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Speaker 1: This is the drive with Dale lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on home of the black and gold steelers nation radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I'm Dale here with Matt Williams

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Speaker 1: and it is the day after and the day after steelers,

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Speaker 1: seventeen fourteen lost to the New England patriots Sunday in

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Speaker 1: their home opener. And Matt, if I told you that

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Speaker 1: Mitch Robiski had a one, oh four point two passer

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Speaker 1: rating in the fourth quarter and that Mac Jones had

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Speaker 1: a seventy nine passer rating in the fourth quarter and

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Speaker 1: the steelers outscored the Patriots eight to nothing in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. So the steelers won that game. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: held the patriots a seventh seventeen points. I think that

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Speaker 1: might be a trick. Question the steelers fourth quarter, Mike.

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Speaker 1: I thought Mike Tomlin put it well today at a

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Speaker 1: press conference when he when he said look, we uh,

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Speaker 1: we won waiting moments early in the game. We didn't

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Speaker 1: do it in the fourth quarter. We didn't put the

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Speaker 1: exclamation point on our on our game. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots out snapped the steelers in the fourth quarter offensively,

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Speaker 1: twenty three to five. Um, they you know, they couldn't

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Speaker 1: keep the offense couldn't stay on the field, the defense

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Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field without the Patriots eating up

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Speaker 1: a bunch of clock and it all added up to

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Speaker 1: a loss. It did. Um, I'm not gonna eat my words.

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Speaker 1: I bet you're in the same boat. We haven't had

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk about these things and say New

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Speaker 1: England's a lot better than I thought. You know, we

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Speaker 1: sold them at all. No, I'm not impressed with them

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Speaker 1: one bit. I still think Pittsburgh might even be the

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Speaker 1: better team. I think if they played ten times, the

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Speaker 1: steelers win seven of them. I would say six, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: that they're in the same neighborhood. I think Cleveland's in

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Speaker 1: that same neighborhood too. We'll get to them down there,

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Speaker 1: you know, the next couple of days here where they

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Speaker 1: do some good things. Um, but you know people want

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Speaker 1: to kill the steeler run defense in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: To stick in there. It wasn't an ideal, but you're

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Speaker 1: asking a lot after playing five quarters and a hundred

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Speaker 1: snaps a week before and you know, to to shut

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Speaker 1: down a run game when the whole world knows that's

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Speaker 1: the way it's gonna be and you've been on the

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Speaker 1: field a long time. A few defenses in the league

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Speaker 1: do that. To be very honest, that doesn't mean it's okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm not excusing it. Um. The short answer to me

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Speaker 1: not that you know everything else was roses, because it

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Speaker 1: certainly was not. But there were three huge plays and

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Speaker 1: doesn't even occur if the others don't. And of course

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Speaker 1: one is to touchdown m over Witherspoon at the end

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Speaker 1: of the end of the half. It's a great play

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Speaker 1: by as it's a it's a it's fourth and it's

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Speaker 1: third and three. At that point you're at the you're

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Speaker 1: at the forty four yard line with twenty five seconds

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Speaker 1: or twenty six seconds remaining. When you snap the football,

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Speaker 1: I have to believe the Patriots are thinking, okay, if

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Speaker 1: we don't get this, uh, we're gonna take a shot here.

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Speaker 1: If we don't get it, we're gonna go for it

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Speaker 1: on fourth down anyway, because there's gonna be about twenty

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Speaker 1: seconds left and you know, we don't think the steelers

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Speaker 1: can get into field goal range in the twenty seconds.

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Speaker 1: And their guy went up and made a play and

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Speaker 1: that happens in an NFL game. Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: thought the coverage was coverage was was actually really good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was really good. He was right there and you know,

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Speaker 1: a smaller guy went up and made a great play.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean it's okay. You know, that's how the League works.

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Speaker 1: One on one matchups are very important. And then, obviously

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Speaker 1: the gunner muff was probably even a bigger deal, especially

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Speaker 1: when you attack on the hayward error. But, as you

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Speaker 1: were saying before we went on the air, you never

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Speaker 1: get to that. If Sutton makes the pick before that,

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Speaker 1: Cam Sutton has a cam hayward pressures Mac Jones out

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Speaker 1: of the pocket and Jones throws back across his body.

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Speaker 1: Terrible for a terrible decision and it hits Cam Sutton

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Speaker 1: in in the in the stomach. Um, yes, he was

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Speaker 1: sliding and going to his knees, but that's when he

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Speaker 1: I mean if he makes yeah, if he if he

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Speaker 1: has that one back, Um, you know, he makes the

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Speaker 1: catch and then two plays later is the is the

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Speaker 1: you know, the muff punt. steelers only had ten guys

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Speaker 1: they're outside gunner. Who, you know, the guy who recovered

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Speaker 1: the fumble would have would have at least been maybe

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Speaker 1: blocked success in that play with another person on the

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Speaker 1: field is not out there. and Um, I've seen some

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Speaker 1: people blaming Gunner Olszewski for that. Well, Mike Tom and

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Speaker 1: what Mike Tomlin said about that today was that because

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Speaker 1: he was asked what's the what is the punt returner's

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Speaker 1: job in that situation? Well, he has to count and

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Speaker 1: there aren't eleven out there, he has to fair catch it.

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Speaker 1: He did that part of it. He did he called

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Speaker 1: for he came up, he called for the fair catch.

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Speaker 1: He just missed the punch. He just screwed up the

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Speaker 1: execution of him. And Yeah, okay, so maybe he didn't

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Speaker 1: screw up the ten eleven thing. I mean yeah, he

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Speaker 1: you know, defaults to a fair catch. Fair enough, but

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Speaker 1: the execution was terrible and was and then connor thrown

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Speaker 1: on top of that didn't help matters either. So I

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Speaker 1: really do believe, and I'm not trying to look at

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Speaker 1: it as a homer, I mean I think if any

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Speaker 1: I just didn't come away all that impressed with and

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Speaker 1: they did enough to win the game. Good for them.

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Speaker 1: I thought the steelers made the big mistakes and, as

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Speaker 1: I wrote on steelers dot com, when when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to win in the margins, right, you better win in

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Speaker 1: the margins. Better win the margins, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to if you're trying to be you know again,

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Speaker 1: the defense has given up thirty seven points in two games. Right,

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Speaker 1: take that all season long. It's phenomenal. Yeah, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: is it is? It is it always going to be pretty? No,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're, you know, you don't have t j

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Speaker 1: watt out there. Um, they could have gotten more pressures

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Speaker 1: that they could have started lacking, could have stopped a

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Speaker 1: run better. Um, I didn't mind the run defense for though. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Patriots had fifty eight yards rushing in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and four of those came on Neil downs.

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Speaker 1: Minus four that came on Neil downs by Mac Jones.

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Speaker 1: Actually was minus uh seven because he took a four

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Speaker 1: you know, they had sixty five yards rushing in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. They finished with a hundred and twenty. To

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Speaker 1: the math, that's half up until that point I thought

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Speaker 1: the run defense was fine. I've heard a million times

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Speaker 1: Patriot said that Nick Chubb's gonna run for three hundred

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Speaker 1: on them. Like I don't know about that. I mean

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Speaker 1: they had a bad quarter of run defense out of

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Speaker 1: nine so far this year and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: everyone thinks it's the same as last year. I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that part. And if the offense does anything with

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Speaker 1: its two possessions, okay, they get the ball back. They

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Speaker 1: That's why it was a tricky question. That's why it

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Speaker 1: was a trick question. You get Trabiskey to farm with

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Speaker 1: for an eight yard touchdown pass and fired it in there.

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Speaker 1: It was a great play, you know, Nice throw. Patriots

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Speaker 1: get the ball back of fourteen. They get to the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh forty, but they kick with ten fifty eight remaining. steelers.

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Speaker 1: Naja Harris runs for two yards. Drabinsky incomplete the George

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Speaker 1: They punt it back with remaining. They were on the

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Speaker 1: field for just over a minute. They didn't. That's why

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Speaker 1: I have a hard time blaming the defense. After playing

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Speaker 1: a hundred snaps a week before that. Oh, your run

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Speaker 1: defense wasn't great in the fourth quarter. Can I at

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Speaker 1: least get two sipsigators not one? You know what? They

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Speaker 1: get a punt. New England gets it at the fifty.

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Speaker 1: The steelers get a three and out. Yeah, defense is

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Speaker 1: fine there they new England kicks the ball into the

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Speaker 1: of their own twenty again. Not Ideal field position, but

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Speaker 1: better than getting it at your own eleven where you're

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Speaker 1: going to be a little bit more conservative. It's your

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Speaker 1: and then robinskys incomplete short right to jude. That was

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Speaker 1: the Judean play where Harris has him beat, and it

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Speaker 1: really if you look at that play, that's exactly the

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Speaker 1: matchup you wanted. It was borderline past interference. It was

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Speaker 1: I would I'm not, I'm not gonna kill him either way,

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Speaker 1: but they had to match up that they wanted. I

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Speaker 1: know everyone's killing Matt Canada and Hey, he should be scrutinized.

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Speaker 1: I'm not defending him, but like, on a play like that,

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Speaker 1: Judean comes and never turns his head around and runs

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Speaker 1: into him. There's no call that. That happens. That happened.

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Speaker 1: But if it's, if it's a good pass but the

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Speaker 1: I still running? You got a really good receiving back

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Speaker 1: against the pass rusher. That's what you want. You know,

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Speaker 1: was passing and fair and slash. You know, again it

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Speaker 1: were playing in the margins. The whole game of I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many times I said game of inches today,

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Speaker 1: which I hate cliches like that, but that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what there this game is and that's how the steelers

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Speaker 1: have to play right now. Yeah, and the steelers never

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Speaker 1: get the ball back after that one. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I I forgot about that Harrison Jude on one on

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Speaker 1: one situation. I mean that's that's when you gotta Win.

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Speaker 1: That was the one I was like Oh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that was exactly what you doubt. I mean, that's how

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Speaker 1: you draw it up, you know. So I'm not. You know,

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Speaker 1: could the play calling be better? Yes. Could the execution

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Speaker 1: hit the holes better? Yes, Um, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: there's still some some fine tuning that needs to be

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Speaker 1: done here. I don't think that the offense is far off.

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Speaker 1: I mean I did see, you know, I saw some

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Speaker 1: places from Trabisky in this game that I'm like, Oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: there was a third and sixteen that they converted to

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Speaker 1: Deante Johnson. Like all right, I'll say. You know, you

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Speaker 1: don't see that one converted often. True, Um, everyone overlooks it.

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Speaker 1: problem with that. But I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: positives of this offense. You mention mentioned Deante. I think

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Speaker 1: he's open every snap. Every snap. I mean he's better

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Speaker 1: than he's ever been. If he was playing with my

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Speaker 1: Stefan Dig's type now. I mean he is open every snap.

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's right now is my biggest if

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Speaker 1: I have an issue with Trabisky, it's that that we

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Speaker 1: you saw Mac Jones give his guy down the field

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Speaker 1: an opportunity in a one on one situation to make

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Speaker 1: you great weapons. I mean you see better every week.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, give him a shot. I mean throwing

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Speaker 1: I think Wilson might be back, which he can't be back.

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Speaker 1: And he went on. Oh, he's back for four, not three. steelers. No,

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Speaker 1: that's bad. DENVER's bad. You know the raiders? Well, look

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Speaker 1: AFC south is bad. Yes, unless they're playing each other.

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Speaker 1: Crazy weekend, very crazy weekend. That's you know, it just

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Speaker 1: it just goes to show early in the season in

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Speaker 1: and that's why you don't hit the panic button, you

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin said. Look, I've been around this league too

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Speaker 1: if we just do this one thing, we'll just fire

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Speaker 1: Mac and hire someone off the street, everything be better.

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Speaker 1: Like what are you talking about? Like, yeah, you make

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Speaker 1: You play it out and you've done a lot of work.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this, you know, again a hundred times. Just

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Speaker 1: They are seven Um. You know, there's there's IT goes

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Speaker 1: back to what bill cower always used to see. An

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Speaker 1: NFL season is not a sprint, it's a marathon and

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Speaker 1: like one you know, one misstep and all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden the season shot. They'RE gonna pick first in the draft.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not how wurds, Noah, this is not

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Speaker 1: college football. You don't, you lose a game and you're

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Speaker 1: out of the you can't go. You can't make the championship.

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Speaker 1: But have some big things to work on. They do

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Speaker 1: better at there's no doubt about that. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we're candy coating that. But, folks, other teams have his

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Speaker 1: think they have a problem just haven't figured it out yet.

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Speaker 1: Today right absolutely that there are bumps on the road

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Speaker 1: for every NFL team. We're gonna take a break. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson I am Dale Alle. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: the drive here on steelers nation radio. Um, you can

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Speaker 1: check out the steelers weekend review hosted by Wesley Jowler.

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Speaker 1: It's a recap of the previous game as well as

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Speaker 1: a look at the steelers next opponent. New episodes drop

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