: game that counts. Act like in the standings in the

716
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 3: you're either going to be a game ahead or you're

717
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 3: going to be a game behind right off the bat. Like,

718
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: we're not both going to be oh and one. We're

719
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Speaker 3: not both going to be one and oh. One of

720
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Speaker 3: us is already gonna have a one game lead and

721
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Speaker 3: a top headhead tie breaker over over the other.

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Speaker 5: Ultra competitive division.

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Speaker 4: And what I was to.

724
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Speaker 3: Say, did you see that stat that they broadcast last

725
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Speaker 3: night during I guess afternoon depending during the Lions Packers

726
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 3: game that the NFC North had the highest ever win

727
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 3: percentage of a division last year. But it was also

728
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Speaker 3: the first time in league history that a division got

729
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Speaker 3: three teams into the playoffs and all of them went

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Speaker 3: one and done. Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay all lost their

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Speaker 3: first playoff game. Now Detroit had to buy but still

732
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Speaker 3: they all went and again they went oh and three

733
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Speaker 3: in the playoffs. Yeah, absolutely, Minnesota one and a half

734
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Speaker 3: point favorites in Chicago.

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Speaker 5: In Chicago, I'd probably take the bikes.

736
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Speaker 4: I think so too.

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Speaker 5: I think I trusted the head coach a lot.

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Speaker 4: Think they're really welcome more continuity. There a better team

739
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Speaker 4: last year.

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Speaker 6: The thing I keep harping on with this game is

741
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 6: Flores is such a pain in the butt to play against.

742
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 6: It's so unorthodox, it's so aggressibly.

743
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Speaker 3: When he's got this much time. He's been prepared for

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Speaker 3: Calin Williams for two and a half.

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Speaker 6: Weeks, and Williams loves taking sacks. I mean, that's the

746
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 6: thing that they're trying to get out of, you know,

747
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 6: is Johnson is trying to get that out of this DNA.

748
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Speaker 3: I'm glad for those of you that aren't watching this

749
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Speaker 3: on YouTube, all right, if you're just like if you're

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Speaker 3: an audio podcast only listener of The Drive, which that's

751
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Speaker 3: how I consume like ninety percent of my pots.

752
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Speaker 4: So I get it.

753
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Speaker 3: But you gotta you gotta check on YouTube in the

754
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 3: second hour to see that look on Matt's face.

755
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Speaker 4: Love loves taking Saxon.

756
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Speaker 5: He sure does. Going back to USC and oh man.

757
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Speaker 4: He defines that sax Or a quarterback.

758
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Speaker 5: Stats it's you, rs me, you know, it's it's you.

759
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Speaker 3: Certainly, certainly Matt, not to be a Debbie downer, but

760
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Speaker 3: I do think we didn't really kind of dig into

761
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Speaker 3: some of those concerns for the Steelers from yester week

762
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Speaker 3: to and we've got obviously been four more shows this week,

763
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Speaker 3: but let's get into a little bit of that in

764
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Speaker 3: our final segment on the other side. To shut this

765
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Speaker 3: thing down, West Ruler, Matt Williamson, it is the Drive

766
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 3: on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network, your tunes.

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Speaker 1: About Drive on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: Down the home stretch here on this victory Monday edition

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Speaker 3: of the Drive, as we would rather do here, I mean,

771
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Speaker 3: it's it's been it's been more positive conversation, it's been

772
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Speaker 3: more it's been more uh, looking on the bright side

773
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Speaker 3: of life, as Monty Python would say. But Matt, obviously

774
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Speaker 3: there are always concerns in a victory, and certainly in

775
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 3: week one where nobody is even the teams that had

776
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 3: the best performances or are not perfect, there was.

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Speaker 5: A lot of not perfect.

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00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 3: There was a lot of not perfect, uh, and so

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Speaker 3: not to really kind of put you on the spot here,

780
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 3: because again, we got plenty of time the rest of

781
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Speaker 3: the week to dive deeper into some of these things.

782
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Speaker 3: But what's the forefront of your mind if you could

783
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Speaker 3: pick one thing this week that they're going to get

784
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Speaker 3: moving in the right direction in the home opener against Seattle.

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Speaker 5: That I'm confident that they'll get better at.

786
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Speaker 3: Not even necessarily that you're confident of all the concerns.

787
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Speaker 3: Which one are you highlighting right now that that you

788
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: would like to see start to improve something?

789
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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 6: So, I mean, I guess there's really three things that

791
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 6: worry me just off this game alone. Steelers run game

792
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 6: is the most concerning to me.

793
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Speaker 4: I think that's the easy answer.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, how have we talked of the last

795
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 6: couple months. That can't be a three point nine to

796
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 6: carry You got to get up to you know, four

797
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 6: to three, you're crazy even just get twentieth and they

798
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 6: got worse, you know, I mean, and they it wasn't

799
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 6: a real run centric game plan or game script, but

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Speaker 6: I bet they would have liked to have done more

801
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Speaker 6: of it.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: We mentioned with Rob there's a lot of game ball

804
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 6: out there, a lot of third down situation. But their

805
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 6: success rate on early downs was really bad espec. Running

806
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 6: the ball, They didn't get ahead of the chains. They

807
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 6: didn't have very many nice runs. And I did think

808
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Speaker 6: there was a stretch where Warren was starting to heat

809
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 6: up a little bit, and then they kind of got

810
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Speaker 6: away from it. You know, there was four or five

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Speaker 6: runs in a row. It's like, Okay, they're starting to

812
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Speaker 6: build on something here, and then they kind of got

813
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Speaker 6: away from it. But the protection is the same people,

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Speaker 6: and that was pretty pretty problematic too.

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Speaker 4: It really was.

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Speaker 5: It was not like him holding the ball. They weren't

817
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Speaker 5: quarterback sacks.

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Speaker 4: No, they were not.

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Speaker 5: They were not.

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Speaker 4: That's an important thing to note.

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Speaker 5: And he can't be getting hit like that.

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Speaker 4: It's it's also too just the inconsistency of it from

823
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Speaker 4: the offensive line.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Roger Jones was terrible. I mean, and consistency is

825
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 6: not his thing.

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Speaker 3: He is so hard to evaluate because I don't know,

827
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 3: maybe I'm being a little too generous. Eight out of

828
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Speaker 3: ten snaps are fine. Yeah, eight out of ten snaps

829
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Speaker 3: you don't notice them. Yeah, a good corner, but it's

830
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 3: just like corner. But it's not even the other two.

831
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Speaker 3: The other two out of ten snaps. Man, they're not

832
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 3: even c's or d's.

833
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, was there f's.

834
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, they are.

835
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Speaker 3: They are zero. They're not five or six out of ten.

836
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 3: They're a zero out of ten. Yeah, that's the that's

837
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: the strangest part to me, because they'll be a stretch

838
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 3: of four, five, six, seven plays on a drive and

839
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,720
Speaker 3: you'll be like looking sharp, looking good, confident, moving well,

840
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 3: and then that ninth play happens and it's the complaint

841
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Speaker 3: it must be.

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Speaker 4: It's not just bad email. You can do terrible rap.

843
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 6: Right, It's not like he's a seventh round pick that

844
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Speaker 6: is heavy feet and someone crossed his face is faster

845
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Speaker 6: than them.

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Speaker 3: You know.

847
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 5: Let me just get out athlete.

848
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 3: That he doesn't have, Like like he make no mistake

849
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 3: about this because I know a lot of people and

850
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's unfair. I know he's getting crushed

851
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 3: by a lot of people, but like he's got a

852
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 3: highlight tape too.

853
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's just the low light tape.

854
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 3: Is outshadowing it at this point, and that can't happen.

855
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 6: It can't happen. I mean again, maybe this is just

856
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 6: one off. Maybe the rest of the games go fine.

857
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think you consider benching them or

858
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 6: any of that. Point are at this point, and the

859
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 6: players here playing against were better than.

860
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Speaker 5: People might realize that. There are a lot of up and.

861
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 6: Coming first round picks, and they even lyne Quinn Williams

862
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 6: over him and got a sack. But I mean, you

863
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 6: just can't have the negatives and just across the board,

864
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 6: I mean Rogers getting quick, the average up the target's

865
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 6: really low on purpose because Rogers is good at it,

866
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 6: but it's also because they knew they couldn't drive the

867
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 6: ball down the field because they weren't expecting people to

868
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 6: hold up in protection. You know, they made adjustments to

869
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 6: move the football accordingly. But it's true for all quarterbacks,

870
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 6: but especially a four one year old that isn't super mobile.

871
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 6: There's so many times on third and eight you're gonna

872
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 6: have to drive the football and you can't just throw

873
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 6: screens and things. He's gonna get hit at this rate.

874
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 6: I mean that, and Seattle might be better pass rush

875
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 6: team than this, and I mean that that's a really

876
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 6: impressive Jets team. I keep praising them, but that's not

877
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 6: the toughest defense you're gonna face. Absolutely, there's a lot

878
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 6: of other good ones out there, a lot of good

879
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 6: D line in this league.

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00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 4: You might you might face a couple better defenses this month.

881
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, Seattle's is loaded, loaded.

882
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 3: And then the one you're gonna face in Dublin that

883
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 3: we're going to see tonight has been pretty nasty over

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00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 3: the last couple of years. Yeah, yeah as well too.

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00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 3: That's that's where that's where I'm all line.

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Speaker 6: The O line concerns are real on a Monday morning

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Speaker 6: after that win.

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Speaker 5: Still run game and.

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Speaker 3: Protection still there and it's one data point out of seventeen, yep,

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Speaker 3: But that those those concerns that that you know, we

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Speaker 3: had discussed a little bit going into the season night,

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Speaker 3: I think are certainly still there.

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Speaker 4: Matt to get us out of here today.

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Speaker 3: Power grid janitor tweets us oh and says, how would

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Speaker 3: you diagnose our defensive woes from yesterday? Just first game

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Speaker 3: of the season. Some untimely injuries during that game? Was

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Speaker 3: it poor execution and bad preparation? Also side note, it

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Speaker 3: was hard enough to jump out of your chair and

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Speaker 3: holler after Jalen Ramsey laying down the boom.

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Speaker 5: That was awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you should see Max Starks's reaction in the broadcast

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Speaker 3: booth Ie.

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Speaker 5: That's awesome.

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Speaker 6: So the good and that's the perfect play to exemplify

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Speaker 6: that was. There were some timely big plays late by stars.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: I mean there absolutely was, but down to down consistency

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Speaker 6: against the run I thought.

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Speaker 5: Was extremely, extremely poor, and.

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Speaker 6: You can blame man this team. I don't know what

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00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 6: they're doing against Reid option. It wasn't the same as

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Speaker 6: not playing it well against Baltimore in the playoff game.

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Speaker 6: To me, this was bodies getting moved backwards. Cam Hayward

914
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Speaker 6: was the top of the list too. I mean, I

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00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 6: would hope that it gets a lot better for him,

916
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Speaker 6: he plays more, gets back in the flow of things.

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Speaker 6: Super proud, awesome player that will not be proud of

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Speaker 6: his tape, I'm sure.

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Speaker 5: But he wasn't alone.

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Speaker 6: They were getting moved a lot and a lot of

921
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Speaker 6: their runs were to the offenses left in those b

922
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Speaker 6: gaps where Cam lives.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think the best way to sum that

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Speaker 3: up would be and I'm not going to play it here, Matt,

925
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 3: because we would get fined by the FCC because there

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Speaker 3: are a couple of four letter words in there.

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Speaker 4: But Patrick Queen spared spared no punches in the post game.

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Speaker 5: I didn't notice that, Okay, he.

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Speaker 3: Basically said, played like bleep, Yeah it was. It was right,

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00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 3: it was bleeping unacceptable. And so they know that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's of course they know there's a lot of you know,

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Speaker 3: everybody likes to point out how much money is on

933
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Speaker 3: that defensive side of the ball. Those guys who make

934
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 3: that kind of money, they're aware of that too, and

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Speaker 3: the expectations and the pride that they take that comes

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Speaker 3: with earning that level of of you know, conversation.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, now it's microscope and it's got to

938
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Speaker 6: get better. I mean that that to me, I didn't

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Speaker 6: see that coming. Like I forget even what numbers we

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Speaker 6: were talking about, Like what if they got to one

941
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty rushing yards Like.

942
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Speaker 5: Ooh, I don't.

943
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Speaker 6: I think they'll do better than that, you know, Or

944
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Speaker 6: I'd be fine if they got to one twenty one thirty.

945
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Speaker 5: You know, they're gonna run the ball like crazy. Not

946
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:25,919
Speaker 5: what happened? I had that happen, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Matt, good stuff.

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Speaker 3: Today. It was a fun show off and running here now,

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Speaker 3: I mean the rest of the season, it's like taking

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00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 3: candy from a baby. I mean, just we got games

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00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 3: to recap games, to preview. It's gonna be a lot

952
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 3: of fun. We'll getting some fantasy football stuff as the

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00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 3: week rolls around, all kinds of stuff. But as you

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Speaker 3: mentioned a little bit earlier, hopefully we'll get some injury

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Speaker 3: news and updates. Mike Tomlin gonna Elliott, Yeah, and Elliott.

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Speaker 3: I think is the is the big one certainly. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Mike Tomlin going to speak.

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Speaker 3: Uh Tuesday at noon Tomorrow at noon, So we will

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Speaker 3: obviously have plenty of discuss from that when we if

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Speaker 3: and when we do get a any injury updates there

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Speaker 3: as well, too. Big thanks to Matt Big, thanks to

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Speaker 3: our video producer TV in here hanging with us and

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Speaker 3: pushing all the buttons in the studio. I'm Wes Shuler.

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Speaker 3: Thanks everybody, take care. We'll talk to you soon. You

965
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Speaker 3: know where to find us. As always, it's on your

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Speaker 3: twenty four to seven home of the Black and Gold.

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Speaker 3: It's Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network.