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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Steelers Nation, and welcome to the Drive on

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network. Wes Shuoler and Matt Williamson with

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Speaker 2: you here on a Friday as we are charged up

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Speaker 2: for this big game against the Chargers on Sunday Night football.

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Speaker 3: Matt, how we doing partner better?

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Speaker 4: Before that joke? It wasn't so great? Charged up?

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Speaker 3: Come on, man, I mean I could have made a

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Speaker 3: couple other right though.

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Speaker 2: That was pretty corny. That was pretty corny. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: We'll get better as we go along.

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Speaker 4: You're charged up for Billy Strings tonight.

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Speaker 3: I'm charged up for Billy Strings tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yes, for those big weekend going for those.

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Speaker 2: That are familiar. Yeah, Billy Strings one of the best

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Speaker 2: young guitar players in the game. He's a a PPG

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Speaker 2: Paints Arena tonight. So I'm doing that with my wife

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Speaker 2: and some friends before an early morning flight to the

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Speaker 2: City of Angels tomorrow morning. We've got one of those

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Speaker 2: Steeler pep rally shows tomorrow with myself, Rob King, Missy Matthews,

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Speaker 2: and then of course Sunday Night football. A red eye

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Speaker 2: home Sunday night will be bright eyed and bushy tailed

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Speaker 2: and ready to do so it's gonna be a long

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Speaker 2: couple days, but hopefully a fun couple days. And of course,

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Speaker 2: you know the nice part of this bat just to

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Speaker 2: peel back to Carton a little bit, is we all

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Speaker 2: do this when the schedule comes out every year. We

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Speaker 2: look and we book our fall and what are weekends

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Speaker 2: gonna look like?

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Speaker 3: What are the holidays gonna look like? All that stuff.

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Speaker 2: That was the good news of this year's Steeler schedule

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Speaker 2: is that nothing really on Thanksgiving a christ which.

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Speaker 4: Is I get arrows from the wife on that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely you can imagine that too. For me last year

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Speaker 2: it was like the first year that my daughters were

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Speaker 2: excited for Christmas and Dad's gone, see them gone.

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Speaker 3: For thirteen fourteen hours.

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Speaker 2: You know that was that was, you know, so that

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Speaker 2: glad to be avoiding the holidays this year. When the

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Speaker 2: schedule came out, one of the first things I noticed was,

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Speaker 2: like most of our hefty travel is done before Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, before like the Dublin trip right cross country

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Speaker 2: to La like after the top trips. After this, the

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Speaker 2: travel is pretty manageable. It's like all the division teams.

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Speaker 2: It's it's Detroit, it's Chicago. You know, easy up and down.

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Speaker 4: Uh flights.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 2: And last year it was tough down the stretch because

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Speaker 2: we had a lot of those crazy games down the stretch,

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Speaker 2: and you know, you get to you get to December

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Speaker 2: and like the grind of the season, you're a little

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Speaker 2: worn out. And so fortunately in this regard, it does

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Speaker 2: end up well that yeah, it'll be a long couple

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Speaker 2: days here, but after this the travel gets much lighter

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Speaker 2: down the back half of the season, which which works

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Speaker 2: out well. I'll take it that way certainly. But it

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Speaker 2: will be Steelers Chargers Sunday night football in prime time

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Speaker 2: there at Sofi Stadium. Missy Matthews is going to join

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Speaker 2: us here in about fifty minutes or so to end

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Speaker 2: herview from the sideline. We'll get into five Star Friday,

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Speaker 2: we'll go all around the league, all of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: But matt a typical kind of Friday scene setter, just

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Speaker 2: to get us started as we dip our toe into

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Speaker 2: Steelers and Chargers here. And I feel like a lot

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Speaker 2: of this conversation centers around the Steelers defense at justin Herbert.

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Speaker 3: Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: I mean, is that the kind of the biggest thing

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Speaker 4: For me, it is, and I'll be honest, I feel

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Speaker 4: like I have a little bit of a blind spot

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Speaker 4: don't have a great feel for the Chargers defense as

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Speaker 4: a whole or how the Steelers are going to go

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Speaker 4: about attacking them. I know, I want to talk spend

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Speaker 4: more time on the other side, but I do think

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Speaker 4: that it'll be a somewhat controlled run the ball, try

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Speaker 4: to win time possession Steeler approach. Rogers picking spots he likes,

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Speaker 4: but that's kind of always the approach. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: think the run percentage should go up as than it

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Speaker 4: has in recent week. I don't see crazy defensive players

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Speaker 4: that you have to avoid the Michael Parsons conversations and

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Speaker 4: Al Garrett conversations. You know, Deurwin's a real interesting movable

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Speaker 4: chess piece. But you know, I mean the safety. But

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Speaker 4: the other side of the ball to me is super

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Speaker 4: intriguing in that I can't stop thinking about what a

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Speaker 4: for them almost in a way. I mean other weeks,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, because the rest

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, if they were just kind of okay, if they

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Speaker 2: had one devastating injury to that offensive line, it happens.

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Speaker 2: It's the National Football League. Yeah, yeah, but they've had

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Speaker 2: multiple and you're right, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Who's gonna play where, and I don't think that I'm

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Speaker 4: sure they do, but they're piecing together as Beck then

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Speaker 4: gonna play. I mean, what are you gonna do with

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Speaker 4: the new guy Penning? I mean, like, they don't have

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Speaker 4: any tackles.

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Speaker 2: They don't, they're they're they're out their top three tackles

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Speaker 2: from the start of the season, which is just insane saying.

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Speaker 2: I mean, imagine if you know the Steelers were in

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Speaker 2: that situation and what we'd be saying. It's a it's

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Speaker 2: a heck of a road to navigate for them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're starting Dylan Cook and you know somebody

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Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, all right, I mean that's why they're

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Speaker 4: on the roster. But still it's hard to win that way.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, maybe picking guys off other practice squads and things

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Speaker 2: like that, it's it's tough to win that way, especially

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Speaker 2: against a defense like this. Steelers one they do have,

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Speaker 2: you know, outside of that offensive line, it's a talented offense.

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Speaker 2: They're they're the pass catcher, they're banged up at running back,

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Speaker 2: They've got some talented wide receivers, they've got one of

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Speaker 2: the better young tight ends in football. And so that's

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Speaker 2: why to me, it feels like, and this has been

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Speaker 2: the case for them all season, but it's really in

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Speaker 2: Herbert's hands a lot.

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Speaker 4: Now. One thing we haven't talked about a lot, but

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Speaker 4: we've thrown it out there is Matt Locke and Fisk. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I mean people are like, who are those two dudes? Well,

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Speaker 4: those are like the Patrick or Card guys for them.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're like defensive linemen by trade that are

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Speaker 4: now just hammerhead, beat your face blocker types. And if

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Speaker 4: I were them, I think I would try to get

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Speaker 4: heavy with my personnel, Like I don't think I want

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Speaker 4: I don't think they're going to be able to throw

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Speaker 4: the ball downfield much. I threw us out on Twitter

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Speaker 4: to and Matt stats that the Steelers. I think you

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Speaker 4: have brought it up yesterday Steelers face like the lowest

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Speaker 4: percentage of downfield passing basically in the league, and that's

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Speaker 4: a recurring theme. So I'm sure the Chargers approach is,

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Speaker 4: let's get big and physical, let's run the football. Let's

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Speaker 4: have get the ball out of Herbert's hands quickly. You know,

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Speaker 4: can keenan Allen get me a quick slant here, boom

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Speaker 4: gad's in a quick quick hit or the Flacco stuff,

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Speaker 4: and then justin we need you to make seven or

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Speaker 4: eight big plays, you know, deep outs, tough throws, you know,

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Speaker 4: extend to play, you know, use your feet, which is

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Speaker 4: a dangerous aspect. And I get that, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I think that's an illogical approach. Playing against the matt

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Speaker 4: Locks and those type of dudes isn't easy. Darnel Washington. Sure,

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Speaker 4: I mean they're they're rare players to play against, but

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Speaker 4: they also don't put points on the board or you know,

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Speaker 4: you're taking a skill guy off the field to get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, that makes a lot of sense. And

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Speaker 2: it seems like a game that the way the Steelers

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Speaker 2: like to win the last few years twenty to seventeen,

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Speaker 2: seventeen to ten. Yeah, yeah, it seems like that's the

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Speaker 2: type of game that the Chargers. Chargers would want to

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Speaker 2: play this weekend, but Charba will embrace which without question absolutely.

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Speaker 4: But what I BET's making him crazy is the thing

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Speaker 4: we were talking about yesterday too, is in those games,

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Speaker 4: the Steelers have been so good over the years and

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Speaker 4: it's been a Tomlin thing of winning in the margins,

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Speaker 4: you know, penalties, turnover, differential, special teams, those type of things,

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Speaker 4: and other than just like time of possession as a whole,

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Speaker 4: all those type of aspects all favor the Steelers. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: time of possession is the one that the Steelers are

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Speaker 4: really at a disadvantage yet. So that's why.

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Speaker 3: But my dad start to change for LA this week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, can LA have thirty five minutes of uh?

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Speaker 3: With a rag offensive line?

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Speaker 4: I don't, right, I mean that's why I think they're

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Speaker 4: gonna run the ball. But the ball carriers aren't great,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a very interesting conundrum I think

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Speaker 2: for the Chargers as they get ready for this one,

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Speaker 2: they are you know, you send myself and your co

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Speaker 2: host on the pre pregame show, Tom op From and

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Speaker 2: our buddy Tommy Radio. Uh kind of this breakdown that

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Speaker 2: you do every single week. Chargers offense number one in

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Speaker 2: the NFL rushing versus a light box. That that to

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Speaker 2: me is I wonder if there's a thought in their

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Speaker 2: as heavy because we've had more success. Spread them out,

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Speaker 2: get them into nickel, and then we can mash. They're

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Speaker 2: also one of the best teams at rushing outside of

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Speaker 2: the tackles, but I wonder how much of that has

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Speaker 2: been with Joe ald and them, you know, kind of

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Speaker 2: better tackle play, better tackle play that they're not going

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Speaker 2: to have on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Now the matt Locks and Fisks of the world will

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Speaker 4: also be edged. Dude. But it's really hard to run

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Speaker 4: TJ's way. We know that. I mean teams run to

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Speaker 4: the offenses left a heavy, heavy percentage of the time.

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Speaker 4: Actually a number I heard on the way here. I

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Speaker 4: was just listening to a general podcast. They said, if

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Speaker 4: you eliminate blitz and you just look at like pressure

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Speaker 4: rate allowed, not only the Chargers last, but they're like

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Speaker 4: ten percent worse than everybody else. Interesting, and that's with

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Speaker 4: allt half the season, you know what I mean, Like

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Speaker 4: it's only getting worse. You know. So, I know that's

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Speaker 4: not weird to talk about now, but I would be

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Speaker 4: very hesitant if I'm the Steelers to get back to

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Speaker 4: my blitz heavy ways. I mean, it worked so well.

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Speaker 4: Not blitzing much against the Colts. You're getting torched and

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Speaker 4: leaving slower secondary guys in tough situations against Green Bay,

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Speaker 4: against the right, right, I mean, I think you try

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Speaker 4: to keep a Maybe you'd bring in a heavier box

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Speaker 4: and keep people close to the line of scrimmage, but

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Speaker 4: you don't blitz a lot. You know.

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Speaker 3: That would make sense. Yeah, that would make sense.

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Speaker 2: And of course, Matt, it's another match up between two

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Speaker 2: household names at the quarterback position. I think, of course

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and Justin Herbert each has a chance to

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Speaker 2: potentially make some history on Sunday Night Football. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you saw this, but Labs sent us this,

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Speaker 2: then I did the first. So let's go with Justin

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Speaker 2: Herbert here first.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he had some milestones, He's got.

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Speaker 2: Some potential milestones, some potential big names that he's hunting

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we see those guys that close.

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Speaker 2: Not only does Justin Herbert have a chance to separate

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Speaker 2: He's got more touchdown passes in what eight games than

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Speaker 4: Right, Picket's been around what four or five years, five

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Speaker 4: I mean he's pretty special to Davy. Yeah. Oh man.

437
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Speaker 2: The only thing is that's so fie that that stadium

438
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Speaker 2: is a beast man. I might get lost walking around

439
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:15,960
Speaker 2: at that place.

440
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Speaker 3: We'll see. I might have to do it. I might

441
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Speaker 3: have to do it. I'll let you know.

442
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Speaker 2: The weather's going to be lovely. We'll see, We'll see

443
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Speaker 2: how it all plays out. The great Missy Matthews joins

444
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Speaker 2: us when we return on the other side, just getting

445
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Speaker 2: started today, West Huler, Matt Williamson. It's the Drive on

446
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Speaker 2: Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers Audio Network. Back on

447
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Speaker 2: the Drive here on a Friday, as we get ready

448
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Speaker 2: for Sunday night football set in the scene for Steelers Chargers,

449
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 2: a big one for both of these teams, and joining

450
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Speaker 2: us now the Queen of the Sideline. You will hear

451
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Speaker 2: her on the call with Rob King and Max Starks.

452
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Speaker 2: Of course, the great Missy Matthews. Missy, thank you for

453
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,680
Speaker 2: taking the time for us here on a Friday as always.

454
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Speaker 2: Earlier in the week, I think it was Wednesday, Matt

455
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Speaker 2: and I had a you know, talking about Sofi Stadium,

456
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Speaker 2: kind of just a conversation of the coolest stadiums and

457
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Speaker 2: arenas that we had ever been to in our lives,

458
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Speaker 2: and Sofi was very high on my list. Would you

459
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Speaker 2: concur it's a pretty special stadium they have out there

460
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Speaker 2: in La Oh.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I feel like, you know, Vegas is

462
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Speaker 5: cool too. There's just something different about Sofi. I kind

463
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Speaker 5: of like that it's the canopy, open air type concept,

464
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Speaker 5: but you're still, you know, not freezing your butt off,

465
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Speaker 5: not that would ever be really that cold there, but yeah, there,

466
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Speaker 5: I don't know even just how their field suites are

467
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 5: set up. I really like those. And yeah, it's I

468
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 5: don't even know what to say about it because it's

469
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Speaker 5: just like everything about it was very thoroughly thought out.

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Speaker 4: So what percentage of you guessing of black and Gold

471
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Speaker 4: on Sunday night.

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Speaker 5: I think it's going to be high. Yeah, I know

473
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Speaker 5: the you know, the Chargers have a good record. I

474
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Speaker 5: just I don't know. I still will never forget the

475
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Speaker 5: twenty nineteen game. Granted it was in a soccer stadium,

476
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 5: and you know, they weren't maybe Chargers fans weren't as

477
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Speaker 5: excited about the team as they potentially are now, but

478
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Speaker 5: Feelers fans like took it over. They try to rick

479
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 5: ross the team and play renegade and then scratch out

480
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Speaker 5: of it, and like fans were like, too bad, we're

481
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 5: singing it. It was just I don't know, it was

482
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Speaker 5: just insane the way that they can take over. And

483
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Speaker 5: I think because it's West Coast, you know, there's not

484
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Speaker 5: many games out there, although I feel like we go

485
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Speaker 5: out there a lot in recent years, probably because of Vegas.

486
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Speaker 5: But yeah, I think it's going to be a high

487
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 5: percentage of Steeler Sands certainly is.

488
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Speaker 2: And Missy, I I know, you know, you like myself

489
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 2: were fortunate enough to see a lot of those Steelers

490
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 2: Nation takeovers and it still never ceases to amaze you.

491
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 2: I'm expecting to see that again on Sunday night. One

492
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 2: of the things that you hear those guys talk about

493
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 2: all the time, like the TJ. Watts and the Cam Haywards,

494
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 2: the leaders of that defense, is just how demoralizing it

495
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Speaker 2: can be for an opposing team to have to go

496
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Speaker 2: to a silent count in their own stadium. And I think,

497
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Speaker 2: you know, just especially this week when it's a kind

498
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Speaker 2: of a patchwork, rag tag Chargers offensive line that they're

499
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 2: trying to figure out through so many injuries, if Steeler

500
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Speaker 2: fans can really show up and show out, that can

501
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Speaker 2: even add I think, just another roadblock for this Chargers

502
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 2: offense that's trying to figure things out in the trenches

503
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Speaker 2: and tackles.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, that can cause some communication problems for a lot

506
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Speaker 3: of new faces.

507
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Speaker 5: Yeah absolutely. You know, I think it was very startling

508
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 5: almost when I heard Aaron Rodgers say that, you know,

509
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 5: Packers fans got a little too loud there towards the

510
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,360
Speaker 5: second half, and he was like, it's been a really

511
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 5: long time since I've used the silent count at home,

512
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh my gosh, that's horrible, and I mean,

513
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 5: we never have that problem, it feels like, and but

514
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 5: we're so used to doing it other places that you're like,

515
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 5: that is I can't even imagine, Like that's horrible, So

516
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 5: right right, like I was like, huh like, but I mean,

517
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Speaker 5: I will get Packersan's credit. They traveled well, they were

518
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 5: very loud, they were very into the game, and anytime

519
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 5: I've been at Lambeau, like, they're the nicest people. Like

520
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 5: their cutthroat and they want their team to win, but

521
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 5: they're still nice. It's it's a bizarre, bizarre thing. But

522
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,239
Speaker 5: I do think, you know, especially with them losing their

523
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Speaker 5: two starting tackles, kind of the crown jewel of their

524
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 5: offensive line that they were so excited about heading into

525
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 5: this season. Losing both of those guys is huge, and

526
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 5: I just think that the Steelers can certainly defensively take

527
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 5: advantage of that and hopefully, you know, get Justin Herbert

528
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 5: to make some pretty bad decisions with the ball.

529
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Speaker 4: So a very loyal listener that I was fortunate enough

530
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Speaker 4: to meet at training camp tweeted me just like half

531
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Speaker 4: an hour ago to ask you if you had any

532
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 4: input on the Cole Holcombe situation. I feel like we

533
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 4: should be talking about this more. He's still ill and

534
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 4: what's going on with Trice. If you don't, you don't,

535
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Speaker 4: But I was just curious if you had any input

536
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 4: on those I don't.

537
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Speaker 5: I you know, when I did see that Corey Trice

538
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 5: was you know, they started as twenty one day window,

539
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 5: super excited, will not forget you know what he was

540
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 5: able to do in Denver last year and just you

541
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 5: know what he went through to get to that point,

542
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 5: and you know, end up back on IR eventually.

543
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Speaker 4: And nothing interrupt messy, but it feels like the organization

544
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 4: loves this guy as a person. And I mean, like

545
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 4: everyone everyone in the planet's rooting for.

546
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Speaker 5: Corey Trice, you know, a million percent, yes, And I think,

547
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 5: you know, like the whole I remember when Joe Hayden

548
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 5: kind of told everybody how coach Tomlin was calling Corey

549
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 5: and JPJ you know these avatar cornerbacks, and it's true,

550
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 5: that's how they're built. Obviously drafted very differently because of

551
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 5: their health history. But then when he popped up on

552
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 5: the injury report with like a new injury, you know,

553
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 5: the slash and the knee. I was like, oh, man, Like,

554
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Speaker 5: I just I don't know. So I don't have really

555
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 5: any insight into it. And obviously because he's still in

556
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 5: that practice window, it's not like it has to be

557
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 5: you know, discussed and whatnot. And then I think the

558
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 5: Cole holcome thing. It's just very strange. Yeah, okay, I

559
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 5: can say about it. I don't have any magical info

560
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 5: or insight into like what could have happened, but I

561
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Speaker 5: hope that you know, everything's okay, and it obviously Chuck

562
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 5: Clark is able to come back a little bit. So

563
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Speaker 5: I just I'm really anxious to see that status report

564
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 5: for the game that comes out later today.

565
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Speaker 4: Speaking of illnesses, did you get the impression on Sunday

566
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: that DK Metcalf was battling through some stuff too.

567
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Speaker 5: Illnesses?

568
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 4: I don't know.

569
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Speaker 5: I mean, obviously he had a very uh not that

570
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,479
Speaker 5: you know, driven day. I do think that you were

571
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 5: seeing a little bit more and maybe it was just

572
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 5: you know, it just felt like even that one drive

573
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 5: where you're like, oh, Caleb Johnson's in the game, where

574
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 5: did that come from? And then he stayed in there

575
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 5: and then we saw some more Roman Wilson and until

576
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Speaker 5: really that phone headed, you know, mistake that coach Tumlin

577
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 5: kind of talked about on Tuesday. So I don't know

578
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 5: if it was just a matter of that or maybe

579
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 5: there was something, you know, a touch of something he

580
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 5: was dealing with and they he just you know, needed

581
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Speaker 5: to arrest.

582
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Speaker 2: But Missy Matthews with us here on the drive. Missy,

583
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Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you from your standpoint on Sunday

584
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Speaker 2: in that Colts game. You know, one of the things

585
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: that Matt and I talked about earlier this week was

586
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 2: how it seemed like the move of Jalen Ramsey back

587
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 2: to safety really stabilized things on the back end, and

588
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: particularly from a communication standpoint, especially when you consider that,

589
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: you know, his running mate Kyle Dugger had just gotten

590
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: too town like forty eight or seventy two hours earlier,

591
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 2: too often, and particularly against Cincinnati and Green Bay and

592
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 2: those two losses. But we saw it a little bit,

593
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: you know, like Popcorn and some other games as well too,

594
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 2: Guys in that secondary after plays, you know, kind of

595
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: standing around with their palms up, looking at each other,

596
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 2: like what happened there? We weren't on the same page.

597
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: I thought you had him. No, I thought you had him.

598
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: That wasn't the case. On Sunday against one of the

599
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 2: NFL's best offenses in Indianapolis, they were very buttoned up

600
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Speaker 2: on that standpoint. I just wondered what you saw, what

601
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: you heard, how moving, how you thought Jalen Ramsey, you know,

602
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: moving back to safety was able to just again, I

603
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 2: think stabilize is the word I keep coming back to

604
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 2: for that group in the secondary.

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Speaker 4: And I'm sure the conversations when they had the issues

606
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 4: extended the sidelines after too. Yeah.

607
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Speaker 5: Right, And I agree with the move of Jalen Ramsey.

608
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 5: You knew going in there was going to be a

609
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 5: lot of undecided, undetermined not knowing who will be available things.

610
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Speaker 5: Kyle Duggar, as you said, basically, you know, spent like

611
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 5: a practice in a half getting to run through this defense,

612
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 5: and Ramsey knows where everybody should be and what should

613
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Speaker 5: be happening.

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Speaker 2: And I agree.

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Speaker 5: Stabilizing the word I keep using, too, but I think

616
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Speaker 5: it's it's very true, and I think it's you know,

617
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 5: he gives this amazing speech in the team meeting the

618
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 5: night before then he unselfishly is playing a position at

619
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Speaker 5: a very extensive level that he has not extensively played

620
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Speaker 5: for a very long time, and it's just like, whatever

621
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Speaker 5: we need to do, we need to get the win.

622
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Speaker 5: And I just think he really did help Kyle Duggar.

623
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Speaker 5: Just the interactions between those two on the field, on

624
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Speaker 5: the sidelines, you could just tell that Ramsey was like,

625
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 5: all right, this is my guy. Let's go like, I

626
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 5: got you under my wing. We're going to figure this out.

627
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 5: And I think one of my mentors throughout my career,

628
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 5: he would always, you know, whenever you start getting flustered

629
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 5: about something, just remember kiss keep it simple, stupid, and

630
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 5: he's like, when you say that to yourself, then you're

631
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 5: kind of like, wow, I'm overthinking this. And I truly

632
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 5: believe just from what all the players even said, they

633
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 5: simplified things on defense. There wasn't you know, intricate calls

634
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 5: where it really mattered who was in what position or

635
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 5: what personnel grouping that you know, could lead to confusion,

636
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 5: and I think simplifying it, knowing what you were going

637
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 5: to have to deal with with moving parts did help indeed,

638
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 5: and it just let them play fast and free and

639
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 5: it was just fun. Obviously not for Indie, but like

640
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 5: as a Steelers stand watching watching that, every single one

641
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 5: of my neighbors, friends, people I work out with were like,

642
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 5: that was just such a fun game, and it was

643
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Speaker 5: because of the way that they were playing fast and free.

644
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Speaker 4: So I love asking you about Aaron Rodgers on game day,

645
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 4: and you know, the Steelers won, they put up points,

646
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 4: but even after the game, he said something along the

647
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 4: lines of, we got to put up more points whenever

648
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 4: that we get gifted the football, you know, through turnovers

649
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 4: that much. Did he sense any frustration with him against

650
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 4: the Colts.

651
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 5: I don't necessarily think frustration. I think, you know, he

652
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 5: really wanted that touchdown that he went to Darnell twice

653
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 5: when they were down in the right ZWN. You know,

654
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 5: there were just the little things. I think, obviously not

655
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 5: to keep harving on Roman Wilton, but like that play,

656
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 5: Ben's Garnic wanted to kill him. So I fully imagine,

657
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 5: you know, I was so taken back by Ben that

658
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 5: I didn't really get a good look at Aaron right

659
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 5: after that. But I just think, you know, the three

660
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 5: and out those are just he's such a perfectionist. I

661
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 5: don't think it's like, you know, a bad frustration. It's

662
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 5: just like this is the play this is what everyone's

663
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 5: supposed to do. This is how it's supposed to work.

664
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 5: And when it doesn't, he wants to go into like

665
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 5: the why why didn't it work? Why wasn't this person there?

666
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 5: You know, So it's more or less like helping too,

667
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 5: And I think it's great for this young offense to

668
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 5: have somebody like that that is not afraid to go

669
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 5: up and down the bench, talks to different position groups,

670
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 5: talk to all the coaches. You know. He doesn't just

671
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 5: sit there and not communicate with people. He probably over communicates,

672
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 5: but I I am the person who would rather have

673
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 5: somebody over communicate with me than leave me in a

674
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 5: state where I'm still not sure what you're thinking, but

675
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 5: I'm probably thinking badly, so then it makes me worried.

676
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 5: So he's a straight shooter, and I think that is

677
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 5: a good thing for them in terms of it, and

678
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 5: even just you know, the minute chev he talks about

679
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 5: what happens in practice is and two and a half

680
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 5: weeks ago, you know, me and Pat Firoman finally got

681
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 5: this play down, Pat and then we were able to

682
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 5: put it, you know, into the game and score a touchdown.

683
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 5: I just think he's so into the details and obviously

684
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 5: that's why at forty one he is still able to

685
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 5: play and just have the you know, above the neck

686
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 5: advantage that no one can really touch it. It's just

687
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 5: incredible how good he is in terms of, you know,

688
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 5: using cadence, snapcounts, all those things, just the little things

689
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 5: that it doesn't matter what you can do with your arm.

690
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 5: You are above and beyond where other people are on

691
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 5: the other side of the field.

692
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 4: It doesn't hurt to have his arm, no jo across his.

693
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 5: Body and you know, all the things were it's still

694
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 5: some of those throws. I feel like, wow, Okay.

695
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 3: It's incredible. It's incredible.

696
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: It's why he's going to trot into Canton whenever he

697
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: does finally decide to hang him up. Yeah, a star

698
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: studded quarterback matchup. Certainly the stars always come out in

699
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 2: LA and hopefully Aaron Rodgers, back in his home state,

700
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: will be the one shining most bright. The great Missy

701
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: Matthews kind enough to give us some of her time

702
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 2: here on a Friday. Missy, great stuff.

703
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 3: Thank you.

704
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 2: I'll see on the plane tomorrow morning, and we'll be

705
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 2: listening for you on the call on Sunday.

706
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 5: All right, sounds good. Thanks guys, there.

707
00:33:59,040 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 3: She goes, thank you.

708
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: See Matthews kind enough as always to join us. That's

709
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 2: an early flight out tomorrow, cousin.

710
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 4: I tell you, why are you guys going so early?

711
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 3: We always do when we go to West coast, just

712
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 3: to acclimate a little acclimate a little bit more.

713
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 4: Yet, Okay, I was forging night game. I mean, there's

714
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 4: no reason, no rush to get there.

715
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 2: It's normally like three o'clock if it's East coast or midwest,

716
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 2: will normally leave about three o'clockish on Sunday Saturdays.

717
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 4: But if we go to one o'clock, right, okay, right, yes.

718
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: If we go to like Vegas, Denver Vegas or further west,

719
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,959
Speaker 2: we usually usually leave at nine o'clock in the morning

720
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: on Saturday.

721
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 4: Okay, So how long was the flight?

722
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 3: I think a little over five hours.

723
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 4: Of course people should know this, but obviously you guys

724
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 4: don't have made layovers or any correct.

725
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 5: Yes.

726
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 2: And the nice thing about it, too, is when you

727
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 2: fly commercially, Matt and I'm sure you probably know this,

728
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 2: but just a quick little peak for our for our listeners.

729
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 2: When you fly commercially, you're kind of beholden to a

730
00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: schedule because that flight escorts. That flight is going from

731
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh to Charlotte, then it's going from Charlotte to Denver,

732
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: then it's going from Denver to San Francisco. It's a

733
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 2: lot like a bus schedule in school. Everything's timed out.

734
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 2: Yeah you walked, Yeah, you walked both ways uphill in

735
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 2: the one shoe. With a charter flight like this, a

736
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,280
Speaker 2: private flight like this, they're not beholden to any schedule.

737
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 2: It's not like we have to land in LA. They

738
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 2: put the pedal down and you get there faster. So

739
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 2: my wife and I go out to Vegas like once

740
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: a year. When we fly to Vegas on the Steelers plane,

741
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: it's less than a four it's like three hours and

742
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 2: fifty minutes. You fly to Vegas just out of Pittsburgh

743
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 2: International and it's like four and a half hours four miles.

744
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 2: So when you're flying cross country, you can really cut

745
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 2: some time off, but it'll still probably be like about

746
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 2: five hours, I would imagine, and then we'll be taking

747
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: the Red Eye back Sunday night after the game.

748
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 4: Baby whoo is that just sleepy fest?

749
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 5: Yeah?

750
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 2: I mean I'm not great at sleeping on a plane,

751
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 2: but it's like, yeah, we get in the air and

752
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 2: all the lights go off.

753
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 4: And yeah, everyone are the players quiet?

754
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah?

755
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they got the sleep they got the fancy

756
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 2: sleep pods and stuff at the front of the plane

757
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 2: from that, but they are.

758
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 5: Yeah.

759
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 2: That usually like when we take off. If it's and

760
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 2: you know this too again, if the atmosphere is completely

761
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 2: different after a loss than a win.

762
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 4: Of course'd be a thousand times different, right, So if

763
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 4: you lose, it's like how you lose, it's like.

764
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 2: Sit down, shut up, don't smile, you know what I mean.

765
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: Don't don't even look like you're thinking about smiling.

766
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 5: Uh.

767
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: If it's a win, which hopefully it will be, then

768
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 2: usually for maybe the first hour, there'll be some haha

769
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 2: raw raw back, and then everybody will go to be okay, okay.

770
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it'll be an interesting one certainly, and a

771
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 3: big one on Sunday night. Fo yeah.

772
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 5: You can.

773
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:50,959
Speaker 3: There's so much food. It's it's very it's it's really

774
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 3: good stuff.

775
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: And then then they come through with like cookies and

776
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: ice cream bars and and all kinds of stuff too.

777
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 2: You will not go hungry when you're traveling with the Steelers.

778
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: I promise you that that's awesome. That was the one

779
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 2: thing we you didn't get to experience in Dublin. I'm

780
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 2: kind of bummed for you because that's food. We didn't

781
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 2: stay at the same place as the Steelers in Dublin.

782
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: They were outside of the city, so you didn't get

783
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 2: to experience the wonders of the miss Stee.

784
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 4: You know, like you could go get it to go.

785
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 4: Thing just of anything you want is at like eleven

786
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 4: PM or whatever.

787
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, you walk in at eleven o'clock.

788
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 4: The whole ballroom, full ballroom.

789
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 3: There's a pasta bar where you can make whatever kind

790
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 3: of pasta you want. There's filaman yard. I miss It's incredible.

791
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 4: I haven't really done that since pit.

792
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

793
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 2: Normally I only get the for the one o'clock games

794
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 2: on the road. I normally only get the breakfast and

795
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: then then quit the breakfast breakfast omelet bar and smoothie

796
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 2: bar every breakfast. Yeah, but I'll get the I'll get

797
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: the lunch for this one on Sunday too, the pregame meal,

798
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 2: which is usually like chicken bar and flame and yawn

799
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 2: and all that good stuff.

800
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 4: Which, of course these are fine tune athletes. You can

801
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 4: eat very healthy if you want, but you can also

802
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 4: eat crappy if you want. You know, like there's sausage

803
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 4: and you know, bacon, and you know, like.

804
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 3: Everything you could imagine.

805
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 2: Right, certainly, one more segment ago when we return on

806
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: the other side, we'll start breaking down a little five

807
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: Star Friday. We'll get into some of these matchups between

808
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 2: Steelers and Chargers, all that and more. It's the Drive

809
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio on a Steelers Audio network, your.

810
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: Tunes about drive on your twenty four to seven home

811
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

812
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 2: Back on the Drive here as we closed down the

813
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 2: first hour in Matt we only have a couple minutes

814
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: in this segment before we got to kind of reset

815
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 2: our clock for hour number two. I know I said

816
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 2: we were going to get into five Star Friday, but

817
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 2: I kind of found a shiny silver object here that

818
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 2: I want to run past you for a few minutes. Okay, cool,

819
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 2: and then we'll do five Star to start the second hour.

820
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: Playoff probabilities are out for Week ten in terms of

821
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 2: if the teams win, what their playoff status looks like,

822
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 2: if the team loves what their playoff status looks like.

823
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 4: Before I don't know how much we'll talk I probably

824
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 4: won't talk much about last night's game, but that was

825
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 4: massive for Denver. It was an ugly, ugly win, but

826
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 4: just mathematically they're in such a good spot. Eight and two,

827
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 4: a conference win, a division.

828
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,240
Speaker 3: Win, long week to prepare for the Chiefs.

829
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 4: Say they played one game in twenty three days and

830
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 4: that's the chief game, you know, like setting up really

831
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: well for Denver.

832
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 3: That was an ugly one last night.

833
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a bad football.

834
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 2: Like the Raiders are a mess and they're what two

835
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 2: and six now? But he just had a field goal kicker.

836
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 2: They could be four and five.

837
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, they could have amazing a.

838
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 3: Field goal kicker. They could have won two games in

839
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 3: the last five days and before and five.

840
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 4: That's a great point. I mean, I don't want to

841
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 4: talk too much about the game. That was a tough watch.

842
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 4: It was a tough maybe dislike Thursday football even more,

843
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 4: and I'm not high on it to begin with. I'm like,

844
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 4: Denver couldn't punt, I mean, penalties left and right.

845
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 5: It was bad.

846
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 2: Thursday night football is typically not great, but that was

847
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 2: an extra extra key dose of not so good last night.

848
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 2: Let's get into some playoff probabilities here from this game.

849
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 2: And then maybe a couple other pertinent ones from across

850
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: the league. Steelers, Matt With a win, this was a win.

851
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: This is a stark difference. With a win, the Steelers

852
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 2: would drive their playoff probability to seventy five percent.

853
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 4: I actually knew that because I put it. I always

854
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 4: put that in the stat pack, right, I only put

855
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 4: the Steelers, but I don't know the other teams. It's

856
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 4: a big difference, you know, what to be for the

857
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 4: Steelers that they lose, No I should remember, but I'm

858
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 4: guessing it's like fifty four forty two. Oh wow, it's

859
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 4: under fifty wow, okay, which and that doesn't even matter

860
00:40:58,760 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 4: what the Ravens did well.

861
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 2: I think part of that is because these models are

862
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 2: expecting the Ravens to win some games down the stretch.

863
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, that still has to happen, right right.

864
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 2: Like they've got a tough one Baltimore, They've really.

865
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 4: Tough one this week. Yeah, we'll pick games later.

866
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

867
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 4: I don't love their chance.

868
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 2: I know that their schedule is much easier, but they

869
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: still go to Minnesota, they still have green Bay, they

870
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 2: still play the Steelers twice.

871
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 4: Like it doesn't happen very often. Were teams win like

872
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 4: eight out of nine, rightly, you know, right right, And.

873
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: A lot of people are giving the Ravens the benefit

874
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 2: of the doubt in that regard, and I get.

875
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 4: It, right, but that Steeler winner of the Colts makes

876
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 4: their life a lot harder.

877
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: That forty two percent seems I would think it would

878
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 2: be more like fifty something, like you said, But according to.

879
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 4: A conference loss.

880
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, according to.

881
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: The advanced analytics, Steelers seventy five percent chance to make

882
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 2: the playoffs if they win, forty two percent if they lose.

883
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 4: Doesn't feel like that big a game, Yeah, you know,

884
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 4: but that's pretty huge for the Chargers.

885
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 3: It's pretty significant.

886
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 2: And you can imagine that in the scope of of

887
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 2: their division, and you know, the Chiefs right on their

888
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 2: heels and the Broncos obviously being eight and two already.

889
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 2: With a win, the Chargers playoff probability would go to

890
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 2: eighty five percent really with a loss fifty five percent.

891
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 4: In that division too, I mean, there's more teams to

892
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 4: fight with less chance to win the division than the

893
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 4: Steelers or Ravens would have. Yeah, and I wonder I

894
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 4: mean they that they know that they don't have any

895
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 4: offensive lineman, you know, what I mean. Yeah, yeah, they have.

896
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 2: They have taken care of some of their tougher games

897
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 2: on the schedule already. The Chargers have okay, But still

898
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: that Steelers seems a little low for me, Like I

899
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: would think with a win would be closer to eighty percent,

900
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 2: with a loss closer to fifty percent for the Chargers.

901
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 2: Maybe with a loss it dips down a little below

902
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 2: fifty percent. But that's again, who am I to argue with? Yeah, yeh,

903
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: I mean I believe it's clearly a method. Here a

904
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 2: couple others Matt up Stark difference for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

905
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 4: The Jaguars this week, this is a big game for them.

906
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: Seventy three percent if they win, forty one percent.

907
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 4: If they lose, I bet they're not even on there.

908
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 4: But if Houston loses, they might be done.

909
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 3: Houston is on here?

910
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 4: Oh are they okay?

911
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 2: Just thirty four percent chance to make the playoffs if

912
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,439
Speaker 2: they win? Nine percent chance if they lose.

913
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 4: For the bat with Davis Mills, Yeah, and we might

914
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 4: be scratching them off the list.

915
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 2: Might be scratching them off the list. And the last

916
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 2: one to run by you here that kind of stood

917
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 2: out to me. Actually two more, both from the NFC

918
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 2: North Detroit. I mean they're five and three. They've been

919
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 2: at the top of our power rankings for the past

920
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 2: couple of weeks until they lost to Minnesota.

921
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 4: They seem like you should have a better record than

922
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 4: the Steelers, right right, with.

923
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: A win seventy seven percent with a lost forty nine percent,

924
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 2: because again, like, yeah, that division race is tough, and

925
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: that NFC wild Card race is going to be loaded.

926
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 4: I mean, in that division, you could lose two in

927
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: a row and be in last place.

928
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

929
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, if things don't go your way.

930
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 2: Crazy And then a a obviously massive Sunday for the

931
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears as well too. If they win, they've got

932
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 2: a forty two percent chance to make the playoffs. If

933
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 2: they lose just seventeen.

934
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, so we could almost be scratching them off

935
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 4: the list if they especially in that division.

936
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 2: In that I think it's a it's a it's a

937
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: elimination type Sunday for Chicago. It's certainly an elimination Sunday

938
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: for the Houston Texans.

939
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 4: And unfortunately you get your quarter and c J.

940
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 2: Stroud has not been cleared out of concussion protocol. In fact,

941
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 2: they ruled them out all that, which in the long

942
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,240
Speaker 2: term for them is probably the smart decision.

943
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 4: But Man, kind of a wasted year though.

944
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 2: It feels like for them and for the Washington Commanders

945
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 2: like a real sunken year. The largers Chargers get a

946
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 2: couple more losses here, it could start feeling that same

947
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 2: way for them.

948
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 4: I'm going to predict that for the Chargers. There's a

949
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 4: couple of teams I think are ready to We'll talk

950
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 4: about this when we start talking about games, but I

951
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 4: think like the Eagles might be ready to show the

952
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 4: league that they're awesome again.

953
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know where they certainly beefed up with the

954
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 3: trade deadline too.

955
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 5: Yeah.

956
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 4: Like I look at the Chargers and be like, man,

957
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 4: you don't get any lineman back period, Like this could

958
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 4: be when you look at the season, be like, man,

959
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 4: you hung around well, but then they just couldn't keep up.

960
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: Hopefully that's the song that they're singing in Los Angeles

961
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 2: on Monday morning after a big Steelers Sunday Night victory.

962
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 2: In our number two five star f we'll go around

963
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 2: the league and we will of course give our predictions

964
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 2: for Sunday Night football. All of that when we return

965
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 2: halfway home. On the drive on Steelers Nation Radio,