1
00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,159
Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

2
00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,799
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

3
00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,680
Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

4
00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,239
Speaker 2: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lowly, he

5
00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:24,880
Speaker 2: is the Matt Williamson and well, the worst kept secret

6
00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:31,560
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh is no longer startling news, utterly shocking. Mike Tomlin,

7
00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,800
Speaker 2: who aid coming naming Russell Wilson the team's starting quarterback.

8
00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:40,680
Speaker 2: He did say that the team will use justin Fields

9
00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:41,840
Speaker 2: maybe in some packages.

10
00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,479
Speaker 3: Okay, I would be shocked if there'd have been any

11
00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,920
Speaker 3: other answer, Frankly, I mean, I think Fields has earned

12
00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,720
Speaker 3: consideration to be on the field. I mean that doesn't

13
00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,559
Speaker 3: mean he's gonna be out there every game or I'm not.

14
00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,040
Speaker 3: They're obviously not going to tell us how they plan

15
00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,320
Speaker 3: on using them. But I think you need the opponent,

16
00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,480
Speaker 3: specifically Atlanta this suation to at least prepare for that,

17
00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,319
Speaker 3: and I would put him out there in some capacity

18
00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,160
Speaker 3: so teams in the future have to compare, you know,

19
00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,040
Speaker 3: prepare for it. That this takes up a lot of

20
00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,560
Speaker 3: practice time, and we've said this eight thousand times and

21
00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,679
Speaker 3: it's probably worth harping on that. Wilson was treated as

22
00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,360
Speaker 3: a starter. And I forget who was saying it, but like,

23
00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,280
Speaker 3: they're very well could have been a competition. That doesn't

24
00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,039
Speaker 3: mean that there was a fifty to fifty competition, you

25
00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:30,160
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like the Olympic team when Jordan

26
00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,800
Speaker 3: was on, it was a competition. That doesn't mean they

27
00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,600
Speaker 3: were going to lose, you know, right, Yeah, And here's

28
00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,080
Speaker 3: the thing, Matt.

29
00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,240
Speaker 2: You know, I continue to hear people talk about Russell

30
00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,160
Speaker 2: Wilson's twenty twenty three season like he was somehow a

31
00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,640
Speaker 2: failure right in Denver. Oh, he had a horrible year

32
00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:53,800
Speaker 2: in Denver. Here is passing touchdowns by two in the opener,

33
00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,560
Speaker 2: three the next week, another touchdown against Miami, three touchdowns

34
00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,880
Speaker 2: against Cargo to the following week against the Jets, Like, yeah,

35
00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,400
Speaker 2: these were not bad weeks. Beat the Chiefs, beat Green Bay,

36
00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,720
Speaker 2: beat Buffalo, Like, this was not a beat anything close

37
00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:14,880
Speaker 2: to bad quarterback play?

38
00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,040
Speaker 3: Did denveranda put in eight games? There's more than you think. Yeah,

39
00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000
Speaker 3: I nine, they were eight and nine and one of

40
00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,400
Speaker 3: the worst rosters in the league. Frankly, this after the

41
00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,920
Speaker 3: and oh and three start. Yeah, and there were some ugliness.

42
00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,760
Speaker 3: I mean they lost to Miami by a million and he.

43
00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,920
Speaker 2: Gave up one hundred and five points and back to

44
00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,920
Speaker 2: you know, in two weeks to Washington and Miami or to.

45
00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,440
Speaker 3: Win that way. Yeah, one hundred and five points.

46
00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,960
Speaker 2: The two weeks they scored thirty three against Washington and lost.

47
00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,119
Speaker 2: So Wilson had three touchdowns in three hundred passing yards

48
00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:46,600
Speaker 2: in that game.

49
00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,440
Speaker 3: So my thoughts on it are you make a trade

50
00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,840
Speaker 3: like that. Expectations are really high that he's going to

51
00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,720
Speaker 3: be an elite player, which he wasn't there. Of course,

52
00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,000
Speaker 3: the first year was a debacle by the organization top

53
00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,680
Speaker 3: to bottom, and is poor of a coaching job as

54
00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,079
Speaker 3: you'll see, or as short of a coaching tenure has

55
00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,359
Speaker 3: ever happened in the NFL history. I mean, he lasted

56
00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,320
Speaker 3: not even half the season, I don't think, and his

57
00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,560
Speaker 3: rookie year of coaching and yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah,

58
00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,000
Speaker 3: and now is Aaron Rodgers buddy in you know, New York.

59
00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,200
Speaker 3: So that was a disaster season for the whole organization.

60
00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,960
Speaker 3: And as we've said many times, I just don't think

61
00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,520
Speaker 3: him and Peyton Wilson and Peyton want to play quarterback

62
00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:27,079
Speaker 3: the same way.

63
00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,840
Speaker 2: Not Peyton Wilson or Wilson Peyton.

64
00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,079
Speaker 3: I just don't think that they are fits for one another.

65
00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,720
Speaker 3: I mean, they hire Peyton and he's gonna go get

66
00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,520
Speaker 3: his guys and he wants to bow Knicks types, which fine.

67
00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:41,200
Speaker 3: I mean he has that right. He's in charge of

68
00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,440
Speaker 3: the team, So there you have it. I mean, I

69
00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,280
Speaker 3: don't think Wilson's the player he was when he was

70
00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,560
Speaker 3: going to Pro Bowl after Pro Bowl, but I don't

71
00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,560
Speaker 3: think all of a sudden he's forgot how to play quarterback.

72
00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,360
Speaker 2: No, you know, you look at it.

73
00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,080
Speaker 3: Again.

74
00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,280
Speaker 2: Over sixty six percent of his passes three thousand yards,

75
00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,520
Speaker 2: twenty six touchdowns, eight interceptions. The passer rating was ninety eight.

76
00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,480
Speaker 2: I know his career pass rating is one hundred, which

77
00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:08,680
Speaker 2: is fourth best all time.

78
00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:09,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know.

79
00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,120
Speaker 2: You're looking for a quarterback efficiency here.

80
00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,280
Speaker 3: I haven't double checked this in a while, but it's

81
00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,960
Speaker 3: very close. If I'm off, I think Sam Howe was

82
00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,640
Speaker 3: the only quarterback that was hit more than Wilson last

83
00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,279
Speaker 3: year too, and he didn't play the last two games,

84
00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,080
Speaker 3: so I mean he was beat up. I mean they

85
00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,760
Speaker 3: I mean, he does hold the ball a little bit

86
00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,360
Speaker 3: and he'll take some sacks, so some of that's on him,

87
00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,400
Speaker 3: but a lot of it was just bad protection too.

88
00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know you get down. For example, that

89
00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,120
Speaker 2: game against Washington he got sacked seven times. The game

90
00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,480
Speaker 2: against Kansas City that they won, he got sacked six times.

91
00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,040
Speaker 3: Got it, But.

92
00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,239
Speaker 2: You know those were really the big ones. The final

93
00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,960
Speaker 2: one was against New England. He got sacked five times.

94
00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,720
Speaker 2: Every other game in there is like two sacks one sack,

95
00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,360
Speaker 2: So it's just a lot of hits though it comes

96
00:04:59,400 --> 00:04:59,960
Speaker 2: in some pocket.

97
00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:05,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I go, I get it. Yeah, I mean I

98
00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,040
Speaker 3: don't think he's going to be the run around guy

99
00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,720
Speaker 3: that he was early in his career either. The improv

100
00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,359
Speaker 3: fields as much more that got him to be that. No, exactly,

101
00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:14,880
Speaker 3: I don't want him to be that guy either. I

102
00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,160
Speaker 3: need I want an efficient pocket passer with some improvability

103
00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,560
Speaker 3: and ability to you know, understand what the speed of

104
00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,120
Speaker 3: the game entails.

105
00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think he will be that. I think,

106
00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,840
Speaker 2: you know this, this team wants to play a certain way,

107
00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,520
Speaker 2: and I don't think it. I don't think Mike Tomlin

108
00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,400
Speaker 2: wants to stray too far outside of what has worked

109
00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,680
Speaker 2: the last few years. Has play good defense, run the football,

110
00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,120
Speaker 2: have your quarterback make three or four big time throws. Yeah,

111
00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,360
Speaker 2: to get you in and out of the stadium. One

112
00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,039
Speaker 2: gives you have a better opportunity to do that.

113
00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,960
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah than anybody since been. I mean,

114
00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,040
Speaker 3: without question, one of the things that's really hurt Wilson's

115
00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,800
Speaker 3: career is as he's aged, the league has changed too

116
00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,440
Speaker 3: in that way more than five years ago. You're seeing

117
00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,560
Speaker 3: two high shells. Just don't allow the explosives. And not

118
00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,440
Speaker 3: only is Wilson a really good deep passer, he's one

119
00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,920
Speaker 3: of the best deep passers ever. So that's been sort

120
00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,680
Speaker 3: of taken away from him, and he hasn't run or

121
00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,599
Speaker 3: improved as much as he's aged to take advantage of that.

122
00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,640
Speaker 3: You know, lighter boxes pick up eight yards with your

123
00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,040
Speaker 3: with your your legs.

124
00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,159
Speaker 2: That being said, so last year, last year he did

125
00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:32,120
Speaker 2: he did do more of it.

126
00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,240
Speaker 3: Right again, you're seeing a lot more too high shell

127
00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,800
Speaker 3: You're seeing a lot of z own that being said,

128
00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,520
Speaker 3: if you're not gonna if you're gonna play too high

129
00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,840
Speaker 3: against the Steeler running game, we gotta kind of pick

130
00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:44,680
Speaker 3: your poison. That yeah, you know what I mean, that's

131
00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,719
Speaker 3: that's the the You know, if you're running the ball

132
00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,280
Speaker 3: really well, you can get them out of the too

133
00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:50,839
Speaker 3: high stuff and take your deep shots.

134
00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:56,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had some games last year. Eight nine rushing attempts,

135
00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,320
Speaker 2: eight against in a win over Kansas City. Nine the

136
00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,000
Speaker 2: following week to win over Buffalo.

137
00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,600
Speaker 3: Okay, they got under pressure a lot too, Yeah.

138
00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,599
Speaker 2: Eleven and a win over the Browns. Eleven for thirty four,

139
00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,479
Speaker 2: ten for forty four in a loss to Houston. But

140
00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:10,720
Speaker 2: ten rushing attempts.

141
00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't have a ton of yards. He's not

142
00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,000
Speaker 3: gonna have rushes of twenty thirty yards anymore, like fields

143
00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000
Speaker 3: take at the house for seventy yards or whatever. But

144
00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,080
Speaker 3: I wonder, maybe i'll look it up tonight what percentage

145
00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:26,680
Speaker 3: of his rushing attempts resulted in positive plays? And by

146
00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,720
Speaker 3: that I mean like success rate or first downs, you know,

147
00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,600
Speaker 3: third and three, you get four on a scramble slide

148
00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,880
Speaker 3: pop up like Aaron Rodgers was a master of that.

149
00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,640
Speaker 3: Like you turn your turn your back to him, he

150
00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,360
Speaker 3: gets one more yard than needed, breaks your back, you know,

151
00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:41,680
Speaker 3: and he's a smart runner out.

152
00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll see, you know, maybe teams try to

153
00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,800
Speaker 2: defend him a little bit differently now thinking that he

154
00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:49,720
Speaker 2: can't do those things.

155
00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,560
Speaker 3: And I'm curious, Yeah, I'm real curious on that stuff

156
00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,680
Speaker 3: because if you're gonna play a lot of single high,

157
00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,040
Speaker 3: he's gonna take shots. Yeah, if you played a lot

158
00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,360
Speaker 3: of two high, you're gonna have lighter boxes and you

159
00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,560
Speaker 3: would hope you have success on the ground. And unlike

160
00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,280
Speaker 3: some recent quarterbacks, he's going to recognize that stuff and

161
00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,320
Speaker 3: check the run. I mean, he's going to change everything

162
00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,320
Speaker 3: to get you in the best plays too. That's something

163
00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,360
Speaker 3: none of us ever know is does this quarterback consistently

164
00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,200
Speaker 3: before the ball's even snapped get you in the best

165
00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,000
Speaker 3: plays to succeed versus what the defense is showing. Yeah?

166
00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,080
Speaker 2: Will I think he. I think he's certainly capable of

167
00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,120
Speaker 2: doing those kind of things. And you know that's why

168
00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,680
Speaker 2: he's going to be the starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

169
00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

170
00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:33,000
Speaker 2: Likewise, you know, again, they'll have some packages for justin fields.

171
00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,000
Speaker 2: I just don't know that there'll be quote, you know,

172
00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,679
Speaker 2: the goal line packages.

173
00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,160
Speaker 3: I know. I hear that a lot.

174
00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,040
Speaker 2: Short yardage maybe, but not goal line.

175
00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear that a lot. And I understand it

176
00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,600
Speaker 3: because he's really hard to stop in seven shots or

177
00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,000
Speaker 3: near the goal line just because of the rushing skills.

178
00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,679
Speaker 3: But Wilson's such a better rud zone passer. I mean,

179
00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,439
Speaker 3: he's it's one of his strengths, and that worries me

180
00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,520
Speaker 3: about fields. He's not a precise, you know, tight window

181
00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,240
Speaker 3: thrower yet, so I don't know if that's when I

182
00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,880
Speaker 3: would use the fields package or whatever. Yeah, may maybe

183
00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,600
Speaker 3: fourth and one on the fifty. Yeah, so like it's

184
00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:09,319
Speaker 3: hardy saw.

185
00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,640
Speaker 2: Too, right, absolutely, So we'll see how they incorporate that

186
00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,920
Speaker 2: what they do. And obviously, you know, if you're the

187
00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,680
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons in Week one, you're gonna be looking at

188
00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,559
Speaker 2: some of those design runs that the Steelers head for,

189
00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,520
Speaker 2: justin fields into preseason going, we could see something like this.

190
00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,560
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like I think you're gonna see quarterback power.

191
00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,840
Speaker 3: You're gonna see pure design, not even option stuff. You know,

192
00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna hold it into the d N crashes or whatever.

193
00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:37,680
Speaker 3: I think you might just see him run the football

194
00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,160
Speaker 3: and don't even hide it, especially because their backs will block.

195
00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,640
Speaker 3: I wonder if they'll ever be a package where he's

196
00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,000
Speaker 3: the only potential runner in the game, you know, like

197
00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,160
Speaker 3: you're trying to get dime or nickel with you know,

198
00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,640
Speaker 3: two tight ends out there and three receivers, no backs

199
00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,280
Speaker 3: at all. There's a lot of different possibilities of how

200
00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,199
Speaker 3: you could use them. And that doesn't mean he's just

201
00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,840
Speaker 3: a runner either like unlike or less so than like

202
00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,040
Speaker 3: Asom Hill. If he's in the game, there's still a

203
00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,959
Speaker 3: very legit passer at Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I

204
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:06,960
Speaker 3: mean the NFL quarterback.

205
00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,360
Speaker 2: You know, he's a sixty percent complete some percentage in

206
00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:09,880
Speaker 2: his career.

207
00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Ronnie Brown and the Wildcat's.

208
00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,880
Speaker 2: He's a better passer of the football than Anthony Richardson.

209
00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:16,839
Speaker 2: Richardson is going to start this year for the.

210
00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,040
Speaker 3: Les, right, right right, and so no, I think that's

211
00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,000
Speaker 3: something to definitely explore. I'm sure there'll be days where

212
00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,880
Speaker 3: Wilson's not playing well and the field's package is working

213
00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,440
Speaker 3: great and the fans will lose their mind, but so

214
00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:29,920
Speaker 3: be it.

215
00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,880
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I mean the ideas as Wilson said today,

216
00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:34,960
Speaker 2: he said, the idea is to win games with the

217
00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,719
Speaker 2: ball in the end zone and win games, and I'm

218
00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:37,920
Speaker 2: good with whatever we need to do.

219
00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,640
Speaker 3: The ball on the end zone would be a good start.

220
00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,680
Speaker 3: That's a good place passing touchdowns. I've said that eight

221
00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:43,800
Speaker 3: thousand times this year.

222
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,720
Speaker 2: Steelers did have some bad news at today's practice. Guard

223
00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,760
Speaker 2: Isaac Samaluh left early with the pictorial injury. Oh no,

224
00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,960
Speaker 2: it doesn't look like it's serious, but we'll see what

225
00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,520
Speaker 2: his status is for the opener. He can't go, Spencer

226
00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,559
Speaker 2: Anderson would be the.

227
00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,800
Speaker 3: That makes perfect sense. I mean he's ready. Of course,

228
00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:03,400
Speaker 3: it'd be a downgrade. That's not a guy you want

229
00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,000
Speaker 3: to lose at all. And there have been a couple

230
00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,840
Speaker 3: of O line injuries already. Hopefully it's not serious. Serious, No,

231
00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,640
Speaker 3: it's not good. Good good, But okay, first I heard that.

232
00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,000
Speaker 3: But good. I mean I'm sure they'll be very precautionary

233
00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,760
Speaker 3: between now and opening day.

234
00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not a guy that needs a lot of practice.

235
00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,440
Speaker 3: Now now, he's one of the guys that gets regular

236
00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,400
Speaker 3: rest anyways, you know he's earned it.

237
00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, they've seen some speculation outs. Oh they can have,

238
00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,440
Speaker 2: you know, two rookies on the interior the line. No,

239
00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,760
Speaker 2: Spencer Anderson.

240
00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,120
Speaker 3: Would be the guy. Oh yeah, he's the swing guy.

241
00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,760
Speaker 2: I mean every time Sayamalu is sat out at training camp,

242
00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,520
Speaker 2: Spencer Anderson has been the guy who's been in there.

243
00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,400
Speaker 3: He didn't running with the ones and playing well.

244
00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean it's not like you're throwing somebody

245
00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,480
Speaker 2: on your row hasn't worked in between Dan Moore and

246
00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:44,439
Speaker 2: Zach Fraser.

247
00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,160
Speaker 3: And there's been a lot of days. I mean, the

248
00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,319
Speaker 3: fair amount that Siamalu didn't dress for practice or whatever,

249
00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,600
Speaker 3: and Anderson ran with the ones and offense worked just fine. Yeah,

250
00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:57,080
Speaker 3: so Anderson's a valuable piece, he really is, and especially

251
00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,280
Speaker 3: with cookonaught on the roster at the moment, he could

252
00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,199
Speaker 3: be your emergency right tackle too. Well.

253
00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,960
Speaker 2: Fatan who said today, it's Troy Fatan who said that

254
00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,520
Speaker 2: the expectation is for him to resume practicing on Monday. Okay,

255
00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,280
Speaker 2: so there's there's a chance he's at the very least

256
00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,800
Speaker 2: a swing tackle when they line up against the.

257
00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,240
Speaker 3: Wo'd be great if he could even dress it for

258
00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,360
Speaker 3: Atlanta game. Yeah, that's ahead of the curve I had

259
00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,679
Speaker 3: originally heard. You know, So that's great. That whole tackle

260
00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,760
Speaker 3: situation needs to work itself out, but I'm sure it

261
00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,679
Speaker 3: will sooner than later. You know, who knows if he

262
00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,520
Speaker 3: would be the starter in week one or what.

263
00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:28,920
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that he's only going to start

264
00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,360
Speaker 2: practicing on Monday. He tells me he's not starting.

265
00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,640
Speaker 3: It's not like if Cam Hayward were You're not going.

266
00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,079
Speaker 2: To go out there and play sixty snaps in a

267
00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,640
Speaker 2: game when you haven't practiced in almost four weeks.

268
00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:40,520
Speaker 3: I mean that's a problem for alignment in general. Is

269
00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,599
Speaker 3: that's the first time he plays sixty seventy snaps or

270
00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:43,520
Speaker 3: whatever all year.

271
00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,760
Speaker 2: It's just not realistic to expect a rookie making his

272
00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,800
Speaker 2: first career start to do that. Now, maybe you work

273
00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,760
Speaker 2: him in a little bit, maybe yeah, extra blocker or

274
00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:55,920
Speaker 2: whatever it may be. But to ask him to go

275
00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,719
Speaker 2: to go out there and play sixty or sixty five

276
00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:58,959
Speaker 2: plays and it's.

277
00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,959
Speaker 3: Not even that is do you trust right? I mean,

278
00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,880
Speaker 3: he really hasn't played much game football for you.

279
00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's at some point. Yeah, you have to take

280
00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:08,400
Speaker 2: the training wheels off.

281
00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,280
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and he's very talented, impressive.

282
00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,359
Speaker 2: People want to keep throwing Dan Moore out with the bathwater.

283
00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,800
Speaker 2: And he didn't have a bad preseason or I thought

284
00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:17,240
Speaker 2: he played well.

285
00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,079
Speaker 3: I thought he looked better. Yeah, one hundred percent. They're

286
00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:20,800
Speaker 3: gonna run the ball a lot. He's a good run blocker.

287
00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,319
Speaker 3: I don't think he's a long term answer. You don't,

288
00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,439
Speaker 3: of course, don't draft those guys that high. But I

289
00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,280
Speaker 3: think that's gonna be one of the storylines now is well,

290
00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,040
Speaker 3: how the tackle situation going to break up?

291
00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,319
Speaker 2: It's a long season. I'm sure we'll figure it out

292
00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,160
Speaker 2: pretty soon. Yeah, absolutely, we're gonna get to a break.

293
00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,200
Speaker 2: He is the Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening

294
00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,960
Speaker 2: to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. We'll

295
00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,800
Speaker 2: be back with more right after this.

296
00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,600
Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

297
00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,240
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

298
00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,120
Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

299
00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,320
Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolli. He is the

300
00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:08,000
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson and Matt ESPN and Mike Play put out

301
00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:12,520
Speaker 2: their fantasy or they're actually their projections just for the season. Yeah, yeah,

302
00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,160
Speaker 2: some of it ties in with fantasy play. Being a

303
00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,160
Speaker 2: fantasy type.

304
00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:16,840
Speaker 3: Guy, yes he is.

305
00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,160
Speaker 2: And they got their projections for stats for the Steelers here,

306
00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:23,760
Speaker 2: and I want to take a look at these and okay,

307
00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,080
Speaker 2: we play a little game. You're over or under sounds

308
00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,280
Speaker 2: good on some of this stuff.

309
00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,480
Speaker 3: These guys that do projections, there's not many of them.

310
00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,120
Speaker 3: MIC's is like as good as anyone. They really take

311
00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,800
Speaker 3: it to a different level, like they don't just assume

312
00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,240
Speaker 3: everyone's going to play seventeen games either, you know, like

313
00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,880
Speaker 3: there's some some of that, like the chances of this

314
00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,080
Speaker 3: running back last of seventeen games is less than a

315
00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:45,440
Speaker 3: quarterback or things like that.

316
00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,280
Speaker 2: So we're gonna go overall with the offense and then

317
00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,640
Speaker 2: we'll go individually and see where we're where we're at

318
00:14:53,640 --> 00:15:00,560
Speaker 2: with some of this stuff. So Steelers passing totals this year, Uh,

319
00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,800
Speaker 2: he has them for three thoy seven hundred and fifty

320
00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:06,200
Speaker 2: five passing yards.

321
00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,560
Speaker 3: I'm dividing that by seventeen. That's two hundred and twenty

322
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:10,360
Speaker 3: one per game.

323
00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,960
Speaker 2: You need to go over or under that number.

324
00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,480
Speaker 3: Under it's a good number. I just think it's'ld be

325
00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,400
Speaker 3: a lot of running, yeah, and a lot of ball control.

326
00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,840
Speaker 3: I don't know that they'll snap the ball a ton,

327
00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,000
Speaker 3: because I think they're gonna want to eat clock. I

328
00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,040
Speaker 3: don't think you're gonna play a fast pace. I also

329
00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,680
Speaker 3: don't think they're going to be losing by double digits

330
00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,600
Speaker 3: late in games either all that often where you get

331
00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,160
Speaker 3: those garbage time numbers and get the yeah, three hundred

332
00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,200
Speaker 3: and fifty day, you know what I mean. So I'm

333
00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,240
Speaker 3: gonna go under, but I think that's a pretty good line.

334
00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,440
Speaker 3: I think most of these lines are pretty good.

335
00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,800
Speaker 2: Passing touchdowns nineteen over.

336
00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,480
Speaker 3: I mean it's been twelve and thirteen the last two years, right,

337
00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:57,840
Speaker 3: I mean, which is insanity.

338
00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,400
Speaker 2: Nineteen would be a huge game.

339
00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,040
Speaker 3: Nineteen I wouldn't. I would still go fish. Okay, I'm

340
00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,040
Speaker 3: expecting more than that. I'm expecting more long balls end

341
00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,960
Speaker 3: up in the end zone when it's all said and

342
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,520
Speaker 3: done against heavier boxes. And I'm definitely expecting way, way, way,

343
00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,440
Speaker 3: way way better red zone passing. And that means the

344
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,000
Speaker 3: quarterback and play design. I mean, like Pickens only has

345
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,720
Speaker 3: a handful of end zone targets in his career. Yeah,

346
00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,840
Speaker 3: I mean he's going to double his career stuff, right right?

347
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:37,360
Speaker 2: U interceptions thirteen over over thirteen. I'm gonna go, why

348
00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,920
Speaker 2: were they at last so under thirteen? Wilson threw eight

349
00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,000
Speaker 2: last year in fifteen games. He's not a high interception guy.

350
00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,640
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I kind of was programming myself to

351
00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,200
Speaker 3: go over because I think they'll throw more interceptions this

352
00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,840
Speaker 3: year than in previous years. I don't know what they will,

353
00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,800
Speaker 3: He's good about it. I just think that they're going

354
00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,240
Speaker 3: to be more aggressive throwing the football and in the

355
00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,600
Speaker 3: ways they throw the football. But do I think they're

356
00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:07,760
Speaker 3: going to be just under one a game? Probably not thirteen, thirteen,

357
00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,240
Speaker 3: seventeenths you know what I mean.

358
00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:15,080
Speaker 2: They threw nine as a team last year.

359
00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they've really made a massive effort prioritize

360
00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,480
Speaker 3: that a lot, like we cannot turn the football over.

361
00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,480
Speaker 2: I don't see thirteen because thirteen is a lot. Is

362
00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,760
Speaker 2: a lot in today's NFL. Teams don't throw that many interceptions.

363
00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you mind checking how many times has Wilson

364
00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,200
Speaker 3: thrown thirteen in his career?

365
00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:35,879
Speaker 2: I can tell you that.

366
00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,200
Speaker 3: I bet it's four something like that.

367
00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:46,280
Speaker 2: Maybe, let's see here in his career, Russell.

368
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,960
Speaker 3: Wilson is even starting as a rookie.

369
00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:52,280
Speaker 2: And has thrown thirteen interceptions in his career once, that

370
00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,919
Speaker 2: being in twenty twenty. Wow, Okay, he's been under that

371
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,760
Speaker 2: number every other year in his career. Okay, that's why

372
00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,560
Speaker 2: I think think under Yeah.

373
00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. So if I'm Clay though, and again he does

374
00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,960
Speaker 3: this for thirty two teams, and so he's got kind

375
00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,640
Speaker 3: of a macro lens on all these things. I assume

376
00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,400
Speaker 3: he's when we'll get to the individuals instead of team,

377
00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,240
Speaker 3: I assume he's factoring in fields throwing passes this year,

378
00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,120
Speaker 3: that Wilson won't be the only Steeler to attempt to pass. Yeah,

379
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,840
Speaker 3: and he throws picks.

380
00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:29,720
Speaker 2: Rushing yards for the quarterbacks quarterback rushing all right, four

381
00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,359
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty five yards forty five divided by seventeen

382
00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,200
Speaker 2: equals twenty eight and a half per game.

383
00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,640
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks only. I'm way under on Wilson, but if fields

384
00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,600
Speaker 3: can give me eight to ten a game, I think

385
00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,480
Speaker 3: I'll go over. Okay, I think Wilson's going to be

386
00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,359
Speaker 3: around eighteen to twenty a game.

387
00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,920
Speaker 2: Sacks, okay, forty nine.

388
00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,439
Speaker 3: This concerns me. I think that you're set up for

389
00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:05,879
Speaker 3: two guys that have taken a lot of sacks. But

390
00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,320
Speaker 3: I'm mostly focusing on Wilson, and he got hit a ton,

391
00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,479
Speaker 3: and he gets sacked a lot in his career, but

392
00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,919
Speaker 3: maybe as much of a factor with that, I just

393
00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,679
Speaker 3: think you're going to have a young learning line, you know,

394
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,000
Speaker 3: not that they aren't talented or can't block people. I

395
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,359
Speaker 3: just think you might have some miscommunication stuff or I

396
00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,600
Speaker 3: got you, I got him, you got him, I got him,

397
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,119
Speaker 3: you got him. But the running backs in the in

398
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,280
Speaker 3: the tight ends are very good pass blockers.

399
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,400
Speaker 2: I just don't know that you're that's like three again,

400
00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,920
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're gonna throw the ball enough, Yeah,

401
00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:37,360
Speaker 2: to get the fifty sacks.

402
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,000
Speaker 3: I mean that's two point nine a game. Yeah, I

403
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,560
Speaker 3: mean that's on average, you can sack three a game.

404
00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,560
Speaker 3: It's a good number. I think that's right about.

405
00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,400
Speaker 2: Okay, So his passing attempts for the Steelers is five

406
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,160
Speaker 2: thirty six in the season.

407
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:58,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, ten sack, right, I don't see that. That seems high.

408
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when you're back both catch the ball. Well,

409
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,280
Speaker 2: you're gonna get you know, if you don't throw the ball.

410
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,920
Speaker 3: I mean, if if your pass attempts are twenty five

411
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,960
Speaker 3: to thirty a game, you're probably not even get sacked three.

412
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think.

413
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,480
Speaker 3: Wilson also has a history of throwing short you're gonna

414
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:19,119
Speaker 3: get sacked on those throws. Seems it's probably a little high.

415
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,399
Speaker 3: It's probably a couple high. Yeah, it'll go under, but

416
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 3: it's not terrible.

417
00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,240
Speaker 2: It seems high to me.

418
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:24,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

419
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:31,240
Speaker 2: Uh, the running backs he has them with uh one thousand,

420
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 2: six hundred and sixty nine rushing yards combined.

421
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,840
Speaker 3: I don't even have to add that one. That's low

422
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:37,680
Speaker 3: that's really low.

423
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, really low.

424
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,920
Speaker 3: That's really low. I mean I think, noge, you could

425
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 3: get to twelve.

426
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 2: They average one hundred and forty five rushing yards over

427
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 2: the final ten games of last season. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

428
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,840
Speaker 2: with the quarterbacks giving you basically nothing.

429
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 3: Right, right, So that's the only running backs though, only

430
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 3: running backs. Yeah, I think Warren's gonna get you more

431
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,439
Speaker 3: than six hundred. Well, we'll get to that, and I

432
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 3: think Nausey's around twelve, so over we'll get to those

433
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 3: quarter Yeah.

434
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,200
Speaker 2: Ten rushing touchdowns from the running backs.

435
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 3: Three for the quarterbacks. I'll take the over on the quarterbacks.

436
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,119
Speaker 3: I bet Fields ends up in the end zone at

437
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 3: least once.

438
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,479
Speaker 2: I think ten rushing touchdowns is low for the running backs.

439
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I keep moving nause up my fantasy ranks,

440
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 3: not because the war and injury, but I just think

441
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 3: he's gonna score. And I'd put that number at like twelve.

442
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I think that's yeah, more realistic targets for

443
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 2: the running backs in the passing game. One hundred and

444
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 2: seventeen on.

445
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 3: Seven divided by seventeen equals six point nine a game,

446
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 3: six point eight per game, and.

447
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 2: That's including Patterson in that h.

448
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 3: So, I wish I had it in front of me.

449
00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:00,160
Speaker 3: But one number, that is everyone talks about the tight

450
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 3: ends with Arthur Smith. I found something yesterday about when

451
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 3: he's not when when Derrick Henry's not the back because

452
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,199
Speaker 3: he doesn't catch balls. The receptions by running backs with

453
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 3: Smith are very high, like at the top of the

454
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 3: league if non Derrick Henry stuff and I think Nausey,

455
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 3: Warren and Patterson are awfully good receivers. Yeah, there's a quick,

456
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 3: easy throws extension of the pass game. You're gonna get

457
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 3: seven games a lot. Though the Warren's probably gonna catch

458
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 3: three or four. Yeah, I mean, I bet he did

459
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 3: last year.

460
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,439
Speaker 2: I'll go over okay, ninety three receptions for the running

461
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 2: backs combined. Yeah, we think nause maybe gets they were

462
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 2: they were at that number last year.

463
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go over.

464
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: Uh six and twenty one receiving yards for the running.

465
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 3: Twenty one divided by seventeen. That's I did something wrong there.

466
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 3: Six twenty one by seventeen equals thirty six and a half.

467
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 2: I'm going over that.

468
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 3: Probably. Yeah, Yeah, I think they're gonna be I don't

469
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 3: feel like a lot of people around here have talked

470
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 3: about the tight ends are always brought up. You know,

471
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,959
Speaker 3: how are they gonna make up for lack of number two?

472
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 3: What's a we different with coordinators? But I think the

473
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 3: running backs catching the ball is gonna spike.

474
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, let's take a look

475
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 2: at the wide receiver totals. Targets for the wide receivers

476
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty.

477
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 3: Four, two fifty fifteen to the game. I'm going over,

478
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 3: going over Pickens. Pickens is going to average.

479
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 2: Pickens is gonna have games where he gets fifteen himself.

480
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, in the preseason shows, they're going to feed

481
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 3: him like crazy. Yeah, the non Pickens group is going

482
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 3: to be pretty low by NFL standards of other receivers.

483
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,640
Speaker 2: But even let's says Jefferson gets three and the other

484
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 2: guys I'll get one each. Well, you're still going over fifteen.

485
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 3: And I bet Jefferson averages more than three games. Yeah,

486
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 3: even more, I think through I mean ten of games

487
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 3: a lot for pickings, though there'll be some there are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,

488
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 3: but there'll be one third seven. You know, I think

489
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 3: I'm over.

490
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 2: Okay, one hundred and fifty one overall receptions for their

491
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 2: wide receivers under under one hundred and fifty one.

492
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 3: I'm not confident that Pickings gets to one hundred.

493
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,479
Speaker 2: I don't think he does either. But well, we'll get

494
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 2: to the individual yeas. Yeah, wait, one hundred and fifty

495
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 2: one is not I just don't think they'll have three

496
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 2: receivers on the field very often.

497
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 3: They may not.

498
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: You're right, you know what I mean?

499
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 3: Right?

500
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: Two thy one hundred and sixty five receiving yards for

501
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 2: the receivers.

502
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 3: Well, is that number again? I'm sorry, Twenty one sixty

503
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 3: five by seventeen one hundred.

504
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: And fifty one catches is less than ten per game.

505
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 2: I know, I know, by a lot. I mean, it's

506
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: not a massive projection. It's like nine a game.

507
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go over in the yardage though, I think

508
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,479
Speaker 3: deep passing is going to be a big thing. Then.

509
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 3: Is Austin going to have one or two huge games

510
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 3: this year? Probably? Yeah, Mike Scottie Miller have a fifty

511
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 3: yard reception at some point during the course of the year. Possibly.

512
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. Ten receiving touchdowns for the receivers, not tight ends,

513
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: non tight ends, non running backs, just for the wide receivers.

514
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 3: This is going to be more of an individual conversation

515
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 3: when we get there, because I really think Pickens is

516
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 3: going to get ninety percent of their receiver touchdowns.

517
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 2: Jefferson was a pretty big everything when they went to

518
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 2: their their uh seven shots. It was a factor every week.

519
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 3: Get singled a lot. Yeah, I guess over it's a

520
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 3: pretty low number.

521
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 2: It's really it's a really number. The tight ends one

522
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty seven targets. Hmmm, I'm going over that

523
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 2: because they had ninety three last year as a group.

524
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 3: That's eighty game. That's over eighty game. They're going to

525
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 3: be on the field, on the field a lot. It's

526
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 3: always so, I mean, Vegas knows this. It's just always

527
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,959
Speaker 3: so easy to take overs across the board. Everyone's optimistic.

528
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 3: They got four of them on the team, right, I mean,

529
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 3: the Brown's up two, so you have a better chances

530
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 3: of adding it up over the course of the year.

531
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: I have no clue how many Washington's gonna catch when

532
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: we get to that.

533
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he had ten ten targets last year. Yeah,

534
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 2: I guess over receptions ninety six real quickly.

535
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 3: The thing is, thoughf like Friarmouth misses five games, then

536
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 3: they're not gonna they can't get, but.

537
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 2: They're not going to stop throwing to the tight ends,

538
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: So just make Connor Hayward's gonna.

539
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 3: Be the I just think their target numbers.

540
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 2: Connor Hayward is going to be used, though.

541
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 3: I bet I take the over on Connor Hayward. Whatever

542
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 3: that number is. Okay, Well, what was the last one?

543
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 3: The next one?

544
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 2: That was ninety six reception for the tight ends under,

545
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that one. Yeah, seems

546
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: pretty bulky. Uh nine hundred and seventy receiving yards for

547
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: the tight ends.

548
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 3: I don't see a ton of field stretching. I'm gonna

549
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 3: go under, okay.

550
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: And seven touchdowns for the tight ends over Okay.

551
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 3: I could see Connor Hayward catching like a shuttle pass

552
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 3: or something that doesn't really count. I bet Washington finds

553
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: the end zone as the big body guy, and I

554
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 3: don't think friar Mouth has to do a ton to

555
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 3: get to that number.

556
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 2: All right, let's look at some of the individual stuff

557
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: now for the offense. Russell Wilson twenty nine hundred and

558
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: five passing yards. I think he gets to three thoy

559
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 2: in thirteen games. Yeah, thirteen games is a really conservative number,

560
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: that's the thing. Yeah, he played fifteen and.

561
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 3: Would have played seventeen likely, you know, so he doesn't

562
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 3: have the injury history to him. But I wouldn't want

563
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 3: to be Clay on this either. You can't put seventeen

564
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 3: for every quarterback, right, So Yeah, I like the over.

565
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 2: There fifteen touchdown passes.

566
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 3: I don't know if I like the over per game

567
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 3: if you divide it by thirteen, but that's what we're doing. Yeah,

568
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 3: how many touchdown passes fifteen under.

569
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: Or over over?

570
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 2: Nine interceptions?

571
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: I forget what number was the team total.

572
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: The team total was thirteen.

573
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 3: Because I originally went over and I kind of talked

574
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 3: out of it, and I'm glad I did. But nine

575
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 3: seems low.

576
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, eight last year on this is for

577
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: four hundred and twelve pass attempts. He had eight last

578
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: year in Denver on four hundred and forty seven pass attempts.

579
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 3: It seems like a low number for a guy that

580
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: I'm guessing is going to play the whole year. I'm

581
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 3: gonna go over, okay, tip balls, you.

582
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: Know, rushing yards for Russell Wilson to sixty nine.

583
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 3: Slightly under over that freaking number, I get it. I

584
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 3: get it. I just think in some I think fields

585
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 3: will eat into that some and dumping into the backs

586
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 3: can't be over everywhere.

587
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 2: For fields one hundred and twenty four pass attempts under

588
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 2: seventy seven completions under eight hundred and fifty passing yards under, and.

589
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 3: He'd have to be a starter. Yeah, I mean which

590
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: I mean Wilson could get benched or injured. I mean

591
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 3: that certainly happens in the league.

592
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: Five passing touchdowns for Justin fields under, three interceptions for

593
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 2: Justin fields push two hundred and seventeen rushing yards for

594
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: Justin fields over baby, Yeah.

595
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: I mean I'm screaming that too. But I mean, you

596
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 3: gotta get a fair amount of carries. Well, they have

597
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 3: him with thirty nine. He doesn't need.

598
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: He that's a lot of carries. How many rushing yards

599
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: was it to seventeen?

600
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 3: Oh two? I thought its two seventy one. Okay, So

601
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 3: let me just do one thing, two seventeen divided by six.

602
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 3: He only needs. I mean, I'm saying, if he gets

603
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 3: if he averages six yards of carry, which I think

604
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 3: is probably safe, he only needs thirty six carries to

605
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 3: get there. A couple of game that don't know how many.

606
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 2: Carries you get he'll break.

607
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 3: He's gonna break on the wrong ones, right, Yeah, And

608
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 3: who knows, there could be a game or two that

609
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 3: the Steelers are losing bad or winning bit bad at

610
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 3: the end where he mops up. Yeah, and then he's

611
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 3: gonna go over on a lot of this stuff.

612
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: Uh.

613
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: Looking at the rushing yardage here, jaylem Warren, six hundred

614
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 2: and eighteen rushing yards, pretty good number. He had seven

615
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 2: hundred last year.

616
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna miss time, So not factor

617
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 3: in that, and I'm gonna I'll go. I think he's

618
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 3: really good.

619
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: Fifty four receptions for three hundred and seventy yards over

620
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: Nause Harris. Rushing yards eight hundred and ninety four.

621
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 3: I think he gets to one thousand, yeah.

622
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: Six rushing touchdowns push, I think he goes over that.

623
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 3: I think I took over on rushing touchdowns by running backs.

624
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: I just wonder if he's had eight last year. I

625
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 3: wonder how many times it gets vultured by fields or

626
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: something on the real short yard and stuff.

627
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: Uh, twenty eight receptions for one hundred and sixty nine

628
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: yards for Najie Harris.

629
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: Definitely over on the yards.

630
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 2: He was over that number last year.

631
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had to break a couple tackles because I

632
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 3: think his average depth of target will be higher. Yeah,

633
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 3: I mean I don't think. I think he'll be used

634
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 3: more than just to dump off in the flat.

635
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: Guy Corderryl Patterson one hundred and fifty six rushing yards over.

636
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: He then really needs an injury. I mean, chances of

637
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 3: both backs being healthy for seventeen games. It's slim.

638
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: Eleven receptions for Cordal Patterson.

639
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 3: Over because I think he may be on the field

640
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: with Warren or Harris, there might be some of that

641
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 3: as a receiver, you know.

642
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 2: And then eighty two receiving yards slightly over.

643
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 3: I bet he gets one hundred.

644
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking at the wide receivers, George Pickens, one hundred

645
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 2: and eighteen targets probably over. I'm gonna go over that.

646
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: Seventy one receptions not bad. Probably Overna go over one

647
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen. You're probably gonna catch more than seventy one, I'm.

648
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 3: Aware, assuming healthier a lot. Yeah, well, I mean you

649
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 3: kind of have to, right, Yeah.

650
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: One thousand, ninety one receiving yards over, five touchdown catches over. Okay,

651
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 2: Van Jefferson fifty one targets pretty good. I'm going over that.

652
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 2: He's your starter. Yeah, fifty one target gets just like

653
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: three a game. Yeah, over the course of a season,

654
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: all right, I'll.

655
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 3: Go a little over.

656
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: Maybe sixty ish twenty eight receptions over four hundred and

657
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: two receiving yards.

658
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 3: Under.

659
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go over that too. Like, I don't think

660
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: he's gonna have worse numbers than what Deontay Johnson did

661
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: last year because he's a different receiver than Deontay too.

662
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how much big play stuff you'll

663
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 3: get out of him for the yardage part and then not.

664
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 3: He's slow, but he just doesn't play like a I

665
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: don't think he's had a lot of.

666
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: Yact two touchdown catches over.

667
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 3: I think he gets three or four.

668
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 2: Roman Wilson forty targets under twenty five catches under three

669
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen receiving yards under two touchdowns under.

670
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 3: That's when he gets on field.

671
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know he have. Yeah, Calvin Austin thirty

672
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 2: six targets under twenty one receptions under. It's sixteen last year, okay,

673
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 2: but there were more guys blocking him last year.

674
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 3: I think somebody else might block him this year. I mean, like,

675
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 3: I don't know that he'll be the three for seventeen games.

676
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: Well, they don't have another guy, now, I know, I know,

677
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy seven receiving yards because.

678
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: Even if Wilson steps up at the second half of

679
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 3: the season or there's just a lot of obstacles for

680
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 3: him to maintain the true number three. What is the

681
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 3: yardage to seventy seven that I'm gonna go over though,

682
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 3: because I do expect two big plays. I mean, if

683
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 3: he has a fifty yarder and a sixty yarder, he

684
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 3: should get there.

685
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, one touchdown, I'm fine with that. I'll go push

686
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 2: Scotty Miller. Ten targets.

687
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 3: Over that.

688
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 2: Six catches over seventy five yards. I mean he really

689
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: only needs an injury, yeah, right to go over all

690
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: those things. So someone's gonna get hurt. Uh Friarmouth eighty

691
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: two targets it ninety eight two years ago. No, No,

692
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 2: over fifty seven receptions over five hundred and eighty nine yards.

693
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: It's not bad, But I think I'm gonna go over

694
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: four touchdowns. Push you said over on their seven touchdowns

695
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 2: for the tight ends as a whole.

696
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 3: I think Darnell's gonna catch two or three. I don't

697
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 3: know what his numbers are.

698
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 2: Connor Hayward twenty five targets over eighteen receptions over one

699
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one yards over one.

700
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 3: The thing with him, too, is you know he's gonna

701
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 3: be active every game day because the special team stuff. Yeah,

702
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm going over.

703
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 2: Across the board on him one touchdown, also over dar

704
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 2: Washington twenty targets over fourteen catches over one hundred and

705
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 2: forty three yards over one touchdown, over Michael Pruitt ten

706
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: targets under because something has to give. Seven receptions under

707
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:26,760
Speaker 2: sixty seven yards.

708
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 3: I mean these sounds so minuscules goofy you to say under,

709
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 3: but not the whole team's not going to go over

710
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 3: across the board. I just wonder, I mean, do we

711
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,959
Speaker 3: know he'll be active all seventeen games that you're looks

712
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 3: like all four tight ends are going to be active

713
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 3: every game seems that way. Yeah, especially since they don't

714
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 3: have a full back. Yeah, I'm going under on him, though,

715
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 3: across the board in one touchdown, I'm gonna go under.

716
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the offense. We'll look take a look at

717
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: the defense. We come back. He is Matt Williamson. I

718
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: am Dale Lay. You're listening to the Drive here on

719
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network, taking a look at ESPN's projections

720
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: for the Steelers. We'll do more of that with the

721
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: defense when we come back right after this.

722
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

723
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven Home of the Black

724
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

725
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is the

726
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, and we're taking a look here at ESPN's

727
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: projections for the Steelers here as put together here by

728
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 2: Mike Clay. We just did the offense. Let's take a

729
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: look at the defense. Now we'll take a look with

730
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 2: the overall. He has them with forty four sacks.

731
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 3: Oh, I like the over there. Yeah, seventeen game schedule.

732
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 3: The pass rush they have, yeah, I think I think

733
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: that's a pretty easy over for me.

734
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 2: Thirteen interceptions also go over.

735
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're great at tipping balls, Minka. Those linebackers cover

736
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 3: a lot more ground. The pass rush, you know, causes

737
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 3: bad decisions. Yeah, I like the over there.

738
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a look at some of the individual

739
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: players here, Cam Hayward seven hundred and fifty one snaps,

740
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 2: sixty five tackles, three point one sacks.

741
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 3: I like the snaps. I think they're deep enough now

742
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 3: that they don't have to ask him to play eight

743
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 3: or nine hundred sax scene.

744
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 2: Low, sax scene low.

745
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 3: I would put that number at like five if I was.

746
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 2: Over under two last year playing on one leg.

747
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I like the over on that. I still

748
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 3: think he's out there on third and eight.

749
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 2: In fact, they have him with the same number of

750
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: sacks as Larry Ogunjobi Ogan Joby playing six seven hundred

751
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 2: and eight snaps, forty seven tackles, three point one sacks.

752
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go under probably across the board

753
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 3: on D line snaps. I just think they have a

754
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: deep group. I don't want Ogunjoe. I'd love to keep Ogunjoby.

755
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 3: It's six or seven hundred, not seven or eight hundred. Yeah,

756
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: seven to eight. I thought you said seven fifty eight. Now,

757
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 3: Still I'm gonna go under on that. How many sacks?

758
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 3: Was it three again?

759
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 2: Three point one?

760
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 3: I vega's the four.

761
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: Keanu Benton four hundred and fifty snaps.

762
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 3: There's one. I just yeah, opposite of what I was thinking.

763
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 2: Thirty five tackles two sacks.

764
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the last sentence I almost said was I

765
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 3: think kyward Ogin, Joeby, et cetera go down because Benton

766
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 3: goes up. I think Benton might lead the d lin

767
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,439
Speaker 3: in snaps, so I'm definitely going over across the board

768
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 3: on him.

769
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 2: Montrevis Adam four hundred and eight snaps, twenty nine tackles,

770
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 2: one point nine sacks.

771
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 3: Does he get the two Probably yeah, because I think

772
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 3: he plays four hundred snaps. I think that's been a

773
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 3: logical number for him.

774
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 2: I just think Benton's gonna blow that number out of

775
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: the one.

776
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the best bet of all of them. Just

777
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 3: go over on all the Benton stuff.

778
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 2: Dean Lowry ten tackles point four sacks, so he needs

779
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: a half a sack.

780
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,760
Speaker 3: I bet he does stumbles into one of those.

781
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: Isaiah louder Milk seventy five snaps, six tackles, point two tackles.

782
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go under on him. There's I mean, there's

783
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 3: a lot of d linemen in that room.

784
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 2: Here's where they here's where they little disconnect. Here to

785
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: Marvin leeout playing forty three snaps way over. He's gonna way.

786
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 3: Over because he probably doesn't factor in any of the

787
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 3: edge stuff.

788
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Three tackles, point two sacks.

789
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 3: I mean I'd go over on the snaps if he

790
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 3: didn't line up ever at outside linebackers.

791
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh moving on to the outside linebackers, he's

792
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 2: them combining the three of them for twenty six point

793
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 2: six sacks this season.

794
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 3: Way over.

795
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go over that.

796
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 3: Well, we'll get to them individually, so that wont yeah, okay?

797
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: Uh. TJ Watt eight hundred and thirty seven snaps, sixty

798
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 2: four tackles, thirteen point three sacks, point three interceptions.

799
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:00,479
Speaker 3: Over on sacks interceptions. Yeah, he seems always a fine

800
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 3: sacks or he'd have to get hurt.

801
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. Alex Heighsmith eight hundred and fifty eight snaps, fifty

802
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 2: seven tackles, nine sacks, point two interceptions.

803
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 3: I bet he doesn't pick a ball off. But I'm

804
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 3: just like last year, I know I know they're not

805
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 3: all going to get him. How many sacks again, nine,

806
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go under. That's a good I mean, that's

807
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 3: a hearty year. Yeah.

808
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: Nick Kerbig four hundred and twenty nine snaps, thirty two tackles,

809
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 2: four point three sacks.

810
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 3: I'm going over on the sacks. I bet he gets

811
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: five or six and rotates in a little bit more

812
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: this year. But that snap count seems about right.

813
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 2: From the inside linebackers looking at five sacks, two interceptions

814
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: over over, Yeah, I agree. Patrick Queen one thousand and

815
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 2: nineteen defensive snaps, one hundred and twenty seven tackles, three

816
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: point one sacks, one point one interceptions.

817
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 3: Pretty good. I mean, it'll be a really good year.

818
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: It'll be a really good year through the the snap

819
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 3: stuff's probably spot on.

820
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 2: He's not gonna leave every snap. That's every you know,

821
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 2: I mean every defensive snap.

822
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 3: He needs to stay healthy of course. To hit that,

823
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 3: I'll take one interception in three sacks though, Yeah, Yeah,

824
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:20,439
Speaker 3: I mean that's about right.

825
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: Landon Roberts five hundred and thirty six snaps, eighty five tackles,

826
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 2: one point one sacks and a half an interception. He

827
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 2: has one interception in his career.

828
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna take under under on that and I'm

829
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 3: gonna go over on sacks. I bet he gets the two. Yeah.

830
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 2: Peyton Wilson two hundred and fifteen defensive snaps over over

831
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 2: twenty nine tackles over point four sacks, over point two interceptions.

832
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 3: Over you can't get half an interception. Point two is

833
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 3: not much differ the point nine.

834
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 2: Actually, just say under an interception, right right? Mark Robinson

835
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 2: two hundred and four snaps, twenty nine tackles. They got

836
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 2: him playing much as Peyton.

837
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 3: Willis under under.

838
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see that happening now.

839
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 3: I'm not sure Robinson played seventeen games in the makes.

840
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 3: I think there's a chance he's not even there in

841
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 3: the opening day roster. There's a chance. Yeah.

842
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 2: And then Tyler Matacave it's yeah, twenty one, Yeah, that's under.

843
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: Joey Porter Junior one thy nineteen defensive snaps, which ties

844
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 2: Patrick Queen. Yeah, that's all their defensive snaps, sixty four tackles.

845
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 3: That's always tough with corners under two point two interceptions over,

846
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 3: because I think he'll still travel with ones and get

847
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 3: targeted a lot.

848
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 2: Dante Jackson fifty eight tackles, zero point nine interceptions.

849
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 3: I'm guessing he gets one.

850
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. Beanie Bishop forty five tackles one interception.

851
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 3: Under across the board. I don't know if he's a

852
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 3: big guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

853
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 2: Corey Trice twenty one tackles less than one interception.

854
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 3: I would go under.

855
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 2: Darius Rush one hundred and seven snaps, eight tackles less

856
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 2: than an interception.

857
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 3: That'd go under. There's just some uncertainty, are there with

858
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 3: those guys.

859
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 2: From the safeties. One sack, four point nine interceptions over

860
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 2: Minka Fitzpatrick one hundred and eleven tackles, point nine sacks.

861
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 2: So does he get a sack and one point nine

862
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 2: interceptions which does not lead to team.

863
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 3: I'm definitely on over on picks.

864
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't have any last year. He's not going

865
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 2: to go two years in a row and just have one.

866
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't care. I'm not sure about the staffield

867
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 3: get sacked or not, but I like him to take

868
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 3: the ball away three times at least.

869
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 2: To Shaun Elliott eighty three tackles, two point two interceptions

870
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 2: and no sacks.

871
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 3: I think he gets a sack. Yeah, I think he'll

872
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 3: be near the line of scrimmage a little bit more.

873
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,439
Speaker 3: I'll go under on the interceptions, though.

874
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 2: The monte Kyz thirty five tackles less than a sack,

875
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 2: less than an interception.

876
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:01,959
Speaker 3: Sounds fair.

877
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: I'll go under Miles Killerbrew three tackles under yeah, and

878
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: Jalen Elliott.

879
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 3: Two tackles under I mean two tackles so much he

880
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 3: needs one injury, I'll go over. I always do is

881
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 3: make the team note cut and have an injury, and

882
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: he'll probably get two tackles this year.

883
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 2: Would you take these numbers for Boswell twenty nine of

884
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 2: thirty three on field goals eighty seven percent, which is

885
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 2: just below his career percentage.

886
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 3: I think so. And my logic is I'd have to

887
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 3: look at the schedule, but all those late AFC North

888
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 3: games are going to be weather. Yeah, you know what

889
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 3: I mean. So, yeah, I'll take that.

890
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 2: How about this for Cameron Johnston forty six point seven

891
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 2: yards per punt? Would you take that? I think I

892
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 2: might go Fishin's pretty darn good.

893
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 3: He's impressive though, but weather doesn't help him there. Yeah,

894
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 3: that seems like a pretty good number.

895
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: That's a good number. Yeah, yeah, that would be the

896
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: highest I think in Steelers history. Really without looking it up,

897
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 2: it's pretty good.

898
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 3: Just off the top of your head. Yeah, it wouldn't

899
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 3: shock me if it is not bad. Yeah.

900
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: Those are the numbers though. Class Steelers, according to ESPN,

901
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 2: by their projections that they do with their computer.

902
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 3: Models, right right. I don't know how deep, oh what

903
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 3: all Mike does to formulate them, but he's really good

904
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 3: at it, and it's a tough job.

905
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 2: I think some of this factors in what the team

906
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: did last year, which is really difficult for this team,

907
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 2: given a new offensive system and all new quarterbacks.

908
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 3: And then you texted me yesterday, twenty three of the

909
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 3: current Steelers were not Steelers last year. Twenty two two, okay, yeah,

910
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 3: and so it's massive roster change.

911
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 2: They weren't on the open they weren't on the roster

912
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 2: last year.

913
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

914
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 2: Ory Trice counts in.

915
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 3: That of course, of course, right, I mean they weren't

916
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 3: active Steeler. Yeah, I guess is the way I put it,

917
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 3: whole new quarterbacks over forty percent. Yeah, a whole new

918
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 3: quarterback room and an offense coordinator. So I mean it's

919
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 3: a lot of difference. O line's noticeably.

920
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: Different, you know, So factoring him where they were at

921
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 2: last year and trying to extrapolate that into this year

922
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 2: makes this a hard team to judge.

923
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 3: Right, I mean that's like doing the Falcons. Yeah, I

924
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 3: mean they're totally different.

925
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: On the other side side though, the defense, But that's stable.

926
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: That's pretty stable, it's unchanged. You've added to it. And

927
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 2: you're telling me that TJ was gonna get thirteen sacks.

928
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, get hurt. I mean that's thing, right

929
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 3: to really nerd out would be like how many interceptions

930
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: per game? How many sacks per game? You know, and

931
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 3: maybe that's how they do it, And they say, well,

932
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 3: he's maybe maybe going to miss five. I don't know.

933
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 2: I don't average over like a sack per game in

934
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 2: his career though, and that includes his rookie year when

935
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 2: he didn't average a sack per game.

936
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think twenty is more likely than twelve. I

937
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 3: think that's yeah, you know what I mean, if he's

938
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 3: at thirteen and a half. I mean it's not like

939
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 3: obviously twenty is more likely than seven.

940
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 2: I mean he's led the league three to the last

941
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 2: four years. Yeah, and the one year he didn't was

942
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 2: the year that he was hurt.

943
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 3: And fourteen doesn't even lead the league. That's a down

944
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 3: year for him. Ye'll still hit the.

945
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: Over That's what NFL defensive player theyar Miles Garrett had

946
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: last year.

947
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 3: He had fourteen fourteen, So I think you'd I'm not

948
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 3: picking on Clay, but I would think, like the Steelers defense,

949
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: Kansas City's offense would be a lot easier because they

950
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 3: don't have crazy change, right. I mean, there's some things

951
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 3: you can bank on several years. Yeah. I don't know.

952
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 2: I just I look at the defense. I think it's

953
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 2: going to be really good. I think the offense can

954
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 2: be maybe not middle of the pack, but around twenty Yeah.

955
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's fair.

956
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 2: And then I think you win a lot of ball

957
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 2: games that you know.

958
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 3: Special teams should be vastly improved. They weren't bad. No,

959
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 3: kicking games should be real good. Yeah.

960
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's get to a break. He is the Matt Williamson.

961
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 2: I'm Dale Lallire listening to the drive here on the

962
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network. That's going to do it for our

963
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 2: number one. We'll be back with our number two right

964
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: after this.