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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on you home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson and Matt. It is a beautiful first day today.

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Speaker 1: It's like a spring day. It is. It's shocking like

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Speaker 1: it's warm out. Yeah yeah, I mean it's shorts and

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Speaker 1: T shirt almost out there. Yeah, says go to the

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Speaker 1: gym after this as a full disclaimer, but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean geared up for a great football weekend. We saw

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Speaker 1: a game last night and Pitt Pelly do how about that?

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Speaker 1: And we got a really good slate of games and

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Speaker 1: as as we talked about a lot of those yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers today activating Marquise Pouncy the COVID nineteen list,

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Speaker 1: of course, basically switches spots with Vince Williams on the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. Is that a trade off that you would

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Speaker 1: that you would have made if if somebody said Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: you can get Marquise Pouncy back, but you're gonna lose

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Speaker 1: Vince Williams. I mean obviously, like if everybody's healthy, yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Pouncey is better what he does in Williams

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Speaker 1: is what he does in his work accomplished. But even

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Speaker 1: in even knowing the Splane Bush situation, Yes, I think

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Speaker 1: that center position has hurt them pretty bad over the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks. Yeah, you want to talk about why

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Speaker 1: they haven't run the belt ball particularly well the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks, and it's kind of come to a head

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Speaker 1: in these last two weeks. U. Um, that's why. That's

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Speaker 1: a big reason. Yeah, And what we don't know is

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Speaker 1: the communicate Asian, the timing of doubles and going up

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Speaker 1: to the linebacker, the stuff that pounds he's gonna have

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Speaker 1: with his teammates that you know, the young guys just

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Speaker 1: not going to and it takes time. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's big, um. And it kind of makes you out

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Speaker 1: of excuses for the old line, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of put up a shut up time in

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Speaker 1: terms of that old line moving some bodies this week.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know how much they'll choose to do it,

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Speaker 1: but you'd like to see some of it. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. And the reason why I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Vince Williams. Obviously you love to have him out there

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Speaker 1: because they're already down Bush and splain, Uh, and we

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Speaker 1: knew that going into the week. Um is because of

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Speaker 1: you know what he can do in the in the

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Speaker 1: run defense. Um, but Buffalo doesn't run the ball. No,

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Speaker 1: I looked at them. I took Josh. If you take

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's numbers out of their rushing at them right now,

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Speaker 1: they're averaging rushing attempts per game as a team, which

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Speaker 1: is low, and they are winning a lot of games.

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Speaker 1: If you take Allen's rushing attempts out of the equation,

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Speaker 1: the average eighteen rush attempts per game, So they average

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Speaker 1: eighteen non quarterback rushing attempts per game. Yeah, and they're

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Speaker 1: not gonna suddenly come out in this game on Sunday

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Speaker 1: and say, oh, we're gonna run the ball forty times.

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Speaker 1: Because they don't have Vince Williams. They're gonna throw, yeah linebackers,

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Speaker 1: which I think they would have done Vince was out

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Speaker 1: there anyway, frankly, but I think I might in some

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Speaker 1: instances if we're looking at, um, what the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: gonna have on the field with Marcus Allen, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: Avery Williamson, and perhaps maybe they work Ulysses Gilbert in

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Speaker 1: that they're better in coverage. That's what they better. That's

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Speaker 1: what they do better as long as as long as

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Speaker 1: the communication is okay and they don't pass guys off

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Speaker 1: to nobody, Um, they better range. They probably better in coverage. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: maybe in the fifth it's PLAYE and Vince were out there. Yes,

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Speaker 1: these backups might be better than That's what they're that's

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Speaker 1: what they're suited to do. They are absolutely so this game.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it hurts them all that bad. You're

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Speaker 1: right though, the recognition and the communication is that's the

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Speaker 1: stuff that's gonna be big. I mean, passing guys offen zone,

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Speaker 1: when to do it, when not to, how long to

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Speaker 1: stick with them, Those things are important. This team will

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Speaker 1: manipulate you a lot pre snap and play and run

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Speaker 1: action things like that too. That I would think Williams

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Speaker 1: and Williamson's and Williamson frankly won't fight on nearly as

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Speaker 1: much as certainly Gilbert or Spillane. You know, the youth,

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Speaker 1: young guys. Yeah, I wonder if because of that fact,

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Speaker 1: because the Steelers know that they're inexperienced, especially in their

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Speaker 1: defensive Like I'm not gonna say Avery Williamson is an

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Speaker 1: you don't play a lot of man against running quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: but you have spies and you can spy him. Alan

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Speaker 1: a really good runner. But maybe, um, I think the

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Speaker 1: But the probably a little better in man than they

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Speaker 1: looks like you're gonna have your full compliment of corners,

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Speaker 1: where the linebackers aren't. Digs is gonna have a If

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Speaker 1: you're playing man, Digs is a handful, but he's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a handful if you playing zone. That doesn't matter, question,

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Speaker 1: without questions. You just play the safety over top of

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Speaker 1: Beasley does some damage against you, and I think he will,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's seven yards at a time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna take a Patriot like approach to

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Speaker 1: Bush was out. With any of them that are there,

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Speaker 1: it's still the weakness of the defense, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that holding the ball a long time

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Speaker 1: that or who you are still gonna You're gonna get hit.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get hit. So that's my hunch. Um good,

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Speaker 1: good approach. Yeah, I mean, I think you could get

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He's also not the most experienced quarterback, so

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Speaker 1: you may vary your coverage is more than you do,

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Speaker 1: or disguise them a little more than you do on average.

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Speaker 1: The problem with the disguise part of it is are

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Speaker 1: those guys capable in the middle of playing the disguise game? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Are they experienced enough to to do that? Damn, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna show man here, but then we're gonna drop into

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Speaker 1: the play of the safeties as well. I was thinking

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Speaker 1: they don't have a great tight end, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think Manko will read Alan well and attack his balls

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Speaker 1: and in their last six games, all those teams have

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Speaker 1: be probably their toughest test because one of those there

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Speaker 1: like it wasn't quite even the same, you know, well,

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Speaker 1: but at that point though, you know, if you look

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Speaker 1: They've become a top half passing game since then, they're

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Speaker 1: way better. You know lately than they were then. I

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Speaker 1: just my point is this is gonna be a tougher

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Speaker 1: or certainly recently. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the past defense has been phenomenal, but it it hasn't

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Speaker 1: been a murderer's row. Um, But I love that there

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Speaker 1: pass rush is mostly intact. You know too, It's gonna

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Speaker 1: He's a hackle lot better than a chick. I'm almost

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Speaker 1: certain of that. And their cover guys are in full force.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm assuming Hayden is gonna play. I like

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Speaker 1: those chances. And frankly, the Bill's d is not phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: they haven't faced any top passing attacks were at least

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Speaker 1: you know ones that are still there, not consistently. Um.

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Speaker 1: They've faced some teams that can throw the football and

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Speaker 1: have shown that they can throw. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the Giants, the Giants have had some games.

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Speaker 1: exploit that. I don't know if I can buy that.

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Speaker 1: They get weapons. They got weapons, But it's not the Giants.

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Speaker 1: the thing about this. I can look at this and say, Okay, well, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Steelers past defense, they've given up some yards,

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Speaker 1: the all the artist stuff, I don't care. The arts

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Speaker 1: stuff doesn't matter. If you're up thirty and you give

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Speaker 1: I do think people do want to ding the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: They haven't played anybody. I'm on on that train. But

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Speaker 1: I think when you analyze a past defense, a run offense,

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Speaker 1: faced great quarterbacks, they haven't faced a really difficult slate.

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Speaker 1: But I still think the past defense is great. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the pass rush would be just as good no matter what,

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Speaker 1: And that, to me is the the thing you can

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Speaker 1: always fall back on with this defense is a pass

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Speaker 1: rushes elite. Yeah. I mean, I think you can look

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Speaker 1: very good defense. Patriots have an awful offense. Man, so

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Speaker 1: those are the games where you pad your stats and

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Speaker 1: you know the passing like the game against the Ravens

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Speaker 1: is a game the Steelers really paid their their defensive stats.

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Speaker 1: Give up ninety passing yards in that game, and seventy

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Speaker 1: of it came on one play. You know that that's tea. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's part of doing it. You know. You you play

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Speaker 1: uh Denver without lock, you give up a hundred forty

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Speaker 1: they just destroyed the Browns. So, I mean, I still

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Lilli here with Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: Matt that we go. We go over this every once

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Speaker 1: little bit against the bit. Played really well, but he's

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Speaker 1: not better than Matt Ryan. Go on, I'd rather go

424
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Speaker 1: off too. Fourteen Phil Matthew Stafford. I hope he went

425
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 1: up a little. He moved up. Yeah, two spots thirteen,

426
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Cousins had a good year. I'm not I

427
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 1: never say much good about him. He still does turn

428
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: the ball over a little bit, though, Oh he does.

429
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 1: He does. Twere the Niners when you give a first

430
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Speaker 1: round pick fro Matthew Stafford or the Colts, Well, I

431
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: think the Colts definitely would be because they got nothing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, he's got an injury. There's there's

433
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Speaker 1: some injury issues there that you wonder about. There's a

434
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Speaker 1: lot of wear and tear. Number twelve is Tom Brady. Okay,

435
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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta pass for the week. Just where

436
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 1: he is? Yeah, justin Herbert falls three spots, falls out

437
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 1: of the top two. This is probably I think the

438
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: hype train Goettle started a little too soon. He's not

439
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Speaker 1: winning any games. He's not winning any games. Like, I

440
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: don't care, You're you're behind all the time. So you throw, throw, throw, throw, throw,

441
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: but you're not winning any games. And the tools are

442
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: really impressive. Yeah, you And what's nice about him? A

443
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: kind of verse to uh one of the menute of

444
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: the league with a lot of higher expectations. Yeah, which

445
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: isn't fair. You know, if you should judge them in

446
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: a in a vacuum, one of them has way better

447
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 1: throwing the key that Alan and Mike Williams to ahead

448
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: that he'd probably look a lot better too, would I mean,

449
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 1: I really like Herbert. I think is is uh future

450
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: is really bright. But these two Belichick defenses rookie right, yeah,

451
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: but he's down to eleven. Number ten is Derek Carr.

452
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 1: That'd be a little lower on car. The last couple

453
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 1: of weeks have not been his friend. They have not.

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00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. It doesn't This doesn't get factored

455
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Speaker 1: into a quarterbacks passer rating or any of those things.

456
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: He's lost eight fumbles. It's a lot this pocket. I mean,

457
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: he played twelve games, you lost eight fumbles, so you

458
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: only thrown five interceptions, but you've turned the ball over

459
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: thirteen times. Yeah, that's too much. Like Baker does that

460
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: all the time too. And it's just that's no pocket presence. Right,

461
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,199
Speaker 1: that's a good point, not that it's ever okay, but

462
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Speaker 1: if it were Alan Murray lamar, Okay, Yeah, you're running,

463
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: he's standing in the pocket. He's not going anywhere. That

464
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: just shows me that you just have no Yeah, you

465
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: need to be aware of that stuff. Uh. And you

466
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: don't go down the field a lot either. That's the

467
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 1: other thing comes out quick plays. That's a pretty bad statue,

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Speaker 1: right Uh. Number nine up two spots after his week.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Okay, I mean I'm coming around on Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think he's a little bit better. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Um didn't throw the ball great the last he ran.

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Speaker 1: He had three or four dreadful passes too, But he

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Speaker 1: usually does. Number eight up a spot. This is as

474
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Speaker 1: high as he's been all year. Ben Roethlisberger m okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean I can't put anything that's happened the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks on Roethlisberger. They've dropped fifteen passes in the

477
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Speaker 1: last two games. I think that's good analysis by these

478
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Speaker 1: folks who do it, because I think most people would

479
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,919
Speaker 1: have had would drop them. But if you really study,

480
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: it wasn't because of what came out of his hand.

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Speaker 1: It was what happened when it got there. And here's

482
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Speaker 1: the here's the other side. He has not lost a

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Speaker 1: fumble this year. Wow, I mean the turnovers are really

484
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: he's thrown He's throwing seven interceptions, but he's lost. He

485
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: hasn't lost a fumble. Like when you factor in sacks

486
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: and turnovers, those are that's a really telling thing to

487
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: add up, and he's been elite with that this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: number seven down two spotsyl Kyler Murray. He has not

489
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Speaker 1: played well. He's trending in the wrong direction very much.

490
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Speaker 1: And they could be having this discussion next week and

491
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 1: he could be at ten or two. Yeah. Yeah, there's

492
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Speaker 1: a lot of altility with them. But it's obvious he

493
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 1: can't see and everyone's keeping him in the pocket and

494
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Speaker 1: he's not he's not running. He's not running because his

495
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Speaker 1: shoulders all messed up. And he doesn't throw the ball

496
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: so well because his shoulders all messed up. You know,

497
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 1: Like he's obviously playing through something. But if Breese was

498
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: playing through this, you'd be okay, you know what I mean?

499
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: Like this takes away three quarters of what he does

500
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: exactly right. It's a bad thing for him to deal with,

501
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: which brings you the bigger topic and Lamar is obviously

502
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: this conversation is once these guys start to get banged up,

503
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: can you fall back on the essentials, you know what

504
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 1: I mean? And I think Kyler is a pretty good thrower,

505
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Speaker 1: so if this was a knee, maybe it wouldn't be

506
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: as big. I mean, if we we're gonna talk here

507
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Speaker 1: about the guys ahead of Kyler Murray, and these guys

508
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: can all do that. If they can't run, they can

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00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: they have something to fall back on. Nber Number six

510
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: is is Russell Wilson, who's fall in two spots. But

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Speaker 1: if he can't run, he can still stand on the cart. Yeah.

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00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: Ryan Tanney Hill number that's Funnyhill. But I can't put

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Speaker 1: him ahead of Russell Wilson. I'm sorry, but he's playing well. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Number four is Josh Allen up three spots, had a

515
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Speaker 1: really good game and he's had a great year. Yeah. Now,

516
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Speaker 1: I'll say this. He's throwing eight interceptions, he's lost six fumbles.

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Speaker 1: He's turned the ball receptible than car, turned the ball

518
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: over fourteen times in twelve games. I bet t J.

519
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: Watts well aware of that. Yeah. Uh. Number three Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 1: But here's the other side of the point. He's he's

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Speaker 1: throwing six interceptions, he's only lost one fumble, and he

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00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: runs around like a chicken with his head. Coach isn't

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00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: get help he's been really really good this year. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Number two Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, the top two I think

525
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: stand alone at the moment. And Mahomes and Mahomes two interceptions,

526
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Speaker 1: one fumble lost and both the interceptions came against the

527
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: Raiders the game they lost. No, he like one in

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Speaker 1: that game. Want to get one against him in the

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Speaker 1: second meeting. That doesn't mean he doesn't throw passes that

530
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: are not capable being intercepted. But Rogers the other one too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like Rogers career TD interception ratio is one of the

532
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: most startling. He's thirty six to four this year. I

533
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: mean that's crazy. And he'll he'll sling it all over

534
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: the field too. Yeah. So I mean that those are

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Speaker 1: the quarterback ranking. So the Steelers you're gonna see the

536
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Speaker 1: number four quarterback and I can't disagree with that. That's

537
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Speaker 1: where he belongs. I mean we when we talked about that,

538
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 1: that that matchup, when we went over the rosters, I

539
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: mean we gave the nod to right. Yeah. Yeah, he

540
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: brings more to the table right now. Yeah, and Ben

541
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: does some things. Now, there are some things, yeah, there

542
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: there are some things that Ben You would obviously if

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Speaker 1: you put Ben's head on Josh Allen's body, right, he'd

544
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 1: actually he'd have a young Ben, have a young guy. Yeah,

545
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: you have the best version of Benman's probably saying all right,

546
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: that's a good point. He has some early trade Ben's

547
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: early when I was watching him at Wyoming that that

548
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: was the first thing I thought, like, man, he looks

549
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: like Ben Roethlisberger. When I was watching the Miami tape,

550
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: like he's all they have. I bet he's You've seen

551
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: been a million times, and people that haven't, I bet

552
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,239
Speaker 1: would say, boy, Ben's bigger than I thought he was.

553
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: I bet Allen's when that mold Ben's way. But like

554
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: people don't understand how big of a human being, Like

555
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: my wife says it all the time, and like because

556
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: I'll get caught on camera standing next to Ben and

557
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm I'm six five pounds, yeah, and he's towering over me,

558
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: like yeah, right, right right, you see him in perfectly

559
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: well yeah, and I bet Allen's and it's not like

560
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: seeing Shack but no, I've done that before. Tunes like background,

561
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: that's the largest human being I've ever seen. Uh yeah,

562
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: big Ben's big. Josh Allen's a big guy. It's not

563
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: quite as stout. They listened to two thirty five. Now,

564
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: maybe that's light on the light at Yeah, but there

565
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: were some times in Ben's career that were that too

566
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: forty that they are to forty five, and they listed

567
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: him at it was not correct correct, Yeah, and itwas

568
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting. And again, so if you're

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Speaker 1: talking about who the Steelers face this year, they faced

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00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson, who's number three, they'll face number four

571
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: this week. They faced number five, who was Tannehill. Okay, yeah, Um,

572
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: they faced Burrow, who's not on that list and he'd

573
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: probably been twelve. Yeah. They played Jackson who's number twice.

574
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: Um once once they played Mayfield, who's number fifteen. Now, um,

575
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: they'll play Rivers in a few weeks he's number sixteen. Um.

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00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't implying it's all junk, no, but

577
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: but to the point, I mean, a lot of the

578
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: guys they faced have been on the bottom end by

579
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: the same token. A few years ago we were talking

580
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: about this and everybody they faced was on the top

581
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: end of that. So that's just how the schedule comes out.

582
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: Very true. Yeah, I mean I also don't see Gilbert's

583
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: name on their or Griffin's name on their or you

584
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: know what's his face from Denver, you know. But yeah,

585
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: that happens. But they would be at the same spots

586
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: as Drew locks at now or Nick Mullins would it

587
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: would be that high. H Yeah, so it all balances out. Um.

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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to

589
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Speaker 1: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Uh. I sent

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Speaker 1: mat an article last night. NFL dot Com also ranked

591
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Speaker 1: the top ten defenses in the league, so I wanted

592
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Speaker 1: to talk about that when we return, So we'll do

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Speaker 1: that right after this your tunes about Drive on Home

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Speaker 1: of the Black and Goals Steelers Nation Radio. We are back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson and Matt Nick.

596
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: Nick Shook on the NFL dot Com ranked what he

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00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: feels are the top ten defenses in the NFL right now.

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00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: Some of this is by numbers, others by now they're

599
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: playing now that kind of thing. Um, before we start,

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Speaker 1: I think there might be eight good ones in the league.

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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: It's it's tough to get ten. You often get old that,

602
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: but that the defense stinks. They all do. Yeah, I

603
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: mean there's twenty bad ones in the league. Right, it's

604
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,719
Speaker 1: the same thing when people are talking about offensive lines. Oh,

605
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers offensive line is the worst in the NFL.

606
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: I know it's not. You gotta look around, look look

607
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: a little less than that. It's ben, but it doesn't

608
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: mean it's worse than twenty lines in the league. UM

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00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: number ten. He has the Giants defense. I'm on board

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Speaker 1: with that. They are rushed coach. Yeah, they're six in

611
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: the league and red zone defense, so it's tough to

612
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: get the ball into the into the end zone against them.

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00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: They're eight and sacks for per game. UM. Now, they're

614
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: they're only They're not a great pass rushing unit. They're

615
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: only ranked eighteen. Thin gets some pass and their fourteenth

616
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: in interceptions, but they can't get after the past or

617
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: they're tough to run the ball against. They got some

618
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: beef in the middle. It's really and they shut down

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Speaker 1: Seattle last week. They carry some weight and they also

620
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: are playing their best football. Now. You know, at the

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00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: beginning of the year that team was searching a new coach,

622
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: and you know they're they play a lot of zone,

623
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: but Bradberry still kind of leans towards whoever the top

624
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: guy is. UM. They tackle well, that's a good day. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Number nine is the Ravens down a little bit from

626
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: where they typically are, but it's about where they're at

627
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: this year. They're not They've not played great defense this year.

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00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: You can run against them. Their pass rush I thought

629
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: would be better, Yeah, it's not. It's okay. Clays Campbell's

630
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: last legs right right, he has won. Saxon's joining the

631
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: Ravens in like five games now, and Judeon is just

632
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: a guy. I mean, he's okay, But no, I thought

633
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: the pass rush would be a little better. But they

634
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: can still scheme some things up. Like I think they're

635
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: going together. The Brown's trouble this week at UM Number

636
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: eight is Tampa Bay and that was probably down from

637
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: where people where it was earlier in the season. Um exactly,

638
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: they passing yards allowed, I know, the last like six

639
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: or eight weeks. The first six weeks, I think it

640
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: was they started extremely strong. Um. I keep going back

641
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: to this with that team. I think they're gonna figure

642
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: it out during the by I might becent wrong. I

643
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: might be giving Brady and what they are at this

644
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: point in here. I just buy is going to help

645
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: both the sides of the ball and they'll finish the

646
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: season strong, but that's where they belong. And honestly, the

647
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: other two teams that you mentioned are playing better D

648
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: right now than they are. Yeah, I would agree with that. Uh.

649
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: Number seven is San Francisco. I don't know that I

650
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: agree with that one. That's more reputation that I was

651
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: about to say, like if they weren't an awesome D

652
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: last year, I don't know that you've mentioned him in

653
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: the top ten D. Yeah, and it's okay, but I

654
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: think it's the middle of the road D. Yeah. I

655
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: don't think all the other ones over there. You know,

656
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: people talking about Robert Salas a head coaching Canadidan. I'm like,

657
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: based on what what he did last year was what

658
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: he's doing this year, it's not great. No, I'll give

659
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: him credit that I used to really bash him then

660
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: say you play that strict cover three and it's great

661
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: when you have boasted on Buckner and great players. He's

662
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: adjusted more this year and he's getting some results, but

663
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: but his talents far less. Yeah. I mean, I um,

664
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: six is Miami well their second I think in yards

665
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: and points allow, but it's really other than the cornerbacks,

666
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: kind of a no name defense. I was having a

667
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: good year. I don't know that he's a great player. Yeah,

668
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: they've caused a lot of turnovers. Yeah, they also haven't

669
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: played anybody. You want to talk about schedule. That's very

670
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: true as well. It was quarterback friendly or quarterback unfriendly.

671
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: For they've had some benefits like special teams, touchdowns and

672
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: things like that that have helped their cause a little bit. Yeah,

673
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: I might have them a little higher. He is Indianapolis

674
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,439
Speaker 1: number five. They've fallen a little still pretty good, though,

675
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: still pretty good. Um, they put their best numbers up

676
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: against their tents and sacks per per attempted. They don't

677
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: necessarily have some guys that can rush the pass her,

678
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: but they're all older. I mean justin Houston guys. They

679
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: don't have elite edge guys. Yeah, and the cornerbacks are

680
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: they're good, but they don't. They play pretty basic. They're

681
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: almost like the forty niners where they it's everything kind

682
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: of okay, we're just gonna vy Their coverage is a lot,

683
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: they're they're pretty strict and don't out a lot of

684
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: big players. Leonard clean counting on Leonard to clean everything up.

685
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say that, and you better have

686
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: the Forcet Bucktinger available, right. I mean those type of teams,

687
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: the Forest Bockinger and Warren sap are very different. But

688
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play a lot of two in Tampa,

689
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: two do you have to have that three technique? And

690
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: when he was out, they got crushed. You know, that's

691
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: why I get a first one picked for him. They

692
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: know that number four team we just saw the Washington

693
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: football team. I think that's probably legit there. They had

694
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: a number of you know, people talking about the Steelers

695
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: not being able to punch the ball into the end

696
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: zone against them. They get the number one red zone

697
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: defense in the league. Yeah, and their d lines the

698
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: strength of it obviously. I mean, except for a healthy

699
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: Steeler front, there's no one else I'd rather have. It's

700
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: a loaded group and they're only getting better. It's deep

701
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: to I mean they've run waves at you guys that

702
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: can Settle and Cary again, all those guys. No, that's legit.

703
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: Number three. The team we saw last night, the Rams,

704
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: I agree, willheartedly agree. Yeah. I mean they're playing really well.

705
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: They get some star power, they get some guys who

706
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: are having career years beyond the stars, and that's what

707
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: you need to have when you know it didn't really

708
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: show up last night, but one thing they have going

709
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: for him, And you can just think of this, like

710
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: from an arithmetic standpoint that if Jalen Ramsey's on your

711
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: number one guy a lot of times, if you just

712
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: watch that matchup, there's a lot of green grass around them,

713
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: So that means ten other dudes are guarding a little

714
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: bit of green grass. And if Aaron Donald's taking two

715
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: dudes to handle him and sometimes three, you just do

716
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: the math, you know, like it's a smaller pie and

717
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: we have a lot of bodies in it, and you

718
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: don't you know that there are two stars have a

719
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: great ripple of that. They might I mean, they might

720
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: be the two best players at their position in the league.

721
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: They might be the two best defensive players in the league.

722
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: I mean, with all respect that Watton Garrett Ramsey's in

723
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: the conversation now. In my opinion, he's the best corner

724
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, I think they're the best two players position.

725
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: Guess uh number two. This is a team that well

726
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: them up. A Bay started well quickly and it's kind

727
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: of faded off. This team started slow and it's kind

728
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: of gained some Steam. That would be the Saints. Good. Okay,

729
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: I just keep thinking the Bears name is gonna pop up,

730
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 1: and they've really fallen off. I'm getting glad they didn't.

731
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 1: Although i'd take them over. I forget who you mentioned

732
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: at eight, maybe the Niners. I'd still take them over.

733
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: But no, the Saints are great and playing better and

734
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: better every week. Yeah they're deep, and yeah they're a

735
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: really good defense. Yeah that's again, they're a complete team.

736
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: I think they have an argument to be one. They

737
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: have an argument. They have an argument. I wouldn't put

738
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: them one, but there's an argument to be one. Number

739
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: one is the Steelers. And if you look at like

740
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: every every metric other than rush defense, they're in the

741
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: top three turnovers and sacks and passing yards and total

742
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: yards and scoring and the pass rush is clearly one. Yeah,

743
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: sacks per game, things like that. And the run defense

744
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: is pretty darn good. It's not they've had a couple

745
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: of down games. That game last week or against Washington,

746
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: they shut the run game down, I mean when they

747
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: got hurt. But um, with exception to the one Raven game,

748
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: I think the run defense has been pretty awesome. Yeah,

749
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: it's I don't know that there's it's the massive issue

750
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: that some others seem to think. Um, and it'll it'll

751
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: do a good job. I think against this Bill's offense

752
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: this week, it'll be tast Yeah. I mean I think

753
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: that they match up against every offense really well. And

754
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: it starts with the pass rush and then the coverage people.

755
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't trade it for any defense in the league.

756
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: The thing gets hurt them. And I ran the numbers

757
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: on this last night. They're allowing five and a half

758
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: yards per carry to opposing quarterbacks. Now they've played some runners.

759
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: You played Lamar, you played DeShawn Watson, Uh, some of

760
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: these guys that you know. But that's that's still too much.

761
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: It's a little it's it's too much. It's a good point.

762
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: But how many carries is that? It's like thirty six carries.

763
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: It's pretty small sample. But does it does skew your

764
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: numbers a little bit? You know, um, terms of run defense? Yeah, yeah,

765
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: that's a good point because it ends up being like

766
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: thirty six yards a game over under Josh Allen rushing yards, well,

767
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: they held him to twenty eight yards on seven carries

768
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: last year. Okay, I bet he'll go over that probably,

769
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: but if you look at it, he hasn't had a

770
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of games over that number. He replies on it

771
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: less now than he used to because a better passer

772
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: you can still do it. But it's it used to

773
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: be six seconds into the down. He's running around and

774
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: tucks it and runs and you won't have six seconds Steelers. Uh,

775
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: this year he has broken. He has broken then. And

776
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: what I say, twenty four yards? Uh he had eleven

777
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: last week on six carries, thirty two the week before

778
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: thirty fourteen against Seattle on seven carries, twenty three on

779
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: ten carries against New England, UH sixty one on eleven

780
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: carries against the Jets, forty two on eight carries against

781
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: Kansas City, eighteen on four carries against Tennessee, three for

782
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: minus one against the Raiders. I think he was just

783
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: taking a knee at the end. UH at least a

784
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: couple of couple of UH four carries for eight yards

785
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: against the Rams, four for nineteen against Miami, and fourteen

786
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: for fifty seven and week one against the Jets, so

787
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: most of his rushing total this year and two games

788
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: against the Jets. He's had twenty five carries for eighteen yards.

789
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: They're in a game by game basis. I would have

790
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: guessed his average had been higher per game. He's not

791
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: running nearly as much this year as he has, which

792
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: is frankly, if you're a Bills fan, you're happy about. Yeah,

793
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing with the with the running quarterbacks like

794
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: that gets you through your first couple of years. But

795
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: you better figure out how to be a passer. Absolutely,

796
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: not that this matters that much in terms of the stats.

797
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: But he's also like their goal line runner. Yeah, he's

798
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: got six rushing touchdowns year. Yeah, and he does that

799
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: well yeah, uh that takes you know. You sent me

800
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: the article from the Athletic Um last night about are

801
00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers a true contender for the Super Bowl? Are

802
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: they really a top tier team? That defense makes you

803
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: a top tier team? Right, You could argue all the

804
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: other stuff that you want to do, But if you're

805
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: gonna who you're top, if you're gonna say are the Steelers,

806
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask the question or the Steelers a top

807
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: tier team? I read through the article. He doesn't tell

808
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: me who the top tier teams are. See, that's my

809
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: complaint with this whole conversation, Like the NFL networks on

810
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: right now, and the headline five minutes ago was the

811
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: Steelers have to beat the Bills the true that the

812
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: show that they're a true contender. Well, it shouldn't be

813
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: the other way around. That's a great point. But if

814
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: the Steelers would have lost the first game of the

815
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: year and dominated every team since, you wouldn't have this conversation.

816
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: It's just because they had the undefeated label on them,

817
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: because the real conversation should be are they a contender

818
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: and who else is not? Are they the best team ever?

819
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: We're comparing it? Yeah, I mean, I don't know what

820
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: that's the standard that everyone's holding them to. I mean,

821
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: I look at this at this team, this this Bills team.

822
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: They've lost the Tennessee They to Kansas City. Uh, they

823
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: lost Arizona. Yes, they beat Seattle at home. Yeah, they

824
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: beat the Rams at home early in the season when

825
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: the Rams weren't playing as well as they are. But

826
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: that's who they've played. That that's it for their good

827
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: team games. And they're three and they're two and three

828
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: in those games. Did they play Miami yet they beat

829
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: him in Week two? Miami is better now than that? Yeah? Yeah,

830
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: I know they still have one. So I mean you

831
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: can look at the same thing. Well, you know, do

832
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: the do the Bills need to win this game against

833
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers to prove that they're a good teams. And

834
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: in the end, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter, it

835
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: makes more, it matters more of when they meet again.

836
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: It's just things to talk about, you know, in December.

837
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: It's just the way right, But that the headline has

838
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: bothered me though. Is this truly an elite team talking

839
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: about the Steelers? Well, nobody cares about the Chiefs. Uh

840
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: schedule they've played this year really poor, you know, And

841
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: I understand to the Super Bowl champs and my homes

842
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: is awesome and not cutting on other teams, but someone's

843
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: a contender. Tell me who they are? Who are who

844
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: are your t if you're gonna say, if you're gonna

845
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: ask the questions if the Steelers are a tier or

846
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: a top tier team, tell me who the other top

847
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: tier teams are? And is it the Rams where the

848
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,280
Speaker 1: Rams are suddenly a top tier team now because they

849
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: won a game last night, Well two weeks ago they

850
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: were losing game. Ye, So come on, I'm in the

851
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: Saints are in that conversation. If you want to put

852
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: the Bills there, I'll listen, you know, but if you

853
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: don't have the Steelers there, we're probably gonna have a

854
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: conversation about it. You know, Like you can tell me

855
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: they're not elite, but tell me who is. Who's the

856
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: top tier? Then in this league? Isn't three teams that

857
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: just it's not Cowboys Niners when I was a kid

858
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: in Mont eight young Steelers are not in the league.

859
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 1: It's harder to be a dominant team, you know, even

860
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: the recent Patriot teams. There's nobody like that right now.

861
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: I agree. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're

862
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're

863
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: gonna take a break. When we come back some time

864
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: for the Fantasy Football Focus. We'll go through all the

865
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: games after this. Please He's the Drive with Dale Lolly

866
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: and Matt Williamson on your home of the Black and Gold,

867
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: our Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lolly here

868
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson. Nice time for the Fantasy Football Focus

869
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: and we'll take a look at all this week's games

870
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective. First game on Sunday at one

871
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: It is the Chiefs at Dolphins. The over under his

872
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: fifty and a half in that game. Yeah, do you're

873
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: getting cute with anything? I mean, I think it's Hill

874
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: and Kelsey Mahomes. I don't love the Chiefs running backs

875
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: in this game. I don't either. I think Gaskinson must

876
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: start at this point. Kaseki probably is. Probably he's coming

877
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: off a big, big target game last week too. It

878
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: seems to look his way to and they're looking for receiving.

879
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 1: How what about Parker? You're probably gonna start him because

880
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: he's you know, that's who he is on your roster.

881
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: If I wouldn't start him in DFS, no, I wouldn't

882
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: be anxiously pursuing him my roster anyone else to float

883
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: your boat on that Not really, Watkins doesn't bell with

884
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I think you just stick with the dogs.

885
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: The big dogs and the other guys are dart throws, right,

886
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: They're not consistent week to week, And you're not going

887
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: to start the the Miami defense in this game. You

888
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: probably have been using them pretty consistently, but in this game,

889
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: and it's probably maybe even the same thing. On the

890
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: other side of that, with the Chiefs, you probably because

891
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: two it gets rid of the ball so quickly. You

892
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: probably won't have a ton of success with big plays

893
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: and sacks. It's the Miami d good enough that you

894
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: hold it, pick up another for the week, or you

895
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: just dumping it, you know what I mean. Like if

896
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: you're ross from probably at this point in the season,

897
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: because you're in your you're in the playoffs, So if

898
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: you win this week, you could probably get them back. Yeah. Yeah,

899
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: you're not fighting the waiver wire for eleven other leaves.

900
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, here's just streaming defenses at this point. Vikings

901
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: at Buccaneers. The over under this one's fifty two and

902
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: a half. It sounds like Evans is gonna play. That

903
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: was questionable, like Godwin's gonna play. I'm not fading Dalvin

904
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: Cook in this game. I'm not fading any of my

905
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: my Vikings. We just talked about this Buccaneers defense. Yeah,

906
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be up and down the field.

907
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: Any Bucks running backs yes, Jones, Yeah, but he's low

908
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: on my list. I don't love him. He's a low

909
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: end RB two. I wish you would. Can you hope

910
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: that he does something? Is Gronka starter? I don't love it.

911
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: I don't either at all. I would feature the wide

912
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: receivers more and more. Yeah, comeing out of a bi

913
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: get the ball in their hands. Yeah, I would as

914
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: well as your starting cousins are starting. Yeah, I think

915
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: both of those us. Yeah, I think they're they're both

916
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: in that low end tier one guys. Yeah yeah, yeah,

917
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: you don't run enough, you know, but they're they're good

918
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: Cardinals at Giants over un there could be a factor,

919
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: but right Brad Burial should do well on Hunter or

920
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: on Hopkins. Murray is not the same, but he's He's

921
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: brought you there, and it's a tough tie. He's not

922
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: running I like Alman like yeah, like Hman a lot

923
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: in this game. What about on the other side of that,

924
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: you like Edmonds or or not a lot? Yeah. I

925
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: mean they're probably one of your best twenty four running

926
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: backs in the league. But um, Drake the and super

927
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: excite me. Yeah, Ingram is a start. Ingram's all start.

928
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: Um any of the other Giants receivers for me, Yeah,

929
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,399
Speaker 1: I can't buy in on that one. Although it looks

930
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: like Daniel Jones is gonna play in this game, so

931
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: they you know, maybe bad. Yeah, it gives you a

932
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: bit of a bump there, and he's not the worst

933
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 1: start in the world either. That Cardinals defense can be had. Yeah,

934
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: he was running a lot more pre injury to by design.

935
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: Maybe that slows down a little bit. Maybe maybe with

936
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: the hammy Um Yeah, Giants are Murray would scare me though,

937
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: I mean, if if that's all I got. Giants are

938
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: eight and two against the spread as an underdog this season. Yeah,

939
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: they've been sold short. Yeah. Texans at Bears, he over

940
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: unders only forty five in this game. Watson, you can't sit.

941
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 1: I don't care what defense you play. I think this

942
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: game goes over. I kind of think so too, because

943
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: Houston games. Houston can't be Houston can't really be stopped,

944
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: and the Bears defense hasn't played as well then they

945
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: have been down, and the Bears will move the football

946
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: against the Houston Yeah, I mean he's not great. Patterson

947
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: may tear that and like he may. Yeah, they're gonna score.

948
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: Trabiski might not be the worst sneaking start, not the

949
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: worst start. Yeah, I mean it's probably twelve other better ones.

950
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: But if you're going GFS and you're looking for a

951
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: cheap you know that's not a bad cheap option. Are you.

952
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 1: I think it's Brandon Cooke's back. I think he's supposed

953
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: to be Yeah, yeah, are you in the q T.

954
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: That's a leap of faith there, it's a leap of faith.

955
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: But somebody's got to catch the ball and they can

956
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 1: throw it. What about Jorge Nakins. He's been disappointing. I

957
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: keep wanting he's been targeted in the red zone and

958
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: I think in the last five games he's played and

959
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: they've been close, He's still a sleeper for me. Yeah,

960
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: I'm still holding. At some point. You gotta wake up,

961
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: can't makers woke up last night? Finally Dada Johnson. Uh,

962
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 1: I heard he might not make the trip. So yeah,

963
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: he has a personal issue. Um, so it might be

964
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson time again. That'll throw a million times, right,

965
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: that's that's actually better for Watson. Yeah. In terms of

966
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: passive towns, oh yeah, Um, he's gonna get sacked. Yeah,

967
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: but okay, it doesn't care. I don't care. Uh, Broncos

968
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: at Panthers. Someone that sneaky upside to Robbie Anderson, all

969
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: the other guys like Moore is out. I don't I

970
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 1: don't know if Samuel's got cleared from the COVID list,

971
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: it's Robbi Anderson and nothing else. He's a good ton

972
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: of target pepper. Yeah in this in this Broncos defense, Uh, boys,

973
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: boys out, then you can throw on these guys. Um,

974
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: I like that with him. Um, I'm starting fans, I'm

975
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: starting maybe Judy. They say Gordon's actually played pretty well. Yeah,

976
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: and the Panthers. You can run on the Panthers. Um, yeah,

977
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 1: it's not a bad I think there'll be some points

978
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: that game. Drew Lock could have some success in this

979
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: when who's well yeah, yeah, he's the king of garbage time.

980
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: It's okay for fantasy. Yeah, no, I agree, Um, and

981
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: no Christian McCaffrey. So you're probably starting Davis. But there's

982
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: something that Luster is kind of off at him. Titans

983
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,959
Speaker 1: at Jaguars the over and there's fifty two and a half.

984
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: Derrick Kennedy has had some success against he said, some

985
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: big games against him. That's his hometown team. And that

986
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: goes about saying and Brown and I think Davis is

987
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: a starter now too. I've started. I'm starting. Yeah, all

988
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 1: the Tanny Hill you got start. That's your big your

989
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: big four for the Titans. Trucks like my in my

990
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: doghouse more than any player. What about Chennault? M hm.

991
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: He started, you know who's who's actually been pretty decent,

992
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: maybe like a wide receive receiver. Three started calling Johnson

993
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: lasting he's someone to think about. Yeah, because he has

994
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: a report with Glennon. Yeah, he's had four catches in

995
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: each of the last two games. They want to see

996
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: what they have and like, I don't think they'll go

997
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: after a seat receiver this office. I mean, he just

998
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: drafted him and that's probably enough. They've other things to

999
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: deal with, and I kind of like a terrible either. Yeah,

1000
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 1: I think they're both gonna have success. You're gonna start Robinson, Yeah,

1001
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: Jack's usually hang around. Yeah, Okay, Cowboys at BEng goals,

1002
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,760
Speaker 1: you over un there's only forty two and a half

1003
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys, I don't think since you'll get to

1004
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: ten points, you're gonna stream the Cowboys defense in. That's

1005
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: a tough button to push, a button to push. But

1006
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 1: if you're saying they're they're not gonna give up ten points,

1007
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: then yeah, since you won't run on them like other

1008
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: teams have no right, I'm starting on my Cowboys. Yeah. Now,

1009
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 1: maybe you've you've knocked them all down to tier from

1010
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: what they were, Like Mark Cooper's now too right and

1011
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: you know Lamb startable. Its probably startable. Dalton would be

1012
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: a pinch. But because there's other other quarterbacks, his big

1013
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: revenge game, big revenge game. I think they win like

1014
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: twenty to three. Then the Cowboys defense is a streamer

1015
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 1: this week. Will they get sacks? Maybe they'll get some sacks,

1016
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: They'll get some turnover. Probably those quarterbacks will throw it

1017
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: to the other team. I mean there's no way since

1018
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: he puts up more in twenty points. No, they're not gonna.

1019
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: I mean, what's what's their high point on yards to

1020
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: fifty against the worst defense in the league. What are

1021
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: they gonna do next week against the Steelers? Do they

1022
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: get Did they get to one fifty in total yards?

1023
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, it's gonna be England. The

1024
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: Steeler should run you and I out of inside linebacker.

1025
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: It don't matter. Wow, it's bad. It's bad. Um Colts

1026
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 1: at Raiders, the over under is fifty and a half.

1027
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: If fire enough Philip rivers in this game, I think so.

1028
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: If he's not pressured, he does well, and he's not

1029
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: gonna get pressured Taylor's all start now, Pittman, Hilton. I

1030
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: suppose Pittman and Hilton they're startable their threes. Ya. That's

1031
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: about it on that. On the Raiders side of things,

1032
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: obviously you're gonna start Jacobs, yes, although he's not. I

1033
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,359
Speaker 1: don't love Car in this game. No. I love Waller. Yeah,

1034
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 1: Waller's you know, I'm automatic, but it might not be

1035
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: his best game. How about of the Raiders receivers. No,

1036
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: I don't love any of them in this game either.

1037
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: I think it's tough sledding. Yeah. I don't love Car

1038
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,439
Speaker 1: in this game either. Yeah. I think he's gonna struggle. Yeah,

1039
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 1: I do too. This might be the beginning of the the

1040
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: end for the Raiders, or two weeks ago might have

1041
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 1: been the beginning of the Raiders. Uh. Jets at Seahawks

1042
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: the over under his forty seven. The Jets are. The

1043
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: Seahawks are thirteen and a half point favorites. I think

1044
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: they'll blow the Jets out, and I think Seattle's d

1045
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: is coming around. This is Jamal adams revenge game. But

1046
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: can you start anyone more than Wilson, Lockett, Metcalfe and Carson. Yeah,

1047
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: I guess you have to start hide because they're splitting, splitting,

1048
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: I guess they're both threes. Yeah, yeah, that's bad Jets. Um.

1049
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: I think in the crowd river some one of the

1050
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,399
Speaker 1: receivers has a family matter they're gonna miss or something. Yeah,

1051
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: well yeah it's Mims, Mim. So it's Perryman and Crowder.

1052
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: I think are startable. They'll get targets. Yeah, I mean

1053
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: they'll get twenty targets between the two of them. How

1054
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: about in the running game for the Jets, Ty Johnson,

1055
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,959
Speaker 1: I think the guy does he get twenty carries again

1056
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: this week? He did well against the Raiders last week,

1057
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: but it was the Raiders. Yeah. I just don't think

1058
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: they'll be in this game. I think the Jets. So

1059
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: if I hang it up, yeah yeah, I don't think

1060
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: it'd have a hard time pushing the trigger on any jet.

1061
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: Washington at San Francisco. The over under forty three. It's

1062
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: another low one. Mckissic is an obvious Yeah, are you on?

1063
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: What's his face? A tight end logan Tom Logan Thomas

1064
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: is yeah, I think so. I don't think last week

1065
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: was a flash because I'm sure the forty niners are

1066
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: looking at what the Steelers didn't say we can do

1067
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 1: that with McLaren. We can. We can take him out

1068
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: of the game, and if mckissic and Thomas beat us,

1069
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: so be it. I don't love anybody in the forty

1070
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: Niners backfield, including the quarterback. Were there any of the

1071
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: running there? They're using all four Now, it's just a mess.

1072
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: Most are it's the one you love if he could

1073
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: just get But that's not what's happening. So it's not

1074
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: even it's barely usable as a flex. It's bad. It's maddening. Yeah,

1075
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: but I'm using I'm using a Uka Samuel. That's that's

1076
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: about it. The old passing game is those two guy

1077
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: and it's just two yard throws, but they're receivers and

1078
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: not right, and their guys run after they catch exactly

1079
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: they get million targets and they catch most of them,

1080
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, that's about it. I'm not sure

1081
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: we'll be a lot of points in that one. No,

1082
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: I don't think so either, neither. This Vegas a lot

1083
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: of short passing and good defenses. And yeah, uh, packers

1084
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: at Lions over under fifty five, packers will put up points.

1085
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: Packers are going to score some points. If the Lions

1086
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: are healthy. They may score a lot of points. If

1087
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: Swift and Goladay play. Yeah. If if Swift plays, you

1088
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: you've got to get him into the game. I agree. Yeah,

1089
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: Hawkinson's didn't know her um Marvin Jones. Yeah, and let's

1090
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: Calliday plays. Yeah. Yeah, Stafford trusts him. What about Marquez, Valdez,

1091
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 1: drop Seas Yea or Lazard or any of those guys?

1092
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: To me, I think there's only three packers. Unfortunately, I

1093
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: don't know. I think the tight end is uh playable? Playable?

1094
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: You could do worse. Yeah, you could do worse. Okay,

1095
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: because he looks. I mean, if you think Rogers is

1096
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna throw three or four touchdown passes, he's not gonna

1097
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: throw all four of them. The Davante Adams, as much

1098
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: as he'd like to write, Adam should tear it up.

1099
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: But we don't don't need us to tell you that. Okay, Yeah,

1100
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: I'll buy that. Uh. Saints at Eagles the over runners

1101
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: forty four. I think this is a low scoring game.

1102
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: I do too. I think the Saints the controls things,

1103
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: They run the ball, they don't ask much of their quarterbacks.

1104
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: I think the Saints win this to ten. Yeah, I

1105
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: do something like that. Which means there's not gonna be

1106
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: a lot of points. So like, I'm fading Cook and

1107
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: Goddard the entire Eagles passing game. Yeah, Miles Sanders, I

1108
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: guess is a tough one. Yeah. They've kind of said, well,

1109
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna feature him more like, well, why didn't you

1110
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: what you've been waiting for. I'm sure Carson Wentz is going, hey,

1111
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: what do you mean? Wouldn't mind using He's on the

1112
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: stand of the sidelines and I'm handling off the Boston

1113
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: Scott on the ball once in a while. I guess

1114
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: I'm starting Sanders. I don't think he has a big

1115
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: day though against that defense. Yeah. Check check the status

1116
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: of Latavious Murray and that one he could have. He

1117
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: could have some success. Do you have to start tastom? Hell? Now?

1118
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: I mean he's good in fantasy? Yeah? Well run for

1119
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: forty yards? Yeah, probably getting the end zone. I wouldn't

1120
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: love it, would would not make me happy. Let's put

1121
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: it that way. It's got a blurb beer. Joe Hayden

1122
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: is out? How about that? Okay? On to that? Didn't

1123
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: Chase Paples good to go? Yeah? All right? Uh? Falcons

1124
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: at Chargers the overrunners forty on and a half. I

1125
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: think there's points in this one. Yeah. I think gets

1126
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: up and down the field. I think that over unders Low. Yeah,

1127
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: I think Herbert gets back to throw the ball and

1128
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: put up big numbers. Backler catches a million ball, No

1129
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: Julio Jones for the Falcons. Yeah that's big, um, but

1130
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 1: that doesn't hurt Realley. I'm not getting cute with the

1131
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: other Russell Gage or maybe maybe some Hayden Hurst. Yeah,

1132
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: that's fine, has been the other whiteouts, and I can't

1133
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: start early anymore either now, like yeah, but those Chargers

1134
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,439
Speaker 1: are appealing. Oh yeah, yeah, Austin Ekeler in his two

1135
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: games back. Since returning, he's gotten twenty five targets in

1136
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: two games, and the Falcons, like always lead the league

1137
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: in receptions to running backs. He could have one, right, Uh,

1138
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: Steelers at Bills, I would lean towards playing guys. Yeah,

1139
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: a lot of points. I think I think Beasley's a

1140
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: must start. Um, I know you'd probably be on the

1141
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 1: fence about him, but yeah, obviously you canna start Digs,

1142
01:00:55,960 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: but Beasley PPR for sure. Um. It's a tough call

1143
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: because all three of those the top Steelers receivers are

1144
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: startable and any give away. But it's it's always yeah,

1145
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: it's always a question of which one is gonna get

1146
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: the most, you know, But I know Beasley is gonna

1147
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:21,160
Speaker 1: get the football without question. Yeah. Um, what about the

1148
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: three running backs that matter in this game? I'm starting Connor. Yeah,

1149
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: I guess you should be probably start Singletary, but I

1150
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: look at him as more of a flex. Yes, I

1151
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't start him with confidence. No, I don't, and I

1152
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:39,320
Speaker 1: wouldn't definitely wouldn't start Moss. No, but you can't. You

1153
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: can't sit Alan because you probably got he probably got

1154
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 1: you here. And Roethlisberger's a uh you know, he's a quarterback.

1155
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 1: It's a matchup for bad. Yeah it's not. Yeah, it's

1156
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: not a bad matchup at all for bad. How about Ebron, Yes, yes,

1157
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: they're they're like twenty six and tight end pat defense.

1158
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: There's just not been good. Um yeah, so and they

1159
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: looked him in the goal line. Yeah, I'm fine with that.

1160
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: I probably take the over in this game too. How

1161
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: much of what the number is? But well, I just

1162
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: said it. Yeah, I was gonna be like fifty two

1163
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: wish Yeah, Ravens at Brown's I think the Ravens beat

1164
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: him pretty bad. Do you think Dobbins gets the can

1165
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: maker's treatment this week of it, which is good enough? Yeah? Yeah,

1166
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: he's ready to be the guy. Yeah, Ingram's didn't practice today.

1167
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: I think he said, Uh, Andrews is back, and how

1168
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: about your boy? Markey's brown You two weeks in a

1169
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 1: row has been okay. I think they're I don't think

1170
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: effort to get him the ball, but his nature of

1171
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: his game has always hit or miss everything. Everything he's

1172
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: down the field, I guess is a dart throw. But um,

1173
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna start Jarvis Landry just because you have to.

1174
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: But he's gonna go to Mayfield though, trub of course

1175
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna start maybe really yeah, I mean if they're

1176
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: getting blown out, Han's gonna be carrying you know. Well,

1177
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: he's just catch passes too. He's more like a flex

1178
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: than me where he used to be running back to right. Yeah.

1179
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: I think that's where that's at. Um, And that's it

1180
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: for the week games. So there's some good games. Yeah.

1181
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: So uh he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Ali. You're

1182
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're

1183
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: gonna take a break when we come back, we'll talk

1184
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: about that Steeler's injury report right after this your tunes

1185
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: about drive on your home of the Black and Goal

1186
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Foo food doooo doo dooo doo doo

1187
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: doo doo doo dooo doo dooo doo doo doo doo

1188
01:03:50,920 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: doo doo doo doo. Welcome back. I'm Dale Eli here

1189
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: with Matt Williamson and Matt Steelers releasing their injury report

1190
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: while we're doing that last segment, and um, big news

1191
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: huh yeah, Joe Hayden will not uh will not play

1192
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: this weekend, still dealing with that concussion. Does that mean

1193
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: he probably took some step back, not necessarily back, he

1194
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: just didn't get through. That was gonna be tough. It

1195
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: was gonna be a you know, they may be airing

1196
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 1: on the side of caution in this one. Just wonder

1197
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: if you're a one more day, right, That's the thing.

1198
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a Monday game, and usually you know,

1199
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:35,160
Speaker 1: it takes at least five to get through the concussion protocol.

1200
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: Maybe they just said, you know what, you haven't practiced

1201
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:39,480
Speaker 1: all week long. We're gonna give you the extra week.

1202
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: We don't want you to suffer a setback in this game, right,

1203
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, we need you for the long run, not

1204
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: just for this game. You know, like, I don't think

1205
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: this is a terrible game to be with Alvince Williams.

1206
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:49,479
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a great game to be without

1207
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: Hayden though. And they play a lot of three and

1208
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: preferably even four receiver sets. Something is more than paper,

1209
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but but it changes the on

1210
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: down the line. Yeah, the next wrong on the ladders,

1211
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: you know, when you go to your dime. Now, justin

1212
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: lane's on the outside right and they'll probably throw out

1213
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: the right and they're gonna try to of course, and

1214
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 1: that's what NFL teams do. Yeah. Um so that that hurts.

1215
01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: Of course. We knew that Robert Spelaine wasn't going to

1216
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: play in this game. But everybody else is good to go.

1217
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: That's great. Chase Claypole back at practice today. That includes

1218
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: Chris Boswell. Uh so that's a big one. That Pouncy

1219
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: is back off the you know, off the list, off

1220
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: the COVID list, as is James Conner. Um so, this

1221
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: is really the healthiest the offense has been in a

1222
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 1: long time. Quite sometime. Yeah, I mean he's the one

1223
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 1: that the linebacker injuries obvious, but this is kind of

1224
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: it goes against a lot of stuff we've been saying,

1225
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: and it's just a statement game. Is this show if

1226
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 1: they're a leader or not. It's a little bit of

1227
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: put up or shut up for the offense to me, Yeah,

1228
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 1: and no more real excuses for this one. The offense

1229
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: should play well realistically. You're down three starters on defense

1230
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: from from what you started the season with, right, that

1231
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: would be Hayden, Hayden, Vince four actually Hayden, Vince, Williams,

1232
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: Bush and Buddyprus and your top backup inside linebacker. Um.

1233
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: The offensively though, the only guy you're missing now is

1234
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm not even a banner is the only guy. Yeah,

1235
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 1: and they've lived the whole season without them too. Yeah,

1236
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: not that about disrespecting them, but you've got your full

1237
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 1: gamut here. Um. You should be able to run the

1238
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: ball with some consistency. You know. The more I think

1239
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: of it, I think that their run percentage better go

1240
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: up in this game, especially with Connor back there and Palency.

1241
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: You know that they should try to shorten the game

1242
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: a little, and your sivers better not drop balls. It's

1243
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: time for your offense to to to cover up for

1244
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: your defense a little bit, which is a little wounded

1245
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 1: right now, right. And I don't think that you don't

1246
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: have to carry the defense, but hey, this is a

1247
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 1: team game, and you have been doing your part lately,

1248
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, and you're very capable of there's no excuses

1249
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 1: for it, and that's not a great Bill's defense. I

1250
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 1: think the Steelers a gonna score points, yeah, And I

1251
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: think they'll run the football in this game. I really do.

1252
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,520
Speaker 1: I kind of do too. Like it's different when you

1253
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: don't have James Conner available. You can you can say, well,

1254
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be and these other guys are The other

1255
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: guys have shown me they're not capable of being the

1256
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 1: number one guy. This is a long conversation, but that

1257
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: backfield room, I don't love Connor. I wouldn't invest in

1258
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: him heavy yet I would not either, But if it

1259
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 1: falls right that he wants to come back and stay

1260
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: at home for the right buck because no one else

1261
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: is calling, i'd listen. But when he's out, it's more

1262
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: and more obvious that that room's bay. There's there's there

1263
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 1: to me. The starter is not in that room. If

1264
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,040
Speaker 1: James Conner leaves in free agents, I mean, they have

1265
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: to get better at that position. They still have some

1266
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: of that tell to them. Where snells out there, you

1267
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: know he's not going to run dynamic routes. If Samuel

1268
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: he's shown he can catch the football, but he's not

1269
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: going to run dynamic routes. And and you know he

1270
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: doesn't have why he's fine as your number two or

1271
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: three because he all to place teams and he's good

1272
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: at that, and you know he can, you know, get

1273
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: you a yard if you need a yard. Next year, yeah,

1274
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: most situations. He was great to finish up the Raven game.

1275
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,440
Speaker 1: Jalen Samuels to me, is not an NFL running back.

1276
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:13,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what Anthony McFarland is, but I know

1277
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: he's not a feature back. I don't think so. I mean,

1278
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: I don't think he's in line with Acres and Dobbins

1279
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: and Taylor in their time. He just hasn't come yet,

1280
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,840
Speaker 1: or Zach Mossy. Even I'm excited to see him next year.

1281
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see him in the preseas.

1282
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: He needs to get stronger, he needs to he's done one.

1283
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 1: I haven't written a book on yet I think I

1284
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: know who all the other ones are. Um, so he's

1285
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: you know, maybe better. But but you've got you've got

1286
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: to either add to that group in the draft or

1287
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go sign somebody that's somebody that's

1288
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even care if it's a Carlos

1289
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: Hide No, right, give me a legit. NFL running back

1290
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: in that rooms the past few weeks, Carlos I would

1291
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: have been really useful. Yeah, last year they would have

1292
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: killed for Carlo's hide, right, And that's not much. I

1293
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 1: mean they're not even expensive, right, Yeah, you can get

1294
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 1: the Wing Goldman for God's sakes. Lead a good conversation

1295
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 1: with Merrill Hodge last night too, and this is something

1296
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,760
Speaker 1: we've talked about a lot of the last two years.

1297
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 1: He said, besides Connor, none of those guys pass block

1298
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: well or or helping the run game like. They don't

1299
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 1: do the little things well. And I think that's true.

1300
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: And this isn't quite the same conversation as the running backs.

1301
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: But if I'm the Bill Bills D I want what

1302
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: Samuel's McLeod Hawkins on the field in the field. I

1303
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: want them on the field. That's the thing. You know,

1304
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: people keep coming and they keep asking me, and they

1305
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 1: keep saying, well, they need to they need to get

1306
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 1: the fullback on the field. I'm like, no, they don't.

1307
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:37,240
Speaker 1: Is Washington sitting out? Yeah? If you love to play

1308
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: against those guys right who you're who are you taking

1309
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: off the field? Now? If you want to say, we're

1310
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: gonna take eeper on off the field and put one

1311
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 1: in the game, Okay, I get a three wid Yeah

1312
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: we can have that. We can have that, but I

1313
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to run that twenty

1314
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:53,640
Speaker 1: five times a game. Here's something I hadn't thought of.

1315
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: And Stan asked me this as I was, you know,

1316
01:09:56,600 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: right before we did our show, and I kind of

1317
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 1: like it. It's a little radical. Would you consider and

1318
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 1: he he asked me as a full time replacement. I

1319
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: said no, but I would consider sometimes putting docks in it.

1320
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 1: Left guard, filer, right tackle choos is my six. I

1321
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: don't want to see Hawkins anymore. No, I don't either,

1322
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 1: because they don't have a blocking tight end. Dockson is

1323
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 1: one of your best fourteen offensive players. I mean, that's

1324
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:28,800
Speaker 1: a lot of shuffling. Yeah, that's the only problem I

1325
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 1: would have with that is, you know, but that might

1326
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: be my short yardage bunch, you know. I mean you

1327
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: you'd almost I don't know how much you could wrap

1328
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: it during the week. It's a little late to do

1329
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 1: those things. But Dockson's a run blocker, you know what

1330
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: I mean? Is it? Is it that much different than saying, Okay, Dotson,

1331
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 1: you're going to be that extra that that tight end.

1332
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: We've seen that once or twice and he didn't look

1333
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: like you do what he was doing. But that was

1334
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: only once or twice. That was Yeah, I think once

1335
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 1: in the Bravens game when they hadn't practiced, you know,

1336
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: when when Hawkins was out. I mean, I don't I

1337
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't hate that as much as continuing to see Gerald

1338
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: Hawkins using that role he doesn't block anybody and throwing

1339
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: him obviously it doesn't work either. Um, those that list

1340
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:12,719
Speaker 1: of games that the guys I mentioned Samuels and Hawkins

1341
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: and McLeod aren't good offensive. You're allowed to use Vince

1342
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: McDonald in that role too, well, yeah, I think And

1343
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: it's not as big as tell I think that has

1344
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: to happen. Yeah, because when you when you run Gerald,

1345
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: you run that extra offensive lineman in the league you're

1346
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: telling you might as well have a blinking late says, hey,

1347
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the football here, and then when you

1348
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 1: don't do it, you end up throwing the ball. Anthony

1349
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: McDonald on fourth McFarland on fourth down. But I wouldn't

1350
01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: mind six oh line without Hawkins with with thoughts in

1351
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: and take deep shots in you know, Connor six offensive

1352
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,600
Speaker 1: linemen for them, and they've done They were doing a

1353
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 1: lot of this early when they were motioning. Uh. They

1354
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: would start off with villain the wava uh split up

1355
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 1: to the right of the of the right tackle right.

1356
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: You could do that too, You could do that. Although

1357
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,320
Speaker 1: don't know that Al gets the best push anymore though either. No,

1358
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: I don't think he does. Um, but he's still a

1359
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,799
Speaker 1: better blocker than Gerald Hawkins. Yeah, I can't see Hawkins anymore.

1360
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: I'm trying to come up with power formations where I

1361
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: don't see Hawkins. If that was Banner, much different, much different.

1362
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: Trying to here. I hear Dotson is the only one

1363
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 1: that can do it. I just don't know that he's

1364
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: he might have to be at guard. Yeah, I hear you. Um, Yeah,

1365
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 1: it's something definitely something to think about. We're going to

1366
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 1: continue to see that formation because they've fallen in love

1367
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: with it the last few years. Um that Mady snaps

1368
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 1: the game as McDonald been playing, I should know that.

1369
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 1: But ah, he's playing about a third of the the

1370
01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 1: offensive snaps. I'm cool with that number. Yeah, But if

1371
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:45,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna have if you're gonna have somebody try to

1372
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 1: block Chase Young coming off the edge, it better be

1373
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: mc McDonald than not Ebron. I will say. Meryl said

1374
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 1: this pretty well last night too. He brought that play

1375
01:12:54,960 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: up and he said, Ebron, even if you just stand

1376
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: there and get run over, just it's a touchdown. It's

1377
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: a touchdown because the right side of the line is

1378
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: laying in the end zone, right right there in the

1379
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:12,240
Speaker 1: end zone with the defensive guys on the other side

1380
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 1: of the end like they've got the push on that play.

1381
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: People saying that the offensive line is not getting the

1382
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: push are just saying something. Well that that's that's not true.

1383
01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: It's not true, right, And even the point of asking

1384
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:28,120
Speaker 1: Ebron to walk Chase Young, of course that's a bad idea.

1385
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: He's don't lose it every time, but you're not asking

1386
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 1: him to stand him up, right, But you wanted him

1387
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: to at least chip him and not and not allow

1388
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,560
Speaker 1: him to break into the backfield untouched and grab the

1389
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:40,040
Speaker 1: running back from behind. And that's basically what Meryl said

1390
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:42,639
Speaker 1: last nights, like, if he just stands there and gets

1391
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 1: run over, that's enough. Me. Are you stand there and

1392
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 1: pads and get destroyed? It might be enough to get

1393
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:50,960
Speaker 1: him in the end zone. We're probably in the hospital

1394
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 1: for the next week. I'd be dead. But it's a

1395
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: touchdow get in the way, you know, like you're just

1396
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 1: gave the guy a dunk. See I I didn't have

1397
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: of um, you know when when you're talking about that situation,

1398
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: um to me other than the past to Hawkins, each

1399
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: of what you shouldn't do, which wasn't the play call though,

1400
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:18,719
Speaker 1: right right, just one of the Yeah, it's so different

1401
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:20,560
Speaker 1: than you know, when Zack Banner was going out for

1402
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: passes last year, they didn't throw them the football. I mean,

1403
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: I keep hearing Coach Petner's an idiots because they devised

1404
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: a play to throw to Hawkins. That wasn't the play call.

1405
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: That's what Happened's how the play developed, that wasn't That's

1406
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,640
Speaker 1: what Roethlisberger threw it there, but they didn't throw the

1407
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: ball to Zack Banner no situations last year. There was

1408
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 1: a play a couple of years ago where b J

1409
01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: Finney was wide open on one of those plays and

1410
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: they didn't throw him. The football play broke down and

1411
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 1: he saw noable receiver and threw it to It didn't work,

1412
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,720
Speaker 1: but the original play didn't go to script um. But

1413
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 1: that goal line situation, that the goal line thing, I

1414
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with it. My problem was they

1415
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,640
Speaker 1: allowed that to then deter them from running it on

1416
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 1: third short and forth and short late in the game

1417
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: because well, we got stopped down. You didn't really get

1418
01:15:04,600 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 1: stopped as much as you didn't execute right. There is

1419
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:11,960
Speaker 1: a difference, and I would hope a game like this

1420
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:14,760
Speaker 1: like earlier in the game in the first quarter. Yeah,

1421
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 1: on the first quarter, in the first touchdown drive, they

1422
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: converted the third and one run with Benny Snell. He

1423
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:21,720
Speaker 1: got two yards on the run. It was a short

1424
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: yard of situation. They ran it behind Filer at left guard.

1425
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: They picked up the two yards. Yes, I also think

1426
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:33,679
Speaker 1: that Washington game they had extreme respect for that defensive

1427
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:36,320
Speaker 1: line and knew they were out manned. Like their check

1428
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:38,599
Speaker 1: their checkers are better than Iris up here, and I'm

1429
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't think that's true this week. I

1430
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: don't think it's true against the Ravens that. But you're right, like,

1431
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: just because one guy screwed it up doesn't mean you

1432
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: shouldn't run it two more time, you know, and still

1433
01:15:50,439 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: still put that guy. Take that guy out of the

1434
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: game and put some put somebody else in the game

1435
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:55,519
Speaker 1: who will do the job, and threaten them that we're

1436
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: not going to play out there on third and eight either.

1437
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,719
Speaker 1: If you can't just at least you can't getting away

1438
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: and up this guy. You're not gonna be out there, right.

1439
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: We're not asking you to stand chase young up and

1440
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: drive him off the ball. That's not what's being asked here.

1441
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: But you are being asked to get your hands on

1442
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: him and just slow him down, put your shoulder into him,

1443
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 1: or do something. You can't just let him run past

1444
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:18,599
Speaker 1: you draw the charge. Yeah, I mean, at least get

1445
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: in the way and let him mow you down, because

1446
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: that would have made half a second longer than you score.

1447
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all we need out of that way.

1448
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:26,640
Speaker 1: And he failed. Um, He's been a good addition to

1449
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: the team, but that's not what he does. But if

1450
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: he's not going to do that, he can't be out

1451
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,759
Speaker 1: there and he's reprimanded. I mean, like, that's not okay.

1452
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: If you are out there, you gotta get in a

1453
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 1: way Like Claypool would have gotten away. Anybody, James Washington,

1454
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: they would have they would have gotten the block claws

1455
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 1: have to be Mark Bruner. Yeah, it doesn't have to be,

1456
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: because I don't think he ran past He almost ran

1457
01:16:46,560 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: past him like he was gonna block him down, down,

1458
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:51,720
Speaker 1: block him as opposed to to ceiling because it's a

1459
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: quick run. So it makes me wonder if he if

1460
01:16:53,920 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 1: he messed the play up. Maybe that's possible. You know,

1461
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: when they reviewed the film in the tight end room,

1462
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,280
Speaker 1: he's like, well I thought we were doing this. You know, Okay,

1463
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: I can excuse that. But if it's lack of after

1464
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:05,760
Speaker 1: to not hit any to not hit him at all

1465
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 1: and just go whoa, hey, there he goes and you

1466
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 1: allow you your play to get I mean that's that's again,

1467
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: that's a touchdown. Touchdown if he if he just gets

1468
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: in the way. Did you hear anything about this and

1469
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: talking about the respect because I looked on YouTube yesterday.

1470
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 1: I couldn't find it. I was listening to a podcast

1471
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: and I guess there's some clip out there. Yeah, it

1472
01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: was on. It was on the Showtimes inside the NFL

1473
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:31,559
Speaker 1: an NFL film stuff. The third hand information I got

1474
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: sound like it was really funny and a huge compliment

1475
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: to young like, man, I wish we could be bad enough,

1476
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,560
Speaker 1: you said, I don't know what Tom Lisa was. I

1477
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: don't ever want to be bad enough to get a

1478
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 1: chance to draft a guy like you, because you're so awesome. Yeah,

1479
01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 1: basically saying which is kind of a backhanded compliment, but

1480
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 1: it's a cool way of saying, Wow, you're amazing. Yeah,

1481
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: you're a good player, but I don't want to have

1482
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: a chance to draft you because the only way you

1483
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,760
Speaker 1: get you as a top two picks any year, right,

1484
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: because you're a superstar. Yeah that's pretty cool. At the

1485
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 1: same time, you get t J. Watt, Yeah it's not

1486
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: so bad. You got Cam Hayward first, right, Oh yeah,

1487
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 1: they do all right, they'll get me wrong, but wow,

1488
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: I thought, that's just such a cool Tomlin way of

1489
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: communicating with players. You know, that's why you know when

1490
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: they're when they're you know, looking around or courting free agents.

1491
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: You know, guys appreciate that kind of stuff. He yeah,

1492
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: I mean there might be a day that Chase Young

1493
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,799
Speaker 1: is a free agent and the Steelers of cap space,

1494
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: and hey cost him a jillion dollars, you know where

1495
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: he's thirty three years old and he plays part time

1496
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: snaps ten years from now, you know what I mean,

1497
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 1: Like there's logic and that stuff. Yeah, absolutely, But yeah,

1498
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:41,760
Speaker 1: I saw the clip in um um you know. But

1499
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: again that you gonna be pretty bad to get that guy. Yeah,

1500
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,799
Speaker 1: you gotta be really bad. That's again, that's why the Steelers,

1501
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,600
Speaker 1: the one year that they've had a losing record in

1502
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 1: the last two decades, they got Ben roths Count. Yeah.

1503
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: He can't. He can't be down there a year after

1504
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 1: year after year like the Browns or the Jaguars or

1505
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:01,759
Speaker 1: the you know, Pete. I remember back in two thousand seventeen,

1506
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: how did the Jaguars build this defense? Well, when you're

1507
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:06,840
Speaker 1: picking top ten every year and you've got all kinds

1508
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: of cap space, that's what happens. And it lasted a

1509
01:19:09,280 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: year or two. Yeah, it wasn't built for the long

1510
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: all right. They're all play for somebody else. He is

1511
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive

1512
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a break

1513
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: and we come back. We'll hear from our friend Dave Damaschik.

1514
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: He joined the DV Morning Show earlier today. We'll hear

1515
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: that right after this your tunes about drive on Home

1516
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

1517
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally here with Matt Williamson. And as we

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01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: do each week, Matt, we'd like to play back Dave

1519
01:19:57,040 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: Damasik of the NFL Network and NFL dot Com. He

1520
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: stops by the the DV Morning Show each week, gives

1521
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: them a little insight on the national perspective, but also

1522
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 1: a lot of Steelers talk. Oh it's got a Steeler

1523
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 1: flavor to it, no doubt about it. But so here's

1524
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:13,880
Speaker 1: what the Damna check had to say earlier today on

1525
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 1: the d V Morning Show. It is the DV Morning Show,

1526
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:20,720
Speaker 1: your radio home of the Black and Gold one or

1527
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:25,599
Speaker 1: two point five d V e Steelers bills a classic

1528
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: iron rust belt matchup between two blue collar towns and

1529
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: their favorite sons, A matchup that will be celebrated in

1530
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: front of none of these people, no spectators, in in

1531
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:47,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo this weekend, empty stadium. That's right, uh, joining us

1532
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:49,680
Speaker 1: right now to talk about this all too important a

1533
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 1: f C matchup. Is somebody whose heart still lie lays

1534
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:57,760
Speaker 1: lies on the banks of the Three Rivers, though he

1535
01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 1: resides in southern California. From the Minus three podcast and

1536
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,760
Speaker 1: Extra Points Podcast. Dave damnae check Dave. Good morning sir,

1537
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: how are you yo? And happy holidays fellas um I thought,

1538
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: um Bauman, you might do that that voice to build

1539
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:21,679
Speaker 1: the drama all the way but which I'm which I'm four.

1540
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: I think I'd be fun to see if you could

1541
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 1: make it a whole show that way. I've gone entire evenings,

1542
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:35,439
Speaker 1: don't You don't have to say much. Am tired and

1543
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: out of interesting things to say? Well, that's basically what

1544
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 1: it is. That it's like, uh, you know, it's how

1545
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:47,639
Speaker 1: Adam West made a career doing that. That's right way

1546
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: You've cracked the code. I'm gonna try that anyway. Listen.

1547
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: It feels good to laugh after what happened on Monday night. Um,

1548
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody joyd what we saw. I think

1549
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 1: a lot of people are hurt by it, and other people,

1550
01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: though feeling validated. I know it's one thing for the

1551
01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 1: national pundits who may or may not even watch football

1552
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: on a regular and yet too many people. Okay, fine,

1553
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:21,600
Speaker 1: I listen, you know what I say, and I'm just

1554
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 1: gonna I'm just I'm just gonna. I'm not gonna bury

1555
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 1: the lead here, fellas. You know what I say. I

1556
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 1: like the Buffalo Bills. I like their fan base, I

1557
01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: like their way. I like that they gather on Fridays

1558
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: to begin tailgating for a football game on Sunday. I

1559
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:37,640
Speaker 1: feel bad for them. They they have lived in in

1560
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,560
Speaker 1: broad strokes. If you blur your eyes, you know, the

1561
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,679
Speaker 1: same jokes made about Pittsburghers are made about Buffalo Loon

1562
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: Sloni's Buffalonians, Buffalippians, Philippians, the flowers. Anyway, well they are

1563
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 1: is a punchline because they're over four and Super Bowl

1564
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,439
Speaker 1: and I feel a little sad for them about that.

1565
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: But you know what, it's not just true this week,

1566
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 1: but it's important to point out now more than ever,

1567
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: black and gold over red, white and blue, and um,

1568
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:18,320
Speaker 1: you know that that's an important thing to keep in

1569
01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 1: mind as we go into this big one because well

1570
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: you might understand, you know again, a lot of talk

1571
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:26,639
Speaker 1: out there. Hey, Josh Allen, he's a lot like Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah,

1572
01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 1: who said that two years ago to you, fellas, I said,

1573
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:31,320
Speaker 1: if Ben Roethlisberger and Cam Newton had a baby, it

1574
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: would come out and beat Josh Allen. That's what it is.

1575
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: Here's the big difference. Josh Allen has a lot of

1576
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: promise in year three. By year three, Roethlisberger was wearing

1577
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: a ring on his finger. Guess what, Roethlisberger, thirty eight,

1578
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: he needs at least one more ring on his finger

1579
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: before he before he goes up to football heaven. The

1580
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: idea that because it lost to Washington, the idea that

1581
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: they look by the way when Pete when when somebody

1582
01:23:57,160 --> 01:24:00,040
Speaker 1: dies in there and they're ninety seven years old and

1583
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, football just got a hell of a

1584
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver. It's like, he's ninety seven. I don't know

1585
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:12,600
Speaker 1: how good he's gonna be. And yeah, you want you

1586
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: want one of the guys who kicked when he was

1587
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: like like an untimely death of thirty four, Like, yeah,

1588
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 1: he's he's still you know, he's still at the back

1589
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 1: end of his prime up there in heaven. You know,

1590
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 1: he's like thirty four forever. But like also now that

1591
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,280
Speaker 1: we're getting now that we're airing out or dirty laundry.

1592
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 1: If I pass away and you know, between now and

1593
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:39,479
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and you're like, hey, our old friend

1594
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:42,799
Speaker 1: Dave Damnachick passed away, um, and we'd like the Steelers

1595
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 1: to do it, and you tweet or whatever about it.

1596
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: Don't show me now, don't show what I look like.

1597
01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: Now show me when I was really handsome. Now listen,

1598
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,439
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna drive you. I've been trying to wave

1599
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 1: the black and gold towel um and uh and and

1600
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:05,720
Speaker 1: boost everybody's spirits and remind everybody it's a journey, not destination.

1601
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, now we pick our heads

1602
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: up and we see that people are trying to do

1603
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: the math. This is this is one of the more

1604
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:17,439
Speaker 1: enjoyable holiday events, I think for pro football fans. It's like, yeah,

1605
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:19,520
Speaker 1: I'm used to do it with the with the newspaper.

1606
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:22,040
Speaker 1: Now you do it online and the computer kind of

1607
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 1: does the work for you. But doing the math of like,

1608
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,880
Speaker 1: but what if this team loses in week sixteen and

1609
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,840
Speaker 1: then in week fifteen we beat them, But then the

1610
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,560
Speaker 1: same time that team in the other conference beats the

1611
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: team and the because then strength of schedule and conference

1612
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:38,560
Speaker 1: wins and all that. It is kind of fun, like

1613
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:41,280
Speaker 1: the straight line. I assume you guys have covered this

1614
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: at this point, but it's pretty clear. The big game

1615
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 1: to circle before you watch the Steelers and Bills and

1616
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 1: a couple of nights is uh, in a couple of days,

1617
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 1: you gotta watch that Chief's Dolphins game and really root

1618
01:25:53,320 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 1: like kell. And if you're one of those people who

1619
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:58,759
Speaker 1: think that which which cheek is sitting on the couch

1620
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: and and how during a game affects the outcome in

1621
01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 1: in other football towns, then by all means put that

1622
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:09,000
Speaker 1: but cheek where it belongs, because you really need the

1623
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: Dolphins to vanquish the Chiefs unless you think the Steelers

1624
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:14,760
Speaker 1: are going to run the table from here on out.

1625
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 1: And if you do, I support it. I cheer you

1626
01:26:20,080 --> 01:26:24,719
Speaker 1: and your attitude. I mean at you know, at Buffalo,

1627
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:26,640
Speaker 1: and then we still get the Cults and then we

1628
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: gotta go play then Brownies, and that one will be

1629
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: for Miles, I'm guessing, and uh so you know they're

1630
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: gonna be gon be extra fired up for that because

1631
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 1: it will be for Miles Did you see that he's

1632
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:39,839
Speaker 1: the there, Walter Payton Man of the Year for the Browns.

1633
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:44,799
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I mean, Miles Garrett, is there, Walter perfect?

1634
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,760
Speaker 1: Man of the year? Perfect Walter Payton, who, of course

1635
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,879
Speaker 1: famously ripped off the helmet of one of his opponents

1636
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:53,640
Speaker 1: and beat him about the head on his way to

1637
01:26:53,760 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 1: several records. It is, I listened. Well, I just want

1638
01:27:00,640 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: to say this and I'll leave all names off of it.

1639
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:10,679
Speaker 1: It's weird that some public figures that some football players

1640
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 1: are allowed to move on from things and have different

1641
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:18,840
Speaker 1: chat you know, and be Man of the Year and

1642
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:22,200
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, and other guys it's like, well,

1643
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well, you know, no, you can't can't

1644
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: do that that. This is the story on that guy, Like, what,

1645
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: what the hell are the Myles Garrett eight months after

1646
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:36,280
Speaker 1: he clubbed an innocent man on a football field and

1647
01:27:36,360 --> 01:27:38,800
Speaker 1: attempted to take his life and send him to heaven

1648
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 1: and and Crawford send him tweets of the guy up

1649
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:45,240
Speaker 1: uh when when he was eleven years old, Like, I mean,

1650
01:27:45,479 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: what the hell is Crawford even doing? You know? Now,

1651
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, but anyway, Heaven just got a hell

1652
01:27:52,000 --> 01:28:01,120
Speaker 1: of a backup quarterback. He'd starts stealing everybody's girlfriends in Heaven. Like,

1653
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that Mason he is, boy, you have

1654
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:12,880
Speaker 1: the best hairline in Heaven. He gets around. People would

1655
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: start weighing in on like every time somebody goes and

1656
01:28:16,479 --> 01:28:19,080
Speaker 1: it's like, boy, they got a hell of a point guard.

1657
01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,720
Speaker 1: It's like if people and people started to debate that man,

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01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:28,920
Speaker 1: like I mean, we're sure he's getting in front of

1659
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: Bob Couzy no offense. But Dennis Johnson was a hell

1660
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: of a defensive player those eighties Celtics teams. Man, he

1661
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: was really he do it all. Like I think I'd

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01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:45,120
Speaker 1: rather have him in there instead of the guys who anyway,

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01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:47,760
Speaker 1: let's talk about how unfair it is for St. Peter,

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01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: who was the rock, who was one of the most

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01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:57,920
Speaker 1: important disciples to be uh relished to or not relish,

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01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:02,360
Speaker 1: but he's been basically ated rather to being the doorman

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01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:05,600
Speaker 1: of Heaven, Like that guy is working the door. That

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01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 1: is not a job that for St. Peter, Like he's

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01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 1: done it long enough. That job sucks. You're checking I

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01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: d s. Everybody's like on my friends inside they said

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01:29:15,200 --> 01:29:16,439
Speaker 1: they put me on a list and you're like, no,

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01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: you're not, You're you know, he's better than that. He

1673
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,719
Speaker 1: denied him, So he denied him a couple of times.

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01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 1: This is his punishment. He's a he's the bad boy.

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01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: That's a great point. I never see. I don't know,

1676
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 1: like I don't know the religion math of of what

1677
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:37,839
Speaker 1: the relationship is. And so you're saying that St. Peter's

1678
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:42,000
Speaker 1: basically Scottie Pippen is or or or or he's the

1679
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:50,479
Speaker 1: butter to Jesus's uh lobster and drawn paint Peter is butter, Like, hey, listen,

1680
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:56,080
Speaker 1: guess what. Lobster pretty nice, but you ain't nowhere without

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01:29:56,200 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 1: old drawn butter St. Peter over here. I think it's

1682
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:06,160
Speaker 1: precisely what I meant, what now? And And to further this, uh,

1683
01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:15,200
Speaker 1: this spot on analogy metaphor whatever it is, Ben Roethlisberger, Well,

1684
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call him our Jesus. I'll say he

1685
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: is are Michael Jordan's We just saw what is the

1686
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:26,120
Speaker 1: meme takeaway from the Jordan documentary? And I take that personally,

1687
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:30,000
Speaker 1: and I took that personally, and Ben roths biggest Sunday

1688
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 1: Night isn't And I took that personally moment for number seven.

1689
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about Josh Allen. Everybody's saying that the receivers

1690
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,639
Speaker 1: are dropping the ball because Ben doesn't throw tight enough spirals.

1691
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:44,679
Speaker 1: It's his fault. So seven, this is a prime time matchup.

1692
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 1: And you know, let's get back to the word I

1693
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:51,920
Speaker 1: meant to use. Uh here relishes moments just like this,

1694
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:56,280
Speaker 1: and the Bills will be relegated to up and coming

1695
01:30:56,400 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: once again inste instead of all these people already crowning them. Nope, nope, seven,

1696
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 1: where's the crown? Oh look at that? Look who turned

1697
01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 1: it around there. Let me just say one thing to

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01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 1: you to just help your point there. Relish is terrible

1699
01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:20,759
Speaker 1: on lobster, it would be terrible, So relish it up, Buffalo,

1700
01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 1: you sacks a crap who never And we're gonna put

1701
01:31:26,880 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: a little drawn butter a k A a run game

1702
01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 1: along with our lobster named number seven, Big Ben Roethlisberger

1703
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:38,679
Speaker 1: and your g D right, Randy Bowman. This I said

1704
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 1: it a week ago, and a loss doesn't change that fact.

1705
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 1: This is the bottom line, everybody. Oh the defense, and

1706
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,599
Speaker 1: yeah it's terrible, No Bud Dupree and and now more

1707
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:51,560
Speaker 1: injuries and and everything else. In a batted pass on

1708
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,240
Speaker 1: the first play of the drive. Who knows how that

1709
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: drive would have ended. What would our conversation be if

1710
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 1: not for a batted ball. If it's not as though,

1711
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:03,480
Speaker 1: with two minutes left in a game that Ben Roethlisberger

1712
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: hasn't driven a team down the field for glory? Who knows?

1713
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:09,080
Speaker 1: And I really did think that that was about to happen,

1714
01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 1: and we were gonna wash our hands of another disappointing loss,

1715
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 1: but a disappointing win, but a win. Nevertheless, now here

1716
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 1: we are and there's no wiggle room, and what are

1717
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 1: we supposed to do. I'll tell you what we're supposed

1718
01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:23,560
Speaker 1: to do. We're supposed to turn our eyes to the

1719
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Famer, one of four or five

1720
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 1: human beings walking the planet Earth currently. And I'm not

1721
01:32:29,439 --> 01:32:31,479
Speaker 1: talking about the guys that are in the Hall of

1722
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: Fame that are now eighty seven years of old, eighty

1723
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 1: seven years young, and waiting to have Crawford post uh

1724
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:41,920
Speaker 1: patronizing images of them on Twitter. No, we have a

1725
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 1: guy who's thirty eight years old and can still get

1726
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:45,760
Speaker 1: it done, and, like I said, one of the very

1727
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:48,799
Speaker 1: few who cannot just not lose games. In the NFL.

1728
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:52,519
Speaker 1: But will his team to victory and number seven will

1729
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 1: will the Pittsburgh Steelers to a victory that we will

1730
01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 1: all relish as the Bills are relegated and we get

1731
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: back on track in time for the holiday season. I

1732
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:07,120
Speaker 1: don't know, listen, if we don't, they'll just put a

1733
01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 1: picture up of me, Crawford and make it a handsome

1734
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 1: one if you can, Dave, I will do that for sure.

1735
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:23,639
Speaker 1: You have my word. I wish you both hey, very

1736
01:33:25,200 --> 01:33:32,160
Speaker 1: Mary Holiday. Dave Star from the Extra Points Podcast Minus

1737
01:33:32,200 --> 01:33:36,680
Speaker 1: three podcasts Steelers Bill Sunday Night on DV. That was

1738
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:43,120
Speaker 1: NFL dot COM's in the NFL network. Uh, analyst, our friend,

1739
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 1: always bringing the good good stuff there, great guy, funny guy.

1740
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:48,840
Speaker 1: Follow him on Twitter as well. Always funny stuff. But

1741
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:50,680
Speaker 1: he always drops in on the DV morning show. We

1742
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:52,840
Speaker 1: do like to play that back for you each week

1743
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:54,280
Speaker 1: because we know a lot of you don't live in

1744
01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh area and you don't that. Yeah, that's good stuff.

1745
01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 1: Stuff like the show with that. Uh, we're gonna make

1746
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 1: our picture real quick before we go. Uh. I got

1747
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:09,240
Speaker 1: the Steelers losing this one. What do you have? I

1748
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:12,680
Speaker 1: really do And I've been avoiding it. I've gone back

1749
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: and forth on the game all week. I think it's

1750
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: such a Tomlin game to win. I think Buffalo is

1751
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:20,400
Speaker 1: in a little bit better place if if the Steelers

1752
01:34:20,439 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 1: had Vince Williams and Joe Hayd and I think they're

1753
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:24,880
Speaker 1: the better team clearly, and still they could still be

1754
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:26,360
Speaker 1: the better team in this game. He just happened to

1755
01:34:26,400 --> 01:34:29,600
Speaker 1: lose it. Without question. It's my least prediction of of

1756
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:31,720
Speaker 1: the year that I would put a buck on. You know, like,

1757
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's gonna go. I can't wait, though, Yeah,

1758
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good game. We'll see, but that's

1759
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: gonna do it for our show. So former partner Matt

1760
01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:41,040
Speaker 1: Williamson for Jacob here on site keeping us on the air.

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01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:43,439
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 1: edition of The Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.