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

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Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is a Tuesday here in Pittsburgh. I kind of

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Speaker 1: my days are all kind of Oh, I bet you're

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Speaker 1: jumbled up right now, loobulated. Yeah. Um, have to get

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Speaker 1: back on another for another road trip on Sunday. Well,

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Speaker 1: at least the short ones. Well let's still get a

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Speaker 1: drive there. Um, you know, four hours on a four

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Speaker 1: and a half hours on a plane, four hours in

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Speaker 1: a car. Yeah, here's the difference. At least I guess

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Speaker 1: there's a hotel, but not two nights and all that

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Speaker 1: stuff you have to deal with to get back. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: West Coast games, I just dea yeah. But Steelers go

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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles and drop a forty seven game to

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. And I don't know about you, Matt, but

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Speaker 1: we haven't had chances to change. No, I don't know

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the game at all. Um, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you when when I know that. You know, the the

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Speaker 1: Chargers coaching staff has been a lotted this year for

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Speaker 1: being so aggressive and all this stuff and yeah. I

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Speaker 1: get an email every Monday or actually every uh what

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Speaker 1: day is today? Yeah, Monday, Today is Tuesday, but from

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Speaker 1: from one of these analyticalytics websites that says, you know

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Speaker 1: everything that they did. You know they had the number

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Speaker 1: one analytical move of the week. It was going for

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Speaker 1: it on fourth down at your own thirty four in

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Speaker 1: a tie ball game. Late in the tie ball game,

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Speaker 1: I didn't front the ball away there, That's right, that's

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Speaker 1: just dumb, it is. I mean, it might be different

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Speaker 1: if you have Jerome Bettis behind Webby Hannah Larry Allen.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you have a massive advantage there and

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you're gonna get it more often

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Speaker 1: than you're not. But the ramifications for not are brutal,

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Speaker 1: ridiculously Yeah. I mean, I look at that ball again.

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Speaker 1: When Steelers kicked the field goal on that First of all,

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Speaker 1: the play sequence, um, coming out of the stop, Um

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Speaker 1: you pass to Claypool. Um, you didn't have Naja Harris available.

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Speaker 1: It was Calin Balage in the backfield. I'm a little rusty.

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Speaker 1: I haven't thought this game for I'm onto Cincinnati. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm trying to the sequence of how

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Speaker 1: things ever you know how they all went down. Then

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Speaker 1: the seven yard game to James James Washington, which he's

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Speaker 1: pushed out of bounds and people are, why did you

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Speaker 1: go out of bounds? He didn't go out of bounds,

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Speaker 1: he got pushed out of bound. Uh. And then the

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Speaker 1: incompletion down the field to Deonte Johnson him which there

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Speaker 1: was a past interference penalty called and they picked up

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Speaker 1: the flag. Um, he was clearly grabbed. He was grabbed.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I would have it could have been

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Speaker 1: a defensive hold. Um. You know all that aside. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you have naj Harris available there, you probably run

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Speaker 1: the football. I would imagine at least twice in that

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Speaker 1: sequence to run some time off the clock because you

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Speaker 1: got bossl with here. You're already in field goal range

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Speaker 1: at the thirty four. Um. That being said, you still

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Speaker 1: can't give up a fifty three yard touchdown pass in

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Speaker 1: that situation. No, no, absolutely not. That was an inexcusable

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Speaker 1: play in itself. Um, I mean it was a blown

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Speaker 1: coverage obviously, you know. I mean, and you keep hearing, well,

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Speaker 1: if Minka is there, that doesn't happen. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I mean probably, I don't think it does. I mean,

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Speaker 1: would be willing to bet that he at least would

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Speaker 1: have known where to be at in the coverage because

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Speaker 1: or he at least gets there and knocks him out

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Speaker 1: of bounds. That the rotation was. The rotation was a

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Speaker 1: blitz from Milette in the slot. Steelers didn't blitz a

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Speaker 1: lot in this game. Um, but they blitzed Milette out

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Speaker 1: of the slot. Cam Sutton Road takes in to pick

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Speaker 1: up Keenan Allen because he was outside on Mike Williams,

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Speaker 1: Sutton or Norwood is over the top. He's supposed to

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Speaker 1: take the outside guy because nobody's on him with a

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Speaker 1: and never got there and it was late and didn't

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Speaker 1: makea Fitzpatrick. I'm gonna I'm sure he at least yes

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Speaker 1: that the ball may go somewhere else, right, You're the

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Speaker 1: bust was on the new guy playing a new position,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean I think that was pretty clear. Um.

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Speaker 1: Such a crazy game though, I mean, unbelievable game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: exactly the kind of script that the Chargers had in

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Speaker 1: offense's best game of the season. Yeah, And I thought

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Speaker 1: that was a positive about this because you didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I actually took more positive than negatives out of this

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Speaker 1: I don't I never want to make excuses while you're

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Speaker 1: missing guys. Every team's missing guys at this point in

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Speaker 1: the season. Um, yeah, the Chargers didn't have everyone, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it is what it is. Um, you gave yourself

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Speaker 1: again an opportunity to win the football game in the

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Speaker 1: closing moments in a game in which you were down

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Speaker 1: seventeen points and couldn't stop a soul. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: down three scores in the fourth quarter. As they put

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Speaker 1: the graphic up the Steelers in their history, I think

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Speaker 1: are now two oh and two thirty one many points

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Speaker 1: because as is everybody else in the least. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: just the normal winning percentage in the league. It's not like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know big picture thoughts for that game though. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: the defense was JV at best. I mean, and too many.

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Speaker 1: You had too many guys. You had four guys in

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Speaker 1: There was they brought three guys up off the practice squad,

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Speaker 1: And there was a lot of guys that should play

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Speaker 1: clean up the fourth quarter type of thing. That being said,

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Speaker 1: I wrote something after the game about the Steelers best

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Speaker 1: unit on defense that they put out there their best eleven.

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Speaker 1: I thought Cam Heyward was the only above average starter

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Speaker 1: you know. But they were playing with subpar players before

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Speaker 1: they got to their depth. You know what I mean

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Speaker 1: to me, I mean, well, I let Sutton he's an

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Speaker 1: above average NFL league average players. Yeah, there's there's some

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Speaker 1: they wanted, and we absolutely saw that. But the Chargers

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Speaker 1: best guys brought their a games. Keenan Allen obviously, Eckler

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Speaker 1: it was a massive testament to three guys that have

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Speaker 1: and that's Cam Heyward, Ben Roethlisberger and Mike Tomlin. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't see anyone giving Tomlin any praise for that game.

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Speaker 1: of his best coaching performances I've ever seen. You know,

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Speaker 1: at long chick Um. I thought, you know, the culture

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Speaker 1: hurts you, But why I took more in positives and

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Speaker 1: negatives are the defense is going to get better, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're getting guys. But the offense showed some signs. They

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Speaker 1: threw the ball. It was Ben's best game, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get close to that Ben,

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Speaker 1: they'll be in all these games going forward, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, so he threw it was he was forty

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Speaker 1: four for two seventy three yards, three touchdown passes, no interceptions.

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Speaker 1: He's now gone five games with that. In the interception

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Speaker 1: one pass in that game that could have been picked. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: leading up to Bengals. The Bengals last year he threw

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Speaker 1: for three sixty and four touchdowns. That's the magical. This

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Speaker 1: one he was to seventy three and three touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: get no picks in the game. Well, I haven't practiced

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Speaker 1: at all, Right, that's practice on Wednesdays. Maybe they should

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Speaker 1: and pay with your kids. Absolutely, keep your mind right, right.

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Speaker 1: And I know people were complaining about the Steeler run game.

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Speaker 1: running game they had. They had fourteen carries for fifty

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Speaker 1: he had nineties rushing yards on twenties six carries. He

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Speaker 1: selling out to stop the run, and they did it

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Speaker 1: throughout that game. They were not going to let fire Mouth.

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Speaker 1: We're Naja Harris get loose for big games. Derwin James

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Speaker 1: is like basically shadowing Firemouth every every time he was

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Speaker 1: that was just not they had a script. Does I

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Speaker 1: mean those two guys have now scored in the fire

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Speaker 1: Mouth they get in the end zone, but they have

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Speaker 1: twelve of the Steelers twenty two touchdowns this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're foundational young players and if you're gonna dedicate Derwin

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Speaker 1: James to one of them, that speaks volumes of what

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Speaker 1: you know opposing coaches think of the young tight end.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody is the same opinion on Nazi. Um

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Speaker 1: where was I going with that? My mind is so

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Speaker 1: I started really this morning, but also last night during

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Speaker 1: like Joe Mixing average like two yards to carry in

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Speaker 1: because you know, it's just there's a trickle down effect

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Speaker 1: the whole way across the line, and you know, if

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Speaker 1: if what is there, do they lose contain as much

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Speaker 1: he does, Remember it have nine rushes for six rushes

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Speaker 1: for ninety three yards on before he takes three knees

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Speaker 1: at the end of it, I mean he ran through

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Speaker 1: some gaping holes. It was just you know, every tour

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Speaker 1: they were just pushing the pocket past him and he

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Speaker 1: was taking off. Yeah, and they weren't planned, you know,

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Speaker 1: they weren't quarterback designed. You know, there was just boy,

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Speaker 1: there's a huge lane here, I'm gonna take off. Four

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Speaker 1: of them were on third downs and long. That was

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Speaker 1: really untimely, of course, and the Stevens played a lot

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Speaker 1: of man so they had there was like you see

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Speaker 1: it on TV. I mean, there was one of the linebackers.

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Speaker 1: I don't even blame him there a man coverage. Herbert

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Speaker 1: runs like right behind him. You're watching, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I mean, so he's developing quickly. And you know Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers used to do that all the time, and he's

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Speaker 1: as athlete. People commenting about, well, what's Lamar Jackson when

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Speaker 1: you do them, Well, they're not gonna be playing man

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Speaker 1: defense that They're not gonna play at all, even with

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Speaker 1: the same eleven out there that I mean, if they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't pay it that way, they wouldn't play that way

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Speaker 1: at all. I mean, you had to give up something

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Speaker 1: that was a weakness that they had to give up

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Speaker 1: because the cover Williams and Allen and they're tight ends

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Speaker 1: in l R. And you know they couldn't blitz like

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Speaker 1: crazy either, yea. So you know it was a loss,

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Speaker 1: to be sure, but it was not the the damning

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Speaker 1: loss that you know, It wasn't a killer loss. He

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Speaker 1: came out of it reasonably Healthybron and Ebron and Hassin

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Speaker 1: Hour are the only two that sounds like the ebron

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Speaker 1: thing could be extended. And we'll see. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: he was still standing on the sidelines after the knee injury,

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Speaker 1: so it's not like you know, they took him off

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Speaker 1: on a card or anything. Um and and Hassin Hours

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Speaker 1: a pectoral injury. We'll see what that is. But you know, again,

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Speaker 1: maybeople see B. J. Finney in the lineup. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a little shocked it was Hoss, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't know really raise an eyebrow there. They did an

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Speaker 1: interesting thing though, too, that they don't ever do is

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Speaker 1: they put boasts over Hag there at the end. Usually

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Speaker 1: they leave him on the edge, moved him and do

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Speaker 1: much on the edge. No, he didn't on the edges,

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Speaker 1: but I mean I thought that was a positive as well.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time he was over chooks, other times

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Speaker 1: he was over more and you know he was silent.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't super disruptive. No, yeah, I agree, so interesting

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Speaker 1: and we'll see what happened. It's all still ahead of them, though.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at it, you win these

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Speaker 1: next two games all of a sudden. Now you're sitting

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Speaker 1: there at seven four and one, and you know you

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Speaker 1: just handed to division opponents losses. I think you can

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Speaker 1: look at it two ways, and I'm not choosing to

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Speaker 1: look at it positive because I'm on Steter Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to be as objective as possible that that's

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Speaker 1: not the Steelers defense you're gonna get even if injuries

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Speaker 1: can you know continue and it is a war of attrition.

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Speaker 1: But if you can get close to that Ben, I'll

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Speaker 1: you can beat anybody. You can hang and I know

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Speaker 1: that the tough part of the schedule is now here.

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Speaker 1: But that's another thing is that you can look at

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Speaker 1: it half four or half empty. You get to give

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Speaker 1: losses to your opponents if you're playing well. I mean

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Speaker 1: you look at who you play down the stretch. It's

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Speaker 1: the Ravens twice. The Bens you can get. The Browns

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Speaker 1: are competitor. You get Kansas City, you get Tennessee. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are these are games that that's why coaches look

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Speaker 1: at it is is that we get to hurt the Ravens twice.

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Speaker 1: That's great, you know what I mean. They're not looking

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Speaker 1: at well, you're gonna lose. We're gonna be down to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore and lose. No that's not thinking. That's not exactly

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Speaker 1: that's fan. That's fan thinking. Yeah, that's media and fans, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that one. Anyways, we're gonna take a break. He is

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Speaker 1: Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. I will say this, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I had several people stopped me both at the stadium

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Speaker 1: and uh on the plane back home last night, the

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Speaker 1: right home, Happy Birthday. No. They said that they are

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Speaker 1: fans of the show. So how about that? How about that?

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Speaker 1: We got that gothday. I appreciate that, and I want

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Speaker 1: to thank all those fans that stopped and said hello,

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Speaker 1: how about that. Yeah, we'll be back more with the

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Speaker 1: Drive right after this. When you want black and gold

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Speaker 1: football talk, you want s