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Speaker 1: Welcome to the drive. I'm Dale Lallie. He is the

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson and uh, well, Matt, that was, shall we say,

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Speaker 1: disappointing on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Really rough.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people coming at me on

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Speaker 1: social media. You said this was gonna mean it should

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Speaker 1: have been an easy game. It should have been a

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Speaker 1: much easier game. The Steelers were dominating the play early

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Speaker 1: in that game. But what you can't do against an

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Speaker 1: inferior team has allowed them to hang around. And then

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Speaker 1: the attrition, said, the attrition set in for the Steelers

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Speaker 1: within about, oh, I don't know, four plays of each other.

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Speaker 1: Pickett gets injured at the goal line, as does Isaac Sayamalu.

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Speaker 1: And then and then coming out of the end zone,

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Speaker 1: they get to stop first down, stop for one yard

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Speaker 1: on the pass out to the flat to the to

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Speaker 1: the tight end. The next play, Landon Roberts makes the

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Speaker 1: tackle on James Connor and he has to leave. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so in a matter of four plays, you lost three

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Speaker 1: pretty key players.

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Speaker 2: Basically are two green dot guys. Yeah, you know, and

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Speaker 2: your your veteran left guard is playing really really well.

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Speaker 2: And obviously that was like a fourteen point swing at

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Speaker 2: that point.

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Speaker 1: As soon as Roberts is out of the game, Oh floodgates.

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Speaker 1: The defense fell apart.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, McBride, Bigbride, Bigbride, middlefield, nollfield and.

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Speaker 1: The whole second half. Run the ball because these guys

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Speaker 1: can't stop it because these linebackers aren't good.

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Speaker 2: No, they're not. So just offensively for Arizona. We knew

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Speaker 2: they had some dudes, you know, like I got a

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Speaker 2: Bodich tweets too, and I'm sure we both got lumped

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Speaker 2: in together. You guys, let sold the Cardinals short. I

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Speaker 2: expect better coverage this week. Hold out here, you know.

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Speaker 2: But they didn't sell the Cardinals short at all. No,

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Speaker 2: they stick. Their defense is horrendous. They need eight or

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Speaker 2: nine new starters. But they are professional athletes. If you

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Speaker 2: screw it up, you can lose that that goes continually.

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Speaker 1: Shoot yourself in the foot, yes, and kick your own butt,

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Speaker 1: as multiple players said after the game, As Mike Tomlin said,

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Speaker 1: if when you kick your own butt, you're gonna lose.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna lose. So to the Cardinals credit, they have

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Speaker 2: some guys on offense. The first half, McBride was an

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Speaker 2: unstoppable force. The second half, Connor, who played very very well.

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Speaker 2: By the way, both of them were unstoppable forces. That's

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Speaker 2: not okay, but that's what happened. Now on the other

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Speaker 2: side of the ball, you should have had more success,

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Speaker 2: there's no question. But didn't we just go like twelve

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Speaker 2: weeks talking about getting more yardage than your opponent isn't

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Speaker 2: the most important thing. Steelers out yardage their opponents, folks.

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Speaker 2: And this is exactly how they won all year. Well,

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Speaker 2: this one they lost because we can name twelve plays

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Speaker 2: that were self induced eras and the.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals were the team that took advantage of the other

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Speaker 1: team's errors.

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Speaker 2: Right, It's like the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: You keep hitting the ball into the net, the other

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Speaker 1: team's gonna take advantage of that.

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Speaker 2: You know, That's exactly what the Steelers. That's why the

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Speaker 2: Steelers have a winning wet record this year. We know

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Speaker 2: it's not because of their prolific offense and their high

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Speaker 2: flying passing game. It's from not losing. And they lost

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Speaker 2: this game. Yeah, I mean they really did.

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Speaker 1: More so than anything else they lost.

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Speaker 2: They lost this game. That's rule number one. Don't lose

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Speaker 2: the game. You might not win it, but don't lose it.

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Speaker 2: They lost the game.

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Speaker 1: Prior to that ninety nine yard touchdown, which is actually

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Speaker 1: one hundred and nine yard touchdown with the penalty in there.

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Speaker 1: Prior to that, on four possessions the Cardinals at twenty

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Speaker 2: I know, I know, twenty six yards, which so let's

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Speaker 2: talk about the fourth and one real quick.

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Speaker 1: I had no problem with it.

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Speaker 2: I said, they're going. I could keep a word document

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Speaker 2: thinking at the time. Oh, I would definitely go for it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, because you think you're running the ball well,

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Speaker 1: If you got not even if you get stopped, you're

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Speaker 1: they got to go ninety nine yards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was my logic was, even if

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Speaker 2: at midfield, you know. I mean that was the feeling

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Speaker 2: you in two out of three chances, three out of four.

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Speaker 2: I didn't love that they operated from shotgun. I mean

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Speaker 2: that point, you know he's probably not gonna sneak it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he still people wondering, why don't you sneak

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Speaker 1: Did you watch the NFC Championship game last year?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Sure, sure.

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Speaker 1: Now the Steelers had a third guy ready to go

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you want to play the

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Speaker 1: in your fears, but I get it, and you've been

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, I didn't love the shotgun. I would not

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Speaker 2: But we're nitpicking. I mean I have no problem with

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Speaker 2: the one hundred and nine yard drive subsequently.

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Speaker 1: Just continually picking on your inside linebacker apps a whole

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Speaker 2: This is an answer we'll never know, and I have

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Speaker 2: in that instance, you just lost Roberts, they're on the

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Speaker 2: don't make any adjustments, just play cover two. Let's get

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Speaker 1: And Mike Tomlin kind of addressed that today he was

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Speaker 1: have time to make that. Okay, who's communicating your Who's

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Speaker 1: you only get two green dots in a game?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so there's there's two helmets that happen. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: They can't be you know, so now you're now you're

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Speaker 1: It's hard to make adjustments on a fifteen play drive.

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Speaker 2: And you're probably thinking what's the chances they hit execute

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Speaker 1: Third down five times on that drive? Ye third down?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so I think the whole goal was I

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Speaker 1: And you wanted it. The worst thing was is that

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Speaker 1: they won on first down and the skies opened up

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Speaker 1: on every one of those situations they won on first down,

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Speaker 1: it was either the longest gain that the Cardinals had

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Speaker 2: And I think I want to credit you because I

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Speaker 2: think you wrote it in your article that their first

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Speaker 2: down defense was superb, right, It was like under one

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Speaker 2: downs is all the stuff Tomlin talks about in his presscot.

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Speaker 1: Because they were they they were able to isolate the

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Speaker 2: And it was a huge problem and they spammed at

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Speaker 2: when they find something good they go crazy on it

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Speaker 2: and it worked out really well. Give the opponent some credit,

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Speaker 2: especially on offense. They have some playmakers, Yeah, they do.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Steelers played very poorly by no means

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Speaker 2: by saying these are all the excuses. They played very poorly.

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Speaker 1: Two bad snaps by Mason Cole that were costly. One

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Speaker 1: It was like a third and shorts the third and

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Speaker 1: one turns into a fumble that Mitchy, Yeah, Knitch Trubisky

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Speaker 2: There's a terrible snap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, awful, awful snap that basically gave them there. You know,

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Speaker 2: Might have even been off his hand.

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Speaker 1: If you score there at seventeen ten, you line up

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Speaker 1: to kick a field goal. Chris Boswell hasn't missed a

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Speaker 2: There's like ten or eleven self inflicted wounds hitting it

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Speaker 2: But one angle I hadn't thought of. I just did

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Speaker 2: a show with Craig Wolfe, who thinks like an offensive

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Speaker 2: and he said, oh, by the way, he's on top

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Speaker 1: Either five man front with a nose right over top

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Speaker 2: No, it's totally different, he said. Mason Cole went to

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Speaker 2: the blue ten. He did with a hand.

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Speaker 1: Well, they just relisted him on the on the injury

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, because he had thought it was a hand issue.

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Speaker 2: And then I mentioned, well, his backup is right next

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Speaker 2: to him at left guard. He's not even the first

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Speaker 2: one came before that though he snapped Okay, I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to think the time.

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Speaker 1: Because of the five man line that that Arizona plays,

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Speaker 1: he had a nose right over top of the center.

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Speaker 1: This isn't the first time Mason Cole said snappish problem.

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah, yeah, yeah, so again. Yeah, bos Mixes misses

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was a fifty five years a

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. No, I one hundred percent agree with you.

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Speaker 2: And there's so many reasons for it, Like, yes, Rondell

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Speaker 2: therefore you win games. But Bosmus is a kick, you're

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Speaker 2: you know how I count that. That's minus three and

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Speaker 1: I didn't get it. I don't know if that should

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Speaker 2: Brew three penalties, you know what I mean, your two

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Speaker 2: Here, probably won't in his career. Yeah, and you know

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Speaker 2: knows better. I mean, you can't have that. The snaps

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Speaker 2: the field. That kind of stuff all self inflicted.

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Speaker 2: There was way too many self inflicted wounds. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: One of those games is sometimes you have those things

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Speaker 2: Lose, right they did. No, it happens a lot in

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Speaker 2: But really bad loss. Fortunately it's not an AFC loss,

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Speaker 1: That's the one thing that's kind of you know, if

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Speaker 2: But if you're going to lose one of these two games,

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Speaker 1: The game against the Patriots is much more important.

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Speaker 2: It is. I mean, if you lose that one, your

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Speaker 1: Really, I mean, now you get a win out.

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Speaker 2: Basically went out right. I mean now not that they're

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Speaker 2: but you beat the Patriots and Colts. Now you're back

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think so either, And I get it.

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Speaker 1: People are always angry after a loss.

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Speaker 2: Every hard game to watch.

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Speaker 1: Every Steeler game in general is a hard game to

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Speaker 2: They don't have that luxury. Yeah, he just works the walls.

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Speaker 1: And you know, this isn't college football. You know, I

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Speaker 2: we don't in there and no team Kelly, you can't.

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Speaker 2: I mean you can't if you're a professional. You've been

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Speaker 2: You don't have time to dwell on it on a

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Speaker 1: They're not going to put him on IR, which tells

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Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was tremendous.

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Speaker 1: He was storming the beaches throughout that game. It's better

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Speaker 1: every week if his Patrick dealing with that hand, if

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Speaker 2: One good point. Maybe more time to work on that h.

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Speaker 2: Today, which is good at Benton's fighting something obviously in

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Speaker 2: lucky to have him. I didn't rush to them all.

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Speaker 2: You back, obviously the linebacker situations, right, Dire, Yeah, Dire.

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Speaker 1: You know it's no surprise in you know, in week

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And let's say you lose your top two tight ends. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know tight end play a tight end

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Speaker 2: Every offense is going to target them. And it's not

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Speaker 2: You know, I mean, if you're really bad at corner,

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Speaker 2: there's just positions that are going to get exposed, and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, looking at the New England estimated practice report, UH

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Speaker 2: Was Douglas might be their best receiver by the way.

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Speaker 1: I doubt either one of them play.

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Speaker 2: I don't think one is gonna play right.

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Speaker 1: Limited for them. We're defensive lineman Christian Barber with a shoulder,

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Speaker 2: He was struggling with that anklet. I watched, Yeah, he.

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Speaker 1: I don't know he wants to do that at this

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Speaker 1: point in his career. Wide receiver Devonte Parker with a knee,

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman Riley Reef with a knee, wide receiver Juju

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Speaker 1: Smith Schuster with an ankle, and Guard City sal with

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Speaker 1: an ankle.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot.

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Speaker 2: And their offense is really bad, especially the passing game.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the passing games are really bad. But they

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Speaker 2: don't score any points and they're they're not in a

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Speaker 2: good place right now, but they play really tight, low

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Speaker 2: scoring game. Do you think Steelers play low scoring games?

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Speaker 2: All spokes? I mean their last three games they have

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Speaker 2: not allowed more than ten points. They're rower and three. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, first time AFL history, Like that's hard to do.

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Speaker 1: It is hard to do. And you know so, mister Bisky,

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Speaker 1: if they can put any kind of points on the

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Speaker 1: board in this game, that's a that's a positive. The

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Speaker 1: Steelers this season, I believe four and oh following a loss.

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Speaker 2: Are they yeah, understandable, so they can't think from spiraling

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Speaker 2: too much. I just saw it. But before we sat

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Speaker 2: down over under for Thursday is thirty and a half.

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Speaker 2: I'd be shocked if it does. If they get the

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Speaker 2: thirty I mean combined between these two teams, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's it's gonna be first one to ten maybe. I

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Speaker 2: mean it's gonna be that type of game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, you know New England has kicker problems,

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Speaker 1: real kicker problem, real.

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Speaker 2: Kicker thirty one and special teams DVOA.

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Speaker 1: Which never happens the road.

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Speaker 2: There at the bottom. I mean, that's just never happened.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more and more about New England here as

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Speaker 1: the week goes on. Uh. He is Matt Williamson. I

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Speaker 1: am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: and you're listening to the drive here on Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Matt is as bad as that thing was.

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Speaker 1: Just it was awful candy coating that that that is

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Speaker 1: what it is easily their worst performance. That was worst

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Speaker 1: a worse performance than what they did against San Francico Cisco.

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Speaker 1: If they would have played like that against the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers, it.

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Speaker 2: Had been sixty or nothing, it had been easily. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it'd been Miami Denver. Yeah, everybody would have It was

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Speaker 2: worse than the Houston game. It is definitely worse than

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Speaker 2: the Niner game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as bad as it was, the Steelers are still

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Speaker 1: in the fifth spot in the AFC playoff standings. Everybody else,

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Speaker 1: you know, you either had the right teams lose or

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Speaker 1: the It's a lot all right there.

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Speaker 2: It is. So I felt like Baltimore, sitting on their

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Speaker 2: couch went, ah, that the.

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Speaker 1: Only beneficiary of yesterday. I would say the two Not

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Speaker 1: only did the Steelers lose, but Kansas City lost.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think if Jacksonville wins tonight, they're the one.

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Speaker 1: They're the one.

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Speaker 2: It's just bonkers too. I mean, they just got their schedule.

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Speaker 2: The rest of the way is easy.

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Speaker 1: It is easy.

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Speaker 2: They're actually set up quite well. Miami with a huge win,

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Speaker 2: not unexpected, but they're pretty much in the driver's seat now.

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Speaker 2: I do think the Bills have more life, but they

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Speaker 2: have an awful schedule ahead of them, just because some

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Speaker 2: team's lost.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, they got to go to Kansas City

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Speaker 1: this week. With Kansas City coming off of a loss.

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Speaker 2: At least the Bills are coming off of bye, but

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be a dog.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kansas City's coming off a loss. You think Mahomes

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Speaker 1: is going to be like.

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Speaker 2: They have problems though they do, like Kevin you've talked

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Speaker 2: about those tackles are not good and the receivers. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of poems in the air for Mahomes looking

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Speaker 2: at the receivers when they don't stem a thing right.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not worried about the Chiefs, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 2: and nor would I want to go to Kansas City

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Speaker 2: this week, but they're not the juggernaut they've been.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: Houston to me looks like a playoff team. I mean

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Speaker 2: that's although lising Tank Dell was massive, He's out of

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Speaker 2: the year. Killed my fantasy team too. Right side note,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you even saw it, because I

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Speaker 2: know you were watching the game. He should not be

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Speaker 2: blocking on a tush poir situation. He's as big as

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Speaker 2: my right leg, like he should even be on the field.

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Speaker 1: That's cutching out practice.

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Speaker 2: Don't get him near the big guys in the situation

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Speaker 2: like that, that's for sure. But anyway, they're gonna pay

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Speaker 2: for that. Denver's in a huge trouble. Yeah, Chargers are

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Speaker 2: sunk even with a win, doesn't matter, they're done.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they're five and seven Cincinnati, we know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, indian all of a sudden has some wife too.

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Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden that that game next

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Speaker 1: week in Indianapolis, assuming that, you know, if the Steelers

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Speaker 1: can get to win this week, that game against Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: becomes even more massive.

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Speaker 2: Interesting. I don't know what the cold type in between

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Speaker 2: the Bengals. Oh so they they'll be favored in Cincinnati, Okay,

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Speaker 2: they'll be favored. I'm sure. Short week for the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: Then are a roller coaster, man, Then they get the

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Speaker 1: Falcons in in Atlanta. Then it's the Raiders in the Texans.

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Speaker 2: Not bad, probably two more losses on there or something

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Speaker 2: like that for him.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you got to take care of business

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Speaker 1: and that's it. You know, this is a must. Now,

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Speaker 1: if if you'd have won these two games, losing in Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: while you'd like to win, that game now becomes even

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Speaker 1: more important, no question.

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Speaker 2: And first things for of course, but if you win Thursday,

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Speaker 2: then even nice long break too for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, get healthy, maybe you get a land and Roberts.

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Speaker 1: Maybe what who thought? Who would have thunk that a

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Speaker 1: Landon Roberts was going to be one of the key pieces. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: losing this seasons that you really can't.

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Speaker 2: But you can't affordable, really can't. I mean you said

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Speaker 2: it earlier and you were Hunters right. I mean the

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Speaker 2: defense was night and day when he walked out of

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Speaker 2: off the field. I mean they were shutting him down

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Speaker 2: and now it is just a big gaping hole that

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Speaker 2: they were torturing.

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Speaker 1: He's like, here's here's the open lane. You know, might

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Speaker 1: as well put a sign up there goes. You know,

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Speaker 1: your offense runs through here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, either whether it's McBride in the passing game or

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Speaker 2: Connor in the second half.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're outside receivers. In that game, George had

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Speaker 1: one catch for nineteen yards. Ron Dell Moore had one

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Speaker 1: catch for six yards. Marquise Brown had no catches.

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Speaker 2: I think he left in the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: He had three targets, no catches. I think Porter just

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Speaker 1: shut him down so badly that he said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm done I'm not gonna we're winning this game. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be a run.

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Speaker 2: He was questionable to come in.

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Speaker 1: He runs away. I'm not going back.

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Speaker 2: Out there blocking anybody either.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, No, the receivers were and I thought Kyler was okay,

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Speaker 2: not great.

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Speaker 1: I thought early he was struggling.

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Speaker 2: Early, he was struggling again.

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Speaker 1: That's when they should have, you know, if you punch

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Speaker 1: a couple in there or at least put ten points

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Speaker 1: on the board. Yeah, it might have been over. I mean,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw the next gen stat

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Speaker 2: of the game or whatever, and I don't know what

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Speaker 2: I th top of my head, but his passing ten

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Speaker 2: yards in was like the best in the league. Well,

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Speaker 2: it was all after your linebackers were gone, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean that you were just exploiting that area of

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Speaker 2: the field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The first wasn't beat you down.

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Speaker 1: He was like one for one or two for seven

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Speaker 1: or something like that. I mean he was struggling to start.

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Speaker 2: Yeahah, and they had no down feel passing. I mean

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Speaker 2: it was all in the same area. And McBride's really

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Speaker 2: good too. We weren't you know, we mentioned that last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but just you know, the things that they picked

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Speaker 1: at your scab they did they didn't, you know, the

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Speaker 1: kudos to them for being able to you know, A

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Speaker 1: recognize that and b do it.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe the biggest play in the game was

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Speaker 1: it's third down on that opening or that that the

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Speaker 1: the ninety nine yard drivers third and three. They're at

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Speaker 1: their own eight and you give up a twenty nine

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Speaker 1: or twenty one yard catch and run to Elijah Higgins,

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Speaker 1: who has three career catches.

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Speaker 2: Needs to kind of a tight end. He's kind of receiver,

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Speaker 2: he's really neither you know, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And he go I mean that all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: You're you just gave him life. Because what you're thinking

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Speaker 1: in those situations when you're backed up that far, especially

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Speaker 1: with that kind of time on your handsers, we just

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Speaker 1: want to get a first down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get a first down, first man.

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Speaker 1: We can punt it out of here.

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Speaker 2: And they won't get the vault of forty. Maybe they

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Speaker 2: get at their own forty and it's manageable.

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Speaker 1: But he gets he gets a twenty one yard gain. Now,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now you're okay, now we can score.

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Speaker 2: Now we're thinking field goals and take a lead into

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Speaker 2: half and dunk him the ball back, and to their credit,

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Speaker 2: they did, you know, there's no question about it. But no,

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Speaker 2: you're right, that was a backbreaker, like, okay, he got

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Speaker 2: in third and pretty manageable here, Steeler D's looking strong.

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Speaker 1: They never tried it on conversion at that point.

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Speaker 2: Really, was that their first one?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, well other than the one that they got

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Speaker 1: when the land And Robberts they got it on their

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Speaker 1: field goal drive. When the Landon Robberts got a fifteen

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Speaker 1: year penalty for unnecessary roughness. I thought was kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't really supposed to do.

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Speaker 2: There a lot of the side note we should have

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Speaker 2: mentioned it. The first segment was. Yes, there was a

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Speaker 2: lot of unforced airrors, a lot of hitting the ball

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Speaker 2: in the net, as Labs likes to say. But you

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Speaker 2: also did him on third downs and things. They didn't

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Speaker 2: do it on second and on Yeah, yeah, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: second and one and okay we'll get the third and

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Speaker 2: one or this bad snap you know, we'll just kneel

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Speaker 2: on it and their.

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Speaker 1: Throat away again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. They were always in bad situations, so.

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Speaker 1: Very bad situations, and so it added up to a

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Speaker 1: loss here. So the Steelers said at seven and five,

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Speaker 1: as you said, there's still the five spot. Cleveland now

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Speaker 1: is the sixth spot and Indianapolis is in the seven.

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Speaker 2: Cleveland's holding it together with smoking mirrors at the moment too. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there in trouble. Yeah, that's not surprising. I mean they're

649
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Speaker 2: on their fourth quarterback fourth yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I mean you start looking at that. So the

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Speaker 1: Browns this week, they have the Jaguars, do that at home.

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Speaker 2: Jags will be favored heavily.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Then a week I guess, and they have the

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Speaker 1: Bears at home.

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Speaker 2: That easy game. That's like that. They like the same

656
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Speaker 2: team almost.

657
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 1: At Detexans yea, the Jets at home, and then at

658
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: the Bengals.

659
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 2: Okay, so those last two could be favorable for him

660
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 2: if they're still in it.

661
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: They give up thirty six points though the last two

662
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: games twenty nine and thirty six points against that defense.

663
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: Now on the road, their home road splits are a

664
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: real thing. Here.

665
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: Cooper as a concussion. He did not finish the game.

666
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 2: It was all Elijah Moore at that point, Like Flacco

667
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: was not the reason they lost that game. But I

668
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: was talking about on the podcast, like that's fine. I

669
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: wonder how he feels today, Yeah, you know, after flying

670
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 2: home after that game, and let's see what his body's

671
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: doing in a week or two from now. And he

672
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 2: wasn't great, but he was. And the reason they lost

673
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 2: they gave.

674
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: Up three hundred and ninety nine yards to the Rams

675
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: six point four yards per play.

676
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say it was through the air and on

677
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: the ground.

678
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: The Rams pretty much did whatever they wanted to do

679
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: in that game against Cleveland.

680
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: They defense, they did. Stafford played well. I mean, couple

681
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: was not quite himself, but they ran the ball well too.

682
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 2: And the coup are they there? Rams are pretty good too.

683
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: I think I want to see them in the playoffs. Yeah.

684
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: So, I mean they've got three home games left, but

685
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: they got two road games left that Cleveland. They could

686
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: lose anybody on the road. What's the road? What is

687
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: their road record this year? They're own one. They edged

688
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: the Colts one and two. They edged the Ravens two

689
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: and two, two and three, two and four on the

690
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: road too.

691
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,239
Speaker 2: Four in the road and two more to go.

692
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: And when they've won on the they've won on the road.

693
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: It was thirty nine to thirty eight and thirty three

694
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: to thirty one.

695
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: Wow. So they're their two wins have been by a

696
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: total of three points on their.

697
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: Own and they've given up thirty thirty or more points

698
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: in both of those. Kids like defense, it's good. Yeah,

699
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: but it's good to Cleveland in Cleveland Stadium, but not

700
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: so good on the road.

701
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: And it's been on the field a lot and getting

702
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,959
Speaker 2: exposed injuries too.

703
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: Mentioned that Colts schedule. Here's what Houston still has left

704
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: at the Jets. Yeah, at the.

705
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: Titans, they should win that one.

706
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. Jeffrey Simmons now out for the Titans. I don't

707
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: know what the Titans situation is with the with them, yeah,

708
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: whole divisions, but they had the Titans twice down the stretch. Yeah,

709
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: Brown's at home, Titans at home and at the Colts.

710
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: Dereck Henry may be out for the year two.

711
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

712
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 2: I think he's highly questionable for this one.

713
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: Everything I saw is he's not in concussion protocol. Really okay,

714
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: all right, I just saw that today he ran well yesterday.

715
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: Oh he did, he did, then he didn't finish the game. Yeah.

716
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: No, they said he's not in concussion protocol.

717
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 2: That's good news. It was bad for him. Yeah, I

718
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 2: didn't even know it was a concussion.

719
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: And then you got Denver at six and six, Buffalo

720
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: at six. We've talked a bunch about Buffalo, but here's

721
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: what Denver has left at the Chargers.

722
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 2: Buffalo is awful.

723
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: Denver at the Chargers this week, they're like six point underdogs.

724
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: Man, it's up Denver. Here's one thing that happened that

725
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 2: that Denver Houston game was they it got to the

726
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 2: point where Russell Wilson had to throw and be and.

727
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: Cook and he didn't.

728
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: He can't cook anymore. Yeah, right. Someone from ESPN, I

729
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 2: think Bea Kimes made the joke. I think it was

730
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: our port A tweet out. I just found it funny,

731
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: said something like, they're not letting Russ cook, They're letting

732
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: him make snacks. That's about what he's doing. He's putting

733
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: the chips out, he's putting cutting up the pepperoni. That's

734
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 2: about what he's doing. So the Chargers this week at

735
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: the Lions next week, are we talking about here again?

736
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: This is Denver?

737
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 2: Denver? Oh yeah, they're in trouble.

738
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: Then they host the Patriots, then they host the Chargers

739
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: char twice. Yeah, and then they finish up at the Raiders,

740
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: which the Raiders at home are pretty good.

741
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 2: You just hope the Raiders still care, you know all that,

742
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: and they're playing.

743
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: A division game, you Kidney, they.

744
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: Care, just hope they're playing Crosby and at the.

745
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: Ghost of the Ghost of All Davis comes out of

746
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: the woodwork when they when they play the Broncos, Kidney.

747
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: As kind of raven as.

748
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. Then you get the Bills at six and six,

749
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: and there's their schedules awful down the stretch here at

750
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Cowboys at home, at the Chargers, Patriots at home,

751
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: remember they lost to the Patriots earlier this year, and

752
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: then at the Dolphins.

753
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, by e Pa, they have the hardest schedule in

754
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 2: the league remaining. Yeah so there means definitely some losses

755
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: on there.

756
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, if you can figure out a way

757
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: to get to if you can get the ten, you're in.

758
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 2: Win these next two you should be in.

759
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. These next two are crucial, not only because Acre,

760
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,479
Speaker 1: but they're AFC games and they're you know, the the

761
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: culture one of these teams that you're gonna have to

762
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: beat to get in.

763
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: And I get to the Steelers under starting quarterbacks for

764
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: these two games, but I don't know the Trubisky is

765
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: going to be a massive drop off.

766
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: No, I don't think. I don't think so, not that

767
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, you're running the ball very effectively. Still, they

768
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: were running the ball really well in that game yesterday,

769
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: and then they had to get away from it because

770
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: they got behind.

771
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: There's definitely some Monday morning quarterback in me saying this,

772
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 2: But I would have liked to see more runs longer

773
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 2: into the game too.

774
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: And I understand that they probably had that plan. I'm

775
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: sure coming out of the half and when it's ten

776
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: to three and then you fall behind seventeen three, and

777
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: it's like.

778
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: Oh, then it gets a little tough. Yeah, but they

779
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 2: came out throwing, and they came out throwing well, you know,

780
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: so it wasn't critical at the time, but they.

781
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: Were running the ball well too. I would have liked

782
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: to have seen and again in the same situation, a

783
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: little more back to back runs exactly. There were some

784
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: situations like get they get seven on first down, do.

785
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 2: It again, do it again, say you can't do it again,

786
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 2: And we talked about that on Friday. I mean, I

787
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 2: thought this might be a forty minute time of possession.

788
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 2: Run run, runner, and run and run and run over

789
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 2: and over and over. They didn't take that approach, but

790
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: it wasn't like what they were doing didn't work either

791
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: early on. So I wasn't super crazy.

792
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: Getting the ball into the end zone and those third downs.

793
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: Don't get the third down, run the ball and run

794
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: it again. You're allowed to do that. You've got two

795
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: good running backs.

796
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: Like last year, they were unbelievably good on third downs

797
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: after the bye. Yeah, it's hard to maintain that though.

798
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 2: It just is.

799
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is and and but it's what they need

800
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: to do. You have to do. You know again, you

801
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: got red paint. Paint your barn red.

802
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 2: You know, in some games, the strength of the team in.

803
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: Some in situations here in some in some ways I

804
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: think they might be a little bit better off with Trubisky. Yeah,

805
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: he might turn the ball over a little bit more

806
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: than Pickett.

807
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 2: That's that's it worries me.

808
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: But he'll also throw some balls at picket. Wouldn't throw

809
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: that fly. Yeah, he'll let throat fly. You know, when

810
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 1: he was in there last year early in the season,

811
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 1: George Pickens wasn't George Pickens at that point.

812
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, we knew, we thought he might.

813
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: He might be his chance.

814
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: Be good, you look good and camp I like, this

815
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 2: guy looks like a possible good second round pick.

816
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: Now you got a guy here that okay, if I

817
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: see George Pickens one on one, I'm gonna take a shot.

818
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh yeah, I think. And they got Pickings involved

819
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 2: in this game. I mean, he's so good. Guys.

820
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, maybe you'll score a few more points,

821
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: maybe you'll give you know, maybe you turnover ratio won't

822
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: be quite as good. But if you're even or still

823
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: win it because you're taking the ball away, which they

824
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: should be able to do against this Patriots team this week,

825
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: and even a Gardner Minshew next week.

826
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 2: Oh minshew, is.

827
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: He'll turn the ball over.

828
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's aggressive. Let's just say that. So we don't

829
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: know this will hold true Thursday. But the Steelers are

830
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 2: still at the very top of the league and turnover

831
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 2: differential the Patriots at the very bottom. I mean it's

832
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: a massive discrepancy. It's like plus ten versus minus nine.

833
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: I mean, they're night and day. And if anything close

834
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 2: to that holds up, that's probably the difference in a

835
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: really close game. It can't be minus you with a

836
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 2: missed field goal and a missed four that.

837
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: No, you can't do those kind of things against these teams,

838
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, anyone. At this point, the Patriots put them

839
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: out of their misery. Don't let them hang around. Don't

840
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: don't do what you did yesterday and allow a bad

841
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: team to hang around. And folks, the Arizona Cardinals are

842
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: a bad team. There's no sugarcoating it.

843
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Arizona Cardinals offense is more dangerous than

844
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 2: the Patriots when it's.

845
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: And we said this last week, don't look at the

846
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals overall record, like what they've done all season, look

847
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: at what they've been the last month. They're not two

848
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: and two under with Kyler.

849
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: Murky, Right, he's a professional quarterback. He's probably gonna beat Yeah,

850
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 2: and he's getting more and more comfortable in the system,

851
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 2: you know. So Yeah, I mean, the Patriots defense is

852
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: night and day from the Cardinals, but their offense is

853
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: going to struggle to put points up.

854
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: They scored one hundred and forty eight points this year. Wow,

855
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,439
Speaker 1: this year this year, one hundred and forty eight.

856
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 2: I think they've been like twelve touchdowns more than they've

857
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: given up. Like they're their differential stuff isn't bad because

858
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: the defense keeps them one for the season for point differential. Yeah, okay, yeah,

859
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 2: I'm talking about like rushing yards per game, passing yards

860
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: per game. They're just low in everything allowed, which is

861
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: good and production wise.

862
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: They've scored one hundred and forty eight points, they've given

863
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: up two fifty four. The Steelers have scored one hundred

864
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: and ninety two points, they've given up to twenty nine.

865
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where these teams are at. That's a

866
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: pretty good reflection.

867
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: So you know, again, take care of business, get to

868
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: get to lead early, and then let your let your

869
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: pass rush play.

870
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 2: I mean, their kickers bad, their special teams are bad.

871
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: Their pass catchers might be the worst in the league. Yeah,

872
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 2: I mean they really are. But the defenses defense keeps

873
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: everything closer. Yeah, very much.

874
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: So, So again, handle your business and uh. The Patriots

875
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 1: don't have a win outside of the AFC East this year.

876
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 2: True.

877
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: Their only wins have come against I think the Jets

878
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: and Bills, right, Jets and Bills.

879
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now. I think they have the second pick

880
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 2: overall or third second. Yeah, and they've earned it not

881
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 2: playing well. All Cardinals are three.

882
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to another break here. He is Matt Williamson.

883
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: I am Dale Lollie. You're listening to the drive here

884
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Speaker 1: on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back with more right

885
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Speaker 1: after this and welcome back. I'm Dale Lollie. He is

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Speaker 1: online at Shop dot Steelers dot com. And Matt this

893
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: this really is the time of year when some attrition

894
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: starts to set in.

895
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: There's a lot of injuries around the league this past

896
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: week and a lot of weather. Yeah, I mean it's rough.

897
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: It's that time of year when again, sometimes the healthiest

898
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: team is the one that wins, you know, wins a game.

899
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: Looking at some of the games across the league yesterday,

900
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: Houston holds on them, and I mean they really held

901
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: on to be Denver. Denver's throwing into the end zone

902
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: in that game at the end of it with an

903
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: opportunity to win.

904
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 2: Yep uh.

905
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are basically throwing in. They're going in for

906
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: a potential go ahead score.

907
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 2: Saints came back strong.

908
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: Saints were shown that one time. It looked like right,

909
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: it's it's such a the league right now, it really is.

910
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: It really matters. Yeah, and boyd we probably had including

911
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 2: with the Steelers ten to twelve major injuries. Mentioned all

912
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 2: the weather too. I mean, it's this sport just some obstacles,

913
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: you know. I mean I know that the other games,

914
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 2: the other sports, and I don't pay enough attention play

915
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 2: many more games. And I always use the example of

916
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: out of the Yankees lost twelve nothing on a Tuesday night. Okay,

917
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 2: maybe there's a bad two, and then they win three

918
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: to two the next night and everything's for god.

919
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: You know. I like that here, even that Colts Tennessee game.

920
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: I mean they go to overtime.

921
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 2: Two block kicks, and you know Ryan Tannehill's the holder

922
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: and kickers are kickers are doing the punting and back

923
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 2: and forth.

924
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: See the stonehouse, the block punt and the one block punter.

925
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: He didn't even get a chance to kick the ball.

926
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 2: He just rushed.

927
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: I mean that doesn't happen in the end.

928
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 2: I don't know how that went down, now, you're right.

929
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: I mean that is a back and forth game. It

930
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 2: was two really aggressive quarterbacks just slinging it and they

931
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 2: throw putting the ball in harm's way. So there were

932
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Speaker 2: a lot of backs.

933
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: The Titans had the ball in that game with like

934
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: forty seconds off their midfield and I think they took

935
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: a sack.

936
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, something bad happened, right, It's just.

937
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 1: The league in general. Very The Titans aren't good.

938
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: No, Titans aren't good, but they can win.

939
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: They can win.

940
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 2: They can take a good team to overtime and they

941
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 2: can win. That was That was.

942
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Speaker 1: A thirteen eight game against the Falcons. That was that

943
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 1: was in jeopardy.

944
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 2: That was rough too. You know, that was a lot

945
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: of penalties, a lot ugly there, but their defense kept

946
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 2: them in it. Yeah. I mean Patriots were horrible, but

947
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: they only lost six, six, right six to Justin Herbert

948
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 2: Austin Eckler King Allen.

949
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: You know the blowouts this year, they're just haveing many.

950
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: Although I was I thought San Francisco would beat Philadelphia.

951
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: I would take the points so and I would do

952
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: it again.

953
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, they get blown out they got blown out. I mean,

954
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 2: the Niners to me are clearly number one. They really

955
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 2: took advantage of the spine of that defense. You know,

956
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 2: like I love that the Eagles are very analytical team building.

957
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 2: We want linemen first, We're going to ignore safeties and linebackers.

958
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: But they don't do that next year.

959
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: To say, if you lose the NFC Championship game to

960
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 2: the Niners, which maybe you would have if they had

961
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: a quarterback, that's a terrible matchup for them. I mean,

962
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 2: Deebo's just running free down the middle and breaks one

963
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: tackle and takes to the house. And McCaffrey over the

964
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 2: middle and Ki yeah.

965
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so much of football as the matchups make

966
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: the fight. It does does, and you know that's that's

967
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: such a big part of it. It's one of the

968
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: reasons why I think the Steelers do so well in

969
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: the AFC North.

970
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I very aware of their competition. STABLE know what

971
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: each organizations about. Yep. It's a leg up.

972
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: Shack Leonard signing with the Eagles now, so they are

973
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: paying some attention to what's going on with their mind

974
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 1: back linebacker situation. They already added Kevin Byerd, so they're yeah,

975
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me about Shack Leonard yesterday after the game,

976
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: with you know, Landon Roberts going down, like, I don't

977
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 1: know what he has left.

978
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 2: I don't either.

979
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't think the Colts would have cut him if

980
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: they thought he was still good.

981
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 2: No, And I think he was a distraction because he

982
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: thinks of himself as a starter, as a star, and

983
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: the guys behind him. I think it's e J. Speed

984
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 2: was out playing him, and so there he's only getting

985
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 2: limited snaps.

986
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: That's a great football.

987
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 2: And therefore he becomes a little bit of a distraction.

988
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 2: From what I understand with Leonard, was two or three

989
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 2: teams that offered him a contract this time last week,

990
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: and he went to see how everything went before he

991
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: picked his team. But I guess the Eagles were the

992
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: front runner all along. I mean, they're really attracted a

993
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 2: landing spot.

994
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think he went to South Carolina State.

995
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: I assume he's an East Coast guy. I would assume, yeah,

996
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, the power rankings this week going to

997
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: be interesting.

998
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a disputing who won is who's

999
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: the best team in the AFC. I don't think you

1000
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 2: can just slam dunk k C anymore. No, I don't

1001
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like Jacksonville. I don't feel like they win big.

1002
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's Baltimore though. Either.

1003
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 2: Miami had a nice show.

1004
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: They played Washington, but then we don't talk about a

1005
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: bad matchup.

1006
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 2: But their defense the last time was awful. Match that's

1007
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: a terrible match. I mean that secondary trying to keep

1008
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 2: it all. I mean, yeah, very predictable that that went

1009
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: the way it did. Somebody's the best team, I don't

1010
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 2: I would probably say Baltimore. I guess maybe can't the city.

1011
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure. If the Eagles the second,

1012
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: it might be Jacksonville. It might be it might be Jacksonville.

1013
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 2: They had one bad game.

1014
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: Everybody's banging them for that loss to the to the

1015
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: the Niners. Well, look at the Niners just did to

1016
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: walking Eagles.

1017
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: Bang the Eagles right to the same degree.

1018
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: The Eagle is gonna get bumped down to like eight.

1019
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 2: In the power rankings now, No, they'll probably second or third. Yeah,

1020
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 2: right down neighborhood. There's still the number one seed in

1021
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 2: the NFC. Yeah, So I don't know. It's it's hard

1022
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: to stay on top. It's hard to you know, be

1023
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 2: even the Niners had a three game stretch where they

1024
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: were struggling going into their by Yeah, they were not

1025
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 2: playing well, and with them it was again that attrition

1026
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 2: factor started to get beat up. You start to lose

1027
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: some of some of your pieces. It's just not as

1028
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 2: good as good. And then they add Chase Young and

1029
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: things like that too. So they got a little stretch

1030
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 2: their guys back. Yeah, you know, but what matters is

1031
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: how you finish.

1032
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, uh, you know, we'll see what what the

1033
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: Steelers are able to put together here coming down the

1034
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: stretch again. You get a bounce back effort this week

1035
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: against New England go a long way. What what do

1036
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: you think would make people think forget about You're not

1037
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: going to forget about the loss, that bad loss. But

1038
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: if the Steelers go out there and beat the Patriots

1039
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: twenty to three, is.

1040
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 2: That is that enough to I think that would get

1041
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 2: people some alleges, especially because this is a short week.

1042
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: You could get that taste out of your mouth quick

1043
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 2: and then even nice long week to think about the win.

1044
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: More importantly the score, though, I'd like to see the

1045
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: Steelers control the tempo more. Yeah, win time of possession.

1046
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to do it.

1047
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 2: Now nine six is gonna do it. I think you

1048
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 2: gotta score a touchdown at least, you know, I mean,

1049
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 2: which not many teams have against the Patriots of late.

1050
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 2: But if that game is more than a one score

1051
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 2: game with ten minutes on the clock in your favor,

1052
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 2: I think seil Nation can exhale a little bit.

1053
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: I think some of it, though, too, with the Patriots,

1054
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: is everybody's figured out that, hey, their offense isn't that.

1055
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: They're not gonna. They're not gonna. We don't have to

1056
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: we don't have to put the ball in harm's way

1057
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: here a whole lot. Let's just play it close to

1058
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: the vest here. If a touchdown is long, goes a

1059
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: long way. Because they can't score.

1060
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like dog years, you know, one year equals

1061
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 2: six years or whatever.

1062
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: I mean.

1063
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 2: Ten points against them is like fifty against the Chargers,

1064
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 2: Bill Chiefs, Ravens, whovavor, you know what I mean. It's

1065
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: just their pass catchers are rough.

1066
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: They don't they're especially if Douglas is out of the equation, I.

1067
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 2: Say, he's the only explosive one of the group. They

1068
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 2: don't even use the tight ends anymore, not that they're

1069
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 2: great tried this week maybe yeah, maybe. I mean Kaseki

1070
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 2: hardly plays, Henry's just a guy, Smith, Schuster and Parker

1071
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 2: would have been almost good enough three years ago, you know,

1072
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 2: I mean that's what they're at.

1073
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1074
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,240
Speaker 2: And Bailey's Appy's a quarterback.

1075
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: And then the kickers great.

1076
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 2: Kickers are bad too, Yeah, and they turn them all

1077
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 2: over time. I mean, you should win that game. Yeah,

1078
00:46:59,320 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 2: She's definitely win.

1079
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: So again, I mean I I if you go out

1080
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: there and you win this one if it's a close game,

1081
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: but if you if you go out there and you

1082
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: take care of business against what's what you like you

1083
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 1: should have done this week?

1084
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 2: Right, right?

1085
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: Right?

1086
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 2: I think that you're feeling a lot better about the team.

1087
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: You would hope someone else in the AFC this upcoming

1088
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 2: week loses, you know, the Browns.

1089
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he just thinks that, you know, those things

1090
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 1: set up well for you this week.

1091
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 2: And you didn't take advantage to take evangel Right, But

1092
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 2: it's one of seventeen games. You're not gonna be happy

1093
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: with all of them, and you're certainly not happy at

1094
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 2: all with this one. Now, be a professional rebound and

1095
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 2: get back out there and beat a lesser team.

1096
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, if there was any question about focus or guys

1097
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: getting out over their skis a little bit, this this

1098
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: kind of brings them back in, like, hey, you're not

1099
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: good enough to do these kind of things.

1100
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 2: No, you're not. This team can't overlook anybody. And I'm

1101
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 2: sure that was part of the issue. I mean, I

1102
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: forget how Wolf describes it, but yeah, just your your

1103
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 2: mentality coming into the game as an athlete. Sometimes it's high,

1104
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 2: sometimes it's low. And it felt like there was more

1105
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 2: low than high coming into this game, you know, and

1106
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 2: that's not going to kind of get anyone.

1107
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: I think that was the case. I mean, they came

1108
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: out and they were they were up and down the field.

1109
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:14,919
Speaker 1: They're shutting them again. The attrition, I can't get past

1110
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: the losing those three guys within four plays of each other.

1111
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: How much that changed the whole complexion of that game.

1112
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 2: It's just hard to overcome as a coaching staff too, Like,

1113
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 2: of course you have a plan in place for all

1114
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: of them. You know, Trubisky's gonna come in for picket. Yeah,

1115
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: what things were we counting on that we can no

1116
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 2: longer do or aren't comfortable doing, And now we do

1117
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 2: something we didn't practice all week, you know, or whatever

1118
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 2: it is.

1119
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, we're going to get to another break

1120
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for our number one here

1121
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: on the drive. We'll be back with our number two

1122
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: right after this