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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Ally here

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Speaker 1: with Matt Williams, and this is the Drive on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio, and I'm at the Steelers also making a

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Speaker 1: trade on on Tuesday by the deadline to acquire a

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Speaker 1: defensive back, that being William Jackson. Obviously he's somebody that

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Speaker 1: they're very familiar with. UM, and I know people looked

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Speaker 1: at the salaries and things of that nature. There's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a renegotiation there. They're not gonna be on the

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Speaker 1: hook for nine plus million or whatever it is next year.

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Speaker 1: They'll they'll renegotiate that. Don I think that's you know

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Speaker 1: that the news on that trade broke very early soon

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Speaker 1: after the Claypool trade, and then it wasn't announced for

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Speaker 1: a few hours. I think part of that was because of,

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Speaker 1: you know, some of the negotia Asians we're going on

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, like talking to Jackson's agent, Okay, if

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Speaker 1: we trade for you, will you accept less money and

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Speaker 1: things of that nature. But the compensation was exactly which

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Speaker 1: was like nothing nothing. And it's my understanding too that

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Speaker 1: that could be a that that future pick could be

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Speaker 1: UM tied to some and you know, a man being

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Speaker 1: nothing because Washington was gonna cut him. Uh. And the

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Speaker 1: Steelers made the trade for him because they weren't sure.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure that they got him because

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Speaker 1: once he's a free agent, anybody could set whatever. Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: just had, you know, just less uh. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: would they bring you know, they're gonna bring William Jackson back.

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Speaker 1: That would be a nice fit for you know, for

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, would be very interesting, so or Miami or

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Speaker 1: any of ye any of these teams that are struggling. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I expect, you know, they'll throw him into the

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Speaker 1: mix and see where, you know, how he fits in.

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Speaker 1: So here's my take on the Jackson thing, and correct

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Here, the history of Steelers and

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Speaker 1: Jackson went something like this. We really like this guy

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Speaker 1: coming out. Cornerbacks our biggest need. We think there's a

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Speaker 1: pretty good chance season fall to us in the first round,

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Speaker 1: and we'd be very happy they were picking year. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and they'd be very happy if we did. We need

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Speaker 1: a corner with size. The Bengals grab him, We'll take

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Speaker 1: already Burns that didn't work out. That's Jackson's fault. I

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Speaker 1: mean whatever Steels pick Burns didn't work out. We know

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Speaker 1: that he goes to Cincinnati, plays well, plays a lot

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Speaker 1: of man gets better and better during his tenure there.

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Speaker 1: Happens to be playing for the Steelers current defensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers have game planned against him twice a

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Speaker 1: year every step of the way. Becomes a free agent

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Speaker 1: and is highly sought after on the market. They were

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Speaker 1: interested in him then that I was about saying, as

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers were very interesting. Not to forty

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Speaker 1: million dollars over three years, though, and the count afford

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Speaker 1: that since he often does, especially at that point pre borrow,

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Speaker 1: they're not going to invest in a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: a little frugal, we'll just call it that. And as

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Speaker 1: Washington often does, they overpaid for a guy who didn't

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Speaker 1: fit in their defense. That's exactly asn't say, right. And

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a man coverage corner, and folks, there's

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Speaker 1: a misconception out there. He's a man coverage corner. A

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Speaker 1: lot of man coverage. That doesn't mean they're gonna lining

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Speaker 1: up you know, man coverage, you know, but it goes

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Speaker 1: to Washington. They're almost all zone, tons of cover three

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Speaker 1: meth that Already Burns was a bad fit here at

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Speaker 1: the time when the Steelers, Already Burns was a bump

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Speaker 1: and run corner. Yes, the Steelers at that time, we're

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Speaker 1: playing a lot of his own. Yeah, I mean a

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Speaker 1: lot of people talk about three or four nose tackles

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Speaker 1: ends corners the same way. Like not the awesome was

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Speaker 1: the best example ever. You know, they he was a

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Speaker 1: star with with the Raiders and then they take him

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Speaker 1: a cover three guy or impressed man guy. When he

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Speaker 1: was a Cover three guy doesn't do anything, it's you're

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Speaker 1: asking him. It's the toughest. It's one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: why I think cornerback might be one of the toughest

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Speaker 1: evaluations in college football today. Guys coming out because scheme

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Speaker 1: you can hide them a little. Yeah, he talk hid

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Speaker 1: him a little. You know. You hear things like, well,

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Speaker 1: he's just a boundary corner. He's this, or he's that,

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Speaker 1: or he's he's a man corner. Well, if you're an

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Speaker 1: NFL team, there's no, No, NFL team plays man. No,

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Speaker 1: of course not. It doesn't happen in college football. You

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Speaker 1: just gonna we're we play man, you know, Like you

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Speaker 1: the hash marks are so wide. If you're a boundary,

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Speaker 1: if you're the short side, you're gonna get runs right at.

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Speaker 1: You need better be tough, you need yeah, you need

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Speaker 1: to run. There's a lot of condensed area, and the

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Speaker 1: office is true on the wide side, like I got

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Speaker 1: a lot of space here to cover this big twelve

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Speaker 1: receiver and not much help, you know. So I always

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Speaker 1: talked about this that maybe the first lesson I learned

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Speaker 1: and the backs coach told you that the second you're hired,

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Speaker 1: watch every snap of man coverage because so many teams

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Speaker 1: don't run into college you know, can this guy get

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Speaker 1: off pressed? Can this guy press? And you might watch

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Speaker 1: a corner and go a whole game and have none

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Speaker 1: in college level. Like, so that's a desired trait, and

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Speaker 1: that's what Jackson does well and there there and that

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean if you if you're not a good man

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Speaker 1: there are certain teams that are looking for those zone guys.

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Speaker 1: To Shay Towns is a perfect example that Richard Sherman

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Speaker 1: wasn't a man corps, not a man corner. Brande Barber.

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Speaker 1: You know these guys like that that okay, there you're

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Speaker 1: looking for those cover three guys who they get their

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Speaker 1: eyes on the quarterback, they read the ball well, they're

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Speaker 1: smart and you know they break up. They they they're

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Speaker 1: not necessarily the fastest guys on the field, but they

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Speaker 1: make good breaks on them on the football and don't

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Speaker 1: The best way Ilwa was described that was watching Paul

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Speaker 1: and he constantly he was also the defensive backs coach,

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Speaker 1: always out of his mouth, you're hearing man eyes or

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Speaker 1: zone eyes. So think about if you're a corner and

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Speaker 1: what he means by man eyes is I'm really just

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Speaker 1: like focused on this dude's belt buckle. That's it's like

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Speaker 1: playing man the man defense in basketball, absolutely, you always

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Speaker 1: watch the watches. Is They always used to say, watch

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Speaker 1: his belly button, that's gonna tell you where he's gonna go.

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Speaker 1: When I coached my kids in flag football, tackling was

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Speaker 1: the hardest thing. I'm like, but if I can teach

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Speaker 1: faked out too much. But zone eyes would be Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm well off and I'm looking at this triangle of

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Speaker 1: kind of on my left eye, I'm looking at the receiver,

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Speaker 1: and my right eye, I'm looking at the quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing a big picture or a landscape, you know.

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Speaker 1: And again, very much like basketball. You know, we we

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Speaker 1: used to have it in high school what we called

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Speaker 1: the pistol position, where you know you've you've positioned yourself

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Speaker 1: so that I can see the ball on one side.

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Speaker 1: Let's say I'm on the balls on my right side,

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Speaker 1: If I'm you're sitting to my left here, if I'm

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Speaker 1: I've got my I'm not I've got my eyes kind

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Speaker 1: it's a total different way of looking out of your

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Speaker 1: eye socket, right, you know, I just totally Now. We

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Speaker 1: used to do that in man tended, you know, playing

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Speaker 1: man defense, but that was off ball defense. If you're

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Speaker 1: if you're to two passes away from the ball, then

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Speaker 1: you're off and you're playing kind of a zone type coverage.

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Speaker 1: Different eyes, we have different eyes. But when when when

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Speaker 1: you're one spot away from the ball, you better be

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Speaker 1: up on you know. And so now you're now you're

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Speaker 1: playing the man again. True, it's very very similar. You

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people are like, this great corner

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Speaker 1: should just go to safety and be a deep middle guy.

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Speaker 1: Well they've never done that. I mean, that's a totally

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Speaker 1: you're looking at twenty one other players as opposed to one.

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Speaker 1: It's the reason why make a Fitzpatrick when he watches practice,

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Speaker 1: watches from forty yards downfield at the deep middle, because

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Speaker 1: he wants to see things from the deep middle, because

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Speaker 1: that's the way a free safety is. A deep safety

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Speaker 1: sees things. Yeah, yeah, I mean like he's like a

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Speaker 1: catcher in baseball. He could see the entire field as

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Speaker 1: things happen, Like Rod Woodson and Charles Woodson made that

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Speaker 1: conversion their big physical corners. But I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Dion could have and Deal might have been better than

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Speaker 1: A lot of them do it, and it's not as

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Speaker 1: easy as you think. Yea, So it cann me interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how they work work came into this situation here.

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Speaker 1: You should also get the Monte kz back. It's like

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Speaker 1: a wealth of stuff, like all of a sudden, all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, now you're getting t J. Watt back

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Speaker 1: on this defense. You get Kazy back, you trade for

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Speaker 1: William Jackson. It's like been nice to have one of

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Speaker 1: them four weeks ago. But I mean even Jackson would

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Speaker 1: have been a welcome edition. I mean the difference with

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Speaker 1: what in this defense um and not have anything? Yeah

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Speaker 1: he was missed right, So I mean the defense is

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Speaker 1: is healthy? Is healthy? Has been all season, since opening day,

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Speaker 1: since opening day. And remember you didn't have Kyz for

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Speaker 1: the opener um, you know, so now you're and then

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Speaker 1: you add Jackson to the equation, Um, you get your

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Speaker 1: swagger back with what Yeah, I think just beyond him

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Speaker 1: as a player, he brings a different swagger to the defense.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean there's no doubt about that. I Mean,

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Speaker 1: like we talk a lot of tackles for a loss

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Speaker 1: and things of that and things people under I think

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Speaker 1: the tackle for a lost thing is kind of underestimated.

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Speaker 1: So last year, last year the Steelers finished uh I

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Speaker 1: think it was ninety four tackles for a loss that

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Speaker 1: was second most in the league. This year right now

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Speaker 1: they have thirty four, which is twelve most in the league.

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Speaker 1: Because you take what and the run defense has been better.

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Speaker 1: I mean that could be twelve drives different ten drives

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Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, you know, the first and

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Speaker 1: ten runs that obviously you know you dropped somebody for

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Speaker 1: a two yard loss, not second and twelve. Now you

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Speaker 1: can rush the passer, like I mentioned fantasy, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: in a ton of leagues that are deep rosters, and

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Speaker 1: the Steeler d's out there, you know, I'm like, I'm

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Speaker 1: grabbing him left and right this week, like, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and the schedule is easier, That's what I mean. Like

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Speaker 1: knowing what they had to face and who they had

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Speaker 1: to face them with the numbers, the production, I think

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Speaker 1: on that side of the ball, we're gonna be dramatically.

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Speaker 1: We've been saying this for a month though. Like folks,

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Speaker 1: Now they put them in against that stretch of teams? Wow,

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Speaker 1: why are they playing so? Why are they playing so badly?

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Speaker 1: Why is it Pickings playing better? Like camp is gonna

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Speaker 1: have you have the fruits of your labor after that. Again,

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Speaker 1: if the second half of season is a disaster, if

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Speaker 1: tons will change dramatically, But this is kind of what

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Speaker 1: be three or four. You're not right by you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the where it goes. And they're in a buy now.

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Speaker 1: But if the second half isn't fruitful and better, I'll

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Speaker 1: be highly critical. Yeah and again five of those games

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Speaker 1: have to do that. Yeah, you'd like to see uh,

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Speaker 1: well again, I think you get what back makes a

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Speaker 1: but what's what's road numbers last year? He like he

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Speaker 1: games last year. Yeah, well I didn't know that. So interesting. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: that good stuff. I would think, but that's not been

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Speaker 1: would be nice to see. Yeah, you can now listen

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