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Speaker 1: I am Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson and special

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Speaker 1: guest today Tom Offerman joining us today. Here. He's got

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Speaker 1: But this is to drive on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll

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Speaker 1: be bringing you the next three hours here as the

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Speaker 1: Steelers getting ready to practice at St. Vincent College for

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Speaker 1: the first time this year. How about it. I wanted

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Speaker 1: What we're looking forward to seeing here? I mean, we

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Speaker 1: that's definitely what you got to look forward to, is

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be there for opening day. I mean we know, yeah,

426
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Speaker 1: of course, but he's gonna be Maybe he's not gonna

427
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Speaker 1: play in the preseason, you think, yeah, I was just

428
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: gonna say that. I don't know if they would have anyways,

429
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: but I'm sure he'll be in the film room and

430
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Speaker 1: on the white board two days after surgery at the

431
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: latest a bunch of reps. But I would be shocked

432
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: if he sees much of the practice field for the

433
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 1: next week or so, right, they were also dealing with

434
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: te Higgins coming off a shoulder surgery. People forget about

435
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, you know, they kind of brushed that

436
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 1: one under the rug. But he's that's an issue and

437
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. Not to mention, it's not

438
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,159
Speaker 1: like the Cincinnati's got a strong backup quarterback situation and

439
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: they just signed uh, I forget they signed somebody today

440
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 1: and it was nobody of any kind of note, Like,

441
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be wondering if you're a team like that.

442
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: Not that there's concerns about Burrow, but maybe that's where

443
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: like a Jimmy g ends up. I mean, I always

444
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: thought maybe he'd end up in Tampa or Buffalo or

445
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: somewhere that you know, he's not gonna threaten the starter,

446
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: but just in case something bad like that happens like

447
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 1: it did the Borrow, you know, at least you have

448
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,239
Speaker 1: a guy that would be more than capable. Because they

449
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: don't they don't write they might have I'm not gonna

450
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 1: say the worst backup quarterback situation in the league's division,

451
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,160
Speaker 1: but it's easily the worst in the division. And it's

452
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 1: definitely in the bottom five or six in the league.

453
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: Here the names for it Brandon Allen, Jake Browning, and

454
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: Drew Plitt. So I don't know Mr Plitt now, I

455
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: don't know him, but I mean that's who's gonna be

456
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 1: running practice the next two weeks. How much can you

457
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: get done conceivably? And that's where everything else kind of

458
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: gets affected by your quarterback, especially that offense with all

459
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: the weaponry they have in the passing game, and they're

460
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: young still, they want to rate. They need those two

461
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: just three weeks to ramp things up basically line, you know,

462
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: a new tight end and all new old line, you know,

463
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 1: I mean, all that continuity with the quarterback is going

464
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: to be installed. At least, you know, they might be fine.

465
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: I mean modern medicine. And he's despite Dale's comparison, I

466
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 1: like Burrow's chances of getting on the court quicker than

467
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: the comparison might end there. But but but still, I

468
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 1: mean it's a big deal. I think I think it's

469
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Speaker 1: a huge deal. Um you know, so I I you

470
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Speaker 1: know again, I think that there is a trickle down

471
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Speaker 1: effect from all that. Um you know, when you're when

472
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Speaker 1: your quarterback is not practicing and you don't have I

473
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: bet it's making nobody's got a second duo but Joe Burrow, No,

474
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Speaker 1: of course not. But again, you know how much of

475
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Speaker 1: your stuff are you able to install and things of

476
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: that nature if you had new things that you wanted

477
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Speaker 1: to do. See, I bet it's making him crazy. I mean,

478
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,640
Speaker 1: it just sounds like his extreme competitive makeup and he's

479
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: finally has his first healthy offseason. He wants to dig

480
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: into it in the deep end. And I wonder, and again,

481
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: this is totally putting the car before the horse. He's

482
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna be begging them to see the field probably early, right,

483
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to have some discipline and say, Joe,

484
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: you gotta sit here with the coordinator and you know,

485
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: the headset on or whatever. And boy, he's gonna hate that. Well,

486
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 1: let me just for reference sake, this did happen to

487
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: the Steelers In two thousand and six. Ben Roethlisberger had emergency.

488
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: Happened deck to me. Now, it was a week before

489
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: the start of the season, so it's like a week different,

490
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 1: a couple of a couple of weeks. A week before

491
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: the season. He missed the opener against Miami that year. Now,

492
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: they did win with Charlie Batchet quarterback. Then he returned

493
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: the Begs would kill for Charlie Batch, right, but he

494
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: when Ben came back the next three weeks, they lost

495
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: those three games because there's a little bit of rush factor.

496
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he couldn't have practiced much during the camp

497
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: back they with the Jacksonville got shut out. You think

498
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: maybe rushed it back for that Jacksonville game. Maybe let

499
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: Batch take care of Jacksonville after jest. That's the second hand,

500
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, you know, second guessing. Hard to do that, though,

501
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: when Big Ben's your quarterback and you're trying to he's

502
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: ready to put him out there, you know, right, right goes.

503
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if Burrows begging to get out there, I mean,

504
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: that's gonna be hard to keep him off the field,

505
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: especially for a young head coach, like you know what

506
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 1: I mean, like how much does he really have his

507
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: hands on the reins of that team? Oh? I think

508
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: it's Burrows team already, you know, right or right? I mean,

509
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: it be different if it was Burrow and Tomlin, you know,

510
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 1: I mean, it'll be a different story. But no, I

511
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: think it's Burrows team through and through already. Yeah. Um,

512
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: In terms of Deshaun Watson stuff, I'm sticking in the division. Um,

513
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: are we surprised at this point that the league hasn't

514
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: come out? And yes, some kind of I'm shocked about this.

515
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: So is he at there? He's at their camp right now.

516
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 1: And here's the problem that you could do it every

517
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: This is the problem that the Browns. And the Browns

518
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 1: have not one, not two, not three, but all four

519
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 1: of their quarterbacks this year are brand new to the team,

520
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 1: right right, including Josh Dobbs and Rosen and so inst

521
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: So right now, with with DeShawn Watson not suspended, you

522
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 1: have to give him starter reps. The Steelers have this

523
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: issue too and day and I've talked about a million times,

524
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: and I find it one of the most interesting things

525
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: with camp in preseason is how does the head coach

526
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: divvy up practice reps preseason reps only three games? The

527
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: Browns one, though, is really hairy, and now all of

528
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: a sudden, Cincinnati's is too. Like if they know deep

529
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: down de Shaun's not going to be their Week one,

530
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: their best chance of winning Week one is give Brissette

531
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: as much time as possible. But you just gave this

532
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: guy the biggest contract in the history of the world,

533
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: and he's on your team and the leaks being very quiet,

534
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: So I mean, he's just playing this game of chick

535
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: just waiting for them to blink. And they're not. Like

536
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: Dale said, they're all new. They need me and Marii

537
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: Cooper's new and you know, I mean like they need

538
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: all the help they can get too. So I would

539
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: imagine Rosen and Dobbs get the short end of the

540
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: stick in a big, big way. But still that's a

541
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: balancing active and the top two to your point, if

542
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: you gave Brissette a full training camp workload as a

543
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: starter preseason as a starter, they could beat the Panthers

544
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: in Week one. But oh yeah, I mean they could hang,

545
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: you know, be a competitive team as long as he

546
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: needs to, as long as does. But the problem is

547
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: until something happens with the Shawan, you can't do they

548
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: can't do that because you know, by the way last year, right,

549
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: he hadn't played football in a long time. Yeah, it's

550
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: it's it's a really interesting situation again for a team

551
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: that the Steelers play. We're talking about two teams. They

552
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: play these guys early in the season this year. I

553
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: think you want to play both of those teams early

554
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: in the season. Absolutely, and with all respect of those

555
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: two head coaches. I mean one just went to the

556
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the other one one Coach of the Year

557
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: two years ago. I would trust Harbor Tomlin to handle

558
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: that stuff more than those guys, you know what I mean,

559
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: without a doubt. Yeah. So it's so it's all very interesting. Um,

560
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, we're hearing bits and pieces out of out

561
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: of Ravens camp. J K. Dobbins may or may not

562
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: be ready to go at the start of the season

563
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: and very angry about that report being leaked out about him. Yeah,

564
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: except and then he went on the publist, but he

565
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: still wasn't ready. He was talking, as did Ronnie Stanley.

566
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: I mean those are two big Stanley one. Yeah. I mean,

567
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: if you talked about a guy that hasn't played in

568
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: a couple of years, that's Ronnie Stanley now and they're

569
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: counting on again. I'm a little behind, and I apologize, folks.

570
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: I've been out in the woods for the last week.

571
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: But I mean some of these guys that are didn't

572
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: or aren't on POP to start camp doesn't mean anything

573
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: to me, Like Tampa signed Julio Jones and Chris Godwin

574
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: isn't on Pop. What doesn't mean he's doing anything or

575
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: isn't about to go on pop soon or you know,

576
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: start the season on the pop list, you know, physically

577
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: unable to perform and the same trip. But if your

578
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: honor already, that's definitely a red flag, you know, I

579
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: mean that they're concerned about you. They just don't want

580
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: you working on at all. And Stanley and Dobbins are

581
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: especially Stanley, I mean, Stanley is here replaceable for them. Yeah,

582
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: Ravens fans have to be thrown up in their mouth

583
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: a little bit with all the jury and despite all

584
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: that in the first place, until Lamar finally goes down

585
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: and it's completely over. So I can't imagine what they're

586
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: thinking right now with those two guys already off to

587
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: rocky starts. Know, by the way, Lamar still hasn't gotten

588
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: a new deal yet. He doesn't seem very happy. No,

589
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: there's more and more rumblings with that, and I mean,

590
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: I think the ripple effect there is. Well, Kyler just

591
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: signed and I haven't talk about that in the playoffs

592
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: and got to win. If you don't want to give

593
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: me to Shawn's contract, well let's talk about Kyler's. Here's

594
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: another comparable, you know, if you're you know, buying something

595
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: and here, well here's the comps. Well, I just laid

596
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: out two for you that are recent. I think I'm

597
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: better than this guy, and I you know, you could

598
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: tell me I'm not better than the Sean. But we're

599
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: all on the same you know, stratosphere. None of us

600
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: have rings. And I actually watched film. I don't need

601
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: an incentive to watch my film. I don't, right, right right,

602
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: I actually show up here and try to help the

603
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: thing the TV on in the background when I'm breaking

604
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: it down on the iPad. What what do you make

605
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: of that? Report? Meant? I think it's a massive red flag.

606
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: I attached all the money to give him, right, like right,

607
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: And you still, by the way, you need to watch

608
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: more film, like right? I mean to me it just said,

609
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: is he doesn't watch any on his own? Yeah, I

610
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: mean he comes to exam, sure, he clicks you know,

611
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: he checks the you know, the time clock, and he's

612
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: there on time, and he works like every other player

613
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: in the building. And then he leaves like every other

614
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: play in the player in the building. But I bet

615
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: he does nothing else. I mean that you're talking about

616
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: an hour a day right right on your the days

617
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: that you work during the week. I mean, I know,

618
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what these three quarterbacks we're looking at

619
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: right now do, but I bet they've done that since

620
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: they've been here. Yeah, you know, on their own. It

621
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: kind of illustrates or kind of makes sense now the

622
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: drop off in his play as the year goes on,

623
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: right because you start early, teams are still kind of

624
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: getting familiar with you. As the new year goes on,

625
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: new stuff that your offense is doing. Five weeks six,

626
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: weeks seven, they start to watch more film, and you're

627
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: not watching the same amount of film to adjust to

628
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: what the adjustments are being to you. And and you

629
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: see the collapses that the Cardinals have to the rest

630
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: last couple of seasons. I think they're an extremely interesting

631
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: and volatle team. And I've thought this even before the contract,

632
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: but this contract makes me even think it more because

633
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: it's definitely not an accident. I mean, we talked about

634
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: this all the time. Dale teams tell you things if

635
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: you look hard enough through the teeth leaves. Basically, the

636
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Speaker 1: day Larry Fitzgerald retired, who was the leader of that

637
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Speaker 1: t S, they go sign a J. Green J. J. Watt,

638
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Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson, every All Star from two thousand fifteen you

639
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Speaker 1: could possibly find. Because they the young yeah, I mean

640
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback and the young guys aren't providing leadership. And

641
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: you know, they've used minimal draft picks on offensive lineman.

642
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Speaker 1: They've drafted a linebacker in the first round two years

643
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Speaker 1: in a row. They make this Marquise Brown trade to

644
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Speaker 1: go make Kyler happy. And you know, even when they

645
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Speaker 1: signed and they drafted kings or signed Kingsbury or hired Kingsbury,

646
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: they make the Kyler move. And we got our first

647
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: offensive snap coming up here. There we go of training

648
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: camp eleven on eleven, Mit drobiscuit quarterback drops back to

649
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: past dumps it off, but it was it was well

650
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Speaker 1: to fended there by Miles Jack. Yeah, and hey, we

651
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: can report that because we're at training camp and there

652
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: it is, and there's a bunch of people on the hillside,

653
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: probably all over the Twitter already a couple of things

654
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Speaker 1: along those lines. I mean, I'm so not used to

655
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Speaker 1: being able to say exactly what I see live. But

656
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: before you know, I mean, when they're doing like quarterback

657
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: center exchange, there was a high percentage of rollouts, right

658
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: off the bat, you know, even to the left. I mean,

659
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a staple, no offense to bend. I'm

660
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: gonna say that over and over again. But he's not

661
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: running those plays at all. Last year. I mean, they

662
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: had all three quarterbacks throwing on the run. They had

663
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: Nausey split out wide. We saw that in the last camp,

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Speaker 1: and I mean that's the kind of stuff I think

665
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: people need to look forward to. Everyone's gonna focus on,

666
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: oh what I want to see the jet sweet motions

667
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: and the unbalanced lines, but things like just design quarterback

668
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: movement and moving Nausey around. I mean, those things make

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Speaker 1: the defenses a lot more, a lot more to account

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Speaker 1: for on any given play. Let's stick more into that

671
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Speaker 1: because both quarterbacks talked today at both quarterbacks being Mason

672
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: Rudolph and Mit S. Robiskie talked at lunch today and

673
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Speaker 1: I thought there were some interesting things to come out

674
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Speaker 1: of that. We'll talk about that when we come back.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. That is Tom Offerman. I am

676
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on Steelers

677
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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. We are live from Steelers training camp here

678
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Speaker 1: at St. Fencent College watching practice on Chuck Nollfield and

679
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: we'll be back with more right after this. Hey, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Allly with Matt Williamson and Tom Offerman our

681
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Speaker 1: special guest today and the Steelers practicing here at St.

682
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Speaker 1: Fencon College on Chuck Millfield in front of us here right,

683
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: we've got an obstructive view a little bit. Yeah, pull

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Speaker 1: the curtain back a little bit here we can see

685
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: about it. Oh, I don't know. We're ground level, but

686
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: in an end zone looking through a fence and people

687
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: and other things walking pads and LEDs and yeah. Uh

688
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: but I mentioned in the previous segment there Matt at

689
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Speaker 1: the end there, um that the Quarterbacks Talk today, arter

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Speaker 1: Yeah Backs Talk Today. Mason Rudolph was was asked about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the some of the drop passes last

692
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Speaker 1: year and if that could be attributed to the short

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Speaker 1: passing game, the the over reliance on the short passing game,

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Speaker 1: and he said yeah. He said, but the offense is

695
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Speaker 1: gonna be a little different this year. Um, you know,

696
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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw the ball down the field a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. And he said that the way they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do that, he's using play action. That he used play

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Speaker 1: action more to your point about the quarterbacks being more mobile.

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Speaker 1: Um and we talked about this in the offseason, Matt

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Speaker 1: and I just wanted to remind everybody. I'm sure it's

702
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Speaker 1: some new listeners, and it's a it's a new year,

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Speaker 1: it's a new year. Yeah. For his career on play action,

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, as good as he was for his career,

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Speaker 1: had a seven seven point three UH passer rating on

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Speaker 1: play action Okay, and only through a hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: nine career play action passes. Believe that's the crazy part.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's that's what I say. Even over his

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Speaker 1: huge career, it's a very low sample size, especially knowing

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Speaker 1: how much he shot away from it towards the latter

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Speaker 1: end of his career. I would say in the last

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Speaker 1: five years. I know this for a a fact. Actually in

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Speaker 1: the last five years or they've they've well, let's take

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Speaker 1: the year that he didn't play away. His last five years,

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Speaker 1: they were either thirty feet or thirty second in the

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Speaker 1: league and play action usage. That's my design. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've gone the radio a million times saying it makes

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Speaker 1: me crazy, but I can't talk out both sides of

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Speaker 1: my mouth. I mean, your your quarterbacks like a baseball stadium.

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Speaker 1: You build around whatever he wants. You want your guy

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Speaker 1: to be most comfortable. Obviously, Ben and play action aren't

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Speaker 1: buddies because he was he was a shotgun quarterback in

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Speaker 1: so that wasn't something that they did at all when

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Speaker 1: he was at Miami of Oino. So any play action

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, for him, was something completely new. Mr Robiskie

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Speaker 1: in his career is already thrown add and eighty five

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00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: play action passes. Yeah, that's that's the norm. Right, and

728
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Speaker 1: he has a nineties seven passer rating on play action right,

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Speaker 1: I mean every quarterback in the league, basically, folks has

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Speaker 1: a much better play action passer rating them without. I

731
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,479
Speaker 1: mean it's kind of a cheap code and it makes

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Speaker 1: life much easier. You freeze a linebacker whatever. Um, do

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Speaker 1: you have picket stuff too from last year? I don't.

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Speaker 1: I have Mason Rudolph So from the end, just their

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Speaker 1: NFL stats. Yeah, Mason Rudolph uh has a eighty four

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Speaker 1: point to passer rating on play action passing, which in

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Speaker 1: a good five passer rating on non play action. So

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Speaker 1: whoa no no catch almost George Pickens almost with a

739
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Speaker 1: great catch intercept that it looks like it was like

740
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: now they're they're talking. When the balls on the ground

741
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: at they pick it up and go the other way. Still,

742
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: he contorted and went up and got that thing over

743
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: his should come down with more of those than not

744
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: this year because you can really, I feel like, make

745
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: his mark on this offense with that kind of yes,

746
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: because they're missing that from that's what you want from Claypool.

747
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: But it's it's it really you heard the crowd react

748
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Speaker 1: to it. Let's put it, but it was I want

749
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Speaker 1: to get back to the play action conversation and just

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Speaker 1: one second. But folks, I'm predicting that Pickens is gonna

751
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: make this crowd roar a lot in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: I really think so, Yeah, that was That would have

753
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Speaker 1: been spectacular if he comes down with that. And I

754
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Speaker 1: don't think you have these numbers hand because I was

755
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: just pro but pick It killed it with off a

756
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: play action too. Like there's a couple of things when

757
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: you go out post Ben that it's pretty obvious our

758
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: parameters for their new quarterback is they want highly proficient

759
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: and experienced with play action, a level of mobility. But

760
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 1: people overlook or look too much what that means I mean,

761
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: if if someone here could run like Lamar Jackson, great,

762
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: but that's not what they're looking for. They want designed

763
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: role out So they want to be able to light

764
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 1: on your feet, um sprint action things like that, and

765
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: if you know your left tackle blows a block, you

766
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: can step up and pick up five or six yards, slide,

767
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: get up first down, you know. I mean that's the

768
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that they absolutely requiring from this quarterback position. Yeah,

769
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: and absolutely really good with their ball fakes and things

770
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: like that too. And like you said, especially when you

771
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Speaker 1: have younger quarterbacks. I mean, I know Mitch is the

772
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Speaker 1: veteran of the group, but he's still relatively young. It

773
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: just don't want to make their life as easy as possible,

774
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: and that's that's the easiest way you can make their

775
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 1: life as easy as possible. Yes, it's certainly a cheap code,

776
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: a great aid help right now. I don't want to

777
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: look into this too much, but it's the discrepancy across

778
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: the league. Play Action verse non has been very very

779
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Speaker 1: high in play Actions favor now for a while long time,

780
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Speaker 1: and then mcveigh's and Shanahan's thrive off it. But just

781
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: last year that gap started to get a little tighter.

782
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: The defensive coaches are telling their linebackers, now, pretend every

783
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Speaker 1: plays a pass, you know, don't. Yeah, and you're starting

784
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Speaker 1: to see the readjustment on the other a little bit,

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Speaker 1: A little bit, That's what I say. And that ship's sail. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The game the Steelers played last year against the Lions, example,

787
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Speaker 1: when they just ran the ball. They would be third

788
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: and eighteen and the Lions would run the football right

789
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: right right. They just refused to throw the football in

790
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Speaker 1: the second half of that game. And that's what I

791
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: think made it so maddening. You know, a couple of

792
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: times they did pick up the first downs on long

793
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: runs because the Steelers are playing to pass. Yeah, just like,

794
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Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Are you trying to win

795
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Speaker 1: the football game and you're trying to just shorten the

796
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: game and see what happens that kind of thing. But yeah,

797
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: I mean it's a passing league, that's what that's what

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00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: teams do now. Yeah, but I would expect the A

799
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Speaker 1: And when it's all said and done, I'll put a

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Speaker 1: chip down that the Steelers are in the top eight

801
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: in the league and usage your play action, which would

802
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: be a massive, massive, different total change you want to

803
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: build around what your quarterbacks comfortable with. Mitch likes it,

804
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: Kenny in college liked it, Jason liked it more than

805
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: ben So and now you got to pick them. It's

806
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: not an accent that both those two have the same

807
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: traits that way. Yeah, you didn't inherit this quarterback. And

808
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: that's the thing that people say, well, why didn't Matt

809
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: Canada make any adjustments to what the you know, to

810
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: last year. You gotta do what your quarterback can do.

811
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Speaker 1: And if he doesn't like play action, if he's not

812
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: capable of rolling out and doing you know, stretch plays

813
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, you're not gonna do it.

814
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: And everyone on tape knew exactly his limitations, you know.

815
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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's the bottom line. So no, it'll

816
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: be a lot different looking. Um, they practiced a lot

817
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: of stuff last year, to be honest. That's where I

818
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: have the criticism was this time of year last year,

819
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Speaker 1: we saw a lot of Canada concepts. You know, like

820
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: right now, Uh, who's like eighty four? Does a jet

821
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Speaker 1: sweep right in front of him and he and he

822
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: hands it to him? Or like a pitch? That's that's

823
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: Tyler Steed out of east. I don't know who that dude,

824
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: but he's a little shifty type looking guy. But he

825
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: went screaming across the formation. You know. Uh the second

826
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Speaker 1: guy who came in motion, A guy came first. Yeah, right,

827
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Speaker 1: right right. I've seen so far today, we've seen a

828
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: ton of double motion before they snapped the ball almost

829
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: every time it's a great point. It's a really good point.

830
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Speaker 1: And even Ben was doing it though last year where

831
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: the snapoul hit his hands and it'd almost be had

832
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: a touch pass. Comfortable doing it right right, And that

833
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: was the thing. So you know, you try it out

834
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Speaker 1: in training in a training camp setting to see if

835
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Speaker 1: he's comfortable doing it, and then he says, yeah, I

836
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Speaker 1: don't like that's on my bag, especially when the bullets

837
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: are flying fore a naked bootleg there. Yeah, but there's

838
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff. There's a lot of window

839
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: dressing and I candy and things for linebackers to look

840
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: at this shiny thing and then something else is coming

841
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: behind him. And again my criticism was and I guess

842
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: you had to try it, you know, the new coordinator was.

843
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: I won't say they wasted a lot of training camp reps,

844
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: but if they knew then that we're really not going

845
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: to use this stuff in week six, week ten, weeks sixteen,

846
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: they would have been practicing the bend stuff, you know

847
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Speaker 1: what I mean? You know, so I would expect this

848
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: training camp to be a lot more focused in that

849
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: this is the offensive system. We went out and acquired

850
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 1: you guys to fit it, and that's why we picked

851
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: you because you fit it very well. Right, Yeah, so interesting,

852
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: and I will continue to see more and more of that.

853
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: They're not gonna show everything that they're gonna do here,

854
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: no ofques. You have to work on these things and

855
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: that's all. That's all part of it. So um, you

856
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 1: know again, people went why are they doing this stuff?

857
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 1: And there's people watching watching, and you guys can report

858
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: it well because you have to work. You know, there's

859
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: no surprises in today's NFL. No, not really, right, I

860
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: mean everybody, I think the expectation is if you're an

861
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: opposing opposing team that's gonna play the Steelers, Matt Cannon

862
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: is gonna they're gonna you know, you you see who

863
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks are, you see some of the guys that

864
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,240
Speaker 1: they've drafted, some of the talent they've acquired, So you say, Okay,

865
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna do this stuff to us. It's it's no

866
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: different than Andy Reid. And you know, you o, Tyreek

867
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: Hill was going to be screaming across the formation. You

868
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: still have you still got to figure out a way

869
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: to deal with it, what you're gonna do to it

870
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: to contain it. And they've been practicing it every day

871
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: for years, and you get to practice it two or

872
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: three days before the game, you know, right. I mean

873
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: that's the difference. They're just better at it than you

874
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: are defending it. I mean that's the key. And again,

875
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: I mean the people in the league can look around

876
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: it offseason moves and be like, well, this is their plan.

877
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: And obviously, as you always say, teams will tell you

878
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: what their plans are by the moves that they make. Yeah,

879
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: I mean if you can decipher, if you can, you know,

880
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: do the translation, you'll figure out their intentions. But that's

881
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: what the beauty of this league too. And this is

882
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: what makes a guy like Tomin so great is You're

883
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: you've been playing all off season for this day to

884
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: get on this practice field for day one, and by

885
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: week three you may have lost two thirds of your

886
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: offensive line or your quarterback can't do the things you

887
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: thought they could, and you gotta adjust on the fly.

888
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: And that's where the veteran coaching and stuff really comes

889
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: into plate for me. Yeah, when you were when you're

890
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: a coach and you actually, you know, coach the group

891
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: that you have, you got red paint your painted barn red.

892
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: But sometimes you go to the barn, like word, all

893
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: that red paint go that we've been wet painting with green.

894
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: Here we're gonna but it's gonna be a barn. It's

895
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: gonna be painted, it's gonna be protected. Or it's like

896
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of red and a little

897
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: bit of blue, let's splash them together and turn it

898
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: in the green. You know. Well, assuming that the paint

899
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 1: doesn't leave the barn this year, these quarterbacks can do

900
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: what they hope they can do. Yeah, you'll see a

901
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: lot more downfield stuff mixed in with Canada. You know,

902
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: quick screens to your playmakers and hopefully that you can

903
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: set a couple of blocks on the outside and you

904
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: can but miss. You gotta make the first guy miss, obviously,

905
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: and then you can bust it for another fifteen twenty yards.

906
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: All of that stuff is just going to become more

907
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: and more open the more and more you work the

908
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: ball deep downfield. It was just becoming too predictable last year,

909
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: no threat of a deep ball, except for a handful

910
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: of times they were designed. I mean, Ben was going

911
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: with those deep balls, especially on the right sideline. They'll

912
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: work the middle deep a lot more than determined. You

913
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: know that was coming out on sus Is back for

914
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: it hit. It was coming out down the sideline on

915
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: a go ball and at fifty and you're hoping your

916
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: receiver makes a play that that won't be the offense.

917
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: Now you know that you can't draw plays up like that.

918
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: And I'm excited. There's a ton of playmakers on the

919
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: offensive side that I'm excited to see what they can do.

920
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: Throw quickly out to them parallel to the line of

921
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: scrimmage and see if they could take a ten yards

922
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: for a first down. And I think they've got a

923
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: lot of guys that check that box, even Naji, if

924
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: you just want to flare him out real quick, get

925
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 1: him out right. You trust him more than maybe anybody

926
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: in the league right now other than Derrick Henry as

927
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: far as breaking that first tackle is concerned. So you

928
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: want to get him one on one with a guy,

929
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: make the first guy miss. That's your safety and something right.

930
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: And then the other thing too is I understand the

931
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: concerns about the old line. I have concerns about the

932
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: old line, especially the tackles. Will see how that plays out.

933
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Speaker 1: But if you're having designed boots and rollouts and things,

934
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: well they know that protection and the backside guys have

935
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: a lot further way to come to hit your quarterback.

936
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: You may buy yourself half a second. I mean same

937
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: with the not to play action. So much about stopping

938
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: the slow one down the pass rush, but that priest,

939
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: that motion. If you're t J. Watt playing against those

940
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: type of things, you can't just explode up the field

941
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: to close down. Yeah, well that's gonna do it for

942
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: hour one, guys, we're gonna take another break here. We

943
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: got one in the books. We've got two more to

944
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: come here as the Steelers take part in their first

945
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: official practice here at St. Vincent College on Chuck Noll Field. Uh.

946
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947
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