1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Least. He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: on your Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: M H m h. Welcome to the Drive. We do 4 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: lovely Wednesday here in Pittsburgh. It's kind of lovely. Always 5 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: do intro tunes from me for a little Yeah, dude, 6 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the intro, if that's just 7 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: music playing in between the you know, between shows, I 8 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: don't want it. I don't recognize it. You know, we 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: had We've had the same interro music for I don't 10 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: since the creation of the Drive. But yeah, so anyways, Uh, 11 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: it's a Wednesday. Steelers were back on the practice field today. 12 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: We haven't gotten the practice report yet, but I was 13 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: over there. I kind of know who did what, but 14 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: I can't say yet. Hopefully we get the next hour 15 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: and a half or so. We canna chat about it 16 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: a little bit. Absolutely. Uh. I did want to talk 17 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: a little bit about Naja Harris man Um. I don't 18 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: know how you feel, but I feel a little vindicated 19 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: in terms of the uh, never take a running back, 20 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: Never take a running back. The analyt I had people 21 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: coming after me last week on that on on Twitter, 22 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: like oh, you're going these guys should never take the 23 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: running back was supposed to fix the running game. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, 24 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: that's yeah. Excuse me. Anyone who listens to us knew 25 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: we were in favor of it. And that doesn't mean 26 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: as a rule I would take running backs in the 27 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: first round no matter what custances are. You know, be 28 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: the right guy. So I'll be the right guy the 29 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: right situation. The right aren't part of the draft considering 30 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: what else is available. There weren't five other stud offensive 31 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: tackles sitting there or you know what I mean. So, 32 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: and this player also greatly affects the passing game if 33 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: it were a t N who's a good receiver, No, 34 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: you know, because he's not the bell cow. They're trying 35 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: to get physical, and they're trying to make the quarterbacks 36 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 1: life easier. He does all those things. So the fit 37 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: is great for me. Yeah, I agree on um, you know, 38 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: if you're gonna go that route, they should have taken 39 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, or they should have done something else. 40 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: Give me a name, ye, don't just throw that out there. 41 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: They should have taken an offensive linem. They should go 42 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, offensive lineman, offensive lineman, give me names. Yeah, 43 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 1: it'll just make it up and and and don't say, 44 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: well they should have taken Creed Humphrey in the first round. No, yeah, 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: I mean Creed Humphrey in the second round. I'm you know, 46 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: that would have made perfect sense to me. But then 47 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: you're short of tight end, you know. I mean there's 48 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:54,679 Speaker 1: a give and take with all the first round grade 49 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: on Pat Okay, and that makes perfect sense. I mean 50 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: in a draft we've said this over not I mean 51 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: in the draft, for they were chasing tight ends for years, 52 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: for years. There's two of them in this one. One 53 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: of them they had no shot in a million years 54 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: at And there were three running backs and they got 55 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: one of each. So the old line prospects suffered a little. 56 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: But it's not like more in green or losers and 57 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: bombs that aren't have any value at all. You know, 58 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: you can't have everything. All four of those guys are 59 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: playing a lot. I mean, how many teams out there 60 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: can you say the top four picks are contributing on 61 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: a nearly every snap basis. Yea, Naja Harris right now 62 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: is on pace for three hundred and sixty touches this season. 63 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: That would be the most for Steelers players since leviy 64 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: On Bell had four oh six in two thousand sixteen. 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: He led the league that year. Yeah, I'm sure now 66 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is gonna lead the league. He's running onto 67 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: five hundred here. Yeah, I mean especially with the extra game, 68 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,839 Speaker 1: but I mean even in the sixteen game season, he'd 69 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: be set in records. It's bonkers what he's doing. He's 70 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: like sixty sixty carries ahead of the pace that would 71 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: break the all time record. Right as long as he 72 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: stays els sixteen game season, it's the seventeen games, won't 73 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: even Factory doesn't break it in fifty This is like, 74 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: you know, Bonds breaking the home run record in a 75 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four games, Like you can't even you know. 76 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: Or it's like Ruth you know, hitting as many homers 77 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: as five other teams in the league or whatever. Back 78 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: then Gretzky numbers. Here's the he's on pace to catch 79 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: passes Mattea, which would be ten more than Bell's team 80 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: record for a running back of eighty five, also set 81 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: in in the two thousand seventeen So Alvin Kamara is 82 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: probably this is like the second most used receiver in 83 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: the passing game right now in terms of route percentage 84 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: and those type of things. And Kamara to me and 85 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: McCaffrey are elite receiving running backs that have shown us 86 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: this over what three or four year stretch every year. 87 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: If you go pull up, you know Kamara's statue on 88 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: the back of his football card eighty one receptions, eighty 89 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: one receptions, eighty three receptions. Harris is gonna hit that, 90 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: you know, probably in sixteen probably you know, the same level. 91 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: And they're not like there. I mean, one game there 92 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: was a lot of dump offs, but it's not going 93 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 1: to be entirely behind the lines of scrimmage and that 94 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: kind of stuff too. Yeah. Ben Roethlisberger said something interesting 95 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: this morning when he was talking about how do you 96 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: replace Smith Schuster's snaps in the slot? And one of 97 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: it is replies, well, maybe you know, it'll be more 98 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: use of the tight ends of running backs in the slot. 99 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: M hmm. Indeed, Um, let's let's definitely talk more Harris. 100 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: But since we got together yesterday, I finished my stat 101 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: packet that I do every week for the Steelers dot Com. 102 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: And I didn't realize this, but Claypool, as you alluded 103 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: to yesterday, played a very high percentage of snaps when 104 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: the game was all said and done from the slot, 105 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: and had like over seventy yards receiving from the slot. 106 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: You know, so I'm kind of mad at myself. I 107 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: hadn't thought of that as the media answer. But there's 108 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: a lot more too. You know, obviously Harris can handle it. 109 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: Ebron is you know, yeah, you're gonna get You're gonna 110 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: get him with a ton of Penn State. You know, 111 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: Anthony McFarland back here at some point, yeah, you know, 112 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: you want to. They had a plan for him in 113 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: the preseason and field together. They were on the field 114 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: together a lot and then all of a you know, 115 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: then here McFarland gets hurt. And that kind of goes 116 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: out the window. Well you know, now you can, you can. 117 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,840 Speaker 1: You're not gonna put the lodge or snow on the field. 118 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: Right with Harris. McFarland is a different cat. That makes 119 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: things very interesting now because now, okay, you split Harris out, 120 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: put him in the slot, you keep you keep McFarland 121 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: in the backfield, or he's jet motioning or whatever whatever 122 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: it may be. But if you know, if if let's 123 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: say that the opposing defense, you most you get them 124 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: both insidecars. Yeah, okay, you motion Harris over to the slot. 125 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: Who follows him over? Is it a linebacker? Right? Okay, 126 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: then that means we're probably gonna run the ball here 127 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: to the side because Friar Mud or Gentry might be 128 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: lined up in line as well, or you know, he 129 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: got his speed out on the edge. There's a lot 130 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: of versatility there, and it's it's similar to the conversation 131 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: we had about well, is it a good thing when 132 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: Deonte missed that game? Maybe they'll get back to basics 133 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: and heavier football. It's not a good thing to be 134 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: losing Juju, but they've they've built the team pretty darn 135 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: well to handle it. And the other thing I realized 136 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: I did some more digging between now and yesterday and 137 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: today the two games that Deonte and Claypool missed. Washington 138 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: was on the field for like snaps. Yeah, I mean, 139 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: so he's very accustomed, dude, don't. It's not gonna be 140 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: Ray Ray, you know what I mean? Yeah, that that's 141 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: he'll see. He'll see. He'll he'll see an uptick in 142 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: in offensive snaps, but it's not often like the last 143 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: two weeks. But he's Yeah, he's not gonna be playing 144 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: you know, half the snap at that's not gonna happen. Uh, 145 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: They'll figure out other ways to do it. They want 146 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: to put their best guys on the field, and he's 147 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: not one of them. Yeah, I mean, you know, I 148 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: mean he filled in in two games where someone got 149 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: hurt during the game. That's not the same as we're 150 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: gonna plan right right, right, It's as opposed to have 151 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: to play him. I'm not getting on Ray Ray. I mean, 152 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: he brings a spark to the team. But and you know, 153 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: you know, I mean there's something they tried that at 154 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: times in the preseason and training camp, and it's just yeah, yeah, 155 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna work. But to the original point, Harris's touches, 156 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: expansive route tree, I think all those things are here 157 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: to stay, if not grow, especially his route. You know 158 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: that there will be asked with the types of routes 159 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: will be asking him to run. Yeah, I think they're 160 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: just they're just scratching the surface there, and it's it's 161 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: going to continue to grow. And well, I mean, you know, 162 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: I think after the first month of the season, NFL 163 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: dot Com put out a list of the top rookies 164 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: in the league behind Javonte Williams. I have super high 165 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: expectations for Williams, Like, if we get the fantasy segment, 166 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: I'm buying him now because he's about to blow past Gordon. 167 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: But it's not close at this point. Yeah, I mean 168 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: he just saw him on the same football field last week. Now, 169 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: Williams is good. I like Williams, Yeah, but their body 170 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: of work as a professional isn't close. I mean, you 171 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: can't have Williams over Harris. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. 172 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: That's crazy. I mean, no back as a rookie. No, 173 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: I mean there are many. If I were picking rookie 174 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: offensive skilled players right now have been even offensive rookie 175 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: of the year. It's tough right now. Chase is probably 176 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: think he's number one. I think he's number one, But 177 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 1: I think Harris is number two. I do too. I mean, 178 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: Pitts will probably get in the conversation. It's always a quarterback, 179 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: you know, driven thing. And I bet mac Jones gets 180 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 1: more votes than he should because he's a quarterback. I 181 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: don't see any of them doing anything special because he 182 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: doesn't stay. But they're gonna they're gonna be like a 183 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: six win team, you know, well, Lancer fields play enough 184 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: whins all said, and they might win seven. They get 185 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: to play the Dolphins and Jets twice each. You know, 186 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: but the other quarterbacks, Lawrence is actually probably playing the 187 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: best at this point. It's starting to turn a corner. 188 00:09:55,559 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: But the three picnic, you know. No, I put a 189 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: couple of bucks down on Harris to win Rookie of 190 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: the Year a while back, and I bet those odds 191 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: are worse now than they were that he's been. He's 192 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: been over ninety yards and each of the last nine 193 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: total yards and each of the last four games since 194 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: the opener, so and the opening was against it what 195 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: we now knows a very good defense. Yeah. Absolutely, If 196 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: he does that all year long, he's gonna be Rookie 197 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: of the Year. He should be. He'll be in a 198 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: conversation is March. He's gonna keep this up. He's gonna 199 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: eight hundred yards receiving this year, right. I mean, think 200 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: of the names we've mentioned to fellow rookies in the league. 201 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 1: Right now. We have high hopes for Javonte Williams, but 202 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: he hasn't even grabbed the starting job yet. Pitts is 203 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: starting to look like he might be blowing up. The 204 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 1: quarterbacks are predictably struggling, and probably we'll get better throughout 205 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 1: the year and the next year or several. I mean, 206 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen overnight. Lawrence looks better now only 207 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: didn't start season. All the backs from last year, Acres, Dobbins, 208 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, all those guys were weren't factors at this 209 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: point of the season last year. So he's ahead of 210 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: the curve as rookie goes by leaps and bounds. I mean, 211 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: he was the man, and I mean he played every 212 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: snap a week one, every staf, every snap, right, Yeah, 213 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,199 Speaker 1: I just I think he's you know, this is gonna be. 214 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: You know, it's a Sunday night game this week, so 215 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: I don't know how many people nationally have seen him 216 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: play yet watched every snap start to finish. This will 217 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: be and it's a bad defense. Like he can have 218 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 1: a hundred fifty total yards this week. I think he's 219 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: gonna be in that neighborhood. Yeah yeah, I mean without question. 220 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: I mean, like again fantasy, there might be five guys 221 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: that start over him this week, you know, just in 222 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: terms of the total production every week moving forward. Yeah, 223 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: And that's he's been that kind of you know, we 224 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: we talked about that before the season started, you know 225 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 1: what our expectations were. And I was like, all right, 226 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: you know rushing yards and yeah, you know fifty to 227 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: sixty catches, Well you might bump the catches up now. 228 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: I forget last night and something about where he's projected 229 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: in those areas, and I wrote back, like I'll take 230 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: the over on the It was like it was like 231 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: a thousand and fifty yards, you know, a little slow star. 232 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: He's he's now averaging like sixty two rushing yards of game, 233 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: and that's only going to go up. Yeah. I mean 234 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: they haven't had a hundred of rusher in a long 235 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: long time before last week. And I gotta think his 236 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 1: receiving numbers come down a bit because he's got sixteen 237 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: balls on the game, and because he's also running the ball. 238 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna run the ball more. He's not 239 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: gonna care, he's not gonna catch as many. Yes, and 240 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: the hundred percent snapcount thing is great, but we don't 241 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: want that really. I mean, I don't necessarily want Snell 242 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: out there. But if McFarland plays with Harris some and 243 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: maybe has a series of game. That's he's the feature back, 244 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that would be great. Yeah, maybe right right, 245 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: because that's I'll ask it a lot for a guys 246 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 1: ever played seventeen games before. Yeah, you saw you saw 247 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: him cramp up a little bit in the fourth quarter 248 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: of the game on Sunday. He actually they threw back 249 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: to back to him, uh plays to him and I 250 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: saw him. I saw him initially cramp up and he 251 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: kind of he was running away from the press box 252 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: and I saw him stop on his way back over 253 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: and he started like kind of stretching the leg. He's 254 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: that an achilles or is he just cramping up? And 255 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: then when he went down, I was like, but then 256 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: he stayed in the game. Yeah, this was the next 257 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: Then the next the next play is one where he 258 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: went down. He they had him, you know, he didn't 259 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: say anything to anybody. He just went out and ran 260 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: a pass pattern when he slipped coming out of his 261 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: break because the leg was locking up on him a 262 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: little bit and Roethlisberger tried to throw it to him 263 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: the right and maybe it was kind of an awkward play. Yeah, 264 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: it did. It turned whoa bo I was? You know 265 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: what was going on there? He's fighting through an injury, 266 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 1: and Roethlisberger said, hey, he said this morning, he said, 267 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: I told him, like, look, it's okay. If you're cramping up, 268 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: let me know, I won't throw the ball to you 269 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: the right absolutely, can you still have value as a 270 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: decoy here if you if you're not until you get 271 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: to the you know, for this one play or two 272 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: plays or whatever. But to his credit to he's a 273 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: tough guy. He wants to fight through everything. Typical Obama dude, 274 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: super competitor, doesn't want to come up. And it's probably 275 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: something with it because because the Bama stuff right in 276 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: your Obama lose your job? Um, what was I gonna 277 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: say with that? It is just cramps though, right, I mean, 278 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: he was fine, he's fine. I saw he you know, 279 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: he had to keep the red que on it beside 280 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: his name on on the fantasy stuff. No, he's fine, 281 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: He's okay. Yeah, he was just yeah, fair enough. And 282 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: apparently he had he is so well put together, like 283 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: there's not much body fat there. That's cramp easier. They go, 284 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: those guys cramp up, you know, and I'm sure they're 285 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: they're probably talking, you know, with Garrett Chamont this week Okay, 286 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: what can we do to make sure that that doesn't 287 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: happen again? No, absolutely, because we're gonna use you, and 288 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna use you a lot. Forty plush yards total 289 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: of total offense. He would have got another barely played 290 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, right that thought he didnt because I 291 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: was playing against him in fantasy this week and I won. 292 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: It was like two oh one than one. I would 293 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: have been enough to put in trouble. Yeah, I mean, 294 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: he probably would have got at least five or six 295 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: more touches, you know, And I'm not ripping on the 296 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: guys behind them, but the drop off is it's significant. 297 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: And you see the difference, like James Conner has been 298 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: okay this year, like he's he's been productive for the Cardinals. Yeah, 299 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: there's a part time player, but he's abusing three point 300 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: one year as you carry. Is it really that low? Yeah, 301 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: I mean he's done some good things, but yeah, right, 302 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: you know the other guy, and he's better than Snow 303 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: and hush, you know what I mean. I mean there's 304 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: a big gap from Harris to Connor, and there's another 305 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: gap from Connor to the backups here currently. So you 306 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: see the value of that running back. What it means 307 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: to the offense, uh, to be able to just hand 308 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: the ball off and go, okay, there's four yards, there's 309 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: five yards, you know, and you know he falls forward. 310 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: But again, the offensive line plays a part in that 311 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: as well. And of course he did a much better 312 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: job last week. You know, I mentioned yesterday or Monday, 313 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: I can't remember which day now that that they had 314 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: sit on you on the offensive line meetings to talk, 315 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: you know, kind of go, yeah, you mentioned yesterday the 316 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: day before. It's really interesting wondering you know why. It's 317 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: almost like a quarterback meeting. What do you like? What 318 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: are your favorite player? You know, what do you come from? 319 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: Tell us what you like? Yeah, you have some power 320 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: here now you're not gonna do what we tell you. 321 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: Tell us what you want if you think back about it. Um, 322 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: you know Levy on Bell's rookie year, he didn't run 323 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: like he did. He was a totally different beast the 324 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: next year. In the year after that, it's like it 325 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: was more than just losing the weight to the style 326 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: of running, because he didn't run like that. Mission state, 327 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: we're just stopping the hole, trying to matrix things. Yeah, 328 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: you know, so that growth they they looked. It's almost 329 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: like they've accelerated that growth process by having him do that. 330 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: Last I leave some bounds not to mention all the 331 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: the usage and stuff we mentioned compared to other rookies 332 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: and fellow rookies from last year at that position. Um, 333 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: where was I going with this? Just the original thing 334 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: about you know, don't take running backs high. I'm gonna 335 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: throw hypothetical out there. Let's say the Chiefs last year 336 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: didn't take Clyde ed to Hilaire but took Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, like, 337 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 1: I think they took the wrong back. But I don't 338 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: think taking Taylor in that offense, the Chiefs wouldn't be 339 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: two and three, That's my point, or even swift, you know, 340 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: I mean, like, but Taylor in that offense, but you 341 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: know they might be four and one. We're not talking 342 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: about my home struggle a little bit right exactly. They 343 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: took the wrong back or if you put nausea in 344 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: that out and you know that offense, wow, you know, 345 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's like they're you know, when Leonard 346 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: Fournette went third overall, if that had been Christian McCaffrey, 347 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: would anybody have been Nobody's nobody's given the Panthers a 348 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: hard time about it. I mean, frankly, no one's given 349 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 1: Dallas a hard time about it. I mean they took 350 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: Zeke and fifth or something like that. If the back 351 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: is worth it, he's worth it. Yeah, exactly. I mean 352 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,239 Speaker 1: that's a different conversation. Should Cowboys have paid Zeke what 353 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: they did and all those things or I don't know. 354 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: I mean that that to me is a totally different conversation. 355 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: But we don't have to cross that bridge for five 356 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: more years. It looks pretty good this year, right right, 357 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: And they got the quarterback back. Every thing hunky dory. 358 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: Again and again. I always harp on this. I mean, 359 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: whoever the next quarterback is anywhere from a third round 360 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: pick that Aaron Rodgers and anybody in between is gonna 361 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: be sure happy. Naja Harris is that back. It makes 362 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: it more attractive. We haven't talked about this yet. Jay 363 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: Glazer reported over the weekend that Mike Tomlin prefers to 364 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: have a veteran quarterback instead of breaking in a you know, 365 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 1: a young guy here. Um makes perfect sense to me. 366 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: Everything that you do moving forward from this point in 367 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: terms of how that offensive line continues to grow in 368 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 1: terms of, oh boy, what's Naja Harris going to be here? 369 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: In terms of what Chase Claypool and Deante Johnson Hart 370 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: and Pat Fiarmouth, like, you've made a pretty good nest 371 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: here that very you know, if if I'm a veteran 372 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: quarterback and I'm looking at that going, that's not a 373 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: bad situation. Great running back, I got a defense, I 374 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: got a head coach and GM and ownership I trust. 375 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: I mean, if if you're a big free agent in 376 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,959 Speaker 1: any sport, I would start with ownership and stability, you know, 377 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: and all. You know, like if you're a head coach, 378 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: like do I really want to be the head coach 379 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: to Jacks? You know, you want to go to the 380 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: Jets right right? Yeah, they're offering me more money, but 381 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: it's I mean more money fine, you know, but if 382 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: I have some choice in the matter, I'm gonna go 383 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: to a stable environment that's won a lot of games 384 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: in this league, assuming that's what's important to the guy. 385 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: If it isn't, that's not the guy you want anyway. 386 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: And quite frankly, they take it. Let's say they take 387 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: a left tackle or whoever. They take it, even if 388 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 1: he's starting at this point, which looking around the league, 389 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: he probably wouldn't be. Um. Now, I know Dan Moore 390 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: starting for the Steelers. Yeah, you know, like there saw 391 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: and those guys that doesn't move the needle for Oh boy, 392 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 1: they get they get this left tackle twenty third. Overall, 393 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: he's on Orlando Pace or or even Penny soul or 394 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: because even this line, I'm sure there's people I would like, 395 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers or whoever. Why would he ever come play 396 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: behind this line? Well, he's not playing behind this line, 397 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: and we five of two thousand twenty one. He's playing 398 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: behind the line that they create for two thousand twenty two, 399 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: which might look like this line plus the fifteenth pick 400 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: in the draft as the best guard we've ever seen, 401 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: prospect type of guy Quit Nelson like guard or whatever. 402 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: You know. I mean. So if they do go the 403 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: veteran route, I mean again, we're waging ahead of ourselves. 404 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: They eat. You know that you're probably either using cap 405 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: space or draft picks for the for this quarterback, maybe 406 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: both if it's a Rogers like situation, But if it's 407 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: a Rodgers like situation, he makes everybody around him so 408 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: much better. Anyway, you can fix both things. They have 409 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: enough cards in their hand that they can do both. 410 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: It's not like whoever gets here has to play behind 411 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:48,440 Speaker 1: this line now. And I believe definitely three of those 412 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: starters will be better in their second and third years 413 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty two than they are now. We're 414 00:20:54,040 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: already starting exactly. UM. I looked at it thus far 415 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: this season, UM chooks A core four is not giving 416 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: up a sack. Trade, UM trying to think what it was. 417 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: Kendrick Green has not giving up a sack. Both of 418 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: those guys have been penalized four times. In the Green 419 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: it's it's been three holding penalties. Core for hasn't drawn 420 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: a holding penalty this season. His penalties have all been 421 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: pre snap stuff. Uh. Trey Turner's got one sack given up. 422 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 1: He hasn't been called for a holding penalty this year. 423 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,959 Speaker 1: He's been solid. Yeah. Dotson has been called for two 424 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 1: holding penalties. He's given up a sack. Damn Moore has 425 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: given up two sacks, and I think he has holding 426 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:42,360 Speaker 1: penalty or two? Is OK? I mean that's it's when 427 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: when we were talking about that offensive line is what 428 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: we talked about, Like it wasn't one guy that stunk 429 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: better if it was almost right, Yeah, because then you 430 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: could then you could fix it easier. But it's been 431 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: a big picture it's not better that way, you know, 432 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: to let them all grow together. And again, I mean 433 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of resources to fix it 434 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: and might not need as much fixtion. Yeah what you 435 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: thought it was two weeks ago. There's so much. There's 436 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: already starting to shift a little right, right right, And 437 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,719 Speaker 1: here's is part of that. Yeah, and you don't need 438 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: first round picks everywhere, and you know, fifteen million dollar 439 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: guys to win this league be nice, but those guys 440 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: don't grow on trees, you know, and they could go 441 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: get one if they had to. This isn't college football 442 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: where you you get I'm gonna go draft. I'm gonna 443 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: go sign these five in Miami and pick up a 444 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: few tackles rights. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I like where 445 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: they said big picture. It's amazing and it's I felt 446 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: there was a big part of that felt this way 447 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: coming out of the Green Bay game that that you know, 448 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: and we talked about it like, okay, this was what 449 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: you wanted. They didn't win the game, but they showed 450 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: signs of improvement absolutely, especially the line in the Nobody 451 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: wanted to hear that. Fans didn't want to hear. They 452 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: got their They get their butts carrying to pick first 453 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: in the draft, right shot. Now there's tangent. Now there's 454 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: tang will proof. But it was better. That's very true. 455 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: There's not the stats to back it up. There's a win. 456 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: You know, anyone could see it in, you know, on 457 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: the surface. Back to Harris, I mean, if he's not 458 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: consistently getting hit behind the line of scrimmage, he is 459 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: going to rip people up. I mean, it's not gonna 460 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: be Jamal Charles taking an eighty yards, but boy, I mean, 461 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: you get him a little head of steam. And even 462 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: when he gets hit behind the line of scrimmage, he's 463 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 1: one of the better backs in the league at least 464 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: gif line or getting something out of it. So he's 465 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,239 Speaker 1: perfect for this environment. Yeah, you know, I mean, if 466 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: the line's blowing blocks, it's not like it's gonna be 467 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 1: a minus three. You know, run every time it's you know, 468 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: they've they've had it. They have a you know, he 469 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: talked about somebody, your your buddy has a certain type 470 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: as a girlfriend. He's dating a blonde. Every time they're 471 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: backs are the same thing, Like, yeah, they have they 472 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: have a type of backs that they want, and he 473 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: sounds you know he might be the he's more prototypical 474 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: of all of them. Yeah. Really, he's the drawing up 475 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: in a lab as a steeler back for today's NFL. 476 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: There was a time when it was jerome, but they've 477 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: realized you have to have receiver there, you know what 478 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 1: I mean. And he's because he's a big guy that 479 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: catches the ball. He can handle a heavy workload and 480 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: he's drinking handle weather and protection and massive hands. I 481 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,479 Speaker 1: don't I mean just they're like, what like I remember 482 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: when we when we first they brought t J. Wanted 483 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: to introduce introduce him. They brought him over to us 484 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: while we were doing a show. Yeah we're doing you know, 485 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: like you know, shake his hand and like holy macro h. Yeah. 486 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 1: And I'm always blown away with nausea. With the long 487 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: arms too, I mean, it's such and both those things 488 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 1: are such an advantage, not just for stiff arms. But 489 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 1: he has this massive catching radius and I bring it 490 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: up I feel like every week, but you watched every 491 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: every practice and pre preseason and camp, how many balls 492 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: did he catch three feet over his head and you know, 493 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: just just scratching the safe right, that's the common people. 494 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: And maybe now with with Smith Schuster gone, you might 495 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: see more of that. We'll see. Yeah, but yeah, I 496 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: think they can handle this, miss Schuster loss. He's a 497 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: good player. They just can't. What they can't handle was 498 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: a bunch, you know, like what's happened early in the 499 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: season where Okay, Claypool's out of game, and then Johnson's 500 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: out of game, and then Washington mrs. They need all 501 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: those guys too, and Johnson now need to stay health. 502 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: They need to stay healthy. And honestly, if you look 503 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: at it, you know, overall they're getting pretty nice. Maybe 504 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: they don't have the experience of what Seattle has, but 505 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: it's pretty darn close in terms of the skill set 506 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: that they bring to the table. With Johnson and Claypool. 507 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah right, I mean there they have some similarities 508 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: lockt the Metcalf verse Johnson and uh Claypool. If Claypool 509 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: turns into Metcalf, great, yeah look out. But they're not. 510 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: I mean they're in the same Moldy and Frankly, I 511 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: mean this sounds optimistic too. I think Juju's injury just 512 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: stat wise helps Claypool more than anybody, especially if he 513 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: is going to operate out the slot a lot. You know, 514 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: like I just envisioned him after the catch, quick hitters 515 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: go routes from the slot. Juju wasn't gonna go routes 516 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: from the slat or you know, deep skinny point where 517 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: if he did, it was you know, right all right, 518 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: and he overthrew him twice and right. Yeah, So now 519 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: that I'm just like to see where the offense is 520 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: at this week. Yeah, it should be fun and it 521 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: should be a game where they so bad, it's atrocious, 522 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: really really bad. They can't get off the field. But 523 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: we'll talk to labs next, right, Yeah, we'll talk about 524 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: that more with Bob Levy Aldo. We have him in 525 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: the next segment here. 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