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Speaker 1: At least he's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Drive on Dale Lollam here with Matt Williamson.

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Speaker 1: And it is a it's not not a victory Monday.

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Speaker 1: That's not a loss Monday. It feels more like a loss.

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Speaker 1: It's a time Monday. It was. It doesn't happen very often.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't happen very often. I think I've I've covered

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Speaker 1: now three ties. There was the Michael Vick game, the

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Speaker 1: Michael Vick game, UM where Plexico Burst was tackled like

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Speaker 1: the one yard line late in the I think on

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Speaker 1: the final play of the regular final play of overtime.

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Speaker 1: I should say the tie in Cleveland, all right, l

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Speaker 1: right to open the season a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and then this one. Then they don't happen all that often. Um.

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Speaker 1: This one is to your point, feels like a loss

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Speaker 1: because of the opponent, because the opponent. Yeah, but when

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Speaker 1: you look at you know, I asked Cam Hayward yesterday

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Speaker 1: after this game, and like, do you reach a tipping

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Speaker 1: point when you you know, okay, you know going into

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Speaker 1: this game. No, Ben Roethlisberger. No Chase Claypool, you already

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Speaker 1: knew you're out. No Tyson and luluse it. You lose

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Speaker 1: Hayden in the game, you lose Watton the game, you

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Speaker 1: lose both starting guards in the game, like you reach

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Speaker 1: a tipping point where things just aren't going to go

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Speaker 1: your way. That I believe that to be very true

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Speaker 1: in this league. I bet Cam didn't agree or everybody

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Speaker 1: at all. Fifty three guys practice and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: It's not true. It's not true though. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: try to believe that, and I'm sure some people actually

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Speaker 1: do believe it and coaches need to instill that, but

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Speaker 1: that's not the case. Um Detroit had some losses. To me,

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Speaker 1: there's no there's no doubt. And and then it was

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Speaker 1: Bions didn't do anything to lose the game, right right,

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Speaker 1: the Steelers did. I mean, if you have you lose

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Speaker 1: turnover battle three nothing, you don't win very often. I

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Speaker 1: mean that in itself, let alone with two of them

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Speaker 1: are in overtime, you know, which is Bizarro and at

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Speaker 1: midfield and overtime like just turnovers, but midfield turnovers. It's

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Speaker 1: probably should should have ended, you know, resulted then you losing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you also don't not win many games where the opposing

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Speaker 1: quarterback has like eleven yards passing at the half and

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Speaker 1: thirty five I think at the third eleven yards passing

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Speaker 1: almost midway through the third quarter. Right, they had an

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Speaker 1: eighty five yard touchdown driver, eighty six yard touchdown driver.

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Speaker 1: Didn't complete a pass, didn't complete a pass. Right, he's

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Speaker 1: fighting a back injury and doesn't have receivers, and they're

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Speaker 1: here about his back injury. Now. He wasn't listed on

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Speaker 1: the injury report at all. No, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it happened during the game or what, but they were

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Speaker 1: kind of vague about it on the broadcast. Hawking and

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a catch you by. The Steelers won by um.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of strange numbers. In fact,

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Speaker 1: their top two receivers going into that game, we're Hawkinson

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Speaker 1: and Swift. They combined for three catches for five yards. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: pockets are one target, three catches five yard, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they threw the ball what times or something like that.

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Speaker 1: They're other guys, they're they're they're leading wide receiver. Calif

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Speaker 1: Raymond had four catches for twenty nine yards. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean St. Brown's down the list. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: receivers are amongst the worst in the league. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the worst passing games in the league. I thought

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Speaker 1: the see was played very poorly. I'm sure they're very

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Speaker 1: unhappy with what they did. This is not an excuse,

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Speaker 1: but I want to start with just the conditions. You know,

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Speaker 1: Like I love pitt and they have an arrangement. But

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Speaker 1: player safety issue to some degree and is not NFL quality.

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Speaker 1: couldn't play there next week or whatever. You know. Again

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Speaker 1: Weather was awful. We know that. And to me, when

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Speaker 1: those kinds of things happen, the team with less talent benefits. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's even field. Like I get a lot of

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Speaker 1: should love snow games and all that. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want the NFC Championship game to

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Speaker 1: green in Aaron Rodgers can't throw the football like that's

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Speaker 1: taking away game yesterday, but Aaron Rodgers against against Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: There was weather. It was at nothing game, Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 1: You know, like you don't see these players at their best,

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. But they had a couple

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to, you know, start there. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was just too many mistakes, and you know I detailed

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Speaker 1: all the mistakes there there. We we've trumpeted the rookie class. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, Yeah. They were a big part of it mistakes.

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Speaker 1: You had a damn war holding call. Yeah, after a

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Speaker 1: You had d Green snapping Kendrick Green snapping the ball

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Speaker 1: it was at the forty two, the Detroit forty two,

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Speaker 1: It was second six, backbreaking play. It was second and six.

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Speaker 1: You know you're you're gonna you know you have a

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Speaker 1: sticking with the rookie theme. I'm not going to contradict

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Speaker 1: don't think, yeah, there were no hits. I don't think

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Speaker 1: hard on Routolf because it wasn't like he was under

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Speaker 1: again and again. Firemouth. You know, Friarmouth had a play

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Speaker 1: made big mistakes. Yeah, and that's end up being a tie.

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Speaker 1: Everything happens with young football players. Yeah, I mean even

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Speaker 1: really good player. He goes to right tackle. But they

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Speaker 1: also gave up less yardage than what Detroit is average

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Speaker 1: for the season. No, I didn't know. It was like

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Speaker 1: it was enough. Everything was kind of good enough to win,

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Speaker 1: playing very much right now like the Steelers did last year.

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Speaker 1: That Tennessee Saints game wasn't much prettier than Lions. And

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Speaker 1: you want to talk about you know a team that

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Speaker 1: benefited from a penalty. They had an interception that gated

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Speaker 1: by by roughing the passer penalty that has everybody talking

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Speaker 1: this week, Well, maybe they need to start reviewing roughing

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Speaker 1: the passer. Yeah, I think they should. And there was

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Speaker 1: one in that Ravens game as well that that was

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Speaker 1: not roughing the passers, and the Norwood one was, you know, debatable.

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Speaker 1: I don't blame the refs. I'm hard on the refs,

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Speaker 1: but I don't blame the ref for this and that

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Speaker 1: when in doubt roughing the passer of the flag comes out. Well,

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Speaker 1: I just I actually, I was just listening to Dean Blandino.

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Speaker 1: He does a weekly hit on Serious NFL, and he

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Speaker 1: was talking about how the last couple of years, it

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Speaker 1: used to be the referee was the only one who

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Speaker 1: called roughing the passer. Okay, now they've opened things up

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Speaker 1: to allow the umpires to call that as well. Now

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Speaker 1: it's and the guy who made the call in the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee game was the umpire. They maybe wouldn't have had

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Speaker 1: that right a year. Yea, they may not have. They

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Speaker 1: may not, he says. So what you've got right now

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Speaker 1: happening is a bunch of umpires who aren't used to

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Speaker 1: being able. You're used to calling that play and their

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Speaker 1: main the umpire's main focus is supposed to be on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. They're the holding guys, yeah, or ineligible

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Speaker 1: downfields things of that nature. Well, now they're calling hole

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Speaker 1: or roughing the passers and they're not used to calling

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Speaker 1: that penelt. Their eyes are in a different spot. I've

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Speaker 1: never done it, and so they're more they're more reacting

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Speaker 1: to what happened, what the result was, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: watching the play itself. Ball's gone, quarterback goes down, they

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Speaker 1: see the guy laying on the ground, say Aaron Donald's

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Speaker 1: situation from this is two weeks in a row. Now

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Speaker 1: that the Titans have benefited from roughing, we're not or

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Speaker 1: was that high or not throw it? Yeah? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: do think it should be reviewed. I mean that to

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Speaker 1: I guess the topic for another day. And it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen toil the off season, but it makes some sense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you can't have a good

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Speaker 1: taste in your mouth after that game, Steelers wise, there's

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Speaker 1: just no way, no candy coding it. And the injuries

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Speaker 1: are significantly starting to mount. So with the monitor that

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Speaker 1: like crazy this week? Yeah, um, but you know, if

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Speaker 1: the Steelers find themselves at five three and one, um,

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Speaker 1: nine games into this, I mean they haven't lost in

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Speaker 1: a while. They had a lost in a game and

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Speaker 1: over a month. Yeah. Again, it may not be what

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Speaker 1: you what you thought it was going to be to

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Speaker 1: get here. You know, wins in Buffalo, wins in Cleveland, Um,

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Speaker 1: but the result is still five three and one. I

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Speaker 1: mean you look at a lot of ways, like, boy,

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Speaker 1: that's a game you have to have should have had.

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Speaker 1: There's no way around it. I agree with that six

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Speaker 1: and three is where they should be after being five

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Speaker 1: and three. You know, or if I told you before

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Speaker 1: they snapped the ball in Buffalo Week one that they

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Speaker 1: would be five three and one, would you take it

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Speaker 1: or not? Many considering the state of the old line

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Speaker 1: and quarterback and all those things, we've said, yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: take that. But then right after the Buffalo game, they

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Speaker 1: probably said, no, that's bad. But then when you were

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Speaker 1: one in three again, you know, Bill cow As, you

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Speaker 1: should talk about the don't don't get too high with

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Speaker 1: the highs and low with the lows. Just you can't

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Speaker 1: ride that roller coaster. That's exactly week the week's stuff

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Speaker 1: is real. Yeah, you learn this, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: covered the league over a number of years, are involved

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Speaker 1: with the NFL for a number of years, you learned

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Speaker 1: that that's real. It's a real thing. You can't go

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Speaker 1: up and down like that. I understand fans do, oh right, right,

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Speaker 1: that's a beauty being a fans. That's why you go

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Speaker 1: to the building every day. But I just can't, you know,

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Speaker 1: I get, you know, I think the Steelers are great

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Speaker 1: at that too, in terms of staying level headed and

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Speaker 1: understanding the next week is the most important game and

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Speaker 1: all that games may look unwinnable, the games that might

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Speaker 1: look unwinnable right now. Again, the last time they played

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Speaker 1: the Chargers in l A. They were starting Devil and Hodges. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody gave. But you have to win that game, right nobody.

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Speaker 1: You're on your fourth string quarterback, and they went out

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Speaker 1: there and won a game. I mean, you mentioned the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and everyone saw them last night. We're gonna Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are back, They're winning the super Bowl, Patriots are Patriots

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Speaker 1: are real contenders. All that stuff. I mean that that

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Speaker 1: very well could be true if I was a Chief day,

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Speaker 1: and I'd be a heck of a lot more encouraged

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Speaker 1: than I was twenty four hours ago. But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean you have a defense all of a sudden or

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Speaker 1: running game, you know what I mean. It's a step

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of steps. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: was asked many times this past week, did the Steeler's

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Speaker 1: offensive line take a step back against the Bears? I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because things don't get fixed in one week in this league.

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Speaker 1: You know, they took two steps forward. The week before

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Speaker 1: they took two steps the week before that they took

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Speaker 1: one back. Then that game and this one they took

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Speaker 1: two steps forward again. It's not going to turn into

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Speaker 1: a great offensive line in a week. You know, these

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Speaker 1: things happen slowly constantly. Yeah, you know you're either constantly.

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Speaker 1: Things change from week to week to your tar um

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Speaker 1: and especials are different, but especially in this it's everything.

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Speaker 1: It's such a matchup driven league, without question question. I

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Speaker 1: mean in some teams, you you know, people wonder about

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Speaker 1: that Jacksonville lost in the playffs. They were a bad

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Speaker 1: matchup for the terrible that's exactly team. That team was

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Speaker 1: built to beat the Patriots, which they had done. Or

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Speaker 1: you know, up the middle over and over again against

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Speaker 1: the beat up defensive line was a bad match Ryan

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Speaker 1: Cha's here, you know, right, you know you had a

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Speaker 1: pretty good defense before that and then she's here. Because anyways,

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Speaker 1: I mean a small example, Washington beat Tampa yesterday. Washington

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Speaker 1: gave Tampa all they could handle in the postseason. That

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Speaker 1: was it might be the hardest playoff game last year.

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Speaker 1: They and they did that. They did it with Chase

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Speaker 1: Young going down. He's out for a season. And uh,

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Speaker 1: the other outside the pass rusher was on I arm

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Speaker 1: but didn't play. Yeah, we were their best guys without question.

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Speaker 1: I mean that it's probably just a bad matchup for

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Speaker 1: Tennessee for or for Tampa for whatever reason. You know,

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Speaker 1: Brady struggled against them. They didn't have all their guys either.

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Speaker 1: It's a crazy league and it doesn't mean the season

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Speaker 1: is over for the Steelers. It's a negative, there's no

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Speaker 1: question this game. But you know they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 1: bring it next week and they'll roll the ball out

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Speaker 1: and they'll play eight more of them right right the

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Speaker 1: way this goes in it. Yeah, anyways, we're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. He is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lally.

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

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Speaker 1: And when we come back, let's let's talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit more about some of those injuries and the guys

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Speaker 1: that are going to be stepping into the lineup. We'll

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Speaker 1: do that right after this