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Speaker 3: Hello, everybody, thanks for being with us. Following this year's
Speaker 3: twenty to ten victory over the La Chargers. Our first
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Speaker 3: let's get a first reaction. Craig Wolfley, let's start with
Speaker 3: you your thoughts on what you saw on Sunday with
Speaker 3: this year's twenty to ten victory that moved them to
Speaker 3: three and zero in the season.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: It's just one of those afternoons where you got a
Speaker 6: bludgeoning on both sides, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 6: got it a great rushing attempt, a team with rushing attempts,
Speaker 6: and you got a team with great rushing yardage.
Speaker 2: And he got all this coming together.
Speaker 6: And I was laughing in the before the game, we
Speaker 6: were talking about going this game could be over in
Speaker 6: about thirty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and the first quarter was over so fast.
Speaker 6: But you know, you look at this and I thought
Speaker 6: it was just a great show of determination by the Steelers.
Speaker 6: Stay after it, stay after it, keep cracking the rock
Speaker 6: and vctually the rock got split in the second half
Speaker 6: and they took over a momentum and never relinquished it.
Speaker 6: It was just a great team effort from top to bottom.
Speaker 5: You know, Matt.
Speaker 3: Before the game, Mike Tomwin used a boxing analogy and
Speaker 3: he said it was an opportunity for him to educate
Speaker 3: his young players on Hagler Hearns. The great fight between
Speaker 3: those two guys, Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns.
Speaker 5: That was over.
Speaker 3: And I think this second round unbelievably action pack but
Speaker 3: swinging punches, and you know, it made me think of
Speaker 3: and I use this analogy with Wolf earlier, the boxer
Speaker 3: who goes to the body early and softens up his opponent. No,
Speaker 3: you're not scoring any points by doing that. The officials,
Speaker 3: the people sitting ringside that are scoring about they are not,
Speaker 3: you know, duly impressed with that. They're more impressed with
Speaker 3: the headshot. But man, you get into those later rounds
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, those body blows mean something
Speaker 3: that you know, the the opposing fighter drops his hands
Speaker 3: to protect his mid drift and now you can go
Speaker 3: for the knockout.
Speaker 5: That's what it felt like the Steelers did to me.
Speaker 3: They weakened the Chargers by going after him, going after him,
Speaker 3: going after him in some ways, and then late in
Speaker 3: the game they're able to finish them off.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well said, And I think both head coaches had
Speaker 7: the same approach. You know, we're gonna come in banging away.
Speaker 7: If we have to punt, that's okay, three and out.
Speaker 7: But we're gonna be physical. We're gonna use a lot
Speaker 7: of heavy personnel, a lot of extra tight ends on
Speaker 7: the field, sometimes extra offensive. I'm in big power backs
Speaker 7: and you know, efficient quarterback play. You know, Baldon hit
Speaker 7: the ground from either one of these quarterbacks very often.
Speaker 7: In the first first half either there was a lot
Speaker 7: of very high completion rate. But then the second half
Speaker 7: rolls around, and to be fair, you know, some of
Speaker 7: the Chargers star players are dropping like flies. You lose
Speaker 7: Alts later, Bosa, Herbert, it's gonna hurt you. But I
Speaker 7: also think some of that's due to the Steelers being
Speaker 7: the more physical team in any way. You cut it
Speaker 7: when you when you produce two hundred and fifty four
Speaker 7: yards in the second half, and I think they produced
Speaker 7: negative five in the second half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that sort of sums it up right.
Speaker 2: Let me do the math of that pretty good.
Speaker 3: And by the way, when you say you know two
Speaker 3: guys wanting the same approach, well, Hagler Hearns wanted the
Speaker 3: same approach to it.
Speaker 5: I'd rather have been.
Speaker 3: Hagler right right by the time that fight was over.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, it was. I thought this was a
Speaker 3: good test, good physical tests. And I think it's pretty
Speaker 3: clear that you know, and again, this is something I
Speaker 3: taught about at the beginning of the broadcast. You know,
Speaker 3: you have a hardball coach team with Greg Roman as
Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator. Sounds like the you know, the Ravens
Speaker 3: from several years ago, except it's a different hardball same Roman,
Speaker 3: same style. They want to play the same way Wolf
Speaker 3: and so every week presents a different challenge. This as
Speaker 3: a team that wanted to go toe to toe with you,
Speaker 3: they were a little different challenge in what Denver was
Speaker 3: and what Atlanta was, and they tried to go toe
Speaker 3: to toe with the Steelers and they got knocked out.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: The interesting thing, it's a lot of people credit this
Speaker 6: to Mike Tyson, but really the quote goes to George Formasa.
Speaker 6: Everybody's got a plan until I get hit with the
Speaker 6: right hand, you know. And that's basically what happened. George
Speaker 6: Foreman materialized in the form of Steelers offense and defense
Speaker 6: and just put the right hand right in the mouth
Speaker 6: of the La Chargers. And they did a great job.
Speaker 6: When you think about defensively speaking, five sacks, seven quarterback hits,
Speaker 6: a strip sack, sevendfls, you know, tackles for loss, my goodness,
Speaker 6: and as Matt talked about earlier, you're talking about a
Speaker 6: minus five for an offense that was just running on
Speaker 6: high octane, coming into a creature. You got to take
Speaker 6: your hat off and give it to him, as Hines
Speaker 6: Ward would say, and give them, you know, a little
Speaker 6: salute there. They tried hard, but they they got mangulated,
Speaker 6: and I got to tell you, I think it was
Speaker 6: just a great team effort again from the Steelers, from
Speaker 6: everybody putting their hand in the pile and the proverbial
Speaker 6: you know, uh, get that effort going and be part
Speaker 6: of it, because they went after it and they did it.
Speaker 7: Matt, Yeah, I mean, there's not a lot of in
Speaker 7: depth analysis needed for this one. You know, good just
Speaker 7: got these guys. Their intentions were very similar. It looked
Speaker 7: like a very even fight going into the half. Maybe
Speaker 7: even the Chargers, I know they lead on the scoreboard,
Speaker 7: were the potentially better team in the first half, but
Speaker 7: it was a feeling out process. And Johnston's touchdown was
Speaker 7: a coverage bust. I mean, that wasn't to me poor
Speaker 7: play necessarily, it was a miscommunication by the second are
Speaker 7: porter pretty much shut him down for ninety percent of
Speaker 7: this game. Dobbins, who was their big time playmaker, did
Speaker 7: very very little, and Steelers won in the trenches. And
Speaker 7: while I thought Herbert was highly efficient, he still wasn't
Speaker 7: enough in his condition to elevate the team.
Speaker 3: So, Man, I'm gonna come back to you because I've
Speaker 3: heard you say some things in your podcast.
Speaker 5: It reminds me of what we're saying, both of you guys.
Speaker 3: Reminds me of my and I have to be very
Speaker 3: careful here, because if you're quoting Blazing Saddles, you have
Speaker 3: to be very careful. But my favorite line in that
Speaker 3: movie is when they're sitting around at a bar and
Speaker 3: I think the guy who plays Higgins in Magnum p
Speaker 3: I says something like, hey, and as you know, as
Speaker 3: we speak to think Louis Pastewers over there in France.
Speaker 3: And somebody goes, never mind that stuff. Here comes Mango.
Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, okay, here comes life
Speaker 3: at you. I feel like this is the Steelers defense.
Speaker 5: Matt.
Speaker 3: You can have a plan, and you could talk about
Speaker 3: all kinds of flowery stuff, but you know Mongo's coming.
Speaker 3: There's up in the run. They're stopping the pass or
Speaker 3: getting after the passer. Through three games, you know, and
Speaker 3: this is a good defense, A good defense from a
Speaker 3: year ago that added really good players and are getting
Speaker 3: maturations from guys. I mean, you think about, you know,
Speaker 3: adding Queen, adding to Shaun Elliott, adding Dante Jackson, getting
Speaker 3: Trice back after you got hurt all last year, having
Speaker 3: her big in year two, improving Leal a young player,
Speaker 3: improving louder Milk a young player, improving Peyton Wilson in
Speaker 3: the draft. I mean, it is a very good defense.
Speaker 3: It's added a lot of very good pieces to supplement
Speaker 3: that defense or enhance that defense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and unlike Mango being a pond in the game
Speaker 7: of life, I mean, the defense has Queens and Rooks
Speaker 7: and Horsey guys and all kinds of guys that can
Speaker 7: do a lot of things for you on the chess board.
Speaker 7: And what even if it doesn't show up in the
Speaker 7: box score, is obviously the straw that starts. And clearly
Speaker 7: Harbaugh game planned around not letting him wreck the game,
Speaker 7: even though his right tackle Alt is very promising, and
Speaker 7: when he left him alone, you'd beat up on Alt.
Speaker 7: And Hayward was phenomenal, and all the role players are
Speaker 7: really really stepped up. I thought this was Queen's best game.
Speaker 7: I thought it was Bishop's best game. There's another chess reference.
Speaker 4: I didn't even do that.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm playing checkers, Matt Wadela.
Speaker 7: I actually brought Queen and Bishop up because I thought
Speaker 7: they were the two that I was most worried about.
Speaker 4: Through two games, and they happen to be chess pieces.
Speaker 3: Wolf Is defense is emerging as I mean, it's already was,
Speaker 3: you know, in that group that you would have to
Speaker 3: discuss as the better groups in the league. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's far fetched to think that this team, this defense.
Speaker 3: You know, you got to stay healthy, some things have
Speaker 3: to go right for you, obviously, and it's going to
Speaker 3: be tested as we get further into the season. I mean,
Speaker 3: you got Dallas, and you have Filhladelphia, and you have
Speaker 3: Kansas City, you have all the AFC North opponents. But
Speaker 3: it is looking like a good unit, that very good
Speaker 3: unit that has stepped up even beyond that this season.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no question about it.
Speaker 6: I really thought from the start, the first thing I
Speaker 6: got excited about was watching Kennu Benton go after Bradley Boseman.
Speaker 6: You know, I mean I thought that was right away
Speaker 6: a statement made that said, hey, you know, this is
Speaker 6: not going to be a you know, an all day
Speaker 6: afternoon for you to be able to do as you want.
Speaker 6: I mean, when you can turn a nine point nine
Speaker 6: yards per carry rusher like JK. Dobbins, you know, a
Speaker 6: first down a carry guy unbelievably so on turn him
Speaker 6: into two point nine, that just says you've done something.
Speaker 6: Really run well in the front end of the defense,
Speaker 6: and they have, indeed, and they've gotten better. Yes, And
Speaker 6: I think you know, I'm a little worried about Alex Highsmith.
Speaker 2: You know, you wonder.
Speaker 6: I hope he's going to be okay because that threesome
Speaker 6: of those three musketeers coming after it. Those three guys,
Speaker 6: they are just pro and their ability to harass a
Speaker 6: quarterback and make him uncomfortable. And if you saw what
Speaker 6: Captain Cam did to Zion Johnson of the left guard,
Speaker 6: I gotta tell you something. When you see a fourteen
Speaker 6: year guy take a young, strong buck like Zion Johnson
Speaker 6: and walk them back into the lap of the quarterback,
Speaker 6: drive him right into him with power in that one
Speaker 6: hand stab, I mean, my goodness, that is just unbelievable.
Speaker 6: So I thought the defense just continued to pile great
Speaker 6: play upon great play, and even sometimes when they were
Speaker 6: getting gashed a little bit they'd come back and do something,
Speaker 6: and then of course the offense. So overall this is
Speaker 6: just to me, it was just such a great show
Speaker 6: of what they're made of to be able to stand
Speaker 6: up and under the pressure that San Diego was going
Speaker 6: to put them under. And I thought the guys again
Speaker 6: just showed themselves to be true pros.
Speaker 7: And Rob Herbig's so remarkable because I think every time
Speaker 7: he's put a Steeler helmet on, preseason, rookie year, whatever,
Speaker 7: he makes a play. I mean, like you can't help
Speaker 7: but notice him. Whether he's out there four snaps or
Speaker 7: twenty snaps or whatever, he greatly influences the game every
Speaker 7: time he's out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think his productivity per snap level
Speaker 3: has got to be through the roof. And you know,
Speaker 3: again we talk about that in terms of what would
Speaker 3: that mean if you were taking every snap, would you
Speaker 3: wear down? What would happen over seventeen games? Would that
Speaker 3: slow you down? Or would your level of productivity increase
Speaker 3: or stay the same. We don't know that because he
Speaker 3: hasn't had that opportunity, But I think when you look
Speaker 3: at a guy like Herbig, when you look at a
Speaker 3: guy like Peyton Wilson. When you look at the depth
Speaker 3: they have it to d line and you hope that
Speaker 3: Dante Jackson and Corey Trice are okay as well, because
Speaker 3: I think the biggest question for me you have you know,
Speaker 3: you have CAZy as your third safety, you know, behind
Speaker 3: Elliott and Fitzpatrick. So you've upgraded your starters.
Speaker 5: In my opinion.
Speaker 3: You know, if you're gonna have one question about depth,
Speaker 3: that might be in the secondary. But Trice seems to
Speaker 3: have calmed some of those fears as far as having
Speaker 3: a third corner. Hopefully Cam Sutton you know, will come
Speaker 3: back from his suspension and add a little more depth
Speaker 3: at that cornerback position maybe safety. But no team, no
Speaker 3: team looks at their roster and says, we have, you know,
Speaker 3: incredible depth at every position on the roster. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: we got another dozen guys on our practice squad we
Speaker 3: can call up who are also future All pros. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can only have so much depth. And I think
Speaker 3: this to this depth ball, it looks like it's getting
Speaker 3: tested on both sides with injuries, is pretty admirable as
Speaker 3: we sit here in Week.
Speaker 7: Three, and a huge key to playing great defense is
Speaker 7: playing less defense. You know, they the offense is at
Speaker 7: least getting first downs, maintaining the football, allowing them to
Speaker 7: get a breather. I think that is absolutely huge for
Speaker 7: this unit.
Speaker 4: I mean, for example, TJ.
Speaker 7: Watt, anyone who's watched Steelers has regularly seen him take
Speaker 7: himself out of games, you know, get two plays off,
Speaker 7: go back in and stay as fresh as possible. I mean,
Speaker 7: and that's wonderful. I think he's playing like eighty eight
Speaker 7: percent of the snaps because he's not wearing down because
Speaker 7: they're out there for three plays and he goes to
Speaker 7: the sideline and watches the offense get a few first
Speaker 7: downs and run the football.
Speaker 6: Well, the beautiful thing about it is, I mean you
Speaker 6: think about the ten possessions that LA had, Five of
Speaker 6: them were three and ounce. Yeah, you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: it speaks right exactly what you're saying, Matt.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean they had hard tanking first downs in
Speaker 4: the second half.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that these are all great points. And I
Speaker 3: also think that, you know, that's that's for winning football.
Speaker 3: And we could talk about the formula for winning football
Speaker 3: in a minute, but just statistically speaking, I mean, again,
Speaker 3: when I go back through my memory banks and think
Speaker 3: about you know, those Steelers teams of the mid two
Speaker 3: thousands and early to you know, two thousands and wearing
Speaker 3: teams down and getting that lead and Renegade is pumping
Speaker 3: and there's six minutes left and you have a thirteen
Speaker 3: point lead, and Joey Porter and James Harrison and those
Speaker 3: great head drudgers, they know what you have to do
Speaker 3: and they you know, they are able then to get
Speaker 3: after the passer. Well, think about how often that's happened
Speaker 3: in TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt's career. Not often enough, you know.
Speaker 7: One hundred percent. It's something Dale I've talked about on
Speaker 7: the Drive for years, is late in games, when the
Speaker 7: whole planet knows you're rushing the pass or the Steelers
Speaker 7: have not been in that situation very often, and they
Speaker 7: still produce a monstrous pass rush especially.
Speaker 6: Why and you know what else, Let's you got to
Speaker 6: give credit to that offense because in the second half,
Speaker 6: per Arthur Smith, the damn broke you know, I mean
Speaker 6: they were banging on that rock and banging on that
Speaker 6: rock and they split that rock and that was sheer
Speaker 6: force of will and determination and guys all you know,
Speaker 6: with the same mindset going after it.
Speaker 2: And kudos to him. That was a heck of a job.
Speaker 6: And I thought when you lit up, they got Kelvin
Speaker 6: Austin went that fifty five. You're like going, yeah, that's
Speaker 6: what we want to see right there. I know, as
Speaker 6: a hog, as a fat guy, you're like going take
Speaker 6: it all the way, baby, Don't make me run fifty
Speaker 6: some yards only to have to put my hand in
Speaker 6: the dirt and and have to do some goal line
Speaker 6: short yardage stuff.
Speaker 5: You know, well, good stuff.
Speaker 3: Plenty of key players and moments to dive into. The
Speaker 3: Steelers win twenty to ten to improve to three to
Speaker 3: zero on the season. You're listening to the Point After
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Speaker 5: Fields Back to pass throws over the middle of the field.
Speaker 5: It's Calvin Austin. He has a step bousted, heading straight
Speaker 5: up the middle of the field. It's time to ten
Speaker 5: to the five touchdown Calvin.
Speaker 3: Austin fifty five yards from Fields to Austin. To play
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Speaker 3: discussing the finer points, the point after points of this
Speaker 3: year's twenty to ten victory over the LA Chargers that
Speaker 3: has improved this Steelers to three and zero on the season.
Speaker 3: So great start guys for the Steelers. And you know
Speaker 3: a lot of questions about what happens after George Pickens,
Speaker 3: probably some concerns among fans when Van Jefferson took an
Speaker 3: eye injury and was out for most of this game.
Speaker 3: But Calvin Austin, Scotty Miller, wolf these are guys who
Speaker 3: stepped forward in the passing game for the Steelers and
Speaker 3: helped out justin fields. We'll get the plenty of fields
Speaker 3: in a moment. But I thought both those receivers really
Speaker 3: had their moments for the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Oh they did.
Speaker 6: Indeed, you know, there's been so much handwringing about wide
Speaker 6: receiver number two and so forth and how it's going
Speaker 6: to be, and you know, both guys stepped up and
Speaker 6: did a nice job. And how do you not love
Speaker 6: Scotty Miller when the guy comes up and makes the
Speaker 6: most of a couple of catches. And this is also
Speaker 6: the guy that stepped in and became a holder, you know,
Speaker 6: and saved helped save the day. And then you know,
Speaker 6: he also did a little bit of gunner work back
Speaker 6: a couple of games ago. So the fact that you've
Speaker 6: got somebody that can be literally a human Swiss Army
Speaker 6: knife and useful in a number of roles, he did
Speaker 6: a great job. And then Calvin Austin, look at speed Kilts.
Speaker 6: Everybody knows that you've got some speed man. You gotta
Speaker 6: let it go, and he let it go, and it
Speaker 6: was great to see what a great boon that is
Speaker 6: for the passing game because that type of guy, that
Speaker 6: type of action that can rip the top off of
Speaker 6: coverage and give everybody else room to maneuver underneath on
Speaker 6: the windows there. And George Pickens needs it, and I
Speaker 6: think the Steelers offense needs it. I think it was
Speaker 6: there at the time it was needed.
Speaker 5: Matt, Yeah.
Speaker 7: And Pickens to me almost reminds me of what where
Speaker 7: His impact on the game isn't showing up in the
Speaker 7: box score time and time again, but his tape is
Speaker 7: so good and the opponents fear him so much that
Speaker 7: it opens up a lot of room for other receivers.
Speaker 7: And I agree with everything Wolfe said. Austin's a more
Speaker 7: accomplished receiver maybe than Cedar. Fans know, especially you know,
Speaker 7: coming out of school. He's not just a gadgety type guy.
Speaker 7: He can line up outside the numbers against press coverage
Speaker 7: and run real routes. And I love that Miller is
Speaker 7: a total jack of all trades. Hey, coach, what do
Speaker 7: you need me to do? Sign me up. I'll do
Speaker 7: whatever you need. And that take it a step further.
Speaker 7: I thought Friarmouth this was his best usage. It was
Speaker 7: the highest percentage of routes run he has all year,
Speaker 7: and his big and physicals as offense is you can
Speaker 7: get away with a Miller or Austin who might not
Speaker 7: be a hammer blocker, and you still got Roman Wilson
Speaker 7: Luman in the sidelines, you know, and wonder what happens
Speaker 7: with him, you know.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to get to the blocking things, but
Speaker 3: I want to mention something here, wolf that Matt brought
Speaker 3: up in his Matt's stats. I was going to pretend
Speaker 3: that I did the researcher. I couldn't remember who I
Speaker 3: got it from, but we all know it's from Matt
Speaker 3: right and the great work he does in supplying us
Speaker 3: with some of these great stats. So last week Pickens
Speaker 3: had two catches fifty seven yards and a touchdown called
Speaker 3: back to penalties, and also drew a thirty seven yard
Speaker 3: pass interference call. So there's ninety four yards of offense
Speaker 3: in addition to the catches that he had last week
Speaker 3: that that should be in his stat line and wasn't.
Speaker 3: There was the dubious pass interference call back in Atlanta
Speaker 3: in Week one, so and then another play call back
Speaker 3: in that game due to another penalty from one of
Speaker 3: his teammates. So Pickens, I think, to Matt's point, well,
Speaker 3: if Pickens effect on a game goes beyond his numbers
Speaker 3: and has gone beyond his numbers for three games, and
Speaker 3: teams I think are learning, they just simply cannot no
Speaker 3: matter how good a corner is, and it's hard to
Speaker 3: go against much better than what he went against in
Speaker 3: weeks one and two with Terrell and certain you just
Speaker 3: you have to account for Pickens, as Matt says, much
Speaker 3: like you have to account for what.
Speaker 2: There's no question.
Speaker 6: And again, as Matt pointed, out you know, his his
Speaker 6: ability to affect what's going on on the field just
Speaker 6: by lining up. I mean, that's really all you gotta
Speaker 6: do is go out there and line up, and people
Speaker 6: start going, Okay, he's out here, You're right. I mean,
Speaker 6: is the old gun or Bob Prince would you would
Speaker 6: say about all those numbers you just quoted. You know,
Speaker 6: that's the hidden vigorous that's what he brings that nobody
Speaker 6: can really account for. But in reality, you understand that
Speaker 6: everybody realizes that this guy can make a catch, do
Speaker 6: something so unreal at any moment time. It's almost demoralizing
Speaker 6: to a lot of very fine corners who've made a
Speaker 6: number of years in this league. Look, this guy is
Speaker 6: capable of taking over a game in the right instances
Speaker 6: and circumstances. And again with that watt quality where you
Speaker 6: can make the big play at any given time, at
Speaker 6: any given moment, in any given game, that sort of
Speaker 6: thing is something that you can't quantify in terms of
Speaker 6: just well, you know, he's three catches and forty yards
Speaker 6: averaging stuff.
Speaker 4: You just don't know when he can break out force
Speaker 4: multiplier memories.
Speaker 5: Exactly right, exactly right.
Speaker 3: And the other thing, Matt when you talk about Austin
Speaker 3: and now Scotty Miller. Of course Scotty Miller is new
Speaker 3: to this Steelers, but it felt like when Matt Canada
Speaker 3: was designing his offense that he felt like Calvin Austin
Speaker 3: had to be a gadget guy that he was gonna
Speaker 3: run him on for yet jet sweeps and you know,
Speaker 3: maybe a bubble screen, and you had to put him
Speaker 3: out there enough so that it wasn't like, well, Calvin
Speaker 3: Austin's out there, he's going to get the ball.
Speaker 5: But that you didn't really feel like you could run
Speaker 5: at him.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm saying this without having studied it in depth,
Speaker 3: and just flashes that I'm seeing here and there from
Speaker 3: both Miller and Austin that they don't appear to me
Speaker 3: to have been huge detriments in the running game. Like
Speaker 3: I think that so a couple things. First of all,
Speaker 3: they're not big guys, right, but they've never been big guys.
Speaker 3: They've always had to learn how to get with that
Speaker 3: skill set. I was having a conversation with Beanie Bishop
Speaker 3: about you know, getting in the slot and using that
Speaker 3: you know, that feistiness, and he said, well, I've never
Speaker 3: been a big guy you know, I've always had to
Speaker 3: I've always had to play like this. I've always had
Speaker 3: to use this to my you know, to to use
Speaker 3: whatever speed and quickness I have because of maybe being
Speaker 3: a little bit slighter to my advantage, but also learning
Speaker 3: how to have to be feisty. And I think that
Speaker 3: you know a lot of blocking. Look, there's gonna be
Speaker 3: times where you go to block. You know, I would
Speaker 3: not want to be a smaller receiver in block state
Speaker 3: to Shaun Elliott like he's gonna come at you. But
Speaker 3: a lot of guys don't want to be blocked. And
Speaker 3: I think a lot of guys, you know, just the
Speaker 3: willingness to block. And I think both those guys Austin
Speaker 3: and Miller are willing blockers. I think that goes a
Speaker 3: long way toward being able to help you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, willing was the word I was, you know, concocting
Speaker 7: in my head while you were saying that, Because neither's
Speaker 7: ever going to be hind toward you know, neither's ever
Speaker 7: gonna knock out linebackers or upright Elliott like safeties. But
Speaker 7: if you're going to stick your face in the fan,
Speaker 7: I think it goes a long way with your teammates,
Speaker 7: and I think a lot of it, you know, as
Speaker 7: part of this coaching staff, starting with Tomlin and Smith
Speaker 7: of course, that if you're unwilling to do that, you're
Speaker 7: not going to see the field. And Wolf can attest
Speaker 7: this more than me. I mean, he's blocked with a
Speaker 7: lot of people like those little guys at least giving it.
Speaker 4: They're all I'm sure goes a long way, There's.
Speaker 6: No question about it, because guys feed off of energy,
Speaker 6: and the guys that are giving energy are those that
Speaker 6: are producing energy. And other guys join in and Matt's right,
Speaker 6: you know, I mean, you got a younger guy. He's
Speaker 6: out there and he's sticking his face in the grill
Speaker 6: of somebody bigger or whoever. It is, a corner, what
Speaker 6: have you. But you know you're inspired by that and
Speaker 6: you want to match that energy and bring your own
Speaker 6: to it. And again, those are part of the that
Speaker 6: you know, everybody kind of getting in on it and
Speaker 6: the magic of a total team effort that comes with
Speaker 6: playing well.
Speaker 3: And even though I want to talk specifically about the
Speaker 3: offense in this segment, we'll get to the defense next segment.
Speaker 3: It did occur to me if I was trying wolf
Speaker 3: to explain football to somebody who'd never played it. And
Speaker 3: then you know you're thinking, okay, maybe you're an athlete
Speaker 3: and you're trying to figure out, you know, how do
Speaker 3: you best win a game?
Speaker 5: Like I used to play a lot of pickup basketball?
Speaker 5: Would be it the why?
Speaker 3: You know, you look at your team compared to their team,
Speaker 3: and you try to count up your assets and say, okay, well,
Speaker 3: how are we going to win this game? How are
Speaker 3: we going to beat the other guys? What are our
Speaker 3: strengths and weaknesses? As I look at a Steelers team,
Speaker 3: I think Mike tom and his staff have done a
Speaker 3: brilliant job of playing to their strengths.
Speaker 5: What are your strengths?
Speaker 3: Well, you can run the football pretty well, you have
Speaker 3: an offensive line, you're trying to be physical, and you've
Speaker 3: got a great defense, and let's not forget you've got
Speaker 3: a great kicker who's absolutely money.
Speaker 5: So use those assets.
Speaker 3: And then you know, secondarily, you want to see incremental
Speaker 3: improvements in the parts of your game that you think
Speaker 3: you know at some point in the season can also
Speaker 3: be factors that help you win games. And I say
Speaker 3: that as a as a bedrock for the conversation of
Speaker 3: Justin Fields, who I think you know, again, it's three weeks.
Speaker 3: As Mike Tomlin, he's asked about this, he said, I'd
Speaker 3: be manufacturing an answer if I said, oh, he's absolutely
Speaker 3: developed in three weeks, because it's only three weeks. But
Speaker 3: it seems like the developmental plan for Justin Fields is
Speaker 3: moving along at a very you know, very good rate
Speaker 3: for the Steelers end for.
Speaker 6: Justin Fields, no question about it. Look, you know, you
Speaker 6: you have your strengths. You go into the season with
Speaker 6: your strengths. But at the same time, the coaches are
Speaker 6: always working to develop secondary factors such as a third
Speaker 6: pass rusher like we did with Nick Kurbig, you know,
Speaker 6: to find an extra offensive lineman like maybe Mason McCormick
Speaker 6: coming in, doing some tight end work, you know, on
Speaker 6: the Zach Banner type of tight end you know in Jumbo,
Speaker 6: things like that. You know, you want to build those
Speaker 6: secondary characteristics. And at the same time you're building more
Speaker 6: for your your your primary starters, and and you know,
Speaker 6: whether your a running game increases your passing game. You're
Speaker 6: always working and bettering yourself and trying to do those
Speaker 6: things in a manner that you can bring them into
Speaker 6: a game and suddenly you know, your ability to cover
Speaker 6: punts is better because maybe your punter suddenly is getting
Speaker 6: the job done at a fifty you know yards, a
Speaker 6: kick clip, that sort of thing. So it's always about that,
Speaker 6: and it's always about the development of the team. You
Speaker 6: don't want to be playing your best football in September.
Speaker 6: You wanted that in December. You want to be playing
Speaker 6: that towards the end of the season. And so it's
Speaker 6: a long journey throughout. But you know, the best thing
Speaker 6: about it is that when you can win games and
Speaker 6: even though you're developing young people and it's not costing
Speaker 6: you victories, you're way ahead of the game when you
Speaker 6: can do that.
Speaker 3: Matt, the development of a quarterback is always a really
Speaker 3: interesting question. Almost by definition, you're a terrible team if
Speaker 3: you get a franchise level quarterback because those guys go
Speaker 3: very high in the draft and pick very high in
Speaker 3: the draft, you have to be very very bad.
Speaker 5: So that's generally the way it goes.
Speaker 2: And some team, I think that's why I was a
Speaker 2: fifth rounder.
Speaker 5: Well, some teams can have you know, look, CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud was a great story last year, but there are
Speaker 3: you look around the league, and you think, well, you know,
Speaker 3: is Sam Darnold now finally being brought along at the
Speaker 3: right rate. Is Justin Fields being brought along at the
Speaker 3: right rate? Is Bryce Young not being brought along with
Speaker 3: the at the correct rate? What about the young quarterbacks
Speaker 3: who were rookies this year? It's a everybody's got their
Speaker 3: own theory and developments of quarterbacks. But I think there's
Speaker 3: some evidence that suggests that, you know, a guy who's
Speaker 3: a first round talent like Justin Fields, who I think
Speaker 3: everybody nobody thought he was a reach.
Speaker 5: Everybody agreed he.
Speaker 3: Was a first round talent, perhaps this is the right
Speaker 3: situation for him to step into because he's got a
Speaker 3: very very good, solid team around him, and he does
Speaker 3: and he doesn't you know, he can be developed without
Speaker 3: having that pressure and again, let's face it, a not
Speaker 3: very good roster around him. Those things aren't true here
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I always say that around draft time that it
Speaker 7: landing spot might mean more to me for these quarterbacks
Speaker 7: than the actual quarterback themselves. You know that it takes
Speaker 7: a village to raise a quarterback, and frankly, the village
Speaker 7: that Sam Darnald went to and Justin Fields and Bryce
Speaker 7: Young was on fire.
Speaker 4: I mean like they weren't getting help.
Speaker 7: They're they're asked to put out the fires as opposed
Speaker 7: to being nurtured by the villagers.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: And so you know, Donald's a perfect example. Those are
Speaker 7: two terrible situations and learns a lot in San Francisco
Speaker 7: and doesn't have to do anything now they're one of
Speaker 7: the best teams in the league all of a sudden.
Speaker 7: Fields is another perfect example. The environment is great. Plus
Speaker 7: they're a little more mature. They get slapped around a
Speaker 7: little bit that you know, you don't have to trade
Speaker 7: three first round picks to go get them. The ego
Speaker 7: has been bruised a little bit. But back to the fields.
Speaker 7: How he played yesterday, Like in week one, Arthur Smith
Speaker 7: did a tremendous job avoiding those two Atlanta safeties that,
Speaker 7: by the way, picked off Mahomes last night. If you'd noticed,
Speaker 7: maybe we shouldn't throw at them with a lot of
Speaker 7: the way, but go ahead right exactly with a lot
Speaker 7: of rollouts, throwing you outside the numbers. If it's not there, justin.
Speaker 7: It's your first start in a steiler uniform, tucket and run,
Speaker 7: you know. And yesterday was different though. I mean yesterday
Speaker 7: was drop back passing game in the pocket, throwing over
Speaker 7: the middle on time accurately. Like his accuracy numbers are way.
Speaker 4: Better than they were in Chicago.
Speaker 7: His time to throw is way down, his mistakes are
Speaker 7: way down.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 6: I think when you have the ability to be encircled
Speaker 6: by a better roster and by a consistent coaching staff
Speaker 6: that's been together for a long time, I think there
Speaker 6: are great benefits there. And it's the ability to calm
Speaker 6: down an athlete when they come here and to be
Speaker 6: encircled by all that. I think it's beneficial to just
Speaker 6: about anybody.
Speaker 7: And I think we all know he has the ability.
Speaker 7: You know, if you don't have the ability, you can
Speaker 7: only get so much out of the player. But he
Speaker 7: has the ability, and by all accounts that I've been around,
Speaker 7: he has tremendous work ethic and is really really respected
Speaker 7: in those walls too.
Speaker 3: Steelers win by the final score of twenty to ten.
Speaker 3: A closer look at the Steelers defense at a sneak
Speaker 3: peek ahead of the game coming up Sunday in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 3: Herbert gets the ball looking left now looking back towards
Speaker 3: the middle if you'll be shipping behind, and the ball
Speaker 3: is loose and it is pounced upon by the Chargers,
Speaker 3: but it's Herbig with the strip sack for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3: The Sack Hunger segment is brought to you by the
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Speaker 3: at Pittsburgh Foodbank dot org. And Herbig in short order
Speaker 3: comes into the game, Heighsmith GIMPI had to leave, and
Speaker 3: Herbig comes up Wolf with two quick sacks in this game.
Speaker 6: You know, the interesting thing is, I think the only
Speaker 6: way I can really you know, tell you what I
Speaker 6: think about Nick Herbigg's passing ability or rush ability is.
Speaker 2: I kind of think of Mike Hilton.
Speaker 6: You know, Mike had this uncanny way of blitzing into
Speaker 6: the backfield. They said he was given a stealth mode
Speaker 6: or stealth cloak. I think that's what Nick Herbig had,
Speaker 6: because you know, the guy just goes out there and produces,
Speaker 6: you know, all kinds of saccarations and hurries and stuff
Speaker 6: like that. And you'll watch him play and you're like going, well,
Speaker 6: this guy's not a five hundred pound bencher, he's not
Speaker 6: a four flat forty guy, but you know what, he
Speaker 6: is a baller. This guy just gets it done and
Speaker 6: it's a lot of fun to watch him because he
Speaker 6: frustrates bigger guys and they're swatting at him and they're
Speaker 6: trying to, you know, hold him out and this and that,
Speaker 6: and he just seems to keep producing. I've got a
Speaker 6: lot of respect for his game. He really has shown
Speaker 6: himself to be equal to the task.
Speaker 3: And of course, five sacks in the game, Matt. You know,
Speaker 3: you get one from t. J. Watt, you get one
Speaker 3: from a Landon Roberts, you get two from Herbig, you
Speaker 3: get one from Hayward, just who, by the way, is
Speaker 3: now second all time in sacks in Steelers history. So
Speaker 3: a notable sack for him as he moves past that
Speaker 3: second place ty he had with James Harrison.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty good company.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's funny when when you start putting up comparisons for TJ.
Speaker 3: Watt and Cam Hayward, you were talking about all time greats,
Speaker 3: and either the Steelers uniform or just NFL uniforms, it's
Speaker 3: pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: To see.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and the Watts stuff is off the charts. I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm sure people know by now that he's sitting one
Speaker 7: half sack behind to get through one hundred for his
Speaker 7: career and the only one assuming he gets won the
Speaker 7: next what three or four games. Reggie White's the only
Speaker 7: one that got there quicker in the history of the league,
Speaker 7: which is unbelievable in its own right. But remember Reggie White,
Speaker 7: his rookie year was with the USFL like he came
Speaker 7: in the league even older and more refined than these
Speaker 7: does not take anything away from the Minister of Defense.
Speaker 7: He's an unbelievable player. But these are the names we're
Speaker 7: talking about. We're talking about his brother, you know, JJ,
Speaker 7: we're talking about Reggie White. When you just talk about
Speaker 7: Bruce Smith, Lawrence Taylor. I mean, some of the best
Speaker 7: pass rushers that have ever lived. That's what Watt's doing
Speaker 7: right now, folks. I mean, it's remarkable, it really is.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's so impressive to see. And then, you know,
Speaker 3: when you think about the fact that the Chargers attempted
Speaker 3: twenty passes. Attempt at twenty passes and you had seven
Speaker 3: quarterback hurries among those twenty passes. That doesn't count the
Speaker 3: five sacks because those aren't attempts. It's matt. It's just
Speaker 3: impressive what the Steelers front can do to an opposing team.
Speaker 5: And again, when you talk about.
Speaker 3: Multiplier factors and effects, how that can affect your back end,
Speaker 3: and of course your back end can lock down and
Speaker 3: coverage and affect that front end as well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and again, team speed in the back seven is
Speaker 7: much improved.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of.
Speaker 7: Youth there to get I think guys like Benton are
Speaker 7: just scratching the surface. And you know, you mentioned I
Speaker 7: think it was good to start the show that how
Speaker 7: many times in TJ. Watt's career have the towsmen flying
Speaker 7: and the whole planet knows he's going to rush the
Speaker 7: passer And at this point they have backup tackles in
Speaker 7: the game and the efficiency of like a personat basis
Speaker 7: on herbig I think these things are reasonably sustainable. And
Speaker 7: I'm not trying to like cause waves, but I think
Speaker 7: it's the best defense in the league. If I thought
Speaker 7: it was the second best defense, I'd say it's the
Speaker 7: second best defense. I think it's the best defense in
Speaker 7: the league.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: That sounds good to me, I want to flop back
Speaker 3: over to the other side of the ball, Wolf, because
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you about two offensive linemen in particular.
Speaker 3: One was Zack Fraser and the other was the guy
Speaker 3: that we saw utilize quite a bit in a fellow
Speaker 3: rookie in Mason McCormick. So what did you see from
Speaker 3: Zach Fraser, what did you see from Mason McCormick, And
Speaker 3: how important is it for a guy like Mason McCormick
Speaker 3: to get his feet wet on the NFL stage.
Speaker 6: Well, I've felt for the last couple of weeks that
Speaker 6: Mason was nearing his opportunity to be able to be
Speaker 6: a participant. I think he's one of those guys has
Speaker 6: come along and shown the inability and proved it by
Speaker 6: his work in the game yesterday. And yeah, obviously he's
Speaker 6: got some things he's got to work on, but you know,
Speaker 6: it's the first time getting your feet wet in a
Speaker 6: regular season game, and I thought he quitted himself pretty well.
Speaker 6: Zach Frasier is playing at a level that is just
Speaker 6: remarkable for a young man, for any center in the league.
Speaker 2: Right now, I've got I got to tell you something.
Speaker 6: I'm really enjoying him because I see I look at
Speaker 6: the Morgantown maller, I say, you know, Zach Reger, you
Speaker 6: know he'd rather throw you than know you. For crying
Speaker 6: out loud. To me, he's just one of those guys
Speaker 6: that goes out there. And the only thing I will say,
Speaker 6: the only thing I saw that he can help himself.
Speaker 6: He's got to learn to cut block correctly. He doesn't
Speaker 6: do that so well. But that's about the only thing
Speaker 6: you can say, because I just I'm at a loss
Speaker 6: for just how well this guy is playing on a
Speaker 6: consistent basis for a rookie. And the third guy we
Speaker 6: got to talk about it too is Roderick Jones because
Speaker 6: he needs a special shot out. Because that young man
Speaker 6: was facing a lot of pressure, a lot of eyes
Speaker 6: on him, you know, the defensive coordinator. They can smell
Speaker 6: blood in the water, and you know they were coming
Speaker 6: after him. And I thought the young man stood up
Speaker 6: to it all and played his heart out. And I really,
Speaker 6: for one, having been in a position like that as
Speaker 6: a young buck and experienced a little bit like that,
Speaker 6: you know, you appreciate when you see a guy overcome
Speaker 6: some of those circumstances and odds and so forth, because
Speaker 6: it's it's not easy, folks, and that young man did
Speaker 6: a heck of a job.
Speaker 3: And I'll go one step further with him, Matt before
Speaker 3: you step in on these offensive linemen, and that's that.
Speaker 3: I think probably the opening series was his toughest series
Speaker 3: of the game. So now you've had to hear it
Speaker 3: all week. You've been beating yourself up. I'm sure broader
Speaker 3: ca has for not doing your things you know you're
Speaker 3: capable of in Denver and then your start isn't the greatest.
Speaker 3: Now you got to overcome that. That shows a lot
Speaker 3: of mental toughness to me.
Speaker 7: I thought it was a great first step as now
Speaker 7: the full time starting right tackle. Some of my O
Speaker 7: line thoughts overall is Fraser is remarkable. I mean, he's
Speaker 7: well advanced. You could see him making all the line
Speaker 7: calls and all the stuff before the snap. And that's
Speaker 7: not even with Ciamaloo next to him, who should be
Speaker 7: coming back pretty soon. Left guard was up and down yesterday.
Speaker 7: I thought Daniels and Fraser were the star of the
Speaker 7: show and Jones had a really good day. Khalil Mack
Speaker 7: caused problems for everyone he faced. He's a really good player.
Speaker 7: But real quick back to McCormick too, because some little
Speaker 7: birdies told me that the plan was, we're gonna get
Speaker 7: Roderick Jones. You know, he's gonna be that sixth though
Speaker 7: lineman this year. We're gonna get back the featuring that
Speaker 7: like they did in years past. Well, then there's an
Speaker 7: injury on Friday, and he is he has to be
Speaker 7: the starting right tackle, so they put him McCormick. And
Speaker 7: they showed a shot on the TV camera the TV
Speaker 7: where it was all the backsides of that Steeler line,
Speaker 7: like right before they got in their stance, and it
Speaker 7: was the five starters, McCormick and Washington, and I'm looking
Speaker 7: of those seven bodies like they're gonna move, They're gonna
Speaker 7: move anyone they want.
Speaker 4: And that was just a lot of beef.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Darnell, Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned him too,
Speaker 3: because he's a he's a very very very big man, yes,
Speaker 3: at a at the tight end position. And you know,
Speaker 3: wolf Andy Whidel, talking to the media about a week
Speaker 3: or so before the season began, said, look, if you
Speaker 3: want to be a tough, smart, physical team, you have
Speaker 3: to draft tough, smart physical players and that's what the
Speaker 3: Steelers have been doing. They have been you know, they
Speaker 3: want to establish an identity up front. I thought that
Speaker 3: the point was great. You know, he was saying, Look,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter about the conditions. It doesn't matter. If
Speaker 3: it's hot, doesn't matter. If it's cold doesn't matter. If
Speaker 3: it's raining doesn't matter, if the sun's out doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: if it's snowing. That brand of football, we are going
Speaker 3: to be tougher than you up front. We're going to
Speaker 3: impose our will and you upfront. That travels, that plays
Speaker 3: any time of the year, in any conditions.
Speaker 6: Exactly so punishing, mentally tough offensive lines travel well is
Speaker 6: what the word is. It's always been that way. You know,
Speaker 6: if you can get a lead in the second half,
Speaker 6: you can just ground and pound. Well, you saw what
Speaker 6: ground and pound did in the second half. And is
Speaker 6: like I said earlier about Arthur Smith, the damn broke,
Speaker 6: and it broke because you had guys willing to keep
Speaker 6: lining up, going after it, lining up, going after it,
Speaker 6: getting up off the ground, lining up, going after it
Speaker 6: again and again and again. And that really, that in
Speaker 6: and of itself, is such a great factor. When you
Speaker 6: see those hogs out there going, you know, lining up
Speaker 6: and doing the things they need to do, and sheriff
Speaker 6: in the pile yards down the field and all that
Speaker 6: sort of thing. It's very inspirational. And having been a
Speaker 6: part of some very pretty good, darn good offensive lines
Speaker 6: years and years decades ago, say, you know, you have
Speaker 6: a deep appreciation when you see that kind of workload
Speaker 6: and you see somebody like Najie Harris, who I salute too,
Speaker 6: because I'm telling you what. You watch him, especially over
Speaker 6: the last three games in the second half and when
Speaker 6: it really gets tough, the way he competes for every
Speaker 6: single yard, It's just been to me, in my mind,
Speaker 6: very inspirational to the offensive line because you want to
Speaker 6: get behind somebody like that, you want to get in
Speaker 6: front of somebody like that, you want to get beside
Speaker 6: somebody like that, because that is a guy given effort,
Speaker 6: and you want to be one of those effort guys.
Speaker 6: And it all comes together in a way that produces
Speaker 6: wins and such as it did on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I look at that offense and I haven't
Speaker 3: seen Jalen warrener as best yet. He's obviously been nursing
Speaker 3: some injury issues. You know, we know what he's done
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years. He's been a terrific,
Speaker 3: complimentary back, and you really have Matt three guys, and
Speaker 3: again we talk about, you know, you can't always judge
Speaker 3: a player by the numbers, and you've gotten some great
Speaker 3: numbers on these guys, and deep numbers on you know,
Speaker 3: where they're hit and how many tackles they break and
Speaker 3: compared to the rest of the league and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. But I think that Wolfe's point about attitude.
Speaker 3: You know, none of the three guys, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: throw Patterson in there, either, none of the three guys
Speaker 3: show the least interest in being tackled. They don't like
Speaker 3: to be tackled, you know. I mean they are kicking
Speaker 3: and fighting and gouging and doing whatever they have to
Speaker 3: do until they're actually on the ground, someone's on top
Speaker 3: of him and the whistle's blowing. They are going until then,
Speaker 3: and that's got to have a wearing effect. I would
Speaker 3: think out of defense.
Speaker 4: Oh without question.
Speaker 7: And Harris is the perfect example of any back in
Speaker 7: the league in my opinion, where the numbers don't reflect
Speaker 7: the value, I mean, the reliability in terms of being
Speaker 7: there every game, not fumbling capable in protection, you are
Speaker 7: running the nine man boxes. Sign me up, coach, and
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get two when I should get zero. You know,
Speaker 7: I mean, maybe he's not ripping off Barry Sanders highlight runs.
Speaker 7: But the reliability in the attitude I think is.
Speaker 4: Very, very valuable.
Speaker 7: And speaking of big runs, I mean, to me, the
Speaker 7: biggest problems with the offense just sort of statistically were
Speaker 7: red zone production and splash plays you know, explosives. Well
Speaker 7: that looked a heck of a lot better yesterday. I mean,
Speaker 7: they created a lot of chunk plays in both fast
Speaker 7: especially through the air, and the red zone stuff looked
Speaker 7: a lot better.
Speaker 5: Too, Yep, for sure.
Speaker 3: And the Steelers, I think we have about thirty five
Speaker 3: seconds left here looking forward to this game at Indianapolis,
Speaker 3: an opportunity to go four to zero. Anthony Richardson is
Speaker 3: He's a run and throw guy. He made a sixty
Speaker 3: yard throw to Alec Pierce that I'm guessing a bunch
Speaker 3: of quarterbacks in the league couldn't even dream of making
Speaker 3: and threw it right on the button to him in
Speaker 3: Week one against Houston. And we know he can throw.
Speaker 3: Blessed a lot of attributes. So it's to be another
Speaker 3: challenge on the road for the Steelers, coming against a
Speaker 3: team that just won its first game and wants to
Speaker 3: get something rolling.
Speaker 7: Now one hundred percent. They also have their issues. Since
Speaker 7: we they have thirty five seconds, we'll just call it
Speaker 7: a stiff challenge. But mister Richardson's a really interesting player.
Speaker 7: But completing passes is a challenge right now.
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