WEBVTT - Scoring Issues 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.480 Your tunes about drive on Home of the Black and 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:20.560 Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale l. He 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:22.640 is Matt Waves and it's just a drive one see 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.000 which Nation Radio and Matt. I was thinking back to 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.280 a year ago right around this time. Um, at that point, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.920 the Baltimore Ravens were eight and three, okay, leading the 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.280 division UM in the North. In fact, they had the 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.519 number one record in the a f C at that time. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.239 I believe at eight and three sounds very possible. I mean, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.640 Tennessee end up getting the one. But then the Chiefs 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.320 weren't you know, eleven and o or anything at that point. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.080 And Lamar was in m VP talks and you all 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.959 that good, all that good stuff, and then he got 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.960 hurt and then and then he got hurt. Um. The 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.400 Ravens held a three and a half game eat over 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.600 the Steelers at that point. One uh, six weeks later, 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.919 the Steelers are nine seven and one in the Ravens 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.040 rate and nine. I mean, this is what happens when 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.960 you lose a great player. Is well, a couple of 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.240 things that unpeeled there is. This season is far from over, folks. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.400 I mean you mentioned last segment exactly x amount of 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.120 years ago, one day difference, you know against the Saints, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.480 all that stuff. I mean, it's hard to maintain greatness 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.240 for seventeen plus games. That's kind of my point. So 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.959 what what made me think of this was the situation 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:39.520 in Buffalo, Like, if the Bills don't have Josh Allen 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.679 right for even a month, even a month in the 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.440 a f C, in that division where the loss already 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.760 to Miami and the Jets like it's time to thanks 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.560 to go south real quick. They play the Vikes this week. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:54.760 I think you're on top is better than I am, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.320 but I think they were open. His nine and a 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.800 half point favorites that dropped immediately after after Sean McDermott 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.080 talked today and said he did, I'm not talking about 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.640 Josh's injury. He's gonna be limited all week. We'll see 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.000 about the game. So do you three and a half 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.560 it's in Buffalo, do you agree with me that if 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:18.440 it's case Keenum, the Bills are a dog. They're not 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.360 team obviously. I mean it's it becomes a I mean 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.880 much more of a yeah, right, I mean that's not 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.800 the one loss, was it. They'll be now the Vikings 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.960 will now be the team. Remember we talked about this 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.320 last week. Does any team play both Philadelphia and Buffalo 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.080 in their places, it would be the Vikings. But unfortunately, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.680 without Josh completely changes the equation. If you don't think so, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.920 look at the Ravens last year with him without Lamar, right, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.480 I mean I don't I'm not predicting this or thinking 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.000 it's you know, probable, but the Bills could miss the playoffs. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.040 Oh yeah, if he doesn't play, they look the number 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.560 one in the power rank. So it saw what they did, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.560 the Steelers ripping through the league. If he is six 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.480 weeks or you know, the school said and says this 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.240 needs surgery, it's not. I mean, he's yes already, you know, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.360 he's there, leading passer. It's also the leading rusher, right, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.639 he's there, He's there, not the number one rushing threat. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.040 It's kind of like what Lamar was exactly exactly. And 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.200 I'm not sure if we had this conversation yesterday or not, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:23.079 but again I was calling it rich guy problems. Everyone 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.400 would change, you know, many people, all of our listeners 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.160 would change offensive production with the Bills, of course, but 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:35.640 as great teams go, they're so dependent on Alan of course, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.040 and digs, But like, who else is a really good 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.280 player on that offense? You know, like Davis to me, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.640 the offensive lines average, I mean, it's good. Then they 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.960 run the ball okay when they need to. Dawson Knox 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.200 is fine. But they have two stars, I mean, they 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.839 have two great players, and then they have a bunch 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.640 of B minuses and stuff. You know that they could 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.840 come back to earth quickly on offense if either one 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.880 of those guys is does the Lamar routine, I mean, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.560 and one of them looks like it might be doing 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.520 the Lainar. It just shows how quickly things can change 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.240 in the NFL. I mean, one part of the season 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.120 is not like the next. No, not at all at all. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.280 Based in the quarters for a reason, for a reason, 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.680 and you don't. I mean, and even like some of 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.600 these stats, I do, the stuff that happened in week 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.000 two that influences them isn't all that important, you know, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.080 I mean, and I think most people listening know this. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.560 But as a rule of thumb, when you prepare for 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.160 a team, they're not watching week one of what the 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.440 Saints did? You know they watched the last four games, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.400 give or take, you know, and really base it off 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.520 of that to your new tendencies. Are these coaches change 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.520 all the time? Who got injured? How do you adapt? Oh? It, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.279 teams are blitzing you like crazy. How's that working? But 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.719 they did in the beginning of the year or whatever 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.480 it is, so yeah, it changes very quickly. Yeah, it's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.520 just it's just very interesting. Um. The other thing I 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.680 wanted to talk about here, Matt, real quick, if you 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.760 were if you're Buffalo and you were in the FC 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.800 or NFC South, you'd feel a lot better. Josh it down. Yeah, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.040 I mean, take a month and we'll still You're in 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.680 the East and you've you've only got a one game lead. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.400 The Bills are the only team in the division who 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:17.040 don't have a division win right, right division? And both 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.400 those teams earned it. They were They wasn't flukey. I 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.600 mean the Miami one was odd, but it wasn't flukey. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.720 You could easily be third in that division when it 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.280 said and done, and hoping the Chargers loose to get 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.920 in the war. Yeah, it's just it's just very precarious. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.200 They looked vulnerable, and they looked it's kind of part 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.440 of the problem with having these quarterbacks who carries so 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.600 much of the weight on the team. I mean the 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.120 Lamar's that Josh Allen's even to a certain degree ma 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.240 Homes because they don't run the ball particularly well. What 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.080 you threw sixty eight passes or something. Take that out 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.719 of the equation and in a way, I mean they're 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.640 different styles. But the Bucks and Packers and were so 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.160 dependent on their eight quarterback. When he turns from an 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.920 aid to be like, well, the offense goes from an 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.960 A minus to see you know when you get your 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:14.320 thoughts on this. So I looked these up today. Earlier today, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:21.600 in there were eight quarterbacks in the league who averaged 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.200 less than six point five yards per passe attempt and 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.680 thirteen who are under seven yards per passe attempt. This 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.640 year there are eleven quarterbacks, eleven quarterbacks who are under 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.320 six and a half yards perpassit attempt, and nineteen who 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.560 are under seven yards perpassit attempt. It absolutely adds up. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.360 The defense is sweeping the league is the fangio. What 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.800 he kind of does is that they play with lighter boxes, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.320 and they asked their front to play a gap and 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.120 a half. It used to be YOURR one gap team, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.240 your two gap teams. Now they kind of cheat and 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.240 do both and you're not so great against the run, 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.160 so be it. We are not allowing big plays. We're 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:08.120 gonna play so much too high cover for cover to um, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.680 you know, a deep shell. Explosives are killing, you know, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.840 is what all the defensive coordinators are fear the most. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.760 And as a result, though I think this hurts the 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.760 Steelers a little bit. There's some teams out there that 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:29.440 are benefiting Atlanta, Chicago, the Giant, the Browns, you know 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.040 that aren't super talented and don't really care about the 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.520 big play. Daniel Jones isn't hitting Wandell Robinson on eight 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.440 yard ers anyway. So these defenses have adapted, and some 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.480 of the lesser put that in quotes, but they're flat 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.800 out lesser. I mean, the Giants, Atlanta Bears, they are 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.360 very many good players, but they're running the crap out 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.800 of the ball and they're keeping their head more than 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:54.480 above water. Yeah exactly. So you know, I actually wrote 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.240 an article about that earlier in the year. If the 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.560 Steelers could get some kind of running game, they're not 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.200 really that way. I mean, do you want to feature 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.520 Deonte and Friar Muth and all these guys, But it's 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.360 not like they're gonna be hitting big plays, and they're not. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.680 But if you had a serious ground game that was 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.400 two levels better than it's been, you would be causing 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.440 a lot more problems. The other the other part of 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.200 the equation with this, So scoring is down across the lee. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.920 There's one team right now averaging more than thirty points 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.679 per game in the league. It's the Chiefs. The Chiefs 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:31.000 are over thirty. There are ten teams scoring twenty or less. Yeah, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.000 and the league hates that. Yeah. And again in you 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.079 had five teams that averaged more than thirty points per 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:43.360 game and you had just four under twenty was a 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.960 COVID year though that was a little that was higher 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.920 than ever. But people started, but people, the coaching staffs 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.480 adjusted and started playing more that that we're not going 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.720 to give this up. And you know, even last year 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.680 you'd see that kind of stuff. Again, it's the Bills 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.439 and the Chiefs, you know, and Mahomes and Allen and 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.240 those type of guys you know, had to learn to 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.959 brady their way down the field and think and dunk. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.600 Now it's everybody. Everybody hasn't. Yeah, Yeah, Like the Bengals 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.520 got tons of single high last year and they just 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.120 throw bombs that chased down the sidel Now they never 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.280 see single high and the other thing that that does 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:26.400 now because quarterbacks are again averaging less than seven yards 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.319 per passe attempt, h you've gotta you've gotta matriculate the 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.200 ball down the field. And if you make a mistake 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:38.280 a holding penalty, a sack, a turnover, obviously, um, you're 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.079 not scoring right right. Yeah, And what's kind of interesting 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.400 to me is I mentioned Brady, the old dude should 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.440 be good at that because they've been around the block 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.040 and they'll take what you've given them. But the old 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.040 guys aren't playing very well. And I don't think it's 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.560 because of the way the defense are playing, and I 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.640 think they all got old, basically Rogers in particular. But 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.640 it's just it's just interesting. I mean, you know, the 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.680 league that would love I mean, we're gonna do a 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.560 fantasy segment next segment. Everyone that plays fantasy knows scoring 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.440 is down, and it's it's harder than ever. You don't 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.800 putting up big weeks. I think the league would like 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.080 more scoring, obviously. The one thing I think is they 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.120 should look at like now though, is all the illegal 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.120 men down fields. I keep tweeting that out like they 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.880 made it a point of emphasis this year, and that's great. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.440 If if if scoring his school, you know, pete teams 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.120 are scoring like crazy and you get a five year penalty. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.600 You don't care, but you're typically negating some kind of 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.600 positive plan because it's an easy completion. Yeah, right right, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.480 it's catching run. That's what they're gonna give you. You're 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.240 gonna you know, and you're taking that off the board, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.840 and you're you're you're taking a five yard penalty, and 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.520 you know again if you're not. Yeah, and if you're 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.199 averaging seven yards of a pass attempt and you only 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.320 complete two out of three, you're punning. I say, this 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.760 is probably too much, but I mean the root of 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.880 all the problem, in my opinion is the D lines 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.880 are so much better than the old lines in the NFL. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.880 Roger Gal would never sit to Pody and be like, wow, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.440 the old lines aren't there as good as D lines. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.480 They massage things to make life easier, like the two 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.200 thousand twenty year when holding the right right, you know, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.640 so to hurt the offense with this point of emphasis, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.079 and these point of emphasis is are always highly emphasized 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.280 and they're not gently, but typically when they'll they'll emphasize 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.960 it for like the first month of the season and 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.319 then scale it back. I haven't seen that happen. I've 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.920 seen I've seen at least when a legal man downfield 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.520 call in every game that I've seen this year. Everyone yeah. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.800 I mean sometimes they'll be like, we're gonna be tighter 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.679 on defensive holding or whatever it is, and the players adapt, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.760 and the and the and the refs also over emphasized 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.600 it in the preseason and call everything close. But the 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.400 problem with this one is the old lineman don't know 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.959 it's r p os. They don't know that their eyes 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.000 are forward, they don't know if the ball got handed 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.079 off or thrown. I mean, they're blocking their guy downfield. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.559 Should I sit here and just let him go free? 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.440 You know? Right? They might need to let that slide. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.360 And if I would like them, see I'd like to 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.960 see them adjuster rule. Right now, it's one yard downfield, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.319 one yard downfield for guys who are six five, it's 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.000 one step. That's one step the last Yeah, how about 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.600 how about two or three yards? You know? Or just yeah, exactly, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.360 And I think that's perfect. I don't want guys running downfield. No, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.600 I don't want that, but I to you. I mean again, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.719 two steps is and the other part that's that much 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.679 of an advantage. Yeah, that's the other thing. And it's 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.000 supposed to be as we saw in the game against 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.200 the Browns. With the Steelers, uh, if if the alignement 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.360 is engaged with a blot with a rusher, if you 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:42.640 take your guy and you shove him, if you do, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.120 that shouldn't be a call. The situation for the Steelers 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.480 in that game was that the guy got hurt. He 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.120 went down. Um, you know, and what are you gonna do? 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.520 I mean, he got beat. You're there, you're there that 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.520 you're engaged, and all of a sudden he just crumples 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.000 and now you're standing there with nothing. You know, Oh 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.520 I got no. I mean, as mentioned the old lines, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.959 jobs it enough as it is. And now I don't 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.000 know if it's a run or a pass and I'm 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.360 gonna get flagged. And I do have perfect ham position. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.120 I came off the ball great, but I can't dry 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.760 this guy at the two bared off field or flag 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.200 is gonna hit me in the back. You know, if 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.120 it's a running play right exactly, you know it's an 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:15.880 r p O and they could be running behind you 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.720 and you want to create the hole. Yeah, and I 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.839 don't because I'm worried about the flag, like it's a 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.200 little sticky. I'm not sure how the NFL should fix it, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.440 but to your suggestion, at least to say two yards. Yeah, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.360 I mean maybe that cuts out. It's an imaginary line 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.800 to begin with. Like you know, the officials are going 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.719 to call, you know, they're calling that. Um they're looking 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.480 at it? Is that a yard? Is that a yard 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.920 and a half? Is that? You know? It's such an 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.720 arbitrary rule. It is, and clearly not that anyone cares anymore. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.960 But like go watch Nighties tape of or nineties when 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.320 Jim Kelly's in the shotgun, those tackles aren't like three 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.640 yards off the ball either, you know what I mean, 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.040 Like it looks like a line, you know, now, it's 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.960 like a flying v exactly. So they are helping these 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.040 guys because they're not on the ballot. Who were even 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.360 kidding the tackles in some of those situations. Yeah, their 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.880 their head is supposed to be the rule is now 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.080 that their head has to be at the guy next 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.800 to them belly button, his waist. I didn't know that 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.520 it has to be even with his waist. So they're 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.120 they're they're giving you the flying you can look like 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.080 geese flying south from the winner. Um. Some of the 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.680 teams though, it's like wow, Yeah, I mean the Steelers 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.120 they get called a couple of times for that in 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.320 the game. A couple of weeks ago was that in Miami. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.160 I think they get called for it twice. I think 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.040 the core four got hit with it once and more 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.040 got hit with it once. Um. Interesting, but some of 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.120 the arbitrary you know, one one crew calls it, the 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.360 next crew doesn't. That kind of stuff that happens. Um, 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.120 you know's it's just it drives me crazy. But but 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.240 it's such a great game. It's a hard one to officiate. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.120 It's a hard one to write rules for compared to 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:57.040 hockey and baseball and things like that. But scoring being down, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.480 I promise changes next year, so they'll adjust that. Yeah, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:01.960 it's gonna go. You know what, we gotta get rid 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.800 of that rule. We gotta get you now you get 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.280 play with twelve. Yeah, go back to emphasizing defensive holding 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.360 and things of that nature to you know, pump up 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.560 the offensive numbers. But I bet deep down, I mean, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.000 the guys that know that are really in charge of 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.960 the league are like, man, this is a potential problem. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.680 We get in front of it. Yeah, I mean, do 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.800 you talk about all those Thursday night games have been 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.360 blocked offensively? Well, okay, let's let's get some scoring, you know, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.280 even if it's two bad teams. But they play in 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.320 the thirties and seeing big plays, and you know, I 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.880 think Sports Center highlights aren't as good as it used 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.360 to be. It's not Tyreek Hill split in the safeties 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.920 and you know, big plays left and right. You know. 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.240 So everyone's justin how they play, and that's not unique 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.080 in this league. I mean when you have guys like 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.800 Justin Herbert averaging less of seven yeards for past attempt 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.720 that's not good for the game of the game. I 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.960 mean he's a true star. Yeah, I mean, that's like 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.120 a young bad you know, young Dominique Wilkins. And some 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.440 of that's because their offensive line stinks as well, and 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.880 they've had some injury to it. Still, it's not what 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.520 they want problem looking like stars. And this year's down 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.000 a third of the league averaging less than twenty points 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:13.440 a game. Yeah, a third of the league is basically 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.120 considered low scoring. Yeah, I mean that's that's not a 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.600 barn burner at all. The only people that liked these 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.840 kind of games is Vegas because nobody bets, then everybody 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.840 likes us. They all bet the overs because they want points. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.360 I mean, we're close to the same age we were born. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.080 Understand the seventies and great defense A nine six games 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.920 fine for me as a viewer if it's great defense. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:41.920 But like watching Colts Broncos Onday, that was not great defense. Offense, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.360 just bad, bad, bad. That kind of stuff needs to go. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.640 And I mean I can stay on a soapbox all 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.600 day that I think thurs Day football is just a 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.280 lesser product, period. But it's not going anywhere. It's not 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.080 going anywhere, no, of course not. I mean, it makes 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.560 big money. We all watch, you know, I get it, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.800 it's a lesser. Same thing with the with the games overseas. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.800 I mean those are typically kind, man, because one team, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.240 you know, one or both teams are dragging because they've 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.640 they've flown all night to get there. Seattle plays at 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:12.400 six am their time. This week against Tampa. It's still 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.040 nine am for Tampa. It's still nine am for Tampa. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.240 But Seattle's not go into a Wednesday. They're they're probably 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.480 on a flight right now. I would love to see 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.560 them that game in any other some neutral spot in America, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.959 because I think Seattle is better than Tampa. I mean, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.760 I think it should be like the To me, I 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.160 think the Union needs to step in on that one 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.680 and say no, you both teams have to go over 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.639 for the entire week. Because I can tell you this. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:45.240 You know, when the Steelers played in London, they flew 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.879 over after practice on Thursday, so they practiced, they had 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.160 their regular practice on Thursday, their regular workday on Thursday, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:57.120 flew overnight, got to got to London Friday morning their time, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.880 London London time, and then had a normal work day 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.200 that day. I mean, I was, I was out of it. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.360 You said by kickoff you did not Sunday. I still 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.560 didn't feel right. You know, Saturday, let alone, Friday and 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.639 Saturday were wasted. What's definitely gonna happen to Seattle this 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.160 week and without probably Tampa as well. But you're playing 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.879 at six am and your time. Nobody plays football at 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.600 that time, right, even if you're in college football. You 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.240 know they're not putting you on this the Thursday game 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.679 of the week on on of course weird stuff and 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.480 it's a lot of travel. It's a lot of travel. Yeah, 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.480 I think I think the the the Union um needs 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.040 to step in and say something about that. Just I 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.520 think it's it becomes a safety issue. It absolutely does 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:45.159 tired players. The other thing, I've been harper on this 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.000 for years and I'm not smart enough to figure out 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.879 the schedule, but I could. I'm sure even if it 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.160 means eliminating a preseason game. You could have a seventeen 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.399 game schedule in nineteen weeks and give everyone two buys 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.440 and no one plays on one practice going into Thursday. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.720 I remember the year when they had they had a 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.480 couple of years there where they had the double buys 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.119 and it just was too much. It stretched. This was 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.720 a weird week for us. Yeah, as as fans to 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.560 have a team. I mean, I see what you're saying, 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.000 But a true player safety like you would never go 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.200 overseas what they do now those they give you that 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:19.920 built in week after the preseason, so you get the 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.520 week off, but you still got the extra week to 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.760 to kind of heal up and get ready after the preseason. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.240 I would by if you're playing Thursday night, you had 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.520 a buy already. Now you're pushing the super Bowl back 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.600 in the mid February, Well, don't give him that week 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.520 that they that off week. You almost have to do 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.920 that because they don't want to They don't want to 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.080 play games on Labor Day weekend. Right, I guess that 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.000 is one of the issues too. Again, I must more 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.160 enough to figure out schedule. But I mean I think 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.239 two buys could get could be done. I don't know, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:51.680 Oh it could be done. But again, you'll be playing 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.040 the super Bowl in the middle of February. Yeah, I 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.480 guess so, I mean you push it back, and you 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.000 know that's that's stretching the season out then too long 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.240 a little bit. I mean, it's already a bit of 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.040 a problem with me. Is NFC Championship game in Green 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:08.920 Bay is like you know what I mean, like it's 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.960 two wintry Yeah, you know, especially if you're you're not 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.800 even sitting out plan on it. But right, and that 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.880 to me, that's at you are one of those watchers 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.520 that like you do virtual reality watching, so you leave 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.440 the doors and windows open on your house and it's 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.520 like that get a brought that gets gold in two 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:31.760 seconds freezes up. But there are some league wide issues underneath. Yeah, 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.240 I mean we're halfway into this now that it's you know, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.280 early in the season, it's like, well, scoring is down 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.840 a little bit behind defense. Now it's obvious. Now it's 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.240 just obvious. Yeah, And there's it's not as high flying 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.040