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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. And it is

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Speaker 1: a playoff week. And so Mike Amelin had a press

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Speaker 1: conference today. What do you have to say. I have

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Speaker 1: been out of the loop today. I have been busy

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Speaker 1: with doing all sorts of football stuff but didn't get

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Speaker 1: a chance to check out the press conference. Let's tag in. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know he talked about um, he didn't sugarcoat, and

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Speaker 1: he said, look, the Chiefs smashed us the first time,

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Speaker 1: and you know, um, they're not running away from it.

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Speaker 1: Like look, I got you got smoked out there. It's

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Speaker 1: on tape. It's a fact, you know, right. But he

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Speaker 1: also noted that, as I think I did yesterday, they

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Speaker 1: had three turnovers in that game that directly led to

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Speaker 1: seventeen Kansas City points. Now was the thirty six ten game,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers scored late to make the make it

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Speaker 1: to ten. But Steelers get a first down on their

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Speaker 1: first possession and then they have to punt. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: have like a four team play drive or sixteen play drive, whatever,

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Speaker 1: it was, a long sustained drive. They go down in school,

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Speaker 1: short throws runs, Steelers get the ball back, so it's

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Speaker 1: seven nothing. Steelers get the ball back. First play from scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger throws an interception, yeah, remember, and then nothing

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Speaker 1: and then you're chasing. The Steelers did go down and

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Speaker 1: get into field goal range and Chris Boswell misses the

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Speaker 1: field goal. Yeah. And then the Chiefs go down to

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Speaker 1: score again in their building and the defense starts eating

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Speaker 1: you up right exactly, Yeah, And now I can't do that.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that. Slow starts would be it would

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Speaker 1: not just a slow start. That's a disastrous that's a

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Speaker 1: disastrous one. They're notoriously slow starters, particularly on the road.

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Speaker 1: But they've been there, and if they are in this game,

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Speaker 1: they probably won't creep back into it in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: against that pass rush and Mahomes isn't gonna take his

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Speaker 1: foot off the gas and either is read. They know

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Speaker 1: how to put teams away, they know how to you know,

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Speaker 1: winning the playoffs. And frankly, I mean, I'm sure to

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Speaker 1: Tomlin's point, they're gonna have to win to turn over battle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah to me, I mean yeah, or you can't go

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Speaker 1: a possession or two somewhere, even if it's only one. Nothing.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at the Steelers the last two season,

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Speaker 1: they were ten and one last year when they won

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Speaker 1: that when they had more than two force turnovers in

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Speaker 1: a game, tenem one. This year, even if they gave

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Speaker 1: up to I mean that's forcing two or more, forcing

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Speaker 1: two or more. This year, I believe there were four

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Speaker 1: and one when they forced two or more turnout. So

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Speaker 1: this is it's a key, no doubt about it. And

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Speaker 1: that's not groundbreaking. No, this has been since the history

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Speaker 1: of football. We're talking two or more and you win

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Speaker 1: h fourteen and sixteen games. That's pretty significant. So it's

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Speaker 1: funny because if this was Chief Station Radio, they should

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Speaker 1: be saying the same thing because they've lost five games

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Speaker 1: this year, four of them were in the first seven

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Speaker 1: games of the season. During those first seven games, they

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Speaker 1: were minus ten in point, really really bad. And even

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Speaker 1: their points scored, points allowed first seven verse last ten

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Speaker 1: aren't that crazy different. But what's crazy difference are the turnovers, right,

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Speaker 1: and Mahomes played a lot better. He's reeled it in.

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Speaker 1: Even some of those you know, minus ten turnovers, they

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's if I was the chief fan, that's

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Speaker 1: crazy throws um across the field across his body. Those

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Speaker 1: are throws that you're not supposed to make because there's

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Speaker 1: But they still, even before this year, he was probably

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Speaker 1: I mean, he won m VPS and he was awesome

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Speaker 1: Mahomes has certainly reeled it in though since that first

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Speaker 1: seven games period, and I think it's a really interesting

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Speaker 1: number about him is his average depth of target this

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Speaker 1: year is the lowest of his career. Everyone's you know,

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Speaker 1: everyone makes a big deal about all the Cover two

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Speaker 1: they're seeing and all that, and there's some truth to it,

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Speaker 1: but they have a ton of after the catch production

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Speaker 1: and he's now pretty content. If you're gonna play this,

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Speaker 1: you know, real deep shell, I'm gonna take the cross

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Speaker 1: or to the hill on an easy five yard pass.

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Speaker 1: If you look at Tyreek's production this year, yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: I think just watching them the five or six times

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Speaker 1: I mean, even like his highlight reel this year isn't

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Speaker 1: as good as usual. It's not him just blow him

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Speaker 1: to give that up anymore. No, people are done with that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's close to being right though. I

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Speaker 1: very important obviously. I mean we're not breaking news on

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Speaker 1: a different way they're using it. They have other guys,

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Speaker 1: I mean Hardman's fat. They got they got fast guys.

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Speaker 1: you know, remind people that the Steelers last playoff win

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Speaker 1: that team had Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: And you know, they are good team. They were a

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Speaker 1: sure it's an awesome environment as loud as can be.

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Speaker 1: They're great fans, you know, Um I I kind of

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Speaker 1: And you were kind of mentioned eight nine. They they

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Speaker 1: They backed into the playoffs and they won in the

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Speaker 1: Bengals lost and some other teams like six other things

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Speaker 1: that happen, right, six other things? If it almost as

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Speaker 1: crazy this week? Yeah, more so we're talked to Wolf.

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Speaker 1: like that team probably had a negative point different when

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Speaker 1: they lost. It was bad. When you win, it's a

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Speaker 1: They didn't score point in two weeks. Yeah at seven seven.

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Speaker 1: Sneak pass the Chargers. They beat the Dolphins fourteen, lose

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers in Tampa thirty one to twenty two, and

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Speaker 1: beat Houston three, then lose at Denver in the Meryl

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Speaker 1: Hodge game. If you remember that's Meryl about that one

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Speaker 1: killing us? They lose that three. It's a heartbreaker. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just get in. This is all you have to do

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Speaker 1: is get in. There's plenty of stories. I mean, even

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Speaker 1: like those Eli Manning Giants teams bad I mean bad

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Speaker 1: regular seasons. Everyone's talking about them like I don't want

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Speaker 1: them to get in. That's a miserable team to watch,

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Speaker 1: you know, and end up beating the undefeated Brady team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's possible. I mean, we're not sitting here.

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Speaker 1: I also remember this one. If you remember back to

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Speaker 1: loudest environment I've ever been in for a football game.

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Speaker 1: They were pumping in crowd noise. They were pumping in crowd.

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Speaker 1: And if it's if this is the one score game

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Speaker 1: it to take that in heartbeat. Yeah, and the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: would not right now, they'll take door number two and

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Speaker 1: roll roll the dice. Not my homes. We want to

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Speaker 1: we want to play for the blowout. Yeah, it might

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Speaker 1: be want guys standing on the sidelines yucking it up

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, you know, getting ready for next week.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, that's that's to me. So if you're

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Speaker 1: lot of teams have you know, if you watched the

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Speaker 1: they didn't blitz him. They just don't think you dropped

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Speaker 1: seven into coverage. Now, Mike Tomlin said today, you have

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Speaker 1: to mix things up against just do it every the

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Speaker 1: same thing every time obviously of course, but that's what

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Speaker 1: he should say. Yeah, you do. You do have Even

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Speaker 1: if you're dropping you know, seven in the coverage, you

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Speaker 1: can still do different things. They'll give different looks and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean what comes even of the snaps. I

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Speaker 1: mean he might drop in the flat here and there

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Speaker 1: and you bring a lot you know, linebacker for the

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Speaker 1: second level or whatever, um my homes. Notoriously, his whole

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Speaker 1: career has destroyed the blitz and teams are not blitzing

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Speaker 1: him hardly at all this year and it's been a

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Speaker 1: little better. Yeah. Now, he did hurt that the Broncos

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Speaker 1: with his legs a little bit, So you know, do

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Speaker 1: you aspire him a little bit? Um? You know, when

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Speaker 1: you're playing that zone and you know you're one of

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Speaker 1: your inside linebackers just kind of dropping back. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: you're watching your you got the middle of the field here,

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Speaker 1: but you've also got him, yeah right right, you know

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Speaker 1: it's one of the problems Kelsey provides because he demanded

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Speaker 1: so much tension to bracket him with a linebacker mixed

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Speaker 1: with a you know the same with the Lamar Andrews

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Speaker 1: combination or you know, I think it's a big Terrell

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Speaker 1: Edmunds game. Yeah, and just rewatching the Ravens game, he

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Speaker 1: was on Andrews a lot, you know, and more and more.

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Speaker 1: I keep watching him, gun boy, they need to bring

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Speaker 1: him back, and you know, he's a value and Andrews.

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Speaker 1: I think Andrews had like seven catches for seven yards

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Speaker 1: and people might look at that, go, well, he just didn't.

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Speaker 1: It was even more. Yeah, it was like five is

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Speaker 1: I think somewhere in that range. But he had been

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Speaker 1: getting like a D five. Well, here's the key. He

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Speaker 1: was targeted sixteen times. It was like fift of the

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Speaker 1: balls went to And if you give up and only

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Speaker 1: gave up, yeah, you give up eighty five yards on

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Speaker 1: that many catches. Are aren't that many attempts? That's fine,

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Speaker 1: your best guy sixteen times and we only give up

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Speaker 1: eighty five yards. I'll take that all day long. I

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Speaker 1: remember that the Steelers are playing the Falcons one year

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Speaker 1: and uh the White Oh yeah, yeah, Roddy White. Roddy

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Speaker 1: White had twenty one targets in the game. Is the

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Speaker 1: most I've ever seen the players on our point having

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Speaker 1: a game one targets, and I think he had like

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Speaker 1: eleven catches for like a hundred and five yards. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you'll take that all day long, right, right, right? I

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Speaker 1: mean that's like your quarterback. You win eleven for twenty

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Speaker 1: one for a hundred and five yards. You're saying, well,

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Speaker 1: that's a bad game, bad game, right, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: it's Jordan or Lebron and they shoot fifty times and

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Speaker 1: make eighteen of them, I'll take it. Yeah, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't hurt me otherwise by the ways, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: So I mean if I look at that and go okay,

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Speaker 1: so you know Andrews had seven catches on sixteen targets

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Speaker 1: for eighty five yards, you have the quarterback in seven

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Speaker 1: of sixteen for eighty five yards and touchdowns. All right.

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Speaker 1: If if Hill isn't right, I mean, he's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean he's played through a lot less

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Speaker 1: of weeks and you give up sixteen if they throw

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Speaker 1: to Kelsey sixteen times and he ends up with under

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Speaker 1: a hundred yards, but in that neighborhood, maybe a score.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it, right. I mean, he's a historically, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's basically what he did last week against Denver. He

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Speaker 1: actually didn't have that many catches, but he didn't And

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Speaker 1: if you watch the game, it's not like Boyd Kelsey's

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Speaker 1: just killing him out right, you know, it's not like

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Speaker 1: he's uncoverable. Yeah, and those guys can take over a game.

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Speaker 1: That's why they get the money that they get. That's

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Speaker 1: why they're paid like that because they are stars. You're

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Speaker 1: right about Evans. It's a big Evans game. Yea. You

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Speaker 1: referenced the second level guys, the linebackers. How do you

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Speaker 1: think those three now it's a three man rotation. Spellane

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Speaker 1: has a knee issue right now. Okay, I was wondering

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Speaker 1: what the snap distribution because last week the way they

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Speaker 1: split it up was that Splaine was on the field

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Speaker 1: of the time. Yeah, he's now the one and they

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Speaker 1: mixed the other two guys. Now, the other two guys,

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Speaker 1: Show Burton Bush were both coming back off the COVID injury.

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Speaker 1: It's always kind of hard to pinpoint. You don't know

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Speaker 1: what their wind was like because I'm out of practice

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Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, but it seemed like Spillane is

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Speaker 1: the top of the depth chart going into that game.

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Speaker 1: It might have been a raven centric thing. It might

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Speaker 1: have been ravening seeing him a lot. They're gonna run,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna run, They're gonna try to run a lot.

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Speaker 1: So he's our downhill thumper. He's taken on tight ends

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Speaker 1: and guards and things like that too. So, to be

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Speaker 1: very honest and frank, I think they're searching for answers there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think any of them have taken the job, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're not happy with any of the situation,

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Speaker 1: is my I mean they would prefer that Bush be

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Speaker 1: Bush never leaves. Yeah right, I mean they've they've told

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Speaker 1: us a lot of what they think of all three

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Speaker 1: of them, in my opinion, you know, Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lally. You're listening to the drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. When we dug into a lot there in

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Speaker 1: at first thing, we killed it. Yeah, absolutely, we'll be

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Speaker 1: back with more. Well, maybe we'll do the same in

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Speaker 1: a second segment right after this