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Speaker 1: At least. He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson,

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

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and Matt. We're on Friday here between. It's a beautiful day,

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Speaker 1: almost go time, and we've got a game in the book.

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Speaker 1: So Week three has begun. Um, you saw last night

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers get the three and oh but man,

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Speaker 1: that was a costly win. It was. I mean, McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: weeks and quotes whatever that means. At least they have

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Speaker 1: a long week, but doesn't matter. I'm sure he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna play Week four anyway. Uh. And then J. C.

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Speaker 1: Horne breaking a foot is a real big deal for them.

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Speaker 1: You know, they loved them. They play a lot of

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Speaker 1: man coverage. He looks like a corner that's gonna follow

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Speaker 1: number one receivers around some day sooner than later. But

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Speaker 1: they're three and o and the NFC doesn't look that brutal.

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Speaker 1: They've got a nice long week. I mean, things are

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Speaker 1: going well for the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, I mean That's

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Speaker 1: why you know, a hot start is well, you know,

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Speaker 1: anytime he's string together a three game winning stre it's

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Speaker 1: a good thing. In the NFL. I mean, they even

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Speaker 1: beat great teams. I mean we'd realize that, but they

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Speaker 1: beat the Saint some week two. And the organization as

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Speaker 1: a whole, the quarterback, the coaching staff, I think they're

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Speaker 1: all trending in the right direction in Carolina, right it

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Speaker 1: seems to being. And you know, Sam Donald, Um, this

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald, is I think he's got promise. Um. I

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Speaker 1: think his pocket awareness is still a little lacking at

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Speaker 1: times questionable. Yeah, but he can he can make all

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Speaker 1: the throws. Oh yeah, he's very talented. You know. That's

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Speaker 1: why you know, when this season is over, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you necessarily go, well, the Steelers

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Speaker 1: Quarterbacks are availing, Quarterbacks are available. It's really more so

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Speaker 1: than ever before the last couple off seasons. We've had

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Speaker 1: a lot of quarterback movement. And I meant to even

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Speaker 1: bring this up earlier because remember the conversation we had

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Speaker 1: off season ended is like af the Superowl. He's like,

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Speaker 1: I predict eighteen new teams will have quarterbacks. Were like, eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Are you serious? I mean, we didn't think Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a RAM at that point. And some

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Speaker 1: of these guys that have been fixtures for their teams, well,

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Speaker 1: I think the numbers fifteen or sixteen when it's all

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Speaker 1: said and done, and we're wondering why some of these

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Speaker 1: teams struggle early in the season, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a big deal. But to your point, that's two

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Speaker 1: years in a row where guys are on the move

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Speaker 1: and that people aren't. What's the other stat is, basically,

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Speaker 1: when Stafford moved, there's only like one or two first

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Speaker 1: round quarterbacks in the last ten or twelve years are

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Speaker 1: still with their respective teams. You know. It's like Matt

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean you're gonna have to fight other

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Speaker 1: reclamation project, like a Donald type. I mean I've got

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Speaker 1: he hasn't as much success though as experience for that experience,

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Speaker 1: he's unknown Donald. You know, a lot of his experience

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Speaker 1: that's not all that uncommon coming off of a knee injury.

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Speaker 1: But before that, he's he has valued the football pretty well.

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Speaker 1: not a great How much of the maybe trepidation that

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Speaker 1: see how often you drive into throws and and you know,

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Speaker 1: just it's a natural instinct to him get rid of

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Speaker 1: what's that? You know, what's that at my legs? He's

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Speaker 1: They hit on two of eight down the field last week.

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Speaker 1: It easily could should have been probably half of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that needs to be a higher success rate, without question. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I blame the quarterback or the

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Speaker 1: receiver in that but the connection hasn't the one in

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Speaker 1: the end zone. Claypools gonna come down a touchdown. Um.

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Speaker 1: One defensive player we haven't mentioned about because their linebackers

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Speaker 1: basically seem like a bunch of no names. Um, but

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Speaker 1: Phillips has turned into a pretty good player for them.

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Speaker 1: I mean he covers a lot of ground. Um, he's range.

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Speaker 1: Mean Logan Wilson Wilson again, no names his name, right,

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Speaker 1: but their safety Wilson combination in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: field is probably better than their corners on the outside.

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Speaker 1: You know, you and I have been stressing and I

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Speaker 1: don't take this back at all because it has to happen.

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Speaker 1: They need to attack the middle field, you know, eight

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Speaker 1: the thirty yards down field. Well, the key is when

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Speaker 1: you're attacking that, not just doing it, like having one

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Speaker 1: guy in that zone, flood the zone with with a

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Speaker 1: couple of guys and make him make a choice. It

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Speaker 1: enters the guy that he doesn't go to. But even

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Speaker 1: in this game, I would love to see, I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many out routes did Ben and ab connect on

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Speaker 1: time and time? Again? That was just I don't see Claypool,

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Speaker 1: Johnson and Schuster especial Schuster running taking those steel outrage.

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Speaker 1: Drive a guy up the field, chopped feet, go to

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Speaker 1: the sideline, boom. You know there's they didn't once last

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Speaker 1: week with Claypool. It's such a staple in the league.

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Speaker 1: There was a sixteen yard game. They false started on

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Speaker 1: first down UM in the fourth quarter and Claypool comes out,

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Speaker 1: runs runs an out because always the ones running down

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Speaker 1: the field, the out should be there constantly. Would think

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Speaker 1: you could really attack and they got sixteen yards on it.

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Speaker 1: It was an easy completion, pitch and catch. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just another way to attack that far down field,

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Speaker 1: you know, out of the short zones UM. The middle

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Speaker 1: field definitely needs to be attacked. But I mean every

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Speaker 1: team in the league runs a lot out routes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many out routes did dj More catch last night?

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Speaker 1: Or you know what I mean? He still catching passes

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Speaker 1: right right right? So yeah, I mean this won't be

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Speaker 1: an easy game, no, well not, But I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are taking a step down in

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Speaker 1: competition from what they've seen the first two weeks too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you were to rank the Bills, Raiders, Steelers, Bengals,

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Speaker 1: Bengals are last, but it's very losable. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you did, they have to start faster. They have to

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Speaker 1: start faster. If the Steelers were more injured on defense,

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Speaker 1: or some of these growing injuries act up, then I'd

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Speaker 1: really be worried. You know that. I may even just

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Speaker 1: pick the Bengals straight out. But as it stands now,

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Speaker 1: I still think the Steelers have a big advantage when

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Speaker 1: since he has a ball. Yeah, I do as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see if they take advantage that. They gotta

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Speaker 1: get some turnovers to the defense has to turn to

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Speaker 1: get the ball back. Yeah. And I've been critical with

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Speaker 1: Ben and he hasn't been great, I don't think by

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Speaker 1: anyone's you know, evaluation, but he has not turned the

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Speaker 1: ball over much. I mean, I will say he's taking

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Speaker 1: care of the football and that's been important because it

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Speaker 1: could be a lot worse if you would had one

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Speaker 1: or two more turnovers, you know, I mean think about that. Yeah, Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll see, Yeah, we will see. Just for comparison's sake, Uh,

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Speaker 1: roethlisberger sack percentage is five point three, Okay, so it's

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Speaker 1: like three times as high as that. That's where we

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Speaker 1: were at sack And I mean we say this a lot,

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Speaker 1: Like if you put Peyton Manning behind that line, it

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Speaker 1: would still be three. You know, if you put Ben

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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, it would be lower than fifteen. Like, some

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Speaker 1: of these are on the quarterback, and in this case,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it's on the quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward versus one of their guards might no matter

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Speaker 1: who the quarterback is, the right, right, right. So it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be an uphill climb for the Bengals too. But

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Speaker 1: they have some scary offensive skill guys. They always seem

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Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, the chase is very dangerous. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a

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Speaker 1: break and we come back. We'll take a look at

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Speaker 1: all this week's games right after this