WEBVTT - HR1: Changes 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.439 This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.000 on your twenty four to seven home of the Black 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.440 and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.680 Welcome to the Drive. I am Dale LOLLI he is 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.239 the Matt Williamson and of course the Steelers making some 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:26.680 big news today for the first time, not just relieving 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.120 an offensive coordinator or a coordinator of his duties, but 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.920 firing him in mid season. They've they've moved away from 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.879 or taken play calling duties away from guys in best race. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.000 Sherman comes to mind, changes his response, Yeah, nineteen ninety eight, 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.879 but they had never taken the move of actually firing 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.840 the coordinator. And it all comes down to one thing, Matt, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.880 what the Steelers haven't done recently, which. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.880 Is complete passes. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:54.960 Complete passes. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.360 He complete more passes. Yep, that's the. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.639 Goal here, That is the goal. You know, whether this 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.080 does that, we don't know. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:05.679 We don't know. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:06.360 I don't know. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.399 Coordinator hires are always hard for me. Any assistant coach 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.520 stuff is hard for me because I've been in the 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.200 building and I know what they do, and I know 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.960 the public doesn't know what they do, and I don't 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:24.080 know what they do now. I will say, I need 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.759 to stress this to no end. They've played the hardest 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.759 schedule of defenses and it's not even close. I mean 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.600 it's not even close. So higher fire whatever, I would 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.880 expect things from this point forward. Yeah, because the people 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:41.320 they're playing are worse. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.440 Until they get to the Ravens in week seven eighteen. 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.240 Yeah, I mean yeah, there's it's not like until they 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:46.680 get to that. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.680 I mean right, They've played a ridiculous slate of defenses. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.360 To the defenses, and I gets easier as it should 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.560 because it's been very, very difficult. That's not an excuse. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.440 You still need to win, you still need to complete 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.840 more pass It's. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.320 A it's a result driven business. There's no offens or 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:03.920 buts about it. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:05.120 Yes, but. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.000 I think what happened, you know, Mike Tomlin looked at 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.640 this and said, Okay, we're six and four. We can't 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:17.120 continue to do that. Something something has to change. Something 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.519 has to change, and I don't want to change the 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.800 quarterback at this point. So beyond not changing the quarterback, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:25.760 what other change can I make? Well? I can, I 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.880 can change who's calling the place. Here's the thing, folks, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:34.200 the playbook's not getting changed. The playbook is the playbook. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.679 Right, You're not going to go back to day one 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.480 mini camp install in practice. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.200 Somebody asked the question. Somebody asked actually asked the question 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.200 today in the press conference, Mike Tomlin, did you look 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.799 outside the building to bring somebody in in the middle 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.320 of a season? Are you out of your mind? 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.680 You could bring someone in as a consultant. You can't 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.040 bring someone in be like, hey, why you install your 0:02:59.080 --> 0:02:59.359 in the. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.560 Next three days? Right, Let's see what we get to run. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.600 Yeah, I mean we'll all learn French tomorrow and have 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.120 there's some Rosetta stone here for that, and we'll all 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.440 have huge frenchmen chasing us, trying to kill us, and 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.000 we the only way to fend them off as we 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:22.360 know French perfectly tomorrow. Now, the sequencing of plays will change, Yes, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.000 tendencies and maybe there's a section of the playbook that 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.399 they just throw in the fire. I mean, you might 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.200 trim things, you might have an idea or two, Like 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.200 I'm keeping an eye out for more play action, more 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.000 middle of the field throws. But I've seen middle of 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.400 the field receivers open and the ball doesn't go to them. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.560 I've seen those throws turn down. Yes, now maybe the 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.680 emphasis becomes on making those throws. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:50.800 Yeah, right or right? 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.280 Uh you know that that. You know, I just don't 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.240 expect it to look night and day. And I think 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.400 that's kind of what the expectation is for a lot 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.000 of people. Know they're gonna come out and they're gonna 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.360 run the football and they're going to play off of that. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.560 And frankly, if they get three hundred and twenty five 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.120 yards of offense and twenty two points on Sunday, please 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.240 don't tweet me. See that was all. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:19.440 Yeah. I fully expected them, regardless of who the coordinator 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.080 is we talked about yesterday, still look good on offense 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:23.680 against the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.200 Yeah. No, I think they should have more success, way 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.080 more success than against the Browns. I'll tell you that 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.120 in Cleveland. Yeah. I mean, if they didn't show more 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.720 success no matter who's in charge going forward this week, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.000 that would have been very alarming to me. I mean 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.880 that's something I was gonna predict, and we did yesterday 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:47.080 to some degree. I mean, it's an easier opponent. I 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.359 expect them still to run the ball a lot. I 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.640 expect them still to be adverse to turnovers, you know. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.440 I mean those messages I think come from the head coach, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.800 and it's still the head coach and still the same 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.120 owner and those things. Maybe there'll be some more passing 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.800 game concepts that are a little different, But I don't 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.120 think the untrained eye would look at the offense and 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.520 be like, wow, it's drastically different. I don't think the 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.240 trained eye would look at it and be like, wow, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.440 it's drastically different. Yeah. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.279 Here's here's what the Bengals have allowed this year in 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:21.640 terms of points. Twenty four, twenty seven, sixteen, twenty seven, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.400 twenty thirteen, seventeen eighteen, had a little stretcher where they 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.360 were pretty good, and then the last two weeks has 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:29.360 been thirty and thirty four. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.840 Yeah. Yeah, and they're gonna get less help from their 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.240 offense now than at any point since Burrow was healthy. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.360 You know, if you look at the at the total yard. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:38.839 Shocked the defense as bad as it is. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.080 Listen to these yardage totals. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:40.680 I bit, they're high. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:45.440 Yeah, three point fifty four fifteen, two ninety two against 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:50.640 the Rams. Okay, four hundred that's against the Titans against 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:55.240 the Titans, two ninety four against the Cardinals. Uh three 0:05:55.279 --> 0:06:01.200 eighty four four sixty three, seventeen five, four and four 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.400 oh five. Yes, the Steelers offense is go. It had 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.719 better look better this week if it doesn't, now you now. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.800 What, Yeah, I just know everyone isn't. Just like, why 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.240 didn't they do that earlier? It would have been so 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.560 much better. I don't know that it would have been. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.560 I know that. Yeah, Kyle Shanahan could have been Bill Walsh. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.800 Could have could have come out and coordinated that game 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.719 on Sunday, And I don't know that it would have 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.839 looked more it would it looked? Would it look better? Yes? 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.920 Might they have scored fourteen points to win the game, yes, exactly. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.680 But to put it all on you know, the plate 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:40.279 of this wasn't all on Matt Canada. That is my point. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.600 To look at it like BC and AC, you know 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.719 what I mean, Like since that point they were really good. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.480 Well, now that being said, he wasn't correcting the problems. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.680 Kenny Pickett had looked worse and worse in the last 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.920 couple of weeks. That has to change. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.000 And I'm not objecting to the move. I mean by 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:00.920 no means I think some thing had to change. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.279 I'm surprised by them, Yeah. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.680 I mean Steeler history shows. As you've opened the show 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.200 with that, that's not usually their move. But you could 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.360 also see players getting frustrated. This needs to change things 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:11.840 like that. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.960 And I think that's kind of what that what pushed 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:19.040 this exactly, not that not that Mike Tomlin was in 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.680 danger of losing the locker room. But again, you can't 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.240 The players are the players. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.120 They're frustrated. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.400 You have to You're not gonna you can't change you 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.400 can't change the players that display and everybody, especially offensively, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.320 everybody's playing that. I mean, who who do you want 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.040 to see play that? Not playing at all? 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.800 Right, I'm sure there's people like, well Warren needs to 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.120 be the feature back, Okay, give them five more carries 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.720 a game. But well, here's the thing, he's going to 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.640 be a part of it either way. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.560 The guy who makes that decision is Eddie Faulkner, who 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.080 plays and when what plays within the scope of his room. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.520 People might not even know that, you know, the position 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.200 coach is like, get in there, Jalen. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.160 That's not that's not a coordinating And now the coordinator 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.400 and head coach have say no, we want this guy. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.400 But most of the play with eleven personnel most of 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:05.800 the time. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.040 Yeah, there, most of the time, it's the it's the 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.360 position coach who decides, Okay, this this guy's in there 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.880 in this situation when you're rotating guys and things of 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.480 that nature. Offensive line is different, yeah, because those guys 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.080 are on the field constantly. Quarterbacks different because those guys 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.800 are on the field constantly. But the rotations are decided 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.840 by the position coach fresh not yea. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.160 Then the players, they can pull themselves out each a lot. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.520 I'll come off the field, or you know, a back 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.200 will tap out, or receiver runs go routes and just 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:37.679 goes right to the sideline. But I wonder, and what's 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.640 what's interesting from and hard from where we're gonna sit here, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.720 is is that a Canada change, a Falconer change or 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.000 was it that change coming anyway? So, like the Steelers 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.719 are really high in eleven personnel in the league. Well, 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.839 Fiarm's been hurt, you know, like if all of a 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.080 sudden they start using a lot more twelve. That happened 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.880 to coincide with Fierman, No, you got that guy back. Yeah, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.440 that was Canada's plan anyway, you know, like maybe Tomlins 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.840 was that was his plan from the beginning. I'm pretty 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.200 sure the plan wasn't. Hey, Matt Canada, coach Canada, you 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.240 get all the hard games and we'll give the easier 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.920 ones to somebody else. Like, I don't think that was it. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.000 Yeah, so I I the other thing that really kind 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:28.000 of it bothers me that people were celebrating somebody losing 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:28.400 their job. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.199 I got fired, you know. I mean I use this example. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.880 My son went to school with Keith Haley's son. Act. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.440 Well, there you go, Keith Hale. I don't know who. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.480 He's a good dude. But anyway, riverboat captain interesting Okay, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.880 But anyways, Todd son couldn't go to school for a while, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.800 you know, like he was in like third grade being 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.320 human beings? You know what are we doing? 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.600 Yeah, I mean, it's just it was a tough situation. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.640 That's why I felt bad from for Matt Canada because 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.280 it's it. I don't believe that it was all Matt 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.720 Canada's fault. No, the players have to execute one person's fault. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.680 I don't care what places you're calling if you don't 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:10.400 execute them. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:10.840 Yeah. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.520 Uh, I can remember when we had J. T. Thomas 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.199 on a couple of years ago at the he was 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.320 out of training camp and and JT. Thomas telling us 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.560 the Steelers defense in the seventies had basically three three plays, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.440 right right, Like that's all they did. That's all did 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:27.000 because they. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.520 Were better, better, and they could shout. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.360 As they could shout across the line of scrimmage of 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.719 the quarterbok, Hey we're cover two. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.640 Still, maybe we'll blitz Lambert this time, you know, maybe 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.199 or whatever. Its side note, But like in those conversations, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.440 that's when we were people were lobbying to get Donnie 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.640 Shell in the Hall of Fame. He's like, well, if 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.160 they brought three receivers, Donnie would just be our nickel corner. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.239 There wasn't nickel corners back then, Like oh, okay. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.480 And and and that's what the offenses were. There wasn't 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.360 all this scheming and like the quarterbacks calling the plays 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.960 they had maybe, I honestly, how many plays do they 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.839 have the court? Like May twenty five? You go into 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:04.480 a game of twenty five plays, We're gonna run the 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.559 same trap play here comes eighteen times. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.520 Yeah, exactly, and then again, and the defenses weren't diverse. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.319 Sometimes you bring a third, third receiver out. That was 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.000 revolutionary start throwing the tight ends was revolutionary. Yeah. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.880 You know, I can remember Kevin Dotson when when he 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.880 got drafted by the Steelers. One of the stories on 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.640 him was that he would tell because he played at 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.559 a small you know, a smaller du Yeah, Louisiana State States. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.400 He was at just yeah, flat louis It was just Louisiana. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.000 Yeah. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.400 He would tell the defensive lineman across room and what 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.679 the what the play was coming, because I don't care, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.200 I was going to dominate him. Well, so you're saying, 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.000 well that guy knew what was coming, you still have 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:44.560 to stop it. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.120 Yeah. Yeah, Like I'm sure Randy Johnson could go to 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.600 the miners yeah, rehab and be like here comes the heater. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.280 He could do it in the majors too. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.960 Yeah, but no, times are different. I mean, it's why 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.320 we went down that rabbit hole. But it was kind 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.480 of fun. It's a massive job. It's a complex job. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.000 I'm betting the product on the field is better. I 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.360 don't know that the coaching will be better, And maybe 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:08.719 it will be. We won't really know. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.560 What we have seen. Like I compared it to Joe 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.319 Brady taking over the play calling duties this past week 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.600 for the for the Buffalo Bills. Well, hey, the Bills 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:20.920 went out there and they scored a bunch of points 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.560 against the Jets and they won. Yeah, because quarterback didn't 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.720 throw a bunch of interceptions. I guarantee you. The former 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.360 offensive coordinator there was not telling Josh Allen, Hey, Josh, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.120 why don't you throw a couple to the other team 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.559 this week? And just to make just to make it 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:34.439 a little more challenging. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.240 They were third in DVOA and e p A when 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.920 he got to let go. Yeah, you know, like that's 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.800 what third best offenses in the league do. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.280 And sometimes these moves don't work, as we just saw 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.160 with Frank Reich and Carolina. Absolutely, you turn it over 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.840 to the other guy for three weeks and it doesn't 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.440 get any better. And he says, you know what, if 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.439 I'm going down, I'm going down calling my place. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.080 The grass isn't always greener. But I do think it 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:56.719 was time to change the grass, you know. I mean 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:58.480 it sounded like. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.560 I don't disagree. Something had to change. You couldn't continue 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.000 to do the same thing that you've been. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.720 Doing because they don't complete enough. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.760 Don't complete enough passes. They're auly one hundred and eighty 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.040 one yards rushing per game over the last three games. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:11.120 Oh, yeah, that's you. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.679 That would lead the league by a lot, by a lot. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.240 Yeah. I mean they're rocketing up all the lists and 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.520 everything too. I mean they're that part of the offense 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:19.319 isn't broken. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.000 From Yeah, but they don't complete enough passes. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.840 They do, and that has to change. Hopefully the new 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.680 coaches in charge, the new input will make life easier 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.959 on Kenny, or get him to let the ball go 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.720 when open guys are there more or well. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.520 That's the conundrum. That's the conundrum here, Matt. You're averaging 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.280 one hundred and eighty rushing yards per game. Life should 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.760 be really easy for your quarterback in that situation. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.520 It really should be, and it hasn't been at all. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.640 Yeah, you can't do it, you can. He's averaged i 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.440 think one hundred and twenty yards passing over the last 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.720 three games, with them averaging one hundred and eighty yards rushing. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.880 And it's not because they're not throwing passes. It's because 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.760 they're not completing enough passes. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.160 Completing enough passes. Yeah, they're getting the three hundred yards part, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.760 the hard part you're doing. Yeah, the one hundred and 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.320 eighty part. Yeah, you should be about one hundred yard 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.760 rushing two hundred yards passing to get the three hundred 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.520 or whatever. But no, Picket needs to get better. Passing 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.960 game needs to get better. Protection needs to get better 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.600 than it was this past week. Maybe there will be 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.200 ways to scheme more guys open, but I have not 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.120 seen a lack of open receivers, especially over the last 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:28.480 month or so. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.120 And what we're not privy to is what Picket has 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.960 been told that we will know something, and we'll never 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.360 know that in some of these situations coaching, Again. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.200 What are they instructing him to do as he thought? 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.840 Assume he's just following orders or he wouldn't still be 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.000 out there. Yeah, I'm telling I know, they aren't telling 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.000 him to not complete passes. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.640 Right, just like the Bills weren't telling Josh Allen to 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.160 throw interceptions right. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.000 Or bring a twelfth guy out to try to drop 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.720 a block the extra point or whatever, a field goal. Whatever. Yeah, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.640 I do wonder, and again we'll never know this. This 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:05.280 game day, prep, game week, prep change, you know, like, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.840 does their install periods different is probably to some. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.080 Degree, you know, well, you'll have different voices leading those meetings. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.720 With the offense and they're gonna see things a little different. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.160 Yeah. Now, typically when you see something like this is 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.080 this is where it's going to be interesting because you 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.840 now have Eddie Faulkner coordinating the offense, but Mike Sullivan 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.040 calling it on game day. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.560 Yeah. I was gonna ask you if you knew exactly 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.680 how that is laid out. Are they considered co coordinators 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:33.240 at the moment? 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:38.920 I guess yeah, Yeah, I mean so you know, during 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.600 the week, basically what Faulkner is going to be doing 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.240 is running the staff and the way the Steelers come 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.920 up with the game plan. Again, this wasn't just a 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.000 Matt Canada thing. No, they all have everybody has their 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:50.960 input a week. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.800 It's not just I sit around do nothing until the 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.440 running backs come in the room and we coach them out. Yeah, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.200 they're they they're in charge of protection, they're in charge. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.280 Of so they all do their they all do their 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.800 individual field film study, or they do it all together. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.040 They come up with a plan here's what we can 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.640 execute with our guys, and then they go to the 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:11.240 offensive coordinator. He comes up with the plan to Okay, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.760 here's here's where we're gonna sequences or you know in 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:14.640 the end game stuff. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.080 Yeah, I mean if you go, if you walk through 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.640 the coaches area of a facility during the week, it's 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.200 very very quiet. All the defensive coaches are in their room, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.240 you know, chewing and scratching and watching tape in a 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.600 dark room, and all the offensive coaches are in their 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.160 room unless it's press conference time or you know, like 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.360 all the other time that we don't know about is 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.040 almost always you know, in the room seven I mean 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.400 like auld pit, there would be six or seven eight 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.360 guys in the room, you know, the offense or NFL 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.680 will be more. There's a bigger coaching staff, you know, 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.520 you might have two defensive back coaches or whatever, and 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.560 they're all in there, you know, putting their ideas together. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.360 They're watching their guys or watching the upcoming opponent and say, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:56.960 well we try this, we should do that. You know. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.480 Yeah, that guys, that guy's the snickers bar. We need 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:01.360 attack him. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.080 Absolutely. So everyone's job is gonna have to change a 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.679 little bit, you know, because you've one less person, one 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.840 less piece of the pie. But the pie the job 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.200 is still the same size. Yeah, the week, So that's 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.760 gonna be the interesting part. Of this and you know. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.199 It's going to be There'll be subtle differences, there's no 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.720 doubt about it, no question, and in that that can help. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.600 We've seen situations where again where that has helped things. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.320 It makes the Steelers less predictable than they had been agreed. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.639 Agreed, so we see different types of motions where we 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:37.760 see more play actions. Might Connor Hayward's snaps spike or 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.480 I'm just making stuff up. Might Austin be out there 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.720 more his role has been dropped more and more. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.000 Maybe not if they're going to run the ball the 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.320 way they are agreed. That's Alan Robbins has been a big. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.240 Part of that tight end blocker guy. Yeah, that's why 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.680 Austin's you know, stuff is down, you know, So it'll 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.399 be interesting. Maybe there are bigger changes than I'm letting on, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.280 but I would be shocked. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.879 At this point. We just don't know. Oh until we 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.840 see a couple of games. We won't even know after 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.560 just watching against Cincinnati, not because you need at least 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:06.320 a couple of games. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.800 Anything could be a Cincinnati specific game plan. Yeah, no 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.399 matter what that they would plan in the day that 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.119 they were playing on doing last Cincinnati game, like well 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.160 we'll keep eighty percent of that and then we'll add something, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.720 you know whatever. So especially at division game. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.840 Yeah, he just it's it's it's gonna be interesting, but 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.399 it's definite gonna be interesting. To your point, again, let 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.640 me just go over those numbering they've given up three 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.840 point fifty four, fifteen two ninety two, four hundred two 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.080 ninety four, three eighty four, four sixty three, seventeen five, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.880 forty four and four or five. They've given up nine 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:46.520 hundred and forty nine yards and sixty four points the last. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.680 Two weeks, just the last two weeks. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.440 Wow, that's against Houston and Baltimore. Now two good teams. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.399 To good teams. But like when we talked about the 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.399 Browns defense last week, we'd say things like, yeah, ab 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.399 Arizona never quarterback, Tennessee's not very good. Well, these are 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.800 the same teams, yeah, you know, I mean not every 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.720 game is the same, but they're still the same teams 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.480 more or less. And Cincinnati's defense is very disappointing this year. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.280 Yeah, it's certainly not been what it was, certainly what 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:13.119