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

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Speaker 1: R Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive, Um, Dale,

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Speaker 1: while we here with Matt, lads sit and it's a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday here in Pittsburgh. The snow is falling and that

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Speaker 1: forced the Steelers to go inside today. So I was

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Speaker 1: not able to watch practice because the new NFL rules

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Speaker 1: say you can't have media in the indoor facility. That

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Speaker 1: makes little sense to me. I mean we were in

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Speaker 1: there earlier in the year. If they went inside for

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Speaker 1: you know, if it's raining or something like that, you

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Speaker 1: can't watch practice, not anymore. I I mean it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty open area with huge girls, really open area, very

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Speaker 1: open area. Might as well be outside in terms of

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Speaker 1: COVID reasons. It's like a huge warehouse. It's like a

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Speaker 1: huge warehouse with a football field in the middle. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's odd to me that you can't. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: that's an odd rule for me. And everyone's the same,

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess the rules to rule, and so

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Speaker 1: I didn't get to see practice today, but I assume

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Speaker 1: we still haven't seen a practice report yet, but I

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Speaker 1: assume it was a veterans day off for many of

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Speaker 1: the typical Wednesday especially, and people say, oh, they're two

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Speaker 1: game losing streak, they need to practice. They play Monday

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Speaker 1: nighty night. They just played three games in twelve days,

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Speaker 1: so you know they're gonna get an extra day of

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Speaker 1: practice on Saturday. It's not the end of the world

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Speaker 1: if they don't practice. It's great, yeah, would My whole

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Speaker 1: goal for the week is, um, do as little as

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Speaker 1: possible basically, and relax. Get your bodies right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the goal for me for the week is get

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Speaker 1: as healthy as possible, get as fresh as possible, have

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Speaker 1: as much energy and as much in the tank as

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Speaker 1: you possibly can for the rest of the season, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily even Monday. And I'll say this again, um, because

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Speaker 1: it keeps coming up on some of my stories and stuff. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers played three games in twelve days. But that

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Speaker 1: happens all the time. Yeah, it does. It doesn't all

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Speaker 1: the time, but typically when a team plays a Thursday

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Speaker 1: night game during the season, you play three and twelve days, right, right, right,

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Speaker 1: But your opponent is as well. Yes, they set they

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Speaker 1: set it up so both teams are playing three games

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Speaker 1: on twelve days, not that one team is playing on

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Speaker 1: four days rest, which is what happened against Washington, and

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Speaker 1: the other teams playing on eleven days rest. That's a

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Speaker 1: full week. And sometimes you get to buy before your

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Speaker 1: Thursday games right after right after right. I mean, these

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Speaker 1: schedule makers do an exceptional job, and they blow me

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Speaker 1: away how good they are every year, like a lot

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Speaker 1: of moving parts there. I do schedules, you know, when

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Speaker 1: I've run the baseball league in Washington and I do schedules,

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Speaker 1: and it's not easy. I mean, you know, I got

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Speaker 1: you know, like five different school districts that I got

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Speaker 1: kids in here, and I gotta okay, these these guys

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Speaker 1: have a chorus concert tonight and this this school has

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Speaker 1: a you know, they have a dance like Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 1: Things that the things that kids can't skip to, you know,

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Speaker 1: because for a baseball game, you know, so you can't

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Speaker 1: play games at night, well then that's that rearranges this.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's a it's a pain in the neck.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine doing for thirty two games and

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Speaker 1: again having a Taylor swift, Well we can't have it

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Speaker 1: that night. Here comes the Stones, you know. And there's

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Speaker 1: some cool things I noticed this year too from the

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Speaker 1: schedule makers. I give him credit, Like New England just

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Speaker 1: played back to back games in l A and that

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Speaker 1: But at least they didn't have to travel even though

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Speaker 1: they were the road team. Like, nice work, NFL. That

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Speaker 1: was a nice little twest I haven't seen before. So

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Speaker 1: the schedule makers are great at what they do. So

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Speaker 1: my point is when that original schedule grid comes out,

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Speaker 1: it's as good as it can possibly be. Well, we

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Speaker 1: didn't abide by that, not even closely. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Steelers have had four games moved now, yeah, right right,

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Speaker 1: it's more than anybody else there. Their schedule has been

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Speaker 1: much of it was you know, a Tuesday or Wednesday

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Speaker 1: you know, like I think we're playing tomorrow, so we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have walked through today. Oh no, we're not. But

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Speaker 1: A lot of that stuff. I just wasted days were

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Speaker 1: wasted days, and nothing makes football coaches crazier. I mean

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Speaker 1: amazed me when I started out of pit. You know,

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Speaker 1: they were the offensive defensive staff would fight in pre

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Speaker 1: get and pre practice meetings. This period needs to be

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Speaker 1: eight minutes, No, it needs to be seven we you know,

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Speaker 1: like every minute is yeah, right, so when when they

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Speaker 1: mess you up, it really does have an effect. Yeah. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers getting back to practice today. They had a

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Speaker 1: in almost a month where they've had like a normal

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Speaker 1: of surprised the league didn't move this game off of

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Speaker 1: the Steelers could have gone away with just a normal week,

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Speaker 1: not the extra day and now, and frankly, it probably

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Speaker 1: this just for Pittsburgh's reasons. But nobody wants to watch

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Speaker 1: this game. Nobody wants to watch the Bengals. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: are awful. Yeah, really a tough They've scored fifty points

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Speaker 1: at all. But I mean that's since Burrow has been out.

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Speaker 1: Is that as long as that the line of demarcation there?

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Speaker 1: That certainly adds. I mean it's a bad football team,

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Speaker 1: and they weren't good before that. No, but at least

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Speaker 1: they had a draw, right, they had something you wanted

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Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, you know that. That's why this game

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Speaker 1: you know, first look at Burrow and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff, right, ain't happening now? Now nobody cares about

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Speaker 1: this day. They're maybe the lowest on the list of

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Speaker 1: most watching watchable teams in the league. It would be

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Speaker 1: nice to get it bumped. Actually said, you don't have

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Speaker 1: a short week the week after? Yeah, but you know

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Speaker 1: they I really think Pittsburgh could use the rest. And

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's gonna be a short week next

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Speaker 1: week with Christmas involved. Oh by the way, Oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, So you know that the Steelers. You know,

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Speaker 1: practice on Christmas Day, They'll practice on Christmas Eve because

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Speaker 1: once the season starts, it's you're on. Oh yeah, they

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Speaker 1: don't mean if it's a Friday, I don't care what's

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, I've covered games on Christmas Day, games on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, travel to the game, right, I mean if

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Speaker 1: if Christmas would have fallen on a Saturday and your

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Speaker 1: you're still going, you know, yes, that would be Is

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Speaker 1: that next year? I guess. I don't know how they don't.

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Speaker 1: could be on the horizon. Yeah. So no, but it

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Speaker 1: injuries on top of that, and they're not the only

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Speaker 1: team that's had it rough, don't. Yeah, but I do

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Speaker 1: think it's influenced their play, and you know, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of giving them a slight pass for that. But if

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Speaker 1: night against a bad team, I'm gonna be officially very worried.

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Speaker 1: You know, absolutely. I don't know that I necessarily expected.

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Speaker 1: There was a score the last game, thirty eight to

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Speaker 1: they go into a game saying, if you don't blow

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Speaker 1: them out, you stink. Still, that was the problem with

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Speaker 1: you if you if you don't blow them out, well

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Speaker 1: that game too, as soon as didn't have penalty too

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Speaker 1: at Connor. I mean, they weren't exactly full systems go either.

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Speaker 1: That was and it was an odd situation. And really

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Speaker 1: realistically the game was a blowout. It was it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that game was not close. It was never

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Speaker 1: in jeopardy. If they play at ten times and Steelers

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Speaker 1: winning everyone, Yeah, there's no doubt it was right. And

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Speaker 1: as bad as that team was Ice, I submit that

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Speaker 1: they're still as bad as since they really aren't. But no,

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Speaker 1: I expect Steelers too, offensive linemen to get off the

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Speaker 1: And mental mistakes come with fatigue. Right, Yeah, you're not

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Speaker 1: if you don't practice as much. Ben Roethlisberger talked about

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Speaker 1: to finish off today's show, But he talked about, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you have those short work weeks. He said, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're we're installing the third down packages in

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Speaker 1: opposed to doing it one day at a time. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't have that. You're not you're not quite as

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Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of rushing to your point about

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Speaker 1: the practice schedules. You're kind of rushing through these things, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Yeah, we went over it,

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Speaker 1: but we didn't go over it like we typically would, right,

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Speaker 1: in two weeks, what we do it in one? And

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Speaker 1: now we're on the Korea and you know they lay

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Speaker 1: out the curriculum them for a reason. It's very digestible

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Speaker 1: with that. Today we're gonna give you this, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna build off that with the game plan, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna install these couple of new things and here's why.

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Speaker 1: But now we're gonna do it all cramped into one

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Speaker 1: and it just runs together. Again, these aren't excuses. They

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Speaker 1: should be playing better than they have the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, but they're factors. They're they're most definitely factors.

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Speaker 1: And then you add in again the injuries that have

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Speaker 1: the NFL for this. I think the NFL has done

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Speaker 1: a good job of getting the games in. But it

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Speaker 1: also goes back to my complaints about Thursday Night football.

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Speaker 1: That's not good for players. Safety in free games. In

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Speaker 1: twelve games in twelve days is not players the same thing.

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Speaker 1: when you win so many games in a row, I

426
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Speaker 1: think you can fall into bad habits to like they recognize, hey,

427
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Speaker 1: we're not attacking this part in the field, but we

428
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Speaker 1: keep winning, why would we change it? And eventually it

429
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Speaker 1: catches up to you a little bit, and you know,

430
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Speaker 1: you got to just take a step back as a

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Speaker 1: veteran coaching staff and say, Okay, we know this has

432
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Speaker 1: been a problem, but why would we have changed it

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Speaker 1: before when we keep winning every week? Right? And I

434
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Speaker 1: I remember the very first time that what you're describing

435
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Speaker 1: I actually witnessed and heard about it. You know, I

436
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: was in college. I was covering the pit football team.

437
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: Jackie Sherroll was the coach. They're playing Florida State at

438
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Speaker 1: Pitts Stadium. They ran the ball like crazy on Florida

439
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: State in the first half. Second half, they just didn't

440
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Speaker 1: run the ball anymore and they ended up losing. And

441
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Speaker 1: after the game, Jackie Sherrol was asked pretty early in

442
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Speaker 1: his you know, postgame remarks, why did you stop running

443
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Speaker 1: the ball in the second half? And I'll never ever

444
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Speaker 1: forget what he said. He said, Well, we ran it

445
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Speaker 1: so well in the first half. We figured they were

446
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Speaker 1: going to adjust to it and take that away from us,

447
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: and so we decided to do something else, which to

448
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Speaker 1: me was maybe the stupidest thing I've ever heard. But right,

449
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Speaker 1: you don't want to do that even if you know, hey,

450
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Speaker 1: we can't just keep doing this and expect to, you know,

451
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Speaker 1: win every game or get to where we want to

452
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Speaker 1: be at the end of the season. But it's getting

453
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Speaker 1: us to win. So we're not going to stop until

454
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Speaker 1: they stop us. And so, yes, what what you just said, Matt,

455
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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I've seen UM coaches teams try

456
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Speaker 1: and be proactive and stop themselves, and you know you

457
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Speaker 1: can do that. You can stop yourself and end up losing,

458
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Speaker 1: and so, uh, you don't want to do that. So

459
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Speaker 1: that's why that's another reason why I'm very interested to

460
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Speaker 1: see how this team responds, uh tactically, play calling wise,

461
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,120
Speaker 1: division of labor, personnel groupings, you know, all of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Starting Monday night in Cincinnati. Yeah, I was. I was

463
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Speaker 1: asked by a reader this week, you know the red

464
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Speaker 1: scare Washington and Buffalo both came out in the second

465
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Speaker 1: half and scored touchdowns on their opening drive. Does that

466
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Speaker 1: mean that that Keith Butler didn't make good halftime adjustments?

467
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Speaker 1: And like, why would he adjust anything his against Buffalo,

468
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: the defense gave up a hundred yards in three points

469
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Speaker 1: against you know, against Washington, they gave up three points.

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Speaker 1: There was a gift at the end of the half,

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Speaker 1: Like you don't adjust from that. You what you were

472
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Speaker 1: doing was working right. And you know the other thing

473
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Speaker 1: that has been explained to me is certainly there are

474
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Speaker 1: things that go on at halftime, But if you're in

475
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Speaker 1: the NFL and you don't adjust a halftime, you might

476
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Speaker 1: have already lost the game. I mean, those things are

477
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Speaker 1: happening almost in real time. Um those um um iPads

478
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Speaker 1: or whatever they are, those tablets that those guys were

479
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Speaker 1: always looking at. Coaches are always looking at. Uh. They

480
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: have um still photos that are taken and run down

481
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Speaker 1: to the sideline, but sometimes shoved in the pocket of

482
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Speaker 1: the official right. Uh. But I mean those so the

483
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Speaker 1: adjustments are made off and you know, right after the series,

484
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Speaker 1: after a possession, so they're not necessarily waiting till halftime. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And you're right, why would you adjust to something you know,

486
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: don't fix what's not broken and labs to your point

487
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: to like just to kind of laid out for the listeners.

488
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Speaker 1: I mean, you go all week thinking, Okay, if we

489
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Speaker 1: come out in the three by one set, we think

490
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna check the cover two. Well they check the

491
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Speaker 1: cover one. We're not gonna wait until halftime to make

492
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Speaker 1: an adjustment on that. You know, we'll talk about it

493
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Speaker 1: at halftime. I know it's only five minutes into the game.

494
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: It's not how it works. But I do think there

495
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: is something to the Steelers will defense allowing more points

496
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Speaker 1: in the second half of these last couple of games.

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Speaker 1: But I blame fatigue, not XS and os. Yeah, and

498
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Speaker 1: I yeah, And that's another thing, you know, I do

499
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Speaker 1: believe that this roster is reaching critical mass in terms

500
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Speaker 1: of what it can absorb. Uh. You know, and I

501
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: may have said this to you guys, and I apologize

502
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: to the listeners if I'm repeating myself, but you know,

503
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Speaker 1: the next man up the standard is the standard. I mean,

504
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: those are nice catch phrases, and that's what the coach

505
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: needs to tell, you know, his players, because you know,

506
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: you want the new guys or the next men up

507
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Speaker 1: to have some confidence that they can do the job,

508
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: and you want the other guys on the field with

509
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Speaker 1: them to have confidence that the next man up can

510
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Speaker 1: do the job. But you can't convince me that you know,

511
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: Avery Williamson is uh Devin Bush. I mean, and you

512
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: definitely can't convince me that Marcus Allen is, nor is

513
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: Cam Sutton Joe Hayden um and so um. Because even

514
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: if Cam Sutton has, say he's percent of Joe Hayden, well,

515
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: then who's taking Cam Sutton's place? Justin lane? There's the

516
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: next guy up for the next guy up, right, It's

517
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: a trickle down effect and so yeah, and then the

518
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Speaker 1: trickle down effect of that as well as guys like

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward, you start leaning on those guys to play

520
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: more snaps, and yeah, I do think you see some fatigue.

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00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: And the other problem that the defense is having is

522
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: the offense isn't holding up its end because if the

523
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Speaker 1: offense continues to produce and score, for example against the

524
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Speaker 1: Bills twenty three to seven, in my mind the way

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Speaker 1: watching it, it was over because the Steelers were not

526
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Speaker 1: going to be able to muster enough offense to put

527
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Speaker 1: enough points on the scoreboard to threaten Buffalo and to

528
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Speaker 1: make them think, we better get off our butts here

529
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: take some chances because if we don't, we're gonna lose

530
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: this game. And you know, it's kind of like what

531
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Speaker 1: happened last year. Why would the opponent take any chances

532
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: when your your offense is only going to score ten

533
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: points against them? So that's another thing. You know, it

534
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: has to be a complementary uh situation, and it hasn't

535
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: been UH. And you know, I look, you know, you

536
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: look at the uh the two units. Um. You know,

537
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: I think that the offense needs to pick it up. However,

538
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: now now you're starting to have a lot of injuries

539
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: on the line, and how that is going to impact things,

540
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Speaker 1: I'm almost afraid to find out. Yeah, we'll see what

541
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Speaker 1: what happens this week with Kevin Dotson if he's capable

542
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: of playing or not. Again, don't have a practice report

543
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: from today. I don't expect him to practice early in

544
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: the week at least. But that was you know when

545
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: when Mike Tomlin came out. Initially those were reported as

546
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Speaker 1: as shoulder injuries for Filer and Dotson in game, and

547
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: then Tomlin came out after the game and said that

548
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: they were both pictorial injuries and I'm like, oh, that

549
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: doesn't sound good. Um. And then and then we find out,

550
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: you know, this week that the Dawson was in fact

551
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: a shoulder issue. Um, still not good, but he didn't

552
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: go on I R. So at least they expect him to. Yeah,

553
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: it's obviously not that not to the you know, the

554
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: level of Filer, um. But they don't have any other

555
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: answers up front. That's it now, right if you have

556
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: to play, you know, in all due respect, I don't

557
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: mean to, but if you're playing J C. Half an

558
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Speaker 1: hour h and Anthony Coyle and um, the guy that

559
00:29:54,080 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: just Kansas City, Um, you know that again next en

560
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: up sounds good, but I mean that's it's just it's

561
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: just not gonna cut it. I don't think, but you know,

562
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: we'll have to see how it turns out. Yeah, I

563
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: mean the line aside though, Bob we kind of mentioned

564
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned the personnel groupings and things like that. You're

565
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: interested to see you on Monday, and I am too.

566
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I've seen about enough

567
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: of Samuel's McLeod, certainly Hawkins maybe what on the offense. Yeah,

568
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean they certainly haven't. You know, there hasn't been

569
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Speaker 1: I know the fans have been crying for Derek Watt

570
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Speaker 1: as a fullback, but I haven't seen it when he's

571
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: been in. I mean, he was in on a couple

572
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: of those uh from the one yard line against the

573
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Speaker 1: Red Hoops against Washington and it didn't you know, the

574
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Speaker 1: job didn't get We're all putting money in the tip jar.

575
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Um. Well. The other thing is is, you know,

576
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: because defensives are are putting, they're they're pressing on the

577
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: outside and you're you're getting a single high because they

578
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: don't respect the deep passing game at all. So essentially

579
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: everybody at the snap of the football and defense is

580
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: within you know, ten of the the eleven guys are

581
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: within five yards of the line of scrimmage. So you

582
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: could have five fullbacks in there and it's not going

583
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: to make things any different because your your your offensive

584
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: line just is getting there's there's the running backs have

585
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: to make somebody miss right away, and they're just not capable.

586
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: A fullback isn't really going to change that because there's

587
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: no push up front, right and um, and if you're

588
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: not attacking deep down the field, then you're not moving

589
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: them off the line of scrimmage that way either. And

590
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: so pretty much what you have is your offense from

591
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: last year, right, were obviously young guys from the box. Yeah,

592
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: and you're seeing a ton of that and they need

593
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: to push them out of it with the deep passing

594
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: game more than the running game in our opinion. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know another thing is, um, you know the

596
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: drops uhr. And I you know, I my opinion of

597
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron started low when he was first talked about

598
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: him then signed, because um, he drops the ball. Then

599
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: he didn't drop the ball, and I thought, wow, I

600
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: was wrong about that. This guy is really a weapon.

601
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: Now he's dropping the ball. Um, and you know he

602
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: can't block me, he can't. But here's why you can't.

603
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: And again this goes back to the numbers that I

604
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: ran today. He's been targeted twelve times this year on

605
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Speaker 1: deep passes and he's caught seven of them. That's by

606
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: far the best of any of their receivers. Like, he

607
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: gives you something in that part of the game. I'm

608
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: not saying I'm not I don't want to ask him.

609
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: I don't want him to be in the game trying

610
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Speaker 1: to block Chase Young. That's that's silly, or or you know,

611
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: ask him to block Chase Young. But I think he

612
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: serves a purpose on this team. I just don't know

613
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Speaker 1: that I want to throw to him on third and

614
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: five on a short ball in traffic, because those are

615
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: the one that he's been dropping. If you're developed an

616
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: intermediate and deep game, he's needed for that thing. But

617
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Speaker 1: you know, if you can't do the other things and

618
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put him on the field when you

619
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: either run the ball or you're using your short passing game,

620
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: you know, just having a big, gigantic sign on him,

621
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Speaker 1: you know, when you put him in the game, this

622
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: is what we're doing. You can just you know, the card,

623
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: put the card up. What everybody's gonna do, because it

624
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: won't take very long until you know that that is

625
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: a point of emphasis for the opponents too. I mean,

626
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: that's the problem you can't have. And I'm all in

627
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: favor of that too. You know, doing what guys can do.

628
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Speaker 1: But if you have too many people that are um

629
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Speaker 1: awarding competent in certain phases, guys are tough, right, Thank you, Matt,

630
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being the kinder person than me. One

631
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: dimensional guys, you know you're just telegraphing what what you're

632
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: gonna do, and that that really doesn't help either. So um,

633
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: you know, again, I'm gonna go back to what I said.

634
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: I don't believe that there are fixes quote unquote for

635
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: some of this, but I do think that, uh, the

636
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: Steelers can do a better job with smoke and mirrors. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And because that's what they're gonna have to do. I mean,

638
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: defenses know how to defend this team right now and

639
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: they have to adjust and they can't. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,

640
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see if that starts this weekend. There's

641
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: nothing like a game against the Bengals to fix what's

642
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: ailing you. And if the if the Steelers, even if

643
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Speaker 1: Cleveland happens to win on on Sunday against the Giants,

644
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: which I think is going to be a struggle given Um,

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00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have a letdown based off of

646
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: that game what happened Monday night. But that's maybe that's

647
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: just me, um, and I don't know if the Giants

648
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: are capable of taking advantage of that. But even if

649
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: the Browns win, a Steelers win on Mond Day night,

650
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: uh captures the division title. That was the first goal

651
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: of the season. It wasn't, Hey, we're gonna just gonna

652
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: go out and win the super Bowl your first goal.

653
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: It wasn't to be unbeaten. That the goal was to

654
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: win the division. They're going to do that. Um, you know,

655
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: everything is still in front of this team. It's just

656
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: a matter of whether or not they can fix some

657
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: of these issues. Yes, And my other hope is that

658
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: you know, come the regular season finale that things are

659
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: pretty much settled for the Steelers in terms of seating,

660
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: so that at least, you know, maybe you can rest

661
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: some people um that week, because to me, the first

662
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: round by is is that's that's out the door. That

663
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: horse has gone escape the barn a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: So at this point now, the only thing I would

665
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: consider looking at would be matt potential matchups, who you

666
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: want to play, who maybe you don't want to play,

667
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: And does what you do against the Browns and that

668
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: seat regular season finale impact that in any way? Um

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Speaker 1: and if not not to the degree that you know,

670
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: you you determine that it's significant, then you know, I

671
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: give some guys that that weekend off and then maybe

672
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: try and you know, muster up you know a little

673
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: bit of a playoff run here, especially with helm field

674
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: advantage meaning so much less than any other year. I'm

675
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: always going to side on sitting my veterans a week

676
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: seventeen this year for this football team. Oh absolutely, especially

677
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: you know because of the you know, the situation with

678
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: you know, really having not not having had a bye week. Um,

679
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: there are the team is old in some areas. You'd

680
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: like them feeling physically as good as they could possibly feel,

681
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, going into the post, and you certainly want

682
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: to avoid injury in that seven ye yeah, and they

683
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: just can't to your point, they can't afford any more injuries.

684
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: I don't care where it's at right there, there's there

685
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 1: isn't a position where yeah, could you could lose somebody

686
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: there because I don't. I don't see it. I really

687
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: do know the depth has all been pretty much taken

688
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: away at this point. You mentioned age lab. I guess

689
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: it's probably last thing I have for It's got a

690
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: big picture off season question. But are you worried the

691
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: old line is old or can does it need a

692
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: total youth movement or do you bring back Fidler Banner

693
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Speaker 1: and a second round pick and keep the same kind

694
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: of moving in the same direction as opposed to a

695
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: first round picking a third round pick. Well, I mean,

696
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,959
Speaker 1: I think that the rest of the season is going

697
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: to help chart that course for you, as is Ben

698
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's plans moving forward. Uh, you know, I don't. I'm

699
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: not predicting, you know, anything in terms of what he's

700
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: gonna do, or what he's gonna feel like or any

701
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: of that stuff. What I'm saying is if if if

702
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: at the end of this season he decides I don't

703
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: want to play anymore or I don't have any any

704
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: anything more to give, then I think you approach her

705
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: off the line differently than you would if he says, hey,

706
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: look this is this is okay, I need to get

707
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: this cleaned up, or that offseason cleaned up or whatever,

708
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 1: and I think I can play. Let's let's think about

709
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: a contract extension, give you some cap reliaf Okay. Then

710
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: I'm approaching the offensive line differently. So um, you know,

711
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: I do think so that you need an injection of youth,

712
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: and I would be much more in favor of spending

713
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: what I call premium draft picks first two day draft

714
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Speaker 1: picks on offensive lineman than running backs. Yeah. Um, or

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Speaker 1: certainly again, if Ben decides that, you know, he's in

716
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Speaker 1: for more whatever it is, I'm not looking at a

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Speaker 1: quarterback either, because to me, that's that's that's absurd. You

718
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: want you don't want to look for your quarterback, and

719
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: so it's time to look for your quarterback because this

720
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Speaker 1: whole you know, let him sit behind Ben and learn

721
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: that's that's yeah. I mean you need you need to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of a quarterback on his rookie deal for

723
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Speaker 1: as many years as possible. So what you need to

724
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Speaker 1: do is evaluate that properly and then get him on

725
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: the field because then you can help him, you know

726
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 1: with like um, you know, some of the other teams

727
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: are doing the browns um, the ravens um uh, like

728
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: what Green Bay did is the complete opposite of what

729
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: you should do, right is that first round pick on

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Speaker 1: a ride receiver for for Aaron Rodgers. Now, all of

731
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: a sudden, Aaron Rodgers looks like he's gonna play another

732
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Speaker 1: five years. And then my rookie quarterback doesn't help me.

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Speaker 1: You know, you spend Now you got John Elway and

734
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Speaker 1: Tommy Maddox. They messed it up. They messed it up

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Speaker 1: with Farv when they picked Aaron Rodgers, and I messed

736
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Speaker 1: it up with Rogers when they picked Jordan's Love. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I I that's my opinion on that. So, um,

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Speaker 1: that's how I would approach it. And I would have

739
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Speaker 1: no problem at all, you know with picking a offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman first and then an offensive lineman third, because if

741
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: you can get you know, a thoughts and kind of

742
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: guy and uh and an offensive tackle. Um, you know

743
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Speaker 1: I I think that that's a significant add to this

744
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: group and it's going to be. It would be a

745
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: big help moving forward. It's nice having young chief offensive

746
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,919
Speaker 1: lineman too. Yes, yeah, that's I mean, that's the other

747
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: that's the other part of the equation on that. But Bob,

748
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you go. I know you're gonna get

749
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: back out and shovel some more. You probably get that

750
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: four more interest in your driveway now, So we appreciate,

751
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: we appreciate you stopping by. He is Bob Labarriola, editor

752
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: of Steelers Digest and Steelers dot Com. I'm dl Ali

753
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: here with Matt Williamson. We're gonna take a break. When

754
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Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk about those a FC teams,

755
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: what matchups might be good for the Steelers, what might

756
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Speaker 1: not be. Right after this your tunes about drive on

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

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00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: back on Dale all Inder with Matt Williamson. Matt, the

759
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: Steelers are in the playoffs, as uh will we talked

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00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: about and Bob's uh point when he was talking about, okay,

761
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: if you rest some guys or do you do what

762
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: you gotta do in the playoffs to kind of get

763
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: the matchup that you want. You know, Um, as things

764
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: currently stand in the a f c um Kansas City

765
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: of course is in They're gonna be probably be the

766
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: number one seed right now, the Steelers. Right now, the

767
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: Steelers are the two Buffaloes, the three. Uh, Tennessee is

768
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Speaker 1: the four. Yes, Cleveland's the five, the Colts six, Miami seven.

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Speaker 1: If if things held that way, I don't think they will.

770
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 1: But but I think you'd be perfectly comfort for Bowl

771
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: as a Steelers saying, oh, we'll play, we play the Dolphins. Um,

772
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: but the Ravens are looming with three easy games, three

773
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: easy games. Although today they placed three of their receivers,

774
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: including Marquis Brown, James Prochet and and then yeah, on

775
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Speaker 1: the COVID list. And it's not like it's a the

776
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: wealthy position. No, it's not like they have a bunch

777
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: of guys sitting there waiting to play. So we'll see

778
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: if they're eight capable. They're they're saying this might be

779
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: a contact thing. But even if it's a contact thing,

780
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: trick contact racing, that's five days. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. Yeah. Um,

781
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: so they're not practicing all week and they're away from

782
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: the team. Um. You know, so Miami's got a couple

783
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: of cough, tough game. Miami is not gonna make it.

784
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: Miami still has to play Buffalo, Miami still has to

785
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: play play in New England this week. I think they'll

786
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: beat New England. They'll beat New England this week. You know.

787
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna pick the Viami in that game. Yeah,

788
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: I think their defense will give give New England all

789
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: kinds of issues. I don't think we know any of

790
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,280
Speaker 1: these things. But could Baltom more get to the sixth seed?

791
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: I mean potentially again, you know, if you look at uh,

792
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 1: you know the culture in that spot right now, if

793
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: the Steelers beat the Colts, that obviously hurts their cause.

794
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: They fall down wrong and right, and Baltimore has a

795
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Speaker 1: win against the Colts. Good point, Okay, so Baltimore would

796
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: finish ahead of them. I mean that kind of stuff

797
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: makes my brain hurt. I mean, that's let me think

798
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Speaker 1: about going into weeks seventeen. If this team wins, it

799
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: seemed loses whatever. I do think it's really interesting to

800
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: talk about each team, how you match up against them. Um.

801
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: But in the end, in terms of do I rest

802
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: guys or not in Week seventeen, I'm always gonna say

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00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: rest of them as long as I'm like, I don't

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Speaker 1: if it's two versary, I don't care. If it's Ravens

805
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: versus Miami versus India, I don't fear that. I mean, obviously,

806
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: Jackson's gives you the wild card there, right, but I

807
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: don't necessarily fear this Ravens team. Like it's not like

808
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: they're they're unbeatable. It's not like the familiarity, the coaching

809
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: and that stuff worries me. More about what I've seen

810
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:55,919
Speaker 1: on the field, you know what I mean that they're

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Speaker 1: the team we saw that they just gave a forty

812
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: two points to Cleveland. Yes, I mean the Steelers will

813
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: move the ball on yeah, right, and they're they're hurting

814
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,919
Speaker 1: for weapons and Steels are also very familiar with them.

815
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: It's not the worst matchup in the world, Lamar Jackson's

816
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's worst games as a pro have been against

817
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Speaker 1: the Steelers. That's not you know, now you don't have

818
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: Bud Duprene now, which hurts, but you know they've done

819
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Speaker 1: But you know, um, you know, I think the Colts

820
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: might even be scarier than might than Baltimore. Yeah, defensively,

821
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: they can do something. We'll see what Yeah, we'll see

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Speaker 1: what they you know, what happens next week in that

823
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: game when it comes comes to that, when we get

824
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: to that with I don't fear Cleveland. No, Cleveland be

825
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: high on my list of fad I want to play

826
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Speaker 1: um because they're gonna pressure Baker. They'll pressure Baker. The

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Speaker 1: Browns into me are going to be one of these teams.

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Speaker 1: It's just happy to get Hey, we got in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah I saw this. Yeah I can remember. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know when I first moved to Washington, in one

831
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Speaker 1: of the local high schools, I'm walking around the mall

832
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Speaker 1: and I see these kids walking around with with Whippel

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00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: play off t shirts on, like the for the basketball team,

834
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Speaker 1: and like, oh, you know, you finished third in your

835
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Speaker 1: section and you made the playoffs and that's you got

836
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: a T shirt for that? Like that was that was expected?

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Speaker 1: You know, you were you know when I played, you

838
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: were expected to make the playoffs. You were expected not

839
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Speaker 1: only just to make the playoffs, we were expected to

840
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: win the district championship. Because we had done so my

841
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: my sophomore in junior year. The expectation going into my

842
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: senior years, well, we're gonna be in the in the

843
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: district championship game. Now what are we gonna do with it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers and Ravens aren't popping champagne for

845
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: getting playoffs. No, no, there was no celebration on you

846
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: know when the Steelers backed into the playoffs. You know

847
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: when when the Dolphins lost in Oh wait, we're that's

848
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 1: that's not what they lost to the Bills. We expected

849
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: this since training camp, since we put in the pads

850
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: the first time, and the Browns are just in a

851
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: different places. So that's your goal. If your goal as well,

852
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: we just gotta make the playoffs. Well then you know,

853
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: I think Tom the Buccaneers the one year when Rheem

854
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: Morris was the head coach, made winning ten games their

855
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: goal because they had they had won nine year before

856
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: or missed the playoffs. Get better, Let's get better. If

857
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: we win ten, we're going to be in the playoffs. Well,

858
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: they got to that goal. They won ten games and

859
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs, but didn't make the playoffs. Like

860
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: you're celebrating that tenth when, well we got to ten,

861
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: but you didn't make the playoffs and you said it earlier.

862
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: I mean, the goal since day one is winning the division. Yeah,

863
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 1: win the division. Then when the when the you know, yeah,

864
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: get to the a s C Championship game, win the

865
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Those are the goal. You know, it goes

866
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: in that progression. Hey, let's get into the playoffs because

867
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: we haven't been there since two thousand and four. And

868
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: the underreported story with the Browns. Their defense is bad.

869
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's Myles Garrett and then the back seven

870
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: is bad, trash. And Ward's a good player, but you

871
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: just don't throw it him. He's not playing right now.

872
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: He's not playing right now. I mean they've let up

873
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: a lot of points to Tennessee in Baltimore. And um,

874
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: I know the Steelers offensive struggling, but Ben would throw

875
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: on those guys. Oh, absolutely, yeah, and he will. And

876
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 1: if he plays in that week seventeen game, if they

877
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 1: if they had like their safeties are awful. Yeah, it's bad,

878
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: It's really bad. You can try to field on them.

879
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: They're not great tacklers. So I'm impressed more and more

880
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: with their offense or line Baker running game, of course,

881
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: but um, they're gonna be take over in Brown's games. Um,

882
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo's really good. They're good. But I don't be there though. Yeah. Then,

883
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: and I think Allan's a streaky passer at this point.

884
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: And you saw what that offense when he was on

885
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: a when he was bad in the first half of

886
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: the game. He was really bad. Yeah, I mean he

887
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: had adverse conditions to say the least. He was under

888
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure, but there is some streakings to him.

889
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean he was missing guys that you know, everything was.

890
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: You saw the bad Allen in the first thing. He

891
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: saw the good Allen in the second half. But you

892
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: saw that, you saw the bad guy in the first half.

893
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: And if you take a more advantage of that again,

894
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: he turned it over twice and almost turned it over

895
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: a third time with a fumble in the pocket. If

896
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: you take it full advantage of those, they win that

897
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: game going away. Agreed, but without question in my opinion,

898
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: casey Aside, Buffalo is the team I'd like to see

899
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: the least in the f C. John Brown might return

900
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: this week by next week. Like Tennessee, Tennessee doesn't scare

901
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: you because, I mean, other than Henry, their defense is awful. No,

902
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: they don't rest pass her at all. I mean, I

903
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: think Tennessee could beat anybody. I think they could beat

904
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Henry can do things that others can't. But

905
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: they're a good playoff team. They're not a super scary tame.

906
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's it's an interesting playoff field in

907
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: the a f C. No, it is, And this is

908
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: all gonna change as this whole thing takes. But but

909
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: you're not gonna see Buffalo in the first round either way, right, yeah,

910
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm not looking too far ahead of

911
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: let's set this up so we don't play Buffalo in

912
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: round two. You know, one way or the other, you're

913
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: probably playing either Buffalo or Kansas City in round two.

914
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: So you know, so, yeah, so big, You're not gonna

915
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: beat easy teams. That's that's the way that's that's not

916
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: the way it works. This isn't you know. And of

917
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: all the potential seven seeds or frankly six seeds, if

918
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers follow to three, I don't really care. Yeah,

919
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: if it means staying healthy for weeks seventeen and buffaloes

920
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: on a heater and the Steelers happen to drop one

921
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: to the Colts stay healthy for week seventeen, and well,

922
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: the Cults are the team because the Colts have lost

923
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: to Cleveland and lost to Baltimore. They're the team that

924
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: that could end up as one of these this group

925
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: of the group of eleven and five teams that could

926
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: be seven because of where they they finish. I know,

927
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: the Colts obviously play the Steelers in Week sixteen. I

928
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Could they fall out of the playoffs with

929
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: all these I don't think that. They don't think the

930
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: big game. Well, they play the Texans and the Steelers

931
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars. Now they lost in the Jaguars in

932
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: Week one. That one's gonna come back and sting. But

933
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: they're not Tesse. They're not losing to them again. They're

934
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: gonna end up in the playoffs, but they're they're the

935
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: team that's most likely to finish in that seventh seat. Mhmm, okay,

936
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: more so than Miami. I don't think Miami can get there.

937
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: Miami there their game back, and they still have games

938
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: left against uh. They're gonna play the Patriots, the Raiders

939
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: and Bills, and in the Raiders game is in Las Vegas.

940
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: I think they're all losable. They're all winnable. But I

941
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: don't think they go three and oh no, and if

942
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: they go to him one, they're done. If they go

943
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: to him one, that's your six loss and they can't

944
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: get the Yeah. I don't know. I wouldn't love playing

945
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: the Colts in week one, but you would have played

946
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: him two weeks ago. From the worst familiarity. Um interesting,

947
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: It would be kind of interesting for sure. To play

948
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: the Colts in Week sixteen, rest every one week seventeen,

949
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: play him again. A Week eight team would be interesting

950
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: in your building, Yeah, in your building. And I don't

951
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: love Rivers in the cold, in the wind right now.

952
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: He doesn't move at all. And I don't love Rivers

953
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: in the playoffs period. He's not been a you know,

954
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: a proven playoff competitor. No, he's playing pretty well and

955
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: seems to have his feet under him, but he doesn't

956
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: move at all anymore. And she'll make the big mistake

957
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: here and there. And I think they're pretty well rounded team,

958
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're great anywhere. Yeah, I agree.

959
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: We take a break. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lali.

960
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

961
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: When we come back, it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus.

962
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: It's ends day, so we'll go around the league, who's practicing,

963
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: who is not, who's going on the COVID list and

964
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: who is not. We'll do all that right after this. Please.

965
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson, one

966
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal. Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

967
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Allie here with Matt Williamson. It's time for

968
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Focus and uh, just in the last

969
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: hour here, we've gotten news that the Ravens have placed

970
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: basically their entire receiving corps except for des Bryant on

971
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: the reserve COVID list. Who Des was coming off of

972
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: the reserve COVID list joking yesterday before that news. They're

973
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: reliant and excited about Dez Bryant. That's how bad they

974
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: are now. They're really excited about then dropping passes left

975
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: and right, and Brown goes on the on the COVID

976
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: nineteen list, James Proche goes on, and Miles Boykin goes on.

977
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: That's their top three receivers. So really it's Snead. I

978
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: don't know if he's healthy though. Yeah, I don't remember

979
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: him playing last week, and he usually he's a return guy,

980
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: and I don't remember seeing him. And he also does

981
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: what Snead does right, right, right. They't have an outside guy,

982
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: have an outside guy that's Des Bryant. This is gonna

983
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: play and play a lot. I don't know that I

984
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: want to pick up des m Star saying to me

985
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: that's not that's not good meeting. Yeah, but Mark Andrews.

986
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews is very exciting. Yeah, because I think I

987
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: think Jacksonville will score on them. I do too. I

988
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: think men shows okay, Jacksonville seems to score week. They'll

989
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: run the football. James Robinson has been effective. Yeah, those

990
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: receivers are good enough. I mean they're doing okay. Gruten's

991
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: on a back coordinator either, right, Like you give them

992
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of something, he'll make stew out of it,

993
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: you know. You know, I don't think they can win

994
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: the game, but I think they can hang. I think

995
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: they can make jackson and they can make the Ravens

996
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,359
Speaker 1: throw the football, not just come out and run, run,

997
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: run run. How many attempts will Lamar having that game?

998
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: It might be low, it might be low. What do

999
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 1: you have in the first half? Three the other day,

1000
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: three before the too many drill? You know, I think

1001
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: they'll try to do Yeah, I mean I think that

1002
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: the fifteen attempts in the game, Yeah, and nine of

1003
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: them go to Andrews. I would they don't do this,

1004
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: but I would scheme up more throws to Dobbins. Yeah,

1005
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: routes things like that, But that don't really what they

1006
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: do but almost telling Andrews, Hey, you're a wide receiver

1007
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 1: this week. Oh yeah, you're you're just attached. Yeah, you're

1008
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: off the ball all day long. Right, and our other

1009
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: big rugged guys will be the the run blockers. Yeah,

1010
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,240
Speaker 1: that's not the only team dealing with some COVID issues

1011
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 1: because Tampa Bay just placed Ronald Jones on the COVID

1012
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: nineteen list, which is interesting because four that was a

1013
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,439
Speaker 1: healthfo Net was heah, he was, He wasn't active last week.

1014
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,439
Speaker 1: I assume he gets it, takes the role over right.

1015
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: We assume that McCoy played some last week. Yeah, Like

1016
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: that didn't make any sense, and it seemed like they

1017
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: were just mad at four net, Like he's he did

1018
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: something in Could Keyshawn Vaughan show up? And I don't

1019
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,720
Speaker 1: see that happening at this point. I wouldn't think Brady

1020
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: trusts him. Yeah. Now they're kind of in search and

1021
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: the running back position all year. I guess you lead

1022
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: towards starting for NET. Yeah, I mean if Jones doesn't

1023
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: play four nets, gonna get fifteen and twenty touches. He

1024
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: catches the ball here and they're not great, but better

1025
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:54,760
Speaker 1: than Jones. Yeah, does that help Godwin Brown Evans probably not. Yeah,

1026
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: I just it's hard to get. I just saw they

1027
00:54:57,719 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: just showed a graphic here and we'll get the ESPN

1028
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: on in we're talking about how how much you know

1029
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: the Patriots used more play action last Yeah, the Bucks,

1030
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, um, and you know that's fixed. That's what

1031
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady wants to do. And you know they used

1032
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: it much more this week. He didn't do anything in

1033
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: that game last night if you look at it. Okay, okay,

1034
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 1: so they move they use more play action last week. Well,

1035
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: here's his numbers. Fifteen yards and two touchdowns. That's a

1036
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: very weird box score in a very weird game because

1037
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: the Vikings kicker mystery three field goals an extra point.

1038
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: The Vikes had the ball like forty minutes and moved

1039
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: the ball consistently on Tampa. Tampa's offense did enough to

1040
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: get to win on short fields on miss mixed field goals,

1041
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: which are really turnovers. So you're like plus four and

1042
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: their plus three and turnovers just from the field goals,

1043
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: and you're still not to move in the ball with

1044
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: great consistency. I really thought the Bucks, oh would be

1045
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: really good by now, and I don't know that it

1046
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 1: ever will be. Yeah, I just don't know that Brady

1047
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: has that intimate point anymore. And it's hard for fantasy.

1048
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,399
Speaker 1: It's really hard for fantasy. You wish they didn't pick

1049
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: up a B for fantasy reasons at least would be

1050
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: like Godwin and Evans are solid players that will say this,

1051
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: they're playing. They're playing Atlanta this week. That helps, That

1052
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: will help, you know and all of us. So you know,

1053
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,919
Speaker 1: if for NET against Atlanta, Yeah, sign me up. Sign

1054
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: me up Brady against Atlanta. Okay, sign because I think

1055
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: Atlanta will score. Oh no Itlant is a good team

1056
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 1: to play against. Their defense isn't horrible, but it's predictable,

1057
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: and their offense scores. So nobody goes into a shell again. Right,

1058
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: you can't just okay, we're just gonna run the ball

1059
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,919
Speaker 1: in the second half. No it doesn't. Yeah, you gotta

1060
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,839
Speaker 1: keep playing. Ryan will keep the throwing, right. Yeah, so yeah,

1061
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: i'd fire up for NET. And I don't dislike, you know,

1062
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: stacking some of those other guys. I mean, he's not

1063
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: great anymore, but they throw the ball into the goal

1064
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: line and they trust him. Yeah, it's a bad week

1065
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 1: for that, I guess you're right, Austin Ekeler. Listen is

1066
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: questionable for Week fifteen against the Raiders. He's got a quad.

1067
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: I would not rush him back. Yeah, I mean he

1068
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: missed a ton of time. It's a Thursday game to

1069
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: Thursday game. You just gave him a ton of money.

1070
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: You're not going anywhere this year. What purpose does it

1071
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 1: serve to get him in there more than ever? And

1072
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: now he's even getting a ton of targets. How Henry

1073
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: is also questionable for that game. They're all up right,

1074
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: I mean, Keenan Allen always gets his But what if

1075
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: those three don't play? Yeah? Again, it's it's all It

1076
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: goes back to that Thursday and anything. Like guys who

1077
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: come who get hurt on Sundays, tough for them to

1078
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: come back and playing on Thursday off run. Yeah, I mean,

1079
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:32,919
Speaker 1: I'm sure anthing Lin would like to keep his job,

1080
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: but the owner's gonna be like, I don't care about

1081
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: your job. We'll find somebody else, right, We're gonna how

1082
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: fire you anyway. Yeah. Um. Michael Thomas, with an ankle injury,

1083
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: did not play this Wednesday. I hope it's just a

1084
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: Wednesday thing, hopefully, but man, I don't know, I don't

1085
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:49,479
Speaker 1: look like it doesn't sound like Breeze is gonna play.

1086
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 1: I don't trust any of their receivers with Hill, No, no, no,

1087
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean, of course you're playing. And to me, he'll

1088
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: Hill won't be startable against Kansas's defense. And that's Kansas

1089
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: City's defense. Is not Hill probably not, probably not because

1090
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna get behind He's a throw yeah, and that's

1091
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 1: not good. It's not gonna be not what you want though. Yeah,

1092
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: it would have been a great Breeze game. Raheem mostered

1093
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury, did not practice on Wednesday. Uh.

1094
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: He had an m R earlier this week on his ankle. Um.

1095
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: I don't think is Gonnay could be Jeff Wilson, although

1096
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: they just activated my man, your man. Yeah, he's a special,

1097
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: special player if he if he dresses, you start him, yeah,

1098
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: I mean, or pick him up right now if you're

1099
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: in your super Bowl, because you might you might be

1100
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: real happy next week you have him absolutely. Um, you know,

1101
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: if he plays this week, he's a must start always.

1102
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna just pepper him with targets for

1103
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: he's a great, great player, you know. And that also

1104
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: gives him a second receiver to go along with you,

1105
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: makes so much better football team. Yeah, no doubt. But Wilson.

1106
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm I got no problem starting Wilson against Dallas. No, no,

1107
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: most's note and he may be available and you could

1108
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: be available right talking about him yesterday. Yeah, he's a starter.

1109
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen was designated to return by the Seahawks. Yeah,

1110
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: old slow tight ends aren't my bag. Raheem Morris said,

1111
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,439
Speaker 1: Julio Jones with the hamstring injuries week to week, that's

1112
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: not what you want to hear. He's not gonna play

1113
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: these teams. McCaffrey, Julio mix and I thought kid will

1114
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: be in that neighborhood too, But Kittle just doesn't want

1115
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: to stay off the field. Owners should just say you're

1116
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: shut down. You know, we have an interim head coach.

1117
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: We're looking for a new guy who just gave you

1118
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: guys tons of money. McCaffrey mixing, We're not waiting anything

1119
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: this year. Why would I put McCaffrey or Julio out there?

1120
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: And Week sixteen and seventeen just makes no sense. Well,

1121
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: for for the forty Niners, they still have an outside

1122
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: shot to make the playoff in the NFL. No, Kiddle

1123
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: can't be here. He lose his mind every time he's

1124
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: out there. He just begs the kid on the field. Okay,

1125
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have Julio, Like if I'm an owner

1126
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: of Julio McCaffrey or Mixing, don't count on seeing those dudes. Like, Oh,

1127
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: I've been waiting and he'sdn't show up and win my

1128
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl week. I know, I don't think that's gonna happen.

1129
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, though with a foot, was limited at Wednesday's practice. Monster,

1130
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: especially when it is out. He's a wide and seer one.

1131
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: He's been playing with a it's a midfoot spring that

1132
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: he's been playing with here. He heard of a couple

1133
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. They're managing his reps, but keep an

1134
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: eye and that he'll probably play this week. But Tampa,

1135
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: they're playing Tampa. If he's out, Tampa's d might be

1136
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: the best one in the Oh my god, yeah, because

1137
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: they're going they're running games. Junk. Ryan hasn't been that

1138
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: impressive lately. No, he's he's kind of on his last legs.

1139
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: He's starting to look rivers ish. The Patriots designated Julian

1140
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 1: Edelman a return from injury reserve. That doesn't move the

1141
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: needle at all for me. If you bring him back,

1142
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,960
Speaker 1: I think he's done. They've throw him for like eight

1143
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:59,959
Speaker 1: touchdowns this year. Yeah, Yeah, it's bad, awful eitherk Edelman

1144
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: done too. Christian McCaffrey, with a thigh injury, did not practice.

1145
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,439
Speaker 1: Matt Rules already said that he expects McCaffrey to miss

1146
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: this week. Um, maybe maybe he gets back next week,

1147
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: but that's not going to be enough time that if

1148
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: you if you, if you have Christian McCaffrey on your roster,

1149
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: you probably didn't make Yeah, you're probably not this far

1150
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: along uns unless you were, you know, fortunate enough to

1151
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: get Mike Davis or somebody you know, grab somebody else,

1152
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: James Robinson off the waiver or something like that. Probably

1153
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: wasn't your year with one o one in fantasy draft.

1154
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,479
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph with the foot injury, did not practice again

1155
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Uh, it looks like IRV Smith. We talked

1156
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: about him. He's playable. Yeah, he's probably a top twelve

1157
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 1: play He's a real sneaky tight end one this year,

1158
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: you know, or this week and a year. Cousins throws

1159
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: the ball to the tight end. Yeah. I think they

1160
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: are very very usable. Yeah. Um, Austin Hooper with the

1161
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: neck injury, returned to practice on Wednesday. He's not been

1162
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: this irrelevant this year. That that was wasted money. We talked,

1163
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: I mean we said in the off season, Okay, so

1164
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: you want to line up in two tight end sets,

1165
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: that's great, but you could have just done what you're

1166
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 1: doing now you've played with it, Joe, Well, yeah, nothing.

1167
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: You're spending ten million dollars on on Austin Hooper, who's

1168
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,960
Speaker 1: giving you six games and really, even when he's played

1169
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: hasn't been a factor. He's okay, but he's not a

1170
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: difference maker, right, Yeah, you didn't sign George Kittle. Alex Smith,

1171
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: with a calf injury, did not practice on Wednesday. Um.

1172
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: They said he wanted to rest him. He feels optimistic

1173
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: about his chances to play. They're kind of been a

1174
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: playoff hunt now and they need him to go. I'm

1175
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: sure a lot of us watched that game and thought,

1176
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: that's just bad leg. That's one, you know, and this

1177
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: weird compression thing on there. But it is just a calf.

1178
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: It's not a bone something. But that's the calf, is

1179
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: what he had. Reconstructed though. I mean that's it's probably

1180
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: not like It's not like you were I tweaking a

1181
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: calfe in anybody back right. It's probably different, a little

1182
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: more serious than that. I would kind of like to

1183
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: see Haskins again. I think he's not good, don't get

1184
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 1: me wrong, but part of me would like to at

1185
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: least see the guy play a game or two. Could

1186
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: Haskins be there, Could Haskins start get them into the playoffs?

1187
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: That would be crazy. Daniel Jones with the hamstring and

1188
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: ankle injury, it's not just the hamstring, his his He

1189
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: is in doubt for Week fifteen against the Browns. That's

1190
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: a Sunday night gamelayed last week. He should not have

1191
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: played last week. It should have sat him out. But again,

1192
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: they're in, they're in the playoff. Hunt McCoy could do

1193
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: some things though against the Browns. It's a big revenge game.

1194
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: I think of that. How about that? But they've got weapons,

1195
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: They've got weapons, and Gallman should be fine against him. No,

1196
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: start your guys against the Browns, but it would be

1197
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: hard to hold out. I wouldn't stream Coulte McCoy, but

1198
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't fade Evan Ingram for example, right right,

1199
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,919
Speaker 1: or dfs it up. Yeah, I mean Colpe McCoy could

1200
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 1: be super cheap option. Absolutely, and he'll he'll he'll do

1201
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 1: some things. The Browns are gonna score, but they'll give.

1202
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: They're almost like the Falcons right right, there are a

1203
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: good team to play against. Yeah, Okay, Mike get Sicky

1204
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: with the shoulder, is likely going to be out this week.

1205
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 1: He's been coming. They're short on weapons. Yeah, so that's

1206
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: that's not good news for them because well they did

1207
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: activate Matt Breta from the reserve COVID nineteen lists and

1208
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: Salvon Akmed practiced on a limited basis day, so they're

1209
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: getting a little more COVID. So he's out still, right,

1210
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: he was a positive that that was on a Sunday,

1211
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: So he's not back this week. Whatever. I think DeVante

1212
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: Parker is fighting something too. Yeah, DeVante Parker was limited

1213
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 1: with a hamstring to plays. It's not a great I mean,

1214
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: it's not a good offense. No, No, I don't think that.

1215
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: I think that that games will be low scoring. That's

1216
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: Pats Dolphins. Ezekiel Elliott with a caff injury who was

1217
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: limited on Wednesday might be time to fire up Tony

1218
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 1: Pollard beat. Yeah, that could be a week winner for you. They.

1219
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: I wonder if Jerry would also say said Elliott down

1220
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: if they be uh for the Broncos both Philip Lindsay

1221
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: and Melvin Gordon limited. Uh Lindsay with the hip, Gordon

1222
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:14,439
Speaker 1: with a shoulder. They get the Bills this week. Yeah,

1223
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: you'd really like one of them, you have one and

1224
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: not the other. Yeah, a fine start if one. I

1225
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: wonder if the Bills could have a let down this

1226
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 1: week is not easy. They're not easy to play against.

1227
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: And the Bills the bill that was that was a

1228
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: big win for the Bills. That was there. You know,

1229
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: we we've arrived. We beat you know, we'd beat a

1230
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:33,919
Speaker 1: good team. It's in Denver. Yeah, it's a little sneaky. Yeah.

1231
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: I like starting all by Denver guys though. Yeah, absolutely

1232
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: absolutely uh. And the Jets designated LI Michael p Ryan

1233
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 1: to return from injured reserve, so they bring him back,

1234
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna run him. I guess they'll be there one Yeah.

1235
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's gonna be great. But two

1236
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: weeks two weeks ago, Johnson did some things for them,

1237
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: and then then then they get the ball. This past weekend.

1238
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: This past weekend was as bad as it gets for

1239
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: the Jets. But you don't want much of that that offense.

1240
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: But if if p Ryan's clearly the one, if he's

1241
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,959
Speaker 1: gonna get fifteen or touches, you know that's value. Yeah,

1242
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: and he's not a bad talent. Yeah, so we'll see.

1243
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: That's the that's the situation right now around the league

1244
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: of we're gonna take a break. He is Matt Williamson.

1245
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on

1246
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Your tunes about Drive on Home of

1247
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm

1248
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 1: Dale Lally here with Matt Williamson. Met the owners having

1249
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: a virtual meeting this week. I guess A tabled the

1250
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,479
Speaker 1: move to seventeen games until the off season. They're gonna

1251
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: talk about then, but they're going to They're going to

1252
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: go to seventeen games next year. Yeah, that's basically a

1253
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: done deal. Do you think we had mentioned two buys before?

1254
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: Is that? What? I haven't thought about this in so long?

1255
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Speaker 1: What were we leaning towards? I can't remember either, I

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01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: can't exactly remember what they're thinking about on that, I

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01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 1: imagine it's two preseason games, right, wasn't that the original thought?

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01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: At least one fewer preseason games. Would probably probably end

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01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: up with two because then if you do three, then

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Speaker 1: somebody's getting an extra home game every Yeah. Um, but

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Speaker 1: probably two preseason games at least, And then I'd like

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01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: to see two preseason games. Nineteen regular season weeks with

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Speaker 1: two buys, seventeen games. I see, I don't want nineteen

1264
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: week long is the best thing for football. Although the

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01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: one thing that two buys would do would allow the

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Speaker 1: Steelers because this is something that but don't think about

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01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: if they go to it just a two week preseason

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Speaker 1: in seventeen games, well, now you've cut a week off

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01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: the schedule, right. So the Steelers go to camp to

1270
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: training camp at same fencing college at the end of

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01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:17,519
Speaker 1: July every year. So if you move that up a

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Speaker 1: week and they start going in the first week of August,

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01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,040
Speaker 1: typically they have to be out of the dorms up

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Speaker 1: there in the middle of August, like around the fourteenth

1275
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 1: or so, because that's when the students start coming back. Yeah,

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01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: and then then that takes precedent over the Steelers being there.

1277
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,599
Speaker 1: So if they if they cut the regular season down

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01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: a week and start training and start training camps a

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01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: week later, that kind of hurts the Steelers for their

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01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 1: training camps at same fencing college. So you think that's

1281
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 1: a possibility, is they would start the season a week earlier? Perhaps, Yeah,

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01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's possible. I guess it could be on

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01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: the table. Um. Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. I

1284
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: always go back to two boys. If you could have

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01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 1: an earlier one in a late one, I think how

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01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: much of the effect that would have on the Steelers.

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01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 1: I just remember when they did that before, and they

1288
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 1: had an odd number of teams and that's why they

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01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: did it. And so somebody was off in week one.

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01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. It's always off week seventeen. Somebody had to

1291
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: be off every week. Well, you wouldn't have that problem anymore,

1292
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: you wouldn't. But if you're gonna do an early buying

1293
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: late by, you can't. Doesn't work for everybody. It doesn't work.

1294
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:20,320
Speaker 1: And think about it this week and think about it

1295
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 1: this way. How big is fantasy football now? And I've

1296
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 1: got a guy he's he's I got Christian McCaffrey. But

1297
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey I got the first pick, and I want

1298
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: to take Christian McCaffrey. Christian McCaffrey's buys are in week four.

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Speaker 1: In week thirteen, well, yeah, that takes it takes Christian

1300
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: or wor yet, Christian McCaffrey's buys in week sixteen, he's

1301
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 1: no good to me for the championship game. I would

1302
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:47,520
Speaker 1: think there'd be no buys week one to three seventeen

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01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: sixteen fifteen. Maybe what doesn't give you a lot of

1304
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 1: time then to get your you know you're gonna have buys.

1305
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: You're gonna have some teams getting buys will him off.

1306
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:56,599
Speaker 1: We're off in week six and we're off in week eight.

1307
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: That doesn't cut us. That doesn't work either of those,

1308
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: probably because you guys can't fit them all in. But

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01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:07,120
Speaker 1: I think every Thursday game wouldn't be on three. I

1310
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 1: think a lot of that depends to him whether or

1311
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: not they do overseas games next year, because you have

1312
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: to give those teams a buy coming back. Yeah, it

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01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 1: would also would have made I mean, this is hindsight,

1314
01:10:20,120 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 1: but if you have a COVID situation, you'd have more

1315
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: flexibility to move things around. Well, hopefully don't have COVID

1316
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: that that's not an issue and we have fans and

1317
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 1: stands and all that stuff, but that's not why I want.

1318
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: I did see Dr Fauci on that subject. Um, I

1319
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: think it was last week or two weeks ago. Uh.

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01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: Feels like there will be fans in the seats in

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01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 1: September of next by September of next year. That's something

1322
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:51,719
Speaker 1: that could affect the salary cap in the other future.

1323
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: At least they if they know that they're yeah, if

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01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,440
Speaker 1: they go into if they have to go into this offseason,

1325
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: like if they don't know by March, if they're gonna

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01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: have fans in the state ms in August, then they

1327
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: then they get a set a cap and they get

1328
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:05,599
Speaker 1: us they get a set it lower. They can't roll

1329
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: money over, they can't. Yeah, they can't adjust things. But

1330
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: if they if they know or have a pretty good

1331
01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: idea that they're gonna have fans in the seats, you know,

1332
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: in in September, then that cap is gonna get adjusted up.

1333
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: They'll they'll come up with some ways to make that

1334
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:25,280
Speaker 1: less And maybe this football has been very beneficial compared

1335
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,679
Speaker 1: to other leagues with just the timing of it all.

1336
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: NBA starts tonight or yesterday or tomorrow or something, you know,

1337
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,799
Speaker 1: real soon, maybe two months from now, every NBA stadium

1338
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,679
Speaker 1: is full maybe, you know, I don't know if we're gonna.

1339
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: I don't if we're gonna reach that point. I mean,

1340
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:42,679
Speaker 1: hockey is still negotiating their situation right now, and Canada

1341
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: is still closed like so that's why they have to

1342
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 1: have that. They have to have all the Canadian teams

1343
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: play each other, even though that doesn't make even though

1344
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: it doesn't make good sense because you've got teams in

1345
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:55,240
Speaker 1: Edmonton and Vancouver and everybody else's on the Maybe two

1346
01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: months is too unrealistic. But by the end, maybe by

1347
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, well before the NFL plays baseball season season.

1348
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:09,720
Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe it depends on how quickly you

1349
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 1: know that the vaccine can be distributed and trusted. And

1350
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's obviously right, and people are starting to

1351
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: get him now, right. I saw I saw some stuff

1352
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: on Twitter today where the first the first vaccines were

1353
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: giving out. I think at the U p M c

1354
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 1: UH they were giving the first responders, so the nurses

1355
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 1: and doctors, and we're getting there. One of my best

1356
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: friends is a doctor at the at the VET U

1357
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:33,799
Speaker 1: p M. C and he said there was ten doctors

1358
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 1: that all applied for it, and they random them off,

1359
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: so eight of them got it, and he was not

1360
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: one of them, and he was unhappy about it. And

1361
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: then one of the other guys opted out and he

1362
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 1: got it. So he's getting like tomorrow or something. And

1363
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:49,640
Speaker 1: that's that's the first step, because you've got to get

1364
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 1: the first responders taken care of first, because that's been

1365
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: part of the problem all along, is that you don't

1366
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: want to overwhelm the hospitals. Yeah, exactly, exactly, and hopefully

1367
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 1: none of these nothing bad comes out of the vaccine

1368
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 1: some crazy side effect you know, you know, foot growing

1369
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: out of your forehead right or worse right wherever, um,

1370
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: but it's a positive side. Uh yeah, So you know,

1371
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 1: I think that's something you know, they're gonna table. I

1372
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 1: think the owners are probably gonna table a lot of

1373
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 1: stuff until the off season until they have a better

1374
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 1: ideas because you just don't know right now. Everything's changing

1375
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:26,599
Speaker 1: with this stuff daily almost But I mean, these teams

1376
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: need to know am I cutting Fletcher Cox or not?

1377
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: You know, sooner than later we'll have you know, by

1378
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: the time we get to March. It's usually what March

1379
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: fourteenth or some mid March when that when that new

1380
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: league gear starts, We're gonna have a lot of questions answered,

1381
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 1: is your hunch. I mean, right now, like all the

1382
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl rosters have been put together, and that's an

1383
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: open air stadium. You don't need that fans, but you

1384
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: could have scouts. I think the Senior Bowl happens because

1385
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: there weren't scouts weren't able to go to games and

1386
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: things this year, or they were able to go to games.

1387
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 1: They weren't able to go on campus, right, but they

1388
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: could be in the press box. They could be in

1389
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: the Yeah, they could be in the press box spaced up,

1390
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: but they weren't able to actually, you know, sit down

1391
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 1: with a recruit, you know, and and and talk with

1392
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:12,240
Speaker 1: him or you know anything, talk to the liaison and

1393
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 1: all that stuff too. But Senior Bowl, I mean, I've

1394
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: been to many of them and maybe go this year.

1395
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: They're they're pretty spaced out anyway. You just kind of

1396
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: sitting the stands wherever you want and with your bodies

1397
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I guess you can set up things

1398
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,440
Speaker 1: to talk to the players. So I bet that happens

1399
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 1: with no fans. Um I don't know about combine. Combine

1400
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: is gonna be tough. I think they'll have a combine. Yes,

1401
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's going to look like from

1402
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:39,679
Speaker 1: a media standpoint, because you know, there won't they're there,

1403
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: definitely won't be I don't believe the interview process with

1404
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: the media, right. I don't know that they'll do the

1405
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 1: interview process with the teams where they sit down and

1406
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: talk to a guy. But you have to do the medicals.

1407
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll all get COVID tested probably the second

1408
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: they walk in the building a COVID yeah, indeed. Well,

1409
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: and they do medical anyway, they do the body pod

1410
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:03,479
Speaker 1: and all that stuff right off the bat. But the

1411
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: problem is you're gonna be bringing all these kids in

1412
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 1: from all across the country, right, and you they've they've

1413
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: not been tested, right, And then they all get together

1414
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: and and all of a sudden, fifty guys at the

1415
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: combine test positive for COVID because one of them had it.

1416
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:20,680
Speaker 1: All the running backs of COVID right here, like like,

1417
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if we'll be set up on radio

1418
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: row or will they be a radio row. I don't know.

1419
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,799
Speaker 1: You know, I means this as it as it stands.

1420
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we were at the Combine last

1421
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: year when all this stuff was just like everything shut

1422
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: down like a week after the Combine. Like the first

1423
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:36,080
Speaker 1: time I ever heard the word COVID. I think we

1424
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: were at the Combine. I saw people walking around in

1425
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:42,759
Speaker 1: Indianapolis was masks on. Yeah, like there's this Chinese thing.

1426
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah. I kind of brushed it off, didn't

1427
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: really knows. I mean I knew about it in the

1428
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: new you know, thought I remember hearing about it. That's

1429
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. That was at the super Bowl before

1430
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:54,120
Speaker 1: the Combine, and you know, so, I mean my my

1431
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: off season was okay, a week at the super Bowl,

1432
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 1: two weeks off, a week at the Combine, you know,

1433
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:02,360
Speaker 1: and so you know there was that kind of exposure

1434
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:06,560
Speaker 1: to it. But um conversation, that was the big conversation.

1435
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: They got that done and then as we laughed, right,

1436
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: that kind of hit and kind of forgot about the

1437
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: CB A a little bit, other things, other things, stock precedence.

1438
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 1: And so that's been a year. It's a you know,

1439
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:24,600
Speaker 1: we're working on a year now, you know, in the

1440
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,800
Speaker 1: NFL calendar. But we've had a pretty good years. It's

1441
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:31,920
Speaker 1: been They've made it through and we'll see what happens

1442
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:33,639
Speaker 1: here with the rest of it the rest of the way,

1443
01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 1: but we're gonna take another break. He is Matt Williams

1444
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: and I'm Dale Lally. When we come back, we're gonna

1445
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: hear from Ben Roethlisberger. He had his interview with the

1446
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: media this morning and had a lot of interesting things

1447
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: to say. Of course, to everybody wanting to talk about

1448
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: what's wrong with the offense, Well, we'll hear from the

1449
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 1: quarterback and see what he thinks is wrong with it

1450
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 1: and whether it can be fixed. Right after this, you

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01:16:57,040 --> 01:17:01,480
Speaker 1: were tunes about driven Home the Black and Goal Steelers

1452
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Okay, welcome back up, Dale Lelly here with

1453
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt Earlier today, Ben Roethlisberger did his

1454
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: Wednesday sit down with the media, including myself, and of

1455
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: course I had plenty to talk about coming out of

1456
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:47,800
Speaker 1: that two loss, two consecutive losses, including what's wrong with

1457
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:50,880
Speaker 1: the offense. And he's certainly has a different outlook than

1458
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: other years, you know, I mean just the way it's

1459
01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:58,720
Speaker 1: just in charge of the room and understands everyone's responsibilities.

1460
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: And we've talked about that stuff back camp. But it's

1461
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: still true. Yeah, it's absolutely still true. And you know,

1462
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: I mean, especially with that receiving group where he's you know,

1463
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:11,680
Speaker 1: a full fifteen years older than everybody else. Yeah, So

1464
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's a lot there to to get to.

1465
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 1: But let's hear what Ben Roethlisberger had to say earlier

1466
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: today with the media. Drahm function will call on you

1467
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:24,600
Speaker 1: and we'll start with Dale Alli Dale Man. When you

1468
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:29,639
Speaker 1: have a receiver like Beyante, he's a talentedte but obviously

1469
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:31,639
Speaker 1: going through some some struggles right now, do you talk

1470
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 1: to him at all? What you're and if you do,

1471
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 1: what do you say to him? Yeah? You know, we

1472
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,479
Speaker 1: had a we had a nice talk um on the

1473
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 1: sideline at the end of the first half. Um, and

1474
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 1: just you know, like I said, I thought it was

1475
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: a good talk. I don't I won't tell you what

1476
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: we said. If he wants to um the invulge what

1477
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:50,720
Speaker 1: was said, that's fine, but um, you know, just just

1478
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: trying to encourage him. And and I thought I was

1479
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 1: encouraged by the way the second half. I thought he

1480
01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 1: came out and made some plays and and showed some

1481
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: physicality some of those catches, putting his head down um,

1482
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:03,639
Speaker 1: you know, and trying to get his yards and stuff

1483
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: like that. So I was encouraged by his bounce back.

1484
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of him, Mike pursuit of Ben. When

1485
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,799
Speaker 1: you you looked at the Buffalo tape and and maybe

1486
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: the couple of games before that. But are you seeing

1487
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: defenses that are anticipating what you guys are doing? Or

1488
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 1: are you seeing something that the offense is not doing,

1489
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:26,640
Speaker 1: Like you know, a place to be there to be

1490
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:29,479
Speaker 1: made and a blitz doesn't get picked up or you

1491
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 1: throw to the wrong guy or somebody drops it. I mean,

1492
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: is it out there if you guys get better or

1493
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: do you have to adjust drastically here? I don't think

1494
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:41,600
Speaker 1: we need to adjust drastically. Um. There are plays to

1495
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 1: be had, um that we're not making. Um. I think

1496
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I's just say a lot of

1497
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: I think some of it stems from physicality. UM. You know,

1498
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 1: I just don't think, um we're being as physical as

1499
01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:57,440
Speaker 1: we should be. A need to be all the time. UM.

1500
01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: And so I think that's something, you know, something that

1501
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: we've always say took pride in him, right is the

1502
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers and being physical um, and and coming out

1503
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:08,120
Speaker 1: and that it's not Physicality isn't just about the line,

1504
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:09,599
Speaker 1: you know, if you think people just think that that's

1505
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,679
Speaker 1: where it is. But really it's about you know, picking

1506
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 1: up blitz and it's about getting a tough yard. It's

1507
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: about blocking, um, you know, on the perimeter of things

1508
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 1: like that. So, um, there's a lot of things that

1509
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: are all Sometimes physicality is mental too. You have to

1510
01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: be mentally tough and so all those things combined, Um,

1511
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 1: I think can can hopefully turn this thing around and

1512
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 1: we can hit the plays that are are there to

1513
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: be had. Joe Rudder, Yeah, man, do you feel like

1514
01:20:39,479 --> 01:20:42,519
Speaker 1: you're getting a good rapport? Happen getting a good rapport

1515
01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:45,680
Speaker 1: with James Washington and his snaps were lower earlier in

1516
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: the season. You lobbying him to get more playing I

1517
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: think James has done a great job of stepping up

1518
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: when we needed him to making plays, um, being physical

1519
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 1: and when you needed to do that. And so UM,

1520
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:02,719
Speaker 1: i think he's being rewarded um with more playing time

1521
01:21:03,160 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: from the coaches. Uh. And I think he should be

1522
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: on the field. We've got a lot of playmakers, and um,

1523
01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 1: you can't just let guys sit on the sideline that

1524
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: that could potentially help you. So uh, like coach says, well,

1525
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: will turn over every stone and all that stuff. We

1526
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 1: we just need, all of us need to just keep

1527
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: producing and making more plays when they're there to be had.

1528
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: GERI do lack Ben good morning. UM. You know several

1529
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 1: of your coaches, including Mike yesterday mentioned um about the

1530
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 1: lack of physical play and even Mike said it seems

1531
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: to be in in all areas, but it also seems

1532
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:39,920
Speaker 1: to be that a lot of it's pointed at the

1533
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: offensive line. Do you do you agree with that and

1534
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: do your guys take that personally? Um O, Good morning Jerry.

1535
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, like I said, when you

1536
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 1: talk about physicality, UM, that's where everyone automatically looks. Your

1537
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:57,599
Speaker 1: eyes go to UM old line D line because that's

1538
01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 1: every single play you're you know, you have to be

1539
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,479
Speaker 1: fit goal. So I think it it naturally falls in

1540
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: that area. I don't think that all the fingers should

1541
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,120
Speaker 1: be pointed there by any means. UM. I think when

1542
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:10,240
Speaker 1: we talk about physicality, I think the line takes it

1543
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,840
Speaker 1: personal because they want to be physical. UM. But being

1544
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: physical doesn't always mean just I'm gonna go blow him

1545
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:20,559
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage or power out overpowered him.

1546
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes, like I said, being physically um, tough

1547
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,040
Speaker 1: men you know in your mind, I mean, you've got

1548
01:22:26,040 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: to find multiple ways to be to be to be physical. Um.

1549
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: And so I think that blitz, pick ups, I think

1550
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: all those things. But it's I don't get off the track,

1551
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:37,479
Speaker 1: but I don't want to lose track. That's not just

1552
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:39,800
Speaker 1: about the line. It's all of us, you know, we

1553
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:42,680
Speaker 1: as runners. You you know, sometimes there's a guy in

1554
01:22:42,720 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: the whole, an unblocked guy. Sometimes you gotta put your

1555
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,120
Speaker 1: head down and get the tough one or two yards.

1556
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes receivers have to put their head down instead of

1557
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 1: stepping out of bounds and get those tough kind of yards. Um.

1558
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: It's not everybody, but but collectively we all need to

1559
01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: be more physical. Um. And so I hate that the

1560
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: finger is pointed at the line because it shouldn't be there.

1561
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: But um, that's where it naturally kind of starts. When

1562
01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: when you talk about a football team or an offense,

1563
01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: Jim Coloney, that's what, of course natural. I'm gonna ask

1564
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 1: you an offensive line related question, but how would you

1565
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: feel about lining up under setter more that might give

1566
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: the line a better push. Yeah, you know we did

1567
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: that this week. We we did some note what we

1568
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: did a series or two of kind of no huddle

1569
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 1: um under center runs. You know, we ran a couple

1570
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 1: left and rights and some check with means and things

1571
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:29,839
Speaker 1: like that. Um, we had a little bit of success,

1572
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: not as probably as much as we would have liked.

1573
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: But UM, yeah, I'm all for it. I think that's

1574
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:36,200
Speaker 1: a great mix up, um, that you can do, and

1575
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 1: if it helps then then absolutely, why not. I'll do

1576
01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:44,680
Speaker 1: whatever we need to do to help win marketabley. Hey Ben, Uh,

1577
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: you've you've experienced your career a number of times where

1578
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:51,799
Speaker 1: your team had laws during the season, didn't play well,

1579
01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 1: just to turn it around late. I mean, you look

1580
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: at some of the top teams in the league this year,

1581
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: they've had laws. How do you express to your teammates

1582
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:02,120
Speaker 1: that things like this happened and it's not necessarily a

1583
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 1: death sentence, Yeah, you know, it's it's something that you have.

1584
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot outside noise, right and deservedly so.

1585
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: We haven't played well. We've lost two in a row. Um,

1586
01:24:12,560 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: the fans are getting anxious. The talking heads are doing

1587
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do. And talk bad about us,

1588
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 1: and and and all that stuff, which is, you know,

1589
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 1: we we've earned it and deserved it recently. What I

1590
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 1: would tell guys in the mindset and the approach that

1591
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:27,639
Speaker 1: I'm taking is it's it's not the end of the world.

1592
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:31,559
Speaker 1: We've got three games left in the regular season. We

1593
01:24:31,640 --> 01:24:35,040
Speaker 1: have guaranteed our ourselves a chance in the playoffs. So

1594
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 1: we we were in the postseason, we have three weeks

1595
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 1: now to get it going, to turn it around, to

1596
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: give ourselves the best chance to to reach our ultimate goal,

1597
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: which is winning a Super Bowl. UM, if we were

1598
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,280
Speaker 1: starting the postseason tomorrow, uh, you know, maybe there'd be

1599
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 1: a little bit more panic on our part, you know,

1600
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:55,200
Speaker 1: like we got to get something figured out right now. Well,

1601
01:24:55,240 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 1: we need to get it figured out now. But the

1602
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,280
Speaker 1: good thing is we know we've got games for these

1603
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: next three and the teams that we're playing are two

1604
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 1: divisional opponents, and the third one is is A is

1605
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 1: a playoff caliber in the playoffs too, most likely. So

1606
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 1: what a great test for us to kind of get

1607
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: some pre um postseason and that will make a lot

1608
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: of sense, but pre postseason work in by playing UM

1609
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:20,600
Speaker 1: these last three games, and and so That's what I

1610
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: just reiterate to these guys is we still have some

1611
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: work to do to kind of get ourselves out of

1612
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: this load that we're in because, um, like you said,

1613
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 1: every team has them. It's just it's just so happening

1614
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: that ours is is happening right now. But it's not

1615
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 1: too late for us. Yeah, Ben, you said after the

1616
01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:41,200
Speaker 1: game that you just weren't good enough. What more did

1617
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 1: you see when you watch the tape? What specifically wasn't

1618
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:46,760
Speaker 1: good enough? And are there things that you personally were

1619
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 1: doing well earlier in the season that have maybe dropped

1620
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: below the standard you expect from yourself. Well, I always

1621
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: expect myself to be the best I can be on

1622
01:25:54,120 --> 01:25:57,839
Speaker 1: the football field. Um, And and if I'm not completing passes,

1623
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 1: if I'm not making proper reads, if I'm not getting

1624
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 1: the ball to the playmakers where it needs to be,

1625
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:03,680
Speaker 1: and those are things that I need to improve on,

1626
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: Will Graves, then it's you know, typically you take Wednesdays off,

1627
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,720
Speaker 1: or at least from a throwing standpoint, you plan to

1628
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 1: maybe mix that up over here the next couple weeks

1629
01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:15,479
Speaker 1: and maybe throw more. And how do you wait at

1630
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: against just not wanting to overdo it on the arm.

1631
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:21,960
Speaker 1: After considering the workload you've had this season. Yeah, I'm

1632
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 1: not so worried about the arm. My arm feels really good. Um,

1633
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:26,880
Speaker 1: we still need to be prudent because we don't really know.

1634
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: We haven't put together a long body of work since

1635
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:32,720
Speaker 1: um you know, since we've had the surgery. But but

1636
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 1: right now, my my arm feels really good. I think

1637
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 1: it's it's more about just the rest of the body.

1638
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: And it's kind of a week by week thing. Um,

1639
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 1: you know, the the accumulation, the toll of the hits,

1640
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 1: of pounding, of grinding, of being thirty eight years old,

1641
01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: all those things kind of add up. And so it's

1642
01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: just smart um with this, especially with this weird season,

1643
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 1: right with the how many games we played in a row,

1644
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 1: plus the not really having a buy when we were

1645
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: all those things, um just kind of add up. And

1646
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: so we'll just kid continue to be smarten and kind

1647
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:03,840
Speaker 1: of take it as my body feels it needs it.

1648
01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 1: D K. Then I know with three kids, there's not

1649
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 1: a lot of extra time. But do you watch football

1650
01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: as a fan, are there offensive concepts around the league

1651
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:19,479
Speaker 1: that's sort of appeal to you? And then what is

1652
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: the process of when you like something and you want

1653
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 1: to incorporate it, how does that work? Do you do that?

1654
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:26,760
Speaker 1: Or have you run sort of the same things for

1655
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: so long that you like, just take with what you

1656
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,840
Speaker 1: know you're good at. I have an eight year old

1657
01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:33,719
Speaker 1: son that is hooked on football, so football is always.

1658
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: He knows the Thursday, Monday, Sunday schedules better than I do.

1659
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: He'll tell me many times what time our game starts. Um,

1660
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:43,120
Speaker 1: moving forward. So yes, I watch a lot of football

1661
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 1: as a fan, and I enjoy watching it because I do.

1662
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,519
Speaker 1: We do see stuff. You see a scheme, you see

1663
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:52,799
Speaker 1: a play, not just NFL college too. I think it's smarten.

1664
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,760
Speaker 1: There have been many plays that we have put in

1665
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 1: that have come from other teams, Um, you know, college football,

1666
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:01,840
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And uh, you know, you can you

1667
01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: bring him to Randy to Ring coach Canada, and we

1668
01:28:04,479 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 1: may put them in at practice and it doesn't quite

1669
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:08,640
Speaker 1: feel right so we throw it out. But um no,

1670
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 1: I'm all for doing those kind of things. And that's

1671
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:12,720
Speaker 1: it happens all the time. I Mean, we used to

1672
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,120
Speaker 1: joke that guys brought plays in from Matt the game Madden.

1673
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 1: Um you know, like so um you know, you have

1674
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: to kind of say whatever works and at least take

1675
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 1: a look at it. And there's gonna be some things

1676
01:28:22,560 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 1: that just all right, that's not gonna work, you know

1677
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:27,479
Speaker 1: well for whatever it is. But we we absolutely will

1678
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: will look at anything. Chris n Then I'm not on

1679
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:35,080
Speaker 1: the field, so I don't know if we don't even

1680
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 1: really get to watch practice too much anymore. And I'm

1681
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:39,559
Speaker 1: I don't have a scouts I but you know, your

1682
01:28:39,640 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 1: body is your Do you know your arm strength compared

1683
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: to twenty three or thirty eight and especially after a

1684
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: weird offseason with surgery and no preseason and all that,

1685
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 1: or do you feel like you are where you've been

1686
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 1: or do you you you're not what? You just yourself?

1687
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:56,640
Speaker 1: If you're not, do you know your body? I mean

1688
01:28:56,640 --> 01:28:59,200
Speaker 1: I think I know my body pretty well. Um, And

1689
01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: and that's why I I said earlier, like my arm

1690
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:03,760
Speaker 1: feels really good, like I you know, typically this time

1691
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: of year, my elbow would be getting worn down. Um,

1692
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:08,320
Speaker 1: and I don't feel that right now. So I'm very

1693
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:11,559
Speaker 1: encouraged by that. That being said, we also, you know,

1694
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:13,120
Speaker 1: I do I talked to the doctors a lot and

1695
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:15,320
Speaker 1: talked to to Garret chemon Our Strength Conditioning and talked

1696
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 1: to John Norway, our our trainer, like because we also

1697
01:29:18,560 --> 01:29:20,559
Speaker 1: just because it feels good, you don't want to push

1698
01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:22,639
Speaker 1: it so much that you end up, you know, maybe

1699
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:23,960
Speaker 1: you just kind of fall off that cliff or you

1700
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 1: go downhill right away. It might not be a slow decline,

1701
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: it could be a big fall off, and you want

1702
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 1: that to happen at the end of February. Um, not

1703
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 1: right now. So um, right now, my arm feels really good,

1704
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: and so we just want to continue that. And so

1705
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,280
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we approach our work every week.

1706
01:29:39,320 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 1: It is just just kind of how how it feels

1707
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:43,400
Speaker 1: and how I can express that to the to the

1708
01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 1: people around me. And then at this point in the season,

1709
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:51,600
Speaker 1: how many players are you still drawing drawing in the

1710
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: dirt during the game? Well, the grounds frozen, so we

1711
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:57,960
Speaker 1: really can't draw any of the dirt um and so

1712
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: you know, we obviously that was just a figure your speech,

1713
01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:03,400
Speaker 1: but we're we're still going through that. Every game. There

1714
01:30:03,400 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 1: will be a kind of a set group of no

1715
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 1: huddles where it's all right, we're moving guys around and

1716
01:30:07,880 --> 01:30:11,160
Speaker 1: we're putting them in different spots that they're not used to. Um.

1717
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 1: You know, so certain games require more. Um. The last

1718
01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 1: game we didn't do much. The game before, we didn't

1719
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 1: do a whole lot um kind of intentionally to kind of,

1720
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, show some different looks at people. All right,

1721
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:25,519
Speaker 1: got time for a couple more Jeff hathorin, Hey man,

1722
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: what are the advantages and what are the benefits of

1723
01:30:28,520 --> 01:30:31,679
Speaker 1: finally just having a normal week of practice and actually

1724
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:33,320
Speaker 1: an extra day to kind of work on some of

1725
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:36,800
Speaker 1: these things. Yeah, that's nice. Um, you know we can

1726
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: um the way we've installed things so far this week

1727
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 1: have been at a normal pace instead of throwing in

1728
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:45,320
Speaker 1: all the third down, all the red zon on one

1729
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:48,280
Speaker 1: day or whatever. It might be so UM to kind

1730
01:30:48,280 --> 01:30:50,800
Speaker 1: of have that bonus day to to to add things

1731
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: at a at a slower pace has been pretty nice

1732
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:56,639
Speaker 1: and hopefully it's a an ability that we can um

1733
01:30:56,680 --> 01:30:59,240
Speaker 1: digested a little bit better as we need to moving

1734
01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 1: forward with this week, marktabully they've been. There was a

1735
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: report on Sunday that you're having significant new issues. Can

1736
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:12,200
Speaker 1: you speak on that? Um? Yeah, I mean I'm I'm

1737
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:16,080
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old, I played football for seventeen years. Um,

1738
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: I've had multiple surgeries but I saw that report. I

1739
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,280
Speaker 1: don't know where it came from. UM, I think it

1740
01:31:21,320 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: was one that said that the Steelers were concerned. I

1741
01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:27,000
Speaker 1: would love to know who that was or who told him, because, Uh,

1742
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:30,800
Speaker 1: the week before the Washington I definitely was having issue

1743
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,320
Speaker 1: with my knee. UM landed on. I had a you know,

1744
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:36,639
Speaker 1: something going on. But other than just an old knee

1745
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:39,680
Speaker 1: and arthritis, UM, my knee actually feels really good this week,

1746
01:31:39,760 --> 01:31:44,000
Speaker 1: especially like I feel good after playing on an artificial surface. Typically, UM,

1747
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 1: that's another issue that that makes it just kind of ache.

1748
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:49,439
Speaker 1: But after your last week, it feels pretty good. So

1749
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:53,120
Speaker 1: that report to me is just one of those phony

1750
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: kind of things that people sometimes want to make up.

1751
01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 1: So I actually feel pretty good. I'll wrap it up

1752
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:01,240
Speaker 1: with Jerry. Do like Jerry, they've in speaking of figures

1753
01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 1: of speech in what vain would you categorize? If you

1754
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: can't do it, I need to hang it up a

1755
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 1: couple of days afterwards. Yeah, you know that's UM. I've

1756
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:13,760
Speaker 1: always said, and you and I've spoken that Jerry, that

1757
01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 1: I never want to hurt the team and I'm not

1758
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 1: going to be that guy that plays past his ability.

1759
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:21,720
Speaker 1: You know, if if I feel like I can't be

1760
01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: out there and I'm not doing it at a high

1761
01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:25,679
Speaker 1: level and I'm not giving my team the best chance

1762
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 1: to win, then I'm gonna hang it up. Obviously, some

1763
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:31,000
Speaker 1: of that is just frustration from a game, but UM,

1764
01:32:31,040 --> 01:32:33,800
Speaker 1: I will I will always go home every week, UM

1765
01:32:34,520 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: and and evaluate the way that I played, the way

1766
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:40,200
Speaker 1: that I feel. I will pray heavily over it. Um.

1767
01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 1: I feel that when the time is right, I'll know it. Um.

1768
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna go out there this week and

1769
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 1: give it everything I have to. Um. You know, get

1770
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 1: this team back on track, because I feel it's a

1771
01:32:50,200 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: special team. UM. But I'm not and I'm not gonna

1772
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:54,880
Speaker 1: sit here and talk about the end of the season

1773
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: because we know at the end of the season you'll

1774
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:58,600
Speaker 1: you'll talk about that. I'll never just hang it up

1775
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:01,479
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, obviously, but you know

1776
01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:04,200
Speaker 1: it's this team is special and and the season is

1777
01:33:04,240 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 1: not over. When everyone out there to just to take

1778
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:08,799
Speaker 1: a deep breath. I know it's it's kind of crazy

1779
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 1: right now, but just take a deep breath. We've got time.

1780
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:14,280
Speaker 1: So that's my mindset to take a deep breath. Let's

1781
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,799
Speaker 1: get ready to go this week. All right, Thanks everybody,

1782
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:21,160
Speaker 1: great time, we'll talk to you. That was Steelers quarterback

1783
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger with the media today, including myself, and uh yeah,

1784
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff there. You know, you heard

1785
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:30,559
Speaker 1: him talking about, you know, what's wrong with the offense

1786
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 1: where they can be fixed. Not wanting to point the

1787
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:34,519
Speaker 1: fingers at the strictly at the offensive line. You see

1788
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:36,880
Speaker 1: that the physicality needs to come from the receivers, from

1789
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:39,559
Speaker 1: the running backs, um, you know, not having guys just

1790
01:33:39,560 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 1: step out of bounce, things of that nature that people

1791
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:44,439
Speaker 1: don't think about. But we mentioned earlier in the show,

1792
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:49,440
Speaker 1: not coincidental that coach Tomlin and the quarterback mentioned physicality

1793
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: with the offense. Yeah, I expect them to come up

1794
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:52,759
Speaker 1: with a little bit of a chip on their shoulder

1795
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:55,040
Speaker 1: this week. Let's see what what that matters or what

1796
01:33:55,160 --> 01:33:57,679
Speaker 1: that means. But that's gonna do it for this show.

1797
01:33:57,880 --> 01:34:00,639
Speaker 1: So for my partner Matt Williamson for ja Cobrect here

1798
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: on site keeping us on the air. We also want

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01:34:02,680 --> 01:34:05,200
Speaker 1: to thank Bob Labriola for stopping by as he does

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Speaker 1: every Wednesday. I'm Dale Lally. We thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to this edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.