WEBVTT - Segment 1: Evaluating Najee Harris through five weeks 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.920 Least. He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:16.920 on your Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:43.239 M H m h. Welcome to the Drive. We do 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.640 lovely Wednesday here in Pittsburgh. It's kind of lovely. Always 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.920 do intro tunes from me for a little Yeah, dude, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:52.559 I don't know if that's the intro, if that's just 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.360 music playing in between the you know, between shows, I 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.960 don't want it. I don't recognize it. You know, we 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.880 had We've had the same interro music for I don't 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:05.520 since the creation of the Drive. But yeah, so anyways, Uh, 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.200 it's a Wednesday. Steelers were back on the practice field today. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.480 We haven't gotten the practice report yet, but I was 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.120 over there. I kind of know who did what, but 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.479 I can't say yet. Hopefully we get the next hour 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:15.960 and a half or so. We canna chat about it 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.200 a little bit. Absolutely. Uh. I did want to talk 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:25.240 a little bit about Naja Harris man Um. I don't 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.240 know how you feel, but I feel a little vindicated 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.120 in terms of the uh, never take a running back, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.360 Never take a running back. The analyt I had people 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.800 coming after me last week on that on on Twitter, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.920 like oh, you're going these guys should never take the 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.040 running back was supposed to fix the running game. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.840 that's yeah. Excuse me. Anyone who listens to us knew 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.320 we were in favor of it. And that doesn't mean 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.760 as a rule I would take running backs in the 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.040 first round no matter what custances are. You know, be 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.680 the right guy. So I'll be the right guy the 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.600 right situation. The right aren't part of the draft considering 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.800 what else is available. There weren't five other stud offensive 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.840 tackles sitting there or you know what I mean. So, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:12.079 and this player also greatly affects the passing game if 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.160 it were a t N who's a good receiver, No, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.079 you know, because he's not the bell cow. They're trying 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.079 to get physical, and they're trying to make the quarterbacks 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.959 life easier. He does all those things. So the fit 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.560 is great for me. Yeah, I agree on um, you know, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.600 if you're gonna go that route, they should have taken 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.720 an offensive lineman, or they should have done something else. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.040 Give me a name, ye, don't just throw that out there. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.760 They should have taken an offensive linem. They should go 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.520 an offensive lineman, offensive lineman, offensive lineman, give me names. Yeah, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.679 it'll just make it up and and and don't say, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.320 well they should have taken Creed Humphrey in the first round. No, yeah, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.240 I mean Creed Humphrey in the second round. I'm you know, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.280 that would have made perfect sense to me. But then 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.880 you're short of tight end, you know. I mean there's 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.679 a give and take with all the first round grade 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.560 on Pat Okay, and that makes perfect sense. I mean 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.360 in a draft we've said this over not I mean 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.520 in the draft, for they were chasing tight ends for years, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.680 for years. There's two of them in this one. One 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.240 of them they had no shot in a million years 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.320 at And there were three running backs and they got 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.520 one of each. So the old line prospects suffered a little. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.440 But it's not like more in green or losers and 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.720 bombs that aren't have any value at all. You know, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.120 you can't have everything. All four of those guys are 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:23.919 playing a lot. I mean, how many teams out there 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.560 can you say the top four picks are contributing on 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.160 a nearly every snap basis. Yea, Naja Harris right now 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.200 is on pace for three hundred and sixty touches this season. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.320 That would be the most for Steelers players since leviy 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.200 On Bell had four oh six in two thousand sixteen. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.520 He led the league that year. Yeah, I'm sure now 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:46.480 Derrick Henry is gonna lead the league. He's running onto 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.240 five hundred here. Yeah, I mean especially with the extra game, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.839 but I mean even in the sixteen game season, he'd 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.920 be set in records. It's bonkers what he's doing. He's 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.120 like sixty sixty carries ahead of the pace that would 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.400 break the all time record. Right as long as he 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.760 stays els sixteen game season, it's the seventeen games, won't 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.800 even Factory doesn't break it in fifty This is like, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.560 you know, Bonds breaking the home run record in a 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.960 hundred and fifty four games, Like you can't even you know. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.120 Or it's like Ruth you know, hitting as many homers 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.600 as five other teams in the league or whatever. Back 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.520 then Gretzky numbers. Here's the he's on pace to catch 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.440 passes Mattea, which would be ten more than Bell's team 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.200 record for a running back of eighty five, also set 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.120 in in the two thousand seventeen So Alvin Kamara is 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.400 probably this is like the second most used receiver in 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.400 the passing game right now in terms of route percentage 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.520 and those type of things. And Kamara to me and 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.080 McCaffrey are elite receiving running backs that have shown us 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.640 this over what three or four year stretch every year. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.160 If you go pull up, you know Kamara's statue on 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.840 the back of his football card eighty one receptions, eighty 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.560 one receptions, eighty three receptions. Harris is gonna hit that, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.440 you know, probably in sixteen probably you know, the same level. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.440 And they're not like there. I mean, one game there 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.080 was a lot of dump offs, but it's not going 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.840 to be entirely behind the lines of scrimmage and that 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.800 kind of stuff too. Yeah. Ben Roethlisberger said something interesting 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.320 this morning when he was talking about how do you 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:25.000 replace Smith Schuster's snaps in the slot? And one of 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.120 it is replies, well, maybe you know, it'll be more 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.200 use of the tight ends of running backs in the slot. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:35.480 M hmm. Indeed, Um, let's let's definitely talk more Harris. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.880 But since we got together yesterday, I finished my stat 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.800 packet that I do every week for the Steelers dot Com. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.400 And I didn't realize this, but Claypool, as you alluded 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.520 to yesterday, played a very high percentage of snaps when 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.760 the game was all said and done from the slot, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.440 and had like over seventy yards receiving from the slot. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.919 You know, so I'm kind of mad at myself. I 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.600 hadn't thought of that as the media answer. But there's 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.760 a lot more too. You know, obviously Harris can handle it. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.480 Ebron is you know, yeah, you're gonna get You're gonna 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.400 get him with a ton of Penn State. You know, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.359 Anthony McFarland back here at some point, yeah, you know, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.359 you want to. They had a plan for him in 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.680 the preseason and field together. They were on the field 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.520 together a lot and then all of a you know, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.000 then here McFarland gets hurt. And that kind of goes 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.080 out the window. Well you know, now you can, you can. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.840 You're not gonna put the lodge or snow on the field. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.000 Right with Harris. McFarland is a different cat. That makes 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.040 things very interesting now because now, okay, you split Harris out, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.839 put him in the slot, you keep you keep McFarland 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.000 in the backfield, or he's jet motioning or whatever whatever 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.680 it may be. But if you know, if if let's 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.960 say that the opposing defense, you most you get them 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.120 both insidecars. Yeah, okay, you motion Harris over to the slot. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.279 Who follows him over? Is it a linebacker? Right? Okay, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.280 then that means we're probably gonna run the ball here 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.880 to the side because Friar Mud or Gentry might be 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.480 lined up in line as well, or you know, he 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.920 got his speed out on the edge. There's a lot 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.960 of versatility there, and it's it's similar to the conversation 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.839 we had about well, is it a good thing when 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.760 Deonte missed that game? Maybe they'll get back to basics 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.920 and heavier football. It's not a good thing to be 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.880 losing Juju, but they've they've built the team pretty darn 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.920 well to handle it. And the other thing I realized 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.480 I did some more digging between now and yesterday and 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:30.400 today the two games that Deonte and Claypool missed. Washington 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.960 was on the field for like snaps. Yeah, I mean, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.560 so he's very accustomed, dude, don't. It's not gonna be 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.840 Ray Ray, you know what I mean? Yeah, that that's 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.760 he'll see. He'll see. He'll he'll see an uptick in 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.480 in offensive snaps, but it's not often like the last 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.280 two weeks. But he's Yeah, he's not gonna be playing 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.120 you know, half the snap at that's not gonna happen. Uh, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.160 They'll figure out other ways to do it. They want 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.200 to put their best guys on the field, and he's 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.880 not one of them. Yeah, I mean, you know, I 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.120 mean he filled in in two games where someone got 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.920 hurt during the game. That's not the same as we're 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.000 gonna plan right right, right, It's as opposed to have 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.280 to play him. I'm not getting on Ray Ray. I mean, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.480 he brings a spark to the team. But and you know, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.240 you know, I mean there's something they tried that at 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.480 times in the preseason and training camp, and it's just yeah, yeah, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.640 I'm not gonna work. But to the original point, Harris's touches, 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.840 expansive route tree, I think all those things are here 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.960 to stay, if not grow, especially his route. You know 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.680 that there will be asked with the types of routes 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.160 will be asking him to run. Yeah, I think they're 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.120 just they're just scratching the surface there, and it's it's 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.760 going to continue to grow. And well, I mean, you know, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.360 I think after the first month of the season, NFL 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.440 dot Com put out a list of the top rookies 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:51.760 in the league behind Javonte Williams. I have super high 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.280 expectations for Williams, Like, if we get the fantasy segment, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.520 I'm buying him now because he's about to blow past Gordon. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.000 But it's not close at this point. Yeah, I mean 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.319 he just saw him on the same football field last week. Now, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.280 Williams is good. I like Williams, Yeah, but their body 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.400 of work as a professional isn't close. I mean, you 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.960 can't have Williams over Harris. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.320 That's crazy. I mean, no back as a rookie. No, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.560 I mean there are many. If I were picking rookie 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.680 offensive skilled players right now have been even offensive rookie 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.480 of the year. It's tough right now. Chase is probably 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.400 think he's number one. I think he's number one, But 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.439 I think Harris is number two. I do too. I mean, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.440 Pitts will probably get in the conversation. It's always a quarterback, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.920 you know, driven thing. And I bet mac Jones gets 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.319 more votes than he should because he's a quarterback. I 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.319 don't see any of them doing anything special because he 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.360 doesn't stay. But they're gonna they're gonna be like a 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.199 six win team, you know, well, Lancer fields play enough 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.280 whins all said, and they might win seven. They get 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.440 to play the Dolphins and Jets twice each. You know, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.440 but the other quarterbacks, Lawrence is actually probably playing the 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.520 best at this point. It's starting to turn a corner. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:10:00.240 But the three picnic, you know. No, I put a 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.160 couple of bucks down on Harris to win Rookie of 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.360 the Year a while back, and I bet those odds 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.360 are worse now than they were that he's been. He's 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.800 been over ninety yards and each of the last nine 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.240 total yards and each of the last four games since 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.320 the opener, so and the opening was against it what 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.440 we now knows a very good defense. Yeah. Absolutely, If 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.800 he does that all year long, he's gonna be Rookie 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.440 of the Year. He should be. He'll be in a 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.680 conversation is March. He's gonna keep this up. He's gonna 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.679 eight hundred yards receiving this year, right. I mean, think 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.200 of the names we've mentioned to fellow rookies in the league. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.320 Right now. We have high hopes for Javonte Williams, but 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.000 he hasn't even grabbed the starting job yet. Pitts is 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.120 starting to look like he might be blowing up. The 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.439 quarterbacks are predictably struggling, and probably we'll get better throughout 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.959 the year and the next year or several. I mean, 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.120 that's not gonna happen overnight. Lawrence looks better now only 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.080 didn't start season. All the backs from last year, Acres, Dobbins, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.680 Taylor Swift, all those guys were weren't factors at this 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.880 point of the season last year. So he's ahead of 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.760 the curve as rookie goes by leaps and bounds. I mean, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.800 he was the man, and I mean he played every 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:10.360 snap a week one, every staf, every snap, right, Yeah, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.199 I just I think he's you know, this is gonna be. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.760 You know, it's a Sunday night game this week, so 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.600 I don't know how many people nationally have seen him 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.319 play yet watched every snap start to finish. This will 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.760 be and it's a bad defense. Like he can have 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.360 a hundred fifty total yards this week. I think he's 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.720 gonna be in that neighborhood. Yeah yeah, I mean without question. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.760 I mean, like again fantasy, there might be five guys 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.400 that start over him this week, you know, just in 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.120 terms of the total production every week moving forward. Yeah, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.600 And that's he's been that kind of you know, we 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.360 we talked about that before the season started, you know 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.079 what our expectations were. And I was like, all right, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:51.719 you know rushing yards and yeah, you know fifty to 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.360 sixty catches, Well you might bump the catches up now. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.199 I forget last night and something about where he's projected 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.760 in those areas, and I wrote back, like I'll take 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.120 the over on the It was like it was like 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.240 a thousand and fifty yards, you know, a little slow star. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.560 He's he's now averaging like sixty two rushing yards of game, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.200 and that's only going to go up. Yeah. I mean 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.800 they haven't had a hundred of rusher in a long 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.280 long time before last week. And I gotta think his 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.559 receiving numbers come down a bit because he's got sixteen 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.600 balls on the game, and because he's also running the ball. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.360 You know, they're gonna run the ball more. He's not 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.920 gonna care, he's not gonna catch as many. Yes, and 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.080 the hundred percent snapcount thing is great, but we don't 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.160 want that really. I mean, I don't necessarily want Snell 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:40.760 out there. But if McFarland plays with Harris some and 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.440 maybe has a series of game. That's he's the feature back, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.560 you know, yeah, that would be great. Yeah, maybe right right, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.720 because that's I'll ask it a lot for a guys 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.079 ever played seventeen games before. Yeah, you saw you saw 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.880 him cramp up a little bit in the fourth quarter 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.200 of the game on Sunday. He actually they threw back 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.440 to back to him, uh plays to him and I 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.199 saw him. I saw him initially cramp up and he 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.640 kind of he was running away from the press box 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.520 and I saw him stop on his way back over 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:15.400 and he started like kind of stretching the leg. He's 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.240 that an achilles or is he just cramping up? And 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.080 then when he went down, I was like, but then 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.920 he stayed in the game. Yeah, this was the next 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.280 Then the next the next play is one where he 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.480 went down. He they had him, you know, he didn't 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.160 say anything to anybody. He just went out and ran 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:30.920 a pass pattern when he slipped coming out of his 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.480 break because the leg was locking up on him a 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.360 little bit and Roethlisberger tried to throw it to him 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.400 the right and maybe it was kind of an awkward play. Yeah, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.960 it did. It turned whoa bo I was? You know 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.280 what was going on there? He's fighting through an injury, 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.959 and Roethlisberger said, hey, he said this morning, he said, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.679 I told him, like, look, it's okay. If you're cramping up, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.560 let me know, I won't throw the ball to you 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.320 the right absolutely, can you still have value as a 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.000 decoy here if you if you're not until you get 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.600 to the you know, for this one play or two 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.360 plays or whatever. But to his credit to he's a 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.280 tough guy. He wants to fight through everything. Typical Obama dude, 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.800 super competitor, doesn't want to come up. And it's probably 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.280 something with it because because the Bama stuff right in 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.640 your Obama lose your job? Um, what was I gonna 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.400 say with that? It is just cramps though, right, I mean, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.600 he was fine, he's fine. I saw he you know, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.680 he had to keep the red que on it beside 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.680 his name on on the fantasy stuff. No, he's fine, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.360 He's okay. Yeah, he was just yeah, fair enough. And 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:31.960 apparently he had he is so well put together, like 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.840 there's not much body fat there. That's cramp easier. They go, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.920 those guys cramp up, you know, and I'm sure they're 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.600 they're probably talking, you know, with Garrett Chamont this week Okay, 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.520 what can we do to make sure that that doesn't 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.720 happen again? No, absolutely, because we're gonna use you, and 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:51.320 we're gonna use you a lot. Forty plush yards total 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.720 of total offense. He would have got another barely played 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.840 the fourth quarter, right that thought he didnt because I 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.760 was playing against him in fantasy this week and I won. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.400 It was like two oh one than one. I would 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.360 have been enough to put in trouble. Yeah, I mean, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.560 he probably would have got at least five or six 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.880 more touches, you know, And I'm not ripping on the 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.560 guys behind them, but the drop off is it's significant. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.360 And you see the difference, like James Conner has been 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.480 okay this year, like he's he's been productive for the Cardinals. Yeah, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.720 there's a part time player, but he's abusing three point 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.560 one year as you carry. Is it really that low? Yeah, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.880 I mean he's done some good things, but yeah, right, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.080 you know the other guy, and he's better than Snow 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.200 and hush, you know what I mean. I mean there's 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.840 a big gap from Harris to Connor, and there's another 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.920 gap from Connor to the backups here currently. So you 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.880 see the value of that running back. What it means 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.760 to the offense, uh, to be able to just hand 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.400 the ball off and go, okay, there's four yards, there's 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.160 five yards, you know, and you know he falls forward. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.760 But again, the offensive line plays a part in that 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.000 as well. And of course he did a much better 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.760 job last week. You know, I mentioned yesterday or Monday, 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.800 I can't remember which day now that that they had 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.520 sit on you on the offensive line meetings to talk, 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.360 you know, kind of go, yeah, you mentioned yesterday the 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.040 day before. It's really interesting wondering you know why. It's 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.720 almost like a quarterback meeting. What do you like? What 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.200 are your favorite player? You know, what do you come from? 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.000 Tell us what you like? Yeah, you have some power 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.080 here now you're not gonna do what we tell you. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.120 Tell us what you want if you think back about it. Um, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.120 you know Levy on Bell's rookie year, he didn't run 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.680 like he did. He was a totally different beast the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.720 next year. In the year after that, it's like it 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.800 was more than just losing the weight to the style 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.720 of running, because he didn't run like that. Mission state, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.400 we're just stopping the hole, trying to matrix things. Yeah, 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.240 you know, so that growth they they looked. It's almost 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.000 like they've accelerated that growth process by having him do that. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.640 Last I leave some bounds not to mention all the 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.000 the usage and stuff we mentioned compared to other rookies 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.600 and fellow rookies from last year at that position. Um, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.640 where was I going with this? Just the original thing 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.360 about you know, don't take running backs high. I'm gonna 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.400 throw hypothetical out there. Let's say the Chiefs last year 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.879 didn't take Clyde ed to Hilaire but took Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, like, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.360 I think they took the wrong back. But I don't 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.840 think taking Taylor in that offense, the Chiefs wouldn't be 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.960 two and three, That's my point, or even swift, you know, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.480 I mean, like, but Taylor in that offense, but you 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.720 know they might be four and one. We're not talking 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.920 about my home struggle a little bit right exactly. They 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.439 took the wrong back or if you put nausea in 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.320 that out and you know that offense, wow, you know, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.960 I mean, it's it's like they're you know, when Leonard 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.400 Fournette went third overall, if that had been Christian McCaffrey, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.760 would anybody have been Nobody's nobody's given the Panthers a 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.040 hard time about it. I mean, frankly, no one's given 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.120 Dallas a hard time about it. I mean they took 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.440 Zeke and fifth or something like that. If the back 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.160 is worth it, he's worth it. Yeah, exactly. I mean 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.239 that's a different conversation. Should Cowboys have paid Zeke what 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.080 they did and all those things or I don't know. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.320 I mean that that to me is a totally different conversation. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:55.840 But we don't have to cross that bridge for five 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.359 more years. It looks pretty good this year, right right, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.399 And they got the quarterback back. Every thing hunky dory. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.400 Again and again. I always harp on this. I mean, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.760 whoever the next quarterback is anywhere from a third round 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.359 pick that Aaron Rodgers and anybody in between is gonna 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.720 be sure happy. Naja Harris is that back. It makes 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.960 it more attractive. We haven't talked about this yet. Jay 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:21.879 Glazer reported over the weekend that Mike Tomlin prefers to 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.480 have a veteran quarterback instead of breaking in a you know, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.439 a young guy here. Um makes perfect sense to me. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.520 Everything that you do moving forward from this point in 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.199 terms of how that offensive line continues to grow in 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.359 terms of, oh boy, what's Naja Harris going to be here? 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.680 In terms of what Chase Claypool and Deante Johnson Hart 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.840 and Pat Fiarmouth, like, you've made a pretty good nest 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.119 here that very you know, if if I'm a veteran 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.439 quarterback and I'm looking at that going, that's not a 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.480 bad situation. Great running back, I got a defense, I 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.840 got a head coach and GM and ownership I trust. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.919 I mean, if if you're a big free agent in 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.959 any sport, I would start with ownership and stability, you know, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.680 and all. You know, like if you're a head coach, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:08.920 like do I really want to be the head coach 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.240 to Jacks? You know, you want to go to the 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.160 Jets right right? Yeah, they're offering me more money, but 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.560 it's I mean more money fine, you know, but if 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.119 I have some choice in the matter, I'm gonna go 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.640 to a stable environment that's won a lot of games 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.840 in this league, assuming that's what's important to the guy. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:23.920 If it isn't, that's not the guy you want anyway. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.920 And quite frankly, they take it. Let's say they take 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.080 a left tackle or whoever. They take it, even if 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.200 he's starting at this point, which looking around the league, 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.240 he probably wouldn't be. Um. Now, I know Dan Moore 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.840 starting for the Steelers. Yeah, you know, like there saw 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.200 and those guys that doesn't move the needle for Oh boy, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.199 they get they get this left tackle twenty third. Overall, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.920 he's on Orlando Pace or or even Penny soul or 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.960 because even this line, I'm sure there's people I would like, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.080 Aaron Rodgers or whoever. Why would he ever come play 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.800 behind this line? Well, he's not playing behind this line, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.520 and we five of two thousand twenty one. He's playing 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.760 behind the line that they create for two thousand twenty two, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.560 which might look like this line plus the fifteenth pick 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.920 in the draft as the best guard we've ever seen, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.320