1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: Check check check check check. Hell. All right, all right, 2 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: welcome to the drive. I'm dl aally here with Matton 3 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: Ways and it is a Friday. We had our NFL 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: game last night. Interesting game. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: thought it was a good game. A lot to take 6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: away from it. I'm sure we'll talk about, you know, 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: that game specifically year throughout the day. But you know, 8 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: Week one is rolling along and we have real football, 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: and opposed to guessing what's gonna happen, we can actually 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: react to something and behold, the Steelers got a linebacker 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: signed yesterday? Yeah, how about that crazy crazy who who 12 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: to thunk it? Oh? I don't know anybody who was 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: actually paying at text, the teeth gnashing and grinding that 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: went on over the whole situation, like sign, don't sign, 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: screw him? He right, We used to love him. Now 16 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: he's at Why Why do you people get themselves so 17 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: worked up over these things? It's not your money, it's 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: not your money. And everyone knew then, I mean I 19 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: thought everyone knew the conclusion before it happened. We might 20 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: not know the exact figures and dollars, but he was 21 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: gonna play this year. He's not the bad guy, you know. 22 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: I mean it's all good for everybody. We love DJ. 23 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: DJ loves us great, let's go. I mean, this is 24 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: what we expected to happen, And a deadline like the 25 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: season opener, is a perfect thing to make sure it 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: gets done. Yeah, for deadlines help get deals done. They 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: make things happen. They make things happen. It's the same thing, 28 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: the same reason why you see guys get signed before 29 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: the end of or before the start of free agency 30 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: the next like, deadlines help. They pushed things along. They 31 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: always do. Yeah, I'm a guy, thry. I mean, I've 32 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: worked on deadline fair life. I heard. I can sit around. 33 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: I could be like sitting around my I could have 34 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: a story do at midnight. I would sit around my 35 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: house for the first eight hours of that and then 36 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: start working at ten o'clock and get the thing done 37 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: just because well I was on deadline. You know, I 38 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: had to get it done exactly. Forget who it was. 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: I heard him recently. It was a reporter much like yourself, 40 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: who said I don't need less work, I just need 41 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: more deadline. Deadline. Give me a deadline I'll get I'll 42 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: get things done no matter what it is. If I 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: don't have a deadline, I'll you know, I can push 44 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: that back. So the deadline makes it work, it makes 45 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: it happen, which is a huge reason the Steelers do 46 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: that as well. Right, I mean have the drop dead date. 47 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's more because of it, and 48 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: we go back to Adrian Cooper and all those stories, 49 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: but I think having the deadline and this is how 50 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: we do business done right. And I think when players 51 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: understand that, when when agents understand that, it puts some 52 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: pressure on them as well. And most importantly, it's done. 53 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not necessarily buying the story that Schefter 54 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: put out to It seemed a little t J what 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: stormed into the you know, and let's get this done. Yeah, okay, 56 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: that's fine. I mean, yeah, that's the agent trying to 57 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: save face. Like, hey, we tried to get a hundred 58 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: million dollars, t J. You know, he settled for eight. 59 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: He made us do it, you know exactly, remember binding 60 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 1: me a little with juju. I turned down the Chiefs 61 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: and the Ravens and more money to come back, did you. 62 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that he negotiates different ways. I don't 63 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: care one bit what happens behind the scene. Deals are done. 64 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: Jujus Steeler watchs a Steiler for a long time. Tremendous. Yeah, 65 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: let's go play football. Um, the ramifications of this deal. 66 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: It actually saved him two million dollars against their salary 67 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: captains this year. Yeah, I haven't seen those yet. I'm curious. Yeah, 68 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: he gotta. They bought knocked his salary back to one 69 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: million dollars, fully guaranteed one million dollars so this year. Um, 70 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: and then you get a seven million dollar He had 71 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: thirty five million dollar signing bonus on what is essentially 72 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: a five year deal. I know it was announced as 73 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: a four year deal, but includes which is the way 74 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: the Steelers always do their deals. Um. So he's he's 75 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: going to be a Steeler through Knox. Is his cap 76 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: number down from ten point oh eight nine million to 77 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: just over eight million for this season for this actually 78 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: eight million on the nose this year, so he says 79 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: a little more. So that puts them in around twelve 80 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: million dollars in cap space. See that. We haven't had 81 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: this conversation for a while, and it's really slipped my 82 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: mind even to look because I was curious how the 83 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: Witherspoon deal affected things, not really his one point five million. 84 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: That's I knew he wasn't expensive, but I just hadn't 85 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: seen an update of where they are with available with 86 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: with roster displacement and everything with it with that one, 87 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: because you're knocking another guy off the roster. Was gonna 88 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: make six d sixty half a million dollars type of deal, 89 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: okay um, and this one actually creates more creates more space. Yeah. Maybe, 90 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: you know, it makes me wonder if there's something else 91 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: that they're working on. What it could be, Maybe an 92 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: you know, excision for Terroll Edmonds before the season starts. 93 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: Maybe a he say, hey, we're gonna make you an 94 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: offer right now, and here's taken leave it. I mean, 95 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: I've wrote James Washington, but there's no rush to do that. 96 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying buying him on the chee 97 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: or you you know, a you can roll that money 98 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: over in the next year. If you don't use it 99 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: right right, it's not going anywhere. It's not going to here. 100 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: So right now, according to spot spot track, they're fifty 101 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: million dollars in available cap space for next year. Next 102 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: year with t J with the rollover money. Yeah, okay, 103 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: so he's getting a big he's eating into it heavy. 104 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: Next year, next year, his his cap bit goes up 105 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: to thirty one million. So I think needless to say, 106 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: they're not at the top of league anymore in available 107 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: cap space for next year. Probably not. I mean I 108 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: haven't looked at but because I thought they were like 109 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: seventy or eighty in the top of the league, they're 110 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: fifty now than they aren't. You know, that's fine, that's 111 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: still a lot of money. I still again, I I've 112 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: wrote something today on on the on d K Pisburgh 113 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: Sports about that, and and people immediately come back, well, 114 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: you know they've they've only got thirty eight million in 115 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: effective app space and they got fifty first secondly, and 116 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: they're like, well, how are they gonna do all this 117 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: and do that and do this and do that. They 118 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: didn't sign this deal in a vacuum. Oh no, no, 119 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: they the Steelers looked at the numbers. They looked at 120 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: their numbers for next year. They built this contract this 121 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: way for a reason, right, It's why he's gonna take 122 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: a little while. Um, It's like I said, it's it's 123 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: the reason why this wasn't done you know, everybody, when 124 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: this thing done quickly. This is not buying a new 125 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: car or baseball NBA, NHL where it's X amount per 126 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: year and you're gonna get it. They built us the 127 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: way they did because they knew, okay, we got this 128 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: much cap space that available. So this is what it's 129 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: going to leave us for next year. Here's what we 130 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do in the foreseeable future. You 131 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: build a little extra wiggle room in there in case 132 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: you need to do something else, because you never know 133 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: what's going to happen. And they know in the back 134 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: of their mind there's three guys that we can renegotiate with. 135 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: There's three guys that if they don't step up, they're 136 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: not gonna be here, and we're gonna cut them, you know, 137 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: you know, you know, and then all those things, yeah 138 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: area in between. What if this guy plays a lot 139 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: better and or this guy Joe Hayden falls off, or 140 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, there's a lot that's gonna change 141 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: in that league. I mean, look at this year. I 142 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: mean again, we go back to what we talked about yesterday. 143 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: Eleven different starters from last year's opener, and that's mind 144 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: boggling because it seems like the same team more or less, 145 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: but it's half of starters are different basically. I mean, 146 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: it's most of the replacements are guys who are already 147 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: on the roster. So it doesn't seem quite as we 148 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: didn't even include the punters. Yeah, where the long snapper nap. 149 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: A lot of new faces that are gonna be out 150 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: there getting regular snappy, But they don't again getting back 151 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: to the original spot there. They don't do these in 152 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: a vacuum. They do these knowing, Okay, here's what we're 153 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: gonna have to do next year, in the year after that. 154 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: They they do look at the long term picture. They 155 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: don't play this year in the year no, And I 156 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: think there's logic behind Before this, a lot of their 157 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: deals and additions were one year deals, you know, like 158 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. We can always keep them 159 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: around before free agency even breaks, or move on and 160 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: use that space for or a quarterback or whatever else next. 161 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the way they built 162 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: their salary cap this year, um, you know, some of 163 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: the the contracts that they did sign for you know, 164 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: for example, you know, Melvin Ingram and guys of that nature. 165 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: Trade Turner, those guys I was referring to, um, why 166 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: do you sign about two year deal? Well, those guys, 167 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: you know, you look at and said, well, they got 168 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: four million dollars, you know, both of them. He signed 169 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: one year four million dollar deals. So they should count 170 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: four million dollars against the Steeler's cap this year. Right, 171 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: That sounds but I know the answer to that, it's 172 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: not true. Trade Turner counts, uh where three million dollars 173 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: against this year's cap, and he also displaced somebody off 174 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: the roster when he got signed to Melvin Ingram counts 175 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: one point six seven million dollars against this year's cap, 176 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: even though he signed a one year four million There 177 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: are ways to do this. That the salary cap has 178 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: become in the NFL. It's not a myth, but it's 179 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: also very It's it's fungible, I think flexible. You know, 180 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: there's a lot of flexibility there that you can do 181 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: if you pull off the Saints. And that's all you 182 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: need to know. You know, the Saints were in the 183 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: worst salary cap situation in the history of the history 184 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,719 Speaker 1: of the Latin hit. They were ninety million dollars over 185 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 1: the cap. They cut they moved on from a few people. 186 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: I mean, Jared Cook's not back what They still franchised 187 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: Marcus Williams at like nine million. They were able to 188 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: resign Jamis Winston. They were just traded for a corner's 189 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: making money this week. Yeah, they moved on to Murray 190 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: right right, exactly. So, Yeah, their death got hurt, but 191 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: they brought back it basically everybody they wanted. Yeah, you 192 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: could say the same thing about the Steelers. Realistically, they 193 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: had you know, they talked about it in the off season. 194 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: This is our toughest you know, we had to make moves, 195 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: and he didn't want to make COVID hit some teams 196 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: harder than other. Correct you if you didn't see it coming, 197 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: you know, right, how could you see it didn't If 198 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: you're a team that plays it up to the edge 199 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: of the cap every year, you probably got hurt by 200 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: COVID and the Saints for the best example of the 201 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: Eagles were in that boat. Bad one, yeah for sure. 202 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: But if you're the Colts who had a bunch, didn't matter. 203 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: Actually worked your advantage because you took some competitors for 204 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: players off the market, you know. Yeah, so I don't 205 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: worry about the long term effects of T J. Watts 206 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: and what this means. I think the caps will go 207 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: up like crazy the next That's the thing I I 208 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: said that. Uh in the comments section, somebody said something 209 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: about it, Well, how is this this is going to 210 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: affect their their ability to sign make it Fitzpatrick and 211 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: maybe go get a quarterback. I'm like, you're able to 212 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: afford it? First of all, if you if you draft 213 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: a quarterback, he's not gonna get money until depends how 214 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: you want to answer by. Then I'm gonna bet that 215 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: the salary cap by is a lot closer million than 216 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: it is two millions. You don't even think about that. 217 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: And if you draft the next Pat Mahomes or Josh Allen, 218 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: you'll find a spot for right, You'll find a way 219 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: to do it. Look at the look at the years 220 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: to figure it out. Look at the Mahomes deal, right 221 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: right right exactly. You know we talked about a little bit. 222 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: They gave him a whole bunch of money, but it's 223 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: not doesn't get super crazy. Deal is a great example, 224 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: because I promise you in two years we'll be saying 225 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: Homes is probably the best bargain in the whole league. 226 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,839 Speaker 1: I mean, if he's still an elite, he may want 227 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: to renegotiate that all those things can happen. I mean, 228 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:23,719 Speaker 1: he's gonna be making a ton of money all of 229 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: a sudden, Brown Baker Mayfield, right, and he says, you know, 230 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: all let's compare things. But of course, um, I don't know. 231 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: People worry. I don't pretend to be a salary cap expert. 232 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure of all of our listeners two or three 233 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: out there are, but not ten, And most of you 234 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: have no clue what it's about, nor should you care. 235 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: You know, I just know if they have a lot 236 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: of space or a little space, but nicol and diming 237 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: over the salary cap from where any of us sit, 238 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: it's pretty foolish, to be very honest. It's the same 239 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: reason I don't get the angst on the people who said, well, 240 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: you can't pay t J want that? Why the hell not? 241 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: If you're not gonna pay t J? What right the 242 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: going rate? Who are you gonna pay? Who's an example 243 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 1: of who you should that. That's why I thought it 244 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: was interesting yesterday when making Fitzpatrick spoke and he talked 245 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,199 Speaker 1: about how he was, you know, keeping an eye on 246 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: this situation. Because, as he said, I'm gonna be in 247 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: the same situation next year. That's why you get t J. 248 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: That's another reason to get t J Watt sign. You 249 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: don't want to make it Fitzpatrick going in this one. Yeah, 250 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get signed next year, so right, it's 251 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: a huge reason too. And then there's be somebody after 252 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: Manca and something. You know, you keep bringing in good players. 253 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 1: You have to make decisions, of course, but it's better 254 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: than being the other way around. If you can't draft 255 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: right and you just keep signing other people's garbage for 256 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: more than their worth. You know, that's that's the that's 257 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: the model, that's what you want to do. That's what 258 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: you want to do. And to fill in the gaps 259 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: with your extra space, you know, absolutely not the foundation, 260 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: you know, the crazy you know, I didn't. I didn't 261 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: want to, you know, like, somebody, how come we don't 262 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: want to talk about it's happening in two I'm like, 263 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: how about we worry about first? You know what if 264 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: they starts Sunday and everyone and you and I get 265 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: paid to do this and we talk about it. But 266 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: they could go seventeen and win the Super Bowl. They 267 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: could go oh and seventeen. We don't know, you know, 268 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: you think the season is going to go this way 269 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: and Ben's gonna retire and you've got to prepare. And 270 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: of course that's what Kevin Colbert in the front office 271 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: are doing. But the nothing I know changes as quick 272 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: as the NFL, you know what I mean, it's easily 273 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: the most Yeah, oh my god. And so you just 274 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: have to be flexible and be able to pivot on 275 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: the fly. Yeah. So and they do that well, they 276 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: do do that well. Um, taking a look, let's talk 277 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: about the game a little bit. I enjoyed it. There's 278 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: a game there was I'm talking about this Sunday's game. Oh, 279 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy that one too, Steelers. It bills at 280 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: one o'clock on Sunday. Of course, that high Mark Stadium 281 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: in uh in Buffalo. I can't get these crazy names 282 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 1: like Orchard Park. That's Ralph Wilson Stadium. That the middle 283 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: of a neighborhood. Yeah kind of. I looked at that 284 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: stadium of your favorite spots to go to. No, no, 285 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: he likes to go to Buffalo. I guess you're not 286 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: sitting by the pool or anything. And the stadium itself 287 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: is best. That's why they're trying to get a new stadium. 288 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: That stadium was built in nineteen seventy three, neighborhood. It's 289 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: not even it's just the way it was built. That 290 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: in New England were both built kind of similar in that, 291 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: like to get to their locker rooms from the press box, 292 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: you actually have to leave the stadium. Yeah, Like who 293 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: designs is something that way? Notre Dames that way? Yeah, 294 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: it's like coaches had to go, well, Notre Dames like 295 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: a seventy year older you know, a hundred year old stadium. 296 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: They built this this way in nineteen seven and the 297 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: seventies the stadium and get a police esquarters to get 298 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: back in, Like who who came up with that idea? 299 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: They at least give you wings, the better give you way. 300 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: I already knew that answer, but that makes me crazy. 301 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: How can you not give you wings? It's a dated stadium, 302 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. The Bills are trying to 303 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: get a new one. Um, it's probably one of the 304 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: I hate to trash it, but junkier stadiums in the 305 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: add up to where you usually go. Yeah, I mean 306 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: when you look around the league at all the new stadies. 307 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: I added this up a couple of years ago when 308 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: I was still working at the Observer. Reporter had some downtime, 309 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: was waiting for phone calls, and so I decided to 310 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: sit there and figure out how many different stadiums I've 311 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: seen games in NFL games. It was like it was 312 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: over seventy because they're you know, you went through that 313 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: whole wave in the in the nineties, late nineties, early 314 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: two thousands of cities getting new stadiums, getting new stadiums, 315 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: including Pittsburgh. UM that I've seen, you know, some teams 316 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: like I've seen the Titans play in like four different 317 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: places as their home stadium. UM. I saw Jeff Fisher 318 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: coach in like five different cities with two teams. I 319 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: guess that said the Rams are Titans. I mean they 320 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: were on the move. A little bit tough place to 321 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: play though, absolutely, I think that's the team is going 322 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: to be a real challenge. But I think the environment 323 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: is a real challenge. It is going to be a challenge. 324 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: And you know, the Steelers have been working with some 325 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: as they do every week. The crowd noise, they didn't 326 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: do it, they didn't do they didn't do it. Last year. 327 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: So if you look at it, it's like these guys 328 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: have never played in front of the crowd. But but 329 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: he got four rookies who are gonna You've got two 330 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: other starters who are in year two, Playpool and Dotson, 331 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: who didn't play in front of any crowds last year. 332 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: I haven't. They went to Notre Dame, and I mean 333 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: they played in big crowds, but but that's still allow 334 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: half year, you know. And the big thing, it's not 335 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: so much the noise itself, it's the communication. It's communication. See, 336 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: even if they were playing last year with a bunch 337 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: of cardboard cutouts, I did the old line is gonna 338 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: have communication problem, you know, And now you throw a 339 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: massive crowd, noise and people jumping through tables on top 340 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: of it. I think it's gonna be a real challenge. 341 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: You know. You mentioned yesterday and I agree with you. 342 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: The Browns going to Kansas City is no treat in 343 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: week one right now, and I think Pittsburgh going to 344 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: Buffalo is similar. I agree. I think it's gonna be 345 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: a it's a tall task there. There's you know, by 346 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: the way, they're really good at playing football, yea, and 347 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: they're a good football team. That's the other part of 348 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: the equation. Doesn't mean I don't think that the Steelers 349 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 1: can't win this game, but things would have to go 350 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: pretty well for them. I'm sure we'll do predictions at 351 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: the end of the show as we you know, we're 352 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: back in regular season mode. Where are you most optimistic 353 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: XS and OS strategy? I got a couple of spots 354 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: I like that we haven't talked enough about. I think 355 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: the Steelers will find ways to get stops against Buffalo. 356 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: Buffalo has the football. They did it last year. They 357 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: forced five points, uh and they four the two turnovers 358 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: in that game. So that's seven of your let's say, 359 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: eleven times they got the balls. The Bill scored twenty 360 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 1: offensive points in that game. That's a damn good job 361 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: against that offense. And I think we told them they 362 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: punted like forty times all last year, and four of 363 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: them were in the first half against Steelers, right you know? Yeah, 364 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: so I mean that they have a track. Actually ran 365 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: the number the four they punted it it's forty one 366 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: time and set works out to two and a half 367 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: a game. Take the Steelers game out of the equation, 368 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: and you know, now they're down to thirty six punts 369 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: in in fifteen games, and you know it makes sense 370 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: that's that's like two point to five points per game. 371 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: They don't punt record. I'm with you. And when they 372 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: have the ball, I think, I mean, Alan's awesome, but 373 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: I do think it's two areas that need work still 374 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: are dealing with heavy playing under pressure and not fumbling. 375 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: So I think that's a bad matchup against the Steelers. 376 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: I mean, if any team can exploit those things, I 377 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: would put Washington and Pittsburgh on the top of the 378 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: list of they're going to harass you. Our guys are 379 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 1: our big guys are bigger than You're big guys, and 380 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: they're going to get the ball out. I mean, TJ 381 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: is great at it, and I'm sure that's an area 382 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: of emphasis all week long. Yeah, um, if you look 383 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: at it in terms of I went back and looked 384 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: at that first half. Stefon Diggs didn't have a catch 385 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 1: in the first half half, didn't have a target target, 386 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: wasn't targeted in the entire first half, and finished with 387 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: with ten catches for a hundred thirty yards. So he 388 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: blew up in the second half. Right. They obviously made 389 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: some adjustments to what the Steelers were doing. It goes 390 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: back to our to our conversations that we've had in 391 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: the past. Well, why didn't the Steelers make adjustments? And 392 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: at halftime thinking you don't adjust to what's working. If 393 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: it's working, you don't adjusting. Brian la Martinez on the 394 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: is on the board here, operating this the board here 395 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: for us today, the show is going swimmingly right now, 396 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: He's not gonna start pushing buttons and moving a thousand 397 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: Let's see what this sounds like. And we all started 398 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: talking backwards, like playing an Aussie album. All of a sudden, 399 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: you can't hear us. What happened, Well, he made adjustments. 400 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: You don't adjust what's working. I think there's certainly some 401 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: truth to that. What worries me more than anything about 402 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: when Buffalo has the ball is slowing down digs though. Yeah, 403 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna get his I mean he's proven 404 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: that time and time again. But that sels enough, Hayden. 405 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: In that game, they did not, and I would imagine 406 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: at least my strategy also didn't have Dupree right, they 407 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: didn't have Bush right, they didn't have Shobert, that's true, 408 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: or Ingram or yeah, I mean, so they've got some 409 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: new pieces they're on defense that allow them to be 410 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: even perhaps better against the Bills this year. I think 411 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: that's very feasible. Um. I want to especially. I think 412 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: the thing it can't be overlooked is the two inside 413 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: linebackers in the middle of the field can both cover. 414 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: They can both cover and a lot of ground read 415 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: the quarterback and make place. I mean, I think the 416 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: Cole Beasley crossers and things like that won't hurt you 417 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: as much. UM. I wonder will Minca have a heavy 418 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: leaning towards Diggs the side of the field. I would 419 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: think so, you know, not just a deep middle type 420 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: of guy. In fact, I would I would show that 421 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: on every play just to see if Alan again they 422 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: didn't target him at all in the first half of 423 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: the game, that's a win. It's not that they're other 424 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: receivers are bad. But if Singletary Moss knocks Beasley, Sanders Davis, okay, 425 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: you know you know that guy can be at least 426 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: make them play left hand, you know what I mean? 427 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: And if Diggs is more than they can handle where 428 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: I see him in Hayden alone a lot with not 429 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: much help, I think that's a problem and a big problem, 430 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: and he's he's hard to take away. I mean, nobody doubles, 431 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: but it's not like they're gonna double him like he's 432 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: a mean Teams would try to do that against Antonio 433 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: Brown when he was in his heyday, and it didn't work. 434 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: He still got his Yeah, but you limit the damage 435 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: and you just don't let him destroy and you forced 436 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: the quarterback to go somewhere else. You know a lot 437 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: of times people would would always complain about that with 438 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: with Brown. Why is Ben Roethlisberger forcing him the football? 439 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 1: Because it works? Yeah, right, he's your best guy because yeah, 440 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: but if you can covert he's open. If you can 441 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: convince a young quarterback like Josh Allen to not throw 442 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: the ball to Digs, which is what happened in the 443 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: first half of that game, I think, I think what happened. 444 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if the Steelers changed what they were 445 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: doing in that game as much as the Bills winning 446 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: a halftime and said, what the hell are we doing? 447 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: Why aren't we throwing the ball to Stefon Dicks? Because 448 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: even if why are you not stomping private piles guts 449 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: outright and totally forcing do what you do well, this 450 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: is this is your guy. Yeah, give him the ball. 451 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: That's what we're paying them all this money, like not 452 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 1: to not to just he's not We're not using them 453 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: as a decoy. He's the best in the league. Give him, 454 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: give him the ball. Yeah, and there he's going to 455 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: get targets. It doesn't matter what right. The A B 456 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: comparison is dead on. I don't think they'll run well 457 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: on the Steelers. No, I don't either, and I don't 458 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 1: know if they'll even try. To be very honest, I mean, 459 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: but I also think the Steelers have an advantage in 460 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: that I think they'll hit Alan. I mean Maybee. Butler 461 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: actually said it yesterday. Um, I don't know if you 462 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: saw the quote, but he said, well, somebody said about 463 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: about Alan's asked him about Alan's running. He said, I 464 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: hope he does run it, because then he's a running 465 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: back and we can hit him right and that ball, 466 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: the you know, the ball seemed tends to attract attention 467 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: in the NFL, and if you're running with the football, 468 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: you're a runner. And it's a pretty fast defense right now, 469 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: you know, not that they weren't fast before, but I 470 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: think they might even be faster and fast on that 471 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: one that was on the field last year exactly. I 472 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: think they get a lot of ball carriers to there 473 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: are a lot of tacklers of the ball. I'm real curious. 474 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,239 Speaker 1: This is much more of a Bill's note. Who may 475 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: not even see it in this game, but over the 476 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: course of this year, the next couple of years after 477 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: giving him that contract. If I was the Bill's owner, 478 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: I'd be like, you should probably slide once in a while. Hunt, 479 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 1: You got a hundred and two carries last year. You 480 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: don't need to be the goal line back. We don't 481 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: want to see that. And he initiates contact and that 482 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: would be hard to coach out of him, but it 483 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: needs to happen. Absolutely. You can't continue if you want 484 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: to play an entire NFL season seventeen games now and 485 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,919 Speaker 1: more you can you're planning to go into the postseason. 486 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: And I get it that he's a big guy, he's 487 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: a monster, but they had a guy in their division 488 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: and Kim Newton very similar, very similar, And you see 489 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: him at thirty two being kind of washed up because 490 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: the shoulder injury right that he got, with all the 491 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: wear and tear that he's had over the years. I mean, 492 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: Alan is going to be a problem as a runner, 493 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: but I have to admit his best days of running 494 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: or behind him. Yeah, that's the smart move. Big picture, 495 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: It's fine. He's a better pass. It's not like he 496 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: stinks at throwing the foot's a much better throw than 497 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: dude never was. Yeah, without question, without question. Yeah, so 498 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: you gotta that. I mean, that's what your quarterbacks there 499 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 1: to do, throw the football, and they do it well 500 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: when they do it often often. I don't know if 501 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 1: they'll run the ball more either, I mean percentage wise 502 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: and things. Actually, you know, their percentage wasn't crazy last year, 503 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: but it was, but a lot of it was, Yeah, 504 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: but a lot of it was was Alan too. I 505 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: mean he and again I said hunting two carries that 506 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: was that was his hundred and two carries were forty 507 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: four carries, fewer than Devin Singletary led the league, led 508 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: the team with, led team with. And some of those 509 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: are scrambles, so they were a design pass. A lot 510 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: of their runs were late in the game when you're 511 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: up fourteen, you know, but early downs him running a 512 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: quarterback keeper or draw. You see him do that a lot, Yeah, 513 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: a lot. I don't know that I would do that 514 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: at all, but I bet their first and second down 515 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: in the first half run percentage was amongst the lowest 516 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 1: in the league. They go in with a halftime lead 517 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: and then you know, you go from there the other side. 518 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: I think the Steelers have some advantages. Davis White's great, 519 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: but because the cover one. You know, it's not like 520 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: the Steelers are the Saints or the Packers or even 521 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 1: like Buffalo Buffalo. It's one guy. And then like I've 522 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: seen people like I saw something from Gil Brandt about 523 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: this game, and he who's Ben Roethlisberger's go to guy? 524 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: We know who the go to guys in Buffalo? That's right, 525 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: you know who the go to guy is in Buffalo. 526 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: First off, it is Deonte. I mean the targets scream that. 527 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: But he's not light years better than the number two, right, 528 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: you know? I mean in this instance, I would rather 529 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: have two three B pluses, rather have the Temptations than 530 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: Night and the Pips. Right right, because White anybody can 531 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: sing anybody. They can all step up to the microphone 532 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: and do the including tight ends and running backs. Now, 533 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: you know, so, I think you'll find matchups not named 534 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: for Davis White I think he's sometimes you might mightn't 535 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: even go after him a little bit because because he's 536 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: not the biggest or fastest guy, but he's their best. 537 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: He's fist here very good. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. 538 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: I would. I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot 539 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: of times when they do motion, uh Naja Harris out 540 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: of the backfield motion, why don't you go over on 541 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: the threatre Davious Whiteside. Let your running back occupy their 542 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: best cornerback if they're gonna allow it, they don't follow 543 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 1: him with somebody else. And then even if you do 544 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: throw it to him, you're running back's gonna punish their 545 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: best quarterback physical without question, even if it's just a 546 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: quick hit or that you know, you're not worried about 547 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: getting picked off or anything like that, or if it's 548 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: you know, dump off and Harris is playing a short zone, okay, 549 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: used to whites playing a short zone. He's still gotta 550 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,719 Speaker 1: get Naja Harris on the ground. I have mixed feelings 551 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: about this aspect of steel advantage. I didn't just flat 552 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: out power running old school is going to be is 553 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: gonna be profitable with that guy carrying the ball, but 554 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: Buffalo wants you to do it, so I'm curious how 555 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: much of that you see. But if you can shorten 556 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: the game and that pays off the fourth quarter, yeah 557 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: right right, So I don't see a blowout. No, I 558 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: don't either. Should be a good game. I'm looking forward 559 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 1: to it. Of course, that will be Sunday at one o'clock. 560 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that other games around the league 561 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 1: when we come back. Right after this. He is Matt Williamson. 562 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on 563 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio.