WEBVTT - HR1: Reflection 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.520 At least, he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.400 Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.680 Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:16.760 And Welcome to the Drive. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.040 I am Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.479 Matt game didn't go exactly like we thought it would 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:26.280 on Saturday. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.560 No, it went pretty terribly, pretty terribly just kind of. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.879 It was the Ravens who came out and kind of, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:39.800 you know, we talked about it last week. Is that 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.239 Spider Man meme? You know, I know what you're gonna do, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.040 and you look like me, and I look like all 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:50.320 that stuff. And Lamar Jackson hadn't run the ball that 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.320 much against the Steelers, No, and he came in and 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.200 ran the ball I think five consecutive plays on the 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.480 opening drive of that game. That wasn't five plays for 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.640 big yardage, right, but it was five consecutive plays to 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:08.160 convert first downs. And it just continued from there and 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.120 the Steelers couldn't stop it. They couldn't stop Derrick Henry 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.320 and they lost twenty eight fourteen. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:18.520 Yeah, and the Jackson runs became pretty obvious. I mean, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.320 your edge guy, whether it's Wad or high Smith. It 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:22.880 seemed like mostly they were going more. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:23.919 To Watt side whatever. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.640 What isn't interested in Lamar at all? Yeah, mean he 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.280 is crashing down the line of scrimmage pair that. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.360 Was that was a defensive plan. Usually he's doing. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.800 It's where the Steelers zagged instead of Right, Okay, TJ, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.480 you got the running back in these situations. Right, it 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.640 used to be TJ you got You've got Lamar in 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:42.400 these situations. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.840 I think Lamar's eyes opened this big and said, if 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.720 that's if they're going, if I'm gonna watch DJ run 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.600 right across my face and I've got a handful of 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.680 yards to make anyone on the planet miss, I'm doing 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:55.840 that over and over and over. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:56.520 Yeah, you know. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.720 And frankly, the Steelers din't play with a lot of energy, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.920 and they were the weaker team. They were obviously the 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.080 weaker team, especially in the first half against what I 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.000 think is an awesome offense. And I think, frankly, I 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.160 think the Ravens might win Super Bowl. But when that 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.600 when Lamar became very aware of how the Steelers were 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.520 playing it, it makes it really tough. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.880 And and there's an's there's more to that. And then 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.640 when they didn't play it that way. They just handed 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:23.160 it to Henry. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.840 Yeah exactly. I mean they not that they guessed right, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.639 but they were always right. And you know, if you're 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.480 gonna play it that way, where I'm just using Wad 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.280 an example, he didn't do anything wrong, but he comes 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.000 crashing down the line of scrimmage, Well, Queen or your 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.520 phil guy has to scrape over, knowing that, and they 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:39.440 were always slow to it. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.959 Well, we found out today Ian Rapaport reporting that Patrick 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:48.240 Queen had to get four bags of IV fluids up 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.320 step slow in that game. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.600 Yeah, again, flat footed, worn out. Yeah, I mean he. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.440 Looked I saw him after the game, and he looked 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.160 like he's exhausted. And I had no idea that is 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.679 the case at that time. And now it kind of 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.960 adds up, It really adds up. I mean because there 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.320 were a handful of plays. I'm not saying he's dogging it, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.960 but he barely moved, you know, like it was a 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.040 couple of steps here and there. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.760 I mean, like they're playing with nothing in the tank. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.680 Yeah, and so the Steelers, you know, right, the Steelers 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:25.480 lose twenty eight fourteen. That was a defensive side of things. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:34.079 Offensively there just wasn't. I didn't see the fight offensively 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.880 in the first half either. Guys weren't breaking tackles. Guys 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.680 weren't right fighting for first downs. I texted you every 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.280 time yesterday when I saw that in those games. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.880 When a tight end would run over defensive back, tight 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.600 end ward run a quarterback quite a few times, quarterback 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:49.960 would run over a defensive back. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.119 Ye running back would run it just constant. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.920 Yesterday I had I had to have texted you five 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.480 or six times, like, look at that, look at that right, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.560 and it didn't happen the Steelers. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:01.600 It's playoff football. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.960 You're big and bruising in Flick Payne. I mean, Henry 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.320 did Tamiica, Yeah. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.840 You know what I mean, Like this is what it's 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:08.560 all about. It this one. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.480 Well, and that's the thing I mean. You know, when 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.559 you look at this Ravens offense coming into this game. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.040 We talked about it last week. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:18.840 You had to know. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.840 You had to know that they were going to lean 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.599 on Henry sure if you let them do it. They 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.280 didn't have the receivers, they didn't have no and why 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.680 the Steelers didn't have Joey Porter Junior travel with Bateman 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:34.680 is beyond me is. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.560 Beyond me, and frankly, to take a step further, this 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.520 added up. I didn't know it until actually reading it today. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.960 The Ravens were an eleven eleven percent of the time, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.279 I mean an ungodly low number, like the lowest number 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.479 in the last five years of any playoff team. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:52.840 Now we saw that coming. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.640 They don't have good receivers and the best guys out 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.000 and they got a bunch of big dudes. They had 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.320 a sixth offensive lineman on the field twenty two percent 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.039 of the time, and that's not even counting Ricard as 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.280 a sixth offensive lineman, who's really a seventh offensive lineman. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.400 And the Steelers still played nickel a lot over fifty 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.360 percent of the snaps. For a nickel you could be 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.599 the best schemed up team in the league. You just 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.200 got little people playing against big people. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.120 And that's the thing. So, I mean, I understand being concerned. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.719 You have to have enough people in the field that 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.080 can run with Lamar Jackson, I get that right, And 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.320 that's what the Chargers did to them in Jackson's first 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.920 playoff game, is they went with seven defensive best a bunch. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.000 Of Darwin James out there right right, just flooding the 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.239 middle of the field and being fast. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.200 The problem becomes Henry. Those guys having attack on Henry. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:42.080 Right now, Henry has done I saw this today too, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:47.200 that this December and beyond in his career is by 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.839 far the best of any back in NFL history. I mean, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.480 it's remarkably good. Every playoff game he's in, he's a hammer. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.440 He's over one hundred and fifty yards repeatedly, the most 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.359 in history. And the four of them, Yeah, and Terrell 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.880 Davis is the only one that's even like close to him, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.440 and they're not the same, you know, I mean, and 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.600 he does this to everybody. He gets stronger. Defenses just 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.920 get weaker throughout the course of the year. Attrition they get. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.760 It's harder to tackle big people in the cold. And 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.200 so much of his yards were after first contact in 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.360 this game that he's a pretty remarkable specimen. And I 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.960 whan you match him with Lamar, I mean, the thunder 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.120 and lightning that they provide is rare in NFL history, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:29.640 And that. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.840 You knew that you played against. Right that being. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.520 Said, I thought the backbreaker, you down fourteen to nothing 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.400 late in a half. First of all, you had to 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.840 play the pickings down the sideline that would have made it. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.040 You would have had to boll to seven down fourteen 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.480 to nothing at that point, I could pick. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:48.720 It's credit. He played a whale game. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:56.120 Yeah, yeah, I thought Humphreys sold the pass interference call and. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.960 Probably call more often than not, was my thought. But 0:06:59.000 --> 0:06:59.240 in the. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.440 Borderline, border line, But okay, he pushed off a little bit. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.360 But show me a receiver that doesn't down the field 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:05.880 that Humphrey did a great job of selling it. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.400 It happened. It is what it is. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.800 The Ravens go to the length of the field, but they 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.239 used all their timeouts. They get the ball with eleven 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:20.400 seconds left. Yeah, at the five, the Steelers have Lamar 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.440 Jackson himed in in the pocket. They've got hands on him. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.440 I think Herbig had him. Yeah, and he escapes and 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.040 throws a touchdown pass with two seconds left in the 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:31.880 first half, and now it's twenty one nothing. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.480 His time to throw on that play was like six 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.120 point three seconds or so. Hardball talked about it after 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:37.480 the game. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.880 He's like, because they had no timeouts left right right, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.760 If he's tackled in the field to play, that's it. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:42.640 It's fourteen to nothing. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.480 At the half and you feel the Steelers are going 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.480 all right, we just got badly out played in the 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:47.000 first half. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.360 But it's only two scores. As we saw in the 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.240 Houston League game, he. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.120 Can't do is take a sack. Yeah, and they're beating 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.080 blockers left it right, but making him get a sack. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.000 Nobody got him on the ground superhero, And to me, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.000 that was just such a bad breaker because you had 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.920 what you want. You had the pass rush on him, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.880 even if he's for six seconds, if he scrambles in 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.200 that situation, there were guys waiting there. He was probably 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.000 going to get tackled short of the goal line. And 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.960 he flips the ball out to the flat and Hill 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.480 goes in from He's one of the only people on 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.120 the plane that they can make that play. You know, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.280 sometimes you just have to tip. I mean the other 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.320 guys get paid too. Yeah, And I thought the guys 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.360 are really good. There were some plays that Jackson made 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.400 that I thought, well, there's only about two guys on 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.080 the face of the earth that can make that particular play. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.720 The other one was the killer. They get the sack 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.280 for for some reason, the Steelers make it twenty eight 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.360 to fourteen they're showing some life, showing some life back 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:40.760 in the game. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.240 There's water. They're back in the football game. But they 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:44.560 come out. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.800 They get a sack on the Ravens. Don't even have 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.440 Henry on the field to open that nextar. They didn't 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.760 put him on the field that entire possession and they 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.000 go three and out. I'm sorry. They get the sack. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:56.559 The Steelers get the sack on first down. This is 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.840 the open third quarter. I'm getting to be in the half, right, Yeah. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.760 They get the sack on first down. It's it's now 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.440 second and twenty one, and they roll Jackson out to 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.440 his right. They had for card just completely. He just 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.559 all right, let wat come in and then just sealed 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.080 him off to the inside because they knew they were 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:16.840 rolling to the right. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.760 He cut. He runs all the way across the field. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.360 Nobody opened, nobody opened, nobody open, and then throws back 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.360 to the middle of the field. I think it was 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.679 Agilar that caught that one for a twenty two yard game. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.840 He caught it short of the sticks and goes out. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.960 Maybe it was Tylan Wallace, either one, it doesn't matter. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.959 He threw about a sixteen yard pass and he ends 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.480 up getting just enough he gets twenty one yards on 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.600 that or twenty two yards to convert the first down. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.680 And I'm like, their. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.840 Guys are just getting past the line of the line 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.280 to gain and the Steelers guys didn't all day long. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.680 Absolutely, and I'm not gonna call him out. Well, fire 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.040 Muth was the perfect example of that. You know, like, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:56.800 it's a little guy in front of you. Run him 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.280 over two instances. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.160 In the first half where and he dropped the first 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.160 play of the game, the first actually the first two 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:04.640 series that the Steelers had the ball. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.720 Now, the first one was it was fourth and long 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.560 and he caught it and he had to get i 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.280 think seven or eight yards and he came up two 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.360 yards short. He got gang tackled in that one, but 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.760 you got it. The second one, he catches the ball 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.960 in the flat. It's it's third and two. Yeah, and 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.880 all he has to do is get past one hundred 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.360 and eighty pounds of Darius Washington. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.480 Yeah right, you're a tight end. You're two hundred and 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:27.160 fifty pounds. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.840 That guy's five ft nine and one hundred and eighty pounds, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.439 and you let him get you on the ground. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.000 Short of sticks and play, you have to have. You 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.920 got to have it, and you you know. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:42.000 Everything gets magnified, especially physicality in the playoffs, especially Raven Steelers, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.120 you know, and you got to be the hammer there. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.679 You can't, you can't come up short. And there's too 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.680 many of those instances on both sides of the ball, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.840 you know, I mean there's. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:53.439 Again. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.719 It's just this is a really good football team, a 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.559 really physical football team. But I would have liked to 0:10:58.559 --> 0:10:59.520 see more fight. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.640 Not that they laid down, it's just they they went 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.920 backwards way too often, you know, the powerfeld the other way. Yeah, 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.720 they had no running game, no running game. They gained 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.120 twenty nine yards on eleven carries. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.760 Twenty nine yards or two hundred ninety nine. Yeah, you 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.320 won't see a bigger difference in that. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.840 And honestly, I mean, if you look at what Russell 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.120 Wilson did in this game, he was twenty of twenty nine. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.760 Four of those twenty nine were. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.600 Throwing or throw aways. Yeah, I saw that in your article. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.280 He had twenty He was twenty of twenty five when 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.400 he was actually given time to throw, and he got 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.160 the ball down the field when they attacked, and I 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:37.720 didn't think they attacked enough early. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.480 I don't either. And again, there's so much Monday morning 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.079 quarterbacking involved. But I bet if Tomlin or Arthur Smith 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.400 or whatever, we're sitting here and said, let's do it again. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.760 You know what you know now, I think you put 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.080 the ball in Russ's hands more. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:52.640 That's what you brought him here for. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.480 Yeah, And frankly, I thought Pickings leading up to the game. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.960 I said many times the series have any chance, Picking 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.480 needs to be one of the best players on the field, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.360 and I thought he was. And I actually made some 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.080 notes in the third quarter. I'm like, I might throw 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.640 it to the Pickens every time and just see what happens. Yeah, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.160 I mean, like, I know the Austin play was desperation, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.320 but watching it on TV, he threw into triple coverage 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.240 to a really small receiver in the end zone. Frankly, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.560 he didn't have much choice. But you could hardly even 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.840 see Austin because there was so much purple around him, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.720 you know what I mean, Like, you got one dude 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:31.360 that's a supreme playmaker that was playing well. I almost 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.360 felt at that point just give him the ball every 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.320 time and see what happens, because he's an immensely. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.720 Time I mean the Ravens knew that as well, and 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.120 of course he was getting doubled all the time, all 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.600 the time, yeah, all the time, you know. But again 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.240 they had chunk pass plays. You know the play that 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.840 Austin made it's on third and three or third and 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.080 ten from the three on their first touchdown drive was like, 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:55.520 that's a big time catch. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.720 Yeah, it's a big time. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.719 Throw over the middle where everybody says Russell Wilson can't throw. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.240 I mean, he stuck that into a tight spot for 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.120 a big game. He then comes out hits Mike Williams 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.240 down the sideline. These were on third, third and long 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.640 plays too, right, right, and then his Van Jefferson for 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.560 the touchdown on third and long for a thirty yard 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.000 touchdown pass I think. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.120 You cited in your article, but he had five or 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.080 six between like twenty five and thirty five yard catchers, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.360 I mean, chrunk plays. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.080 All we heard the Ravens have fixed their their their 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.000 issues with their. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:24.160 With the deep ball. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.680 Well, that would suggest that maybe they didn't. Teams just 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.920 weren't trying it, and you know, you don't know until 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.959 you know. I would have tried that earlier. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.439 Yeah, And again they weren't on the field a whole 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:37.000 heck of a lot. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.480 I mean, that's obviously you have to convert some of 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:39.280 those first downs. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.640 I mean a lot of frankly, over the last five games, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.880 a lot of our Monday morning quarterback or why I 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.520 would have done this more on offense. I've done that 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.720 more on offense. But then it's like, wow, but they 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.600 only ran ten plays in the free. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.320 I mean, you got to run to stay on the field, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.280 got to stay on the field. Guy's got to fight 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:56.200 for first downs. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:56.920 Yeah. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.839 And you know, I was talking with Wolf and Rob 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.680 we do Air to Night Monday Night about you know, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.960 the time of possession thing. It seems like every Monday 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.959 we've been talking about time of possession, you know, in 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.440 the post game shows with those two. And in these 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.439 five games, there's been three hundred minutes of football and 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.000 the Steelers have had the football for like one hundred 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.440 and twenty one of those three hundred minutes. But to me, 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.920 that's the symptom. That's not the disease. You go to 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.600 the doctor saying, Doc, time possessions all messed up. My 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.080 arm hurts, you know, my my chest hurts. Whatever, And 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.440 Doc does all the tests and says well, these are 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.960 your problems. Well they're the problems are on both sides 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.920 of the ball, you know, like you've got to get 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.960 that time possession back and run more plays. But it's 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.080 not just because you haven't run the ball well enough 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:44.680 or you're giving up too much on the run. It's 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.640 all the above, you know, and it just leads to 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.720 bad time possession, which is we know, just snowballs and 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.320 gets bigger and bigger and bigger down the hill. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.760 I got some stats. I look some things up today. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.520 I had some thoughts as I was watching all the 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.680 games take place here over the weekend. Yeah, this will 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.320 be without the Monday night game, playoff game that will 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.960 finish off the wild card weekend. But I gets some 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.720 stats that I want to dig into that speak to 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.840 what you just talked about there, and we'll do that 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.680 when we return. He is the Matt Williamson. I am 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.600 Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive. You're on the 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.840 Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I will be back with 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.240 more right after this. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.800 At least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.680 Williamson on your twenty four to seven Home of the 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.360 Black and Gold cast in Steelers Nation. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:35.440 Radio, and we are back. I'm Dale Lolli. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.000 He is the Matt Williamson and Matt during the game 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.480 yesterday or during the after the AFC. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.680 Game and all the FC game for yeah, yeah, we're completing. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:52.120 I tweeted out and I just did this for comparisons purposes, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.480 And people thought, oh, you're making an excuse for the Steelers. No, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.400 I wasn't at all. If you read my ten thoughts 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:03.200 after the game, pretty blunt. They get their butts. But 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.840 I said the AFC games were not competitive. Oh and 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.120 here's how non competitive. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.680 They were the Steelers. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.280 The Steelers game was the closest of the TREA and 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.920 the Steelers, and the Steelers scored the most points and 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.440 gave up the fewest points of the AFC team. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.920 It was bad. And so I would say that the 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:25.960 Steelers is bad. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.960 Their first half might have been the worst of any 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.680 of the you know, but at least at one point, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.120 semi late in the game, it was still a game. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.560 I mean, Denver Buffalo wasn't at that point, you know, 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.760 deep into the third quarter, you at least had your 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.680 head above water. But you're right, it was three very 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.680 lopsided games, but go go, So. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.760 Maybe look up today, just the first round of the playoffs, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.280 not excluding tonight's game. Though far we've seen only one 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.920 lower seeded team win that Washington was right against Tampa, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.400 not that you. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.560 Know, right, They're not a powerhouse, right all right. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.879 So Houston had four hundred and twenty nine yards of offense. Okay, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.560 remember they did nothing in the first quarter of that game. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.720 No, and they had three turnovers in that game too. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.280 Yeah, they turned the ball over three times. They averaged 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.920 they ran seventy plays. Houston did Houston to fifty four 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.680 for LA Baltimore had four hundred and sixty four yards 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.919 of offense. They ran seventy two plays compared to forty 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:32.680 five for the Steelers. Buffalo had four hundred and seventy 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.720 one yards of offense they ran they had seventy two plays. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.080 Denver had forty two. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.880 Wow. So these are like thirty play discrepancies. Thirty plays. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.199 Now, Philadelphia green Bay was a little bit differently different 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:47.400 because Philly. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.280 Was just both those defenses played well. Yeah, and green 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.719 Bay turned the ball over four times. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.200 Philadelphia had none, right, right, you know, you lose the 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.240 turnover battle four nothing, you're going to lose. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.800 Yeah, And Philly never really did much through the air. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:05.040 To Washington last night. Now, mind you, Washington only had 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:06.640 eighty two rushing yards in that. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.399 Game, including Jane Daniels. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.520 Right, yeah, they ran sixty nine plays. Tampa ran forty four. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:13.440 Wow. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.919 So and obviously time possession is going to reflect on this, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:19.280 and that's how we ended last segment. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:20.520 Time of possession. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.560