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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black.

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Speaker 2: And Gold cast in Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome to the Drive. I am Dale Lolly and

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Speaker 3: I'm here with Matt Williamson, as is usually the case.

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Speaker 3: And well it's a rainy Wednesday here in Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 3: all the Steelers getting ready they get on the field

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Speaker 3: today for their first preparations to start playing the Indianapolis

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Speaker 3: Colts this weekend. Matt, I have the injury report. All right,

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Speaker 3: let's stay right in, let's jump right into it. Russell

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Speaker 3: Wilson limited today, as Mike Tomlins said he would be yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I will say this, Wilson did a little bit more

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Speaker 3: today than he had done the previous week.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I can't tell you starting to work in the direction.

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Speaker 4: Limited is a very vague term.

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Speaker 3: Limited is an extremely vague term. Probably I've seen well,

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Speaker 3: you know anything is the league two years ago. I

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Speaker 3: think it was came out with with a statement to

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Speaker 3: the teams. It's just a complete aside here that if

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Speaker 3: a guy was working with trainers on the side and

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Speaker 3: doing any running or anything like that, you had to

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Speaker 3: list them as limited. Before they would have just simply

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Speaker 3: listened him as out because you didn't take part in

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Speaker 3: anything that the team did, like.

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Speaker 4: The dudes that just sit there on the bike or

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Speaker 4: what or do something specific with the non coach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So they just changed a wording on it

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Speaker 3: because if you remember, it.

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Speaker 4: Was been about at least do something.

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Speaker 3: It's been about five years since they changed the designations

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Speaker 3: on game day the questionable. It used to be doubtful, questionable. Uh,

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Speaker 3: probably they got rid of whether they get rid of probable.

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Speaker 3: Now it's just quite. You're either out, questionable or probable gone.

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Speaker 3: Probable is gone, and doubtful and doubtful. There's doubtful gone, no,

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Speaker 3: doubtful still there.

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Speaker 4: I don't see it very much.

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Speaker 3: You don't see it much. Yeah, yeah, but it does,

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Speaker 3: I think it is does come out on occasion, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 4: What's a game time decision then usually questionable?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're typically if you're doubtful and you play,

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Speaker 3: that's from the league is going to come in and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: what what are you doing here?

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Speaker 2: Right? All right?

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Speaker 4: Because that's not very there's not much doubt then? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: played right? Yeah, so all right, Well, let's just big

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Speaker 4: big back into this. Wilson's the only one going or

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Speaker 4: you mention so far.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Roman Wilson a full participant today. Van Jefferson with

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Speaker 3: the eye that he got poked in on the Sunday

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Speaker 3: a full participant today.

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Speaker 4: We didn't talk about that because usually, like an eye injury,

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Speaker 4: you go back after a couple of series it's blurry

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Speaker 4: or whatever, and he didn't.

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Speaker 3: He came back in late in the game.

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Speaker 4: Oh he did, okay late and damaged.

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Speaker 3: Uh Nause Harris was given the day off for rest,

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Speaker 3: which is going to be.

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Speaker 4: I think that gets pretty calm. We'll talk more.

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Speaker 3: About this later in the show here, but he's going

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Speaker 3: to need more rest next week, I think.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Deshaun Elliott with a quadrcep injury was limited. Dante Jackson

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Speaker 3: was given day off for rest. Jaylen Warren with the

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Speaker 3: knee injury did not practice, like Tomlin kind of said

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Speaker 3: that was going to be the case. Same with Alex

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Speaker 3: high Smith, same with Michael Prutz. So the three guys

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Speaker 3: that he said on Tuesday weren't going to practice did

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Speaker 4: Crew of a week ago he said is probably a

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Speaker 4: multiple game injury, right, I forget how he phrased that,

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Speaker 4: but week week.

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Speaker 3: Week, the week, Yeah, something along those lines. Isaac sam

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Speaker 3: Malou was a limited participant today. That's an upgrade for

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Speaker 4: So it sounds like him and Wilson are doing a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're starting to starting to ramp things up a

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Speaker 3: little bit. Uh TJ Watt, Cam Hayward, Larry Ogan Joby

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Speaker 4: Usually Cam and Ogen Joby switch days.

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Speaker 3: Well, they were all limited today, but it was a

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Speaker 4: Gotcha are they're just veterans.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, It's not bad, no, And I think some of

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Speaker 3: that also was because they practiced outside today and it

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, overall, not bad. And you start

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Speaker 4: Yeah, some guys that were out and ex Sutton's on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was just five weeks away from that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a couple of guys coming, he said. Cook

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Speaker 4: counts due to come off into reserve this next game.

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Speaker 4: This next one good. I'd love to see see them

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Speaker 4: are fine. We knew high Smith was going to be out,

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Speaker 4: so that's you know.

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Speaker 3: That's going to be at least two weeks probably, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're well equipped to deal with it though, too.

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Speaker 4: And the guys behind him are pretty impressive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just want to remind everybody tomorrow we'll

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Speaker 3: talk to one of those guys behind him, Nick Herbig. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: join us on the show about about four to forty

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Speaker 3: five tomorrow. Nice, So you want to tune in in

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Speaker 3: here what Herbig has to say as he gets ready

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Speaker 3: to make his first career start. Didn't realize he'd never

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean the guys in front of the

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Speaker 4: be starting for a lot of other teams. Yes, he would,

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Speaker 4: I'm meancy. You see more to Lyau too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he should see an uptick in playing time as well,

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Speaker 3: particularly Well, we'll see if this team can stay on

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Speaker 3: the field. In the Indianapolis Colt. I get some some

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Speaker 3: shocking numbers on them.

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Speaker 4: Steel's plays and time possession stuff is remarkable.

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Speaker 3: Crazy crazy. I don't know if I've ever seen anything

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Speaker 2: Ye.

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Speaker 3: See, Steelers also signed cornerback CJ. Henderson today to their

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Speaker 4: Did they He's a pedigree GA ninth overall picked a

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Speaker 4: bunch of games for the Jaguars. It could be a

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Speaker 4: reclamation project. Interesting, So does that imply Trice's he's on

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Speaker 4: I R. He went on I R. So he's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if not longer. So you know they're looking for

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Speaker 3: they they with Dante Jackson getting some rest here today

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Speaker 4: I mean he was very talented. He had some off

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's still just the last chance. Yeah, twenty

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Speaker 3: five years old, but why not to the shots.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, they didn't know Trice was going

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Speaker 4: kind of ahead of the game on that. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he got a lot of work today and

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I talked to actually talk to him about that today.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize he had been in camp with the

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Speaker 4: Oh he was okay, Yeah, didn't make their final roster.

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Speaker 3: So he told me that really had only been at

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Speaker 3: home for like three days before the Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Called sokay good. It certainly was in shape and playing

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Speaker 4: a lot of football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ready to go.

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Speaker 4: And he's a good gunner.

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Speaker 3: Some of the stats that we just talked about with

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Speaker 3: in three games, Yeah, almost fifty more rushing attempts against

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Speaker 3: them than what they have. Yeah, it's one to seventy three. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: opposing running backs have one hundred and one carries against them.

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Speaker 3: That is sixteen more than the second closest team.

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Speaker 4: Which is the Rams. I didn't realize that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Wide receivers this year have nine carries for sixty six yards.

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Speaker 3: That's an NFL high against them in three games.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of a lot of these teams are

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Speaker 3: yards on quarterbacks have sixty two yards rushing against them.

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Speaker 3: This is the crazy one to me. They're allowing a

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Speaker 3: seventy point four percent completion percentage. Yeah, they're completing forty

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Speaker 3: nine point three percent of their own passes. There's a

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Speaker 4: first two weeks of the season, they led up four

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Speaker 4: hundred and seventy four yards. Yeah, that's the most of

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Speaker 4: the run well against the Bears. Bears can't run the ball.

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Speaker 4: Bears are so bad running the ball. And they actually

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Speaker 4: then the Bears threw all over them and complete a

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Speaker 3: So as a result of this, they're averaging twenty one

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Speaker 3: thirty six in time of possession. The opponents are averaging

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Speaker 3: thirty eight twenty four. Yeah, almost forty minutes of time

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Speaker 4: It's insane.

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Speaker 3: It's not a one game blip.

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Speaker 4: And to put in perspective, they're at twenty one whatever,

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Speaker 4: a three minute gap between huge, but they.

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Speaker 3: For them to even get to thirty it's already in

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Speaker 4: They have to like hold the ball for like fifty minutes.

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Speaker 4: Against the Steelers, they get to thirty one.

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Speaker 3: And here's so they're ten for thirty one on third

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Speaker 3: downs this year's thirty two point three percent, which is

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Speaker 3: not great, but it's not terrible, right, it's not. Opponents

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Speaker 3: are twenty six of fifty two, Yeah, fifty two third downs.

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Speaker 3: They've gotten to the.

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Speaker 4: Fact that they snap on third down fifty two times

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Speaker 3: But they're but they're converting almost ten per game. Yeah, wow,

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Speaker 3: you just and then you add on to that, opponents

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Speaker 4: They can't get on to the field at all. So

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Speaker 4: how about this. I saw this the other day too.

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Speaker 4: So the five players in the league that have played

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Speaker 3: All colts. Yeah, are these numbers right?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: Already, right, Yeah, I remember even it was last year

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Speaker 4: No, I don't think they're gonna get a lot better

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Speaker 3: How about this one tight Opposing tight ends have been

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Speaker 4: things where you think they'd be better. Where's that here?

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Speaker 4: They have the highest yards per route run and fourth

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Speaker 3: They've allowed on fifty eight passing attempts to wide receivers

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I we do this matchup show with Rob King

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Speaker 4: And when the Steelers had the ball, I was like,

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Speaker 4: There's too much to talk about. We can't be on

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Speaker 4: it's like, okay, what are we looking for? Because you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know the rushing defense overall four point

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Speaker 4: I never quote them in like my stat pack, but

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Speaker 4: there's certain sites I've gone to that'll tell you what

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Speaker 4: know if you know that that's cover one or cover three,

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Speaker 4: you know, but they this team lives in cover three. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it didn't matter at all, you know. And they played

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Speaker 4: in the seventies. Why change things up or the Legion

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Speaker 4: of Boom did, is my point. And they're coaching it

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Speaker 4: I actually think that's the best position on their defense because.

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Speaker 3: They got a lot to Yeah, first round pick Grover

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Speaker 4: And Buckner's out he's their best player.

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Speaker 3: He's their best player. Then you look at the linebackers,

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Speaker 4: And they're out there all the time and they're not

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Speaker 3: We do as much draft study as anybody. I can't

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Speaker 3: tell you a thing about Jay and Tarlost and he's

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Speaker 4: No, that's first time I couldn't.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you what school we went to. And

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Speaker 4: And we dig in deep, and even the seventh rounders

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Speaker 4: Speed is not real speedy. And Franklin gets a lot

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Speaker 4: they're not what Leonard was, you know, at all, to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the cornerback Samuel Womack and Jalen Jones.

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Speaker 4: So here's another stat that's kind of sums up their

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Speaker 3: Making tackles, but everything's five yards down.

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Speaker 4: Exact field exactly. It's brutal.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a rough uh. Like I said

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Speaker 4: That's a rough watch because the Bears have a lot

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Speaker 4: sure some oh I know it, but if you watch

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really really low, really low.

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Speaker 3: I mean today's NFL.

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Speaker 4: By far, the lowest of any quarterback that started all

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Let's get to a break. He is Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 3: I am Dale Lallie. You're listening to the Drive here

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

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 3: And welcome back to the Drive. I am Dale Lollly.

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Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson, and we're pleased to be

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Speaker 3: joined on the phone line at this time by the

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Speaker 3: Dean of Doom, Bob Labriola. And Bob. With the Steelers

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Speaker 3: off to a three and oh start, is there much

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Speaker 3: for the Lord of living in his fears to be

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Speaker 4: No, everything's rosy.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean, you know, the defense obviously, you know,

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Speaker 2: me and I you know, last week in that game

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Speaker 2: you know, Justin feels his performance passing, the fact that

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Speaker 2: I mean, the numbers weren't great, but you know, Craig

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Speaker 3: Did he hit himself in the head.

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Speaker 2: And he kept and he kept pounding on it, and

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Speaker 2: And it did. It breaks and into little pieces. And

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I got Well, let me say, you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Absolutely wouldn't be a lab day unless

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Speaker 2: How about that kicker missing from sixty two yards out?

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Speaker 3: Now, dare he?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all I got for. It was awfully hot

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Speaker 2: It's too cold? Jilli? Yeah, yeah, okay, so I've complained

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Speaker 4: Let's stick with fields. I mean, I think it's almost

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Speaker 4: He won from the pocket in this game. He threw

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Speaker 4: But we got this Russell Wilson guy hovering around. You know,

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Speaker 2: Well? I you know, I truly, and this is something

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson is not physically ready to be able to play,

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Speaker 2: my experience with the Steelers is that's kind of a

442
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 2: franchise principle that you know, that's what Dan Rooney believed

443
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 2: that's what and I'm sure that a lot of the

444
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Speaker 2: people who work there. I'm not saying that they necessarily

445
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 2: are acting based on what Dan Rooney once did thirty

446
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 2: years ago, but you know, it's kind of a business model,

447
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,880
Speaker 2: and it just makes sense to me. Why would you know, what,

448
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 2: Why do I need to answer that question now to

449
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 2: satisfy people at a press conference when you know, you know,

450
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 2: it may not turn out to be what I end

451
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,000
Speaker 2: up doing once I get to the point where I

452
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Speaker 2: have to make a decision.

453
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Speaker 4: It's been a pretty successful business model.

454
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Speaker 2: Right And the other thing is, and I've you know,

455
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:41,679
Speaker 2: I really think that the franchise that Justin Fields is

456
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 2: now a part of the coaching staff that he's working with.

457
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 2: You know, God loved the Chicago Bears. Are you kidding me?

458
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,120
Speaker 2: You know, seriously, I'm so tired of hearing what Justin

459
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 2: Fields's record was with the Bears, as if that's some

460
00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 2: sort of a benchmark for who this guy is, you know,

461
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 2: for the rest of his professional career. What you know,

462
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 2: let me just ask this question, throw it out there.

463
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 2: What was the last good quarterback for Chicago Bears? Had?

464
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Speaker 4: That's what I was about to say that in a while.

465
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 4: I say this on the air all the time. It's

466
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,640
Speaker 4: like they haven't had a real legit quarterback my entire life.

467
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Speaker 4: And I was born in nineteen seventy three. After a while,

468
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 4: you might be like, it's not you, it's me, you know.

469
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So you know how many offensive coordinators he had,

470
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,439
Speaker 2: how many head coaches he had, I mean, just the

471
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 2: whole you know, it's constant change upheaval. They they didn't

472
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 2: seem to be able to settle on a coach or

473
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Speaker 2: a system or you know, what they wanted to do.

474
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 2: And this guy was, you know, he was in the

475
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Speaker 2: middle of it. So you know, and let's not forget

476
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 2: you know, the Bears gave what we're willing to give

477
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 2: away a second round pick for Chase Claypool, who turned

478
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Speaker 2: into Joey Porter Junior.

479
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Speaker 4: So you know, being in trade with them.

480
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 2: Right in nineteen eighty five, maybe they had the best

481
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 2: team on the planet. But before that, I can't think

482
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 2: of it, and since then, I can't think of it.

483
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Speaker 4: I really believe, like you look at the Lions, the Browns,

484
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,479
Speaker 4: the Jets, the Bears, there's a reason they don't, you know,

485
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 4: live up expectations. All that often over the course of decades.

486
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Speaker 2: Right, and so you know, I just think Justin Field's

487
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 2: the thing that he's doing right now that I think

488
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 2: he deserves a lot of credit for. Is he's doing

489
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Speaker 2: what he's asked to do. I mean, he's not big

490
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 2: time in it. You know, when they say don't throw

491
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Speaker 2: the ball over the middle, he doesn't throw the ball

492
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Speaker 2: over the middle. I mean, he takes coaching, he takes direction.

493
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,240
Speaker 2: When they worked with him on his footwork, you know,

494
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 2: that was deemed to be a problem, or at least

495
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 2: that's what I heard. You know. Again, he didn't say, well,

496
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Speaker 2: this is the way I do it, or this is

497
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: what's most comfortable for me, or you know whatever. He

498
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 2: just dug in, took the coaching and tried to improve

499
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 2: himself based on how they were trying to improve him.

500
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Speaker 2: And he's still a young guy, and he was he

501
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 2: was really talented in college. I'm sure he was unbelievable

502
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Speaker 2: in high school. And you're the eleventh overall picking the draft.

503
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 2: And when people start breaking down your game, you know,

504
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 2: you either accept that maybe you don't know everything and Okay,

505
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 2: I'm gonna work to get better, or you dig in

506
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 2: your heels, and you know, your career kind of comes

507
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: to a grinding halt. And this is a guy who

508
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 2: showed that he's not digging in his heels, and you know,

509
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe his career is just starting for him.

510
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 3: Our guest is Bob Labriola, editor of Steelers Digest in

511
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Speaker 3: Steelers dot Com. And Bob, you mentioned that defense. I

512
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 3: know we talked last week a lot about Cam Hayward.

513
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 3: We would be remiss if we didn't mention TJ Watt, now,

514
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: at ninety nine and a half career sacks. Good chance,

515
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Speaker 3: given the fact that he's averaged just under a sack

516
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 3: per game in his career, that he gets sacked number

517
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Speaker 3: one hundred this week against the Colts, it will be

518
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 3: the first guy in franchise history to do that. And

519
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 3: this guy, this franchise has had some pretty successful defensive players.

520
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 3: Where does he rank to you.

521
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Speaker 2: In that.

522
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Speaker 3: Grouping of I know it's difficult because he hasn't won

523
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl and things that some of the other

524
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 3: guys did. But in terms of just as a player,

525
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 3: where do you put wa in that echelon?

526
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's up there. The only thing I will

527
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Speaker 2: say about TJ watt Is And I will say this

528
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Speaker 2: about every every defensive player in franchise history, they're all

529
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Speaker 2: behind Joe Green. Yeah, he's number one, He's it. And

530
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 2: after that, I mean I don't right now, I don't

531
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 2: put him anywhere because I'd like to see where he finishes.

532
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got he's got a hundred sacks in

533
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 2: what was he twenty in? What how many years has

534
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 2: he been in the league.

535
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 3: Well, he came in twenty seventeen, so this is his

536
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 3: seventh season.

537
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 2: Seventh season, Okay, Well if he plays fourteen and he

538
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 2: has two hundred sacks, you know, that puts him in

539
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: a whole different spot than he than I would put

540
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 2: him in now. I just I just think that this

541
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Speaker 2: guy is he's a he's a what I would call

542
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Speaker 2: feel very comfortable calling him is a generational player. He's

543
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 2: a generational player for this franchise. And you know, there

544
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: are a lot of those kind of guys in franchise history.

545
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: And how they rank, I mean I don't know. I

546
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Speaker 2: you know, like Bill Kaher, for example, was on CBS

547
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 2: last week. Didn't he name his top five or something?

548
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 3: I believe he did.

549
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, this is just for me, how do

550
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 2: you pick between Jack Ham, mel Blunt and Troy Paula Mala.

551
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 2: I don't know how you I mean, I'm not I'm

552
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 2: not smart enough for that. I'm just not. No, Seriously,

553
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 2: I can look at statistics and you know, remember things,

554
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: and you know, but I don't have any way. I

555
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: don't have any way of being able to make a legitimate,

556
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 2: intelligent case for Jack Ham over mel Blunt or mel

557
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 2: Blount over Jack Ham. I just I can't, you know,

558
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 2: And then it just becomes who do you like? And

559
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 2: you know, I I believe of them, right, and I

560
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 2: believe all of those guys have earned to be judged

561
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: on something more and then personal preference, I just do.

562
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 2: And you know that was one of the reasons. That's uh.

563
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: You know when you when people want to talk about

564
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 2: retiring jerseys, fans love to talk about retiring jerseys, why

565
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: don't they retire more jerseys? Well, because then you start

566
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: picking among those kinds of guys. Yeah, I mean, and

567
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: I don't want I know, I certainly don't want to

568
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 2: do that. And I believe that President Steel's President arn't

569
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 2: Rooney the second right now, you know, it's like picking

570
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 2: between your children, which one do you love more? You

571
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,719
Speaker 2: know what I mean, it's it's it's I don't know,

572
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: it's it's almost obscene that to even try to do that.

573
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 2: And so go ahead.

574
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Speaker 3: That said, there are jerseys that don't get given out.

575
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't. You don't see a lot of seventy

576
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 4: fives walking around or you know, fifty eight that was

577
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 4: actually yeah, But like, how do you pick between Woodson

578
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 4: and Blunt or one not the other? You know, I

579
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 4: mean even the same position, right.

580
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: I mean, for example, the only way I picked between

581
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 2: Woodson and Blunt is Blunt played his whole career in

582
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,719
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and Woodson didn't. So when you're looking at Woodson's career,

583
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 2: a lot of good things happened for him, and you know,

584
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: and we're created by him when he played for the

585
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,959
Speaker 2: forty nine ers and the Ravens and the Raiders, and

586
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 2: that certainly all deserves to be added to his resume.

587
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 2: And when you look at his total body of work

588
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: and why he was deserving of being a first ballot

589
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Yes,

590
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, but I don't think you can

591
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 2: count that when you're you're comparing him to another guy

592
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: who played his entire career for the Steelers at the

593
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 2: same position. You know, Blunt had fifty seven interceptions for

594
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: the Steelers Woodson at thirty eight.

595
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Speaker 4: Sorry, do you agree that that TJ is the best

596
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 4: of the three four outside life backer group, I mean Harrison, Lloyd,

597
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 4: Gilden Porter, I mean Apples a little bit more.

598
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, yes, and right, yes he is because it's

599
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 5: a pretty good company too.

600
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a guy who is I don't know. Just

601
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 2: his relentlessness to me is is I don't know, it's

602
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 2: it's special, beyond special. And you know, and another thing

603
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: that you know, Mike Tomlin brought this up one time

604
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: when we were taping into Mike Thomlins show that he's

605
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: he was talking about t J. Watt and he said,

606
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 2: you know, that entire off season where t J. Watt

607
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 2: was in a contract situation, and you know he attended everything,

608
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 2: you know, mini camp and OTAs and all that stuff,

609
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: trained in camp, but he never did any team drills,

610
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 2: never did any team drills, never did any team drills.

611
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 2: Signed what whatever it was, forty eight hours before kickoff

612
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 2: of the opener, he goes out on the opener, and

613
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 2: he was the best player on the field.

614
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, as Josh Allen was on the field.

615
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: Yes, right, I mean that those are the kinds of

616
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: that's TJ. Watt And so you know, I a ton

617
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 2: of respect, mad respect for TJ, as the kids say.

618
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: But you know, and I just choose not to rank

619
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: him with guys that I don't know they're iconic Steelers.

620
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: They just are.

621
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Speaker 4: Speaking of which Steelers has some pretty good centers over

622
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 4: the year too, and I think they might have another one.

623
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I certainly, you know he is. He is certainly

624
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 2: looking like a guy who is the answer to the

625
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: question there for how long, you know, a decade or

626
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 2: at least you know, hopefully he has a you know,

627
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 2: a typically long career for a you know, a player

628
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: at that position. And you know, offensive line is an

629
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: area where I usually to defer to the expertise of

630
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 2: you know, Wolf and Starks. But you know, there are

631
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: some things that I have seen that he is. He's special. Now,

632
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: you know, the next thing is is he better than Pouncy?

633
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 2: You know that's gonna come up. I don't know, but yeah,

634
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 2: And the other thing about that is just to be

635
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: in the same conversation with that guy. For Fraser to

636
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 2: be in the same conversation as Pouncy, that to me

637
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: is his high praise.

638
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 4: So you know again, but he seems to be starting

639
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 4: his career in a similar manner. Yes, yeah, enough, you know.

640
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean the only the only difference is

641
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: that it seemed, at least to me that the injury

642
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: to Herbig Nate, herbig kind of helped, you know, get

643
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 2: him on the field and put him there.

644
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 3: I think things are turning in that direction though, yes, regardless.

645
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: They very well could have been. But the way that

646
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: it happened was the injury is what put him there.

647
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: When it put him there, Pouncy was put there because

648
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: there was no nobody better on campus that summer than

649
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 2: him at that spot. And again before we left checked

650
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 2: out a bond Events or Benedict Tuldale. That may have

651
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 2: been the case, you know, but it wasn't this particular instance.

652
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: So you know, again, we're nick picking. I at least

653
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 2: I am, because these are impossible questions to answer in

654
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Speaker 2: my opinion. You know, is he better than Penanci? Uh like?

655
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 2: Is PJ. Watt better than jack Ham? Is you know,

656
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 2: Woodson better than Blunt? These are These are questions that

657
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: you know, to me are very difficult, if not impossible,

658
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: to answer. But I will say, you know, Zach Fraser

659
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: is a guy who looks to me to be someone

660
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Speaker 2: who is a finisher, which is very important, I believe,

661
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Speaker 2: and he seems to have a lot of the other

662
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 2: quality qualities you're looking for in an NFL center, you know.

663
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure in time he's going to emerge as

664
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Speaker 2: a leader of the year because all the great ones

665
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 2: are and you know, again, I good draft pick. All

666
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 2: of the draft hype about when they picked this guy,

667
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 2: he's going to be their center, you know, And I

668
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: was a little skeptical because you never really know on

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Speaker 2: draft Day or the first couple of weeks after you know,

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Speaker 2: what a guy is going to turn out to be.

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Speaker 2: But yes, all of that hype was deserved for him,

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Speaker 2: and he's living up to.

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Speaker 4: It, no question.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be an easy vote for Steelers Rookie

675
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Speaker 2: of the Year.

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Speaker 3: I would think I would think so this year, Bob.

677
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 3: If the Steelers win on Sunday, they would be three

678
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 3: and zero, win their first three road games of the season.

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00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 3: They've done that before. They did it in twenty twenty

680
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Speaker 3: twenty ten, two thousand and five, nineteen eighty three, nineteen

681
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 3: seventy eight, in nineteen seventy five. Now, there's some some

682
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Speaker 3: things that happened in some of those years that ended

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00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 3: with the ended with a big parade, a parade. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's going to happen necessarily. I'm not

685
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Speaker 3: saying they're gonna win on Sunday. But are we seeing

686
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Speaker 3: something maybe a little special here?

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Speaker 2: It certainly has the makings of it, you know what

688
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 2: I will tell you, since you know, I guess there

689
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 2: are some other things I can be nervous about. The injuries.

690
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: The injuries are starting, you know, the the and the

691
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 2: two that are kind of most worrisome to me right now,

692
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: or high Smith and Jalen Warren. You got to have

693
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Speaker 2: both of those guys, I think for any of that

694
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Speaker 2: stuff deal that you were kind of intimating for that

695
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Speaker 2: to have a chance.

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Speaker 3: I just meant they won that. They won the division

697
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 3: title all six of those seasons. That's all I was

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Speaker 3: talking about.

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Speaker 2: I thought you were talking about parades.

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Speaker 3: Now, that would be a parade in Cleveland if they

701
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Speaker 3: won a division title.

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Speaker 2: But well, I mean, uh, you know, I don't I

703
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: was never totally convinced that they didn't have a chance

704
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Speaker 2: to win the division this year. You know, they were

705
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Speaker 2: five to one against division teams last year, you know,

706
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Speaker 2: but they seven and one in their last eight against

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Speaker 2: the Ravens. You know, the I always quote Juju the

708
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 2: Browns is the Browns. They had, they had their fifth

709
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Speaker 2: they had their fifteen seconds, whatever season.

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Speaker 4: That was, Bob.

711
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 3: They have a two time Coach of the Year award winner.

712
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 3: What more did you watch?

713
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: They have the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year

714
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 2: award winner too, And all that tells me is the

715
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 2: voters don't know what the hell they're talking about. Seriously,

716
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 2: who wants Miles Garrett over TJ Watt? I mean, I,

717
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: like I said, I don't know anything about football or

718
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 2: breaking down video or any of that stuff. But you know,

719
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 2: watch the games. I just and I don't even DVR them,

720
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: and you know, go back and forth and you know,

721
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Speaker 2: try and dissect plays or anything.

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Speaker 4: Bob.

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Speaker 3: It's all about past rush win rate and double team

724
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Speaker 3: rates and things of that nature. It's not about sacks. Yeah, actual,

725
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 3: it's not about the actual stats that they keep track of.

726
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 3: It's about these nonsensical you know, analytics stats, right.

727
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: Because how many how many Super Bowls have won with

728
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: been one with analytics? I mean, that's that's that's a

729
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: question I'd like answered by someone who's not an analytic person.

730
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, I you know so, but you know,

731
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 2: a lot of things still have to fall into place here,

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, you know, the Bengals certainly

733
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 2: doesn't look that great now the Ravens. The only thing

734
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: the Ravens seem to be really good at is blowing

735
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 2: double digit leads in the fourth quarter. Imagine that in

736
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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh if that was going on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what we said about the head coach?

738
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Speaker 2: If that? Yeah, and again, how is the quarterback of

739
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 2: a team that so regularly blows double digit leads in

740
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Speaker 2: the fourth quarter? How is he an m v m

741
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Speaker 2: v P.

742
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Speaker 3: With with the best rushing offense in the league. Mind

743
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 3: you well, he's a big part of that.

744
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

745
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: Well I understand there.

746
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 2: I will see that they should be able to put.

747
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: They should be able to put teams away with the

748
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 3: way that they run the football, and they don't do it.

749
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 4: Yes, and they almost lost one on Sunday.

750
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Speaker 2: Uh to the Cowboys. So I mean, I don't know.

751
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 2: Sometimes I guess the grass is always greener, or Steelers

752
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 2: fans just like to complaint, or I don't know, but

753
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: I don't look at the AFC North as a as

754
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 2: Bill Hilgrove used to say, as an unmakable putt. So

755
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 2: but hey, uh, there's a lot of there's a lot

756
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 2: of football to be played too.

757
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Speaker 3: The absolutely.

758
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: They could lose on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that would well, it wouldn't. It wouldn't put

760
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 3: a damper on the three and oh start, but it

761
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 3: certainly uh no, sound feel a little we'd feel a

762
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Speaker 3: little differently on Monday talking about this and when we

763
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Speaker 3: talked to you again on Wednesday. But Bob, but we've

764
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 3: taken up more than enough of your time. You can

765
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 3: get back to brooding about you know that potentially happening,

766
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Speaker 3: and uh we we won't talk to you next week.

767
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Speaker 4: Bob.

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Speaker 3: He is Bob Labriola, editor of Steelers Digest in Steelers

769
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Speaker 3: dot Com, the Dean of Doom. And that's Matt Williamson.

770
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 3: I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here in

771
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network. We'll be back with more right

772
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 3: after this.

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

774
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

775
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 3: And we are back. I'm Dale Lolly. He is the

777
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: Matt Williamson and this is the sn R Drive and

778
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 3: you can hear the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio

779
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network Monday through Friday from four

780
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 3: to six pm Eastern Standard Time. And of course you

781
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: can listen to all of our great shows here on

782
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 3: the Steelers Audio Network. We got stuff from wall to

783
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 3: wall every day. You can also hear all those shows

784
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: on demand on the podcast on the Steelers official mobile app.

785
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 3: Of course, watch this show on YouTube, which we appreciate

786
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 3: you all doing and liking it. And I do read

787
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 3: through the comments every day. You'll see my name on there.

788
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 3: It's not just Dale Lolly. There's some numbers and stuff

789
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 3: there answer if people have questions and stuff on there.

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00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 3: I do try to take a look at that, you know,

791
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 3: during the week. It's just something I've always liked to do,

792
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 3: going all the way back to my days at the

793
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 3: Observer Reporter when I had my first blog when blogs

794
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 3: were just starting out. Yeah, I had a blog on

795
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 3: there with with Steelers stuff, and I originally started it

796
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 3: out as a fantasy football blog and I kind of

797
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 3: just morphed it into a Steelers just pure Steelers blog

798
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 3: and it took off. And my Monday, my Monday column

799
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 3: was just you know, kind of my what was now

800
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Speaker 3: my ten thoughts on Steelers dot com. Kind of how

801
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 3: that developed, somebody texted somebody texted me this weekend, I said,

802
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 3: you should put numbers on your on your ten thoughts.

803
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 3: So we know exactly what I said I would, and

804
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,439
Speaker 3: I've used to do it that way, but I want

805
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 3: my ten thoughts to be more kind of a stream

806
00:42:54,440 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 3: of consciousness because oftentimes I'll yeah, I'll talk about something

807
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 3: to a couple other thoughts and then circle back around

808
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 3: to the thought that I had three thoughts ago, you know.

809
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,720
Speaker 3: Oh and by the way, this goes along with that. Okay,

810
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 3: So it's just kind of I just sit down and

811
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 3: write them. It's my stream of conscienceness after the game,

812
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 3: when I'm thinking about but with this, with this team,

813
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 3: with this defense.

814
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 4: Matt real quick on the comment stuff. Yeah, I'm not

815
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 4: super technically savvy, obviously, but the YouTube comments section is

816
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 4: a great way to get in touch with us. Absolutely.

817
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like I said, I check it out a

818
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Speaker 3: couple of times a day.

819
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Speaker 4: I need to do a better job of checking that

820
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 4: stuff out because when I wrote for ESPN, I quickly

821
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 4: learned to not read comments. Yeah, when you were doing

822
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 4: National one, there's thirty one other teams that don't like

823
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 4: what you said about when you say something good about

824
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 4: one or you know, so I forget who I was talking.

825
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 4: It might even have been Sanda or one of those guys.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, man, these comments are pretty rough. When I

827
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Speaker 4: was new, He's like, don't read the comments. They're not

828
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Speaker 4: gonna say they nice to you on this site and

829
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Speaker 4: they didn't.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean there's some of that too, And I

831
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 3: understand if you do after us on there, you better

832
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 3: be right about it. You better be have a like

833
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 3: I've had people accuse me of saying this or that.

834
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: I'm like, look, I don't know what you're talking about.

835
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Speaker 4: If you come after Omar, you better be right. Yeah, right,

836
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 4: Omar coming.

837
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, I do enjoy the interaction on

838
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 3: the app, and you know, so if people have a

839
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 3: question or a thing like something like that, that's that's

840
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 3: a great way to communicate with us. And maybe there's

841
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 3: something we'll bring up on the show that you know,

842
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 3: we weren't thinking. But that's really the way that one

843
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 3: of the big reasons why I started looking at the

844
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 3: comments more often when I've done things like that, even

845
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 3: when I was a DK at Pittsburgh Sports, because sometimes,

846
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: you know, somebody sitting at home will come up with

847
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 3: something You're like, yeah, I didn't think about that.

848
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, like I got a comment today

849
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 4: on a different forum just saying, what do you think

850
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 4: it would cost to get new Hopkins off the Titans

851
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 4: or Kirk off the Jags or that was brought up

852
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 4: on the Yeah, yeah, I hadn't thought about NW Hopkins

853
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 4: or Kirk or some of these teams are down and

854
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 4: out all ready, Yeah, I mean, and yeah, I mean

855
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 4: it's something to think about, you know.

856
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, So there's always you know, little things here

857
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 3: and there that you know, we don't pretend to know everything.

858
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 3: That's you know, we know a lot, you know, just

859
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 3: from being around it so much, and and uh.

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00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 4: This is all we do.

861
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 3: This is what we do. Yes, we don't just pretend

862
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 3: to do this.

863
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 4: But yeah, too, stuff's been very positive and that's a

864
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a lot of people watching now that

865
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 4: oh where's this been, Well, it's new. It's only been

866
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 4: here a couple of weeks. You know, we went on

867
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 4: YouTube and for a little.

868
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Speaker 3: While done it before in the past. But just like

869
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Speaker 3: at the owner's meetings or event, yeah, special event kind

870
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Speaker 3: of stuff. You know, this is something that's going to

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Speaker 3: we're going to do. I assume on Tyler is going

872
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Speaker 3: to be forever. Tyler says, Tyler Myra videos us here.

873
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Speaker 3: He's he's saying, gives us the thumbs up on that.

874
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean it's a new, a new way

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Speaker 3: to reach the fans, and and it's been popular. If

876
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Speaker 3: you haven't listened to the show before this, we appreciate

877
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 3: you listening now a lot of new viewers, yeah, if

878
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 3: not listeners, yeah, and you know, if you've been listening

879
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: to the show for a long time, we appreciate that.

880
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 3: And we do know that. You know, there are quite

881
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 3: a few of those as well, and you know, Matt

882
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 3: and I appreciate that, and we we enjoy the feedback.

883
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 3: So if you have some feedback, let us let us

884
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Speaker 3: have it. Yeah, you know, we'll get back to you

885
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 3: or answer your questions or whatever it might be. Have

886
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 3: no problem doing.

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Speaker 4: That, no right or suggestions for the show or whatever. Yeah,

888
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Speaker 4: I mean anything that's on your noodle.

889
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, what's on my noodle now is just talking

890
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 3: real quickly about what I just mentioned to Bob Matt.

891
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Speaker 3: If the Steelers get to three and oh, four and no, well,

892
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 3: three and oh on the road, win their first three

893
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Speaker 3: road games. Every year that they have done that in

894
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 3: the past, win their first three road games, they have

895
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Speaker 3: won their division. Wow, okay, twenty twenty, twenty ten, two

896
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Speaker 3: thousand and five, nineteen eighty three, nineteen seventy eight, and

897
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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy five.

898
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Speaker 4: So it's happened. They've seven times.

899
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Speaker 3: This will be the seventh time if they get that done.

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Speaker 3: They've also won double digit games every one of those seasons.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And some of them are like fourteen game seasons. Yeah,

903
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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 3: And well in four of those seasons they've advanced to

905
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Speaker 3: the super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: So not too shabby.

907
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Speaker 3: I'm just putting that out there.

908
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Speaker 4: And we'reting on the roads tough in this league, and

909
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 4: a row is really tough, and going three and oh,

910
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Speaker 4: I don't care who you're playing exactly exactly. And really,

911
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 4: their road record going back for well over a year now,

912
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Speaker 4: has been really, really, really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In fact, they have one of the best road records

915
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Speaker 3: in the AFC over the past well since Tomlin's been

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Speaker 3: the head coach.

917
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Speaker 4: Wow, I was going to think more short term, but yeah, yeah,

918
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Speaker 4: surprised me.

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Speaker 3: I mean he for whatever reason, they handle it well.

920
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Speaker 4: And back to the fan interaction. You guys help with

921
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Speaker 4: that too.

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Speaker 2: By the way.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, see how I would expect a pretty decent Steelers

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Speaker 3: contingent and any.

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Speaker 4: Bad ride folks, Yeah, thinking about it. We do it

927
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Speaker 4: for the combine every year. It's not a bad ride

928
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Speaker 4: at all, nice and flat. You'll get there in five hours.

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Speaker 4: Give you some spot to stop on the way.

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Speaker 3: Culvers and Columbus is always good. I'd just like to

931
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Speaker 3: stop there. Never a bad stop. But uh yeah, so

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Speaker 3: we're just throwing that out there. We'll see, uh, we'll

933
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Speaker 3: see that they've had they started three and oh ten

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Speaker 3: times in their history.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: The only time that they didn't advance to the postseason

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Speaker 3: after starting three and oh was in nineteen thirty six.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, you know what the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Nineteen thirty six. Oh, I can tell you. I looked

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Speaker 3: it up. Uh, that was the first season. Nineteen thirty

941
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Speaker 3: six was the first season in the NFL that they

942
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 3: had an actual college draft. Okay, nineteen thirty six, there

943
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 3: were nine teams in the NFL, nine and the top

944
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 3: two teams in the teams who won their division. There

945
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Speaker 3: were two divisions at the time, one with four teams

946
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Speaker 3: on the five. If you want your apparently, yes, you

947
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Speaker 3: advanced to the champion NFL Championship game to decide the

948
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Speaker 3: champion if you didn't. And the Steelers finished second that

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Speaker 3: year at six.

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Speaker 4: And they didn't go to the Poston I think the

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Speaker 4: one postseason.

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Speaker 3: Game there was one game one ring to rule them

953
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Speaker 3: all I got and the steel didn't make it that year.

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Speaker 3: So that was the only year that they've got started

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Speaker 3: three and o that they didn't make.

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Speaker 4: The postions nineteen thirty seven. They're perfect, good way to

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Speaker 4: play it.

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Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. Let's get through a break.

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Speaker 3: That's going to do it. For our number one of

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Speaker 3: the drive here on the Steelers Audio Network, Matt now

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Speaker 3: will be back with our number two right after this