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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale LOLLI he

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Speaker 2: is the Matt Williamson, and this is Well Steelers Audio Network,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Pittsburgh. And well, just a little different here, Matt.

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Speaker 2: We're now no longer out at the Saint Bencent College

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Speaker 2: from now in studio here.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been here forever. Yeah, I almost forgot how

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Speaker 3: to get here. And we're in a different studio too,

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Speaker 3: I mean the two thousand times and now Yeah, we're

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Speaker 3: big time in it. Yeah, twenty twenty four seasons upon

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Speaker 3: us and we're coming in like gangbusters. So, uh, game

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Speaker 3: boys don't have anything to talk about, right, right exactly.

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Speaker 3: The game wasn't super exciting, but there's some good stuff

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Speaker 3: to take away from it as well.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, bad stuff. Yeah, stuff that you want to

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Speaker 2: see get cleaned up, still, no doubt. First of all,

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Speaker 2: let's let's start. The Steelers lose their pre second preseason

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Speaker 2: game nine to three to the Buffalo Bill Saturday night. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: everybody is upset with where the offense or how the

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Speaker 2: offense looked as a whole.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and I get it.

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Speaker 2: I just cautioned people that last year just time. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we were among the people looking at the r cycles

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Speaker 2: the first team offense. Five possessions, five touchdowns looks like clockwork.

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Speaker 2: You know, everything's running like clockwork. And then it takes

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Speaker 2: them like six games to get five touchdowns in the

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Speaker 2: regular season, right, You know, things happen. You don't know

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Speaker 2: what exactly what the team was working on in the

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Speaker 2: particular game. It's it's much like preseason baseball to a

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Speaker 2: certain degree, where you might have a pitcher out there.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's primarily a fastball pitcher, but he's working on

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Speaker 2: a little change up in this game. So he comes

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Speaker 2: out and he throws the change up forty percent of

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Speaker 2: the time, when typically he would throw ten percent of

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Speaker 3: As you're saying, and the hitters picked up pretty quick.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure too. Yeah, and here it comes to change

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Speaker 3: up and they did it into the seats. I think

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Speaker 3: there is definitely some of that, And frankly, I'm not

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Speaker 3: trying to like massage over what we saw. It wasn't great.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the protection in particular was poor. The offense

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Speaker 3: wasn't great. But this game to me is very much

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Speaker 3: a glass half empty, glass half full situation. Like the

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Speaker 3: punt team was great, the defense was great, the points

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Speaker 3: scored was bad. You know, I mean, you know. And

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Speaker 3: there's a big thing I kept going back with on

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Speaker 3: the postgame show is, as you know, in any game,

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Speaker 3: turnover margins a huge deal. And you can look at

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Speaker 3: this and be like, oh, well, Steeters got that interception,

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Speaker 3: they're plus one. You missed a field goal, that's the

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Speaker 3: same thing as a turnover, and you missed three fourth

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Speaker 3: down conversions, so your mind is three basically in turnover differential.

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Speaker 3: The way I look at it, you're not gonna win

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Speaker 3: any game that way.

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Speaker 2: And realistically, you know, it's if it's a regular season game,

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Speaker 2: you probably kicked the field goal, no situation, they probably

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Speaker 2: played it. Would you feel better about this game if

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Speaker 2: the Steelers won at twelve to nine or fifteen to nine,

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Speaker 2: they where I'm going, I mean, not much difference. It's

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Speaker 2: a preseason game.

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Speaker 3: It's a preseason game, and there was a lot of good.

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Speaker 3: There was probably more bad than good. But the theme

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Speaker 3: I'm getting with this league right now is there's a

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Speaker 3: couple of things are I think preseason football is.

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Speaker 2: Really badly awful. It's really bad off watch every game.

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Speaker 2: It's really horrendous. Like the Packers are. Everyone's super psyched

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Speaker 2: were like the worst team I've seen all year, you know,

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Speaker 2: and they rested a lot of their guys.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing that I'm starting to get keened

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Speaker 3: practice that was as physical as a game. It was

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Speaker 3: by far their best and most physical practice of the year,

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Speaker 3: of course, and then they have to play a game

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Speaker 3: two days later, you know, like it's almost like worse

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Speaker 2: I thought Russell Wilson brought up a good point in

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Speaker 2: I would have felt much differently about the game if

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Speaker 2: I hadn't seen that practice. Me too, well, the Steelers

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Speaker 2: not only went out and held their own I thought

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Speaker 3: A lot of what we saw. Yeah, yeah, I thought

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen was the best player out there and other

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Speaker 3: they come back the next day or two days later,

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Speaker 3: and both offensive lines were really bad, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 2: Going hard on that Thursday.

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Speaker 3: They're going hard in that practice, and then those linemen

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Speaker 3: both those lines looked terrible, and you know, I think

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Speaker 3: that in any situation like that, it's really going to

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Speaker 3: they're also the better athletes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I didn't read too much into the game. Yes,

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Speaker 2: about what I saw. I would feel worse about the

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Speaker 2: what I saw if I hadn't. If the Steelers' offense

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Speaker 2: I would be like, oh, this offense is in trouble.

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Speaker 3: Or if Broderick Jones hadn't blocked anybody in a month,

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Speaker 3: was fine against Rousseaux and the practices they did well.

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Speaker 3: They did one on ones against one another, they did

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Speaker 3: a great young player. I mean him and had Oliver

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Speaker 3: they both are first round picks that are looking like

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Speaker 3: that I think, boy, this Steeler offense can't hang with

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Speaker 3: was a lot of situational stuff, and they didn't play

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Speaker 3: well in this game. They absolutely didn't. But overall, I

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Speaker 3: don't think the world's fault. You know, this guy is falling. No,

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Speaker 3: I don't know they're crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I've seen too much already to just say, oh,

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Speaker 2: all right, I mean there's definitely the defense was better

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, clear yeah, clearly.

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Speaker 2: And it started that way early in camp this year.

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Speaker 2: But the offense started winning more and more and more

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Speaker 2: against what we think is going to be a pretty

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Speaker 2: mean I think that D line's really good. You're talking

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, back seven has some questions with their injuries

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Speaker 3: and things, but I thought that front. I thought both

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Speaker 3: also thought it was a much better corner day by

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Speaker 3: but I thought the D line and the corners were

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Speaker 3: don't know how you evaluate Russell Wilson. I mean, of course,

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Speaker 2: Her Well fields is out there against third and fourth

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was the best. It was kind of almost

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Speaker 3: like Josh Allen at that Joy practice where he's in

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Speaker 3: a situation to succeed against backups and he should be

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Speaker 2: And that's really you know, like I'm watching, for example,

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Speaker 2: the great. That's what you want. You want that guy

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Speaker 2: great example because I think he's keep getting better and

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Speaker 3: Now can he handle the one right? Right?

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, that's what you want to see from

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Speaker 3: Even like Benton and le and her Big and all

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Speaker 3: those dudes were clearly getting the better of even ones,

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Speaker 3: look anything like that. No, they played a lot of

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Speaker 3: For whatever reason, they must have been working on it.

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Speaker 2: Again, I don't know what you're working on on your

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right right. It's a really good example because we

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Speaker 3: didn't see as much motion, we didn't see as much

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Speaker 2: A lot of multiple tight ends, right right right.

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Speaker 3: I mean the stuff that they've been practicing all summer.

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Speaker 3: this does look a lot like last year. I don't

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Speaker 3: see the big changes. Well you will.

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Speaker 2: Again, that's not what we saw consistently a training camp

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Speaker 2: I would also say this, because you see a lot

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Speaker 2: of stuff out there. This this rookie quarterback looks great,

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Speaker 2: This one's doing this, this one's doing that. You set

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Speaker 2: your rookie quarterbacks up in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: Oh with layups?

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Speaker 3: Just just get this kid confident. Yeah, I mean, so

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Speaker 3: it looks like he belongs. And even like Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 3: all kinds of amazing things because he's super talented and

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Speaker 3: that's great, but I'm sure his quarterback coach and offensive

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Speaker 3: pulled some crazy stuff out with his athleticism, because he

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Speaker 3: that that you gotta make back to the Steelers. Oh though, too,

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Speaker 3: I wonder how many snaps this season. I mean, from

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Speaker 3: the day training camp open til today, have their best

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Speaker 3: eleven offensive players been in the field together. And it's

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Speaker 2: He just did. He didn't. There's no ifans or butts

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Speaker 2: Not to touch anything that's out there, No, No, I totally

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Speaker 2: it wasn't all awful now, as you alluded to in

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Speaker 3: Lying around, playing well, controlling the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: aren't as good. I like Darius Rush might be Rush

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00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,200
Speaker 3: separating a little bit, just say the same thing. Yeah,

437
00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,560
Speaker 3: I thought the exact same thing, that Rush might be

438
00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,760
Speaker 3: someone you can count on now, you know. Yeah, I

439
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,640
Speaker 3: thought that he passed that test. I might play him

440
00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,119
Speaker 3: like the whole game to see what he could do,

441
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:41,440
Speaker 3: you know.

442
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, against some better receipt I don't know what, you know,

443
00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,760
Speaker 2: we don't know what Detroit's going to do this week.

444
00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:48,800
Speaker 3: I don't know what the league's gonna do. I mean,

445
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 3: the league is so hard to understand or analyze. In

446
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 3: the preseason. You watch these teams. They don't play anybody,

447
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,639
Speaker 3: and Michael Penix didn't play, Like, what are you thinking of?

448
00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:58,560
Speaker 2: That's crazy.

449
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,520
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that just for a secon. Okay, they're

450
00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,200
Speaker 3: the opening the opponent. Like picking him is a little odd,

451
00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 3: but okay, they love him apparently they adore him. That's great.

452
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 3: And he played well in his first first preseason game. Actually,

453
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,080
Speaker 3: all these rookie quarterbacks have played pretty well. They said

454
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,840
Speaker 3: they saw enough of him, you know, like, we're done.

455
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,720
Speaker 3: He's good. He's not gonna play next week either. My

456
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,640
Speaker 3: immediate thought was, are they saving him for week one

457
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,919
Speaker 3: because Cousins isn't ready yet? That's a possibility, Like is

458
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 3: there's more to this?

459
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 2: So we don't know, but you would think if you

460
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Speaker 2: were doing that, you'd want to see more of I

461
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 2: would want to I can't understand any logic why you

462
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,560
Speaker 2: wouldn't play a first round quarterback, especially if he's a backup.

463
00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you're expecting him not to unless you're, you know,

464
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 2: going into this, you sign Cousins all this money, You're

465
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Speaker 2: expecting Cousins to be your starter.

466
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Speaker 3: Right.

467
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,880
Speaker 2: Therefore, Daniels isn't gonna play all season long.

468
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Speaker 3: And we just saw JJ McCarthy get hurt because that

469
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,960
Speaker 3: scared them off. If it does, what are we doing

470
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,640
Speaker 3: on here? I mean, it's just football. People get hurt.

471
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,639
Speaker 3: You can't live that way. They also have case Keenum.

472
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 3: I mean, were they showcasing him for a trade or something?

473
00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 3: What are you gonna get for him? A seventh round pick?

474
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 3: Like I just didn't stand it, and I just wanted

475
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 3: to throw it out there, like is there some lodge?

476
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just trying to think like they do,

477
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 3: and to me, maybe Cousins isn't going to be ready

478
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 3: for Week one. I mean, I'm just guessing, because otherwise

479
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 3: I don't understand that he's.

480
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 2: Not going to play the entire preseason. He was just

481
00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 2: cleared for contact. What last week? I think I think

482
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Speaker 2: I call him Daniels. Obviously it's not Daniels. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

483
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 2: But I don't get a decision. Yeah, I don't get it.

484
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 3: But I'm back to Steelers.

485
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Speaker 2: I just want to make sure we talked about that

486
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 2: Atlanta thing, because I just don't understand what on earth

487
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 2: you're thinking without playing your first round pick. Yeah, that's shocking.

488
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 2: That's what he should be doing, you know, right right?

489
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 2: You think you want to see as much of him

490
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Speaker 2: in the preseason as possible.

491
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 3: I played the whole game as opposed to zero.

492
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think the defense as a whole,

493
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 2: I feel I feel a lot better about what they've

494
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 2: got there now. I still think that they're maybe searching

495
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 2: a little bit for that nickel corner spot. We saw

496
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 2: Thomas Graham, yeah, get the shot there. We also saw

497
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 2: some more big nickel in this game.

498
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I think that's a one way of getting

499
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 3: around it. Yeah, and those three or three safeties, all

500
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 3: of whom are capable out of the slot. They didn't

501
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 3: play their number one slot, Beanie Bishop. I don't think

502
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 3: that's a bad injury from what I understand, And I

503
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 3: think if he was, if it was week one, he'd

504
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 3: been the starting slot, you know. But I think they're

505
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 3: a little well, they're very thin there and slightly desperate

506
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 3: where we better keep him out because he's kind of

507
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 3: the best we got at the moment, you know. Yeah,

508
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 3: that's a little bit of a concern about.

509
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 2: I still think that could change between now and the

510
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,360
Speaker 2: time that they line up against the Falcons. I wouldn't

511
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,880
Speaker 2: be surprised if they take a shot at somebody who

512
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Speaker 2: gets cut loose.

513
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 3: There'll be a lot of veterans out there, maybe even

514
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 3: one with gunner experience too. That looked a little.

515
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 2: Better, a little bit better.

516
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 3: I mean, Fitzpatrick I think has a chance to make

517
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 3: the team. Played a lot of receiver, but I don't

518
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 3: love him as a gunner or receiver.

519
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 2: No, wats is pretty good.

520
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's one of the answers at least,

521
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 3: So that's a start.

522
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 2: Hey, if you have one gunner, you can work around that.

523
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, you need you can live without a great

524
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 3: second one.

525
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. I think the punt team was great. Yeah,

526
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 2: And the punter is great and the punt team was outstanding. Yeah.

527
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 3: So no, I think there's a lot of positives. And

528
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 3: back to the defense. You know, they were shuffling Roberts

529
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,159
Speaker 3: and Wilson in and out and different packages, and you know,

530
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 3: Wilson looked like more the coverage guy. Roberts looked like

531
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 3: more the hitter type and did bring a defensive lineman

532
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 3: out with him and bring you know, the dime package in.

533
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 3: I think Trice played a pretty decent game as well. Uh,

534
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 3: Watts in general, I think is starting to be someone

535
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 3: you can look forward to the future of. Maybe he's

536
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 3: a defensive back for this team too, you know, so

537
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 3: we'll see. But I think the defense is a pretty

538
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 3: good spot.

539
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think when I look at that defense, it

540
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 2: looks deeper and presumably what you would think would be

541
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 2: better than last year. But again, we still have the

542
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 2: seeing Cam Hayward out there. He's the one that's like

543
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 2: the biggest wildcard to be in whole team. Like, I

544
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: don't feel like as an analyst, I know if he's

545
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 2: better or worse than last season. Yet, well, I feel

546
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 2: like I know he's going to be better than what

547
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 2: he was last season. Yeah, when he played on one

548
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 2: leg for the entire year.

549
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 3: I guess I didn't phrase that the way I liked.

550
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 3: Is he going to be back to being camp? We

551
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,160
Speaker 3: haven't seen. He hasn't done much of camp. I would

552
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 3: never play him the preseason anyway, but I'm excited to

553
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 3: watch him week one, week two and be like, if

554
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 3: he is back.

555
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 2: If he's let's say, eighty five percent of what he

556
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 2: was not last year, he was one of the better

557
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,120
Speaker 2: players in the league.

558
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 3: Yeyeah.

559
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine with that. I'm fine with it because

560
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 2: the other guys have taken a step up around him.

561
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've been hoping for this for a while.

562
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 3: But if his snapcount can go down by twenty percent

563
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 3: and he can just dedicate himself to know certain situations

564
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 3: or deep in the games or whatever it is, you're

565
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 3: gonna get a lot out of him. I still think

566
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 3: he's like the biggest wild card.

567
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 2: On the team. I feel pretty good about that being

568
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 2: able to happen, though, because.

569
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 3: That was a trust him as a player too, you know.

570
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and his style of play yeah, yeah, but I

571
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 2: just feel better about it as a whole based on

572
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 2: you know, how some of the guys behind him right

573
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: have played in this preseason. I mean, you know, le

574
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 2: Al and Montrevius Adams.

575
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 3: Are good players, are good football players.

576
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 2: Like you gotta find ways they had in the one

577
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 2: sub package, le Al standing up on the outside like

578
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 2: a true.

579
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 3: Edge stand up two point stands. Say, I noticed that too, Yeah,

580
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 3: and he can do it.

581
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

582
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 3: I don't know if I want him banging between the

583
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 3: guards sixty snaps a game. I mean, he's leader, and

584
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 3: he's a different package.

585
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 2: Why not.

586
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, and twists and stunts and things like that. And

587
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,239
Speaker 3: I think we know Lowry's a solid NFL player too.

588
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 3: I mean he's new to the mix. But besides Alan

589
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 3: and Curtis Samuel, that was their ones and that's a

590
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 3: pretty good line. It's a good running game. You know,

591
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 3: Kincaid was out there, and you know there's there's starters

592
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: all except for Samuel and Alan, And of course it

593
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 3: would be different with Alan to vers Traubisky, and Trabisky

594
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 3: might be getting worse by the way.

595
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 2: I'm not picking on because he's gone, but man, I

596
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: mean he is struggling, but I mean the front was

597
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: the guys who'd play against you know, in week one, Yeah,

598
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: and the Steelers D did really, really well.

599
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 3: Again we said to start the show. D line ruled

600
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 3: the day on both sides. And I do think the

601
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 3: joint practice had something to do with that, and you

602
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: know the fact they could stay fresher and or better

603
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 3: athletes to begin with. But for some reason, your nation's

604
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: only seeing one side of that.

605
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 2: You know, they're saying, yeah, you know, I mean, that's

606
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 2: kind of harp on it.

607
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 3: But three points, I get it.

608
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, three points or three points? And again, would you

609
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 2: feel better about it if they kicked the field goals

610
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 2: and win twelve nine and aren't working on Probably not

611
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:45,239
Speaker 2: right right?

612
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 3: And frankly, if I were Bills fans, I wouldn't be

613
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 3: happy with that game at all, you know, like, oh

614
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 3: out of defense. I mean it's same thing though, like

615
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be like, man, we were a much better

616
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 3: team or that was a great one of the Super Bowl.

617
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 3: Super Bowl now nothing to it. I mean again, the

618
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 3: joint practices were better.

619
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and then you know, I get it, that's

620
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 2: one thing that you know, the general public didn't see.

621
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,719
Speaker 2: But again I thought Wilson was right to bring that up.

622
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: Is like, hey, look, you know, I would feel much

623
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 2: worse about this if if we hadn't looked better in

624
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 2: our regular practices and then the joint practice. We looked

625
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: much better than what we put out there tonight.

626
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you don't have to take our word for

627
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,479
Speaker 3: it on that one. But that was at least an

628
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 3: even battle, if not the Steelers being the better team

629
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 3: in really situational football stuff, you know, stuff that they

630
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 3: really wanted to practice with Josh Allen playing, with Josh

631
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: Allen playing, and TJ. Watt and guys like that still

632
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 3: didn't Particula didn't play in that one. Yeah, right, right,

633
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 3: So again, don't go crazy over it. I really didn't

634
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 3: think the offense was schemed up in any way. I

635
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: was a little shocked how schemed up the Bills d

636
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 3: was too. Like they had a seven man pressure to

637
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 3: go out, you know, like they did some things that

638
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 3: were not necessarily schemed up for the Steelers, but they

639
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 3: threw a lot at you.

640
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: Some things that you wouldn't necessarily normally show in a

641
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: preseason game.

642
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they were working on the finer points

643
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 3: of the defense, and I was actually listening to podcast

644
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 3: on the way here, and someone said something along the

645
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 3: lines of McDermott was really focused on this defense to

646
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 3: be as aggressive as possible, and he's going to reward

647
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 3: them by letting them sit from now until. You know,

648
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 3: if if you guys execute the stuff we're trying to

649
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 3: do at a high level, which they did, you're off

650
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 3: until week one, you know, and we don't want anyone

651
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 3: else get hurt. I mean, their linebacker safety situation is

652
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: a little frightening too, you know.

653
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so again, you know, we'll see how it

654
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Speaker 2: looks against Detroit on on Saturday. But even at that,

655
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna overreact it, Like I don't. I still

656
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: don't expect to see TJ. Watt out there. I don't

657
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: expect to see high Smith out there. I don't expect

658
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 2: to see Hayward out there.

659
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 3: Nope, nope. I mean, and again, if the offense, if

660
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: the one offense plays, it might be a series, might

661
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: be a couple, you know, Like.

662
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Speaker 2: Would you feel better about this if if Russell Wilson

663
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 2: the starting lines out there, you know, George Pickens is

664
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 2: out there, Harris is out there, the Steelers go down

665
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: to score a touchdown, all everything's.

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00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 3: Fixed against the Lions. Two's yeah, you know, like I

667
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 3: bet the Lions don't play anybody either, probably not. I

668
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 3: mean again, this is not Steelers specific, but as usual,

669
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 3: I get super psyched. Let's put it on a game,

670
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 3: you know, and like nobody's playing, or one team has

671
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 3: all their ones in, the other ones has all their

672
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 3: backups in. Like yeah, really really rough. And I think

673
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 3: the world knows eighteen games and two preseason games is

674
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 3: coming because.

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00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 2: It's kind of already getting there. It's kind of already

676
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: been there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like Sean mcvagh didn't even coach the Rams

678
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 3: this week. He was in the booth. I guess Shanahan

679
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 3: let one of his offensive guys call the plays.

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00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 2: Well, they do, so that happens a lot in the preseason,

681
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: where the head coach will or the offensive coordinator will

682
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 2: let somebody else call the game, just as hey, let's

683
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: see how you do it this in case something chance

684
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: you get. I mean, yeah, people don't think about that,

685
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 2: but there's no minor leagues for play calling. You know,

686
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 2: if you're on a team with Andy Reid or Shanahan

687
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: or somebody like that, you're the offensive coordinator, you can

688
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: tribute to the game plan. You might be in Andy's

689
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: ear going, man, we got to run outside zone more

690
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 2: or whatever, but you're not a little different and having

691
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: you get the plays out. I know the Steelers did that,

692
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: you know previously, you know with some of their coordinators,

693
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: Hey let this guy call this game.

694
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 3: And with respect all those assistant coaches. It just shows

695
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 3: that this is not the finished product. I mean, preseason

696
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 3: football is not that important, to be honest with it

697
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 3: really isn't the Only thing that is important is getting

698
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 3: out with injury free. Yeah, that's the biggest thing. It's important.

699
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 3: I guess we should probably cover that. I mean, there's

700
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 3: Warren's we know about. Yeah, Peyton Wilson left the game

701
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 3: with potential concussion.

702
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: I saw him on the field afterwards talking with some

703
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Speaker 2: family and stuff. So it is a concussion. It's not

704
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Speaker 2: something that's super serious. And they held a couple of

705
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 2: dudes out, but all in all they're in decent shape. Yeah,

706
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Speaker 2: I mean her big we knew going into the game.

707
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 2: Anthony have Rett had a Hampstead.

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Speaker 3: Was top of my head. That left the game.

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Speaker 2: There was three I think, Yeah, that was it. Okay,

710
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: So I mean nothing, I think season ending coming out

711
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: of any of the preseason games, which is what you want.

712
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Speaker 2: Audio network and met some news and notes around the league. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: happening on Monday here because everybody has now played their

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Speaker 2: second to Buss. Yeah, everybody has at least two. A

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Speaker 2: couple of teams have three. Did you see Anthony McFarlane

738
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Speaker 2: signing with the Miami Dolphins. I always had.

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Speaker 3: Hope for him, yeah, I mean I thought he was

740
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Speaker 3: an explosive player, highly recruited, you know, did some things

741
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Speaker 3: in college. I liked the draft pick when it happened,

742
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 3: and never just really clicked for him here.

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Speaker 2: Always kept getting hurt.

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Speaker 3: I always kept getting hurt, and just when I thought

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00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 3: he was turning the corner, he'd get hurt or was

746
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 3: inactive because he wasn't on teams or whatever. Perfect example

747
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 3: of that last running back. If he's not a special

748
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 3: team or not being able to help you much. And

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Speaker 3: he wasn't a you know, Patterson like return guy, even

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Speaker 3: though he did return kicks.

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Speaker 2: But the Dolphins like speed, they do like he fits

752
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: with them perfect.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe something works out for him there.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a good, good landing spot. Yeah,

755
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: it is for him so we'll see how that works out.

756
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: The Bills came out of the game with a lot

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Speaker 2: of injurers.

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00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: No did that, I didn't say so.

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00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: Mitch Trubisky expected to miss multiple weeks with the knee injury,

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00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 2: according to Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 3: And Denuci's the backup who just signed like last five

762
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Speaker 3: minutes ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Marquez Valdez Scantling, who we saw stay down

764
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Speaker 2: on the field for quite a while. He's expected to

765
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 2: miss multiple weeks. That's a I believe a sprain neck. Okay,

766
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Speaker 2: that's never good.

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Speaker 3: I never heard what that was. It looked a little

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Speaker 3: scary though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Curtis Samuel with turf toe is week to week.

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Speaker 2: That can be something that he.

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Speaker 3: Did play, but yeah, they're counting on him a lot. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Tight End Quinton Moore.

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Speaker 3: Really, by the way, Shakir Only was out there with

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Speaker 3: three receiver sets for them too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 3: Coleman was okay, but he didn't look like a game

777
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Speaker 3: changer to me in either one of the events we saw,

778
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 3: you know, as a rookie. So their receivers are a

779
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 3: little shaky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tight End Quinton Morris, who also got hurt on

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Speaker 2: the same play that Valdez. Scantling got hurt on He's

782
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Speaker 2: got a shoulder issue. He's expected to miss multiple weeks.

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Speaker 3: He's our third guy there. Yeah, they have Knox and

784
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 3: Kincaid ahead.

785
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 2: Of it, and then safety Damar Hamlin has a hamstring.

786
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 2: He is week to week and.

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Speaker 3: They already lost Milano. I mean they held out I

788
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 3: forget their starting linebacker. They held out Bernard. Yeah, because

789
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 3: they're so thin a linebacker. Safety is not much better.

790
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Speaker 3: I mean the Poyer and hide that have been fixtures

791
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 3: for that team are gone. And they've always been so

792
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Speaker 3: strong between the numbers up the middle, the spine of

793
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Speaker 3: the defense, and it's scary for them right now.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit of an issue.

795
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really I like the Bills was an organization.

796
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 3: I think they're well coached. I see what they're going through.

797
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,760
Speaker 3: I mean, this is chapter two of the Josh Allen story.

798
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: But he's gonna have to be like League MVP for

799
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Speaker 3: them to be a contender. I mean, there's not that

800
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Speaker 3: much around them at the moment.

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Speaker 2: There really is. You like the d line a lot though, Yeah,

802
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: McDermott didn't. Well, you better because they've drafted a lot

803
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: of spent a lot of draft a lot of those guys. Yeah. Yeah.

804
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 2: McDermott said he's not going to play his starters next

805
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 2: week in their preseason finale against the Panthers.

806
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Speaker 3: I didn't realize how banged up they were after the

807
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 3: Steeler game, and I for them, I would not play

808
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: their starters either, like, let's just get to the starting line. Adams.

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00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 3: People know this, but I mean, I'm not sure if

810
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 3: it was mentioned on the air, but it sounds like

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00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: Josh Allen was gonna play. But then when the rain hit,

812
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 3: they're just like, ah, it's all.

813
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, thank terrain played a factor and a lot

814
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 2: of that, a lot of they wanted to play everybody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 2: Uh did you see the Browns lost or all their

817
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: offensive tackle all their offensive tackles have been just devastating.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think Dwan Jones is the only one

819
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 3: out there that they've been able to count on at all.

820
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Speaker 3: Conklin I thinks on the.

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Speaker 2: As his as his will uh uh will or Willis

822
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Speaker 2: Jedrick Willis, Wills Wills Wills Okay, yes, and they're even

823
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Speaker 2: like Hubbard and those guys I think Hudson, Yeah, they're

824
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: on like no tackles at all.

825
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of teams that are really thin.

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Speaker 2: And they were talking about playing Deshaun Watson in the

827
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 2: in the third preseason game because he just got cleared

828
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Speaker 2: for contact.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, I bet not.

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Speaker 2: Do you play him with they don't have any offensive tackles?

831
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think not and maybe asked Potonio to

832
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 3: play tack or something. Goofy like that. I'm just spitballing,

833
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 3: But no, that's a problem. Like we saw the last week,

834
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 3: the Niners had to cancel joint practice because they were

835
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: two banged up.

836
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 2: Twenty three guys hurt.

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00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 3: Twenty three guys hurt right at a ninety. The league's

838
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 3: in a weird place, I mean, and we opened with this.

839
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 3: I know people were down on the Steelers, but this

840
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 3: preseason is not very entertaining or I mean, it's it's

841
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 3: kind of an odd situation right now.

842
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 2: The Bengals placed running back Chris Evans and offensive tackle

843
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 2: Deontay Smith on ir They both got hurt in the game.

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Speaker 3: They're both in the past week.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 3: I'm sure they just want to bring them back to

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Speaker 3: camp next year. Yeah.

848
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see. Gilmore signed with the Stefan Gilmour, now

849
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:57,720
Speaker 2: a Minnesota Viking.

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00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and the Raiders named ahead named uh garden

851
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 3: issue is a starting quarterback kind of by the fall.

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00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: Well. Jane Daniels also named the starter in Washington as well.

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00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 3: So I would think Bo Nixon make me to this

854
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 3: stuff from Sorry, I'm sorry, I thought you were struggling

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00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 3: for something just reading.

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00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 2: Everything else that I got here to see if anybody

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00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 2: else's uh is standing out here?

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00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: Uh.

859
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford with the hamstring gets some individual work on Monday.

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00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 2: Offensive tackle Jonah Jackson participated.

861
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 3: In the individual There are lines been in shambles. They

862
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 3: don't play anyone the preseason anyway, so who I mean

863
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 3: the they kind of laugh at the preseason. They laughed

864
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: a draft picks fixed too, and they don't said their

865
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 3: scouts to the combine. The Rams do things different.

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00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 2: They do let the head coach stay up in the Yeah.

867
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little concerning though. I mean he's just

868
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 3: his age and any little thing you hear about him, yeah,

869
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 3: just you know, makes it right. It raises an eyebrow.

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Speaker 2: The Miami Dolphins, who we mentioned U one of the

871
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 2: reasons why they signed Anthony McFarland is that Chris Brooks

872
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 2: one of the running backs when into and concussion protocol.

873
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 2: Odell Beckham is not expected to return to practice this week.

874
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 3: I don't think he's done one thing.

875
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 2: He hasn't done anything. Yeah, he's done one thing in

876
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 2: maybe four years, quite some time. I'm not sure how

877
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: interested in football he is. He I mean interested in

878
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: continuing to collect a paycheck.

879
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we nailed it last year. The day the

880
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 3: Raven signed him like that is a.

881
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 2: Bad maybe one of the worst signings in recent history. Yeah.

882
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 2: They also have River craig Craft had an upper body injury.

883
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: He's gonna miss some regular season time. If River craiy

884
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 2: Craft was actually going to make their roster and Willie

885
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 2: Snead placed on injured reserve, I didn't realize he was

886
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 2: still in the league.

887
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

888
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 2: Cornerback Cam Smith, he's a guy they're really counting. They're

889
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 2: counting on him. He was hurt much of last year.

890
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 3: Has moved on from Howard and first round pick. Yeah, yeah,

891
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: he was one. Yeah, they need him to step up

892
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 3: in a big way.

893
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 2: He's considered week the week with the hamstring injury. So

894
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: they didn't have a ton of depth to begin with.

895
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 3: No, that was a position they couldn't afford to lose either.

896
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 2: Okay, you mentioned the Stephan Gilmore signing by the Minnesota Vikings.

897
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 2: Hunter Henry has an undisclosed injury, but Girod Mayo said

898
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 2: he is expected to be ready for Week one for

899
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots.

900
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 3: He's one of the few pass catchers is reliable with

901
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 3: you count on. He's not dynamic, but at least you

902
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 3: know what you're getting with the guy good in the

903
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 3: red zone.

904
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: Did you see this one? Matt so Tua Tago vi

905
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 2: Looa went on the Dan Levatard Show and he was

906
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 2: asked about the difference in the two head coaches that

907
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: he's had.

908
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 3: He bashed the old game.

909
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 2: Bashed Brian Flores really time. Okay, he said, to put

910
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: it in the simplest terms, if you woke up every

911
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: morning and I told you that you suck at what

912
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: you did, well, I hear that all the time. You

913
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 2: don't belong doing what you do, that you shouldn't be there,

914
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: this guy should be here, that you haven't earned this.

915
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: And then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude,

916
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 2: you're the best.

917
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 3: Fit for this.

918
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 2: You're accurate, you're the best whatever you're this or that.

919
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 2: How would that make you feel listening from one to

920
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 2: the other.

921
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean been a lot of coaches in this

922
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 3: league that aren't love kissy unicorns and rainbows, you know,

923
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 3: and maybe two of operates better with one than the other.

924
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:15,959
Speaker 3: That's fine.

925
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: I have a hard time believing Nick Saban is all cuddly.

926
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 3: No, not even a little. I mean, anyone talking Chuck

927
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 3: Noles stories or parcels or you know. There's a lot

928
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 3: of different ways to coach, and I'm a I'm a

929
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 3: Flores fan. I love what he did with the Vikings

930
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 3: defense last year too. Maybe he's only a coordinator when

931
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: it's deep down, I don't know, but I you know,

932
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 3: everyone responds differently. I think two of as I look

933
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: at it, like this offensive system, the x's and o's,

934
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 3: is a lot better, not necessarily as a debt better.

935
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 3: They didn't necessarily won any more though than they did no,

936
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 3: and they were basically trying to lose.

937
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 2: They were trying to lose with Flores, and they still won, and.

938
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 3: I still won. That's why I got fired. Yeah, right,

939
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 3: but whatever, I don't know. I don't understand athletes bashing

940
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 3: the guys as they leave, you know, like it's kind

941
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 3: of a cheap shot.

942
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 2: It really is, because people are gonna now ask Flores

943
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 2: about this, and he's gonna say, I don't have any

944
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 2: comment on that. That's because it's.

945
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 3: A class move. He's not gonna be like two A

946
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 3: soft tough enough dude, you know what I mean, Like

947
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 3: he might be what he thinks you know. Yeah, showed

948
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: them and he couldn't handle it, you know.

949
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 2: You know Belichick coach Tom Brady hard.

950
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, he coached him like fifty third guy on the roster, right,

951
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 3: So I I don't know whatever, I don't. I just

952
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 3: keep your mouth shut on that stuff. But whatever, I mean,

953
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 3: you got paid, You're you're in a happy place.

954
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: She didn't have to. Yeah, throw the other guy under

955
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 2: the bus.

956
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 3: I just don't understand what you get out of it.

957
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't get it either.

958
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 3: What's crazy is they could be teammates one day too,

959
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 3: you know, like you could get cut after a bad

960
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: year because you're making fifty million and he's a defensive

961
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 3: coordinator on your team. You know, like you're gonna intersect

962
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 3: with these people a lot. Yeah, go for it, absolutely, yea. Yeah,

963
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 3: you could wind up back. Yeah, who knows both might

964
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 3: be Raiders some day or something. You know, Yeah, I

965
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 3: hope not for their sake, all right.

966
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 2: Anyways, that's gonna do it for our number one of

967
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 2: the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and

968
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 2: I will be back with our number two. Don't change

969
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 2: that dial right after this.

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