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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive on Dale Lone with Matt Willimson.

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Speaker 1: Of course, our coverage brought to you by Ford and uh,

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Speaker 1: good lord, I can't remember who else, Jacob, who else

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Speaker 1: is bringing us show? All right, I have, I'll find

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Speaker 1: it here, but we'll make mention of that as well

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Speaker 1: with our playoff coverage brought to you, of course by

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Speaker 1: by Ford, as we did throughout the preseason. And um,

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Speaker 1: there's topsy turvy times and has so much going on

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Speaker 1: right now, there is, including the Cleveland Browns. Are just

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Speaker 1: actually the list right in front of it here on

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Speaker 1: on the NFL network of guys that have been on

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Speaker 1: COVID within the last two weeks, just in the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. Yeah, and there's many, I mean, what is

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Speaker 1: there a dozen names there more than that, five more today,

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Speaker 1: including two more players, three three coaches, including Kevin Stefanski,

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Speaker 1: the head guy, the head guy, and oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he's also the play caller, yes, offensive designer, all that stuff. Um,

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Speaker 1: and he's out right it's not like yeah, yeah, obviously

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Speaker 1: that's a huge deal. Um. I think he's very much

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Speaker 1: in the Coach of the Year, you know, you know candidate,

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Speaker 1: and there's done a tremendous Brian Flores out of that.

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Speaker 1: And now that they get there, I mean the votes tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: all the boats have to be in too. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think Flores has done um because the fancy has done

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Speaker 1: a great job. I don't know if he's a good

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Speaker 1: game day coach or not. To be honest, it's been

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, honestly, they're two Marquee wins

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Speaker 1: this season. We're over the Titans and Colts, right, two

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Speaker 1: other teams that have suspect defenses. Some interesting stats are

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Speaker 1: putting up to just how much better the offense has been,

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Speaker 1: which is undeniable. It's way way better. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he's a good game day coach or not. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying he's good, bad, whatever, but at least he's

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Speaker 1: done sixteen games of it, you know, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: calling time out, substitutions, um, should I go for it

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Speaker 1: on fourth down? Those type of things or what I'm

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Speaker 1: concerned about. But running meetings right right, yeah, exactly, prep

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Speaker 1: for the seat for the week. I mean, that's gigantic,

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Speaker 1: you know, time efficiency throughout the code or throughout the

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Speaker 1: entire week and play or practice time. And I guess

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Speaker 1: you could still do that while you're on the coan.

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Speaker 1: You know, nobody's in the building anyways. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: not having to face to face meetings, but game day situations, um,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna have to turn the play calling over

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Speaker 1: to Alex Van Pelt. That's where I was going with

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Speaker 1: is I think that's the bigger deal, you know, because

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Speaker 1: it's not like again, I don't know if he's great

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Speaker 1: or bad on game day as a head coach, as

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Speaker 1: a game manager, but I do know he's done a

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Speaker 1: really good job with play calling and play design and

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Speaker 1: mostly making Baker's life easier. And that's the beauty, that's

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Speaker 1: the key of it. And Van Pelts helped with that,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, but not as a play caller on games.

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Speaker 1: It's the same thing that we talked about yesterday with

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Speaker 1: Eric b Enemy who gets credit for for the Chief's offense,

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Speaker 1: but it's Andy Reid calling the plays. This is the

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Speaker 1: same situation. So if you took Andy Reid out of

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Speaker 1: the equation and then Eric b Enemy is calling the plays, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's it's gonna be. It's gonna be different, right, and

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Speaker 1: it might work fine. I mean they probably have a

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Speaker 1: lot of the same ideas. He's watched him call the

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Speaker 1: plays all season long, he's helped him. Ever done it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's still riding the bikes you've ever done.

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Speaker 1: It's weird to me. What does the other than see

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Speaker 1: the offense? If you're the offensive coordinator and you're not

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Speaker 1: calling the plays with a like a massively offensive minded

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Speaker 1: head coach and all that, what do your duties other

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Speaker 1: than you know, kind of sitting down with the head

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Speaker 1: coach and developing a game plan, overseeing the offensive staff.

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Speaker 1: Then what you might not even they don't even coach

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Speaker 1: a position, right, Like I'm curious for people don't realize.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jen, you know the meeting schedule as you

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Speaker 1: go to your position room and you sit there with

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Speaker 1: and you work, you talk about technique and whatever. You know,

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Speaker 1: come off the COVID listener on. This is just too

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Speaker 1: I mean from experience, and since that organization always has

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Speaker 1: and there's always a new title. I always tell the

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Speaker 1: story like I come off the road and a secretary

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Speaker 1: somebody the lunch you know, the lunch lady, or maybe

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Speaker 1: our offensive blind coat is gone, you know, like you

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Speaker 1: didn't never know there was always a new phone list

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Speaker 1: whenever I got off the road, like because somebody in

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Speaker 1: the organization came or went every time. It was crazy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Steelers are quite that way. Um

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Speaker 1: So how with this could uh this would be for

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Let's see, he's had he had four offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinators in his first three years, right, so this is

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Speaker 1: his fourth year. This would be his sixth offense, seventh

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Speaker 1: off no, sixth offensive play color. It's not a good

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Speaker 1: what's what they've done now is working? You know? Obviously, Um,

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Speaker 1: of course Van Pelt is not swimming blind here. He

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Speaker 1: through job. We got a good line. When when the

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Speaker 1: But once that's out the window and those plays work

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Speaker 1: that's the next part of it. I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: of like another sports analogy, like picture has his go

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Speaker 1: games that that's the analogy on the podcast today was

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Speaker 1: let me call Kevin and see what Kevin would right.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't that he got thirty seconds. Things happened so fast,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be pressure against the really good defense, playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You know, the communication of it all, you know, And

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Speaker 1: their safeties. Well, Van Pell had some job that somebody

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Speaker 1: else has to do. Now, look at what happened to

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Speaker 1: the sidelines, it's like having a substitute teacher's Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: part of the Belichick tree problem. Like it's really easy

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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels when the principles down the hall right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't want to step on the managers. So you're not

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Speaker 1: forget who the special team's coaches name is. Who's gonna

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Speaker 1: like there's stuff that should challenge that kind of stuff,

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Speaker 1: Like they probably got work on special teams by promoting

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Speaker 1: Bill Callahan's on the staff. Experienced, Yeah, he's He's an

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Speaker 1: wouldn't Why don't you make Callahan the guy at least

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Speaker 1: he's done it before he's done it. But Oline coach

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Speaker 1: I mean, boy Cam Hayward's that's three feet shaded more

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Speaker 1: sixteen and seven. He's got the second most playoff wins.

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Speaker 1: If Roethlisberger wins three games in these playoffs, he ties

422
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Speaker 1: Joe Montana for second. For second and playoff wins. UM

423
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,360
Speaker 1: wins three part Star Wars nine and one. UM, that's

424
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: pretty good different Kurt Kurt Warner nine and four, Jim

425
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: Kelly nine and eight. UM. Steve Young was eight and

426
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,959
Speaker 1: six on a powerhouse team, on a powerhouse team, Dan

427
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: Marino eight and ten. Yeah, Kenny Stabler was seven and five,

428
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: Johnny United Is six and two, Bob Greasy six and five,

429
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: Fran Tarkenton six and five. They're all Hall of famers.

430
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm just talking to Hall of famers here. I bet

431
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: they hit sixt Sid Luckman was five and one, Len

432
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: Dawson five and three, Auto Graham four and three, Uh,

433
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: Bobby Lane three and one, Sammy Bow three and three,

434
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts three and four, Defense Warren Moon three and seven,

435
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer Joe Namath was two

436
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: and one in the playoffs with three times only with

437
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,120
Speaker 1: well the w once twice. I guess, yeah, lost one

438
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: and one super the other time. UM, and things have

439
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 1: changed a little in terms of the number of games

440
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: and number of games and now they're seven teams in

441
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: and you know, but it's not easy. But winning playoff

442
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: games is if you're hit as a coach or quarterback,

443
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: you'll take it. I mean that's strong. Yeah, nobody talks

444
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: about what Drew Brees is a failure in the playoffs.

445
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: He's eight and eight. Six of them are gonna get lost.

446
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: That's a full season's worth the games. If Drew Brees

447
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: eight and eight in a regular season, people are going this, Yeah,

448
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 1: that went it down here. If you look at the

449
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: first playoff games for some of these future Hall of

450
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: Fame quarterbacks. Roethlisberger in his first playoff game seventeen of

451
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: thirty one for eighty one yards, one touchdown, two interceptions

452
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: in two thousand four, Steelers beat the Jets twenty to seventeen.

453
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: It was not a great game for him, No, and

454
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: he was a much different player and the team was

455
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: a much different right. They were running Brady in his

456
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,959
Speaker 1: first playoff game. You know what Brady's first playoff game was?

457
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: Did he come in for bled? So now his first playoffs,

458
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: his first playoff game was the tuck role game. He

459
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: threw for three and twelve yards, but no touchdowns in

460
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: one interception. They won the game sixteen to thirteen and

461
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,199
Speaker 1: really probably should have lost. Yeah, and he was a

462
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 1: different player then, you know, they didn't have full confidence

463
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: in Brady like that. You know did shortly after Russell

464
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: Wilson in his first playoff game fifteen one yards in

465
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He was sacked five times. Wilson is actually

466
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: kind of similar to Bene. I mean you think about

467
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: his early years. That team was legion to Boom Lynch.

468
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: They won the game fourteen over the over Washington in

469
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve. Yeah, they didn't put up thirty very

470
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: often in early Seattle days. Breeze lost his first game

471
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Speaker 1: with the Chargers, his first playoff game, lost to the

472
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Speaker 1: Jets in two thousand five to seventeen. Rogers lost his

473
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: first playoff gave to the Cardinals in two thousand nine. Um,

474
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: people are killing Lamar Jackson cause he's owing two. Yeah,

475
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: he's not oing tens and two. Yeah. That's again. We've

476
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: had this conversation a lot. I mean, to put together

477
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: what Ben has done in the postseason, especially over that

478
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: many years, is really really impressive stuff. I mean, that's

479
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: upper tier Hall of Fame stuff, and you're right, Brady's

480
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: he's on his own. Yeah, he's on his own set,

481
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: plane changed everything. You know. To give him credit, that's amazing.

482
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: But to expect Baker Mayfield to come out in this

483
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: game and I don't even know what that Cleveland expects

484
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: him to just, but to come out and throw for

485
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: two fifty or three hundred yards and a couple of

486
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. And he's never even had a twohundred yard

487
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: game against the Steelers. In five starts, he's yet to

488
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: yet to throw for two hundred yards. Not to mention.

489
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's playing in some big college

490
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 1: games and all that, but he's We talked about this yesterday.

491
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: I thought was a good point by you two. He's

492
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: really he's an excitable young man. Yes, he's excitable. He's dangerous,

493
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 1: and he can be dangerous either way. Yeah, I mean,

494
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: you know, his heart is gonna beating out of his chest.

495
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: He's gonna be super pumped up. I don't know what

496
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 1: that means. You're better, you know, Like they always talk

497
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: about this first Super Bowl. Everyone's like, oh, it'll be

498
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: like any other game. But the first quarter, all the

499
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: lights go off and I didn't play my best. Yeah,

500
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, it took me a while to settle down.

501
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 1: I can tell you from like, um, of course, I

502
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: live in Washington, and we host the Pony League World

503
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: Series every year, and every year the Washing, the team

504
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: from Washington, gets an automatic bid into the World Series.

505
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: So I'm coaching. I'm coaching this with my oldest son

506
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: and talk to him all the whole time. We're all, hey, guys,

507
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: this is just another game. And we've we've done really well.

508
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: And in all the All Star tournaments we went to tea. Yeah,

509
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: we were like, I don't know, sixteen and two or

510
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: something like that like that in All Star games. And

511
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: we go into this this first game agains the team

512
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 1: we had beaten the previous year. Yeah, we yeah, they

513
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: had won the East Zone. We didn't play We didn't

514
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: play in that a thirteen year I can't remember, but

515
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: we had played them, we had beaten them. They do

516
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: this thing where we're all standing up up by the

517
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: school but up above the stadium, and you have to

518
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: do this walk into the stadium and all the families

519
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: are out there, and you know, there's a lot of attention.

520
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: There's there's three or four thousand people in the stands now,

521
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: I've played basketball in front of that many people, but

522
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: these are but these are fourteen year old kids. They've

523
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: never played in front of a crowd this. So we're

524
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: walking down the hill and as we're walking down the hill,

525
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: I could just hear them tightening up. I mean, just

526
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: the frozen look on their face. And we went out

527
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: and gave up seven runs in the first inning of

528
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: the game, a couple of airs. Pitcher couldn't throw strikes,

529
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, the whole deal, and lost the game. I

530
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: think we lost ten ten nothing to a team that

531
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: we had beaten the previous year. Because you know, it's

532
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: just and I'm sure people are like, well, this is

533
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: a professional athletes and Baker Mayfield won the Heisman, and

534
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. Not really, I mean, it's still he's

535
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: twenty four. He hasn't done it. He's never done this before.

536
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: He's never with a coach that he might not trust

537
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: into plays. He doesn't have his woodbe you know, he

538
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have Stefanski in his ear, you know, for those

539
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: twelve seconds or fifteen seconds or whatever before he's naps,

540
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: you know, before he goes out there and calls a play,

541
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be unusual. Yeah, I would be shocked if

542
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: they don't try to get him a couple of easy

543
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: throws early in the game, a couple of wide receiver screens,

544
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: something like that. Something that's you know, they don't want

545
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: his first pass to be Oh, it's third nine, we

546
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: get to throw down the field. Yeah, that's not a

547
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: good plan with a long development play. That all that

548
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: being said, my biggest concerns still though for this game,

549
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: for the Steelers perspective, is if they start really slow

550
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,719
Speaker 1: on offense as they often do, as they usually do,

551
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: and I don't know why, and your your numbers were

552
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: great on Ben the first quarter, they're drastically worse than

553
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. Then you can play to

554
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: this team's strength a little bit. You know, the Browns,

555
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: the Titans, and certainly the Ravens, they're gonna play their style,

556
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And if you can get

557
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: them play and left handed, they're doomed. And I just wonder,

558
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: I worry that the Steeler that might take a while

559
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: for this Well, I think you, I mean, you have

560
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: to come out and stop the run early in this game.

561
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: You can't let them just run the football down the

562
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: field and go down and squirt like. But I'll say this,

563
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: the Steelers only given up one first one touched on

564
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: in the opening drive all season long. Or the defense,

565
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: I don't worry about necessarily, But if you let them

566
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: hang around and it's three nothing after the first quarter

567
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: and Chubb's got forty yards, you know, and you're like,

568
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're playing their game. Then But then,

569
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: I mean, as we've seen over the course of the season,

570
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: if it's three nothing, the Steelers are usually I mean,

571
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna put up their fourteen or seventeen points in

572
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: a second quarter when Roethlisberger heats up. But you'd like

573
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: to see them start quicker. I mean, that's there's no more.

574
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Um. But yeah, I mean

575
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: you gotta. I mean, you think about the last time

576
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: these two teams played here. What happened in that game.

577
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: Maketh picks off the field's first pass of the game,

578
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: it takes it for a touchdown. I mean, that game

579
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: was over right then, and I'm sure he was psyched

580
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: up more for that Steeler game than the usual NFL game.

581
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they thought they were good. Hey, we're gonna

582
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Speaker 1: beat the steel there's the Steelers, a unbeaten and you

583
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: know we're ready to take over the King of Hugh King.

584
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: They're always talking like that, and you know, boom, right

585
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: out of the gate, he throw it first past of

586
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: the game, interception, touchdown done. That wouldn't shock me, would

587
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: not shock me. I'm not predicting it, but it wouldn't

588
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: shock me. You know, in a way, they're very different players,

589
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: and Ben's had a way better career, of course, but

590
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: you wonder who's gonna have the worst first quarter. I mean,

591
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: it's a bad way of saying it, but I have

592
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: faith and who's probably gonna have the better last three quarters?

593
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? And the other part of

594
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: the equation is a lot of the struggles that the

595
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: Steelers have had offensively earlier have been in the second

596
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: half of the season when they faced some better defenses. Yeah,

597
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: this is not one of them. No, it's not. Man,

598
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett's kind of a shall of what he's been

599
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: and Vernon's out and they'll run the football against these

600
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: guys again. Oh I would think so. Yeah, I mean,

601
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: I just think that I don't know if we talked

602
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: about this, I can't remember who had this conversation with

603
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: I apologize it was what we had yesterday. Sometimes days

604
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: run the other, but I would run Connor in the ground. Yeah,

605
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: oh that was that was with us. I mean, he

606
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: gets he gets twenty twenty touches in this game. I

607
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: don't care if it's in the run game or the

608
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: past game. He's not leaving the field in normal down

609
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: in distant situations for me or because if you look

610
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: at the last two games, it was it was against

611
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: against Indianapolis he had ten touches for sixty yards. I

612
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: think against the Browns on Sunday he had fifty seven

613
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: yards on fourteen touches. Okay, well let's get him tested.

614
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: So much different when he's out there. Yeah, you know,

615
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: the Browns want to see Samuel in the game. They

616
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: want to see Snell in the game. Don't give it

617
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: to him, you know. And if you're up big or

618
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: you're down big or something, then Connor is not the guy.

619
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Speaker 1: But treat him like he's loved Bell. No, actually, if

620
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: you're down big, he is the guys, right because they

621
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: don't really have much else. But yeah, I mean I

622
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: think he treated him like he's loved Bell. He's not.

623
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: But he's the closest thing you got and you're out

624
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: there every snap that's rotating and we don't care. But say,

625
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: isn't McFarland. Let's get your letter. Yeah right, none of that.

626
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: Or let's fiddle with a new personnel package with Samuel Again,

627
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: that's one of those things that you do at the

628
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: end of the game and the last minute of the game,

629
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: bring all the subs and off the bench and let

630
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: him get there, let him get their feet wet. But

631
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Speaker 1: that's you know, you better be up. I have one

632
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: other offensive personnel thing just to run by you, and

633
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: I bet you agree. But do you think at this point,

634
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: I know Filer is still kind of looming out there.

635
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: It's docks and now they're left guard. If Filer is back,

636
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: Filer will probably start. I don't think he's gonna be

637
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: backed over, no day. I didn't think you would either.

638
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is like, do you think, well, I

639
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: guess you disagree then. I mean I kind of thought

640
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: Dotson might be their left guard. It's not what the camp,

641
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: it's not what they typically do. Um and you know,

642
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,479
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I mean Filer is one of those guys,

643
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: is Mike Tom will likes. She said, they've been there,

644
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: done that kind of guys. Or he's yeah, I mean,

645
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean it might be next year camp he might

646
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: be the obvious starter. Weh yeah, there's no there's no

647
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: doubt about that. You know, I was thinking I might

648
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: start now, but maybe that's a little premature. And you know,

649
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: I had the conversation, Um, you know, how about you know,

650
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: leaving him a guard and moving Filer out there to tackle.

651
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: Filer hasn't played tackle all year. He hasn't. I mean,

652
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: he's he spent the entire season with his left hand

653
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: in the dirt instead of his right, and and that's

654
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: that's I thought he was better as a tackle than

655
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: he was this year as a guard. But that's not easy.

656
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: It's not like, I mean, you asked a third baseman

657
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: to go play right field him, and it's not exactly

658
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: the same. And I just like the idea of having

659
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: Chokes then is my six offensive lineman. You could still

660
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: do that though, you still can, I mean you could

661
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: you could move in those situations. Hey, Matt, you're gonna

662
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: go out the right tackle, Dotson is gonna play left guard,

663
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: and Chokes is gonna kick outside and be the tight end,

664
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: or really you have your baseline and Dotson just walks

665
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: in there between Filer and where that. Yeah, yeah that

666
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: works too. You know, I'm just gonna go into this

667
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: gap or you just you know, you put you put

668
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: dots in inside the chookes next to the castro and

669
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: say we're gonna go strong on this side and Chukes

670
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: is going to be the end. He's going to seal

671
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: the end there and Thoughtson is gonna you know, So

672
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: there are ways to do this without tearing up your

673
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: entire offensive line making three moves. Yeah, that's a good point.

674
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: And I just liked seeing a blocking tight end this

675
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: last week McDonald. I saw this today. He had the

676
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: most snaps of anyone to skill position players did well,

677
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he's never gonna be a dynamic guy.

678
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: Rewatching the game last night as well, and it's tough.

679
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: It was tough to see it, you know in live,

680
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: but um, Kevin Raider kend Kevin Raider will be active

681
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That was actually my next question. I'm gonna

682
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: go out on a limb and say, Kevin Raiders active,

683
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, three three tackles on special teams blocked well,

684
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: the three tight ends active that because Ibra because he

685
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: can play special team. Again, he goes back to the thing,

686
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: and again that goes back to the Dobbs conversation. Why

687
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: he won't be active. You can't have both. I mean,

688
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: especially if Splaine comes back and then now you're you know,

689
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: you're really moving around your your special teams guys. Not

690
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: that that's outside the norm, but it makes it a

691
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: little more difficult. You canna all of a sudden say,

692
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: Marcus Allen, you're gonna sit this game so we can

693
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: have Josh Dobbs for two snaps. Any chance you have

694
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: two kickers active? No? None? Okay, if he if he's yeah,

695
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: if he's healthy, he'll he'll kick. And if he gets

696
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: hurt during the game, then so be. It's so big. Yeah, right, Yeah,

697
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that today. I thought maybe we

698
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: even should spend a segment this week of who would

699
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: you have active? Because I'm not sure that the helmet

700
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: the hats are as easy as usual because they're pretty healthy.

701
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: They're they're as healthy as they have been in a

702
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: long long time. Yeah, it's a good problem to have,

703
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 1: But then the Raiders and the Dabbs of the world

704
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: are at least making a case where they never did before.

705
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: You know it, and you can't. You can't have Dabbs

706
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: active over Rudolph. No, that makes no sense at all.

707
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: You'll lose them Ben, right, yeah, I mean that that's

708
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: cost you to playoff. Absolutely, Ben can't go or it

709
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: gets hurt. We're gonna take another break to its good conversations,

710
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: good stuff. But he is Matt Williams and I'm deal

711
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: LOLLI are coverage here on Steelers Nation Radio for the

712
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: playoffs is brought to you by Ford and fed X.

713
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back with more Steelers talk right after this.

714
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm deal lolly with Matt willimps and on

715
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: the drive of course, brought to you here who guys

716
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: all of our Steelers A playoff coverage is by fed

717
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: X and Ford. Um Sean Smith's crew is going to

718
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: be doing the game. Oh yeah, you sent me that

719
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: I never dug in to it. On Sunday here the

720
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 1: career of the cruise. For the weekend, Brad Allen's crew

721
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: will do the Indianapolis Buffalo game. John Hussey's crew, which

722
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers saw him back to back weeks. Uh, he

723
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: will do the Rams and Seahawks game. Scott Novak will

724
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: do the Tampa Bay Washington game, Jerome Boger will do

725
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Tennessee game. Alex Kemp will do the Chicago

726
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: New Orleans game. Now, I bring this up because I

727
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: did a little digging last night. Uh, and I was interested.

728
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked all season long about there being

729
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: fewer holding penalties and more past interference penalties right on

730
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: the two bad ones for the defense. Yeah, so I

731
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: was looking at this. Uh. Sean Smith's crew has called

732
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: two holding penalties this year in six in seventeen games

733
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: they go every week, se uh, and they have called

734
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: twenty four past interference penalties. The twenty four past interference

735
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 1: penalties is tied for the second most. Yeah, the most.

736
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Speaker 1: How about this Alex Kemp's crew, who is if you're

737
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: gonna watch the Chicago New Orleans game. Alex Kemp's crew

738
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: led the NFL with forty two holding penalty calls, okay,

739
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 1: which is more than two a game that game, and

740
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 1: also lad to league with thirty pass interference penalties called.

741
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of flags. When he it's gonna

742
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: the flags are gonna be flying and the defenses might

743
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: not be super well if the holding penalties hold up.

744
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: There but a lot of flags in his games, which

745
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: probably the average fan that doesn't have a dog in

746
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: the race watching that game won't watch. Yeah, that's seventy

747
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: two of those negative penalties, like one way or the other. Um,

748
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: if you're looking at uh Sean hockeyles crew called the

749
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: second most holding penalties and thirty nine most of the

750
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: cruise though Hussy's crew called thirty one. Carl Cheffer's crew

751
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: called thirty Those are the only ones. Those are the

752
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 1: only ones that were over thirty. I mean that's all

753
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: under two per game. That's under two per game. How

754
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: about this? Bill Vnevitch's crew called fourteen holding penalties all

755
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: season long and eleven pass interference penalties. That's it. That

756
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: was the lows on both of those. Wow, I mean

757
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: one way that helps the defense as you can be

758
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: a little grabby and stuff, but then you can actually

759
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: Tony Cranes currently called ten passenger pent ference penalties, but

760
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,479
Speaker 1: they had twenty nine holds. Vnevitch's crew called twenty five

761
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: total holding and pass interference penalties. So you started, that's

762
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: that's crazy. I started this conversation saying won a game.

763
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: It's all right, seventy games the crew doing the Steeler game,

764
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: I forget who the head dude is, Sean Smith. They're

765
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: they don't call holds, right, They're low on that one

766
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: called two holds all year long what they called twenty

767
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: four past interference penalties. Um, if you look at it,

768
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: probably you would say all that benefits of Steelers because

769
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: they drew the second most. They draw to pass. They

770
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: were number two. Particularly, they were number two behind Tampa

771
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: Bay Tampa Major twenty four for the season. The Steelers

772
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: drew nineteen. Okay, I mean Tampa is the deepest throwing

773
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: team in the league. But the team that led the

774
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: league with the fewest past interference penalties called against him

775
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: this year was Cleveland with four four. Now you could say, yeah,

776
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: a fair amount of man actually have to be close

777
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: to a receiver. I was in there thinking, like, how

778
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: does that affect this game? I mean, without question, any

779
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: game the Steelers play, you want people to call holds

780
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: more than you don't, because their d line is their strength, obviously,

781
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: and they get the ball out so quick that you

782
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: know the holding thing doesn't affect the Steeler passing game

783
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: as much. But you know this going in, and of

784
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: course the whole coaching staff does, and they build all

785
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 1: these trends better than us, and you know they monitor

786
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: these things too. Maybe you take more deep shots than usual.

787
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: Well I think you do anyways, just because it worked. Yeah,

788
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: that's what they that's what they struggle with him, and

789
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: they're they're deep. You know, they allow a lot, They

790
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: allow quite a bit down the field, and Claypool deserves it. Yeah. Um,

791
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: how about Brad Allen's crew this year? I don't think

792
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: I mentioned this one, and he's doing the Indianapolis Buffalo game.

793
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: They called fourteen holding penalties all season long while, but

794
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: twenty four they had the same number of Seawan Smith

795
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: crew for tied for second most pass interference penalties twenty four.

796
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: You want to talk about really hamstringing the defense, You're

797
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: not gonna call holding penalties what you're gonna call a

798
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: whole bunch of a whole bunch of pass interference penalties.

799
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a pretty big enough sample size. We

800
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: different if you like, boy they play Ravens offense is

801
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: much different than the Bills, you know, or whatever I

802
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: mean were the Steelers. I mean, but seventeen games. I

803
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: wonder if there's stats out there, like what's the average

804
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: score in a hussy? Hussy? Oh, I'm sure that, I'm

805
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: sure it's easily found. Yeah, so that crew I bet

806
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: has the most points scored or most yardage, you know

807
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: what I mean. But you have to be an intrepid

808
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: reporter like me to look that up. This. This took

809
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: me about a half an hour to go through this

810
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: last night to figure out these these stats. Vegas folks

811
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: know though, Yeah, I know that's a big thing in

812
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,280
Speaker 1: the betting world. Is bet on you know, bet the refs. Yeah,

813
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: and they tell you a lot. It does tell you

814
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: a lot. You can figure out, Okay, they call more

815
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: penalties on the home team, or they call more penalties

816
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: on the road team. All kinds of stuff like that

817
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: that you can look at. And that has to be

818
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 1: true in every sport. You wan't to think about it.

819
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean, home played umpire calls a lot of stry officials,

820
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: you know, certain officials have things that they look for.

821
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: Um or you're just gonna be a little more I

822
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: mean hockey, I bet that you overlook you know, yeah, yeah,

823
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: I'd let it go more importantly, overlook you're thinking like

824
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: hockey and basketball, Like I bet there's some that in

825
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: the last two minutes they don't call it anything and

826
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: you know it, yeah, or boy, this guy is gonna

827
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 1: beat tough, or you know, Jordan's never going to get

828
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 1: a foul and with this guy's out there that type

829
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: of thing where he's gonna get every file. Every guy's

830
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: out there. But yeah, I thought that was interesting that, Um,

831
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: the Steelers are one and one in games Sean Smith

832
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: did for them. He did their uh game against I

833
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: gotta remember now, he did the Bills game and he

834
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: did the game against the Texans, so nothing the ref

835
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: would have changed anything. Yeah, I don't. I don't know

836
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: that that you know, he made any glaring errors or

837
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: anything like that. But it is worth noting that his

838
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: crew and these are uh you know they do this

839
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: by merit. These are the crews. So these are the

840
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: these are the next week's games will be the top cruise,

841
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: right like these are the seven or the six best

842
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: cruise out of I assume like twenty there's gonna be

843
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: I think there's seventeen crewis is there because they're sixteen

844
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: games every given week and I'm sure there's a backup.

845
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: So nine of them got left at home this weekend.

846
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: Four of them will come back the um next week.

847
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: So actually these are the These are crews what five

848
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: through ten for the year. The top cruise will come

849
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: back then next week. You don't think the crew one's

850
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: working this week. No, they give them the week off.

851
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,040
Speaker 1: They go, they go to the next week and a

852
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: unique the top two. Uh. They then they do this,

853
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: they decide who does the super Bowl. That's the top crew.

854
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: That's odd to maybe you wouldn't use your best guys

855
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: this weekend. Well you gotta get them all. I mean,

856
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: there is a an officiating union, and I'm sure they

857
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: negotiate this week. I mean, I know they have real

858
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,879
Speaker 1: jobs and the other thing. But this is a good

859
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: goofy conversation. Do you think reffing would be much better

860
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: if they were full time? I really don't. I don't

861
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: think it would matter. I think what would you do

862
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: on Tuesday between you go through tape, right, or maybe

863
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: you go to a practice here and there in the

864
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: real when the world opens up. Doesn't know that makes

865
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: you much better ref you know. I think that they've

866
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: now trended towards a lot younger guys. I think we've

867
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: seen a lot of younger officials in the league. You

868
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: don't see the you know, the fifty five year old

869
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: guys running up and down the field as much as

870
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: you used to. Um. But yeah, I don't think that

871
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: makes any difference really besides the and I don't know

872
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys wouldn't want to do that.

873
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: I don't think they would either. Some of them make

874
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: good money doing absolutely give up reffing. I mean some

875
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: of them are lawyers and banker whatever you're making. They

876
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: own their own companies. I mean, you have to have

877
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: some flexibility to be an official in the NFL. You

878
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: try to put off. Yeah, but you have a lot

879
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: of free time the rest of the year. Yeah. Interesting,

880
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the crew at Sean Smith crew during

881
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: the game this week. So keep your eye up for

882
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: more past interference penalties in this football game. Chase Claypool

883
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: take note. Yes, um, and those weren't called last week. No,

884
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: they were a little lenient on that. Yeah, so that's

885
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: worth keeping an eye on. But he is Matt Williamson.

886
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm Dale, Lolly. You're listening to the drive here on

887
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Of course, our our coverage here in

888
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs, brought to you by FedEx and Ford. We're

889
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: gonna take a break. When we come back, it's time

890
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: for the Fantasy Football Focus. We'll do that right after

891
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 1: this the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

892
00:46:54,239 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. We

893
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: are facts. I'm doing a playoff coverage here. I brought

894
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: to you by FedEx and Ford, and it's time for

895
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Focus. Man and I thought we'd take

896
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: a little look here at something different than what we

897
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: typically do on Tuesday's for sure. Um, I've got a

898
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: rankings here for and you were talking about this. You're

899
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: in the league that I've done it a couple of times.

900
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna draft players. I'm gonna do it tonight. Actually

901
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: I didn't know we were gonna have this segment. I

902
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: didn't know either. I just just something I wanted to

903
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: look at. But you go cumulative throughout the playoffs. You

904
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: get the points for that players points throughout the playoffs.

905
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: It's a total playoff combination. But you gotta try to

906
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: pick players you think gonna stay alive for more than

907
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: one game. Absolutely, and I guess this year is different,

908
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: like all playoffs where they used to be there was

909
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: two bye weeks. So if you pick a guy on

910
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: a bye you're forfeiting a week's worth of production. But

911
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: you want the Chiefs if you think they're gonna go

912
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, you know what I mean? Like

913
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: only two teams, but it's very valuable if you find

914
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: a team, like a team in previous years it was

915
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: a three seed. Now you can go to the two seed.

916
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,919
Speaker 1: In a lot of cases, who's gonna get that extra

917
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: playoff game? Yeah? And more. I think about it, like

918
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: if you think the Saints can go to Green Bay

919
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: and win, which doesn't sound great, or Seattle or somebody

920
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: like that, Or we're Buffalo can go to Kansas City.

921
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: You know, I think Buffalo could winning in Kansas City.

922
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the team you hit the hardest. I mean

923
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: they're also a pretty good offense. Yeah, you know, uh

924
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: so looking at that, and they have they they've not

925
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: only got these guys ranked, but they also have draft

926
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: money values on them. I'm trying to remember it. I

927
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 1: didn't do it last. My problem with this every year

928
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: is I get an email on Sunday, say and join it,

929
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: and then the week goes by so fast and there's

930
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,720
Speaker 1: a lot going on. I never fill out of bracket.

931
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: I'm like a crap. I forgot so I didn't do

932
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: one last week or last year, but I think most

933
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: of them. You get a hundred bucks to spend, you know,

934
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: you can't just take the top guy and everyone have

935
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: the same guys. So according to this ranking, this is

936
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 1: this is from four for four dot com, Stefon Diggs

937
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: should be the number one player taken in a PPR,

938
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: which goes back to the Bill's commerce. Yeah, he led

939
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: the league in receptions and yardage. His great matchup in

940
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: week one. They also list their expected games. They're expected

941
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: games is two point six two. Interesting, his total fantasy

942
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: points and in two point six two games is sixty

943
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,240
Speaker 1: one point two points. So his draft value is thirty

944
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: eight dollars and thirty cents. Okay, yeah, I'm on board

945
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,240
Speaker 1: of that. He's healthy, it's a good offense or playing

946
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: this week. I think they'll win. But if you don't,

947
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: then you're in trouble. Yeah. The number two player, Alvin Kamara,

948
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: uh two point seven seven games. They think there's a

949
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: better chance that they think he's playing. They obviously think

950
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: he's playing He's still on the COVID list. That's a

951
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: bit of a problem. Uh. Fifty the chances of advancing, Yeah,

952
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: fifty eight point three total points and thirty eight dollars

953
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: and thirty cents to spend on him. Number three player

954
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey just having a tight end is so nice.

955
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: His his expected games is two point two, his total

956
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: Fantasy points is fifty point seven. Uh, and his draft

957
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: value is thirty six dollars and eighty cents. I'm just

958
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: saying kicking around in my head though, like Kelsey is

959
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: better than Mark Andrews obviously and much better year. But

960
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: if Andrews plays three games and Kelsey plays two, I

961
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 1: might rather have Andrews, perhaps, you know what I mean? Perhaps? Um.

962
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: At the same time, you know, a Kelsey's production is

963
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: ridiculous compared to the other tight ends, especially the ones

964
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: that you know, there's no you know, you're not going

965
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: to have a lot of other big tight ends in

966
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: this in this playoffs. Trying to think that why Andrews

967
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: was the name I came up with? Like, who else?

968
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: Do I even? They have? Actually had? Jared Cook ranks

969
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: second among the titles. I mean, they must be high

970
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: in the Saints. Yeah, which makes sense. I mean I

971
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: can understand that UM to find many football teams or

972
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: Bears on this No, you're not number four on this list,

973
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: QB one Josh Allen. Yeah, I would think he might

974
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: be because he's gonna get the extra game in here.

975
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: He's gonna get two points six two games, just like

976
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: the same thing with with Digs. I mean, I'm taking

977
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: him over Ben sixty point seven fantasy points for the

978
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: total for the playoffs thirty five point one dollars. So

979
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: I have not seen the list. I'm not even sure

980
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: who my second quarterback would be. I guess Lamar would

981
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: be my second. Yeah. Davante Adams comes in five on

982
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: this list. Two point one eight games, thirty four dollars

983
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: and thirty cents, fifty seven total fantasy points. Michael Thomas

984
00:51:55,440 --> 00:52:00,399
Speaker 1: remember though, remember your point yesterday. NFC defenses are harder, Yes,

985
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: and I think that's certainly worth noting here. Michael Thomas

986
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: is number three wide receiver three two point seven seven games,

987
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: thirty two dollars and sixty cents. He's not guaranteed to

988
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: play those this week, either, right, I mean I assume

989
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: they think he's both those guys in mcamar r Tyreek

990
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: Hill comes in at number seven, his wide receiver four

991
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: thirty dollars and nine cents on him fifty three point

992
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: eight points in essentially two point two games. One other note,

993
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: weather is important, Yes, you know Green Bay is not

994
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: going to go on the road. You know, Kansas City's

995
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: not gonna go on the road. Buffalo and Pittsburgh aren't

996
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: exactly warm weather town and none really if you look

997
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: at the entire a f C playoff field, there's there

998
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: are no one weather games, right, I mean that's kind

999
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: of one of the things. I guess in the Saints

1000
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: favor they'll probably have two dome games. Uh. Patrick Mahomes

1001
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: is eight, so he'd be quarterback to uh fifty three

1002
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,479
Speaker 1: point three points, twenty two dollars and seventy cents. Again,

1003
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: they think they're gonna play two point two games is big.

1004
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers comes in at nine. He's QB three, expect

1005
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: the games two point one eight and curious who they

1006
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: think is to play more games. The Packers achieved twenty

1007
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: dollars and ninety cents, so I mean a big difference

1008
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: there that extra game between Josh Allen and the next

1009
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks is worth thirteen or fourteen dollars. According to

1010
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: this man, it makes perfect sense. I mean, it'd be

1011
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 1: great to have my homes and Rogers. But you're starting

1012
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: in a huge hole. I mean, yeah, you're you're giving

1013
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: up points off the bat. You better hope that they

1014
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: get to the Super Bowl better. Yeah, they can't. If

1015
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: they get upset, you're done. Yeah. Um Aaron Jones comes

1016
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: in at ten. Uh, he is RB two and he

1017
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: comes in at uh total points is forty point two

1018
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: twenty dollars and two cents and twenty dollars and twenty cents.

1019
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: I should say Drew Brees comes in at QB four,

1020
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: UMT point one point seventeen and a half dollars. It's

1021
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: a big difference there. Yeah. Lamar comes in whether I

1022
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: don't want Breese in Green Bay? Lamar comes in at twelve.

1023
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: He's QB five, one point nine games is his designation.

1024
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: He's the top even on this list. Uh forty five

1025
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: total fantasy points and fourteen dollars and forty cents. But

1026
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: if you think they're gonna win, that gets you to

1027
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: two games, and think, here's the here's the problem with

1028
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: three games. If they win there's a very strong chance

1029
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,959
Speaker 1: they gotta go to Kansas City and right, and that's

1030
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at here. That's why they're you know,

1031
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: when you're looking at them, it's one point nine games.

1032
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 1: Get I just think two games of Lamar and Andrews

1033
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: is pretty beneficial for the cost so far, or Dobbins

1034
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: m leaning towards building a raven stack line up. Jared

1035
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: Cook comes in a tight end to the Saints. Well,

1036
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: it's two point seven seven games and get the highest

1037
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: they get the highest total point point games or get

1038
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: number of games. He comes in at twenty seven point

1039
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: six points. That's thirteen dollars and seventy cents. Andrews is fourteen.

1040
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: He's tight end three. US can upset the Packers twenty

1041
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: seven points and thirteen point one orts and ten cents

1042
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: and not a huge difference. No, no, that makes but

1043
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 1: you could get the extra game out of that. Um.

1044
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: Tom Brady comes in at fifteen. They got them at

1045
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: two point one games. He's the top Tampa Bay player

1046
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: on here, and that's twelve dollars and thirty cents. But

1047
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: their first matchup isn't easy. Unfortunately, they'll probably win and

1048
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: no advance, but they may not put up a lot

1049
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: of points against Washington. DK Metcalf as our first Seattle

1050
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: Seahawk on the list. He comes in at wide receiver

1051
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: five two point oh one games. Uh, twelve dollars and

1052
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: twenty cents for DK Metcalf. That seems reasonable. Yeah. Derrick

1053
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: Henry comes into RB three. Yeah. You mentioned before that

1054
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: that's one point five five games for them, so they

1055
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, they're not the guaranteed to move on from that. Um,

1056
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: you're looking at eleven dollars and ninety cents to get

1057
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Now, Derrick Henry could have a huge game

1058
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: against Monster game, and if he does, they probably win,

1059
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Um. In fact, his his

1060
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: scoring for the Phototal Fantasy Points is a thirty one

1061
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: point nine. I wonder how he compares it like Jonathan Taylor.

1062
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: We'll get there. I'm jump. Chris Gobwin is eighteen, he's

1063
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver six, ten point ten dollars and fifty cents. Yeah.

1064
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan tight end four. Yeah, they're probably gonna play

1065
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: two games, ten dollars and thirty cents, twenty four point

1066
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:26,760
Speaker 1: two points. Yeah. Chris Carson comes in at RB four. Uh,

1067
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: ten dollars and ten cents. No stealers yet, but we're

1068
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: not to the Steelers yet. No. Uh, Mike Evans wide

1069
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: receiver seven. He's nine dollars and seventy cents. What you

1070
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: should spend on Evans, but that's closed. Gronk comes in

1071
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: at tight end five at number twenty two. I don't

1072
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:48,959
Speaker 1: like this. Nine dollars and fifty cents twenty three point

1073
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 1: four point twenty three point four points in the playoffs.

1074
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: That's not gonna do do it for you. We have

1075
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: our first Steeler Deonte Johnson that uh wide receiver eight.

1076
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: They're projecting one point eight nine games for the Steelers,

1077
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: so they think they're gonna win this one for sure. Yeah,

1078
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: gets you to thirty one point eight points, eight dollars

1079
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: and ninety cents. I like it at that price, he

1080
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: may be on my team. John Brown as wide receiver nine.

1081
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: This shows you the difference here between Brown and Deonte Johnson.

1082
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: Brown comes in at two point six two games and

1083
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: eight dollars and eighty cents for thirty one point seven points.

1084
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: That's point one points projected less than what Deonte Johnson

1085
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: is in a fewer one game fewer Yeah, but Deonte

1086
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: is a one and Browns with two. I mean there's

1087
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: the reason Diggs is one overall. Tyler Lockett, wide receiver ten.

1088
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: He's been down lately though. There are only two players

1089
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: this year that had I believe a hunter. Yeah, two

1090
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: players with a hundred catches, a thousand yards and double

1091
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: digit touchdowns. One was Davonte Adams. The other one was

1092
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, and he started the season on fire. It's

1093
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,919
Speaker 1: just so you never know when it's gonna happen. It is, Uh,

1094
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: he's wide receiver ten, eight dollars and eighty cents. Uh,

1095
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb. I think the k metcalf is gonna get Ramsey. Yeah,

1096
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: that could be a good lock a game. Nick Chubb

1097
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: comes in at RB five one point four seven games, uh,

1098
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: twenty seven and a half point seven, seven dollars and

1099
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: fifty cents. I mean, if they win, then they go

1100
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: to Kansas City most likely, and they would run on

1101
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Yeah. I don't think you're gonna win. I

1102
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: don't Russell Wilson all the way down to twenty seven

1103
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: little value cheap to me. It's just someone that's got

1104
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: a real good chance to advance. Yeah, thirty seven point

1105
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: three fantasy points, six dollars and seventy cents quarterback. There

1106
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: will not be a bad one. Yeah. I think they

1107
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: could actually win in Green Bay too, where I don't

1108
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: think the Saints can. Yeah, if it gets to that point.

1109
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones comes in as RB six. You can get

1110
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: it running backs cheap on this He six is uh

1111
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: and he's six dollars and seventy cents. Yeah. I mean

1112
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 1: two games of a running back. If you want to

1113
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: spend up to get a guy like Higgs or something

1114
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: like that, and then this is where you get your value,

1115
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: that's not bad. Dawson Knox is tight end six. Speaking

1116
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: to Jones, I mean he may get the ball a

1117
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: ton in the fourth quarter. They may be up big,

1118
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: right yeah. Uh. Dawson Knox comes in six dollars and

1119
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: thirty cents twenty twenty point two fantasy points of faith.

1120
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders comes in his wide receiver eleven. Uh. That's

1121
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: five dollars and eighty cents for twenty twenty point seven

1122
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: fantasy points. Uh. Clyde Edwards Hilaire, he's back. I think yeah,

1123
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: he's RB seven Uh, five dollars and forty cents for

1124
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: twenty five point four fantasy points projected. Not bad if

1125
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna go to Super Bowl, right, you

1126
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: get three games out of the guy. If you think

1127
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: he's got to Super Bowl. H. Eric Ebron comes in

1128
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: his tight end seven, I'd have you burned ahead of

1129
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox Um eighteen and a half fantasy points. Four

1130
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,800
Speaker 1: dollars and sixty cents. It's not bad value they throw

1131
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: the ball, Logan Thomas, I'll take that's only one game.

1132
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: That's only one game. He's he's four dollars and tens pens.

1133
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: Uh their projection on him. He's the first Washington player

1134
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:07,439
Speaker 1: on this list. Uh one point three four playoff games

1135
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: projected but eighteen points, and he's highly productive, highly targeted. Yes,

1136
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I'm sorry. Running back eight is James Conner.

1137
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. Again, I would play him a lot. Uh.

1138
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: He comes in at three dollars and ninety cents, twenty

1139
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: three point nine fantasy points. I think that's legit. Uh.

1140
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: A J. Brown, I mean the Bills. If you get

1141
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: the Bills in a second round, you can run over A. J. Brown?

1142
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: Is what receiver? Twelve uh twenty six point six fantasy

1143
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: points three dollars or seventy cents. That's a rough one.

1144
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna win. They don't have a

1145
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: good match up. Yeah. Devin's singletary is RB nine twenty

1146
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 1: three point two points three dollars and twenty cents. J K.

1147
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,919
Speaker 1: Dobbins is RB ten. I'm buying that twenty three point

1148
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: one fantasy points and three dollars and ten cents. I

1149
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win. And if you get two games

1150
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: out of that guy for that price, a great that's

1151
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: a great part. Ryan tanney Hill is QB eight h

1152
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: two point three two dollars and thirty cents thirty two

1153
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: point nine points. Juju Smith think you can't take a

1154
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: quarterback that you thinks only gonna play one game? You can't,

1155
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: It's yeah, Juju Smith. Schuster comes in at watch receiver

1156
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: thirteen twenty five point one fantasy points, two dollars and

1157
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: twenty cents. I'll take that risk. Jonathan Taylor comes in

1158
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: at running back eleven one dollar eighty for twenty one

1159
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: point eight points. That's not bad, but it might be

1160
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: one game. It might be one game, but if you

1161
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: get to you won. Latavious Murray could be a nice

1162
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 1: value that. Uh, he's RB twelve twenty one and a

1163
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: half fantasy points. That could be much higher than that,

1164
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 1: could be much lower. Uh. And it's a dollar fifty play,

1165
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: and what if Kamara doesn't play dollar fifty. That's where

1166
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:58,959
Speaker 1: you save some money there, Uh, David Yeah, David Montgomery, Yeah,

1167
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: that's a good one because he can get goal line

1168
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: carries too, potentially a minimum. Uh. David Montgomery comes into

1169
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: RB thirteen, that's a one gamer. That's their lowest one

1170
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: point to two game games. I can't imagine taking them

1171
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: twenty one point four points dollar forty. Antonio Gibson is

1172
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: right below him at RB fourteen. He is a dollar thirty.

1173
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown at a dollar thirty. I don't dislike that. Yeah,

1174
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: like that could be pretty good. No, they've got him

1175
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: a lot more incorporated in the offense, and Evans is

1176
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 1: all right. How about Robert Woods at forty cents? I

1177
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: think they could beat Seattle. Yeah, I'd like to know

1178
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: golf playing, but seat Zack Moss comes in at RB

1179
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: fifteen at forty cents. Cam Acres comes in at number

1180
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: forty seven, RB sixteen at ten cents. I don't think

1181
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: that's bad you're gonna get production out of it if Yeah,

1182
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: twenty touches probably, but it might only be for one game.

1183
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 1: It might only but still that's cheap. Marquis Brown comes

1184
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: in at wide receiver six team at no cost, no cost,

1185
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: no cost. How about this one down at fifty one,

1186
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: we're down to the players who are cost you nothing.

1187
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger QB nine. If you think they're gonna beat

1188
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: the Browns thirty points, six points, but if you take

1189
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 1: if you do that and they and they only play

1190
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: the two games, then you know, I mean, I just

1191
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: said a minute ago, you want to take a quarterback

1192
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: who thinks to play the most game, but it's it's

1193
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,439
Speaker 1: But if you think they're gonna they're gonna beat the Browns,

1194
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna get two games out of them. You can

1195
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:35,240
Speaker 1: get Kelsey and Digs. Yes, now you're talking because the

1196
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: Steelers don't advance one of those two are for both

1197
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: of them? Are you know any bad? Yeah? I mean

1198
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: I like Ben's chance to play in two games. Yeah,

1199
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool is actually minus one point two dollars. I'm

1200
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: buying Chase Claypool for mine for if you're gonna give them.

1201
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,120
Speaker 1: If you're gonna pay me to for twenty one point

1202
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: seven points, I'll take them. Yeah, they'll play two games

1203
01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: at least. Yeah. Kareem Kareem Hunt is minus one minus

1204
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 1: dollar fifty uh eighteen and a half points. I don't

1205
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 1: know if I love that one, but I'm just looking

1206
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: for values here at this point. Interesting they go negative. Yeah,

1207
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 1: I mean Cooper Cup minus three point two. They might win,

1208
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: it might win, and his production is nineteen point seven points.

1209
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: Even if they don't win, you get a nineteen point

1210
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: seven point you know, right, right right? I mean that

1211
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: gets you, Kelsey, that gets you right Yeah. Um, t

1212
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: Y Hilton is minus four dollars. It's not the worst

1213
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: they ever heard either. I don't think they'll win, but

1214
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 1: it's not crazy talk. Yeah that's interesting. There's nothing to roster,

1215
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: and I'll let you know what I do, Okay, Yeah,

1216
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 1: that we could talk about. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Yeah,

1217
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: we could do that too. But yeah, I mean that's

1218
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: an interesting take on on fantasy football. Uh, you know,

1219
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: especially if you do that. I don't know, if your

1220
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 1: league does the negative values, you probably have to bid

1221
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:53,919
Speaker 1: at least something. I don't know. I have an email

1222
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 1: sitting there that I haven't open I think into it.

1223
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: But if you can get those guys, I mean you

1224
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: have to figure like you're all bidding finally, because you

1225
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of money to build your line up.

1226
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: I assume it's like a DFS thing. You get a

1227
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: hundred bucks and build whatever you can. So if you're

1228
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: gonna get for example, if you get a guys for

1229
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: a dollar or zero, um, you know you could and

1230
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 1: they have and they have some value, and then you

1231
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: can go get some of these other guys who you

1232
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: think are gonna be right. If you could go get

1233
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: uh Digs for thirty eight dollars Kelsey for thirty six,

1234
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: will that gets you to seventy four? Um? So now

1235
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:33,479
Speaker 1: you you know, now you need to save some money

1236
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: on quarterback position. Okay, Roethlisberger is nothing, all right? Right right,

1237
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: I'll take two games there and get those two guys.

1238
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: I've seen some of them that they have a defense too.

1239
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: Can be fun, yeah, you know, I mean, I'm sure

1240
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: there's different formats. Some some probably two quarterbacks, some are

1241
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: because is there is there really a big Is there

1242
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: a difference between taking Josh Allen for thirty five dollars

1243
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: and taking Roethlisberger for nothing. They both there's a good

1244
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: chance they both won't play two games, right, and you'd

1245
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: rather have Alan, But I'd rather have one of them.

1246
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: Probably one of them. Are one of those is gonna

1247
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: play three? Potentially, probably gonna play three. But is it

1248
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 1: worth that's a lot? I mean, that's a big chunk

1249
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:11,560
Speaker 1: of your budget obviously. So here's my question of you,

1250
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 1: because I liked a lot of the cheap guys. Who

1251
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: do you pay up for from the chiefs? No, just

1252
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 1: period super expensive guy? Who? Which one are you're buying?

1253
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: I might be Kelsey? Maybe Kelsey because as it's such

1254
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:25,959
Speaker 1: a big difference there between him and the other tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Unless you can go get some some nice mid ranged

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Speaker 1: running back slash wide receivers, a bunch of B B

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Speaker 1: plus type guys. Yeah, if you could go get say

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones at twenty dollars. I didn't like any of

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01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 1: the other tight ends to match with. Uh, I'm not

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01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 1: paying for Jared cook I mean Mark Andrews thirteen dollars,

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01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 1: Jered Cookes thirteen dollars. Um, you know, maybe you go

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Speaker 1: do you go Rob Tanyan for ten bucks? And that's

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01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: not bad because they could win three. Yeah, I mean

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01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: they could play a lot of games. That's not bad.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I would do that. I'm just trying to think

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01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: because I like the clay Pools, the cops ideas. So

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01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: who am I buying then? Right? Who am I really

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01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: spending for? Kelsey is the one that kind of jumped

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01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 1: out to me. There's so many receivers. I'd have a

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01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 1: hard time buying Diggs. I think it's one, but there's

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Speaker 1: other good options. Thirty eight dollars for Diggs is too much,

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01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: I would probably look. I mean he can get Michael

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01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: Thomas for thirty two and save six bucks. Yeah right,

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01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 1: we can get I mean Deante Johnson to me, is

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01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: not that much different than Diggs. You can get a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver five or how about wide receiver six? Is

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01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: Chris Gobwin? It's ten bucks? Yeah, yeah, hell yeah exactly.

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01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 1: They're gonna win. Yeah, right, if you think the steel

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01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: is gonna win, I'll take Deonte, right, I don't. I

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01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: really don't think he's much different than Diggs. No, I mean,

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01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: there's gonna get Pepper with targets and yeah, I mean

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01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: figure get eight catches for you know, a good chance

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01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,520
Speaker 1: to win the first they threw down the field the

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01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: last you know, he had three catches for ninety six

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Speaker 1: yards last week against his team, right right, right now,

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01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on my team. Yeah, I plan. But

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Speaker 1: that's interesting fun. Yeah, let let us know tomorrow who

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01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: are you taking that lake and we'll talk about that.

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01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: But he is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. That was

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01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: the Fantasy po ball focus. If you're you're gonna do

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01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: a playoff league, those are some ideas that's gonna look

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01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: at there. That's interesting. Um our coverage here on Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio, brought to you by Ford and fed X.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back after this.

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Speaker 1: Your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to our playoff coverage

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Speaker 1: I brought to you by Ford and fed X and

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Speaker 1: I Matt that we've gone to the idev o A

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Speaker 1: rankings on Football Outsiders all season long as part of

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Speaker 1: the show. Uh. The Steelers finishing eighth this year in

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Speaker 1: total d v o A UM at plus sixteen point

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01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:09,719
Speaker 1: eight um. That's just ahead of the Rams, just behind

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Okay, I mean the Ravens finished very strong.

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01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:15,879
Speaker 1: I did a Power Ranks night Baltimore head of Pittsburgh

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01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: right now. So the top the top teams according to this,

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01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 1: and I know they're not super excited about the Chiefs,

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01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 1: which is a totally different conversation, but they don't. I

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01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: listened to a Football at Sires podcast last week's saying

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01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 1: this is not a slam dunk there. No, I don't

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01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 1: think it is either best team, you know by their rankings. Case,

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01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,680
Speaker 1: he's not that impressive. So number one overall was New

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01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: Orleans at thirty three point three. Numbers starts me a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Number two is Tampa Bay at thirty one

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Speaker 1: point some reason. They do love them. They've loved them

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Speaker 1: always all year. And here's the thing with the Bucks.

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01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: They've beaten up on the bad teams, and when they've

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01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 1: played a good team, they've largely gotten their butts hand

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01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: good defense. Yeah, you know, they've ran into some good defenses.

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Speaker 1: Which where is you a little this week? I guess, yeah. Um.

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01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 1: I've heard Aaron Shots talk about the football side or

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01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 1: founder and he said, I'm not exactly sure why the

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01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:07,679
Speaker 1: formula keeps pumping out the Bucks so high. I would

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01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 1: keep looking at it trying to see where the the

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01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: glitch or the rub is and he can't quite figure

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Speaker 1: it out. Green Green Bay is third at point nine.

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01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: By that, so your top three teams, according to this

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01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: Football Siders are all NFC teams. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: that anybody would say that, most wouldn't. Yeah right, I mean,

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01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:27,760
Speaker 1: I had the Bills in the Chiefs in my top

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01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 1: three in the power ranks, they get the Bills number

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01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:39,439
Speaker 1: four at eight Seattle. Seattle's number five. Like somebody asked

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01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:43,720
Speaker 1: me this question the other day, is the are these

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01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 1: teams actually good? Are they just beating up on the

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01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: bad teams? Because there's there's more that than ever this

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01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: last I really think that, I mean, I really think

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01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: that's a big part of everybody was, you know, killing

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01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,880
Speaker 1: the Steelers are what You're just beating bad teams. There's

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01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: who are the good ones? Who are the good teams?

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01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: Especially bad defenses. I'm pretty convinced that the Trabiski Bears

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01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: renaissance is because they played they played bad teams, right, Yeah.

1341
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins were in the in the playoff hunt

1342
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 1: because they played bad teams. They didn't be it, they

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: didn't be a good team all year exactly, And I'm

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01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 1: super impressed with the Ravens, but this stretch that they're

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01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: on is against nobody's Yeah, I mean, this is the

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01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 1: same stretch of teams that the Steelers were beating up

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01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:23,879
Speaker 1: on earlier, and everyone's well, the Ravens are back, are they?

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01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I'm thinking about the Chiefs too,

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01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: which again we haven't got to They don't beat anybody badly, right,

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01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 1: they squeaked by. I know that Football Siders isn't big

1351
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: on that if you're a great team, you should blow

1352
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: out the bad teams. Uh. They are six in the

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01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: rankings at nineteen point five. Their defense super low or

1354
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 1: yes that's the schedule is twenty five, which hurts you. Uh,

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01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: and their defense is uh two. I think they've had

1356
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 1: special teams issues too. Yeah, there's they're seventeen on special teams. Um,

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01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: Baltimore eleventh at eighteen point six and Pittsburgh eighth at

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01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 1: sixteen point eight. You have to go all the way

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01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:11,719
Speaker 1: down though, to find Cleveland is eighteen minus five point

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01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 1: six minus five point six. There's the only team in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs with a negative point differential. I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you start looking at it the way that the

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Speaker 1: way the d v o as breakdown here the teams

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Speaker 1: that are in the a f C playoffs, you got

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Speaker 1: I'm curious. They're all at Buffalo at four, Kansas City

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01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: at six, Baltimore seven, Pittsburgh at eight, So four in

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Speaker 1: the top eight, in the top three. Indianapolis is at ten.

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Speaker 1: That sounds about They snuck in. Miami was twelve, Tennessee

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01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 1: is fourteen. Their special Teams is last. I bet. Yeah,

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01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,719
Speaker 1: it's bad. Uh, they ended up twenty eight. They're actually

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Speaker 1: worse teams worse. Cleveland is down at eighteen, and I

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Speaker 1: believe that's it for the a f C playoff teams. Yeah,

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01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:57,519
Speaker 1: so Cleveland, by this, by football siders, d v o

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Speaker 1: A is the worst a f C playoff team. Yeah,

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01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: by far. I think that's true, by far, Like the

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01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: Steelers are. The Steelers are twenty points better than them

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01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,720
Speaker 1: d v A. That's a massive gap, big gap. That's

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01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:15,839
Speaker 1: a massive gap. Where Washington in Chicago they below the Bears.

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01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:22,599
Speaker 1: Washington is actually sixte Chicago is There's some there, there's

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01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: some real love here for the NFC. Yeah, there are, uh,

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01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, their defenses are all going to

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01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: rank higher than this. And here's the here's the thing.

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01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: The bottom four teams in d v o A this

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01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: year with the Jets, Jaguars, Bengals, Broncos all teams. Philadelphia

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01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:43,759
Speaker 1: was Detroit twenty seven, the Chargers were twenty six, Chargers

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01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: thirty second and special teams. By the way, then you

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01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 1: get the Giants at Houston at New England was down

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01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:54,680
Speaker 1: to two. I mean a lot of the so a

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01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 1: lot of the bottom feeders were according to the d

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Speaker 1: v o A, were teams. You said who they were, Denver, Jacksonville,

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01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 1: Jets and since yeah, so there's one in EACHFC Division two,

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01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: so every good team got to play, got to play

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01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,680
Speaker 1: them twice at least, which hurts your DVA, which hurt

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01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: your overall d v o A defensive d v o A.

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01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 1: The Steelers came in first at minus twenty point two,

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01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 1: Ram second. I'm just curious. No. New Orleans was second,

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01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 1: Washington third, The Rams were fourth. The Washington love then

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01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: if they're that high. Here's the thing, though, the game

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01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 1: against the Browns Sunday counted against the Steelers team although

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01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:40,600
Speaker 1: they threw out, but they threw out. For example, the

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01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 1: game the Steelers played against Yeah, I thought you knew

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01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: that right, like they threw out some of the COVID games,

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01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 1: the Denver No Quarterback game and stuff like that, But

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 1: you didn't. You didn't throw out Kansas City not playing

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01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 1: Mahomes on Sunday. That's that's kind of a big deal.

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01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: You would think that Shots and company would have done

1407
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: that every year because that's on a new phenomenon. But

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01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:08,360
Speaker 1: how do you hold that against the Chargers or Brown Yeah,

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01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Offensive

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01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: d v o A. The Steelers ended up twenty second

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01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 1: at minus four point seven. Um, so if you're looking

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01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 1: here at who was number one? Was Green Bay? Kansas

1413
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: City was two, and it's not even close. Really, Kansas

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01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: City was twenty nine point one, or I'm sorry, Green

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01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: Bay was twenty nine point one, Kansas City was twenty

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01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 1: three point nine. It's a gap, and it's actually close

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01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay's offense is closer to Kansas City, or

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tampa Bay's offense closer to Tampa to Kansas

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01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 1: City than Kansas City was the Green Bay wow a

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01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: number three. Same thing with Tennis. Tennessee's offense came in fourth.

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01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:50,439
Speaker 1: They're close the Green Bay's one do you hear this

1422
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers three more touchdowns than Green Bay punted

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01:15:54,160 --> 01:16:00,040
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, and they're awesome in the Reds on

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01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: they're off awesome on third downs. It's an amazing number. Buffalo,

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01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: by the way, finished minus two point two in defense.

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01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: Minus two point two was good for twelve and it

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01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 1: must be unproven because they were like twenty for much

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01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 1: of the Yeah. Um special teams d D B O A.

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01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: Buffalo is fourth. Cleveland on that list is twenty seven.

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01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 1: I know they have been just defensive. Who the top

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01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: three or four? I mean, I'm sure a lot of

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01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 1: people listening could understand those Steelers are good on defense,

1433
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are good on offense. Who are the top

1434
01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: three or four and worst three or four special teams?

1435
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:38,200
Speaker 1: New England finished number one in special teams. I mean

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01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 1: you get to seven and nine with that ros that

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01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: was largely based though in that one game against the

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01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: Chargers where that made like seven great special teams at

1439
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: place point UM. Baltimore was second at seven point four.

1440
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:52,040
Speaker 1: It's funny they every Football Outsiders Almanac always says the

1441
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: Ravens and Patriots are always the top of the list,

1442
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: and there Seattle third, Buffalo fourth. Steelers finished fourteenth at

1443
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: one point four. It's pretty rare to see a bad

1444
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: team at the top. Yeah, last year Cincinnati was near

1445
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: the top, but that's rare. The worst teams the Jets

1446
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: twenty nine, the Rams at thirty that's a big issue,

1447
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: and they placed Seattle this week three or whatever, right,

1448
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: Minnesota at thirty one, and the Chargers at thirty two.

1449
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:21,080
Speaker 1: I mentioned since he being good last year, like the

1450
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 1: Jets should be okay there, I mean, like be good

1451
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: at something, you know what I mean. You got a

1452
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 1: bunch of try hard guys trying to make the team.

1453
01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: Can't you put a decent special teams unit out there

1454
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:32,679
Speaker 1: and think? Um? But not so much? Uh. In terms

1455
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:36,839
Speaker 1: of the estimated wins for each team, Tampa Bay finished

1456
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 1: first at twelve point eight. Wow, they didn't win twelve

1457
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: point eight games, No, they didn't. Uh. Buffalo was second

1458
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: at twelve point one, Kansas City third eleven point nine,

1459
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: New Orleans fourth at eleven point eight. Uh. Seattle was

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Speaker 1: fifth at eleven point four, Green Bay had eleven point

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01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh ten point one was a seventh on that list.

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01:17:57,479 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: That confuses me a little, but I think that they

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01:18:00,439 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 1: accumulate what your score is, and if you played the

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01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 1: season a thousand times and Steelers would would win ten

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01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,760
Speaker 1: point one games. You know they did better than with

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01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:15,559
Speaker 1: twelve wins. They Yeah, they seated their win total. Like

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01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 1: I remember last year the Chargers were like it, ten

1468
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: wins and they ended up five and eleven or something

1469
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:26,719
Speaker 1: like they should have won ten without well they played,

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01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: but this found ways to lose left and right. And

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: that's actually the seventh most. So I don't know how

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: that if you if if that's the way you played

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01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: and you came up with the seventh most wins, how

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01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: does your dv you shouldn't be the same. Yeah, you

1475
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: would think it would be the same because Baltimore comes

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01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: out at nine point five wins. That's ten, but Baltimore

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01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: was higher in d v o A. That's interesting because

1478
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 1: because d v o A does factor in competition, so

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01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: it's not like, boy, you played great, but you played

1480
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 1: a really tough schedule, so you only have nine wins. Yeah,

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01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, that's over my pay grade. What

1482
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 1: did this? The Colts the easiest schedule in the league.

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01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting because most projected them to have

1484
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: the easiest schedule in the league when the season opened. Yeah,

1485
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: but his revision is pretty soft. It's really soft. Yeah,

1486
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,599
Speaker 1: and they lost to one of those ye Yeah. Anyways, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lali. You're listening

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01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 1: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. Coverage is

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01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,479
Speaker 1: brought to you by FedEx and Ford. We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we'll hear from Gene Sterator.

1491
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he'll talk a little bit about some of

1492
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:32,160
Speaker 1: these holding and other issues and past interference penalties and

1493
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: what they expect in the playoffs. Were from Geane right

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01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: after this your tunes about Drive on Home of the

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Speaker 1: Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Well,

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01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and Matt As we'd like to do every week.

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01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 1: Uh um, we'd like to hear back from what Gene

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01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: Sterrator has to say. Gin of course, the officiating analyst

1499
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: on the CBS Sports He joins the d V morning

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01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: show every week during the season and always has some

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01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,759
Speaker 1: good stuff and it usually has a nice Pittsburgh perspective,

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01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,639
Speaker 1: being a Pittsburgh guy. So let's hear what Jean had

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01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 1: to say earlier today on the d V Morning Show,

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01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 1: your radio home of the Steelers. What o't your point

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01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 1: five d V E. It's Randy Bauman and the d

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01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: V Morning Show joining us now for Zebra Talk, brought

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01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 1: to you by your neighborhood Ford Stores, from the NFL

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01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: and CBS. NFL officiating Guru Jean Terrator Gino. Good morning, Horny,

1509
01:20:56,080 --> 01:21:03,800
Speaker 1: Handy happy to me here, everyone, Good morning gets great. Yeah,

1510
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 1: it's great to hear your voice to Buddy. I'll tell

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01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: you what. You know, all's right with the world. Steelers

1512
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs. You know that little losing streak

1513
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:14,720
Speaker 1: is behind us, and it's uh all uh, you know,

1514
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:19,400
Speaker 1: all all eyes looking forward at the prize here. You know,

1515
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: you gotta get past the Brownie Sunday night. I'm not

1516
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: really happy about the start time of that game, but

1517
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: you know, not too much we can do about that. Now.

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01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: You know, this game would have been avoided had we

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01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: beat the Browns and we would have knocked him out.

1520
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: And that could have happened if the officials didn't screw

1521
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 1: the Steelers again. So let's talk about that. For some reason,

1522
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 1: I had an idea you're going to get to that

1523
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:46,240
Speaker 1: place that was pretty good, you know, there there there

1524
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 1: have been some teams who seem to have been more

1525
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,639
Speaker 1: snake bitten than others. The Lions have gotten screwed all

1526
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: year long. It seems like now Steeler fans will tell

1527
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:58,320
Speaker 1: you every game t J. Watt gets held ten eleven

1528
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:03,759
Speaker 1: times doesn't get called. Um. There was another egregious missed

1529
01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: holding call on a Blitz this past Sunday that a

1530
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: number of former Steelers even tweeted up. Now I understand

1531
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: how that stuff kind of happens once in a while.

1532
01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph on the interception that really turned the tide

1533
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 1: of the game, there were there was some hands to

1534
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 1: the head there that seemed to me to be a

1535
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: clear cut Well, there's a rule against this that's got

1536
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: to come back. Why didn't that get called there? So,

1537
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, I tried to recreate the play down as

1538
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: I was watching the replays to see if you know

1539
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: something like that, when a quarterback is getting hit in

1540
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 1: his head or neck area, especially right at the time

1541
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:46,000
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to release the football, it's really the

1542
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:49,320
Speaker 1: only place the referee in that case, who's working that

1543
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: has to be officiating it. So you want to keep

1544
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 1: the head neck area and naturally the ball that's in

1545
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: his arm. Uh, you know, hands still all in one

1546
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: kind of frame for yourself. So I was really perplexed

1547
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:04,559
Speaker 1: by it. Was thinking the only thing that could possibly

1548
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,760
Speaker 1: happen is that some at that crucial moment or that

1549
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 1: second in time, that someone you know, screened the view

1550
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: of the referee. Because it's just a play. You you

1551
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: naturally don't want to miss any files. If you're refereeing,

1552
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:20,559
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss hits on quarterback's heads at

1553
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,519
Speaker 1: any time though, right, I mean that's just something that

1554
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:25,439
Speaker 1: you just don't want to miss. So it's a it's

1555
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 1: a head scratcher, and and you guys are right. Look,

1556
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:31,839
Speaker 1: you know, I'm here to hope sometimes if if there's mistakes,

1557
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: there's mistakes, if I can try to break them down,

1558
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,599
Speaker 1: I try to do that. The holds are there, and

1559
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 1: they're not small holds. Those are big holding calls. UM

1560
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:44,879
Speaker 1: officials are assigned to specific interior alignment before the snap

1561
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: that you stay with those keys just like players do.

1562
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 1: So when you do see the holds, and the one

1563
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 1: that happened with a minute and a half left is

1564
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: it's just a brutal takedown by a player. I mean

1565
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: he gets tackled in the backfield in isolation. It's it's

1566
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:01,960
Speaker 1: when you see those types of things you wonder, you know,

1567
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 1: the only answer can be that we're not looking in

1568
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 1: the places with that officials need to be looking. Um,

1569
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 1: in that specific play, I did look at that the

1570
01:24:10,520 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: umpire is not in a good position and go back

1571
01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:15,400
Speaker 1: and look at that he's only three yards behind in

1572
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: the offensive back that was still backing up at the

1573
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: time of the snap. So so he didn't even position

1574
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: himself properly before the play to start to play. And

1575
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:27,519
Speaker 1: that's his key that tackles this guy. Uh, look, you

1576
01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: know what you hope is, uh, we got this out

1577
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:32,360
Speaker 1: of the way, and from an officiating lens and from

1578
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,760
Speaker 1: a fan of the game, and and you know it's

1579
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: serious now, not that every game is serious in the NFL,

1580
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:40,800
Speaker 1: but we all know that the losers go home now,

1581
01:24:41,120 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, you can't miss plays. I was

1582
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: always a proponent of you know what, and I like

1583
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 1: this from the general public that say, you know, let

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01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: him play in that type of thing. You do. Let

1585
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: them play because I do believe players work themselves through

1586
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:57,920
Speaker 1: hand fighting and what we would say would be technical

1587
01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 1: a little bit two technical calls. Leave those alone. They

1588
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: will work through them. But then there is a crossing

1589
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: line there where now people are getting an unfair advantage

1590
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: on certain situations and and it and it hurts the

1591
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,559
Speaker 1: game badly by letting things play. And then how do

1592
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:17,640
Speaker 1: you bring that back into reality or normalcy within the

1593
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 1: confines of this game. So you've got to you've got

1594
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: to get files that are files now and uh, and

1595
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 1: stay away from tiki tech things and let these guys

1596
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 1: do what they do. It's it's for real now, you know. Yeah,

1597
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:35,360
Speaker 1: So how many bad calls are missed? Calls do you

1598
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: think are a result of the wrong alignment from the

1599
01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: referee being in the wrong position. Those are the things

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01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 1: that I always look at, and I mean that's how

1601
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 1: we always break things down from what I do for

1602
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 1: a living and what I've done my entire life. And

1603
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: that's when you look back and see, you know, as

1604
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: a crew, we never wanted to have one or two

1605
01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 1: misses at most per game, right collectively? Uh, And you

1606
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:01,639
Speaker 1: want to hope that always hope that those misses are

1607
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 1: really tough plays and and their judgmental things that you

1608
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,679
Speaker 1: went one direction and after getting your grades are looking

1609
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: at he thinks, shoot, I should have should have thrown there,

1610
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: should have left it alone. Uh. And then you see

1611
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: things that are head scratches that we just aren't accustomed

1612
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: to seeing at the NFL level, which are how do

1613
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 1: you miss that you you're you're obviously not looking where

1614
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: you need to look. That creates a different concern when

1615
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 1: when you're evaluating things and when you look at stuff

1616
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:31,040
Speaker 1: and uh, and you know you see your you know,

1617
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:33,599
Speaker 1: we we see our share of them. It's uh, it's

1618
01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:36,200
Speaker 1: it's there on the canvas. And it's hard to uh

1619
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 1: to draw back when you see plays that are just

1620
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,920
Speaker 1: missed and go, look, your receiver is that number two

1621
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:44,840
Speaker 1: receiver and he gets jammed in his face in the

1622
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,560
Speaker 1: first two seconds of a play? There's nothing else you

1623
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,760
Speaker 1: should be looking at other than that player. And that's

1624
01:26:50,760 --> 01:26:54,759
Speaker 1: a different discussion. And that's where crews and and growing

1625
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:58,680
Speaker 1: through the season, depending on your seniority or you know what,

1626
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:02,519
Speaker 1: maybe you you know, it's it's moving into this that

1627
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,960
Speaker 1: you continue to work on your craft just like you

1628
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:08,639
Speaker 1: do when you're a player and and you're in the NFL.

1629
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: You don't get too many opportunities to h to make

1630
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 1: mistakes here and if you do. You have to look

1631
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:17,720
Speaker 1: for something else to do for, you know, for a

1632
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:22,599
Speaker 1: living gene. I was wondering how many of these uh

1633
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: mistakes you would attribute to these guys trying to screw

1634
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:31,720
Speaker 1: me on my three team parlay, because that's happening a

1635
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 1: lot happening to I can tell you it was always

1636
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: the last five minutes of my pre game on Saturday.

1637
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:42,000
Speaker 1: Let's we got done with the game, all right, What

1638
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: did you guys see what pursuit up picked? All right, yeah,

1639
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:48,439
Speaker 1: we can. We can hurt him here today. Don't mess

1640
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: the game up though. You know, we don't want to

1641
01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: make up a difference between a winning a lot. Let's

1642
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: just affect the spread a little bit with you that way,

1643
01:27:55,360 --> 01:28:00,800
Speaker 1: nobody no harmlow files come like one other calls? What

1644
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: other call? I wanted to ask you about, Jane. That

1645
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 1: was in the Lions and Vikings game, roughing the passer.

1646
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:10,600
Speaker 1: It was fourth and goal Lions blitz. They sacked the quarterback.

1647
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: They should get the ball, turnover and downs, but a

1648
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,920
Speaker 1: flag is thrown for roughing the passer. And it was

1649
01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 1: so fast that he was in the backfield and tackled

1650
01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I couldn't believe they were able to determine

1651
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: that he put all his weight on the quarterback or

1652
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: anything like that. Did you see that play and you

1653
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: know what you want I'm talking about. Yeah, most definitely did. Yeah.

1654
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 1: It's a quick blitz right up the middle. The referee,

1655
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: if you watch the play, rands too close to the play.

1656
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: He's within three yards of the play. When you change

1657
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 1: your your distance from what you're officiating from eight to

1658
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 1: nine yards, which fift feet away, things slowed down to

1659
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:51,559
Speaker 1: six yards or five I'm sorry, six ft five ft.

1660
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: This thing becomes a blur. Now everything grows exponentially, the

1661
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: severity of the call, what it feels like, whether that's

1662
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:03,520
Speaker 1: enough to rise to a level, that all changes, truthfully,

1663
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: by putting yourself five or six feet closer to this,

1664
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 1: it's it's, it's it's it's a huge difference. And it

1665
01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: doesn't look as much on television, but down on the field,

1666
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 1: in that proximity, the difference is amazing. The thing that's

1667
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 1: hard with this is if you read the pool report then,

1668
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: which there was to hear the referee break this play

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01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 1: down and then defend what he did is what took.

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01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:30,280
Speaker 1: I was more concerned on Monday yesterday, after reading the

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01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 1: Pool report than I was on the reaction seeing that

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01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:36,240
Speaker 1: he may have called that or reacted to that because

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01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:39,280
Speaker 1: of his proximity and just misinterpreted it. But then you

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01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: read the Pool report and it's like, no, he felt

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01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: like he had this whole thing wrapped really within a

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01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:47,559
Speaker 1: tight bow. And this is why I called it, and

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01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:49,880
Speaker 1: it was body weight and a player needs to take

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01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: himself and barrel roll or put him self to the side,

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01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: or brace himself and all these catch words now that

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01:29:56,439 --> 01:29:59,200
Speaker 1: I use at times as an analyst, and officials used

1681
01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:03,759
Speaker 1: when they're defending themselves. That's football. To me. This player

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01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: does nothing egregious. He tackles a quarterback on a blitzing

1683
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 1: fashion without egregious contact, doesn't slam him through the ground.

1684
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:14,680
Speaker 1: It's football. The thing that scares me is when you

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01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 1: have a pool report like that, does that mean that

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01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:22,400
Speaker 1: that did play that the NFL office was defending as

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01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 1: a correct play, And if so, now that message is

1688
01:30:26,479 --> 01:30:30,200
Speaker 1: being sent around the entire league and does that lead

1689
01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 1: us to more head scratchers in the future. That was

1690
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 1: my my bigger concern was what I read in the

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01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 1: Pool report, how he defended it by saying it was

1692
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:41,800
Speaker 1: body weight as opposed to just pulling back off of

1693
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 1: that and say, look, this is a judgment play. In

1694
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 1: my judgment, I felt like his body weight was on.

1695
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: Leave it at that, because you know, I watched that

1696
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:54,879
Speaker 1: play many times and I can't call that a foul

1697
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,000
Speaker 1: that Those are plays where if I would leave that

1698
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 1: alone and find out my grade. Two days later, said Jean,

1699
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:03,400
Speaker 1: we wanted roughing the passer on that Probably quietly in

1700
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 1: my own mind, in my own home, the conversation would be,

1701
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:09,120
Speaker 1: if that happens again next week, I'm not going to

1702
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 1: really call that again and probably get count created for it.

1703
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:14,920
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, those are decisions that you make too

1704
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 1: randy on the field, not you know not the grades

1705
01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 1: affect everything you do. But once you have a play

1706
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: like that, you need to have a discussion as a group,

1707
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,600
Speaker 1: uh an individual, and then collectively the referees need to

1708
01:31:28,600 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: have that discussion. And those are the plays you need

1709
01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 1: to show and have talk about because we we don't

1710
01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:38,920
Speaker 1: want that type of stuff. In my opinion, Look, officials

1711
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 1: have to call files when their files and if it's

1712
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:43,759
Speaker 1: the last play of the game and it's a foul

1713
01:31:43,840 --> 01:31:46,519
Speaker 1: that causes one team to win or lose, you know

1714
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:48,600
Speaker 1: you don't want to hear let them play. It's the

1715
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:52,000
Speaker 1: end of the game, no work to play, okay, but

1716
01:31:52,120 --> 01:31:55,639
Speaker 1: fouls are fouls and things that aren't files leave alone. Now,

1717
01:31:56,160 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 1: you know this is it's it's a cut and drive.

1718
01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:01,879
Speaker 1: You know. I feel like that's why I love watching

1719
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,920
Speaker 1: Coach Tomlin's post game. That's how you have to officiate.

1720
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:09,120
Speaker 1: Right it's next play. But but don't mess up feeling.

1721
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:11,080
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of time for talk right now.

1722
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:14,559
Speaker 1: It's get these things right and uh, and that's where

1723
01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:17,240
Speaker 1: you're at now as we prepare this is you know,

1724
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:22,679
Speaker 1: these players will play a little different this week. Uh,

1725
01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 1: it's not the fraternity now, We've talked about that the past.

1726
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,280
Speaker 1: It's the postseason. And if I get a chance to

1727
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:31,519
Speaker 1: take you out legally, I'm taking you out. Uh. We

1728
01:32:31,520 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: want to play next week. The game changes a little,

1729
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have change the way you officiate right now.

1730
01:32:37,640 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 1: But you understand the magnitude of the game and the

1731
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 1: level of intensity, whether you like it or not, fans

1732
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 1: or not, is increasing exponentially within four days. And that's

1733
01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 1: what makes this game so wonderful. And officials need to

1734
01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:56,040
Speaker 1: be prepared for those plays. What you do now is

1735
01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:58,719
Speaker 1: when plays ends, you get yourself around the big guys.

1736
01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:01,439
Speaker 1: You get yourself around the hawkers. You let them talk

1737
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 1: a little trash. It's great to do right now, and

1738
01:33:04,080 --> 01:33:07,320
Speaker 1: let the intensity raise. Don't let it get out of hand.

1739
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 1: But but that's what you do right now. Now, you

1740
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:12,960
Speaker 1: you you get the big stuff and you get out

1741
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 1: of the way. Well, thankfully the Browns and the Steelers

1742
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:17,960
Speaker 1: don't have a history of letting things get out of control.

1743
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 1: This will be a great week in the NFL. And

1744
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: if Pittsburgh and Cleveland. You know, I grew up in

1745
01:33:28,360 --> 01:33:30,560
Speaker 1: and was in high school in the early eighties in

1746
01:33:30,720 --> 01:33:33,599
Speaker 1: Brian Pipe and and the and the Browns, who had

1747
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:37,360
Speaker 1: maybe the best teams they ever had. Uh in Pittsburgh

1748
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:40,480
Speaker 1: wasn't too shabby, and they were neither were the Houston Oilers.

1749
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 1: But when you can match up divisional rivals in the postseason, Uh,

1750
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: it's just what you said, ring like, you know, I mean,

1751
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:52,600
Speaker 1: it's what we all grew up doing. Uh. And this

1752
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:56,400
Speaker 1: will make things even better. Uh. And let's just hope

1753
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: that we get the plays we need to get and

1754
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 1: the right team win is because they all performed their opponent.

1755
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:05,840
Speaker 1: Gene Sterator brought to you by your neighborhood Forward Store

1756
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:09,280
Speaker 1: this morning from the NFL on CBS. Always a pleasure, Gina,

1757
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:11,720
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, and hopefully we're gonna be talking about

1758
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 1: the Steelers next game next week. That sounds great. Mikey,

1759
01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: don't send me your parlay until Friday afternoon or so.

1760
01:34:22,600 --> 01:34:27,519
Speaker 1: Tell me I take I take responsibility. We're gonna thanks

1761
01:34:27,520 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk to you soon, buddy, God take care.

1762
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:33,760
Speaker 1: That was CBS sports officiating analyst Gene Strator on the

1763
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:36,439
Speaker 1: DV Morning Show earlier today. We like to listen to

1764
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:39,320
Speaker 1: Gene every week. We didn't have him last week because

1765
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:44,160
Speaker 1: the the DV Morning Show wasn't in, But yeah, but whatnot.

1766
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:46,400
Speaker 1: Always good stuf from him, always good stuff. And that's

1767
01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 1: gonna do it for our show today. I hope it

1768
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:50,439
Speaker 1: was good stuff from us, but for my partner Matt

1769
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:53,559
Speaker 1: Williamson for Jacob Here in sight again. Our coverage brought

1770
01:34:53,600 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: to you by Ford and fed X. I'm Dale Lally.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this edition of the Drive on

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01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation. Video