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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 Lolly here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It is a cold and kind of blustery Tuesday here

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely fall like weather it is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is football season. It's time to get serious here.

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Speaker 1: We've got three games in the books. We've got a

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Speaker 1: home game coming up that's not must win, but one

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Speaker 1: you should probably have to be problematic if you lose.

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Speaker 1: I remember my first my first year on the Beat

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Speaker 1: nine three. I can't remember what the Steelers record was

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Speaker 1: at the time, and I remember asking Bill Kawer that

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Speaker 1: Bill was just a must win game, and I got

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Speaker 1: to look, they don't they don't ever say that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they don't ever say that. I've never playoffs or yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: we're never dead yet. Yeah, they're they're there when they

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Speaker 1: consider them all. You know, you want to win them all,

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Speaker 1: but they're not must win until it's you know, win done.

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Speaker 1: Um anyway, So, but boy, whether you're right, it feels

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Speaker 1: like the autumn wind is a raider today. It certainly does. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: blustery day, I expected to see piglet and poof rolling

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Speaker 1: by UM. Steelers Mike Tomlin having his press conference today

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Speaker 1: because it's a little bit of news out of that

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. Uh, he released his depth chart and uh

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Speaker 1: well montrevious Adams now listed as the starter at nose

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Speaker 1: tackle over Tyson and Lulu, and Tomlin said simply when

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Speaker 1: he was asked, Abody, he's just playing better. I can't

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Speaker 1: argue that due to a couple of little things, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that I can verify that. I said this before,

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Speaker 1: but I was pretty concerned with Hallelululu played like I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to look at and say he's old, he's

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Speaker 1: coming off an injury. But he's old and he's coming

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Speaker 1: off an injury. Yeah. I mean, these guys don't last forever. Um.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just a bad performance or two. Um. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was Cam's best two games either,

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Speaker 1: you know, the last two weeks. UM, not to the

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Speaker 1: degree of Tyson. But that move doesn't really shock me.

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Speaker 1: And I think Adams is played pretty well. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think what you're looking for, if if you're Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: uh is Adams is more of a penetrator. Yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: a little different styles, and I think you're looking for

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Speaker 1: more of those. You know, the Steelers run defense even

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Speaker 1: two or three years ago, um, was predicated more on

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Speaker 1: getting tackles for a loss. You know. Yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: give up four yard carry, a five yard carry, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then they get another four yard carry, but then

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Speaker 1: we knock could drop them for a two yard loss.

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Speaker 1: And now a second twelve where you get a holding

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Speaker 1: penalty something that puts them behind the chaine And now

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Speaker 1: the past rush takes in. Here comes the Blitz package

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Speaker 1: and look out, you know, yeah, paying your ears back

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Speaker 1: and that makes sense. I mean, considering how this team's built,

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Speaker 1: I got no qualms with that at all. Um, maybe

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Speaker 1: this will be a permanent thing, or maybe it won't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the nose doesn't play a

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Speaker 1: ton of snaps anyway. They have the last two weeks,

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Speaker 1: but they probably won't as much going forward. But I

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Speaker 1: think you also want Adams in there as a pass

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Speaker 1: rusher a little bit too. And then I also think

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Speaker 1: it's a good message to the team. You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: bench Cam of course, you know, but nor should you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even implying you should. But hey, no, one's

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Speaker 1: safe here. We're not happy with how things are going.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna play the best people, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's good for the morality team and you know,

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Speaker 1: the awareness of the players looking at the injuries, uh

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Speaker 1: making Fitzpatrick dealing with a concussion. Um that that was

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Speaker 1: kind of new news there. Yes, I didn't remember that

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Speaker 1: happening during the game. He played pretty much every snap.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, he just said he. I guess he

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Speaker 1: showed up on Friday with some symptoms and they tested

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Speaker 1: him and has a concussion. Not that I'm a neurologist

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Speaker 1: or a concussion specialist or anything, but having a long

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Speaker 1: week usually helps. It's very helpful, I would think, right,

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Speaker 1: Pressley Harvon dealing with a bit of a hip issue.

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Speaker 1: So because of that, the Steelers UH signing Jordan Barry

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Speaker 1: to their practice squad. Um, it's kind of nice that

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Speaker 1: he's around though, yea is, especially for the holding aspect

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Speaker 1: of it. Good point. It's a great point, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they need to bring bring him up off the

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Speaker 1: practice squad while you've got a guy who Chris Boswe

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Speaker 1: has worked with, Yeah, right, right, they know each other

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Speaker 1: and this is what bos likes and Okay, they don't

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Speaker 1: have to spend the whole week, you know, taking a

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Speaker 1: thousand snaps and getting that process right. I hope this

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Speaker 1: like it will by the sounds of the you know,

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Speaker 1: think he's got a really bright future. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: deserve to come out. Uh. Then you have Kevin Dotson

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Speaker 1: to hold him back. The bad one is with a

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Speaker 1: Kellow weatherspoon in that hamstring that he injured during the game.

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Speaker 1: That one could force him to miss this game against

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Speaker 1: the Jets. So how do you think that would go?

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Speaker 1: I assume it'd be Wallass and Sutton on the outside,

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Speaker 1: Malecca in the slot, pretty standard where you like, you

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Speaker 1: can play Nora Wood in there too as well. It

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Speaker 1: just depends on what's going on, you know, if Fitzpatrick's

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Speaker 1: assuming Manco would be there. But okay, um, this team

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Speaker 1: is dangerous weapons though they do. Quarterbacks are in flux.

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Speaker 1: I assume it's gonna be Wilson, and that's much different

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Speaker 1: than Flacco. But their three receivers are formidable, and the

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Speaker 1: tight end Conklin is playing a lot and producing, and

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Speaker 1: their backs and catch the ball, so they don't run

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Speaker 1: the ball great, but they have weapons. Yeah, the run

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Speaker 1: defense shouldn't be an issue this week. In fact, you not,

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Speaker 1: you would hope that the Jets run the flip. Try

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Speaker 1: to run the flop. I think that's exactly what you want,

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Speaker 1: you know. I don't know if you notice, but it

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Speaker 1: looks like Bruce Hall is starting to kind of separate

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Speaker 1: a little bit from Carter in terms of usage. I

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Speaker 1: think he's the better player. I think they's kind of

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Speaker 1: brought him along slow. They've been using them like on

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Speaker 1: third downs and goal lines and some of the more

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Speaker 1: pivotal snaps. Although they're splitting snaps still, maybe you'd want

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to look through the Jets eyes is

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Speaker 1: second year quarterback, hasn't played all year. He's got to

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Speaker 1: be rusty. And the Browns, who are a much different

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Speaker 1: run to offense, ran on this team. Maybe we can too.

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Speaker 1: But I think if you're the Steelers, You're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: do it, Yeah, go ahead, right right right. I'm not

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Speaker 1: super worried about the steel run defense. I'm not either.

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Speaker 1: that to me is more indicative of of what they're

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Speaker 1: two games they held the Patriots and you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know the Patriots ran the ball in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: but they ran for a hundred twenty four yards total,

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Speaker 1: right right right, You know that's not more of a

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Speaker 1: wearing down thing. I mean, I just think they need

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Speaker 1: ran for one seventy ish uh and change. They came

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Speaker 1: number one rush offense in the league, with the best

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Speaker 1: a short week after playing a million snaps. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think we should have seen that coming more than

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Speaker 1: we did. I'm kind of mad at myself, to be

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Speaker 1: I just I thought the offense would take more advantage

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Speaker 1: the the the illegal ineligible man downfielder right. Tom was

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Speaker 1: actually asked about that today Jerry do Jerry dool Like

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Speaker 1: asked him. He said, Mike, is is it possible to

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Speaker 1: get a ineligible downfield call on a shovel pass? And

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Speaker 1: he said, well, apparently so, but didn't exactly say, oh,

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Speaker 1: that was a great call. Yeah, it wasn't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was a shovel It wasn't the true screen. It

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Speaker 1: was a shovel pass. Like that's a forward pass. It's

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Speaker 1: i mean from to a guy standing right next to you, like,

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Speaker 1: If he doesn't fall on them, maybe they don't call it.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that, you know, it's a point of emphasis.

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Speaker 1: I doe this. This is a time a week where

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Speaker 1: I really started digging into my stats like a huge nerd.

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Speaker 1: And I tweeted this out before too. And I know

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Speaker 1: people are a little down on the Steelers defense, but

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Speaker 1: if you look at points per drive, the Steelers offense

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Speaker 1: is there's only six teams worse than the Steelers offense.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at points per drive, for the defense,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of drives, right, they're only giving up

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Speaker 1: one point five you know, that doesn't even people don't

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Speaker 1: one point five four points per drive. It's not bad.

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Speaker 1: And which makes it even crazier to me is only

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Speaker 1: really tough spot. So, folks, I'm not super worried about

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Speaker 1: the defense, and they don't have their best player, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll it'll look better here moving forward. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: next few games and he can't they you know, they're

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Speaker 1: a really tough stretch. It's a tough stretch, but it's

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Speaker 1: not you know, it's just harder a month ago. Do

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Speaker 1: Tampa look is is daunting as it did at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Their offense is bad, it's atrocian.

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Speaker 1: They can't run the ball at all. And I wan't

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Speaker 1: say Brady looks beat up, but he doesn't look he's

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Speaker 1: not elevating those around him. Yeah, he's not a guy anymore.

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Speaker 1: And maybe they'll look different with Evans this week, and

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Speaker 1: maybe Godwin's healthy for the Steeler game and who knows,

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Speaker 1: but right now they're troubled. Yeah, their defense is great though. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: the defense is I mean, they're it's very blitz h

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Speaker 1: you know, everything is blitz listening with them. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you can beat the Blitz, you can beat the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and that's gonna be a challenge. They're always

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Speaker 1: hard to run against you via is hard to move.

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Speaker 1: You know, they have a big beef in the middle.

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Speaker 1: Um something else I wanted to talk about as well.

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Speaker 1: Tomlin also talking about. You know, he was asked about

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Speaker 1: other changes. He said, look, I you know, Mr Bisky

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Speaker 1: to me, has gotten better every week. The offensive line

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Speaker 1: has gotten better every week. You know, He's He's like,

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Speaker 1: I feel like the offense has taken steps every week

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Speaker 1: in every game that we played this year. That's why

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Speaker 1: you aren't seeing any changes on the offense, folks. And

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Speaker 1: you're not going to see any changes on the offense

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Speaker 1: as long as as the offense continues to take to

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Speaker 1: make those those those steps there. I know, you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of it. You know that the number you

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Speaker 1: No exactly. Let's say there's some bad teams that didn't

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Speaker 1: get mentioned there that Denver is a disaster Denver's. Denver's

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Speaker 1: Their defense has been really, really good. Not gonna keep

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Speaker 1: fourteenth in d v A. Yeah, it's not as bad

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Speaker 1: as people think. Crazy, as crazy as that sounds, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're just not scoring points. At the end of this stuff,

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Speaker 1: the points are gonna come. Um, you know, let's not

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Speaker 1: forget to Chris Boswell has missed a couple of field

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Speaker 1: to do. It's not like it's not right, but there's

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Speaker 1: about twenty teams that work to do on offense. Yeah.

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