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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to another Thursday night edition of
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Speaker 2: Persuda and Matt Williamson getting you ready for the Steelers
Speaker 2: and the Colts on Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis. Our factor back,
Speaker 2: Merril Hodge, will be joining us shortly. We always give
Speaker 2: the ball to Merril a few times in the middle
Speaker 2: of the program so he can matriculate it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, down, He handle the major workload.
Speaker 2: And then we stick it in the end zone. The
Speaker 2: close things off of Matt. Here we are previewing game
Speaker 2: number four and we don't have a loss to talk
Speaker 2: about yet.
Speaker 3: Gotta love it. I mean, they've been playing Steeler football
Speaker 3: while they're working on this offense or very very physical.
Speaker 3: I think it's the best defense in the league. I
Speaker 3: loved how they closed out the Chargers in the second
Speaker 3: half last week too. I mean it was not even
Speaker 3: competitive at the end. I mean, they've been taking care
Speaker 3: of business in a big way. Four and O goes
Speaker 3: a long way to having, you know, postseason dreams.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the Colts, this just didn't don't look like Oh,
Speaker 2: Johnny Unitas Colts. They don't look like the Peyton Manning Colts.
Speaker 3: No, their defense, to me is really troubling. I mean,
Speaker 3: the offense at least is dangerous. Well, they got a
Speaker 3: running back, they got a running back, they got a
Speaker 3: no line, they got a quarterback that they can't run,
Speaker 3: but doesn't that much.
Speaker 2: You can heave it up and sometimes it comes down
Speaker 2: to the right guy.
Speaker 3: Completing passes is an issue, though, challenging, challenging.
Speaker 2: Let's get to the news of the day as well
Speaker 2: as we always do. To start the show, the practice
Speaker 2: participation slash injury report about what you would expect. Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson limited, Roman Wilson ankle full participant, do we finally
Speaker 2: see him this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was about to run that by. Don't think
Speaker 3: it'd be a terrible idea.
Speaker 2: The other significant entries here Jalen Warren knee didn't practice,
Speaker 2: Alex Highsmith groin didn't practice, Isaac Samalu peck limited, Michael
Speaker 2: Pruett knee didn't practice, the rest there were some guys
Speaker 2: resting and whatnot, But looks like the lineup is going
Speaker 2: to be relatively what it has been.
Speaker 3: Any hunch on Ciamalu or Warren, I don't think towards negative.
Speaker 2: Glad you asked, we'll get to see a malo in
Speaker 2: a minute Warren, I would think not just based on
Speaker 2: the fact that he has not practiced, but I don't
Speaker 2: know if he's still a young player who needs to
Speaker 2: practice or if he's graduated. Is he over that to
Speaker 2: a veteran status and he knows what he's doing the
Speaker 2: way Cordero Patterson ran the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah you're in okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, fine, And as recently as twenty twenty two he
Speaker 2: had a couple hundred yard games for Arthur's Atlanta when
Speaker 2: he got.
Speaker 3: A lot that year. Yeah, so you'll be okay. I
Speaker 3: think he can do it.
Speaker 2: Uh, for the Colts. They got some concerns as well.
Speaker 2: H Kenny Moore in their nickel hip, didn't practice for
Speaker 2: the second consecutive day. His backup Chris Lammon's knee ankle
Speaker 2: didn't practice for the second consecutive day.
Speaker 3: Good player.
Speaker 2: Kenny Moore's one of those blitz capable nickels.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a great nickel.
Speaker 2: He can rush off to the edge. I think he might
Speaker 2: be the best defensive back.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: I definitely think he is. And he's more than a nickel.
Speaker 3: When they have two corners out there, he's out there.
Speaker 3: I mean he plays every snap. Yeah, So it's a
Speaker 3: very good nickel guy. We'll see what develops there.
Speaker 2: Quitty Pay, one of the edge rushers they rely on quadricep,
Speaker 2: didn't practice second consecutive day. They did get right tackle
Speaker 2: Braden Smith back to full participation after he shot out
Speaker 2: yesterday with a knee. Defensive end Taekwon Lewis showed up
Speaker 2: today as it did not practice calf wrist. That's a
Speaker 2: new entry to the Colts participation report. And uh sener
Speaker 2: Ryan Kelly Neck didn't practice.
Speaker 3: That's a new one. That is so good news on
Speaker 3: the right tackle for them. Bad news on the center.
Speaker 3: Kelly is a quality player too. He's had a good career.
Speaker 3: He's a real solid player, reliable, you know, it does
Speaker 3: all line calls, all that stuff too, So that would
Speaker 3: be a loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this offensive line returns intact you mentioned pretty good one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Colts didn't have Braden Smith playing last year when
Speaker 2: they played the Steelers and basically shoved the ball down
Speaker 2: to Steelers' throats with Trey Sermon as the running back.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor didn't play, but Steelers got a little.
Speaker 2: They have some amends to make in Indianapolis. And meanwhile,
Speaker 2: status quo at the quarterback position. I mentioned Wilson limited again,
Speaker 2: Justin Fields is going to get his fourth consecutive start,
Speaker 2: and he's feeling, uh comfortable, confident. Everything seems to be,
Speaker 2: uh feeling better day by day here, but Justin Field
Speaker 2: still not thinking ahead, not thinking long term, not thinking
Speaker 2: past anything. But Sunday, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, yeah, i think I'm pretty comfortable. I think, you know,
Speaker 5: I think that comfortableness or confidence is growing easton every week.
Speaker 5: But I think I've been comfortable for a while. But
Speaker 5: of course, you know, the more in game reps you
Speaker 5: could feel and get you know, definitely brings more confidence
Speaker 5: to you know, anybody and everybody who's out there.
Speaker 2: So it's a week to keep going by and you
Speaker 2: continue to start to feel a little more like your.
Speaker 5: Job because it feel a little bit more like my job.
Speaker 5: I'm just here to do my job. So that's it.
Speaker 2: You feel like starting in the later year on the table.
Speaker 4: Uh. You know.
Speaker 5: The thing is, as I always say, we don't know
Speaker 5: if we're gonna get tomorrow. So I'm already I'm I'm
Speaker 5: only worried about today, and I know this week that
Speaker 5: I'm up to start for the pace of irritating, and
Speaker 5: you know, that's all I'm focused on.
Speaker 2: So he wouldn't take the bait.
Speaker 3: No, you're trying, but good mindset to have, and he's
Speaker 3: been getting a lot better. So I was asked many
Speaker 3: times last week, you know, what would Fields have to
Speaker 3: do against the Chargers for you to change your mind
Speaker 3: that Wilson should be the starter. Not just my decision,
Speaker 3: of course, but I think you and I have both
Speaker 3: been in the mindset that Wilson should be inserted back
Speaker 3: in when he's ready.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: But after watching Fields with the Chargers, I've had second
Speaker 3: thoughts I mean not to the point where I would
Speaker 3: one hundred percent say you're you know, you're the starter
Speaker 3: and no questions asked. But another game like that where
Speaker 3: he throws with anticipation from the pocket wins doing quarterback stuff,
Speaker 3: not just reliant on movement and things of that nature.
Speaker 3: I think he's made a lot of strides and without
Speaker 3: making the big mistakes either.
Speaker 2: He did make one big when he was actually beating
Speaker 2: himself up over that interception again today, as he.
Speaker 3: Pointed out, if it wasn't a great throw, if it's
Speaker 3: the end of.
Speaker 2: The half and you're trying to make a play, maybe
Speaker 2: maybe you can get away with force in one and
Speaker 2: you live with the result. But first down after a
Speaker 2: turnover like that, or not a turnover, but they got
Speaker 2: a punt and a penalty. They were in plus field position.
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't think it was bad decision, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't a great throw. I mean, it may bounce
Speaker 3: up in the air. I mean chances I wouldn't beat
Speaker 3: yourself too much over that one there, justin.
Speaker 2: But maybe that, you know, is a little bit of
Speaker 2: a insight into his mindset. You know, this this guy
Speaker 2: who's a turnover machine in Chicago and he's now taking
Speaker 2: his one mistake. If it was that personally, yeah, not
Speaker 2: a bad thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you just look at sacks and interceptions
Speaker 3: his three years in Chicago per dropback, he was the
Speaker 3: worst quarterback in the league. This year he's the tenth best,
Speaker 3: tied with Pat Mahomes. I mean, you'll take it. I'll progress.
Speaker 2: I also thought we saw some second and third reads. Oh,
Speaker 2: no question, hit maybe more than he had the previous
Speaker 2: two games. So as you said, doing quarterback things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean looking off safeties, you know, looking right
Speaker 3: and then knowing you're going left the whole time, throwing
Speaker 3: with anticipation. That has not been a strength of his
Speaker 3: in Chicago either. So I thought he took great strides.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to talked to Beryl about it and see
Speaker 3: what he thinks do on that.
Speaker 2: Another well worth following. If you listen to Mike Tomlin
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, you heard him say that in the event
Speaker 2: Isaac Saamalo is not available at left guard, tom is
Speaker 2: going to continue to rotate Spencer Anderson and Mason McCormick
Speaker 2: at that position. Now it was Anderson and then McCormick
Speaker 2: against the Chargers, but based on the way McCormick practice today.
Speaker 2: The order of that rotation may be subject to change.
Speaker 4: You're getting you ready to start this week.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. I'm ready for whatever they tell
Speaker 1: me and if they say that, and yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: For WUSE today.
Speaker 2: You know, most one's rep day.
Speaker 1: I definitely got some today.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's a reflection how you play against the Chargers. Uh.
Speaker 1: To be honest, it's not up to me to make
Speaker 1: those decisions. But I'm excited and ready to play, and
Speaker 1: whatever they.
Speaker 2: Do, I'm ready. I think this guy's forcing their hand, Matt.
Speaker 2: I think they're playing so well they got to get
Speaker 2: him in there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think this isn't a knock on Anderson at all.
Speaker 3: It's just they really like this guy, you know, I
Speaker 3: mean kind of not to the Fraser level, but like
Speaker 3: he's forcing himself into the into the lineup, as you mentioned,
Speaker 3: and maybe forever, you know, for a long stretch. Who knows.
Speaker 3: You know, played over twenty snaps last week. Some of
Speaker 3: it is the sixth guy. And I was also thinking too,
Speaker 3: if you are going to keep using the six to
Speaker 3: zero line package, maybe he's the guard and Anderson is
Speaker 3: the outside guy because he has played some tackle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so, uh, something to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on practice tomorrow and then leading into the game on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Back to the Steelers Preview show on DVE.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the preview, Mike Pursuda and Matt Williamson
Speaker 2: getting ready for the Steelers and the Colts on Sunday
Speaker 2: in Indianapolis. Time now to get the ball to our
Speaker 2: factor back Merril Hodge, who joins us at this time
Speaker 2: each and every week that we do a program, and Merril,
Speaker 2: I want to get into the Colts a little bit.
Speaker 2: But in the previous segment, Matt and I were kicking
Speaker 2: around justin fields and how as Matt put it, he
Speaker 2: did more quarterback things in that game against the Chargers.
Speaker 2: He looked a little bit more like a guy who
Speaker 2: knows how to play the position and less like a
Speaker 2: guy who relies on his legs.
Speaker 3: Winning from the pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as much, if not more than his arm. What
Speaker 2: did you see? What do you think of fields to
Speaker 2: this point? And is this uh still uncertain when Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson gets healthy as to who takes over the rains
Speaker 2: or or keeps the reins.
Speaker 4: All right, that's a lot, a lot to unpack. Let's
Speaker 4: let's just start. Let's start with with Justin himself and
Speaker 4: then then let's back up and acknowledge, like, really where
Speaker 4: this all starts. You know, Arthur Smith deserves a lot
Speaker 4: of credit. You know he clearly understands, you know, the
Speaker 4: National Football League and his personnel and how you developing
Speaker 4: and grow a guy. You know, I don't know if
Speaker 4: most people know, justin Phiel's history, you know, when he
Speaker 4: came out of Ohio State. You know, I remember watching
Speaker 4: him and there was in my notes I put, I'm like,
Speaker 4: he is just raw. You know, he doug you know,
Speaker 4: tape like tells. I can't come up with words like
Speaker 4: that until I watch tape because then it just takes
Speaker 4: spells things to you. But he was just raw out
Speaker 4: of Ohiose State, you know, because you see him do
Speaker 4: some things that were like, you know, you questioned it,
Speaker 4: but it was based on an experience. So then you
Speaker 4: go to the National Football League and you get exactly
Speaker 4: what you don't want a quarterback to have, and that
Speaker 4: is a new offensive coordinator every year. I keep mind,
Speaker 4: this is his fourth new offensive coordinator, but it's the
Speaker 4: first coordinator that has done exactly what you need to
Speaker 4: do with the guy who is raw. You know, the
Speaker 4: way they run the football and then the way they
Speaker 4: try to throw off of it, it's like a lot
Speaker 4: of it, the majority of it is either or you know,
Speaker 4: you do hard run action and then you give a
Speaker 4: guy an opportunity for either or then use your legs.
Speaker 4: And I always I've always felt, okay, I'll give you
Speaker 4: the greatest. Probably one of the best development developed quarterbacks
Speaker 4: from that cop set in NFL history is probably Steve McNair.
Speaker 4: It's exactly what they did to Steve McNair, although they're
Speaker 4: sat in a year and then they did it and
Speaker 4: he became an NFL MVP. So you know, what Arthur
Speaker 4: Smith is doing to him is the perfect scenario. And
Speaker 4: it's actually where his skill set is. It's not beyond that.
Speaker 4: You know, he's I've seen him play from the pocket
Speaker 4: and do some really incredible things and then I've done here.
Speaker 4: He've seen him do some things that are like truly damaging,
Speaker 4: and those damaging things cause you to lose, and he's
Speaker 4: kept him out of that environment, and I just applaud
Speaker 4: with well coaching. He's got number one. And then for
Speaker 4: Justin to evolve. So what he's got to do is
Speaker 4: he's got to get a little better every week. So
Speaker 4: he threw us a little more anticipation this week, and
Speaker 4: that's probably the area that he lacks the most. That
Speaker 4: is a real I think one of those ingredients that
Speaker 4: if you have that in the NFL, you can really
Speaker 4: be elite and it allows you to be really good.
Speaker 4: Like I'll say that, Actually, I was just talking about
Speaker 4: the guy who I thought, well, that I've seen come
Speaker 4: out of college has had the most the best anticipation
Speaker 4: I've ever seen from college coming in the NFL is
Speaker 4: Andy Dalton. Now, obviously nobody would consider Andy Dahlon the leap,
Speaker 4: but I will tell you this from an anticipation aspect, well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a few throws of anticipation that we're like that.
Speaker 4: But anyway that that ingredient is is where like Justice
Speaker 4: doesn't have right now, now that that that can be
Speaker 4: an area, I'm not completely sold that you can't help
Speaker 4: a guy with that, a guy who has the gift.
Speaker 4: I know reason I brought Andy deal don't know, because
Speaker 4: he just has that gift. He just had that gift.
Speaker 4: That's what really made him a unique player and a
Speaker 4: successful player. It was. It was really successful for Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: But if Justin and Justin lacks that that little bit
Speaker 4: of anticipation that I'm not sold that you can't develop it.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can't give it to somebody but
Speaker 4: I think you can develop it based on the level
Speaker 4: he has. So he's never gonna be like an Andy Dalton,
Speaker 4: but I think you could do some things that would
Speaker 4: help him be just a little better. And if he
Speaker 4: gets that that that that part of his game a
Speaker 4: little better, that'll help their passing game and that'll help
Speaker 4: them them grow. And I think that Arthur is being
Speaker 4: patient with that and how he's going about, you know,
Speaker 4: designing things and giving him opportunities to show that. You know,
Speaker 4: one of those actually the touchdown throw he made, you know,
Speaker 4: because go back to Arthur, the way he's attacked in
Speaker 4: the middle of the field, the way he's using tight ends,
Speaker 4: wide receivers on linebackers, those are those are great matchups.
Speaker 4: Once you control the middle of the field, you control
Speaker 4: the entire field from a passing perspective, and he has
Speaker 4: started to do that. You've seen a little baby gross
Speaker 4: with justin fields. And then to finish it up, like
Speaker 4: I have coached at almost well coach every level, but
Speaker 4: a head coach and a coordinator, I can just tell
Speaker 4: you this from a coaching perspective, like what coaching had
Speaker 4: on it's hard to disrupt your team. It's unless unless Okay,
Speaker 4: the guy who's on the sideline is not Ben Roethlisberger. Okay,
Speaker 4: so that's not the guy you're going to Okay, so
Speaker 4: that you have to always consider who is the guy
Speaker 4: that I'm going to replace him with? And I don't
Speaker 4: think it's an upgrade. I don't. I don't think you
Speaker 4: disrupt your team for that scenario. Now, I'm not sitting
Speaker 4: in those meetings. I'm not saying Mike won't do that,
Speaker 4: but I just I would be surprised at it because
Speaker 4: I need the way Justin's developing and the evidence that
Speaker 4: you've seen. It would be hard to disrupt the team
Speaker 4: by doing that.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned the word raw concerning fields, especially early
Speaker 3: in his career and still Anthony richardson Holy smoke, So
Speaker 3: that you talk about a rock quarterback, what are your
Speaker 3: thoughts on him?
Speaker 4: Well, let me just tell you this. Well, I was
Speaker 4: at the combine when Anthony richards they ran four four.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say what. Coach in our box
Speaker 4: stood up and said, oh my gosh, he made a
Speaker 4: lot of money, but he's no longer with the staff.
Speaker 4: And as soon as he said that, I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: let's make sure we don't pay him, because a four
Speaker 4: to four is absolutely no indication that the guy can
Speaker 4: play quarterback if you'd watched any tape on this guy.
Speaker 4: But unless I already evaluated him before I got the combine,
Speaker 4: So like, what they did in our underwear is irrelevant
Speaker 4: to me. In fact, some of the biggest mistakes in
Speaker 4: our evaluation process are done at the combine. When somebody
Speaker 4: in authority who has no idea what they're talking about,
Speaker 4: has no idea what they're looking at. They trump a
Speaker 4: football guy and go, oh, he just ran a four
Speaker 4: to four.
Speaker 3: You know what that's gonna do to us, and he
Speaker 3: had the best combat in quarterback history.
Speaker 4: Irrelevant, We're not playing. We're not playing on our underwear.
Speaker 4: We're not playing on our underwear. You've got to recoverages,
Speaker 4: you gotta anticipate. We'll give you a great example. So
Speaker 4: I had I had thoroughly evaluated him. There was one
Speaker 4: game I didn't watch. It was the Utah game, and
Speaker 4: somebody brought it to my attention and they're like, well,
Speaker 4: if you've watched that Utah game, then he goes none
Speaker 4: of that. He didn't play in the NFL. And okay, now,
Speaker 4: first of all, one game doesn't doesn't tell you can
Speaker 4: play in the NFLKA that's dumb anyway, Okay, if you
Speaker 4: if you said that, okay, well that question, ay, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't hire you because if you're gonna take one game
Speaker 4: and say that translates to the NFL, Okay, well that
Speaker 4: question you even know about the NFL. But I'd watch
Speaker 4: like a majority of the games. But I didn't watch
Speaker 4: that Utah game. So I'm like, well, okay, in all fairness,
Speaker 4: before I can make any evaluations or a judgment, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go watch the Utah game. So I watched the
Speaker 4: Utah game. I'm like, oh my gosh, if this okay,
Speaker 4: I want to say his completion percent is in college
Speaker 4: was around fifty percent. Okay, okay, so the game, this
Speaker 4: particular game, he wasn't much better. He was a little better,
Speaker 4: but you know what was interesting. He did make a
Speaker 4: lot of completions, but there was absolutely no run after
Speaker 4: the catch. That just go okay, when I saw that,
Speaker 4: You're exactly right, I need to watch this because that
Speaker 4: is one hundred percent stamp of approval. He can't play
Speaker 4: in this league. He is not accurate enough and he
Speaker 4: is not smart enough. Now he ran from like a
Speaker 4: sixty yard touchdown run. So everybody was I'm like, hell,
Speaker 4: you listen, he could do that in the NFL. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's not how you're gonna want to sold them. I
Speaker 4: will promise you this. I know a guy who played
Speaker 4: in ten Super Bowls. He won pick I will promise
Speaker 4: you seven. I think I promise you if you put
Speaker 4: his total rushing numbers together in ten Super Bowls, I
Speaker 4: guarantee it can come up to fifty yards. That's Tom
Speaker 4: Brady in Tan sumbows. You don't have fifty year. That's
Speaker 4: not how our league is play. You've got to win
Speaker 4: from the pocket. You gotta be good in the pocket.
Speaker 4: And he struggles from the pocket, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: now him, he makes some throws on Sunday, you'll be like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh. And here's what happens. There's somebody who
Speaker 4: thinks I will fix that. I'm gonna make you smarter.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm gonna make him more accurate. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: make him a quarterback because look at that arm. Have
Speaker 4: I ever told you the John Gruden story about the guy,
Speaker 4: the guy from Clemson quarterback.
Speaker 3: Watson, No, no, no, he went to he was the first
Speaker 3: round pick for the Raiders, Russell John Mark.
Speaker 4: Okay, told you Tomarcus Russell. Okay, this this is this
Speaker 4: is a great Okay, John Gruden tells this story. Okay, listen,
Speaker 4: this is John Gruden telling the story. Okay. They they
Speaker 4: want to get a quarterback. They bring into Marcus. First
Speaker 4: of all, they go to Hooters. My first question when
Speaker 4: I heard it, I was like, why do you go
Speaker 4: to Hooters for lunch? Okay, they go to Hooters for lunch. Okay.
Speaker 4: Now I find out this because John has a great
Speaker 4: relationship with the owner of Hooters. They're in Tampa, so
Speaker 4: they go there. So this is what your Marcus Truss.
Speaker 4: The orders for lunch. Three coronas and three orders are wings.
Speaker 4: That's lunch. Okay, three coronas. Okay, now you're gonna go
Speaker 4: do a work.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a nice lunch to me. I don't
Speaker 2: know what you.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, Hey, hey, don't judge. Okay. So so they
Speaker 4: go to the meeting. They're in the meeting and John goes, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, they just be Notre Dame too, and he
Speaker 4: shredded Notre Dame apart, destroyed Notre Dame. Maybe door to
Speaker 4: dame look embarrassing, embarrassed. He goes, hey, like, what was
Speaker 4: one of your favorite plays that that you that you
Speaker 4: ran at l s U. And he's like, ah, you're
Speaker 4: a coach. I just threw it to the open guy.
Speaker 4: He goes, well, why don't you just draw one of
Speaker 4: those plays up? It was coach? I really don't. I don't.
Speaker 4: I didn't really do all that. I just the open guy.
Speaker 4: He's like, so you can't draw a play, like, what
Speaker 4: what LSU?
Speaker 3: Do your favorite play?
Speaker 4: Just drawing up? He is a coach, I just do
Speaker 4: the open guy? Okay, all right, draws a playoff? Doesn't
Speaker 4: even know how to draw a playoff? Okay, he goes
Speaker 4: Then he's trying. He's telling the story. Then we go
Speaker 4: out on the field and he makes one throw and
Speaker 4: he's like, holy cow, who cares about lunch in that meeting?
Speaker 4: That's what coaches, I mean, that's what some coaches do.
Speaker 4: They completely lose their mind in things. You can't dance,
Speaker 4: you can't you think you can you can change this kid.
Speaker 4: You think you can make him want it, you can
Speaker 4: make him smart, you can make him accurate, and all
Speaker 4: these things that are required. And I'm like, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 4: he's one of the greatest stories. I've never forgot that story.
Speaker 4: And well you in fact, Okay, so now let's last forward.
Speaker 4: When I'm watching take they're playing the New York Football
Speaker 4: Giants in New York. He's in the shotgun. He does
Speaker 4: a seven step drop out of the shotgun. The right tackle.
Speaker 4: I will never forget it as long as I live.
Speaker 4: It's one of the greatest visuals I've always have. I
Speaker 4: presdent in my mind. The right tackle. Okay, the defensive end.
Speaker 4: He goes up field like fifty far right right. Just stop,
Speaker 4: he just because he's going where the quarterback is, the
Speaker 4: right tackle stops blocking. He's like, I can see in
Speaker 4: his body thing. He's like, what are you doing? Where
Speaker 4: are you going? Right? Yet he turns around and sees
Speaker 4: his quarterback get sacked right, He's like, he's I can't
Speaker 4: even describe right, But he bowed his head and he
Speaker 4: put his hands on his hips, and he's like, you
Speaker 4: can see this, like what are you doing? Like what
Speaker 4: are you doing? Like I've never seen it in my life.
Speaker 4: I've never seen it in forty years of playing. Instead
Speaker 4: of this thing, I've never seen a quarterback take a
Speaker 4: seven step drop out of the shotgun. I've never seen it.
Speaker 4: And that was the at the beginning of the end
Speaker 4: to the guy. And I don't know what got us here.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying Richard is that guy.
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 2: Just say.
Speaker 4: He's not far off. He is not far off. I
Speaker 4: mean I just saw it, you know. Last week he
Speaker 4: did an RPO and he holds onto the ball and
Speaker 4: holds onto the ball until right at the and he's
Speaker 4: running and he's just line screens and he throws it.
Speaker 4: What he's got like all his office, his linemen down
Speaker 4: fields is run blocking. And then he looks back like
Speaker 4: he looks when you look back, and he looked confused,
Speaker 4: and I was like, how can you be confused?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he did that a couple of others. He did
Speaker 2: that a couple other times, like that last minute decision
Speaker 2: all I'm going to stop running and throw it, and
Speaker 2: it was at the goal line and he got picked
Speaker 2: off in the end zone.
Speaker 3: That was horrendous.
Speaker 2: He just yeah, a little uh, it's a little fast
Speaker 2: for him right now, but uh flips.
Speaker 3: He throws everything eight thousand miles an hour two right right.
Speaker 4: Unless he can throw the ball, there's no question about that.
Speaker 4: But I gotta be honest with you, and this is
Speaker 4: really quick. Okay. I know people that have a better
Speaker 4: arm than Peyton Manny and then they right guard in
Speaker 4: the National Football all of the better arms. Okay, they
Speaker 4: can play quarterback. No, no, it doesn't so much more
Speaker 4: to it than that. And everybody thinks they can fix it.
Speaker 4: And but that's not the kids you gotta beat. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's twenty eight. If you shut twenty eight down, ye,
Speaker 4: running game down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's legit.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, they're running game is Yes, it is bona
Speaker 4: fide legit. But I don't I don't. I don't see them.
Speaker 4: That's the only guy that can beat you.
Speaker 2: So these guys are Denver with a running back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, better receivers, better line, yeah, I mean a bad.
Speaker 4: They have a yeah, well you know what they don't have.
Speaker 4: You know, they have that running game. But if you
Speaker 4: looked at the like how you have to win in
Speaker 4: the NFL. Okay, And it's actually why the Steelers are
Speaker 4: so good, okay, And they're going to be in every game,
Speaker 4: They're not going to be out of here, and how
Speaker 4: good they will be and where they will go will
Speaker 4: be predicated on how let's say Justin Phil stays playing.
Speaker 4: How can he evolve and grow? Okay, how can he well?
Speaker 4: Where can he get better? What is his peaks valleys? Okay?
Speaker 4: Is the Steelers are two things. First of all, they
Speaker 4: run the football really well, not oppositive line regards of
Speaker 4: the injuries. I don't know if we're talking about Roderick Jones,
Speaker 4: but I got some thoughts on him that we can
Speaker 4: if we have time. Their offici lines doing a great job,
Speaker 4: and they're run the football. They're controlling the temple of
Speaker 4: the game. Okay, that's one of the most critical components.
Speaker 4: But their defensive tackle rotation and the way they're playing
Speaker 4: inside is like the foundation of football. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to that side because I think
Speaker 2: they've just been elite, uh up front and really the whole,
Speaker 2: the whole unit. It was funny we were talking to
Speaker 2: Terrell Austin, the defensive coordinator today. You know, they have
Speaker 2: five turnovers that they've generated in three games, but they
Speaker 2: didn't get one last Sunday and they don't think they're
Speaker 2: getting enough. And Austin said he thinks the turnovers are
Speaker 2: gonna come because they're playing so well, and once they do,
Speaker 2: they'll be dominant.
Speaker 3: Tips and overthrows.
Speaker 4: Yes, week, Yeah, I can tell you this that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like turnovers, they can surely elevate. They can make a
Speaker 4: really good defense look elite, and they can make an
Speaker 4: average defense look great. There's truth with those turnovers, but
Speaker 4: even without them, like the rock solids and see, that's
Speaker 4: what I like about him, Like they don't have to
Speaker 4: rely on those because you can't trust those. You're trying
Speaker 4: to get them, but you better trust that you do
Speaker 4: the foundations of football and do it well and that
Speaker 4: and that's what they do. Well, that's what I like
Speaker 4: about them, Like they like they're trenches. You see. This
Speaker 4: goes back to when they won Super I was at
Speaker 4: ESPN and I would with my matchup show, I'd like
Speaker 4: to I'd like to call coordinators, offense coordinators and just
Speaker 4: see what they thought about the steel of defense. So
Speaker 4: luxury I had is like I could call so like
Speaker 4: thirty you know, two of the greatest minds in our game,
Speaker 4: and how do you look at this steel of defense?
Speaker 4: And you got Troy pala mall, you had all these linebackers.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind, you know all the things that they
Speaker 4: did every one of them. This is not and I'm
Speaker 4: not one out of five or two out of five.
Speaker 4: To every single one that I would talk to, and
Speaker 4: I would talk to dozens of them, They're like, Marin,
Speaker 4: you know what if you we can't it's the three
Speaker 4: guys in the dirt the problem. We got to take
Speaker 4: five guys to block three people. Well, that tells you, right,
Speaker 4: they're our problem. We can't take care of those guys.
Speaker 4: What makes you think we can take care of those linebackers?
Speaker 4: And Troy pala mall that's a problem. And then that's
Speaker 4: actually what my eyes to like, you know, I played
Speaker 4: in this league and study for a lot. I was
Speaker 4: like like wide my scope to just different things in
Speaker 4: ways to look at games. So when I look at
Speaker 4: football now, if you said where do you want to
Speaker 4: start your defense? What is like what would be the foundation?
Speaker 4: If you pick inside linebacker, DEFENSI attack or safety? Like,
Speaker 4: where'd you build it? Man? Tackle? If you had to
Speaker 4: like this, this guy is going to be like a
Speaker 4: you know, an Aaron Donald.
Speaker 2: Was gon I was gonna say, especially if it's Joe Green,
Speaker 2: but Donald's not bad example.
Speaker 3: Listen or Joe Green, Cam Hayward, Right, what.
Speaker 4: You're exactly right. Can Hayward is a beast him. But
Speaker 4: you know, like when the Steelers turned the corner, I
Speaker 4: know they talked about when like Franco really took him
Speaker 4: over the top, but the guy who stabilized him was
Speaker 4: Joe Joe Green. And still the way those guys are
Speaker 4: playing up front, and it's hard to handle those guys,
Speaker 4: you know, and then those edg dresses and that becomes
Speaker 4: a little easier. You know, if you got edge guys
Speaker 4: and you have the guys worry about inside, well I'll
Speaker 4: just double them. I'm gonna tackle over there. I'll get
Speaker 4: a tight end in the back and we can do
Speaker 4: some stuff. Take care of the edge, you guys. I mean,
Speaker 4: now watch a little different because that's not like even
Speaker 4: put two guys on that that's not going to take
Speaker 4: care of him. But and high Smith at the times.
Speaker 4: But what they have in the trenches is is you know,
Speaker 4: that's how you win championships with people like that.
Speaker 3: Merrily, you teased that I got to get your broder,
Speaker 3: Jones thought.
Speaker 4: So before you go, okay, you know what, I watched
Speaker 4: him in the Denver game. I think we talked about it,
Speaker 4: where you know, he just was, but personally he's been sloppy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a little uh slight question about his
Speaker 2: technique last week.
Speaker 4: Honestly, honestly it was just like I did. I stopped it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this is this is borderline empathetic for a
Speaker 4: first round pick, for a guy that I means in
Speaker 4: his second year to play this sloppy and be this
Speaker 4: out of control and this lacks a daisical and like
Speaker 4: this unprofessional. I'm like, gosh, I would be just like
Speaker 4: mosing my mind if I was a coach and uh
Speaker 4: and the benched him, and then you know, I I
Speaker 4: think I might have heard it through you you know,
Speaker 4: some some comments he made. And what I did like
Speaker 4: about his comments is that which is critical for anybody
Speaker 4: in any scenario of of struggle or distress is your
Speaker 4: take ownership. And when I heard that, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, Okay, that's there's hope there. That's there's
Speaker 4: hope that the kid will get it before it's too late,
Speaker 4: you know. And they ship him off.
Speaker 2: And he's really he's really young merrill, but he strikes
Speaker 2: me as a mature guy, like I think, well, I
Speaker 2: think he gets it. He's just got to work on it.
Speaker 4: I listen, Okay, if he got it, I would say,
Speaker 4: you're exactly right. He got it, and he got it,
Speaker 4: and he transitioned it in the first game. And shoot,
Speaker 4: he crippled Moosa on the first play. I mean he
Speaker 4: he pulled him up like a tent and his feet,
Speaker 4: hits and hands were completely different fundamentally and how he
Speaker 4: approached it because I think that's when he hurt him.
Speaker 4: And I think Bosa came back and played one more
Speaker 4: play than he was done, but it was that first
Speaker 4: play of the game. Yeah, he just like slapped him
Speaker 4: around like he was nothing.
Speaker 2: Now, I did have a hip going in. He was
Speaker 2: a little bit limited in practice leading up to the game,
Speaker 2: but yeah, we buried him. I mean that was impressive feet.
Speaker 4: Hips to hands though, I mean, like completely different than
Speaker 4: what what we had been had been seeing, what I'd
Speaker 4: been seeing, I mean, and he played like that the
Speaker 4: whole game. I mean, he was your I mean, he
Speaker 4: was really good, you know, and I can only get better,
Speaker 4: you know, So that's what you could he just got
Speaker 4: to hope for, is that he that that that the
Speaker 4: light switch went off and that he could become a
Speaker 4: pronoun and he just works on every day and he
Speaker 4: tries to get better at it every single day because
Speaker 4: he he put it on display. He's had sparks you
Speaker 4: know where you've seen it, but he'd put on display
Speaker 4: for almost the entire game. And I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: I mean, just it's rare that you see stuff like that.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm pulled to the kid because, shoot, if
Speaker 4: he plays like that, you know, and there was Lankey
Speaker 4: that they were the centers playing. You know, he's he's
Speaker 4: a frecking maller. He was like that West Virginia. He
Speaker 4: was just a mall He had a tough dude man,
Speaker 4: And then that's what you gotta have. Gotta have guys
Speaker 4: in the trenches that are tough. You know, he stepped on.
Speaker 4: I played with Mike Webster, Okay, he was my roommate.
Speaker 4: You know. I played with DERMONTI Dawson. You know, a
Speaker 4: tounch yo kid. You know Terry Long. I was scared.
Speaker 4: I was scared. You in the huddle with Terry Long,
Speaker 4: I was like, gosh, my team. I'm glad that brother's
Speaker 4: on my team.
Speaker 2: I can tell you as uh as your old coach
Speaker 2: Chuck Mull used to like to say, Meryl the choir
Speaker 2: boys belonging to church on Sunday. He great stuff again.
Speaker 2: Glad we got, glad we got you wound up about
Speaker 2: Richardson and running the ball. Can't wait to do this
Speaker 2: again next week before the Dallas Cowboys game.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that's right. We ain't gonna we ain't
Speaker 4: gonna be saying go Cowboys on this show.
Speaker 2: Great stuff Meryl you next week, see you guys.
Speaker 4: Take care resk.
Speaker 2: Merril Hodge, Right, you know, I wish he'd brings I
Speaker 2: wish he'd brings some energy and some excitement and passion
Speaker 2: to these segments.
Speaker 3: That was dynamite.
Speaker 2: Still got one more to go, so you're gonna want
Speaker 2: to keep it here. Uh with Matt Williamson on Mike Pursuda.
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Speaker 3: Back to the Steelers Preview show on DVE.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Mike Pursuda and Matt Williamson getting you ready
Speaker 2: for the Steelers and the Colts on Sunday in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: And Matt, I'm gonna stick with my assessment of the Colts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that I gave to Meryl there a little while ago,
Speaker 2: uh Denver with a better running.
Speaker 3: Back way worse defense. I think their defense is really
Speaker 3: bad and I wanted to go down this road with Merrill,
Speaker 3: but he was rolling. I mean, they are more than
Speaker 3: any other.
Speaker 2: Just so people understand. He rolls a lot. So we
Speaker 2: have ideas about where we want to take him, but
Speaker 2: it's really up to him where he runs. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: great back set vision. They know where to go.
Speaker 3: I didn't think JaMarcus Russell was going to come up,
Speaker 3: but I'm glad he did. I mean, this defense is
Speaker 3: the most vanilla or predictable in the whole league. Their
Speaker 3: old school legion of Boom Cover three, and they don't
Speaker 3: differ from it that much by NFL standards. But to
Speaker 3: do that, to run the same defense over and over
Speaker 3: the same scheme, you have to be extremely talented, and
Speaker 3: they just aren't, you know, especially with Buckner out. I
Speaker 3: don't see many difference makers on the defense. I really
Speaker 3: like the law to kid the rookie the first round pick,
Speaker 3: but other than that, I don't see a lot of
Speaker 3: difference makers. One of the best guys More's been on
Speaker 3: the injury list, and the offense is intriguing and frightening
Speaker 3: to me. But if you limit the explosives, Richardson's all
Speaker 3: over the place, but he might chuck a touchdown pass
Speaker 3: or certainly get free as a runner. And as Merrill mentioned,
Speaker 3: Taylor is frightening and they have a good o' line.
Speaker 3: But if you can make them matriculate the ball down
Speaker 3: the field, I think you're gonna have a lot of success.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Indie run defense has been Oh man,
Speaker 2: it was two hundred and thirty seven yards a game
Speaker 2: the first two weeks, five point one to carry. Now
Speaker 2: they did limit the Bears to sixty three yards on
Speaker 2: twenty eight carries with a long run of nine.
Speaker 3: The Bears are one of the worst running games in
Speaker 3: the league.
Speaker 2: By the Bears can't run, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Then they threw for almost four hundred yards.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the clip going around
Speaker 2: on Twitter slash x where the one running back ran
Speaker 2: into his blocker.
Speaker 3: I didn't notice that. But they're running game is a mess.
Speaker 3: Teams will run on Indy.
Speaker 2: I don't trust Indy to stop the run. And the
Speaker 2: time of possession is bonker staggering. Yeah, they're averaging less than.
Speaker 3: They're twenty one minutes, twenty one minutes and.
Speaker 2: Thirty six seconds. And this all off a game against
Speaker 2: Chicago where the Colts said the ball for twenty four
Speaker 2: minutes and fifty nine seconds. They were under twenty the
Speaker 2: first two games.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so a lot of those that like they're
Speaker 3: twenty minutes in change or twenty one minutes and change.
Speaker 3: The thirty first team in time of possession is three
Speaker 3: minutes higher than them. Like they're not only last, but
Speaker 3: they're so far and last they think that they're in
Speaker 3: the race. I mean, like they're so far out of
Speaker 3: this thing. And you mentioned the second game they played
Speaker 3: the Packers with Willis as a quarterback, and the Packers
Speaker 3: might as well said we're gonna run every play and
Speaker 3: put it up on the scoreboard and they had no
Speaker 3: answer whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The weird part about that is Jonathan Taylor's got
Speaker 2: back to back one hundred yard games.
Speaker 3: He's really good.
Speaker 2: You would think that would imply some control of tempo,
Speaker 2: some control of the clock, right, But they can't do
Speaker 2: anything else other than Richardson hits a big pass every
Speaker 2: once in a while.
Speaker 3: They just don't complete passes and they can't get off
Speaker 3: the field on the defense.
Speaker 2: Throw a lot of them down the field. They get
Speaker 2: very many of them.
Speaker 3: No, I mean he chucks it and that's dangerous. I
Speaker 3: mean the receivers are good. I do think they had
Speaker 3: a slight revelation last week and realized we go as
Speaker 3: Taylor goes, and even like on throwing downs, he was
Speaker 3: out there. He hardly ever left the field and he's
Speaker 3: the foundation of the offense.
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Speaker 2: Brian Patton in Associates. It's all about the benefits. What
Speaker 2: I expect is the Steelers I think are going to
Speaker 2: stop the run. I got great respect for Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2: You know me in the Big tenth. I've been a
Speaker 2: fan for a long time. I think Steelers are playing
Speaker 2: elite defense right now. Yeah, I think they're going to
Speaker 2: stop the run. You not slam it shot, but i'd
Speaker 2: see Taylor getting fifty sixty yards. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: going to get the long runs that the Steelers were
Speaker 2: giving up last year. They're going to put the Colts
Speaker 2: in a bad spot. And I think this one you
Speaker 2: talked about and how the Chargers game is Stells took
Speaker 2: it over in the second half, it's still only one
Speaker 2: by ten, right, I think this one gets out of
Speaker 2: hand in the second half.
Speaker 3: Do I have a little more fear of Taylor in
Speaker 3: the running game? And if I were them, I would
Speaker 3: run Richardson more that they haven't designed enough runs for
Speaker 3: him in my opinion, because he's a dynamite runner. I
Speaker 3: mean he's two hundred and sixty pounds runs a four
Speaker 3: to four. I know that doesn't help him play quarterback,
Speaker 3: but it makes him a dangerous runner. I also think
Speaker 3: he's gonna make mistakes. You know, we talked about how
Speaker 3: they haven't turned They didn't get the turnover last time.
Speaker 3: He throws a lot of balls high over the middle.
Speaker 3: I mean, Minka is just looming back there. He throws
Speaker 3: everything eight thousand miles an hour. I mean it gets
Speaker 3: a lot of tips. I think fumbles and sacks are
Speaker 3: in play too. I think there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 3: of negative plays from the quarterback.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned Minka. It's you know, if they do
Speaker 2: shut the rundown conventionally, if they don't have to overload
Speaker 2: the box, then he's gonna be larking back there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, to be the ball hawk. Yeah one, and
Speaker 3: they'll take deep shots. I mean, Pierce is a deep
Speaker 3: threat and they will throw it deep for sure. I
Speaker 3: just think this is a get right game too for
Speaker 3: the Steelers offense. I mean, or another step forward for
Speaker 3: the Steelers offense. So what would that look like specifically?
Speaker 3: You're talking about score?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm just only just gonna get right running
Speaker 2: down their throats. Do you think you will see another
Speaker 2: step forward from fields? I think will the complimentary receivers
Speaker 2: step up in this game?
Speaker 3: I think it's a Pickens explosion.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't see a corner that handles him at all.
Speaker 3: I think Friarmuth maybe has his best game of the
Speaker 3: year as well. I think those linebackers are right for
Speaker 3: the Pickens, and I also think that they will control
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage with their line and run game.
Speaker 2: And conversely, if Taylor doesn't run, Colt's got a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the explosions on offense when the Colts
Speaker 3: have the ball worry me, you know. I mean, because
Speaker 3: they can make big plays. And I also think they
Speaker 3: could consistently grind out yardage with Taylor too, So I
Speaker 3: think I can see a little more points in this
Speaker 3: game than we have in the You know, there's been
Speaker 3: very little when Steeler the games through three weeks, and
Speaker 3: I'm not saying to me thirty five to thirty, but
Speaker 3: I'm thinking it's more like twenty thirteen something like that.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking like twenty seven to ten.
Speaker 3: Something along those concern Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. I've been in this
Speaker 2: spot every once in a while now. That Denver game.
Speaker 2: I watched that Denver Seattle game and I thought there's
Speaker 2: no way the Steelers could lose it.
Speaker 3: Almost no way. Yeah, the NFL. You never know.
Speaker 2: I was. I wasn't expecting a blowout and it wasn't
Speaker 2: you know. It was a close game. But never while
Speaker 2: watching the Steelers play the Broncos did the thought occur
Speaker 2: to me that the Broncos might score a touchdown. I
Speaker 2: think the Colts might get won.
Speaker 3: Even the Falcons game, it got to the point where
Speaker 3: you got them right where you want them. The Chargers game,
Speaker 3: absolutely in the second half is like they're not scoring
Speaker 3: another touchdown. I mean unless something weird happens, you know.
Speaker 2: And in the offense, I think the run is going
Speaker 2: to set up a lot of things for Pittsburgh. I'm
Speaker 2: still not having second thoughts about the fields. I want
Speaker 2: to see what this looks like with Wilson. Merrill talked
Speaker 2: about anticipation, but Russell Wilson's got that, oh he does. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to see if he's the guy that can
Speaker 2: take this to the next level without risking the ball
Speaker 2: and risking turnovers and risking negative plays, which he hasn't
Speaker 2: been immune to. But he's just got so much more experience,
Speaker 2: and particularly the later we get in this process. As
Speaker 2: Mike Thomas says, when the road narrows and depression builds,
Speaker 2: I kind of like to been there, done that experience
Speaker 2: of Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: I one hundred percent agree. And I'm just more intrigued
Speaker 3: with fields every time I watch him, to be honest
Speaker 3: with you, and I mean, the anticipatory stuff probably will
Speaker 3: never be his strength, you know, but he did throw
Speaker 3: like an NFL quarterback really well in that pass game.
Speaker 2: The other thing I wonder about is how many weeks
Speaker 2: absent for Wilson are too many? Is there a line
Speaker 2: of demarcation here where if he doesn't play against Dallas
Speaker 2: or he doesn't play against the next game, now you've
Speaker 2: missed two months or approaching two months and can you
Speaker 2: get back into groove?
Speaker 3: And Meryl kind of mentioned it too. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you're five and oh, if you're six and oh, how
Speaker 3: do you make a quarterback switch?
Speaker 2: I mean, well that's why I head coaches good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, right right?
Speaker 2: You decide the other guy's better and you make it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the super respect and you do it. This isn't hockey.
Speaker 2: You don't keep winning lineup together, right, No, seriously, I mean,
Speaker 2: if you think the other guy's better, you play them.
Speaker 3: I mean I deep down think they do think he's
Speaker 3: better Wilson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think, uh, it's funny the field stuff.
Speaker 2: People started talking about this after they won the opener
Speaker 2: and then after the second who's the quarterback? And you
Speaker 2: know the national shows they should go with fields. I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: What are you seeing all the national shows like, oh,
Speaker 3: they've decided in the fields. I mean, that's not what happened.
Speaker 2: Now we're starting to see some stuff.
Speaker 3: As you said, I'm very intrigued. I mean, quarterback things
Speaker 3: were good. That's gonna do it for us tonight. I
Speaker 3: want to thank Meryl for joining us as he always does. Well,
Speaker 3: we got him on a club friendly contract. Oh Yeah,
Speaker 3: for the workload we give him. He's on for him too.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Justin Miller for keeping us fired up and
Speaker 2: on the air. Thank you for finding us, however, and
Speaker 2: wherever you found us, We're going to do it again
Speaker 2: next Thursday, before the Steelers get ready to take on
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys. Until then, for Matt Williamson on Mike Persuda,
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