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Speaker 1: At least he is the Drive with Dale Lolly and

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Gold in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lolly and I'm

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Speaker 2: here with the Matt Williamson. It's a well a non

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Speaker 2: victory Monday, Matt earlier today in Pittsburgh Steelers dropping a

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Speaker 2: twenty seven to twenty four decision to the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 2: on Sunday to fall to three and one. Looking at

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Speaker 2: the game, it was there for them to win. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: despite the early struggles, they just didn't get it done.

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Speaker 2: Too many miscues, too sloppy. As Mike Tomlin put it,

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Speaker 2: and I had to agree with him, it was an

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Speaker 2: extremely sloppy game. Guys being loose with the football. George

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Speaker 2: Pickens loses that fumble down inside his own inside the

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Speaker 2: Indianapolis five in the first half. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: Fields is doing on the twenty yard sack and he

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Speaker 2: loses the football in that one. Yeah, then you get

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Speaker 2: the these you know, he calls for a snap and

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Speaker 2: he called for it. Folks don't believe the crap that's

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Speaker 2: out there on social media that this was on Frasier.

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Speaker 3: This was all on.

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Speaker 2: Justin Fields was raised his leg which was the sign

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Speaker 2: the signal get you get the tap for McCormick.

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Speaker 3: Then the ball comes.

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Speaker 2: Fraser, who's looking up at the defensive line making the calls, says, oh,

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Speaker 2: there's the tap, there's the snap. Fields said. I was

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Speaker 2: looking at this the secondary to see what shifts they

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Speaker 2: were doing. Wasn't watching for the football at that point

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Speaker 2: when that when that happened.

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Speaker 4: If Fraser's not looking between his legs, he's looking at

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Speaker 4: right what he has to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Steelers had gotten the football back down three

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Speaker 2: points yep, with two thirty nine remaining. They were in

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Speaker 2: a good, good spot. They were in a good spot.

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Speaker 2: Up Field scrambles for twelve yards.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: He then passes the Van Jefferson for nine yards. Then

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Speaker 2: you get to two minute warning there at the thirty eight.

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Speaker 2: A field goal ties this game. Yeah, and you have,

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Speaker 2: despite everything else that had happened, a field goal ties that.

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Speaker 2: A touchdown wins it. Coming out of that, you get.

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Speaker 4: Moving the ball, yeah, I mean second half, you're moving ball.

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Speaker 2: A nausea Harris run for four yards and then the

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Speaker 2: aboarded snap at the Pittsburgh forty two on first and

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Speaker 2: ten at the forty two with one forty three remaining.

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Speaker 4: I also people wont to say the only thing you

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Speaker 4: can't do in that situation, yeah, the sack, which is

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Speaker 4: exactly what that is. You know what I mean, like,

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Speaker 4: just don't give it out a field goal range.

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Speaker 2: He completes a pass for eleven yards to Harris on

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Speaker 2: third and twenty two. They get half of it back.

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Speaker 2: Harris didn't get out of bounce. Now that's on the player.

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Speaker 2: You got to know to get out of bounds in

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Speaker 2: that situation. Steelers still have one time out left. There

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Speaker 2: was one oh seven remaining, and there are people ripping

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin for not calling a time out in that situation. Uh,

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Speaker 2: they ran the next play from their own forty one

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Speaker 2: with thirty seven seconds left, when when they snapped football.

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Speaker 2: First of all, Harris has got to get out of

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Speaker 2: bounds on that play. Well, yes, but secondly, you still

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Speaker 2: thirty seven seconds left, and if you were going to

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Speaker 2: at least tie the football game, you were probably going

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Speaker 2: to need that time out. I didn't remember you had

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Speaker 2: to convert the first down first and foremost.

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Speaker 4: And as for calling the time out, I see both sides.

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Speaker 4: I don't really feel super strongly about one side or

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Speaker 4: I wasn't.

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Speaker 3: Sitting there and I was.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't sitting there in a press post one well,

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Speaker 2: I weren't the calling a time out here. I understood

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Speaker 2: it because you need to get you probably need that

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Speaker 2: time out. You know, you need another fifteen in your pocket. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty yards to get Boswell into field goal range.

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Speaker 2: And I believe if they kicked a field goal there

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Speaker 2: they probably end up they had turned the momentum in

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Speaker 2: that game clearly.

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Speaker 4: Oh they were the better team at that point. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I have no doubt in my mind. So my big

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Speaker 4: I really as bad as it could be, as bad

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Speaker 4: at two different speeds. And I give the Colts credit too.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there'll be a lot of give the Colts

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Speaker 4: out flying. They had a good plan early. I saw

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Speaker 4: you wrote in your ten thoughts that you know they

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Speaker 4: they kept benting off the field and got big bodies

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Speaker 4: right up the middle on Queen and those linebackers for

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Speaker 4: nice games early on with Taylor and Richardson, which were

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Speaker 3: Richardson completed a.

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Speaker 4: Passer too, you know what I mean, This close to

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Speaker 4: that's another theme of this game, This close to Porter's

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Speaker 4: fingertip on the first throw of the game.

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Speaker 2: Folks, we were wrong about him as a passer. He

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Speaker 2: was three or four throwing three or four game. The

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Speaker 2: one miss he had was a complete layup. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: he overthrew six foot fourm Michael Pittman on the sideline

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Speaker 2: by ten feet.

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Speaker 3: Got a ten yard out. Yeah. And it's funny.

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Speaker 4: I did a show with Rob King earlier and he

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Speaker 4: was saying, even that first completion to Porter, he thought

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Speaker 4: Richardson kind of got lucky. Was an overthrow and Porter

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Speaker 4: went up and made a play for him, you know,

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Speaker 4: or Pittman went up and made a play for him

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Speaker 4: over Porter.

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Speaker 3: Whatever.

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Speaker 4: Who knows how the game goes if Richardson plays the

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Speaker 4: whole game. But he was fine for the short stretch

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Speaker 4: he was in there, and they used him more as

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Speaker 4: a runner. But the start was horrendous and then there

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Speaker 4: was just too many mistakes. I mean, once it's seventeen

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Speaker 4: to nothing and all that badness is out of your system,

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Speaker 4: you were the better team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking as they're driving down the field, they

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Speaker 2: bring in Patterson Guarderrell Patterson, and he starts ripping through

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Speaker 2: the Colts defense with runs, hitting the hole quickly and

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Speaker 2: you know, just getting what you can. He's getting nine yards,

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Speaker 2: ten yards, twelve yards. Things were changing quick. The Steelers

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Speaker 2: get down into the red zone and the past the

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Speaker 2: pickens and just inexplicably, you know, loses the ball trying

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Speaker 2: just trying to I get you're trying to fight for yardage.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to fault the guy for that, but

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Speaker 2: secure the football.

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Speaker 4: And he has a habit of keeping the ball too

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Speaker 4: far away from his frame. Yeah, I mean that's a theme.

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Speaker 4: We've seen them. This one bit them and that's a

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Speaker 4: minimum of three points that cost you.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you's gonna be at the four yard line.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you lost the game by three points.

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Speaker 2: And we saw fields run two in from in close

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Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, you're probably gonna at least get three,

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Speaker 4: So again, some big takeaways like the field snap situation,

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Speaker 4: the twenty yard loss that pickings play, those are self

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Speaker 4: inflicted wounds. I mean you can't have that now that

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Speaker 4: being said, this team compared to offense is the last

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Speaker 3: Oh, they don't come back from that.

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Speaker 4: That was to me, I had as much good to

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Speaker 4: take away from this game is bad. I mean, they

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Speaker 4: had over four hundred yards of offense. How often last year? Oh,

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Speaker 4: they can't even get the two hundreds off They can't

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Speaker 4: get two and fifty yards offense. And frankly, I don't

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Speaker 4: know that any offense the last five years would have

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Speaker 3: Being a chance.

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Speaker 2: It was seventeen to nothing.

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Speaker 3: It's overevente nothing.

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Speaker 4: You lose a turnover battle by two, you give them

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Speaker 4: two more possessions on a fourth und that you can't convert.

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Speaker 4: You don't have much of a running game. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 4: they lost forty five to nothing. I mean, but this

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Speaker 2: Well then almost last last year was thirty to thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah against the Colts there because you did some of

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Speaker 2: those same things. You lost the turnover battle in a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so you know it happens.

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Speaker 4: And this isn't making excuses, but I do think those

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Speaker 4: self inflicted wounds I mentioned, you know, the boch snap,

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Speaker 4: the crazy twenty yard loss, the Pickens fumble that's on

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Speaker 4: the Steelers. But there was, as there are in every

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Speaker 4: football game in the National Football League, eight to ten

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Speaker 4: plays that were game of inches, you know, like the

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Speaker 4: first row that Porter almost gets to, the almost interception

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Speaker 4: which was alted in three points. Flacco doesn't care at

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Speaker 4: this stage of his career, which I give them all

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Speaker 4: like this with the Browns. He's gonna let it fly it.

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Speaker 4: If it's a pick and nobody likes it, I'll go

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Speaker 4: back to my couch and not play the game anymore.

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Speaker 3: I don't need money of money, yeah, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 4: But he threw into tight window after tight window and

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Speaker 4: walked the razor's edge and all these things that I'm

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Speaker 4: bringing up, like the Cam Hayward almost sack, and then

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Speaker 4: two plays later Minka gets the late hit you know type.

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Speaker 3: Thing, which was ridiculous, which was really bad.

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Speaker 4: But all those eight to ten things I'm mentioning now,

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Speaker 4: every one of them went to Colt's way. And sometimes

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Speaker 4: you flip a coin and it tombs up heads ten

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Speaker 3: You know, that's the way it goes.

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Speaker 2: Richardson fumbles on the run and that he got hurt.

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Speaker 4: Of perfect example, balls Elliott makes a great play, but

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Speaker 4: the Steelers had a didn't bounce right back to him.

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Speaker 3: They had a really good chance to get it, didn't

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Speaker 3: end up with it. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The only thing that kind of went their way was

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Speaker 4: Mac game missed one kick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you know that.

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Speaker 4: And with the considering the start, they should lose that game.

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Speaker 4: But if you play ten times, I bet they win seven.

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Speaker 1: Eight of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I really do so.

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Speaker 2: But it happened, and you know, the Steelers weren't going

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Speaker 2: to go unbeaten. Nope, that's that doesn't happen in today's NFL.

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Speaker 2: And well, I mean you move on. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: a lesson learned, you know, but.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of good game game from that game too. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They you know, they were able to move the ball

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Speaker 2: I mean they scored to get within three or yeah,

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Speaker 2: to get within three in two minutes and twenty seven seconds,

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Speaker 2: they went seventy yards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that was unheard of recently.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just you know, and you know, converted the big

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Speaker 2: third down with a big chunk play to George Pickens.

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Speaker 2: Is like every time I would tweet something out about

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Speaker 2: the Steelers need to you know, they need a big

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Speaker 2: play here, the offense would come up that they dump

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Speaker 2: off the Nausea that gets fifty yards. You know, there

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Speaker 2: were plays like that that happened that you know, you

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Speaker 3: Of the day.

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Speaker 2: Right, and you know, Taylor's good.

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Speaker 2: If you don't play your A game or at least

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Speaker 2: Well one a C game isn't going to get it.

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Speaker 3: Done one hundred percent true.

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Speaker 2: No, I would agree with that. I mean again, they

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Speaker 3: That's that's my takeaway is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's just less there's more reliability. Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: We go with the veteran player who gives me a

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Speaker 2: we've seen too many times now bad snaps, mishandled snaps.

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Speaker 4: They know he got stepped on, but that's still on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are things that he can get better at.

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Speaker 3: To win football games.

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Speaker 4: Agreed, agreed again. I don't know who i'd go with

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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Speaker 4: I understand both sides completely. What I do think won't

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Speaker 4: long term answer. Who helps you beat the Cowboys? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean who's better? That's what it's about right now.

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Speaker 2: option to go with, different conversation. That's a different conversation,

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's what it's all about, folks. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're very weak the week in terms of how

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Speaker 3: Better chance to win? Yeah? I don't know. I have

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Speaker 3: That's how I think he's finished three. Yeah, the first three.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't protect himself right now, I'll give Field's credit. Fields

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Speaker 3: I get it. I get it.

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Speaker 4: I absolutely understand that side of it. There's no way

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Speaker 2: You know, in situation is the first one, you're in

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Speaker 2: And then the second one you're trying to win the game.

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Speaker 4: And I'm sure there's listeners going, yeah, but Wilson's not

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Speaker 3: Probably true. I get that argument, right. His traits are

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Speaker 2: But he also, and I keep pointing this out, through

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Speaker 4: And then he throws like we saw from Flakka. Yes,

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Speaker 2: We'll continue talking about this game, this latest loss, and

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Speaker 2: But when we return, going to hear from Rob King,

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Speaker 2: right after this. He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

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

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: And we are back. I am Dale Lolly. He is

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Speaker 2: the Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: We're having some difficulty reaching Rob right now.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's stuck in a hurricane or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Who knows, But let's continue talking here about the Steelers loss.

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Speaker 2: So the Bengals win, Yeah, the Ravens win, blew out

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Speaker 2: sure to Buffalo Bills. Nobody expected Derrick Henry to get

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Speaker 3: Who thought he?

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Speaker 4: Who thought they'd give it to that guy untouched? So

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Speaker 2: Doesn't playing a better opponent. But true, the point remains.

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Speaker 4: But it doesn't mean that the sky is falling in

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Speaker 3: You know my point?

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Speaker 4: You know I point in Steeler fans. This happens around

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Speaker 4: their fate Bengals. Their defense that was two bad defenses

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Speaker 3: Now really bad, really up and down the field. You know.

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Speaker 2: The Panthers just don't have the horses offensively Cincinnati does.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Panthers are much better with Dalton than

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Speaker 4: Henry and Jackson, and what a different and dynamic pairing

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Speaker 4: that is not leaning on Mark Andrews.

442
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Speaker 3: I can tell you that.

443
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Speaker 4: They're putting big people on the field and they're playing

444
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Speaker 4: their style. So I think the Ravens are back and

445
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Speaker 4: they're gonna be back to be one of the best

446
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Speaker 4: teams in the league.

447
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a formidable opponent, be sure. I thought.

448
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Speaker 2: I had just thought as I was listening to the

449
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Speaker 2: game as I was driving home from Indianapolis. So yesterday,

450
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Speaker 2: imagine the uproar if Mike Tomlin did what John Harbaugh

451
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Speaker 2: did at the end of the first half and called

452
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Speaker 2: consecutive timeouts.

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Speaker 3: Oh right, and cost his team. It was a fourth

454
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Speaker 3: down play, and he had caught himself.

455
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Speaker 4: He's like, oh, doing it right, And it was an

456
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Speaker 4: odd one because they had to take one because.

457
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Speaker 2: And I get that because there was a ghost intory

458
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Speaker 2: by the way. Yeah, but their guy went down on

459
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Speaker 2: the ground. You know, Hey, he went down.

460
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Speaker 4: He went down, and he had to use the time Yeah,

461
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Speaker 4: don't know why he went down and caused that issue.

462
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Speaker 3: But then you use the time out back to back. Oh,

463
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Speaker 3: he's an idiot, doesn't and gave.

464
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Speaker 2: Them gifted them a first down. It was fourth and two.

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Speaker 3: Yep, it would have been crucial.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and no, you're right, a lot of our listeners

467
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Speaker 4: would have killed Tomlin for that.

468
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, mistakes like that kind of thing, even

469
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Speaker 2: to experienced coaches, do happen, uh in situations, because you know,

470
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Speaker 2: this isn't as as Bob Labriolis always likes to say,

471
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Speaker 2: you're not playing your video game at home?

472
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Speaker 3: Where?

473
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Speaker 2: Okay, I got I'm gonna hit pause here, get up

474
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Speaker 2: to go to the kitchen, make a sandwich, come back,

475
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Speaker 2: and then I'll run the play after I thought about

476
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Speaker 2: it a little bit.

477
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Speaker 3: No, you got to do this stuff real quick.

478
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the play stadium this loud, with a bunch of

479
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Speaker 4: people in your head set asking you different things.

480
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Speaker 3: And yeah.

481
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Speaker 4: One so everyone thinks coaching is easy, and then game

482
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Speaker 4: management is easy. It's not at all. It's a bad mistake.

483
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Speaker 4: They didn't pay for it, you know we do.

484
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Speaker 2: Finally, we have Rob King on the phone here, so

485
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Speaker 2: let's get to the kinger here.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what's up King? Or how you doing?

487
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Speaker 5: I got to put this phone in my contact guys.

488
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Speaker 5: I ignored this call because I was waiting for your call.

489
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Speaker 3: Ah, there you go.

490
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Speaker 5: I'm not picking that up no way.

491
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Speaker 3: It's that time of year.

492
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Speaker 2: There's all kinds of political calls. And all that kind

493
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Speaker 2: of stuff.

494
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Speaker 5: So it's so true, Dale, and I was like, well,

495
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to pick up that. So the guys

496
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Speaker 5: call me.

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Speaker 3: No problem, get over Kinger.

498
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Speaker 2: In terms of, uh, the game yesterday, I'm sure you will.

499
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Speaker 2: In terms of the game yesterday, obviously the first Steelers lost.

500
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Speaker 2: The first Steelers lost with you was the official voice

501
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Speaker 2: of the Steelers. So I'm sure there's some disappointment there

502
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Speaker 2: on on on your point part. But you thought they

503
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Speaker 2: were going to seventeen and oh right, that's how that

504
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Speaker 2: was going to go.

505
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Speaker 5: I was figuring it.

506
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Speaker 3: But when they get I mean.

507
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Speaker 2: When they got the ball back with like two and

508
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Speaker 2: a half minutes left, watching how they had scored in

509
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Speaker 2: two and a half minutes on the previous drive, are

510
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Speaker 2: you thinking, Okay, they're going to probably win this game.

511
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Speaker 5: I thought field goal for sure at least. And yeah,

512
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Speaker 5: I had a lot of confidence in him, and I

513
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Speaker 5: you know, it's funny because, uh, you know, I talked

514
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Speaker 5: about this earlier with Matt, Like the game the feel

515
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 5: was so bad from the beginning. When you get down

516
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Speaker 5: seventeen to nothing, it just doesn't have a good feel

517
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Speaker 5: and it's hard for that to not sort of cast

518
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Speaker 5: its shadow over how you view the rest of the game.

519
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Speaker 5: But if you stop and think about the rest of

520
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Speaker 5: the game and you think about the things that happened

521
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Speaker 5: throughout the course of the game, obviously some of those

522
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Speaker 5: self inflicted. Some of those maybe you know, a bit

523
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Speaker 5: of battered luck or what have you, whatever you want

524
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Speaker 5: to call it. It was like six seven eight in

525
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Speaker 5: favor of one for Indianapolis. You know, so Indianapols has

526
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Speaker 5: had a misfield goal. Okay, well, you know, the Steelers

527
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Speaker 5: didn't make a fourth, just didn't recover a fumble. The

528
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Speaker 5: Steelers didn't get an interception, The Steelers fumble twice, the Steers,

529
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Speaker 5: the Stoniers did a lot of little things. They don't

530
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Speaker 5: get a sack in the next play, it's a it's

531
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Speaker 5: a third and ten conversion. There were so many plays

532
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Speaker 5: in this game, Dale where if you took and you

533
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Speaker 5: can't do this. Obviously, if you took back one of them,

534
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Speaker 5: it's a different ballgame. So when you think about the

535
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Speaker 5: fact that you made maybe eight mistakes to one for

536
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Speaker 5: the other team, and I'm kind of their misfield goal,

537
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Speaker 5: I can't think of anything else really where where they

538
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Speaker 5: would be saying to themselves, man if we'd only done this,

539
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Speaker 5: if we'd only done that, I think that they've played

540
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Speaker 5: about as well and mistake free as they could, and

541
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Speaker 5: the Steelers didn't and still had a chance to win

542
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Speaker 5: at the end of the game. So I think that,

543
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Speaker 5: you know, after twenty four hours of pass now and

544
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Speaker 5: a little bit more, that's how I'm beginning to view

545
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Speaker 5: this game. I thought they were going to get the ball.

546
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Speaker 5: I thought they were going to march down the field.

547
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Speaker 5: I thought they were going to kick a field goal.

548
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Speaker 5: And then after that it's just it feels like momentum

549
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 5: just fade when you get into overtime and then either

550
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 5: team could win. But that's how I felt. I really

551
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Speaker 5: did think they were going to come down. You got

552
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Speaker 5: a weapon in Boswell. All you had to do was

553
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Speaker 5: get another you know, eighteen yards or so, and Boswell's

554
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Speaker 5: on trying a fifty nine yard at tie it.

555
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you'd lay that really well on another show.

556
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Speaker 4: We did, and I kind of stole it from you

557
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Speaker 4: in the first segment, But I think you can, you know,

558
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Speaker 4: just expand on what you're just saying. I think the

559
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Speaker 4: box snapped the twenty yard yard loss where fields, you know,

560
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Speaker 4: fumble the ball the pickings, fumble, those are self induced errors.

561
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's not the Colts being great necessarily, But

562
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Speaker 4: there was at least eight more of wasn't Cam Hayward's

563
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Speaker 4: a sack or make a you know, should that really

564
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Speaker 4: be a flag? Elliott makes a great play and fumble.

565
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Speaker 4: Luck doesn't go your way, and now you laid it

566
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Speaker 4: out on another show, and all the ones that I'm

567
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Speaker 4: missing too, just one of them goes their way. Or

568
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Speaker 4: the first play of the game, it's a fingertip away

569
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Speaker 4: from Porter deflecting that ball, or yeah, maybe he should

570
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Speaker 4: have had a pick in the end zone, and there's

571
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Speaker 4: some Monday morning quarterbacking there. But if one of those

572
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Speaker 4: doesn't go the other way, I think that it's a

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Speaker 4: different game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, think about just taking it. And again

575
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Speaker 5: I'm signaling out one play, but I could I believe

576
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Speaker 5: I could have signaled about any of eight or nine

577
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 5: play games and said, if this hadn't happened, the students

578
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 5: would have, you know, gone overtime or won the game.

579
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Speaker 5: So you think about the field scramble, and again I

580
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 5: want justin fields trying to make plays. I want George

581
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 5: Pickens trying to make plays. And now you try to

582
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Speaker 5: balance with the right amount of discretion. So if Justin

583
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 5: it's a second down, if he throws that ball away,

584
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 5: first of all, you're still in field goal position. Right,

585
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Speaker 5: it's a fifty yarder for Boswell, I think you had

586
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Speaker 5: the ball to thirty three yard line and it's still

587
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Speaker 5: third down. You have another play if I'm not mistaken,

588
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Speaker 5: So you's have one more opportunity to pick up the

589
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 5: first down. That's you know, Justin Fields has grown in

590
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 5: leaps and bounds. Maybe that's one he'd like to have back.

591
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Speaker 5: But but I say that, it sounds like I'm pinning

592
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Speaker 5: to blame on him. I'm not.

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Speaker 2: That was actually on third and ten. So again, if

594
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Speaker 2: he just throws, If he just throws, you get the

595
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Speaker 2: field goal.

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you for correcting that.

597
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Speaker 2: And one thing he couldn't do was take a sack.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't think of.

599
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Speaker 5: That's right, that's right, and then and he will I think.

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Speaker 5: You know, you see, you're seeing a quarterback who's gotten

601
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Speaker 5: so much better just from the time he's in Chicago

602
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Speaker 5: to now.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I wanted to ask you about too.

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Speaker 4: Where do you see his strides along those lines? They'll

605
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Speaker 4: already cut you to keep.

606
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Speaker 5: Sailing saying you no, no, not at all. I think that.

607
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Speaker 5: I think that the one thing you know that the

608
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 5: so what were the knacks against him? You know, obviously

609
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 5: you're trying to play winning football. The Bears didn't have

610
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 5: a very good record. Okay, there's number one. Well the

611
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 5: Bears are you know, they were a pretty lousy team.

612
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 5: That's a very difficult situation to step into. And you know,

613
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Speaker 5: we've had I think the three of us have had

614
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Speaker 5: this conversation before about the right time and the right

615
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 5: way to insert a franchise quarterback into your system. If

616
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 5: he's available, you take him, you trade for him, you

617
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 5: grab him, you draft him, you do whatever you can.

618
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Speaker 5: But then when do you play him? And to the Bears,

619
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Speaker 5: I will give the Bears credit. They didn't want to

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Speaker 5: play justin Fields. They wanted to play Andy Dalton. Andy

621
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Speaker 5: Dalton got hurt I think in the second game of

622
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Speaker 5: the year, and now Fields comes in and he's playing

623
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Speaker 5: as a rookie when they didn't want to. So bad situation.

624
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Speaker 5: We've seen bad situations around the league, and we've seen

625
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 5: quarterbacks re cover from that. We saw, for example, everyone

626
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 5: wants to bring up I think It's a great example

627
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 5: Ryan Tannehill because Arthur Smith Adam, we're seeing Sam Darnold

628
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 5: now in Minnesota, who one prognosticator said he was the

629
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 5: best draft prospect he'd ever rated at the quarterback position

630
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 5: appeared to be a monumental bust now does not appear

631
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Speaker 5: to be that way. By the same token, there's so

632
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 5: much invested in quarterbacks that teams are gonna do whatever

633
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 5: they can to try to make sure that they got

634
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Speaker 5: it right. It is Trey Lance the right. I don't know.

635
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 5: He hasn't he hasn't re emerged yet. Mitch Trubisky does

636
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 5: not appear like he was worthy of being the second

637
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 5: overall pick. So you know that that's all the backdrop

638
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 5: for my saying it was a bad situation. He comes

639
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 5: in here, Mitch Trubisky came into a good situation, didn't win.

640
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 5: Justin fields is winning, and I think that the big

641
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 5: things for me. The biggest thing for me is the accuracy.

642
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 5: You know, he is completing passes at a very very

643
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 5: high percentage, which he was not doing in Chicago. He's

644
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 5: only thrown one interception, which I think is really good.

645
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 5: Now he does have turnovers in back to back weeks.

646
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 5: You can't have a turnover per game. That's that's not

647
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 5: the way the NFL works nowadays. So I think the

648
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 5: biggest thing for me for Justin is, you know, throwing

649
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 5: the ball accurately and managing your team to victory. Those

650
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 5: are the two biggest things I think I see with

651
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 5: Justin Field right now.

652
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to your point, Rob, I mean, it's sometimes

653
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: you need to know when to hold them and when

654
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: to fold them. In that situation in the third quarter,

655
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Speaker 2: I mean, at that point you're down seventeen to three.

656
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: A field goal there gets you to seventeen six. Now

657
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Speaker 2: you know, you're a touchdown in a two point conversion

658
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 2: and a field goal away, and you got something positive

659
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: out of what was a big chunk play. Again, the

660
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: Steelers got chunk plays yesterday, and that one came in

661
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 2: the return game from Calvin Austin with that thirty yard

662
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: punt return. You know, you get a field goal there

663
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: and the momentum is kind of starting to shift right

664
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: fumble the football there and you give the Colt the

665
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 2: ball back. Now, the Steelers got off the field, the

666
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: defense got off the field. In that situation, they got

667
00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: to stop. But it's just you know, momentum.

668
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 5: In football, and when you're up seventeen to three, like

669
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 5: the Colts were, and you just treaded water because they

670
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: got a possession and you got to turn over and

671
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 5: then you had a possession you missed. Jiggle, Okay, we'll

672
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 5: tread water. We're up fourteen. We tread water for another

673
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 5: quarter and a half and it's over. When you're down fourteen,

674
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 5: you can't tread water. You have to pick up round

675
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 5: and and so I've just moved. I was like Paul Revere.

676
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 5: I moved one by land too, if by sea there,

677
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 5: I think I mixed my allergy. Anyway, you guys got rough.

678
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 5: We moved from the water to the land. Uh so, no,

679
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 5: I mean you have to you have to be begin

680
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 5: to cut into the deficit. And so and again we're

681
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 5: pointing out that play, but but there are because we're

682
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 5: talking about justin fields in this game in particular, there

683
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 5: were a ton of things that could have happened. Now,

684
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 5: the other thing I like about this game plan in particular.

685
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 5: First of all, I think I think that's the second

686
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 5: most yards justin fields has ever thrown up in a game.

687
00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 5: Maintained the accuracy. They reintroduced the running game. He accounted

688
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,959
Speaker 5: for three touchdowns, you know, two running and one throwing.

689
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 5: That's a good game for quarterback, you know, So you

690
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 5: have to continue to reduce those mistakes. Now, the thing

691
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 5: you're always going to try to balance is that justin

692
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 5: fields like Ben Roethlisberger can make those plays. And again

693
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 5: I'm not putting them in the same class yet, please,

694
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 5: but they can make those kind of plays where you're

695
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 5: just like, oh, Ben, just throw it at what do

696
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 5: you do? Oh my god, what a play? You know.

697
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 5: I mean, you can't take away their natural playmaking instincts

698
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 5: and the closer they can get to judging exactly when

699
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 5: the time is to throw it away. Frankly, I'm sorry,

700
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 5: but it's a lot easier for a player who's not

701
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 5: as mobile and can't make the kind of plays to

702
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 5: just throw it away than it would be for you know,

703
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 5: a Steve Young or a Lamar Jackson or a Justin

704
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 5: Fields who can make plays, make guys miss Ben Roethlisberger,

705
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 5: get out of tricky situations, make that back breaking play

706
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 5: down the field. They have a wider range of outcomes,

707
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 5: and so what you have to do is narrow that,

708
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 5: you know, narrow your decision field down so that you're

709
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 5: making the right decision more of the time. But again, guys,

710
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 5: that's harder for those players that I just mentioned because

711
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 5: of the things they're able to do that other guys

712
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 5: simply can't.

713
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 2: It's a Josh Allen argument in Buffalo.

714
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, same down.

715
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's another one, yep. So I mean that, you know, Josh,

716
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 5: it's it is more difficult. So if you're a quarterback

717
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 5: X in your pocket guy and you see the pressure coming,

718
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 5: what are you gonna do? You're gonna throw it away

719
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 5: because that's that's all you can do, really, and so

720
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 5: it's called smart football. Now, if you're Josh Allen or

721
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 5: Ben Roethlisberger or Lamar Jackson or fields, maybe you shrug

722
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 5: off a tackle or make a guy miss and now

723
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, everybody's running around downfield and they're

724
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 5: and they're breaking coverage and you're making that that play

725
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 5: that kills the other team. So again it's I think

726
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 5: it's easier to make that the decision, That's the argument

727
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 5: I would make. It's easier to make that decision when

728
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 5: you're not a player of that skill set. Now, again,

729
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 5: I don't know, I cannot tell you in any way,

730
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 5: shape or form the specifics of how he or any

731
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 5: other quarterback in the NFL is being coached up. For

732
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 5: all I know, they're pounding the desk saying, you throw

733
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,479
Speaker 5: this away one hundred percent of the time. I don't know,

734
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 5: but that's just my observation as a football fan that

735
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 5: that that's what I believe.

736
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 4: So, assuming we get very bad news about James Daniels,

737
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 4: how much does this offensive line situation worry you and

738
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 4: going to be something that the rails a season?

739
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 5: Yeah? I could, I mean for sure. I mean, you know,

740
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 5: the three of us sitting up at La Trope and

741
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 5: counting offensive lineman and thinking, man, when they get to

742
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 5: cut down day, this is gonna be tough. There's gonna

743
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 5: be a pretty good player that's probably gonna get picked

744
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 5: up by somebody. Well, then Herbie gets hurt, right, So

745
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 5: now you're down to ten, and then you know Dylan

746
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 5: Cook those on eyes. Now you're down to nine. And

747
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 5: then Bautana gets hurt. Now you're down to eight. Tiamala

748
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 5: gets hurt. Now you're down to seven. James Daniels, now

749
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 5: you're down to six guys. You're down to six guy.

750
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 5: That is incredible and I know the students had to

751
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 5: run a good luck last year, but the bad luck

752
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 5: that they're having in the injury situation, especially when we

753
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 5: think about positions that you really felt good about. I

754
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 5: really felt good about that offensive line depth and the

755
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 5: right experience level, and you can bring along, Hey, if

756
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 5: Fautano's ready and you think he's the guy, you can

757
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 5: pop him in there, but you don't have to. If

758
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 5: you think Fraser's the guy and you think if you're right,

759
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 5: you can pop him in there, but you don't have to.

760
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 5: You've got options to bring guys along slowly. Well, that

761
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 5: went out the window, and now just health is going

762
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 5: out the window. You know. You look at the outside

763
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 5: linebacker position. That's another one where man, you've got three

764
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 5: really really good edge rushers, but now you get two

765
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 5: and then you know Herbig's got his ankle take at

766
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 5: the end of the game, you feel great about the

767
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 5: running back. I mean, look, we knew, you know that

768
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 5: the Steelers were rumored to be going after IU. We

769
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 5: knew that, uh you know, they that uh there wasn't

770
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 5: an unbelievable amount of of proven depth behind George Pickens

771
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 5: that they were gonna have to figure out if somebody

772
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 5: could emerge. We knew that, you know, the cornerback position,

773
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 5: one of those young guys is gonna have to step forward.

774
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 5: By the way, that young guy got hurt, Corey Trice.

775
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 5: It's been a it's been sort of quietly lost in

776
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 5: the Toreno start, a rash of really unfortunate injuries sapping

777
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 5: away at the Steelers' depth. But to go back to

778
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 5: your original point, the offensive line, Yeah, it's I mean,

779
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 5: I feel good with the guys they have now, especially

780
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 5: when Ciamalo gets back. If you told me that was

781
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 5: your six and they were gonna get through the season,

782
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 5: I actually and say, Okay, that's fine. They can play

783
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 5: winning football with that. But man, oh man, you're you're

784
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 5: getting to the point where, you know, one or two

785
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 5: more injuries and I mean, you know, start setting out

786
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 5: the sirens. I mean, that's the way it seems anyway.

787
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 5: It's just there, it's hard to find lots and lots

788
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 5: of really good offensive lineman and I thought they'd done

789
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 5: a superlative job in doing that.

790
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. Uh, that doesn't look good for James Daniels.

791
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: Reports out there that he is a turn achilles tendon

792
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 2: done for the year. Uh, they should get Isaac Saamalu

793
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 2: back this week, and Dylan Cook is eligible to be

794
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 2: activated from the from the I Artists as well, So

795
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 2: we'll see if they start to at least get a

796
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 2: couple of those guys back. But yeah, again, you're taking

797
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: one step forward and a step back at the same time.

798
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 2: It's just it's been, it's been in troubling. You can't

799
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: lose an he can't can't lose any more.

800
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, and time will tell if you know these guys

801
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 5: are are ready I mean, is this that has to

802
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 5: play versus ready to play? Like you know, the one

803
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 5: thing about Foutanu was Foutanu they thought he was ready

804
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 5: to play let's go, you know, so I don't have

805
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 5: I don't know whether they thought that, and I think

806
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 5: probably Zach Frazer is the same way. Whether they felt

807
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 5: that way about Mason McCormick and Spencer Anderson, I'm not

808
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 5: sure one of those guys is for sure that have

809
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 5: to start. The good news is that the other guy's

810
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 5: gotten some playing time and so hopefully that helps your

811
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 5: depth should you need it or if you want to

812
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 5: run that sixth offensive lineman out there. But I think

813
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 5: that's enough that's enough injuries for us, right, let's throw

814
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 5: into towel.

815
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 3: On that Kinger. We're gonna let you go here.

816
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,000
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817
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,040
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818
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00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,680
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820
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831
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,560
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836
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837
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 2: us your comments all that good stuff. We're not always right.

838
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: We both predicted to win this week. That happens, but

839
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 2: you know, stuff happens. That's why the it's not a

840
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 2: round the ball, it's a ball. It's spherical, and things

841
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 2: bounce different ways.

842
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,959
Speaker 4: And the Colts have some talent, and they played quite

843
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 4: well for a lot of the game.

844
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: They didn't make the big mistake.

845
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 4: They didn't make the big mistake, and I thought their

846
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 4: playmakers made plays. Defense held up better than I expected

847
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 4: it to. The Colts defense, and especially in the trenches.

848
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 4: I thought their playmakers, especially early, were quite good. And

849
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 4: then flack O comes in and bal early and throws

850
00:38:58,640 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 4: a new wrinkle in the whole thing.

851
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, I don't think.

852
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: I think he was like nine for nine or ten

853
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: for ten within ten yard passing, Yeah, just moving the

854
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: change with some of those things. The third down stuff

855
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 2: was that was not something that Richardson was going to do.

856
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 3: No, no, I mean they may still won, who knows.

857
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 4: I mean, I thought Richardson started fine well, but maintaining

858
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 4: they were to make him throw it.

859
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 2: The previous the previous three games had shown us that

860
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 2: he probably wasn't.

861
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 3: Going to maintain that level of play. No, and actually

862
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 3: the game would be a thousand times different, even the.

863
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 2: Games that he played last year. I mean he's a

864
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 2: less than sixty percent passer in right, I.

865
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 4: Mean career Flacco was getting the ball out quick on time,

866
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 4: doing quarterback and stuff.

867
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

868
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 4: Now Richardson might have ran for two hundred and fifty yards,

869
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 4: who knows, but it would have been a much different game.

870
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

871
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 2: So, in the grand scheme of things, Matt with the

872
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills losing last night to the Ravens. Yeah, here's

873
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 2: the current AFC playoff pitcher with two games pending tonight,

874
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: the Chiefs sitting in.

875
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 4: I'm not sure Miami and Tennessee are going to influence

876
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 4: the playoffs all that much the AFC.

877
00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

878
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Chiefs get the four and O but

879
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 2: suffer a big injury in that game.

880
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 3: Massive, you know, we'll see.

881
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 4: They're struggling too, Like I don't think they're clearly the

882
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 4: best team in the league or anything like that.

883
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

884
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 2: Uh, Houston now sits in the two spot in the AFC.

885
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 2: They struggled yesterday to weak.

886
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 4: They have been both those teams have been less than impressive.

887
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 4: I mean, they're winning, and there's something we said for that.

888
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 4: But Houston still can't run the ball.

889
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, almost lost at home to the Jaguars.

890
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: H Steelers sitting in the third spot winning the tiebreaker

891
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: over Buffalo based on strength of victory. And I didn't

892
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 2: realize this Buffalo's strength of victory.

893
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 3: What do you think it is trying to think who

894
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 3: they're winning?

895
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 4: I guess it's pretty bad now I think about it. Wow, Wow,

896
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 4: that's really bad.

897
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 3: Really bad. The Steelers strength of victory is five hundred. Okay,

898
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 3: that's the first time breaker.

899
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: That's the first you know, our conference record is that's

900
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 2: how Houston has. Houston's to and oh in the conference,

901
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 2: the Steelers to them on the bills to them one.

902
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 5: Uh.

903
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 2: The Jets are the five seed right now.

904
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 3: Did you see what they did yesterday?

905
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 2: They lost a game in which they allowed minus seven

906
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 2: first half passing yards without any sacks. SA Denver completed

907
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: seven passes in the first half of that game yesterday

908
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: for minus seven yards.

909
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 3: Do you know how hard that is to do?

910
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 4: And that's really terrible by Denver. However, I want to

911
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 4: take one quick side note here. Denver's d is a

912
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 4: lot better than I thought it.

913
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 3: Was when the before the Steelers played them.

914
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 4: Atlanta's oh is a lot better than than what I

915
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 4: thought when before the Steelers played them. And the Chargers

916
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 4: just played the Chiefs to the wire, you know, like

917
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 4: the three Steelers victories weren't garbage, you know what I mean,

918
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 4: Like this without their tackles and without Bosa, right right, right,

919
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 4: they played them to the wa Kansas City had to

920
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 4: score late to win that football game, absolutely, and some

921
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 4: think that might have been gifted.

922
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know the Chiefs.

923
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 4: But Denver's d is good. Their defensive line is really good.

924
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 2: And the Chargers defense gave Kansas City everything it could handle.

925
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 4: Absolutely without James games without both, right, So so it's

926
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 4: not easy getting wins this league.

927
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: It is not.

928
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 2: And the Jets lost at home, what was it ten

929
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 2: to nine or whatever?

930
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 4: Whatever, Yeah, that's terrible weather. That's the only reason, right.

931
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 5: Uh.

932
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 2: The Colts are now the six seeds, so it's the

933
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 2: playoffs started today obviously, long way from he gets Steelers

934
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: Colts in the Yeah, Steelers Colts in the first round

935
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 2: of the Plasica.

936
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 3: Would get the top wild card. Yeah, I got you.

937
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 2: Uh, they know they'd be the sixth. The Jets are

938
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 2: the top, they would play the Bills.

939
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 3: Okay, I got you.

940
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 2: And Baltimore is now the seventh seed. Understood. Okay, so

941
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 2: Baltimore Houston. The Chargers sit at two and two. Remember

942
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: just two weeks ago they were too Yeah, the Raiders

943
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 2: are now two.

944
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 3: And two beating the Brownies.

945
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 2: They're the they're the nine seed. Then you get Denver

946
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 2: at two and two. They're the ten.

947
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 3: And these teams aren't overwhelming.

948
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 2: Then you got Miami in the eleven spot, New England

949
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 2: in the twelfth spot, the Browns in thirteen or thirteen?

950
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 3: Cincinnati is fourteen?

951
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 4: Really, yes, I get them, it's one win, but the

952
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 4: time Rakers and all that.

953
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: One win to go over a really bad football team. True, uh,

954
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 2: Jacksonville and then Tennessee.

955
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 4: Wow, Tennessee Miami shake out a little different tonight. Yeah,

956
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 4: but those bottom feeders, Cincinnati is the only one that

957
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 4: stands out to me, is could get this thing right

958
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 4: and contend? I mean, I don't think the Browns are

959
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 4: getting things right. Indy might be in the playoff mix.

960
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 4: I don't think the Jags can get back in the

961
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 4: playoff mix. I can't see Denver. Maybe the Chargers sneak

962
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 4: in get people healthy, but the AFC doesn't look that great.

963
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 2: Any No, we talked about that last week. I mean,

964
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: so even though you lost the game again, you lost

965
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 2: a road game. If you'd have won the road game,

966
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 2: it would have looked a lot better because, yeah, you

967
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: play nine of them this year, you'd have three of

968
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 2: them already.

969
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 3: Off the dockets. And it's an AFC opponent and right,

970
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 3: but again not the end of the world.

971
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 2: The Steelers get an opportunity this week against the Dallas

972
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 2: Cowboys in a Sunday night game at home. They typically

973
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 2: play well in those games. Not looking good for Dallas

974
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 2: with Michael Parsons or Lawrence Lawrence is definitely Lawrence is

975
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 2: definitely out. Parsons are reports of him today. He's in

976
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 2: a boot and has a scooter, not even putting weight

977
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: on that on that leg. I can't imagine that their

978
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 2: two best defensive players play and their defense wasn't good

979
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 2: with those.

980
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 4: Guys, no to be struggling, especially against a Ron, and

981
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 4: they have some problems on offense too, but they're still dangerousing's.

982
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: I mean, they get and get hot.

983
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so you got a guard against that but

984
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: that's what the Steelers are looking at this week as

985
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 2: they lick their wounds and come off of this game.

986
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 2: You know, we'll see how it goes.

987
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 3: It would be great.

988
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 4: And they weren't really that far from four and oh yeah,

989
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 4: but the way they played, I thought they didn't.

990
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 3: They deserve to lose.

991
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 2: They deserve to lose that day, play that badly, you

992
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 2: deserve to lose.

993
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 4: Do that many singular bad things.

994
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 2: Whereas guys keep saying in the locker room, kicking your

995
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 2: own butt, yeah, yeah exactly. Some said it that way,

996
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:05,479
Speaker 2: some said it.

997
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 4: A little more flowery, yes, but the result was the

998
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 4: same results.

999
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 2: That's going to do it for our number one of

1000
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 2: the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network, Matt and

1001
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: I will be back with our number two right after

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Speaker 2: this