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Speaker 3: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lowing. He

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Speaker 3: is the Matt Williamson. It is a Thursday here in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 3: the beautiful Thursday. We're a couple of days away from

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Speaker 3: the Steelers' home opener against the Los Angeles Chargers, and

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Speaker 3: we're getting some more clarity on some things here. One

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Speaker 3: thing we're not getting clarity on Matt yep, justin Herbert's situation.

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Speaker 3: Did not practice yesterday, was limited today. Remember they're on

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Speaker 3: the East Coat folks, they're on the East coast, so

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Speaker 3: they don't have their regular training facilities available. This is

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Speaker 3: concerning for the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: It's an issue. It's a lot of don't worry about it.

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Speaker 1: He'll be fine, blah blah blah. I was listening to

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Speaker 1: something this morning, and I guess betting is starting to

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Speaker 1: sway towards Herbert not playing. I bet you know, and

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Speaker 1: those folks in the desert usually know stuff. You know.

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Speaker 1: Those palaces aren't built because they're bad at their jobs.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's playing or not. I'm not

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Speaker 1: implying that I have this secret knowledge or that Vegas knows,

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Speaker 1: but it's something. Yeah, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 3: Definitely something to keep track of.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: I expect him to at least get a limited practice Friday, and.

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Speaker 1: If I'm harbor, I'm at least calling him a game

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Speaker 1: time to say, right too.

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Speaker 3: That's why I was going with that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, so.

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Speaker 3: You know, just to keep the Steelers guessing a little

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Speaker 3: at this, I'm going, do I really want my quarterback?

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Speaker 3: Who is the best thing that we have going for

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Speaker 1: It's an ankle, right, Yeah, okay, he's.

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Speaker 3: The best thing we have going for us on offense.

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Speaker 3: Do I want him out there in a less and

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Speaker 1: Remember he had the planner fasciitis. Yeah, and that might

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Speaker 1: it's never a non issue. You know that it always

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Speaker 1: bet he's still feeling that. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 3: That and a big part of their offense in terms

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Speaker 3: of they want to run the football, But how much

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Speaker 3: the quarterback has he needs his mobility to be able

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Speaker 3: lot of that stuff is out on the edge with

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Speaker 1: Yep, it absolutely does. And play action games obviously a

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Speaker 1: part of their offense as well as everybody else's and

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's happening this time.

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Speaker 1: I would think that's probably off the table. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's and Herbert's not that kind of runner. But

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: He's not immobile, but no, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. I don't know if he's going to play

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the that's the big thing here. And to me,

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Speaker 3: that's the great equalizer that might give the Steelers an

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, they're really not.

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Speaker 3: And if he is compromised, that advantage that they have

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Speaker 1: Agreed, And even just watching their two games, I think

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Speaker 3: I wonder how much he missed the entire preseason with

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Speaker 1: I would bet a thousand dollars a day because somebody

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Speaker 3: Some of the throws I saw him make and the

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Speaker 3: then you look at the numbers. He's two of five

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Speaker 1: That's that's also not him.

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Speaker 3: For four for thirteen on throws ten or more yards

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and his body of work implies he's excellent in

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Speaker 3: It makes me wonder if if the reason why the

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Speaker 1: But like the Steelers, they haven't needed him to be

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Speaker 3: But I wonder if some of the reason for that

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me one bit, wouldn't you know. I think

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Speaker 1: The big thing I've been harping on all week is

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Speaker 1: I've said the biggest advantage from this point of view

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Speaker 3: Their biggest advantage is quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Right, and if that advantage isn't quite as strong against

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have the advantage, right. Joey Bosa limited

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Speaker 3: again today with that hip injury. He played through that

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Speaker 1: I would think they rotate the guys in behind him

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Speaker 3: That makes me wonder if maybe they won't be able

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Speaker 3: I mean the Steelers tried to bring him back here,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he saw a bad player at all.

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Speaker 3: That's two days in a row he has been limited.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Tight End Hayden Hurst with the ankle limited for

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Speaker 1: No, he's been compromised too. Yeah. I think they wanted

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Speaker 1: How do you have a fib I? Guess it's a

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Speaker 3: Some type or continual h On the Steelers side of things,

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Speaker 3: it looks much better today than it did yesterday. Russell

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Speaker 3: Wilson limited again today. He's not playing this week. We

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Speaker 3: He's getting better and getting closer, but he's not gonna

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Speaker 3: pay no. Roman Wilson was a full participant today after

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Speaker 1: Good. I still would be shocked if he gets a hat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would too.

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Speaker 3: Ogunjobi cam Hayward got the veterans day off today. They rotate, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Not looking great for either one of those. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would think both those guys don't play or Wilson.

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Speaker 3: Russell matt if If Michael Pruitt can't go, mm hmm,

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Speaker 3: he's been a big part of their of their twelve packages.

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry, Friarmuth hasn't been out there at all in

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Speaker 3: any of the twelve person's odds.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but Prue plays a lot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they want they use I and Washington in

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Speaker 3: that twelve personnel package. You're really it's like putting extra

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Speaker 3: Over the years, we've seen the Steelers struggle against running quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're the best two guys on the field

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Speaker 3: Just we've seen him run. He's run the ball twenty

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're not going to shy away, yeah, where

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Speaker 1: a lot of Starbucks take enough punishment as it is.

439
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Speaker 1: You know, they don't need to be doing that, or

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Speaker 1: they choose not to.

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Speaker 4: How do you.

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Speaker 3: Think the Chargers will treat the Steelers passing game? They're

443
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Speaker 3: gonna you think the double George Pickens and try to

444
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Speaker 3: walk there when James down on friar Mouth. I don't know,

445
00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 3: fifteen snaps in the slot this year, right.

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Speaker 1: The more I think about it, though, the more I

447
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Speaker 1: think Pickens has a monster game, because no matter what,

448
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be as hard as to roll or certain. Yeah,

449
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Speaker 1: and he kind of had monster games against them that

450
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Speaker 1: just didn't show up on the stat sheet. And the

451
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Speaker 1: eyeball test is extremely favorable. As you mentioned, about a

452
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Speaker 1: third of his snaps or out of the slot. They're

453
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Speaker 1: game planning them up a lot. I don't think anyone's

454
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Speaker 1: gonna follow him in this situation. Of course, they're going

455
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Speaker 1: to do their best to bracket him or favor his

456
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Speaker 1: side or keep a safety over the top. I think

457
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Speaker 1: he blows up in this one. I mean, maybe they

458
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Speaker 1: only throw the ball twenty times again, but I think

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Speaker 1: he has a really good game.

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Speaker 3: I think the difference this week and only can.

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Speaker 1: Get away with either one of these teams throwing it

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Speaker 1: twenty times a game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: When I look at the.

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Speaker 3: The Chargers cornerbacks real big, No, they're not, They absolutely aren't.

466
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Speaker 3: You know, Samuel is a good cornerback, as you mentioned,

467
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Speaker 3: but you know he's five ten. The guys, the guys

468
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Speaker 3: that pick and has just face.

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Speaker 1: That's why he was the second round picked on from Yeah,

470
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Speaker 1: because he was a little.

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Speaker 3: It was not the super long like six to one, yeah,

472
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Speaker 3: certain six one. Yeah, this is a smaller cornerback. Yeah,

473
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Speaker 3: he's a really good player.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's tough like his dad and you can

475
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Speaker 1: tell he grew up around it and would love him

476
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Speaker 1: if he was here. Yeah, I don't think they follow

477
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Speaker 1: with him, and he's not super long. You know, he's

478
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Speaker 1: not the proto type first round guy. I think he

479
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Speaker 1: ran like a four four nine or four or five

480
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Speaker 1: flat or something. It wasn't a burner, but even fault

481
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Speaker 1: in the other guy's five to eleven. Yeah, so they're okay,

482
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Speaker 1: yeah right under tiny, but they're not huge. Yeah. I

483
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Speaker 1: like their safety tandem. We've talked about it quite a bit,

484
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Speaker 1: and James is huge, but neither ones are true free.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, James plays that position, but that's not

486
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Speaker 3: really what he.

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Speaker 1: He came in the league as a box safety Cam

488
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Speaker 1: Chancellor type, you know when that is a big fad.

489
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Speaker 1: And Gilman's good, He's good at everything, but neither one

490
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Speaker 1: I would say has extreme deep range.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ball hawking right right right.

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Speaker 1: Like if you're gonna leave Gilman to pick inside, sure,

493
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Speaker 1: you know, but that doesn't mean he's gonna Edrid Minka.

494
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Speaker 1: It's you know, in the deep balls a ton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's gonna be an interesting matchup in that respect,

496
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Speaker 3: and how they how they try to attack that because

497
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Speaker 3: their their defense this year, seventeen targets in the first

498
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Speaker 3: two games to.

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Speaker 1: Tight ends against them.

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Speaker 3: Against him, they've allowed thirteen completions. So Fiarmouth could eat

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Speaker 3: this one.

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Speaker 1: Well. Bowers is a guy that's been featured like crazy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they played Carolina, doesn't anybody week one? He

504
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Speaker 3: really didn't Yeah, blow up right right?

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Speaker 4: You know?

506
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Speaker 3: Bowers blew up last week against Baltimore.

507
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Speaker 1: And Carolina doesn't don't have it, you know, they don't

508
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Speaker 1: have a.

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Speaker 3: Great tight end, and they were still able to complete

510
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Speaker 3: some passes to the tight ends.

511
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Speaker 1: And we certainly know there's gonna be tight ends on

512
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Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, I mean a lot of them, a

513
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Speaker 1: lot of them. Like to this extreme. I mean, Steelers

514
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Speaker 1: play fourteen personnel. We don't say those words very often.

515
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Speaker 1: One back four tight ends.

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Speaker 3: They could actually play fifteen personnel this year if somehow

517
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Speaker 3: Michael Prewitt made it back because they have five active

518
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Speaker 3: tight ends on.

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Speaker 1: The Mersey count Jones as a tight end because he's

520
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Speaker 1: lining up in a tight end spot if they actually

521
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Speaker 1: do that stuff. But anyway, fifteen would be one to

522
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Speaker 1: you get a legal, you get a flag for that.

523
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Speaker 1: That's a quarter right, Yeah, but you don't even need

524
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Speaker 1: a back a few fields anyway. They lead the league

525
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Speaker 1: in fourteen personnel, which if you play five snaps a game,

526
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Speaker 1: you're gonna lead the league. Yeah, But they also lead

527
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Speaker 1: the league in thirteen personnel with three on the field,

528
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Speaker 1: and they're tenth and twelve. Like, that's a lot of

529
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Speaker 1: tight ends. That's a lot of tight end And.

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Speaker 3: The Chargers are up there as well until they twelve.

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Speaker 1: There absolutely are. Yeah, and their tight ends are fine,

532
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Speaker 1: but they're not great.

533
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not. They're not special in any waste shape

534
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Speaker 3: or form.

535
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Speaker 1: Well, he's the blocker and he's only run a route

536
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Speaker 1: like on twenty or thirty percent of the dropbacks. Hurst

537
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Speaker 1: is the receiver. But none of you have Hayden Hurst

538
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Speaker 1: in your fantasy league. Yeah, he's questionable. Yeah, and then

539
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: Will Disley's he's a walker, Yeah, he's a walker.

540
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, Eric, Tomlinson and Stone's smarter.

541
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Speaker 1: The other two guys I think about smart, but Tomlinson

542
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Speaker 1: sees the field some, you know, because they play a

543
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Speaker 1: lot of tight ends too, So it's going.

544
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Speaker 3: To be interesting. I'm fascinated by the matchup because it's

545
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 3: just so mirror image.

546
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Speaker 1: A lot of it, Yeah, a lot of it. Except

547
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: they have holes.

548
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 3: Except they have more holes than the Steelers do.

549
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Speaker 1: And Seers have more of a quarterback question and you know,

550
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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of similarities. I don't see

551
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Speaker 1: a number one receiver in their group. No, but I

552
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Speaker 1: might take Mconkie, Palmer, Johnston over Jefferson. But I'll take

553
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Speaker 1: Pickens overall three those guys by a landslide.

554
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Speaker 3: And as I said yesterday for our most probably the

555
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Speaker 3: second most talented pass catcher on the field.

556
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Speaker 1: Probably in this game. Yeah, or talented, who knows, but

557
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Speaker 1: definitely accomplished. Yeah. Well, you know it's better at this job,

558
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Johnston's talent, and he's big

559
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: and fast, but he's kind of wrong. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I wonder too if how much the Steelers do they

561
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Speaker 3: do They have Joey Porter Junior.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll put him on Johnston or not.

563
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Speaker 3: It's a good physical matchup.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be mconkey. No, he's a ball.

565
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Speaker 3: Right, Palmer may not even play at this point, right, right, right,

566
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Speaker 3: and then and then you're looking at uh, I mean,

567
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Speaker 3: who are their backups, Darius Davis, Simmi Fajoco, Brendan Rice,

568
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Speaker 3: I mean young guys, DJ sharks On.

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Speaker 1: I are okay. I mean, they're not going to put

570
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Speaker 1: a third receiver out there. Palmer's banged up. I'd consider

571
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Speaker 1: putting them on Johnston though. He's got nineteen targets in

572
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Speaker 1: the first two games. Yeah, so he has been active.

573
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,120
Speaker 1: It's a much easier test than London or even Sutton. Yeah,

574
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Speaker 1: like he may not catch a ball.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you take that away, right, if.

576
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Speaker 1: You're really playing ten on ten, Joey, you got him

577
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Speaker 1: because physically that's the type of receiver they usually put

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Speaker 1: him on. I mean, he's a first round pick that

579
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: looks like a first round pick. Yeah. Wow, it looks

580
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Speaker 1: apart fast. But I think Porter would eat his launch.

581
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: Yeah I do too. Yeah, I just it might be

582
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: worth it. Yeah, just for that matter, yeah matter, yeah. Yeah,

583
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: maybe not every snap, but a high percentage of them.

584
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're

585
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Speaker 3: listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network,

586
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Speaker 3: and of course you can hear us on these very

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589
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Speaker 3: app and listen to the show on there, watch us

590
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Speaker 3: on YouTube. Yeah, of course we're on Fox Sports Pittsburgh

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Speaker 3: here as well. In Pittsburgh. We're gonna get to a break.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, we're expected to be joined by

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Speaker 3: Steelers defensive tackle Montrevius Adams. You won't want to miss that.

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Speaker 3: Mont Adams is a good one. We'll be back with

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Speaker 3: more right after this.

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Speaker 2: At This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the

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Speaker 2: Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio, and.

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Speaker 3: We are back. I am Dale Lalli. He is the

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Speaker 3: Matt Williamson and we're still waiting the call from mont Adams.

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Speaker 3: He is calling through now all right Montrevious? Are you there?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir? No? Right?

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Speaker 3: Oh there you go. How you doing, Montrevious?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Off to a good start this year, not just as

606
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 3: the defense as a whole, but but yourself as well.

607
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 3: This defensive rotation up front, the defensive line, Uh deep,

608
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Speaker 3: talented and uh man, you guys, you guys get after it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Man, I think we've got a great group together. Man,

610
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 4: we work way together and we're just trying to grow

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Speaker 4: and keep continuing through fifth.

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Speaker 1: You've you've you've obviously lined up against Zach Frasier many times.

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Speaker 1: How's the rook doing for himself? What's he like to

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Speaker 1: go against?

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Speaker 4: Man? I think it's fun, you know, me being in

616
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Speaker 4: a different position, being the older guy. I think he

617
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 4: takes in all the criticisms. I think he takes in

618
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Speaker 4: all the advice, and I think he just calls the work.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. God, it tried to just

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Speaker 4: come and get better every day.

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Speaker 3: Mon Trevious, I talked to you. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: you remember this one or not. I talked to you

623
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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago in the locker room and

624
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Speaker 3: we were talking about kind of your your your transition

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Speaker 3: to the progression of your career, and you told me

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Speaker 3: that you felt it took a few years for you

627
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Speaker 3: to understand your Your coaches in college would tell you

628
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Speaker 3: about hand placement and and because you were so uber

629
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Speaker 3: talented in college, you didn't really need to worry about

630
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Speaker 3: that stuff. But as you've gotten older here, you've learned

631
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Speaker 3: how to utilize the hand placement and the leverage and

632
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 3: things of that nature. Do you feel like this is

633
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Speaker 3: the best version of you that you're putting out there

634
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Speaker 3: right now at twenty nine?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, I definitely, I definitely do. And I think

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Speaker 4: with more opportunities that, uh, I still got a good

637
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Speaker 4: bid to show.

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00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 3: Did did Kim Hayward fight? You had offer that sack

639
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 3: in the in the opener you guys. I thought I

640
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: thought you guys were going to share that one, but

641
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 3: you got full credit for it, And uh, it was

642
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 3: like a race to the quarterback.

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Speaker 4: A man definitely a race to the quarterback. But uh no,

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Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think Cam want to do that, man,

645
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 4: But uh no, we are we are good man, We're

646
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 4: just we're just coming to work.

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Speaker 1: To work first one, get it, Dyale mention. You're now

648
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Speaker 1: now twenty nine years old. You've been in the league

649
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Speaker 1: of a good stint, and I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: our listeners look at the nose tackle position is just

651
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Speaker 1: a guy that eats up double teams and eats up locks,

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Speaker 1: And I think it's far from it. I mean, how's

653
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Speaker 1: the nose tackle position changed since you've been in the league.

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Speaker 4: Man, We we're definitely not as it'd be. We're we're

655
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Speaker 4: I think we're a little more athletic, a little faster.

656
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Speaker 4: Oh man. I just think they use it. They utilize

657
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Speaker 4: us differently. They like I feel like our the noses

658
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Speaker 4: can be an except and in the league, do they.

659
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Speaker 3: We we've already seen Uh go ahead, I'm sorry.

660
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Speaker 4: You got it, you gotta.

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Speaker 3: We've already seen some of that explosion from you up

662
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Speaker 3: the field this year already. As I mentioned, you got

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Speaker 3: to sack against the Falcons. But you're a guy that

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Speaker 3: that that does get that penetration up front. Have you

665
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Speaker 3: seen teams start to play you a little bit differently.

666
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Speaker 3: Are you getting more double teams and things of that nature?

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Speaker 4: You know, I try to tell myself that I'm not,

668
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Speaker 4: but I do feel like I've been getting more teams,

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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But uh, I do think

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Speaker 4: as well as getting them with my opportunities, I feel

671
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Speaker 4: like I've been winning most and uh you know, I

672
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Speaker 4: think you just got to do it faster, especially with

673
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Speaker 4: how the qv is getting the ball out. But uh, man,

674
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 4: you gotta do what you gotta do. But yeah, I definitely,

675
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 4: I definitely think.

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Speaker 3: So you mentioned that the team's getting the ball out quickly,

677
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Speaker 3: and obviously they want to do that against your defense

678
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Speaker 3: because of the guys, the two guys you have on

679
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Speaker 3: the edge there. Does that make it even more incumbent

680
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Speaker 3: upon you guys in the interior to win and win quick?

681
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, man, could see if I if I don't

682
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 4: win about three seconds, man, teach, they come to her

683
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Speaker 4: many they gonna be there. Man. So if we don't

684
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Speaker 4: get it quick, you know who gonna get it? You know,

685
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Speaker 4: if now they didn't make you a job harder, because

686
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like I'm gonna be

687
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Speaker 4: happy as long as we get the tack and get

688
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Speaker 4: to win. But uh, you know, for as far as

689
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Speaker 4: yourself and goals you have for yourself, man, you better

690
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 4: you better be fair.

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Speaker 1: Have you played against Justin Herbert before and what kind

692
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Speaker 1: of challenges he present?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't think I have played against her I

694
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Speaker 4: felt like last time I played them, I was they

695
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 4: still had Philip Rivers. But what I would say, I

696
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 4: think having the new coaches around, I feel like it

697
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 4: has upgraded him, you know what I mean? Just from

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Speaker 4: from uh, I guess like little bad decisions. I think

699
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Speaker 4: they running the ball pretty well, and I just think

700
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Speaker 4: it's gonna come down to like us getting pressure on

701
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Speaker 4: the quarterback in the back end, also coming down to tackle.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned that because at the end of the day,

703
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Speaker 4: I feel like the first thing we got to do

704
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Speaker 4: is stop the run. So I don't think there's one

705
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 4: of the games where it's like, hey, d line, like

706
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Speaker 4: we gotta stop the run. I think this game is

707
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Speaker 4: one of the ones because I feel like they run

708
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Speaker 4: outside a little bit. I feel like this is one

709
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Speaker 4: of the ones where like it's gonna be all eleven,

710
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Speaker 4: like outside corner might have to tackle outside back of

711
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Speaker 4: linebacker to the safety. Like, I feel like we're gonna

712
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Speaker 4: kind of need everybody, and you know, once it turned

713
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 4: the game turned one Dimssio. I mean, everybody kind of

714
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 4: knows who the Steelers are.

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Speaker 3: Our guest is Steelers nose tackle Montrevius Adams and and mine.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned that that new coaching staff there, it's obviously

717
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Speaker 3: an offensive system that comes over from Baltimore. Do you

718
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Speaker 3: see a lot of similarities there with what with what

719
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Speaker 3: the Chargers are running, with what the Obviously there's no

720
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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson there, but the running backs are.

721
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Speaker 4: I would definitely say it's a it's a good bit

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Speaker 4: of similarities. I can't really say a lot about it,

723
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Speaker 4: but uh, definitely some some some similarities. When we were talking,

724
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Speaker 4: some similarities just from being at Michigan, you know what

725
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Speaker 4: I'm saying. They were still a run, run the ball

726
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Speaker 4: first team and the different schemes of running. I feel

727
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Speaker 4: like he still runs some of that stuff that he did,

728
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Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying back to the league, but

729
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 4: I definitely would say some similarities.

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Speaker 3: When we were talking to Cam earlier today, he said,

731
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Speaker 3: this is not a game We're gonna be worried too

732
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Speaker 3: much about the dime package. Uh yeah, do you have to?

733
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Speaker 3: It's just a as Mike Tomlin might call it a

734
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Speaker 3: kind of a tooth chipper game that you know they

735
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Speaker 3: want to run the ball. You guys know you want

736
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Speaker 3: to stop the run, and it's just strength against strength.

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Speaker 4: Definitely. I definitely think that's what this week is. Scrint

738
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Speaker 4: against scrint, and I think will win that battle wins

739
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Speaker 4: the game.

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Speaker 1: How psyched are you for the home opener see the

741
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Speaker 1: home crowd?

742
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Speaker 4: Oh? Man, very I think it would be a little

743
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 4: different this year, just because you know me personally, like

744
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, me and my family, Like

745
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 4: my family won't be in town, but as everything is, like, man,

746
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be great, very excited, and I know everybody

747
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 4: else is.

748
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 3: We want absolutely this is the only matchup this week

749
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 3: with two undefeated teams in the NFL, so it's going

750
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 3: to be one of the marquee matchups that everybody's gonna

751
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 3: want to see and good measuring stick for both teams

752
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 3: to see exactly where you're at early in the season

753
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 3: against another good opponent. But mom, we'll let you go.

754
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Speaker 3: I appreciate you calling in and good luck on Sunday.

755
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Speaker 4: Thank you. I definitely appreciate it.

756
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: That was Montrevius Adam Steelers defensive tackle and really playing

757
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 3: well and has played well the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, We've talked about that a lot this offseason that

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00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: I was happy to see him come back. I thought

760
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: he was a valuable contributor last year and it seems

761
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: to be picking up right where he left off. I mean,

762
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Speaker 1: he's a really good rotational piece.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, but we're gonna get to break He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lelly. You're listening to the Drive here

765
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I will be

766
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Speaker 3: back with more right after.

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Speaker 2: This with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on your twenty

768
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 2: four to seven home of the Black and Gold Steelers

769
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Speaker 2: Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI.

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Speaker 1: He is the Matt.

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Speaker 3: Williamson and Matt. Earlier today on ESPN, I think it

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Speaker 3: was earlier today, mel kiper Junior went on and advocated

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Speaker 3: for the NFL because points score points are down, and

775
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 3: big plays are down and all that stuff, to outlaw

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00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 3: the cover two defense. First of all, how the hell

777
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 3: would you outlaw?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: That?

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Speaker 3: Secondly, how could you? Why would you outlaw a defense

781
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Speaker 3: that's been played in the NFL for years.

782
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Speaker 1: For since I've been knowing anything about the game at all.

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Speaker 3: It's very the most base of base defenses, yep, that

784
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 3: you can't take that out of the game.

785
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Speaker 1: So I was actually, we were down to the facility today

786
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Speaker 1: and I was waiting for you at lunch too. And

787
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Speaker 1: if he was talking about it on his show, and

788
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's just reacting to mel Or.

789
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Speaker 1: I wasn't paying that much attention, but I assume that's

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Speaker 1: what happens. And I just saw the headlines. I wasn't

791
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Speaker 1: really listening to the words come in his mouth. I'm like,

792
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Speaker 1: what on earth are you talking about? You know, like

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Speaker 1: for example, at the Senior Bowl, I think this is

794
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: still the rule. It's only allowed to play cover too,

795
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like this is and I

796
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: understand what they what I don't understand. But the league

797
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: is having a massive crisis is a strong word. Lack

798
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: of explosive plays. Passing yards are super far down, points

799
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Speaker 1: are down, Excitement is down, I guess in terms of

800
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: fantasy and big plays and all. Yeah, yeah, and that's

801
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Speaker 1: all swell, and they don't want to allow holding and

802
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: things like that or help the offense too much. And

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00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: the kickoff rule hasn't benefited the offense at all, really,

804
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: because all those numbers are down from last year. But

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Speaker 1: that's foolish. I mean, what we're talking about. You can't

806
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: play this coverage, yeah, is if refs don't have enough

807
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: on their plate to begin with, and they're gonna start

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Speaker 1: throwing flags or cover.

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Speaker 3: Two as if defenses don't have enough to work you know.

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Speaker 1: Right right, you can only play man, right, what are

811
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Speaker 1: you talking about?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it. The biggest issue I think with

813
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 3: scoring being down is twofold. We've got a lot of

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Speaker 3: young quarterbacks playing in today's game, yep, a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: A lot and a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of these guys are young running quarterbacks, because that's what

817
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Speaker 3: everybody wants, now, sure, And let's look at Justin Field's

818
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,919
Speaker 3: career just in a nutshell here, if you look at

819
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: Justin Field's progression from year one to year two to

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Speaker 3: year three to now year four, his first season, he

821
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Speaker 3: completed fifty eight point nine percent of his passes. The

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Speaker 3: next season was sixty point four, so a little bit better.

823
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Speaker 3: Year three was sixty one point four, so even a

824
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 3: little bit better. Than it had been.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's progress.

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Speaker 3: Now he's completing sixty nine point eight per so.

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Speaker 1: Here is by far as best. Yeah. I mean it's

828
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Speaker 1: like ten points better than his career average. Now, I

829
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Speaker 1: think there's a lot to unpack here. I always always

830
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: always go back to the route to me is D

831
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: linemen are better than O linemen. Yeah, And I think

832
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Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why athletic quarterbacks have become

833
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: more in vogue, because you got to get away from

834
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Speaker 1: Bosa and mac and high Smith.

835
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Speaker 3: If you're sitting pocket, you're sitting.

836
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: Duck, right, So therefore you get more athletes.

837
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 3: Unless you're Tom Brady and you just you process things

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00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: and that's regulars and.

839
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Speaker 1: It takes forty years. You get killed. He was Peyton Manning,

840
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: you know, all these dudes. So the call of ranks

841
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: are giving us a lot of athletic quarterbacks too. But

842
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: they're far from polished passers, right, you know so.

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00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: Because their first thing is one read, it's not their

844
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Speaker 3: take off.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Because one thing that is up drastically this year

846
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Speaker 1: is quarterback rushing yard. And I was even listening to

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Speaker 1: this this morning Jalen Daniels when he's quote pressured, he

848
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: takes off like seventy five or eighty percent of his pressures,

849
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, like doesn't even bother waiting around, you know,

850
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Speaker 1: Like that's probably how I was coached, you know, right,

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00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: I mean, or Washington wouldn't have him out there. I mean,

852
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: so if you're under pressure, take it off and run.

853
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: And that's the best we can do for it.

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00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 3: This five yards, get us ten whatever you can get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeahah. And in turn, if there's more running,

856
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: there's fewer plays. The game gets shortened. And as you know,

857
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: because you did the study on it, penalties are up

858
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: like crazy this year too, which is another problem. And

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00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 1: back to the young quarterback thing. Mike Sando did his study.

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Speaker 1: He does it every year, but he's the one that

861
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: did did the work one year ago. The start of

862
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three season opening day was the youngest

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Speaker 1: group of quarterbacks in like thirty years. Well, everyone only

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Speaker 1: got one year older. And then they infused three rookies,

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Speaker 1: none of who have thrown a touchdown pass.

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Speaker 4: Yet.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers have started justin Fields, who's actually younger than

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Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett. So they got younger at the position.

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Speaker 1: And Wilson didn't start. Yeah, and Rogers did both eight years,

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00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: but he's a year older, you know, so it's still

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Speaker 1: extremely young.

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Speaker 3: If you take Aaron Rodgers out of the equation, right right,

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Speaker 3: I bet it's easily the youngest group.

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Speaker 1: Then you're looking at like Stafford or Cousins or somebody

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00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: like that is the thirty eight year olds, and aren't

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Speaker 1: many of them right now now It used to be

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Speaker 1: a lot of them. And then there's not a lot

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00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: of thirty two year olds. Yeah, that's the problem is

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00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: the Wentz Mariota Winston era. They didn't hurts any Yeah,

880
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 1: there's a bad group of you know, bad draft class

881
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: or it didn't work out.

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Speaker 3: I mean really right now, the middle classes or the

883
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 3: middle tier of the eight in the terms of age,

884
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 3: is now getting to be Mahomes and Allen.

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00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they're hard to hit that. They're twenty eight now,

886
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,959
Speaker 1: right right. So even like Russell Wilson's draft class, luck

887
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: retired or he would be in the mix there. Wilson

888
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: was a really strong candidate two three years ago. Now

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00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him even yet this year. Cousins is

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Speaker 1: in that group. Tannehill's done, you know, and that's when

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00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: the better class is in recent years in that right

892
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: around there. You I mean again, the Wentz and Golf

893
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: was okay, but Winston and Mariota and I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, so you just don't have many thirty something in

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Speaker 3: that twenty eight to thirty two range.

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Speaker 1: Is really lacking. It's like a generation got skipped. Yeah,

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00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: it really is.

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Speaker 3: And so it affects the way teams play offense and

899
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 3: the offensive output overall because you've got all these young guys.

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Speaker 3: The other thing about it, and the reason another reason

901
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 3: teams in my eyes, are running the ball so much

902
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 3: as another trickle down from the college game. How many,

903
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,439
Speaker 3: how many of the when we talk at draft time,

904
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 3: inside linebackers coming out of college are just bulked up

905
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 3: safeties because that's what they need to defend at the

906
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 3: college level, covering big twelve and all that kind of stuff.

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00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: Right, So, now all of a sudden, teams are getting bigger.

908
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: If you're gonna play too high and seven in the

909
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: box and your linebackers are quote every down line back,

910
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: the big safeties, we're gonna push you around. But the problem,

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00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the approach. But in order to

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00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: start a drive at the thirty and end up with

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Speaker 1: a touchdown with that approach, you probably need twelve plays,

914
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: eight plays.

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00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 3: Fifteen time off the clock and if.

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00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: Penalties are up, and then before you know it, left

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Speaker 1: tackle takes a hold and it's third and eight and

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00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: we're not a good passing team and here comes the

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Speaker 1: blitz and thus scoring is down. Yeah, you know, so

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Speaker 1: let's not over.

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Speaker 3: Complicate this by you know, gaming coverages and stuff.

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Speaker 4: Right. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Defense is hard enough to play in this.

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Speaker 1: League, absolutely, and it's done a lot to prohibit defenders

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00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: more so than the other way around for all these reasons.

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Speaker 3: But that's not the answer. No, I don't think so either.

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Speaker 3: He is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lellye. You're listening

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