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Speaker 3: Man, Welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI. He is the Matt

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Speaker 3: Williamson and Matt It is time for the Fantasy Football

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Speaker 3: Focus and it's Wednesday. We'll run around the league here

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Speaker 3: and see what the player news and updates we have

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Speaker 3: from practices today before we start that. The player news

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Speaker 3: of the day, Nico Collins, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Are sounds like it's probably only the four weeks, but

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Speaker 4: it's a hamstring four weeks. That's brutal, no, no doubt

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Speaker 4: about it. I definitely think Schultz gets a bump. I

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Speaker 4: think Dell gets a bump. Diggs gets a bump, But

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Speaker 4: I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: There's been kind of catching balls all along.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been fine. I don't know how much difference

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Speaker 4: it is for him. They need Dell to step up

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Speaker 4: a little bit. He's only been used on a lot

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Speaker 4: of outbreaking stuff he has been you know, the big,

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Speaker 4: big receiver stuff he has not been doing, and over

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Speaker 4: the middle stuff and the deep post things like that.

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Speaker 4: I think Houston will be fine. But I mean he's

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Speaker 4: if we were redrafting right now, Nico would be one

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Speaker 4: of the first teams taken out.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's you know, it's going to hurt

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Speaker 3: your team regardless because you've been counting on them and

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Speaker 3: they're still in the same kind of holding pattern With

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Speaker 3: Joe Mixon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I say, I don't know what we know about

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Speaker 4: him either, and still money Yeah, you know, right, so I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know what's going on. I mean this has been

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Speaker 3: over a month now with mixing sitting out. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: a running game. Their running games bad.

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Speaker 4: And I've picked up Akers in both the leagues and

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Speaker 4: I've used him here and there because you have to.

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Speaker 1: But it's not good. You know, he doesn't really create

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Speaker 3: Uh. Devin DuVernay lands on I R today with the

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Speaker 3: hamstring issue. He's not been a factor no in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: But you know, Uh, Sharvarius Ward is questionable for Thursday

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Speaker 3: night football. Uh miss it Monday's practice Ifonga's out.

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Speaker 4: Warner played at like fifty percent and uncertain if he'll

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Speaker 4: play in this one in a short week on the road.

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Speaker 4: That defense isn't as scary as it looks as usual.

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Speaker 3: As I mentioned yesterday too, their slot defense has been

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Speaker 3: really bad, real bad. Yeah, so keep that in mind

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Speaker 3: with Jackson Smith and Jig. But yes, I think he's

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Speaker 3: at that. Definitely somebody should use. Uh Zach Moss with

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Speaker 3: a foot injury, did not practice some wins.

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Speaker 1: I don't expect him to play for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I understand someone said it was a high

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Speaker 4: ankle being reported as a foot. It's one of those

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Speaker 4: ones where he the same thing, happened to mix it,

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Speaker 4: didn't do anything, and then gone.

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Speaker 3: Anytime I see foot like that, I immediately think of Liz Frank.

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Speaker 3: That's those are bad.

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Speaker 1: Those are bad.

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Speaker 4: High ankles bad, Liz Frank's bad. Fire of Chase Brown. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: he'll catch some. I mean Moss has been. It shocked

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Speaker 3: It's mostly protection, yeah, I mean that's a big reason

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Speaker 1: A little bit so along.

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Speaker 4: Chase Brown is only past blocked twice two snaps this year.

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Speaker 1: They haven't thrown with him in the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's that's probably something that bears watching. Mike

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Speaker 4: All all Eric all in all in, Brown's a good receiver.

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Speaker 4: Higgins looks like his roles growing, Chase is starting to

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Speaker 4: settle in. They're not hurting on pass catchers.

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Speaker 3: No, but they do throw some to the tight end.

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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, Quinny pay I do like Eric, although yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Wash who's on ir Murphy's still banged

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Speaker 3: Then for that game.

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Speaker 1: Really, both these teams are kind of banged on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that could be a little maybe more high

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Speaker 4: I don't love Seattle's protection, but there's a lot of weapons,

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of fits right right, so it'd be interesting.

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Speaker 1: To see a good game.

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Speaker 3: Darnell Mooney with a knee injury, officially limited in Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. So he's a hot waiver wire pickup.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely gotten like Jillian targets the last two weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: really all season long, he's been a consistent target share.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know there's anything wrong with them. I don't

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Speaker 3: you mentioned, Bira Murphy has been ruled out for Week six.

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Speaker 3: Evan Ingram with a hamstring limited still limited a practice

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Speaker 3: on Wednesday for the Jackson else Forever.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they could use them there overseas in early game. Interestingly,

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Speaker 4: they're the away team in London, you know, they're always

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Speaker 3: They they stayed over there. They went last year twice

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Speaker 4: I think big Bees. Big Bees is the one. Like,

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Speaker 3: Gabe Davis, Yeah, Gabe Davis with a knee was limited

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Speaker 3: Uh. Noah Brown with a groin was limited Wednesday with

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Speaker 1: Arrested.

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, he's eighty seven years old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, they both are factors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Austin Ekelar was limited at practice on Wednesday with

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Speaker 3: Michael Pittman is dealing with a back issue. Clear if

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Speaker 3: that's a factor. Anthony Richardson was still limited with that

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Speaker 3: He didn't practice today either.

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Speaker 1: Their goodson's there, third guy.

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Speaker 3: Uh Josh Downs with a toe issue mispractice Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors with the concussion still not practicing tomorrow will

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Speaker 4: That always worries me. On it's more than a week. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: He had an injury before, right, yeah, and now he's

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Speaker 4: got that. Doesn't look good for him to play against

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Speaker 1: You could argue he was much like in the game.

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Speaker 3: I can't be if you look at his Pro Football

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Speaker 4: That defense to me, I don't know what to do

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Speaker 4: with just in fantasy, like, are they going to step

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Speaker 4: I think that that team is going right down the point.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I thought he left that game and didn't return.

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Speaker 3: Christian Watson with the ankle injury return to practice Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not known for being in it to win it.

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Speaker 4: Just because Watson's If you're not going to put the

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean when the franchise loses so many again,

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right?

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Speaker 3: Does you know?

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Speaker 4: If he gets seventy eighty percent of the snaps, there's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not going.

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Speaker 4: To catch the balls. No, ken Kaid's been so disappointing.

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Speaker 4: Probably right and then and then what's his face? Ty

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Speaker 4: Johnson can catch passes, right, Yeah, so there's more of

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Speaker 3: We have to see some Mason Rudolph this week. If

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Speaker 1: But Hopkins a Ridley, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you have. If Mason's in there, what the heck?

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Speaker 1: I mean Collin's on injury reserves, huge, massive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that to me the one to buy low

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Speaker 3: I try to make a play for Tyreek Hill, but

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Speaker 4: Yeah, trying to think of other angles like that, Like

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Speaker 3: The Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano put out there what

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Speaker 3: we're hearing around the big stuff, and one of the

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Speaker 3: questions was today which quarterback has the best chance to

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Speaker 3: be traded before the November fifth deadline. Okay, so Jeremy

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's gonna be any crystallization this.

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Speaker 3: If they don't, that's not crystallization, because again, he just

440
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,919
Speaker 3: started practicing in full on when today today was the

441
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,400
Speaker 3: first time he's practiced in full in over a month in.

442
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Speaker 4: A long time. And the other guy's good. I mean,

443
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 4: that's just different than some of these other situations where

444
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's not like the Tuas situation where

445
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,679
Speaker 4: the drop off is just astronomical to a guy that

446
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,200
Speaker 4: shouldn't be out there, you know what I mean.

447
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Speaker 3: So then it goes to Graziano because they go back

448
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:52,200
Speaker 3: and forth with this thing, and Graziano says, I'm curious

449
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 3: about the last passer you mentioned, which was Wilson. I

450
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 3: was in Pittsburgh for Sunday's game against Dallas and talking

451
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Speaker 3: to people there. I definitely did not get the sense

452
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,879
Speaker 3: that Justin Fields was on thin ice with that coaching

453
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 3: staff was looking for a reason to turn it over

454
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Speaker 3: to Wilson. I don't know who he's talking to. He

455
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 3: might not be talking to.

456
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Speaker 1: The Fields on thin ice period. They're happy, No, they're.

457
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 3: Happy with Fields. But as Bob said in our previous hour,

458
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson was brought here for a reason, Yeah, right, right,

459
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 3: be the Steelers starting quarterback. Quarter He has done nothing

460
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,480
Speaker 3: in the time that he has been here to say

461
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 3: that he shouldn't be the starting quarterback. Again. I'm happy

462
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,920
Speaker 3: with how Justin Fields has played, for sure. It doesn't

463
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,479
Speaker 3: mean he's played badly, But you brought Wilson here to

464
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 3: be the adult in the room on your offense.

465
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I do think the leadership on field has

466
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 4: a lot or experience. Leadership whatever is definitely lacking on

467
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 4: that side of the ball, and has been for a

468
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 4: couple of years. And I think he provides that. I

469
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 4: think he provides better red zone passing. I think he

470
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 4: provides better deep passing, more intricacies and above the next stuff.

471
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Speaker 1: The ball comes out quicker, ball comes out quicker.

472
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Speaker 4: I think Fields is about six in time to throw

473
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 4: six most Now Field has done good stuff too.

474
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. This is not trashing justin Fields at all.

475
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 4: Contrary to popular belief in today's world. You can if

476
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 4: you like one, doesn't mean to hate the other, right,

477
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 4: you know, I mean I could I could roll with

478
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 4: either one and be very very content. And I think

479
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 4: you could beat the Raiders with either guy. But I

480
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 4: also would like to see Wilson too.

481
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Speaker 3: The interesting thing that he says here is at least

482
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Speaker 3: Fields offers running ability or well he first he says,

483
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how Wilson improves anything here unless there's

484
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 3: a sudden suddenly the running backs and the offensive line

485
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 3: are healthy and they bring in two new wide receivers.

486
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Speaker 3: What are you talking about.

487
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Speaker 1: Does that just mean they should just punt the season?

488
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 3: Apparently? Yeah, apparently, according to Dan Graziano, NFL expert who

489
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 3: was here for a day, that's what they should do.

490
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 3: At least Fields offers some running ability. Here's the thing, Dan,

491
00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 3: they haven't been running them all that much.

492
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Speaker 4: They have been them all that much. No, And I

493
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 4: think that's still untapped potential there with Fields as a runner,

494
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 4: and that he was I won't say better at it,

495
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 4: but more effective, you know, earlier in his career. But

496
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 4: I also think that they don't want to get to

497
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 4: Allen either, you know, and having him take a big

498
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 4: hit or a shot the head or something along those lines.

499
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,679
Speaker 4: And he is a very good runner, but that's not

500
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 4: enough to win the tie. To me, it's really it's

501
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 4: in the positive call.

502
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

503
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Speaker 3: Obviously, as I mentioned before and again I am as

504
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Speaker 3: big a justin Fields fans, as you'll see I was

505
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 3: going into the draft. I remain very much thinking that

506
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 3: he could be a long term guy here. But they

507
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 3: want to run play action. Yeah, they want to throw

508
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 3: the ball a play action and throw the ball down

509
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 3: the field. That's Russell Wilson's game.

510
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 4: That's exactly what Wilson does too. And Wilson can still

511
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 4: do the boots and design movement and all that stuff too. Like,

512
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 4: I find it interesting that people all of a sudden

513
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 4: think he's a bad athlete.

514
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know where this is coming from. He

515
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 3: got a rush for over three hundred yards last year.

516
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 3: He is not you know, thirty six year old Ben

517
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: Roethlisberger back there who couldn't get out of his own way.

518
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 4: No, assuming he's healthy and similar to what we saw

519
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 4: like in camp or in Denver, he's still a plus

520
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 4: athlete for the position.

521
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 3: Well then, he says. Graziano says, the coaches and the

522
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 3: players I've talked to there had nothing but positive things

523
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 3: to say about fields, No kidding, no doubt. Really that's

524
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 3: what I said, positive things about their teammate.

525
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 2: Shocked.

526
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 3: Color me shocked.

527
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Speaker 4: And there are a lot because there are a lot

528
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 4: of positive things. I mean, it sounds like he's smart,

529
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 4: hard working, you know, doing everything he can one and

530
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 4: four right, right, you know, he's got the reason that

531
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 4: they lost the last two games.

532
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 3: No, nobody's saying that, but you know, I think that

533
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 3: there's some things that Russell Wilson can do that justin fields,

534
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,679
Speaker 3: doesn't do at this point in his career.

535
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: I think so.

536
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 4: And part of it's just I want to see it

537
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 4: look different because I think it would look different with

538
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 4: him in there.

539
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 3: As I mentioned a veteran quarterback act knows, you got

540
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 3: to involve everybody early in the game, and they make

541
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 3: sure this guy gets a touch that guy, even if

542
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 3: it's I'm giving you, I'm looking at you. You go

543
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 3: to the bench, Hey, I missed you on that and

544
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 3: I saw you there, George. Yeah, we'll get it the

545
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 3: next time or something, you know, just the little things

546
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 3: like that. He ends this thing. It's also worth remembering well.

547
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 3: He says, I'm sticking with my prediction that Wilson never

548
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 3: plays for the Steelers unless Field gets Fields gets hurt.

549
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: Okay, he could play this weekend.

550
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 3: He could. That's a fine prediction. I mean, it's his prediction.

551
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 3: That's good for him. But he said it's also possible

552
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 3: this ends with Wilson getting released, not traded.

553
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: Now is where he.

554
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 4: Gets the tracks right, What the what purpose does that

555
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 4: serve the Steelers to release him.

556
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 3: I have no idea.

557
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 4: If they fall in love with Fields and they think

558
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 4: they have a special player there, and somebody offered you

559
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: a draft pick for Wilson, I would listen. You know,

560
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 4: cutting him, cutting him would be no, no, first of all.

561
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm sure he's looking at this and going, well,

562
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 4: you know.

563
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 3: The Steelers have cut other players who have forced their

564
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 3: They've had other guys who forced their way out of Pittsburgh.

565
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: There's no indications of that at all.

566
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: I don't see Russell Wilson at this point in his

567
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: career when all that he talked about in the preseason

568
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 3: when he was signed here, how he wanted to to

569
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 3: regain his legacy and recapture his legacy. What kind of

570
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 3: legacy does it build for you to force your way

571
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 3: out of Pittsburgh by being a bad teammate or whatever.

572
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 3: And I've seen nothing of him being a bad teammate. No,

573
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 3: quite the opposite, Quite the opposite. He's a team captain. Yeah,

574
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 3: they made him a team captain for a reason. There's

575
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 3: there's no reason for him to force his way out

576
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 3: because then what that's what I say.

577
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 4: Let's say he really wants out, where's he going to

578
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 4: land that he's going to all of a sudden step

579
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 4: right into the lineup, be fine, and you know, make

580
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 4: his legacy even better, you know, if they trade him

581
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 4: to Miami today, so it didn't take them two or

582
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 4: three weeks to get to where he needs to be,

583
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 4: you know, like.

584
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: I don't. The releasing part is the craziest of it.

585
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,719
Speaker 3: It's the craziest of it all. Why would they release?

586
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: What does that game? It's not a big capit.

587
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,959
Speaker 3: As much as I like justin fields, he has an

588
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 3: injury history. He's missed games in his career because he

589
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 3: does take hits of course, of course, and back up

590
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 3: quarterbacks are more valuable than ever, right, and backup quarterbacks.

591
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 3: If you've watched any football games this year when they've

592
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 3: had to play, it's not been pretty for a lot

593
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 3: of them. That's one of the great things about what

594
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 3: the Steelers situation is here You've got two viable starters

595
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 3: and it's not like they have a second or third

596
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: round draft pick waiting there that you want to see

597
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 3: more of or any of.

598
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 4: That stuff or the season shot. And Wilson's a roadblock

599
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 4: for the young guy, you know, like, that's.

600
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 3: Not the case at all, And they're a three quarterback

601
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: team and who else you bring it in?

602
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wilson might be the starter Week one, next year

603
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 4: could be. I mean, they don't know that answer yet,

604
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 4: right right to get some answers.

605
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I just thought that was.

606
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: Clickbaity.

607
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 4: I mean I could see if you're not super close

608
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 4: to the team, who are some backups of value that

609
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 4: I would kick the tires on in trade if I

610
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 4: desperately needed one. That doesn't mean Sties gonna move them. No,

611
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 4: you're right, they're trying to win this year and they're

612
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 4: definitely not going to release them.

613
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: They're not.

614
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 3: They're not in an imminute. Well, we got to just

615
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: get rid of whatever we can sell all the pieces

616
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 3: off that we can and just let's get draft picks.

617
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 3: It's not where they're.

618
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 4: At at at all, or release them because he's a

619
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 4: problem child.

620
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just don't I don't think people understand

621
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: the relationship that Fields and Wilson had prior to their

622
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 3: both joining the Steelers. When when Fields was in college,

623
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 3: he was reaching out to Russell Wilson because that's who

624
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 3: he modeled his game after that. They were friendly before

625
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: they joined the Steelers. They have talked for years. He

626
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: was he's been happen to get here together, right, Yeah, Yeah,

627
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 3: he's been a mentor. That's why Fields was really happy

628
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 3: to come here. I get to play, I get to

629
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 3: learn under.

630
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson presumably is the two.

631
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he knew that coming in.

632
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, and as good as he's played, which is he

633
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 4: has played well, I mean, but he hasn't been lights

634
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 4: out or without mistakes or you know, can't possibly imagine

635
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 4: taking him out of the lineup.

636
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 3: They're still scoring eighteen points a game, that's the bottom line.

637
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 4: And they're not throwing touchdowns or scoring touchdowns, you know,

638
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 4: back to touchdown passes, batter I haven't seen a lot

639
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 4: of those.

640
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: You know.

641
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 4: Again, I like him, and it amazes me how much

642
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 4: Steeler Nation thinks that he's walks on water. I mean,

643
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 4: there was some Kenny Pickett stuff like that too. Like

644
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 4: I know, it's excitement because he might end up being great,

645
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 4: and I hope he.

646
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: I hope he doesn't more than anybody.

647
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 4: But I don't know that he gives you the best

648
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 4: chance to win today of your two options.

649
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know either, And again I just what

650
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 3: I knew, do know, is that Russell Wilson was brought

651
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 3: here to be the starter. That's what I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

652
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 3: I know, like Tomlin named him the starter at the

653
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 3: end of training camp. That's what I know.

654
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: And he hasn't done anything that negative since then.

655
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 3: He hasn't done anything negative since then, and I know

656
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 3: that again Fields has done good things. Is it is there?

657
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: You know?

658
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 3: Is there a question? Well, should they go with Fields? Yes,

659
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: there's a question.

660
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Speaker 1: There's a question, right, there's a good debate to have. Yeah,

661
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: that's again, that's I see both sides.

662
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 3: But doesn't mean they're about to release Russell Russell Wilson

663
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 3: or trade him. No.

664
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Speaker 4: I would be blown away, especially the release. Yeah, you

665
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 4: get nothing back for him, right, And if someone blew

666
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 4: your doors off, I won't consider it.

667
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 3: And I don't even know what blowing your doors off

668
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 3: would be because I just don't know what you would

669
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 3: get if Okay, he's part of a package for DeVante Adams,

670
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 3: I understand, all right, Yeah, I understand, right, But yeah,

671
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 3: other than that, and if you're a team trading for him,

672
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 3: you haven't seen any recent tape on the guy, right,

673
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 3: and his calf might not be one hundred percent. It's

674
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 3: the problem, right, right, It's hard to trade for injury dudes. Yeah,

675
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 3: I just sometimes I just wonder, you know, if things

676
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 3: like this get we got to fill some space this week,

677
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: let's just write there. We'll talk about the Steelers quarterback

678
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 3: situation again because well, Steeler fans get you know, wound

679
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 3: up about it. Yeah, and then you know, you and

680
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 3: I guys who are in our business and get asked

681
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 3: about it.

682
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 4: See that's what I was thinking. Like, guys in our

683
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 4: business in other cities are like, we could send a

684
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 4: six round pick for the Steelers and get Wilson.

685
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: He's about to get cut. No, that's not true.

686
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: I mean the athletic last week, you know, receivers who

687
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 3: could be had at the trade deadline, and they George

688
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 3: Pickens on the list.

689
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on right, I mean if Pickens was getting

690
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 4: flopped for Adams in some way, shape or form, that

691
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 4: still doesn't even solve it.

692
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: You guys still need another one.

693
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, maybe there's stuff

694
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 4: going on behind the scenes with Pickens, and there's certainly

695
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 4: probably some immaturity. Doesn't mean you got ship him out

696
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 4: for nothing.

697
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, they's just and sometimes like I have a friend

698
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 3: that I golf with all the time, and he'll he

699
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 3: must just scour the internet constantly for Steeler rumors and

700
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 3: things like that because every time. Every We'll get ready

701
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 3: to tee off. He is, did you hear about this?

702
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: I'm like, what now? And you tell me, I'm like,

703
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: where did you read that?

704
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: At? Yeah?

705
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 3: And the one the one day it was after the

706
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 3: Falcons game, Steeler fans already regretted, Steelers already regretting the

707
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 3: hiring of Arthur Smith as offensive coordinator. And he tells

708
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 3: me about this. I'm like, who's saying this, who's reporting this?

709
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 3: And I look and it's it's a Falcons blogger, okay,

710
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 3: who They scored eighteen points against the against the Falcons.

711
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 3: They won the game, but this Falcons blogger because he

712
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 3: hates Arthur Smith for whatever, you know. You know, well,

713
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 3: the Steelers, Steeler fans are now seeing what we saw.

714
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 3: You know. It's just it's it's inane stuff that's put

715
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 3: out there by by somebody's most of the time Graziano,

716
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 3: But most of the time it's somebody sitting in their basement,

717
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 3: either regurgitating something that somebody else wrote and then piggybacking

718
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 3: off of that.

719
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, or the random idea I'm.

720
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: Gonna throw some stuff against the wall and then somebody

721
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: picks up on it and the next thing. You know,

722
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 3: it's a hot rumor. That's not a rumor.

723
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: No, that's not a rumor.

724
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 4: And and Fowler I'm sure has Stuler connections, and he's

725
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 4: a good dude, and I like Jeremy, And he's not

726
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 4: the one.

727
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: That said he could get released.

728
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

729
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 4: I don't know Dan at all, but I think he's

730
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 4: good at his job. But that makes no sense to.

731
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: Me, no matter what.

732
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 3: No, I just don't see that happening at a logical

733
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: move for the team. There's a much better chance that

734
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson starts in two weeks. Yeah, then there is

735
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 3: him being released.

736
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's definitely true. Not close.

737
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 3: I would if I had they said, Okay, your next

738
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 3: month's mortgage payment is going on one or the other.

739
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with starting next week.

740
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 4: And it would pay one, you know, one tenth of

741
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 4: what you bet you know, right, I mean, that's an

742
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 4: easy one.

743
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying I don't even know that that's

744
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 3: the case. I'm just saying that one's much more likely

745
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 3: to happen than him being then cut.

746
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems crazy.

747
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyways, let's get to a break. He is the

748
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 3: Matt Williamson I'm Dale Lollie. You're listening to the Drive

749
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 3: here on the Steelers Audio Network when we come back.

750
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 3: I had a chance to sit down with well of

751
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 3: one of the defensive heroes of Yeah, last Sunday's game.

752
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 3: There were many, but this one was and uh, we'll

753
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: see what he heard, what he had to say when

754
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 3: we come back right after this.

755
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 2: At least he is the Drive with Dale lolly and

756
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of

757
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 2: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

758
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 3: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolli and he is the Matt

759
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 3: Williamson and Matt. One of the kind of the un

760
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 3: song heroes in last week's game for the Steelers was

761
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 3: a defensive lineman, Isaiah Loudermilk. Big blockfield goal there that

762
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 3: kept the game within huge play and one of the

763
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 3: three stops of Steelers had in the first half of

764
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 3: that game in the red zone. And he also was

765
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: asked to play him outside linebacker late that game.

766
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: It's not ideal, but he to choice.

767
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was able to do it. I mean, he's

768
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 3: he's a bigger body guy, but he's you know, he's

769
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 3: tall and long. But as Mike Tomlins said earlier in

770
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 3: the week, like we use him on special teams like

771
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 3: covering kicks and stuff like that because he's an athletic guy.

772
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 4: I mean they traded up for him a couple of

774
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 4: years ago as a project and he hasn't quite fulfilled that,

775
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 4: you know. But well he was a fifth right, right,

776
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 4: and he stuck around. You think we'll see him lined

777
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 4: up on the edge in this game. There's some potential

778
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 4: for that, you know. I think that's a play number one.

779
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always that potential there because there's a lot

780
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 3: of unknown there right now.

781
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: From Steelers and at least he's done it. Yeah.

782
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 3: So I had an opportunity to it down with him

783
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 3: earlier today and we chatted about the block kick and

784
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 3: all this stuff in his relationship with Cam Hayward and

785
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 3: how he watches Hayward's getting back to what we talked

786
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 3: about earlier show about guys who you.

787
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: Know, get another Wisconsin dude on that defense. Yeah.

788
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: Absolutely. So let's hear what Isaiah Louder Milk Isaiah with

789
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 3: two hes had to say. So, did you know you

790
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 3: had the block the other night?

791
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I felt it this time, but I mean

792
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 5: just slightly I felt it a little bit, but I

793
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 5: had assumed I got it, so start celebrating.

794
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 3: Was that something you got saw on tape or was

795
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 3: that just something that was just kind of happening.

796
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 5: Something that kind of happens. I mean, go after every showball, right,

797
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 5: never get every football. But no, it was just we

798
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 5: go after it every time, and that time it just

799
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 5: happened to go back where my hand was so lucky

800
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 5: for that. Yeah.

801
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. In terms of what you did during the gaming,

802
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 3: you actually had to bump outside and through some outside

803
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 3: linebacker stuff.

804
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 5: Is that for me?

805
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 3: I mean, really, you're in a four man package, Is

806
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 3: that it's not that big of a stress for you.

807
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: No?

808
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 5: No, because I mean we're in five techs quite a bit. Yeah,

809
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 5: and uh, being out this similar to that, especially on

810
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 5: passing downs. I mean the only thing really different is

811
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 5: chips happy to get chipped out there by expecting TJ

812
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 5: to be out there. But I mean that's really the biggest,

813
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 5: biggest thing. Maybe a little bit more space, but it's

814
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 5: it's the same as when winning a five tech. Yeah, really,

815
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 5: when they starts getting different is dropping and stuff like that.

816
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 5: But I didn't have to do any of that. So

817
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 5: good on practicing your drops this week. Uh no, no,

818
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 5: we'll see how We'll see how the week goes. Yeah.

819
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 3: With with one of the biggest things, it seems like

820
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 3: it's expected out of the edge guys, when you're out

821
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 3: there that it is to shut the edge. Is that

822
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 3: different than than playing an inside you know, when you're

823
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 3: in DT.

824
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 5: Uh, not a whole lot. I mean, because on the inside,

825
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 5: say where that free tech, we're trying to set the

826
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 5: edge from the Yeah. So it's just I mean it's

827
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 5: it's very similar. Same hand usage or shedding blocks is

828
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 5: the same thing. Might just be a little bit more space,

829
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 5: but really it's no different than if I was in

830
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 5: the three. I'm trying to set that edge from there too,

831
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 5: So really not not like a big drastic difference.

832
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 3: One of the things that Tha always kind of lodge

833
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: you about is that you're always.

834
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: A silence so much.

835
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 3: Is that something that the layman would understand in terms of,

836
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 3: you know, if you're doing your job, that means everybody

837
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 3: else around it around you can do their job.

838
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's been a big part well

839
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 5: my game since college. Very like to be fundamentally sent

840
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 5: out and use my hands. I feel like that's where

841
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 5: my advantage is being a taller guy. It's being fundamental

842
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 5: and using my hands. And I mean that translates all

843
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 5: along the line because if you can if you can

844
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 5: do that and then you trust the person next to

845
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 5: you is doing the same thing, playing fundamental, then you know,

846
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 5: all those clothes, all those holes will close up nowhere

847
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 5: to run a little different pass rush just cause you've

848
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 5: really got to put a move on. But in terms

849
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 5: of the run, you know, just playing with fundamentals, I mean,

850
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 5: regardless of way, that will always always solve problems.

851
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 3: You make it easier playing next to uh the cam

852
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 3: when you're out there in the end.

853
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean I didn't have

854
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 5: a whole lot of players out there, but I mean

855
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 5: I'm sure, I'm sure he makes it. He makes it

856
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 5: easier for us inside too, so I think and vice

857
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 5: versial with TJ outside makes it easier for the guys inside,

858
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 5: just as long as we're all working together.

859
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 3: Just surprise you, he's still playing at the highest level

860
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 3: as he is in his age.

861
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 5: No, I mean I see him every day. I see

862
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 5: what he's capable of every day, and I have for

863
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 5: the last three years. So I just I don't know.

864
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 5: I feel like everyone feels the same. We see what

865
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 5: he can do, and come game day we s we

866
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 5: can really see what he can do. He's still in it,

867
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 5: still an elite inside guy. I think he will be

868
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 5: for a while.

869
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 3: Is it because the technical part of part of his game?

870
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 3: I mean, can you take some like, hey, if I

871
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 3: if I play technically sound, I might be to play

872
00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 3: in this league a long time?

873
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I think that's a big part of it.

874
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 5: I mean, and the fact that he's just crazy strong

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Speaker 5: and being so technical, so fundamental, and also you know,

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Speaker 5: being crazy athletic and big and strong helps a lot.

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Speaker 5: I think that's why. You know, you see when he

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Speaker 5: he does and I'd say almost all the time. He's

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Speaker 5: very fundamentally sound. He has been for a long time

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Speaker 5: in this league. But you know, when you see him

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Speaker 5: play play that way and dominate people kind of gives

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Speaker 5: you an idea. You know, if you do play technically sound,

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Speaker 5: you can still you know, shed blocks and make plays

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Speaker 5: that are in your gap. You know, you can you

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Speaker 5: can still kind of make those splash plays while playing

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Speaker 5: playing within the defense. And he's he's done that for

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Speaker 5: a while, so yeah, oh yeah, very long time. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: no problem.

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Speaker 3: That was Steelers defensive lineman Isaiah Loudermilk with me earlier today. Again,

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Speaker 3: maybe more of a role this week with some of

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Speaker 3: the injuries they have on the defensive front. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know he get into those Nickel situations. Is Nickel

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Speaker 3: and dime your defensive front?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 3: Those those four down guys up front are really kind

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Speaker 3: of the all defensive linemen mm hmm.

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Speaker 4: I mean last week was break class in case of

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Speaker 4: emergency situation, and you know he stepped up this week.

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Speaker 4: It might be like, well, we're gonna play more of

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Speaker 4: a four man front with a heavier end on the

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Speaker 4: defensive right. And we've talked about maybe yeah, and you're

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Speaker 4: not gonna be Von Miller coming off the edge or

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Speaker 4: anything like that, but I'm not sure you have to

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Speaker 4: be you know, secure the edge and battled out with

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Speaker 4: Miller and you know go from there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do those kind of things. But Matt, that's lots

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Speaker 3: of more kicks. Yeah, block another kick, that'd be good.

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Speaker 3: That's gonna do it for our show today? Good one, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: But then well for my partner Matt Williamson, for Justin

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Speaker 3: Miller here on site, keeping us on the air, and

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Speaker 3: for Tyler Viittmyer keeping our video online and making sure

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Speaker 3: it gets up on YouTube. I'm Dale Lolly. We thank

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Speaker 3: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network