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Speaker 2: But anyways, Matt, it's time now to get to the
Speaker 2: fantasy football focus. This being Wednesday, let's take a look
Speaker 2: at who is in who is out this week thus
Speaker 2: far in practices. Trent Williams with an ankle injury, sidelined
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, and they're a mess right now. Off the field,
Speaker 2: he deal with some stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that team in general just feels curts this year a.
Speaker 2: Little bit, Yeah, a little bit. Both Darnell Mooney and
Speaker 2: Drake London this week. Mooney has an achilles and slash
Speaker 2: rest did not participate in practice today. Drake London was
Speaker 2: limited in practice today for Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3: And again, folks, just like we opened the first hour,
Speaker 3: this is Wednesday and people are getting rested even more
Speaker 3: than earlier in the season. Don't go crazy, but be
Speaker 3: aware of this stuff. I think her cousin is.
Speaker 2: Going to get bad eventually they fall out of this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think he's a game war too
Speaker 3: from getting the act.
Speaker 2: We're not that long ago from when people were saying
Speaker 2: the Steelers should have signed Kirk Cousins instead of Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not certain he's even gonna be an NFL
Speaker 3: starter next year.
Speaker 2: It's been pretty bad. He does not want to get
Speaker 2: hit at all.
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't protect himself. Well, I mean, he makes
Speaker 3: really bad decisions. I think he could end up being
Speaker 3: like a Flacco was a number two or something along
Speaker 3: those lines. Like if I'm the Giants Raiders, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh. Baker Mayfield dealing with an achilles and a knee.
Speaker 2: He was a full participant in practice on Wednesday, but
Speaker 2: that you never like to hear that achilles thing.
Speaker 3: No, I was shocked when Mooney had an achilles. I mean,
Speaker 3: Achilles is usually out, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: how do you soreness?
Speaker 2: I used to have to deal with that when I
Speaker 2: was still playing basketball into my thirties, even late thirties,
Speaker 2: like three or four times a week, my achilles would
Speaker 2: just be killing me. And I kept waiting for that
Speaker 2: day when it just went and rolled up and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Does that mean there's like a tiny partial tear there?
Speaker 2: Just I don't know. It was just general soreness and
Speaker 2: then in that achilles, and you know, I'd take a
Speaker 2: week off and it would feel better, and then I'd
Speaker 2: go back and play, and you know, two weeks later,
Speaker 2: it's it's hurting again. It's just not good.
Speaker 3: People can't see this at home, but Justin, you know,
Speaker 3: an achilles is it'll snap and all the way up
Speaker 3: in the back of your leg.
Speaker 2: Justin doesn't like that.
Speaker 3: He's gonna pass out. He was saying this going up, Yeah, Achilles,
Speaker 3: give him the willies. Yeah he's over there and wincing
Speaker 3: thinking about Yeah.
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving hip and back issues mispractice on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: He's a superstar for fantasy, right, Yeah. I mean he's
Speaker 3: getting all the touches. He's even taken Rashard White's stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean that's great signs.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't play a lot.
Speaker 3: Of touches last week, yeah, he'll probably just rest.
Speaker 2: But if he doesn't play White, they're both.
Speaker 3: You know, useful at that point. I don't think they
Speaker 3: want to give White a ton of carries between the
Speaker 3: tackle stuff.
Speaker 2: Tristian Wurf's with the foot and knee on any big practice, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, so they're they're a little banged up.
Speaker 3: Like Trent Williams. I mean, it's a difference. He's one
Speaker 3: of the tackles you got to mention in the FANI.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big game for them this week, or
Speaker 2: Tampa's they have. I forget who they have this week,
Speaker 2: but was somebody they should beat. They have a very
Speaker 2: easy rested Atlanta's at Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Yes, and Atlanta beat them twice head to head, so
Speaker 3: they have to get one game up and just kind
Speaker 3: of looking ahead at the schedule, I think they got
Speaker 3: a pretty decent chance to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Mike Evans hamstring and calf didn't practice on Wednesday, who
Speaker 2: did practice for them.
Speaker 3: I no one practice for the Steelers either.
Speaker 2: But these are all injuries though, these are right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Alexander Madison with an ankle limited on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Okay, is Abdullah the one? Do we know that at
Speaker 3: this point? Hmmm?
Speaker 2: Uh, Sincere they're gonna get a bomb. They signed Sincere
Speaker 2: McCormick to their active roster. He was on their practice
Speaker 2: squad and they elevated and they said, we can't do
Speaker 2: that because somebody's going to probably try to sign him
Speaker 2: off of that, So they signed him to the active roster.
Speaker 2: Zamir White with a quad also didn't practice today.
Speaker 3: He had He's had a really bad year. Yeah. I
Speaker 3: don't know if he'd even get back in the mix.
Speaker 3: So it might be McCormick. It might be McCormick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a dart throw if you go to Blank's
Speaker 2: mode THEFS Uh yeah, yeah, but maybe we should look
Speaker 2: in the raided running back stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we picked the squad.
Speaker 2: Uh Jyr Alexander. They play Thursday night. He was ruled
Speaker 2: out for that Week fourteen game against Detroit.
Speaker 3: Okay, their defense has been okay, I mean the pass
Speaker 3: rush hasn't been great. Alexander's obviously a difference maker, huge game.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Romeo Dobbs also rolled out for that game with a concussion.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, I'm not wishing a concussion on anyone,
Speaker 3: but it does help clarify the receiver situation a little
Speaker 3: bit when one of them is out of the mix.
Speaker 2: On the plus side of that, for Green Bay, Josh
Speaker 2: Jacobs with the calf injury off the injury report.
Speaker 3: Okay, And folks, just so you know, I mean the
Speaker 3: Lions and Packers, this is not a short week for them.
Speaker 3: This is a full week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they played basically, Yeah, they both played Thanksgiving, so
Speaker 2: it's not social.
Speaker 3: Makers did some good stuff there.
Speaker 2: Uh. Foster Moreau with a shoulder injury limited on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: The only reason I mentioned is that Taysom Hill is out. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so maybe Foster gets a couple of catches. I doubt it.
Speaker 3: Maybe. I mean, I'm sure he'll be out there in
Speaker 3: twelve personnel. Yeah, I wouldn't get too excited about it.
Speaker 2: Kendrey Miller.
Speaker 3: The other tight end there though, is Yeah there's a chance.
Speaker 2: Juwan Johnson, but he was limited today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know there's something with him too.
Speaker 2: Kendrey Miller practiced in full on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I think he's on IR or they just pulled him
Speaker 3: off for.
Speaker 2: About They just recently designated him to return, so this
Speaker 2: was a full practice and he's been designated in return,
Speaker 2: so he could I could see them wanting to get
Speaker 2: a look at him.
Speaker 3: And he had something you need to know, you know,
Speaker 3: like he might be a good guy for like your
Speaker 3: your super Bowl, Like you really need to run Kamar
Speaker 3: into the ground in week seventeen and eighteen of the
Speaker 3: season if you're the same, that's right, I mean, so,
Speaker 3: I mean you get a good look at Miller. See
Speaker 3: if you need a draft one or not.
Speaker 2: Bob means officially limited on Wednesday with an ankle. He's
Speaker 2: also been out for several weeks. He was also designated
Speaker 2: to return, so it doesn't look as positive for him,
Speaker 2: but they need another receiver and.
Speaker 3: Say their skill position stuff is a messy.
Speaker 2: Prior to getting hurt, he was actually starting.
Speaker 6: To do it well.
Speaker 2: He looked pretty good. Yeah, did some stuff. Yeah, as
Speaker 2: you mentioned earlier in the show, Trevor Lawrence with a
Speaker 2: concussion officially placed on injury reserve. That will shut him
Speaker 2: down from this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a wrap. I mean in line gets the
Speaker 3: first overall pick. Does do you a hard time starting
Speaker 3: like Thomas or Ingram or the backs or I mean
Speaker 3: their skill guys are all pretty fantasy relevant. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it doesn't help.
Speaker 2: It's not great. It's not what they were with Laurence. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's okay, it's okay. I don't think I mean the receivers,
Speaker 2: especially because they're gonna be in catch up mode constantly.
Speaker 2: Their defense is awful.
Speaker 3: Mac Jones has been okay. I mean he's put up
Speaker 3: some numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mostly in ketchup model like portals like exact forman say,
Speaker 2: very Jaguar esque Treylon Burks with an A C L
Speaker 2: will miss the remainder of the season.
Speaker 3: It's pretty close to saying he's in bust to neighborhood here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the field too much either.
Speaker 2: Jalen Cocher with the quad injury. He practiced him full
Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Okay, somebody did not forget about no. I.
Speaker 2: Actually he has traded for him yesterday in a dynasty league.
Speaker 3: I'm rebuilding. I think he's got a bright future, but
Speaker 3: now all of a sudden, the receiver position is a
Speaker 3: little crowded. I talked about theland yesterday. I'm surely Get's
Speaker 3: gonna get plenty of time. Former Panther wide receiver just
Speaker 3: got suspended former.
Speaker 2: Stealers for a game by the Ravens for contract detrimental
Speaker 2: to the team. Apparently on the release and they talked
Speaker 2: about They said he refused to go into the game.
Speaker 3: La right, and then you mentioned this off the air.
Speaker 3: They got to buy this week and then he suspended
Speaker 3: and seasons almost.
Speaker 2: Like they're gonna stay away from the organization here for
Speaker 2: a week.
Speaker 3: I mean, you cut him.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Uh. Jatavian Sanders with that neck injury
Speaker 2: officially limited on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Okay, it looks like they're really pushing these young guys
Speaker 3: to fish out of season.
Speaker 2: He gets if he gets back into it. They were
Speaker 2: throwing him the ball.
Speaker 3: No, no, I think that offense is relevant.
Speaker 2: Amari Cooper with a wrist, logged a full practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Curtis Samuel with a foot was limited.
Speaker 3: Okay, So is a Mary Cooper fantasy starter every week,
Speaker 3: no doubt.
Speaker 2: I can't look at what happened in the last week's
Speaker 2: game and say one way or the other.
Speaker 3: I know, I know it's tough, and it's a perfect
Speaker 3: example for late Mike Williams. I mean, these receivers have
Speaker 3: change teams that late. It's hard to get on board,
Speaker 3: it really is. Yeah, and Cooper had some injuries.
Speaker 2: You know, Davonte Smith with a hamstring practiced on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Okay, they could use them. He's been out a little bit.
Speaker 3: Goddard's probably I don't know what godd situation is, but doesn't
Speaker 3: sound good.
Speaker 2: The Bengals signed Kadi York to their practice squad because
Speaker 2: Evan McPherson expected to miss a few weeks with a
Speaker 2: groin injury. That's significant because Evan McPherson gets to kick
Speaker 2: a lot. And they play the Cowboys this week. But
Speaker 2: the worst not the worst pick. He's not great, but
Speaker 2: he's gonna get opportunities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, say the offense is really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not the worst pivot he's been the
Speaker 2: league too. I mean, expect not to go over three.
Speaker 2: Well run the subject of kickers. Matthew Wright signed to
Speaker 2: the Chiefs fifty three man roster. He'll be their third kicker. Well,
Speaker 2: he already kicked last week. He was four or five
Speaker 2: on his field goal attempts last week. That's good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going five attempts in one game. Spencer Schrader was
Speaker 2: placed on IR with a hamstring injury. He was the
Speaker 2: guy who was replacing Okay, And so it looks like
Speaker 2: Matthew Wright's going to be the Chiefs kicker until Harrison
Speaker 2: Bucker returns from.
Speaker 3: That's another one. Like, I know their offense isn't as
Speaker 3: good as people think it is, but that's not a
Speaker 3: bad kicker to owned for fantasy.
Speaker 2: They do get I mean they do kick field goals.
Speaker 2: They don't score touchdowns all the time. Well yeah, Keyon
Speaker 2: Coleman with a wrist injury, limited and practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Tight end receiver situation in Buffalo is kind of a
Speaker 3: stay away for me, considering what you have to pay
Speaker 3: for them and all these things, But it'd be nice
Speaker 3: if it shook itself out a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Dalton kin Cave was limited on Wednesday. He hasn't played
Speaker 2: since Week ten, so we'll see where that goes for him. Him.
Speaker 2: Drew Locke going to get to start for the Giants
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 3: I guess it's better than de Vito, but I.
Speaker 2: Mean he runs a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just thinking like for like Wandell Robinson and neighbors.
Speaker 2: I mean, he actually throws the ball to neighbors. He
Speaker 2: doesn't ignore him for a half. So, yeah, is Wandelle
Speaker 2: Robinson even useful anymore? It sure seems like, well you
Speaker 2: gotta be high completion percentage guys. Yeah, Alan Lazard but
Speaker 2: the chest injury had his practice window opened on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not real excited about him for fantasy.
Speaker 2: Rogers does like him. He does got a lot of
Speaker 2: touchdowns right in the year. Brees Hall with the knee
Speaker 2: injury not practicing Wednesday. He did the same thing last
Speaker 2: week and he went and played. He did lose two
Speaker 2: fumbles or fumbled twice in that game. So the Browns
Speaker 2: have signed quarterback Bailey Zappi.
Speaker 3: Real quick on haul Like, it's a little early for
Speaker 3: this conversation. But some of these awful teams running backs
Speaker 3: that have bumps and bruises, might they not be around
Speaker 3: for fantas see super bowls or you know, sometimes you'll
Speaker 3: see these guys get shut down late in the scenes.
Speaker 2: Well that's why when you have guys like that, you
Speaker 2: that's when Allen is, That's when you handcuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to see the younger guy, Allen is
Speaker 3: a great example for.
Speaker 2: That, especially teams that have already had their bye week, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's no reason not the handcuff if that's your one
Speaker 2: of your top backs or your top and the top
Speaker 2: back on your team. Josh Reynolds was waived by the
Speaker 2: Broncos and claimed by the Jaguars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not a bad player. I don't think he's
Speaker 3: relevant for Mac Jones phone to Josh Reynolds, doesn't.
Speaker 2: That doesn't ye, Yeah, that doesn't fill me.
Speaker 3: Playoff wins in the in the my Fantasy League.
Speaker 2: No, Keishawn Vaughan added to the forty nine ers practice squad.
Speaker 3: Okay, I see the small, undersize.
Speaker 2: Former Tampa Bay buck back.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was thinking Douce Vaughn. I guess is the
Speaker 3: one I was thinking of?
Speaker 2: The cowboy Okay, yeah's had some moments.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of buzz with him when
Speaker 3: he came out, but never quite put the other.
Speaker 2: They also signed Patrick Taylor Junior to their practice squad,
Speaker 2: so they added two running backs to the practice. Somebody's
Speaker 2: getting elevated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody's getting elevated. I mean they lost to so
Speaker 3: you got to add too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about this one? Finally, Marshawn Lattimore on track
Speaker 2: to return in week fifteen.
Speaker 3: Wow, make a trade for him to the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: Still doesn't play the snap for you.
Speaker 2: It's been five or six weeks now they've had him
Speaker 2: on the roster.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's different about him than some of these
Speaker 3: other trades. He's a contract. Yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 3: big long term move. But if you get them breved
Speaker 3: up for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, DJ reader considered day to day.
Speaker 3: Okay, I need to look into the Lion injuries more.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of them out there.
Speaker 2: Doesn't look like they're gonna have Taylor Decker this week, Okay.
Speaker 2: Looks like Carlton Davis could return for them in week fourteen.
Speaker 2: Of course that's a Thursday night game. So yeah, they're
Speaker 2: starting to get a little yeah, a little bit better news.
Speaker 2: It sounds like some of it. Yeah, that's about Reynolds.
Speaker 2: That's pretty much it for the fantasy news of the day.
Speaker 2: This Deontay Johnson stuff. You know, the people who ran
Speaker 2: out and picked him up hoping that he was gonna
Speaker 2: suddenly become fantasy or still be if you had him
Speaker 2: on your roster with from Carolina, you were happy because
Speaker 2: he was getting the football and he was happy. And
Speaker 2: then when he goes to Baltimore and he's not getting
Speaker 2: the football and he's not even getting on the field,
Speaker 2: he's not happy.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not like you an opportunity to get on
Speaker 3: the field, and he refused it. What's up with that?
Speaker 3: Like it'd be if you're I mean, you're getting paid
Speaker 3: to pay foot play football, and if you're asked to
Speaker 3: go in the field, to go in the field, I
Speaker 3: mean unless you have a knee or something. You know
Speaker 3: that you think they misdiagnosed. But how does that conversation
Speaker 3: happen on it on the sideline? I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: not pretty. And Raven's a bigger fish to fry than
Speaker 3: worry about the new guy, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like I wonder if he plays it all for them.
Speaker 2: That's why when you when you make some trades like that, especially,
Speaker 2: I mean when when you have fifty three guys in
Speaker 2: the locker room, your head coach has to be able
Speaker 2: to handle things well within the scheme of everything. No, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, people are asking why isn't Mike Williams playing?
Speaker 2: He's playing. They're not throwing them the ball a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Yet doesn't mean that they won't or that's not going
Speaker 2: to happen. But he is playing. But that's not been
Speaker 2: in you know, there's been none of this kind of stuff. No, no, right, right,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure you know Preston Smith wasn't happy
Speaker 2: with his role in Green Bay and asked for a trade.
Speaker 3: I don't think he was rocking the boat there anything,
Speaker 3: you know, but Johnson seems to be rocking the boat.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean that's the thing that you know,
Speaker 2: kind of one of the dangers when you when you
Speaker 2: trade for somebody. Teams don't want to get rid of
Speaker 2: guys for no reason.
Speaker 3: Of course, a lot in a lot of cases. I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously there's some instances where probably not going to sign him,
Speaker 3: his contracts up, we're not doing anything. Dump them a date,
Speaker 3: trade deadline, let's get young. Sometimes just I want to
Speaker 3: get this guy out of here because he's a pain
Speaker 3: in the butt, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I wonder if Deonta is quickly going down
Speaker 2: that might be the way it's headed there for him.
Speaker 2: But Matt, that's going to do it for the fantasy
Speaker 2: football focus.
Speaker 3: Let's whatever his interest will be in the off season,
Speaker 3: might be his stock has gone down, dramatic, dramatic contract
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. Who's gonna be calling?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, let's get through a break. He
Speaker 2: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to
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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
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Speaker 2: And we are back here on the Drive. I am
Speaker 2: Dale LOLLI he is the Matt Williamson and Matt We
Speaker 2: got to see the debut of Hard Knox last night
Speaker 2: looking at the AFC North and of course the Steelers
Speaker 2: were featured prominently on that one because they played a
Speaker 2: fellow AFC North opponent. Yeah, and a lot of interesting
Speaker 2: stuff coming out of that, including you get to see
Speaker 2: how Mike Tomlin likes to is capable of pushing players
Speaker 2: buttons him standing in front of the room, commanding the room,
Speaker 2: and just kind of that the lesson that he gives
Speaker 2: each week. And he was asked earlier in the week,
Speaker 2: you know, do you worry about your message getting old
Speaker 2: or stale? He's like, look, this is a short term
Speaker 2: business for these players. Yeah, if you look at it's
Speaker 2: pretty you know, we talked about this in the preseason
Speaker 2: before the season started. Well, I think it was like
Speaker 2: twenty six new guys on the roster or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's almost half your roster turns over from
Speaker 2: the previous year.
Speaker 3: So a lot to take away there too. I thought
Speaker 3: Tomlin was the star of the show, and frankly, if
Speaker 3: this was Raven's Nation Radio, I would said the same thing.
Speaker 3: I thought him and Joe Burrow were the most impressive
Speaker 3: two people featured in this whole thing.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: It was one hour and that's on a knock on
Speaker 3: the other three head coaches. See how the other episodes go.
Speaker 3: But I'm sure Tom will do just fine. But it
Speaker 3: made me a couple of things. I know Tomlin has
Speaker 3: his critics, you know, and if you want to criticize
Speaker 3: his clock management, go right ahead. I mean that's valid.
Speaker 3: I get it. He's not perfect, but I think if
Speaker 3: you watch that, you have a better understanding for why
Speaker 3: he wins games, you know. I mean his message to
Speaker 3: the team was great. One on one with Cam Hayward
Speaker 3: walking into the locker room one on one with Pickens.
Speaker 2: I just thought I thought it was interesting when the
Speaker 2: coaches are all sitting around watching takes.
Speaker 3: That's where it's going next.
Speaker 2: Like his knowledge of the game is so extreme, attention
Speaker 2: to detail.
Speaker 3: Right, like we know this is going to happen. This
Speaker 3: is going to happen. Like if you talk to Wolf
Speaker 3: for a tonch of those guys, you know, Chuck Noll
Speaker 3: could have coached the defensive backs or the tight ends
Speaker 3: or the running backs. And I think Tomlin's exactly the
Speaker 3: same way, you know, or you know, I know he's
Speaker 3: praising Jamar Chase. Look at Jamar Chase come out of
Speaker 3: his break here on this in cutting route. That's an
Speaker 3: amazing angle. And you know, boy, you know Burrow is
Speaker 3: going to be you know, great respect for the opponent
Speaker 3: and how they can beat You give.
Speaker 2: Me a problem if we allow him to step up
Speaker 2: into the pocket, yah know? And behold it became a
Speaker 2: problem allowing him to step up in the pocket. And
Speaker 2: then they like, guys, we talked about this, Yeah, let's
Speaker 2: not let this guy do this to us.
Speaker 3: And I'm probably gonna watch it again, but I think
Speaker 3: when he was walking off the field with Hayward. As
Speaker 3: I referenced, he said something like, as long as we
Speaker 3: contain Chase Brown, who isn't their best player, and don't
Speaker 3: let Burrow step up in the pocket, the offensives have
Speaker 3: to can score zero points and we're gonna be okay,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, these are the things
Speaker 3: we have to take away. It's not just Chase is awesome.
Speaker 3: We can't. You know, everyone knows that, you know, so
Speaker 3: his knowledge of the game is really really came through
Speaker 3: in that episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And you know again with the stuff with
Speaker 2: Herbig and we'll get to hear from my Nick Herbig
Speaker 2: here a little bit. In the final segment of the show.
Speaker 2: I talked to him about the episode last night, just
Speaker 2: driving home the point that hey, you got you got
Speaker 2: one of the big matchups this week. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you got you got Orlando Brown this week, and if
Speaker 2: you win that matchup, we're gonna win this game. This game,
Speaker 2: and then not only saying it to him every single
Speaker 2: time he saw him during the week, saying it on
Speaker 2: the sideline during the game, saying it in the team meeting. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, call it a second year guy, Like, hey, dude,
Speaker 2: you got to win this. We expect you to win this,
Speaker 2: and he's hoping you win this. We expect you to win.
Speaker 3: This, and he's not saying it to every player in
Speaker 3: every matchup. I mean, he knew that was a critical
Speaker 3: one that there's'll be a lot of one on one.
Speaker 3: Of course, DJ is gonna get a ton of attention. And
Speaker 3: you know, with a young Ray tackle in particular, if
Speaker 3: we can win that matchup one v one high percent
Speaker 3: of the time, we're gonna be really tough to beat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lo and behold right right, And it was the
Speaker 2: key to the game. Yeah, you get the stripsack and
Speaker 2: touchdown off of that, and it's like you see Tomlin's
Speaker 2: reaction on the sideline to that, just like.
Speaker 3: It was right, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: It we're talking about And then he pulls herbig aside
Speaker 2: and said, hey, that's what we you know that, that's
Speaker 2: who you are right now.
Speaker 3: I got a kick out of the episode, and part
Speaker 3: of it was I put I spent a year in
Speaker 3: the Browns facility two and I like the Ravens facility.
Speaker 3: It's all brick and you know, kind of old right, right.
Speaker 3: I kind of like how they do things too. But
Speaker 3: I'm Bengals not as much, but no, I think it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a good series too.
Speaker 2: When you see something like that, it does kind of
Speaker 2: point out the differences between the other three teams and
Speaker 2: the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I have never been in the Bengals facility,
Speaker 3: but I spent a ton of time in the Browns.
Speaker 2: One their facility is the stadium. Yeah, there's They're one
Speaker 2: of the few teams that are still working out at
Speaker 2: their stadium, the practice fields. When you're driving into into
Speaker 2: Cincinnati from the airport in Kentucky, you come across the
Speaker 2: bridge and their practice fields are right there on the right,
Speaker 2: next to the stadium. They now have an indoor bubble.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like how three Rivers used to be
Speaker 3: right like in their cleats.
Speaker 2: Walking they had to walk across the street and Lambert
Speaker 2: those guys, right and and but they're they're practiced or
Speaker 2: quote unquote indoor practice facility is basically just a.
Speaker 3: Bubble over that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's it's it's about three blocks away down
Speaker 2: the street from the stadium, so the players have to
Speaker 2: walk all the way over there. Not that I mean, but.
Speaker 3: It's these are billion dollar, multi billion dollar organization.
Speaker 2: Walking in your spikes on the you know, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean one of the Steelers used to practice
Speaker 3: way back when I was referring to is now a
Speaker 3: parking lot because it should be a parking lot because
Speaker 3: it was to the stadium, right.
Speaker 2: I can remember, like when the Steelers used to when
Speaker 2: they wanted to practice on grass when they were still
Speaker 2: headquartered at three of their stadium. They had to go
Speaker 2: past there was the warehouse, I think it was Kaufman's
Speaker 2: warehouse or whatever. Walk across that walk across the freeway
Speaker 2: to get to this fifty yard grass practice facility yard made,
Speaker 2: you know, and so it wasn't even a full field.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of the same thing that the Bengals
Speaker 2: are doing now. The Steelers graduated away from that thirty years.
Speaker 3: Ago before I was in this business, right, And say
Speaker 3: what you want about the Browns, but that facility we
Speaker 3: didn't want for anything. I mean, they spent a lot
Speaker 3: of money.
Speaker 2: They showed them. They had the facility, they had the
Speaker 2: into the room set up for uh elevation room, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: at a lower oxygen level and you can go in
Speaker 2: there and work out before that, you know, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they spend a buck in like little things like
Speaker 3: if I went into WVU with a scuff on my shoes,
Speaker 3: I heard about it, like come get a new pair
Speaker 3: of shoes, you know, like anything you wanted all the time.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a multi billion dollar organization, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bengals don't.
Speaker 3: They don't run it that way.
Speaker 2: They do more offer them, Yeah, which is in some
Speaker 2: ways is good, but other ways sure bad.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 3: I mean it's probably less attractive to several athletes that
Speaker 3: if you're picking between three teams, they might be last. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, I don't know. We talked about after
Speaker 3: the Bengals game. I could see rocky roads ahead for
Speaker 3: both Ohio organizations for different reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, just some of the ways that
Speaker 2: the coaches kind of handled the room as well. And
Speaker 2: not even just the head coaches.
Speaker 3: Though there was the episode Brownsow Line coach.
Speaker 2: Brownsow Line coach yelling and screaming at his offensive line
Speaker 2: about you know, and and just nonsensical stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't quite get that that was not painted
Speaker 3: in a great light there, Yeah, in that one. But no,
Speaker 3: I was very impressed with Tomlin. I liked when he
Speaker 3: was sitting there watching film with the you know, the
Speaker 3: coaches too, and if that's what they're showing, you think
Speaker 3: of the insights that they're not right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were willing to give you that part.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also thought it was interesting to see some of
Speaker 2: the sideline stuff with Russell Wilson and the way he
Speaker 2: reacted to different things, like the interception and he's right
Speaker 2: back and like, you know, guys, we're fine, yea, And
Speaker 2: then they score the touchdown. He's going to the easter
Speaker 2: offensive lineman. He's shaking her hands. Hey, good job, guys.
Speaker 2: Way to do that. That's you know, and you know.
Speaker 3: It's better than I do. But it sounds like a
Speaker 3: lot of quotes right after that Cincinnati game where man
Speaker 3: Russ was more enthusiastic and more positive than ever, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And he's getting really comfortable here too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's a big part of it, right,
Speaker 2: And he's comfortable in his own skin with who.
Speaker 3: He is, he is works.
Speaker 2: It just leads me back to the whole Denver situation
Speaker 2: and some of the character assassination it went on with him.
Speaker 2: Oh he's a phony, he's this, he's it's fake. I'm
Speaker 2: like don't. I don't think you can fake that.
Speaker 3: I don't think anything he's done here.
Speaker 6: To me.
Speaker 3: I mean I kind of thought first day of camp
Speaker 3: or whatever, I'm like, of course everyone all eyes are
Speaker 3: on the might as well. I'm like, is this guy
Speaker 3: really diva? Just you know, I'm happy to be here,
Speaker 3: blah blah. I'm like, that does not That's not the
Speaker 3: impression I get. I mean, I'm not best friends with him,
Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, but just the way he's who
Speaker 3: he's hanging with, how he's hanging with him, do you
Speaker 3: know all that stuff? Yeah, mannerisms, they respect them, Yeah.
Speaker 2: They do. Yeah, And I think it goes a lot
Speaker 2: of it goes back to it's kind of the similar
Speaker 2: respect that we saw in the Steelers' locker room when
Speaker 2: they signed Michael Vick. Okay, Michael Vick was clearly at
Speaker 2: the end of his career, he was done, but they
Speaker 2: he was a legend. He's a legend, and he's a legend.
Speaker 2: He's a guy, you know, he was one of the
Speaker 2: first of his kind. You know, this is the guy
Speaker 2: who was on the cover of Madden. Then there's the
Speaker 2: guy who was you know, these guys when they were
Speaker 2: growing up that that's who they played with. You wanted
Speaker 2: to be Michael Vick because you could.
Speaker 3: Just do anything right and he was a superhuman. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a good point. I mean a lot of those
Speaker 3: guys grew up with loving that guy. You know, had
Speaker 3: posters of him on the wall type of guy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: But you see that with like just different guys in
Speaker 2: that locker room and how they how they kind of
Speaker 2: deferred him, and they did with Ben Roethlisberger as well.
Speaker 3: I mean it was just you know, that's but Ben
Speaker 3: never had to come to a new team, right, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean?
Speaker 2: This was this was coming in from the outside and
Speaker 2: being Okay, how do you how do you handle this?
Speaker 2: And I just think he's handled it really well.
Speaker 3: It makes me wonder and I know it's not what
Speaker 3: we're talking about, but Kirk Cousins has really struggled in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying they underminded him by drafting Pennix,
Speaker 3: but you had enough. Imagine if it was Wilson and
Speaker 3: you had a first round quarterback there too.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a different dynamic.
Speaker 3: It's a much different dynamic, Like that's the guy who's
Speaker 3: going to replace you and you're new, you haven't You've
Speaker 3: had a great career, but you've been put ating Pelts
Speaker 3: on the wall here yet you don't have that respect. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean if Wilson was sitting there with Pennix in
Speaker 3: the room.
Speaker 2: It was kind of similar though with Fields a little
Speaker 2: bit in that, you know, you have a guy with
Speaker 2: the Again, Fields is a high pedigree guy. He's a
Speaker 2: former first round draft pick and has done a lot
Speaker 2: of good things in the league. And you know, we
Speaker 2: we we've dealt with it on this show, and people,
Speaker 2: you know, wanted Fields to continue to be the starter.
Speaker 2: But those two had a relationship because of Wilson. You
Speaker 2: know Wilson, Yeah, had you know, they'd reached out to
Speaker 2: him when he was at Ohio State in Georgia and
Speaker 2: they had formed a relationship there that you know, And
Speaker 2: I talked to Fields about it. He goes, you know this,
Speaker 2: he was a guy that I you know, I admired,
Speaker 2: you know, the way he played the game because it
Speaker 2: was a similar style to the way I played.
Speaker 3: No, I think there's a lot to be said for
Speaker 3: that as opposed to just fantasy football. We're gonna put
Speaker 3: both you guys in the same locker. You know, that's
Speaker 3: not how it works, especially with quarterbacks, of course, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's the highlander. There can be only one if
Speaker 3: there's one leader of the team, if there's one defensive
Speaker 3: lineman and the other one is his best buddy in
Speaker 3: the room. Okay, we'll be fine, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: But the quarterbacks need to they can have a rivalry,
Speaker 3: they can compete. Of course, if they don't, there's something
Speaker 3: wrong with them, you know, I mean, you still want
Speaker 3: to start. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, but I think
Speaker 3: that they handled that dynamic really really well.
Speaker 2: And I think part of it is because of those
Speaker 2: two guys in that relationship that they had.
Speaker 3: So I wonder how like Atlanta's how that feels, you know,
Speaker 3: with a new guy, especially coming up with injury, you
Speaker 3: can't improve yourself, you know.
Speaker 2: The other cool thing was was that Tomlin telling the players, Hey,
Speaker 2: if you got don't have a place to go for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, you know, and they hate
Speaker 3: were brothers too. I happened to be Thanksgiving week, which
Speaker 3: was cool too. And I feel like Cam's gonna be
Speaker 3: pretty impressive in this thing too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Cam's Cam's Cam. Yeah, I kind of
Speaker 2: joke with him today because Tomlin said yesterday it is
Speaker 2: a press conference. Cam's been here for twenty five years.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I walked over to Cam today, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you're gonna let Mike hang twenty five years now on you.
Speaker 2: He just likes to say that stuff because he knows
Speaker 2: it ticks me off, and like whatever motivates you right again,
Speaker 2: pushing the right bush.
Speaker 3: And the buttons. Yeah, yeah, And I'm sure that they
Speaker 3: probably heard about it going into Cincinnati on a ten
Speaker 3: day rest, and they're probably still hearing about it, especially
Speaker 3: that d line. Remember how you played against the Brownies. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they'll watch that Brown's tape. You're happy with that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I bet it's still fresh on their mind a.
Speaker 2: Little bit, yeah, a little bit. Yeah. As Carl Dunbar said,
Speaker 2: when when Daddy's not happy, nobody's happy and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they were not happy about that one.
Speaker 3: That was good stuff. I urge everyone to check it out.
Speaker 3: And I thought Tomlin was kind of the start of
Speaker 3: the show. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, if you have this theory and it's
Speaker 2: still out there because I get it. Terry Bradshaw said, However,
Speaker 2: many years ago, Mike Tomlin's a cheerleader, and I still
Speaker 2: see that thrown about, Oh he's just a cheerleader, coach,
Speaker 2: You have no clue that watch these shows, right and
Speaker 2: tell me that all he does is cheerlead.
Speaker 3: He has a pulse of everything that goes on the organization. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, big time in Belichick kind of way. You know,
Speaker 3: knows every little bit that's happening, right.
Speaker 2: I mean you see a difference sitting down with Danny
Speaker 2: Smith and talking about protections and things of that nature,
Speaker 2: Like sure, yeah, he's got he's got his finger on
Speaker 2: the pulse of every room in that building.
Speaker 3: Big time, as much as any head coach going right now,
Speaker 3: I think, to be very honest with you, I mean,
Speaker 3: he's a I forget Mike Lombardi calls it. He's the
Speaker 3: chief fixer upper guy, you know, like what's up fires?
Speaker 3: You know, like there's so many fires we never see
Speaker 3: because that they don't get raging out of control because
Speaker 3: he puts them out immediately, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's that's a big job of a head coach.
Speaker 2: It really is, and it's I think it's a big
Speaker 2: reason why the guys who still want to be play
Speaker 2: callers on one side of the ball. I think that's
Speaker 2: why it doesn't work.
Speaker 3: I think it's brutal. I mean, if you're Andy Reid,
Speaker 3: I mean, okay, you're a special guy, but you're out,
Speaker 3: you're biting off more and you can chew. I mean,
Speaker 3: you don't see it anymore. But he used to be
Speaker 3: some of these coaches would also be GM. So I'm like,
Speaker 3: what do you You're asking too much? Man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. You don't have time to scout during
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 3: No, right, I mean you got the fer and I
Speaker 3: mean it's not even the same skill set necessarily, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, like just be the head coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be a CEO type and the thing you know,
Speaker 2: when Tomlin was asked about his potential to burn out
Speaker 2: in this business on Tuesday, and he said, look, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to burn out on this, he said, I
Speaker 2: this is my hobby. This is what I love, and
Speaker 2: this is my hobby. This is football is what I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean my life's way different than Mike Tomlins.
Speaker 3: But people ask me all the time, like when you are
Speaker 3: gonna retire? I guess when people stop wanting to listen
Speaker 3: to me, because this is what I would you know,
Speaker 3: like right, I mean, if I was an accountant, my
Speaker 3: free time would be doing NFL stuff, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah right, I mean it's kind of the same deal.
Speaker 3: If that's what you love, great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he certainly does love it. Yeah, if you
Speaker 2: watch this show and you got to get HBO to
Speaker 2: to do that, but yeah, if you watch the show,
Speaker 2: I think you'll come away with a different just I think,
Speaker 2: a better understaneling and general understanding of hows and.
Speaker 3: Why he's been so successful. It's not an accident and
Speaker 3: another non losing season, win playoff game. Like you know
Speaker 3: how hard it is to go season after season without
Speaker 3: having a down year. I mean it's in this game
Speaker 3: with injuries and picking late in the first round, you
Speaker 3: don't pick up top five ever, you know, I mean
Speaker 3: it's brutal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cleveland's going to have another top five pick this year,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's gonna probably have another top ten pick this year.
Speaker 3: Jacksonville's probably going to have the first pick overall three
Speaker 3: out of five years.
Speaker 2: And you still stink, and you still stink.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what if he gave that to Tom One? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he talks about, you know, on the sideline
Speaker 2: with you know, he's been miked up in the past,
Speaker 2: and he's joking with Chase Young. I never planned on
Speaker 2: being high enough to draft somebody.
Speaker 3: Like you, yeah, which is a compliment, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's also a little pat of my own back
Speaker 3: that we don't pick the top. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And yet somehow you still get kitting the Cam Haywards
Speaker 2: of the word, you still get the T. J.
Speaker 3: Watson all these guys, right. Absolutely, Yeah, it's not bad,
Speaker 3: not bad at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, out good. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: One of the guys that again was featured and during
Speaker 2: the show was was Herbig and uh, there was a
Speaker 2: lot out there to pick through with him, and so
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to him about that today and
Speaker 2: found him in the locker room, so we'll hear what
Speaker 2: he had to say about some of the stuff that
Speaker 2: happened in the show. Uh, And some of the stuff
Speaker 2: that was picked up in the show anyways didn't really
Speaker 2: happen in the show. The show just happens. The football
Speaker 2: is what's taking place. The show is just they're kind
Speaker 2: of taking apart seeing all. Yeah while they're at that,
Speaker 2: but they're just capturing the moments. So I did talk
Speaker 2: to her Big about that today. We'll hear that when
Speaker 2: when we come back. He is Matt Williamson. I am
Speaker 2: Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here on the
Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network. We'll be back to finish up the
Speaker 2: show right after.
Speaker 4: This at least.
Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on
Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven home of the Black and
Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly. He is the Matt
Speaker 2: Williamson and Matt one of the guys. We just kind
Speaker 2: of touched on a little bit there in the previous
Speaker 2: segment talking about the Hard Knocks episode last night. Was
Speaker 2: Nick Krbig and the way Mike Tomlin handled him a
Speaker 2: little bit in that show I thought was interesting. And
Speaker 2: so I saw her Big in the locker room today
Speaker 2: and I said, I'm gonna go ask him some questions
Speaker 2: about that. Actually I went looking for him in the
Speaker 2: locker room and good found him there.
Speaker 3: Scope out for sure, absolutely, and he's been phenomenal.
Speaker 2: He's been on he's been on a bit of a
Speaker 2: tear since.
Speaker 3: He joined the league. I mean just pastoral. I mean
Speaker 3: efficiency per pass rush snap is really really high and
Speaker 3: no knocking anybody else, but he's gonna be hard to
Speaker 3: take off the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to figure out ways to do that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I expect that they'll find some ways to.
Speaker 3: Do I would lighten TJ's load a little bit. You know,
Speaker 3: That's we've got a big picture to think about here.
Speaker 3: Maybe ten snaps less of game and put over over
Speaker 3: there or something. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, and he's capable of doing those kind of things.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna pat myself on the head here, but uh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. He was. He was my dude
Speaker 2: going into that draft two years. Oh yeah, remember I
Speaker 2: was a big Herbig fan. I mean, the motor just
Speaker 2: is runs constantly and he is a nightmare to block.
Speaker 3: He really is. I mean he really got the better
Speaker 3: of Orlando Brown too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to him up a little bit. But let's
Speaker 2: hear what Nick Herbig had to say.
Speaker 5: Obviously, watching Hard Knocks last night, and it seemed like
Speaker 5: all week long like you're still you were gonna beat
Speaker 5: Orlando Brown for a big play.
Speaker 4: Was that the case or did they kind of played
Speaker 4: it up a little bit too much?
Speaker 7: No, it was, Yeah, that was literally every day emphasized that.
Speaker 7: He made sure he told me that that's gonna be
Speaker 7: me versus him, And here he told me that every
Speaker 7: time he saw him.
Speaker 5: It seemed like right before he went out and and
Speaker 5: got the stripsack, he had said it again.
Speaker 4: Was that happening throughout the game or was it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was every I guess every time I saw
Speaker 6: him that there was the same thing.
Speaker 5: Did that put I mean, is that kind of reinforce
Speaker 5: kind of what you're I mean, you know, you gotta
Speaker 5: beat the guy you're gonna get Yeah, going up again,
Speaker 5: but continued to say it just it.
Speaker 6: Definitely emphasizes it.
Speaker 7: And like I'm I say, you're thinking about like see
Speaker 7: him come out and tell you that, ye up, Like
Speaker 7: it's gonna be me versus him all day and we're
Speaker 7: gonna find Now.
Speaker 2: Does that help you kind of conceptualize and visualize it
Speaker 2: a little bit more?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 7: You know, especially when like coach Toman is saying that
Speaker 7: to you, Like it's not like it's you know, respect
Speaker 7: like any of the other coaches, but like it's coach
Speaker 7: Tomlan saying that, so.
Speaker 4: He knows your your matchups are cute.
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, him pointing that out to you in front
Speaker 7: of the team is like, oh, we're gonna find out,
Speaker 7: like I'm putting you on this pedestal.
Speaker 6: And we're gonna see if you're really about that action.
Speaker 3: That's how I feel it.
Speaker 4: I mean, just him, he seems to push the right
Speaker 4: buttons with everybody.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he definitely does. He knows how to push those.
Speaker 4: With Alec coming back now, you expect to still get
Speaker 4: those kind of reps. I mean, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 4: the usual three guys at the same time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not too sure. I just
Speaker 6: know that whenever my number is called, I got to
Speaker 6: uphold that standard.
Speaker 5: You've obviously you got three fumbles in three straight games
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, have you ever had a streak like this?
Speaker 6: I don't know. I just I just like to win
Speaker 6: football games. As long as we went, I'm happy.
Speaker 4: But obviously you're You've been a big part of that.
Speaker 5: You know, you get you get there Henry to fumble,
Speaker 5: you got fumble a lot, and you know you get
Speaker 5: to get your burrow.
Speaker 7: I just think that's just the culture here, and like
Speaker 7: my coach is emphasizing that, and like I have a
Speaker 7: great position coach in Denzel and Dunbar and you know
Speaker 7: they closed me well, they're hard on me, and you
Speaker 7: know it's that's what that's what it is expected here
Speaker 7: in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: That was Steelers outside linebacker Nick Herbig go with me
Speaker 2: earlier today and uh as you heard he Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: Tomlin knew what buttons to push with him and uh
Speaker 2: it worked.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it also helps to have a big
Speaker 3: brother figure around. And I'm not even talking about his brother.
Speaker 3: I forgot to talking about DJ. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: pretty nice dynamic and I'm pretty psyched to see hoping
Speaker 3: it happens. But all four of those outside linebackers all
Speaker 3: in the same on the same field together once. It's
Speaker 3: pretty good group.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do a little uh, I don't even
Speaker 2: know what package you would call you gonna take you
Speaker 2: gonna take Cam Heyward off the field. I'm not real
Speaker 2: psyched about that, but I mean it's a nice problem
Speaker 2: to have that you've got too many good edge rushers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can just come at the waves. But Matt, that's
Speaker 2: going to do it for the show today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 2: Absolutely guess today. Absolutely. We thank Jimmy Rooney for stopping
Speaker 2: by and joining us here in the in the studio.
Speaker 2: We want to thank Bob Labriola for stopping by as
Speaker 2: well as usual, and uh well for my partner Matt Williamson,
Speaker 2: for Justin Miller here on site running the Justin Miller Hotline,
Speaker 2: and for Tyler viitt Meyer here through him a little
Speaker 2: curve ball today with the in studio guest. Can check
Speaker 2: that out on YouTube. I am Dale, Lolly. We thank
Speaker 2: you for listening to this edition of the Drive on
Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network.