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Speaker 1: M M. Yeah. Welcome to the drive here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. I'm your host Dale Alli here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: It's a rainy Wednesday here in Pittsburgh. But the Steelers

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Speaker 1: back on the practice field today and well, some good

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Speaker 1: news for Steeler fans. Make it. Fitzpatrick a full participant

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Speaker 1: today in the concussion protocol. But that's a good sign

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Speaker 1: that he was a full participant. They still have to

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Speaker 1: wait for him to get cleared by an independent neurologist.

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Speaker 1: But is that tomorrow? Yeah, actually, that'll be. It probably

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Speaker 1: easily happens around Friday or Saturday, depending on when they

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Speaker 1: can get the independent guy in uh Presley Harvard. Any

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Speaker 1: full participant, Kevin Dotson, any full participants and well only

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Speaker 1: a killow Weatherspoon with a hamstring injury as a d MP.

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Speaker 1: I meant to ask you the other day. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like Spoon's gonna play. But now you

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Speaker 1: think that's a multiple game injury or what? Do you

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Speaker 1: any news on that? I mean, he's he's out, he's

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Speaker 1: walking around. UM, I have no idea week week or

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Speaker 1: any of that kind of stuff. Nothing like that. He

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Speaker 1: just said. He's Tomlin never uses that term. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: hear from other coaches. I mean we're all week to week,

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Speaker 1: day to day, Yeah exactly, that's what does it really mean? Anyways?

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Speaker 1: Nothing's nothing, that's coach coach speak for. Well. Day to

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Speaker 1: day is well, it's a short term injury. Week to

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Speaker 1: week is more of a long term engine. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They just don't say this is going to be more

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Speaker 1: of a short injury, short term injury or a long

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Speaker 1: term and just say it exactly exactly. That's good news. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: they could use all those guys on the jet side

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Speaker 1: of things. Zack Wilson was cleared to return today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: coach naming a starter to and to me, that's interesting. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's not good. No, I mean I'm not saying he

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Speaker 1: can't be good, but he's not good. On last sight,

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Speaker 1: I mean his rookie year was miserable. Um, that's a

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Speaker 1: second pick in the draft. I mean, you would hope

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Speaker 1: you'd seen more from him. Um, I thought he was

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Speaker 1: slightly better. He played thirteen games last year, and I

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Speaker 1: thought he was slightly better. After he came back from injury.

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Speaker 1: The game looked like it's slowed down for him a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But still I mean, he holds the ball

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Speaker 1: a long time, UM, long time to throw and you know,

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Speaker 1: like a over three second guy. Um, not the biggest,

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Speaker 1: not the strongest, good arm, natural playmaker. You see talent there.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think you and I loved him coming

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Speaker 1: out of school either, Like we both liked fields better.

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Speaker 1: I remember I liked Lance better, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't real high on my list, and he's shown it.

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Speaker 1: He's three and ten as a starter. He started thirteen games,

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Speaker 1: sacked forty four times in thirteen games for three hundred

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Speaker 1: seventy yards. At three hundred seventy yards led all quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: last year three games, and he didn't play in three games.

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Speaker 1: Actually didn't play in four games. Oh yeah, three hundred

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Speaker 1: seventy yards in a negative yards. I mean, that's more

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Speaker 1: than a full game's passing, right, that's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It's a big number. I mean, especially for a mobile quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Who can you know, you can make people miss? You

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Speaker 1: know some of those you know, you think some of

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Speaker 1: those sacks might be a way he's running towards the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and has to tuck it and takes

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Speaker 1: a sack for zero yards. He apparently I could only

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Speaker 1: guess from that that he runs backwards. Yeah, I hadn't

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Speaker 1: heard that stat before. It's a good one because that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of yardage. I mean, like you said, the

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Speaker 1: course of a year, especially over thirteen games, that's more

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Speaker 1: than a full game. Tells me you don't you don't

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Speaker 1: You're trying to escape out the back, And he did

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Speaker 1: kind of that at b YU, turn his back to

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Speaker 1: the defense. I love Pat Mahomes, and everyone loves Pat Mohome.

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Speaker 1: It will sometimes, but I think the new generation watches

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Speaker 1: I always brag Mahomes was my number one quarterback in

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Speaker 1: confident about it because I mean, there's nothing about mahomes

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Speaker 1: college tape that a coach would say that's the way

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Speaker 1: and it's bad fundamentals and the other thing I always

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget sitting in a dark room, you know,

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Speaker 1: with the clicker, watching whoever, and it was a b

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Speaker 1: so much and he was kind of a one year

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Speaker 1: wonder at b YU. He was extremely well protected, played

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Speaker 1: very few really difficult teams too. I mean, like Georgia

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals that way, No you don't. And you know,

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Speaker 1: to your point, it was, you know, he was a

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Speaker 1: one year kind of and they really didn't play anybody. No,

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Speaker 1: not at all. The uh his preseason stats, you know

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Speaker 1: He had, he threw an interception, Okay, five throws. I

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work. It doesn't tell me that he's progressed

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Speaker 1: from last year, right, I mean, I'm interested to watch him,

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Speaker 1: whether he's playing the Steelers or not. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: exciting to see what the rest of his year is.

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Speaker 1: If you're the Jets and deep down you know Flacco

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Speaker 1: because you I mean, he has in my opinion, I

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Speaker 1: think he has like what a twelve game stretch here

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Speaker 1: But it might be ugly as could be, you know.

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Speaker 1: the road last year four point nine seven yards per attempt. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: low as well. The completion percentage was fifty four point

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Speaker 1: a hundred seventy nine yards per game on the road,

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Speaker 1: which isn't gonna get it done. He also didn't run

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he will tuck and run. Like you mentioned before,

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Speaker 1: has some quickness to him. Everybody's looking for twitchy quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: everything about him herky jerky, twitchy, but still balanced. He

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Speaker 1: I always say, and this applied to Picket this year,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at his his wins and losses, his

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Speaker 1: his home splits. He was one and six on the

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Speaker 1: road last year. Completion percentage the four point and six

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, five interceptions, So he was not good. That's

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Speaker 1: in seven starts, three touchdown, three touchdown, three touchdowns with

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Speaker 1: seven stars, one win us. What you're saying, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: mentioned pick it like it's the least scientific thing going.

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Speaker 1: But these new quarterbacks and it applies to preseason two.

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Speaker 1: That's why I bring a picket the first round type guys.

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Speaker 1: I want to check off the box in the first

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Speaker 1: game or two that I've seen them play. Does he

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Speaker 1: look comfortable? Does he look like he belongs? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: still haven't checked that boxer's act, you know. And that's

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Speaker 1: third team regular season games, you know, and game planned

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Speaker 1: and fo him and people game planning against him. Where

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Speaker 1: pick it you can see right away like he looks

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Speaker 1: like he belongs. Yeah. I mean that's all you really

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Speaker 1: want out of those guys right away. Yeah. And and

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Speaker 1: level that he played at in college. Yes, they were

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Speaker 1: a nationally ranked team, but I think the you know,

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Speaker 1: wasn't good being a being a ranked team when you

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Speaker 1: a lot of those things, but enough of them. When

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Speaker 1: those type of things. And the excuses are over for

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Speaker 1: that type of stuff too. Yeah, I just you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a young offense. You knew there's gonna be growing pains.

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Speaker 1: But you guys been playing together a long time now,

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Speaker 1: and you haven't been riddled with injuries. On this side

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Speaker 1: They scored twenty four. I think you would take it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just the way things are going right now.

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Speaker 1: other teams have that too, No, I know, but they're

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Speaker 1: other defensive scores and whatnot. But they're not to bond

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Speaker 1: note that I dug up today too, that I think

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Speaker 1: is is interesting is both these teams play very fast.

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Speaker 1: But maybe the Steelers will be smart to slow it

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking from a defensive perspective, is maybe not

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Speaker 1: maybe just let the clock run. That would be great

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Speaker 1: And that's the problem. I mean, you know, when they've

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Speaker 1: looked like a yeah, you know, an offense that okay,

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Speaker 1: that that looks pretty good. But and you're right, because

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Speaker 1: that is a bit of a catch twenty two, but

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Speaker 1: a hurry up three and out. It is two STIPs

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Speaker 1: a gaate orade for car and they're there in lies

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Speaker 1: the rub. And why you don't use that all the time?

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Speaker 1: I get that, I want to use it, no huddle

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Speaker 1: you get down and score, you know, yeah, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: get you off the field enough. Um. You can check

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Speaker 1: out the Steelers Weekend review that's hosted by Wes Lealer.

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Speaker 1: It's a recap of the previous game as well as

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