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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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

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Speaker 1: Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly, he is Matt

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Speaker 2: Williamson and apparently, well it's on social media anyways, everybody's

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Speaker 2: angry at me.

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Speaker 3: No, really, what you do.

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Speaker 2: Apparently I lost the game for the Steels yesterday because

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Speaker 2: you know whatever, I don't know. I get it. People

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Speaker 2: are angry. I get it underlying anger. As bad as

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Speaker 2: that game was, as bad as the final scorer ended up,

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Speaker 2: the game wasn't that it was. It wasn't out of reach.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't out of reach. I mean, there was many

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Speaker 3: instances where they could have got back in it. It

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Speaker 3: wasn't the Niners game where they ran away and hid

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Speaker 3: the correct the winner and was a great football team.

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Speaker 3: That was a bad game though.

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Speaker 2: I mean the first quarter was awful. They played an

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Speaker 2: awful first quarter, horrendous after the first quarter. There was

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Speaker 2: a lot of bad tape in the second quarter. So

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Speaker 2: I just got done rewatching the game. So the Steelers,

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Speaker 2: they give up a field goal in the second quarter,

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Speaker 2: so it's thirteen three. They get a punt they don't

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Speaker 2: do much with it. They get another punt. They so

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Speaker 2: they get the ball back with one fifty seven left.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about in the second.

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Speaker 2: Second quarter, now mine again. They're down thirteen to nothing.

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Speaker 2: At this point, the game is still in reach. The

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Speaker 2: game is still in reach. They hit a pass to

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Speaker 2: George Pickens to the Houston forty nine, a ten yard

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Speaker 2: game on third and four from the Pittsburgh forty with

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Speaker 2: one fifteen remaining. Farmuth gets called for a pass offensive

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Speaker 2: pass interference.

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Speaker 3: On the other side of the field. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 3: understand the call. No, I didn't understand that call. I

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Speaker 3: didn't understand the make a call. It had nothing to

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Speaker 2: It's the play that usually if you see offensive pass

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Speaker 2: interference called at somebody set a pick for the guy

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Speaker 2: who caught the caught the football, or the guy pushed

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Speaker 2: off and turned around and caught the football. This was

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Speaker 2: on the other side of the field.

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Speaker 3: What he did was illegal, but it didn't matter.

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Speaker 2: It didn't affect the play at all. So that play

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Speaker 2: gets negated. They get then a nine yard game from

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Speaker 2: from Friarmouth. They punt on fourth and five from their

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Speaker 2: from their own forty. The Texans get the ball back.

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Speaker 2: They hit two passes, including a forty two yarder catch,

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Speaker 2: and run their to Nico Collins. They get an extra

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Speaker 2: field goal out of it, so instead of being at

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Speaker 2: least thirteen three and a half, now it's sixteen to nothing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, I you're in six point swing right there, assuming they

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Speaker 2: don't go down to score a touchdown there, which given

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Speaker 2: the struggles they were having offense, been the first half

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Speaker 2: far from an assumption. Yeah, yeah, I couldn't couldn't say

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Speaker 2: that was going to happen. Third quarter, they come out,

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Speaker 2: they start running the football, which was what the game

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Speaker 2: plan was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, running ball quite well.

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Speaker 2: They ran the ball on their openings possession and then

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Speaker 2: ran into a they gave up the sack and then

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Speaker 2: the interception. So they come out, they run the football.

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Speaker 2: They get down to the Houston fifteen. Third and two,

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Speaker 2: they run Jaleen Warren. He goes dropped for a two

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Speaker 2: yard loss because well they can't seal the edge, you'll

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Speaker 2: or give them to not give a penetration up the middle,

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Speaker 2: turns into a fourth and fourth. They kick a field

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Speaker 2: goal from the Houston seventeen. They immediately get a three

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Speaker 2: and out from the Texans. They go back down and

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Speaker 2: they kick another field. Well, this one from the five.

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Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett missus he had he had Connor Heyward wide

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Speaker 2: open in the back of the end zone.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay. Uh.

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Speaker 2: He also just missed George Pickens if he puts the

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Speaker 2: ball up a little bit higher. Henry Toto doesn't get

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Speaker 2: up and get a hand in there, which again could

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Speaker 2: have been past interference. If you watch the play and

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Speaker 2: I just did, Tooto never turns around. He's got his

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Speaker 2: arm in between in like Pickts in between Pickens arms

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Speaker 2: basically with the hand. It was no less pass interference

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Speaker 2: than what they called on fire with Let's put it

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Speaker 3: I would say that play was fifty great play, fifty

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Speaker 3: percent pass interference. So if you're a defensive guy, you

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Speaker 3: said they didn't.

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Speaker 2: Call it, so it wasn't passing period. Okay, works, okay,

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Speaker 2: But then Pikett misses, uh, he missus Hayward in the

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Speaker 2: back of the end zone. That could have been an

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Speaker 2: easy Yeah, it could have been an easy one because

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Speaker 2: that's a two layer route. It's set up to do that.

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Speaker 2: You're defenders to make a decision, and they both jumped

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Speaker 2: the short one and either I don't know. You have

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Speaker 2: to give Kenny truth here and did he not get

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Speaker 2: enough on it to Hayward or did he try to

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Speaker 2: go the wrong he was he was going to you

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Speaker 2: think he's going to the underneath route. He's going underneath,

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Speaker 2: which is a critical mistake. Yeah, okay, so they can't play,

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Speaker 2: they kick a field goalorad Now it's sixteen to six, though,

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Speaker 2: so you're right there in the game a.

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Speaker 3: Touch Actually at that point you are running the football,

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Speaker 3: you're moving.

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Speaker 2: You have now seen the momentum of the game has shifted. Uh,

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Speaker 2: they go out. The Texans get a first down on

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Speaker 2: their next possession, but then three quick plays and punt,

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Speaker 2: so they got one first down on the punt. They've

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Speaker 2: got one first down. Now in the third quarter, the

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Speaker 2: Steelers get the ball back, now at their own twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Naujia Harris breaks off another twenty three yard run. They

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Speaker 2: get the ten yard catch by Washington that puts them

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Speaker 2: down to the Houston forty two, and then Alan Robinson

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Speaker 2: misses Petrae on a block on the outside. Petree shoots

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Speaker 2: the outside, forces the fumble from Jala Warren. Now Picktt

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Speaker 2: falls on it, but now it's second and eighteen. They

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Speaker 2: get that into a fourth and one at the Houston

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Speaker 2: thirty three. Now, had they scored the touchdown on the

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Speaker 2: previous possession, you probably just kicked the field goal there, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: because that makes it sixteen thirteen. Or had you gotten

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Speaker 2: the field goal at the end of the first half,

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Speaker 2: now it's thirteen thirteen. Instead, they come out knowing that

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Speaker 2: they had gotten stuffed on the previous run on third

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Speaker 2: and two, third and short, and it was a full

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Speaker 2: They actually moved the football back a little bit too

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Speaker 2: during the break. Initially they was along. Initially they marked

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Speaker 2: it inside one of one yard. When they came back out,

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Speaker 2: it was beyond one yard, so it was almost it

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Speaker 2: was like a yard and a half. Yeah, So the

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Speaker 2: Steelers aside, they're going to throw in that situation. For

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, Pickett doesn't throw it again.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with the bunch to the right, that's where the

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Speaker 2: that's where the ball is supposed to go. Bailed bailed

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Speaker 2: on it way too early. He runs, give Roder Jones

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Speaker 2: Jonathan greenerd sack pickets injured. Game over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that play felt like to me as a

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Speaker 3: fan watching an observer, watching an analyst watching, Wow, this

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Speaker 3: is that play felt like rock bottom because your quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: laying on the turf, the game's basically over. Everyone wants

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Speaker 3: to kill Canada for his play calling on that play.

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Speaker 3: I don't that to me is too easy. I mean,

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Speaker 3: to me, that's a short cut to thinking. Because did

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Speaker 3: it seem odd that you would line up in the

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Speaker 3: shotgun on that play as opposed to trying to blow

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Speaker 3: your doors off? Yeah? Maybe, but the fact that you

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Speaker 3: mentioned that it's almost closer to two than one. It's

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Speaker 3: not a sneak situation because initially when.

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Speaker 2: They first spotted the football, I'm like, oh, this is

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Speaker 2: a quarterback sneak because it was. It was it was

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Speaker 2: about half a yard. Well, then when they came out

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Speaker 2: of the time out, the ball had been moved back

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Speaker 2: and Tomlin said after the game that they looked, they

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Speaker 2: looked at it upstairs and adjusted the ball backwards.

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Speaker 3: Why, I have no idea that happens. There says hey,

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Speaker 3: this spot.

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Speaker 2: So now it's beyond the yard and they said, okay,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna we're again. You had just gotten stuffed on

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Speaker 2: third and two, right, because of penetration.

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Speaker 3: The list of my complaints of what happened in that game,

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Speaker 3: the play call on fourth and two, I'm gonna call it,

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Speaker 3: is way down the list. The execution is a different story.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand what Kenny was thinking, and I think

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Speaker 3: he is bailing early I mean regularity, which this isn't

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Speaker 3: the defend Mac Matt Canada hour here on the drive.

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Speaker 2: See this is where this is where that that comes

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Speaker 2: into play, because now you know, if I blame anybody

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Speaker 2: but Canada for screwing the stuff up, then that guy

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Speaker 2: missed a block, that guy didn't do that. Well, now

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm just a Matt Canada apologist.

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Speaker 3: Right, And it's a group It's ridiculous, it's a group problem.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you mentioned there's a lot of things I

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Speaker 3: didn't like about the way they came out In offense.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's an overwhelming proof that this offense isn't

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Speaker 3: close to being good enough over what's close to a

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Speaker 3: two and a half year stretch, let alone, you know,

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Speaker 3: this portion of the year, considering where expectations were after

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Speaker 3: a really strong second half of the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 3: but You can't just say he's an idiot on fourth

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Speaker 3: and two because he was in a shotgun, you know,

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Speaker 3: like that's Monday morning quarterbacking. I mean, you can't just

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Speaker 3: isolate things like that and say that play is the fireballs,

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Speaker 3: you know, the other things.

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Speaker 2: So they're coming out of a timeout, Matt, do you

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Speaker 2: think the head coach had any inputs.

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Speaker 3: About, say, the exact same thing. Yeah, they had a

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Speaker 3: long conversation.

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Speaker 2: They had a conversation about what they wanted to run

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Speaker 2: in that situation because they knew what the down and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the conversation went something like this, Hey, Matt,

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Speaker 3: what do you see in What do you like here? Okay,

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Speaker 3: it's not a plunge situation. I've seen this developed, coach.

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Speaker 3: I think the best call is is what they put

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Speaker 3: out there. Tomlin definitely puts his stamp.

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Speaker 2: He's got the veto no we're running. If he says no,

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Speaker 2: we're running, the football, Canada is looking up his best

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Speaker 3: And he probably has both because this is not a

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Speaker 3: normal It's like he said, it's time out, it's time

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Speaker 3: to talk about it, right, it's we got to get

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Speaker 3: it in two seconds, coach.

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Speaker 2: And you also probably say, Kenny, what do you like

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Speaker 2: in this situation?

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Speaker 3: Probably, or at least you know.

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Speaker 2: Kenny in this situation. When we talked on Thursday, you said,

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Speaker 2: in a third and short situation or a short yarded

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Speaker 2: situation where we had to throw the football, this was

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Speaker 2: the play you wanted to dial up, and he bailed

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I just I think it's shortsighted

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Speaker 3: of Steeler Nation to be like that play call was

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Speaker 3: so stupid. That's the fireball offense. There's so much more

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Speaker 3: wrong with what happened on Sunday than that. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: that's way down my list in terms of problems. And frankly,

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Speaker 3: I started a podcast earlier today and said, that's the

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Speaker 3: best I've ever seen nausey Harris play in the Steeler uniform.

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Speaker 3: Alex Heighsmith was really good in this game. Everyone else

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Speaker 2: It kept the Steelers off the field, the offense off

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Speaker 3: There was not really a time that Houston couldn't run

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Speaker 2: This was not San Francisco and Christian McCaffrey. This was

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Speaker 2: Made life way too easy on the on CJ. Stroud, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And there wasn't a negatives. I mean, it was five

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Speaker 2: And it makes life easier on your young quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Everything, everything and the O line, you know, the align

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Speaker 3: And if you cam Hayward, for sure help I mean,

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Speaker 2: He's not there right now and he's not going to

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Speaker 3: Apparently Apparently, folks I got news for a lot of

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's it's if it were as simple

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Speaker 2: It's not as simple as that. And yet somehow that

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Speaker 3: I don't understand, ever, because I think the defense in

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Speaker 2: It was worst in the offense and oh, by the way,

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Speaker 3: Doesn't surprise me. I haven't looked at I always do

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Speaker 2: If we were going into the season and I told

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Speaker 3: Four right, yeah, I mean they're definitely going four.

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Speaker 2: You can't that. You can't. There's no excuse for that.

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Speaker 2: There's none because the stars are on that side of

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Speaker 3: I don't think you're saying, oh, the offense is fine,

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Speaker 2: They got there.

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Speaker 3: My second blame is not being the lead.

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Speaker 2: But there's no reason for the defense to be struggling.

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Speaker 3: They're down to down. Stuff's really poor, and it's made

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Speaker 2: Here the possessions for the Houston Texas in the first half,

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Speaker 3: That basically may you pick up on the on the.

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Speaker 2: Thirty one yards put it out over midfield they get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a hidden yardage of thirty yards. Yeah you know,

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Speaker 2: Seven plays forty eight yards, six places thirty nine yards,

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Speaker 2: you're just not You're not giving yourself, your offense a

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Speaker 2: the offensive line is a mess. Is a mess, and

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Speaker 2: that should be where you win this game.

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Speaker 3: And it's should have.

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Speaker 2: Been two hundred and seventy yards for the game would

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Speaker 3: Would have been a bad game. Would have been a

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Speaker 3: that would you take it or not. I'm like, I'm

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Speaker 2: You know who's not the blame me. I didn't play

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Speaker 3: We're allowed to have our opinion. Yeah, I don't want

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Speaker 3: to hear that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't do any of it. I'm just giving you

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Speaker 2: my opinion on what happens and giving you a chance

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Speaker 2: to hear what they're saying happened as well, Like, don't

441
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Speaker 2: get angry at the messenger.

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Speaker 3: I didn't do anything. You didn't block or tackle anybody

443
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Speaker 3: or fail to.

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Speaker 2: I've never understood it's happened for years. It just drives

445
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Speaker 2: me bonkers, like, oh, you guys are a medium. No,

446
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Speaker 2: I didn't do anything. What are you talking about? And

447
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 2: even if so, here's the thing, here's the other thing

448
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Speaker 2: people need to understand. I could stand up tomorrow in

449
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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin's press conference and jump up on a stand

450
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Speaker 2: up on the chair, get up on the table and say, Mike,

451
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Speaker 2: why don't you fire Matt Canada?

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Speaker 3: How do you think he's going to answer that he's not.

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Speaker 2: He's not, and it's not gonna make him want to

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Speaker 2: fire Canada anymore.

455
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Speaker 3: It's not gonna matter one bit, right, I do find

456
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Speaker 3: that thing a little bit funny. You Pittsburgh media folks

457
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 3: are too kind to the organization and never asked a

458
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 3: tough question to Tomlin, Like I see that stuff out there.

459
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Speaker 3: I'm never in a press conference, so they don't lump

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Speaker 3: me in with you guys. I'm never going to a

461
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Speaker 3: press conference because I don't be lumped in with you guys.

462
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Speaker 3: You could ask the best or hardest question out there.

463
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Speaker 3: He's not gonna say.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to answer.

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Speaker 3: This is they don't have to answer.

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Speaker 2: He's not a government official, he's under no there, there's

467
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Speaker 2: nothing there to say he has to answer that question.

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Speaker 2: And what do you think if they asked Belichick that today? Like, well,

469
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Speaker 2: we're looking at right, grumble, grumble, you know right, I'm

470
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Speaker 2: not going to tell you what I think.

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Speaker 3: Never, it's like asking VI. I mean, you're not going

472
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Speaker 3: to get the real answer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you might get an off the record you know

474
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Speaker 2: later or maybe, but you're not going to get an

475
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Speaker 2: honest question, an honest answer in one of those press conferences, right,

476
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Speaker 2: like you.

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Speaker 3: Expected me, Like we think he's the root of every

478
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Speaker 3: problem in the whole history.

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Speaker 2: Of I don't even ask questions at the press conference

480
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Speaker 2: anymore because I know that nothing's going to be answered.

481
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Speaker 2: I don't even there's a couple of there's nothing that's

482
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Speaker 2: going to be answered. I'm not going to say, truthfully,

483
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Speaker 2: but it's going to be a generality. Generality and things

484
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Speaker 2: that they do, and b if I want to if

485
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Speaker 2: I want the answer to something that I really have

486
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Speaker 2: a question for, I'll go.

487
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Speaker 3: I'll go and do better avenues. I'm not going to say.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to let him announce it to every

489
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Speaker 2: everybody else. That's crazy.

490
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Speaker 3: I mean, all I do is listen to the NFL podcast.

491
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Speaker 3: But if there's like, oh, we're having a player on,

492
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Speaker 3: I might listening to that one. It's the same.

493
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Speaker 2: It's the same blah blah blah. Yeah, Oh, coaching staff

494
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Speaker 2: is really good. They put some right position. Yeah, I

495
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Speaker 2: don't care. That's what he's ever said. They hate that.

496
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Speaker 2: I hate that I got traded here, Like you know, no,

497
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Speaker 2: this is the best place ever, you know, and the

498
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Speaker 2: worst organization the league. They never say that the one

499
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Speaker 2: you're with right right right, you know they're trying to

500
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Speaker 2: win absolutely Anyways, we're overdue for a break. He is

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Speaker 2: Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the

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Speaker 2: Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back with

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Speaker 2: more after this.

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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Football lives here twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to SNR is the Drive with Dale Lolly

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Speaker 1: and Matt Williamson on your twenty four to seven home

507
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Speaker 1: of the Black and Gold SNR Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Dale LOLLI he is Matt Williamson, and

509
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Speaker 2: this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio. And Matt,

510
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: if there was any question about the NFL being a

511
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 2: week to week league, you need to look no further

512
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: than the Miami Dolphins or Dallas Cowboys or the Dallas Cowboys.

513
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys example, couldn't get out of their own way

514
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 2: two weeks ago, untalented Arizona team. Right then come out

515
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Speaker 2: and dominate this week. Yeah, the Patriots weren't even We're

516
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Speaker 2: never even in that game.

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Speaker 3: Patriots stink, by the way, Yeah, they're pretty bad. We're

518
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Speaker 3: saying off there just real quick, and this is not

519
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 3: I know you want to bring on something up. But

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Speaker 3: I am I told myself and I want our listeners

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Speaker 3: to tell me. I hope that I'm telling future Matt

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Speaker 3: that Wednesday, Thursday, Matt not to talk myself into well,

523
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Speaker 3: if they beat the Ravens, you know, in an ugly

524
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Speaker 3: game and figure out a way to get the buy,

525
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Speaker 3: everything's okay. I'm not going to be that guy this week.

526
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 3: But the Steelers situation is way better than their tape,

527
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 3: and that's part of the situation. If they happen to

528
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 3: beat Baltimore, their situation's not that terrible.

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Speaker 2: That's the reality.

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Speaker 3: Their tape's really bad right now. I'm not getting away

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Speaker 3: from that anyway.

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Speaker 2: This past week was awful. Awful tape the week before

533
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Speaker 2: was not awful. No, that's the that's the conundrum that

534
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 2: we're in right now. Right So, you know you mentioned Miami.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, two weeks seven, everybody's ready to crown

536
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 2: Miami is the greatest thing since Slash. But my god,

537
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 2: they put up seventy points and you know they're they're unbeatable,

538
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Speaker 2: and then they go in to Buffalo and get smokes

539
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Speaker 2: forty eight to twenty.

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Speaker 3: They got to be bad. They got they gotta be bad.

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Speaker 3: And even along those those lines we mentioned Dallas, you

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Speaker 3: know how about the Commanders. There was a little bit

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Speaker 3: of hope for the Commanders. A week ago they hosted

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Speaker 3: the Bills, who just destroyed Miami, and Washington was like

545
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Speaker 3: a five and a half point dog at home, got

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Speaker 3: destroyed by the Bills. Well then they come back and

547
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Speaker 3: take the Eagles super Bowl team to overtime. Maybe Washington's

548
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Speaker 3: pretty good and maybe the Bills are great, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean, Maybe the Niners and Bills are just

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Speaker 3: better than everybody else right now, That's what kind of

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Speaker 3: what it looks like.

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Speaker 2: Look at last night's game with the Chiefs in Jets

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Speaker 2: exactly Jets the first the first three weeks of the season.

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Speaker 2: After like the Jets can't get out of their own

555
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Speaker 2: way the last two weeks, the previous two games.

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Speaker 3: They're one of the ones that are below the Steelers,

557
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like they're horrible.

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Speaker 2: They come out and Zach Wilson has more passing yards

559
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Speaker 2: in that game than Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: It was the best game as a pro. He played well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he fumbled late, but we didn't think that was

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Speaker 3: I thought the whole game would be the whole second

563
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 3: half would be Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, TA or Swift.

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Speaker 2: And it kind of was Anywow, we got plenty of it,

565
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Speaker 2: which is something completely different.

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Speaker 3: But the Jets defense and team as a whole played

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Speaker 3: really well. I have some Kansas City concerns to beat, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, but Cincinnati stinks. They're in They're in trouble,

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Speaker 3: They're in huge.

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Speaker 2: They've looked. As much as you hate Matt Canada, as

571
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Speaker 2: much as you hate watching the Steelers off defense, go

572
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Speaker 2: watch some Cincinnati tape.

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Speaker 3: And now the Higgins has broken ribs. It's two weeks

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Speaker 3: I think until their by which I'm not sure a

575
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Speaker 3: buye is even going to cure his calf. I'm not

576
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Speaker 3: a dog.

577
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Speaker 2: They need to just like sit him down and just say, hey,

578
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Speaker 2: we need to sit him down the week before the

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Speaker 2: buye and give him two full weeks to try to

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Speaker 2: get healthy. And because all they're doing right now is

581
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Speaker 2: spinning their wheels and they aren't going anywhere.

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Speaker 3: For them to go to where they expect to be,

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Speaker 3: they have to basically lose two games after the buy

584
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Speaker 3: at most. I mean, that's the position they're putting themselves in.

585
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Speaker 3: And as we warned people.

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Speaker 2: They scored three points against the Titans.

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Speaker 3: Their O line stinks. It's not just him getting rid

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Speaker 3: of the ball. I mean he can't move and he's

589
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Speaker 3: set up to, you know, operate quickly and he can't

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Speaker 3: do that. But their own lines a disaster too, as

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Speaker 3: we warn people all along, like everyone thing's oh or later. Brown.

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Speaker 2: They a bunch of money right right, That doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: it's fit and the defense is always on the field.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of bad teams right now. That is

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Speaker 2: all I'm saying. Steel's one of them. I believe that

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Speaker 2: right right now. But there's a lot of them that

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Speaker 2: I didn't see coming now. Yeah, it's uh, it's.

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Speaker 3: But it's October second.

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Speaker 2: It's October second. That's the thing there. There's there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of football left again, as we saw last year,

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Speaker 2: right around this time, we were talking about what a

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00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: bad football team the Steelers were, because they were because

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00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: they were playing badly and they were getting their butts

604
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Speaker 2: kicked on a weekly basis, and they turned it around.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's you know, it's a lot of season.

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Speaker 2: It's it's ebb and flow. As Bill Cowery used to say,

607
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: it's a marathon, not a sprint.

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Speaker 3: It absolutely is, and unfortunately, it would almost be like

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Speaker 3: judging a boxing match by one bad round.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you really got killed that round. That was a

611
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Speaker 2: two point round for the other guy. But I'm still standing.

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Speaker 2: I'm still standing, and I still got I can still

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Speaker 2: go out and win the last eight rounds.

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Speaker 3: And I hope people don't think us me is dismissing

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Speaker 3: what happened on Sunday. It was really bad. I was

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Speaker 3: very disheartened, and I have a lot of concerns about

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Speaker 3: this football team. But we also know how seasons go.

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Speaker 2: And done this for a long long time.

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Speaker 3: We're judging by some of the other teams in the league,

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Speaker 3: New England, Cincinnati in particular. Who I mean, there's some

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Speaker 3: bad teams right now. Some of them will recover, some won't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, as hot as Cleveland had been defensively,

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Speaker 2: they go out and give up twenty eight points to

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Speaker 2: the Ravens. So I don't know that that.

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Speaker 3: Was a Yeah. I want to talk about that game

626
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Speaker 3: a little. So I said this, we said this a

627
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Speaker 3: week ago. Houston didn't really win and Jacksonville Jacksonville lost.

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Speaker 3: Think I still think that hasn't changed Houston's better than

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Speaker 3: I thought they were. They played much better than I expected.

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Speaker 3: But this Baltimore team, they're three to one, and them

631
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Speaker 3: and the Eagles remind me of themselves a little bit.

632
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Speaker 3: Though I think Philadelphi is better. That neither one's playing

633
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Speaker 3: great and they're getting wins the spite of it. Cool.

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00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 3: So this set up so perfectly for the Ravens this

635
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Speaker 3: past week against the Browns, Like I got all these

636
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Speaker 3: tweets kind of how it's your faults heels lost, how's

637
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 3: that Brown's defense? Now, go watch the game. They beat

638
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 3: the crap out of the Ravens offense, with the exception

639
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Speaker 3: of about five unbelievable Lamar plays. He put on the

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Speaker 3: cape a few times and did wonderful things, and that's

641
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Speaker 3: why he makes eight bazillion dollars a year, and that's

642
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Speaker 3: why he's won an MVP. And that's great.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, when you look

644
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Speaker 2: at he threw for one hundred and eighty six yards, yeah, right,

645
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 2: they had one hundred and thirty one yards rushing.

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Speaker 3: But I mean my point was the Browns defense was

647
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Speaker 3: still awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, their main gus Edwards led them in rushing with

649
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Speaker 2: fifteen care for forty eight yards. That's three point two

650
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Speaker 2: yards to carry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Brown's defense was the best unit on the field.

652
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 3: They were just always on the field. Yeah, and why

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Speaker 3: I'm saying that the Ravens got fortunate. And this is

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Speaker 3: how the league works, you know, like someone played the

655
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 3: Packers one day without Aaron Rodgers, blah blah blah, that

656
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 3: they threw a rookie in there at the last minute

657
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 3: that really had no business being the brown starting quarterback.

658
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 2: The Browns average two point six yards per play.

659
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 3: Per play per play, and they didn't. If they would

660
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: have had Nick Chubb, maybe they get away with it

661
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 3: and get some more first downs and it's more competitive.

662
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 3: Like the Browns really didn't have a chance. And the

663
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 3: Ravens are overcoming some injuries and some concerns as they

664
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 3: learn to quote dominate the division. Now, are they better

665
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 3: than Steelers, Yes they are right now. But that's how

666
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 3: this league works. It's not one hundred and eighty two

667
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty two games. You know, they concentrates

668
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 3: so much on one game that if Watson and Trouble

669
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 3: were in there, and I know they weren't, maybe it's

670
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 3: a lot different, you know, But Browns d is still

671
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 3: really good. I don't know that the Ravens are an

672
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 3: elite team all of a sudden.

673
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they are.

674
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 3: No, I whatever, things are going their way and they're

675
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 3: taking full advantage of it, and Harbaugh and Lamar know

676
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 3: how to win this league, and they're going to be

677
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: a very difficult opponent, no.

678
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 2: Doubt, no doubt. Know, I just you know, again, it

679
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 2: is a week to week league. You know, the team

680
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: looks great this week, we see it in power ranking

681
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 2: every week. That's why you know, somebody beats somebody else

682
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 2: and you say, well, I'm not going to move them

683
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: up ahead of them this week because that was a

684
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 2: one time thing.

685
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

686
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 2: Again, if you if you go out in this in

687
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: the NFL and you don't play your best game, you're

688
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: probably going to lose Dallas first Arizona, because that's just

689
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 2: the way the league is. The worst NFL. This one

690
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 2: thing that always kills me when when there's the Chicago

691
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 2: Bears right now are awful.

692
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 3: Really badly. They were thirty two in every power right, yeah,

693
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 3: deservedly so, both horrible and both they went out and.

694
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 2: Played Georgia right now, they'd roll them. They beat them

695
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 2: by a million, right, Yeah, because the worst NFL team

696
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 2: is still an NFL team. It's like being, well, you know, what,

697
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 2: where'd you where'd you graduate in your class as a doctor?

698
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: Well I was thirty second. Well you're still a doctor,

699
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: still a doctor.

700
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 3: Like like, I don't even know what to make out

701
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 3: of Bears Broncos. I mean those were two teams. Yeah,

702
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 3: and they were up big from the Bears. I'm like,

703
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 3: I saw a lot of projects from fields. You know. Yeah,

704
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: we end up losing, but this was our best game

705
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 3: or was it against a horrendous opponent. I don't know

706
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 3: if I'm done for I'm like, we we got ourselves

707
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 3: our first win. We came back strong, we did some

708
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 3: good things. I think both those teams should be happy

709
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 3: with how they played. But it was not against the Niners.

710
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: Right, you know, right, Yeah, it's it's a week to

711
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 2: week league.

712
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 3: I love it to death because we over scrutinize this

713
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 3: league and no end and that gives us a job.

714
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 2: At no point do you ever do you ever get

715
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: Georgia against Georgia Southern. There's no such match up in

716
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: the NFL.

717
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 3: It doesn't, it doesn't.

718
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 2: You know, even that game Arizona against San Francisco yesterday,

719
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: Arizona was hanging around in that game into the fourth quarter.

720
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,479
Speaker 3: It wasn't over at half times.

721
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 2: It was I think twenty twenty one sixteen. I think

722
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 2: Arizona scored early or in the third quarter to pull

723
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: within five. Yeah, and then the forty nine ers pulled

724
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 2: away at the end.

725
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 3: They were right there. Arizona's nothing to be ashamed of,

726
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 3: considering the talent they have. I mean, they've had a

727
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 3: good year. So it's but it's a crazy league. And

728
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 3: it's also what changes are going to be made. You

729
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 3: don't have I know, you have a week to prepare

730
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 3: for the Ravens. But it's not like you take the

731
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 3: playbook and everything and just road in the fire and

732
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 3: write a new one. I mean you might make a

733
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 3: tweak here and there.

734
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 2: There might be some plays you said, we're just not.

735
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 3: Going to that. That chapter might be thrown. Yeah, but

736
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 3: we're not gonna run.

737
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: We can't. We can't defend this. We need to We

738
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 2: need to adjust how we defend this play because everybody's

739
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: doing it against us. We haven't we haven't stopped it yet,

740
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 2: so now we're going to answer for this. Yeah, we

741
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: got to tweak that in terms of personality. It might

742
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 2: not be anything that you see on the field, you

743
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: recognize on the field in terms of player personnel.

744
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 3: Like I think, maybe it go off, yeah, you know,

745
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 3: but it's not going to be five new starters, no,

746
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 3: three coaching changes, you know, Like I mean like baseball,

747
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 3: maybe put in a new right fielder, he's fine, you know,

748
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 3: or this picture goes to the bullpen. Okay, that's what

749
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 3: that doesn't.

750
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 2: That's the people you know, the fire Matt Canada crowd

751
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 2: needs to understand is that if they did happen to

752
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: fire Matt Canada now, then what you're still running Matt

753
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: Canada's offense because you don't have time to install a

754
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 2: whole new offense.

755
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: That's they're going to run this offense all year no

756
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 3: matter what.

757
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: It's all you would be doing would be changing the

758
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 2: play caller.

759
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: You would change the play sequencing. Yes, you might take

760
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 3: the playbook and say this chapter needs thrown away or

761
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 3: we need to add a chapter, but the playbook is staying.

762
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: All the verbiage is staying. You're not rewriting stuff. You're

763
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 3: not gonna call things differently, nor should you, because the

764
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: coach and whole staff would have to learn it. Yeah,

765
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 3: there'd be some changes, but it would not be a

766
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 3: whole new offense. Again, it would impossible. It probably wouldn't

767
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 3: be anything that the a layman or myself or you

768
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 3: or we're not recognize because we're not in the meeting

769
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 3: rooms and things of that nature. No, No, I mean

770
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: the play sequencing might be different. They might be like, boy,

771
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 3: we have some tendencies we need to change. Maybe the

772
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 3: teaching is different. I don't know. I mean that's all

773
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 3: behind the scenes stuff. Yeah, there would be changes behind

774
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 3: the scenes. I don't know that any of us watching

775
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 3: would know a noticeable difference. The results might be different,

776
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 3: but you might be like, I don't know that it

777
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: makes it makes Isaac sulham Allo a better blocker or

778
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 3: Friar Muth a better pass catcher. You know what I mean.

779
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 2: That's the that's the long and short of it. And again,

780
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: this is not a sprint. This is a season. This

781
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 2: is a marathon. I'm willing and I know you know

782
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 2: that they're willing you let this thing play out. Yeah,

783
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 2: you know, four games is not a season.

784
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 3: No, in this organization, this head coach knows that as

785
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 3: well as anyone in the league. Doesn't choose what we

786
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 3: saw Sunday. I'm gonna say that one hundred times this week.

787
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 3: This was a really bad game and it has sent

788
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: off alarm bells for me all over the place. But

789
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 3: it's not over. It's October second.

790
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 2: It's October second. There's still a lot of football left

791
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 2: to be played. We're gonna get to another break. He

792
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 2: is Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lallie. You're listening to

793
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 2: the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We'll be back

794
00:40:58,040 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 2: with more right after this.

795
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,040
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799
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805
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Speaker 2: I am Dale Lollie. You're listening to the drive here

806
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 2: on Steelers Nation Radio, and well, Matt, we should probably

807
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about the injuries. Yeah, situation here

808
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 2: obviously ideal. Kenny Pickett dealing with a knee issue of

809
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 2: some sort happened on that fourth down sack.

810
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 3: You mentioned her in the show. I mean, tomorrow will

811
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 3: get a lot more clear. We'll get some clarity there.

812
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: I would imagine he is not playing this week. That

813
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 3: I'm a surprised Derek Carr played this week. Probably shouldn't

814
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 3: have how much you've watched it.

815
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,919
Speaker 2: I didn't see any of that one, but it didn't

816
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 2: seem like they moved the ball a lot.

817
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 3: His average at the target was like one yard down.

818
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 3: Probably they could throw it, Yeah, I thought exactly. I

819
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 3: didn't study it, but I mean, we'll get to that

820
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 3: kind of stuff next hour. But Kamara had thirteen catches

821
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 3: for like thirty yards and the Lave had won, you know,

822
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 3: like they didn't throw the ball on the field at all.

823
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 3: I assumed it had to be shoulder related.

824
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably why the Browns didn't play Deshaan Watson,

825
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 2: even though they said he had been cleared to play.

826
00:42:54,400 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 3: There was some there was even reports an hour before starting,

827
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 3: I put in my line up. No, he's not from uh.

828
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: Uh so Pickings. Uh. Reports are out there that he

829
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: avoided a tear. So it's not it's nothing season ending

830
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 2: or anything like that. But I would expect with the

831
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: Steelers having their buy coming up here in two weeks,

832
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: they you don't play him this week.

833
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: It seems safe to say tentatively he misses Ravens. He's

834
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 3: back after that. So honestly, when it happened, I'm like,

835
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 3: he's off the ear. Yeah, I mean I immediately thought

836
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 3: the worst. Is not that I I wasn't the best

837
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 3: of mood anyway.

838
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: We also saw Pat Froarmouth leave. He's got a hamstring.

839
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 2: If you watch that play.

840
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 3: A tough year man. Yeah, in terms of staying on

841
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 3: the field and taking a beating, he was.

842
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: Just he planted his foot to run an out and

843
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: when he planted the foot, he immediately grabbed for the

844
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 2: hamstring and went down.

845
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's might be a few weeks now. I guess

846
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,720
Speaker 3: we'll get more clarity on that. Everyone's focused on Kenny,

847
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 3: of course, but I haven't. I haven't seen one thing

848
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 3: one way or another. I guess tomorrow we'll talk about

849
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 3: it more detail. But one thing I did notice, and

850
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 3: this was a pro football focused fantasy fact, is when

851
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 3: Friarmuth left, they didn't use twelve personnel. Again, that they

852
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 3: didn't put Hayward and what they were losing. Yeah, you know,

853
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 3: so there's context to it, but they didn't put Hayward

854
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 3: in Washington out as the two tight ends. Well that point,

855
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 3: they only ran I'm saying, it wasn't a huge sample

856
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 3: size and they were losing at that point. The other

857
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 3: thing I wanted to throw out there too is Zach

858
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 3: Gentry is on the Bengals practice squad. Correct, so you

859
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 3: could snatch you could, you could sign them back, yeah,

860
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 3: which would make all sense in the world for me.

861
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. You know. The trouble with Hayward

862
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 2: is that he is not a direct replacement for Pat

863
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 2: Fryermuth exactly.

864
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 3: He's big play. Yeah, he's so that's I'm not critical

865
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 3: of it. That's why I was shocked Gentry was let

866
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 3: go originally because Heyward's a tight end dish, you know, right,

867
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 3: He's not exactly the same.

868
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we'll see about that. Uh. Dan Moore junior

869
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 2: that looks like a spring knee of some sort as well.

870
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 3: Real quick. Ian Rappaport poured out right this second that

871
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 3: Pickett will miss some time, but his knee injury is

872
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 3: not believed to be season ending. Which that's that's basically

873
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 3: what everybody says. That's that's not really that's what.

874
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 2: These guys do. They put news out like that, they

875
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 2: put information out like that, there isn't really anything ground breaking,

876
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 2: and then.

877
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 3: That's a million retweets. Yeah all you're.

878
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 2: Say anything that we didn't already know.

879
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 3: He's missing time and he's not out for the year. Well,

880
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 3: there's a lot of stuff in between. Yeah, anyway, and

881
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 3: I thought that would be better than it was. It

882
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 3: just popped up on my phone. I saw Picket like, yeah.

883
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: Damn damn. Moore went out of that game early.

884
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 3: You know that that forced well Jones.

885
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw a lot more Jones than what we

886
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,479
Speaker 2: had seen in the first month. He didn't play great,

887
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 2: he didn't.

888
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 3: No, he didn't. I mean, still work in progress. You

889
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 3: can see why he's been out of the lineup. I

890
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 3: was actually calling for, or it was interested. I wasn't

891
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 3: calling for. I thought, you know, some changes that would

892
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 3: be interesting going into that that game, not knowing that

893
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 3: they'd be injuries would be for the offensive line left

894
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 3: the right to go Jones, Ciamalu Daniels herbig shookes. I

895
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 3: think that could be their best five long term. And

896
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: I said going into the game, well, I haven't seen

897
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 3: Jones past block in a month, so I'm assuming he's

898
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,479
Speaker 3: better at it and working on it. Well, he wasn't

899
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 3: necessarily in this game. Yeah, his TAM's coming. I mean,

900
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 3: his time's coming. It might be this week. But we

901
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 3: don't have any more Dan Moore news, right.

902
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: We do not know. I did see him in the

903
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: locker room after the game yesterday. He was walking around,

904
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 2: So I mean, we'll see, Yeah, you know, we'll see

905
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 2: about that. Leow also left leel leel is a concussion

906
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 2: and there was a there was a tweet over the

907
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 2: weekend that one of the quote unquote insiders put out

908
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 2: that that no player has returned this year from a

909
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 2: concussion the next week after suffering the concursion. That's not true,

910
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 2: Oh okay, because the cors For had a concussion or

911
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 2: two ago, right, and came back and played in the

912
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 2: next week and a Monday night. It was a Monday

913
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 2: night game, so he had the extra day but he

914
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 2: came back and played the next week.

915
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 3: So we don't know if he could have played on

916
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 3: a Sunday or not.

917
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 2: The information was not correct. Okay, so it's not outlandish

918
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 2: to say he's back. Yeah, okay, so we'll see. But

919
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 2: you know, that's what they came out of this with.

920
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 2: Obviously they were already missing Presley Harvin. I would assume

921
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 2: maybe he gets back this week. They need him.

922
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 3: Wing was fine, but Harvin was really good before that.

923
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 2: Harvin was better. He's also in terms of you know,

924
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 2: maybe you would you don't attempt a fifty one yard

925
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 2: field goal, which is what it would have been from

926
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 2: the thirty three, because of Wing in there as a

927
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 2: holder as opposed to Presley Harvin.

928
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 3: That factors in all the time. My biggest concern with

929
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 3: Wing was the holding. I'll probably fine as a punter,

930
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 3: but I don't want to screwing up a game winning

931
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 3: kick hold. You know.

932
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I know that. You know, early in

933
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: his rookie year, that was not one of his strengths.

934
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 2: That was something that Wings Yeah, no, no, no, no, Harvin,

935
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: oh okay, and he worked at it consist like constantly

936
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 2: in practice.

937
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, just taking no complaints.

938
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: Taking balls off off the jugs. He would go over

939
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 2: with the with the long snapper and they would practice

940
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 2: you just snap and put it down, Snap and put

941
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 2: it down. Yeah, just keep practicing. That's no issues in

942
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 2: two years or so. Yeah, I mean he's gotten pretty

943
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 2: good at it. And you know, I think Boswell's trust

944
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 2: in him is you know that that's why you trust

945
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 2: it to go out and send him out and have

946
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: kick a fifty seven yard field goal, of course, because

947
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 2: you expect everything to go perfectly, because if you miss

948
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 2: a fifty seven yard field goal, you're giving the other

949
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 2: team the ball midfield.

950
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 3: Oh it's a huge swing. Yeah, and that three man

951
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 3: battery including a long snapper, is a lot more important

952
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 3: than people think. I mean, it's just trust and repetitions.

953
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 3: And you know that's what worried me about Wing but

954
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 3: didn't see any of those problems.

955
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to think who else, Oh, James Daniels will

956
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 2: see about that. That was a groin injury. He missed

957
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 2: the game as well. So you'd like to have him back. Yeah,

958
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 2: you'd love that this week.

959
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 3: You know.

960
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 2: Otherwise you've got basically two backups on your offensive line playing,

961
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 2: so not quite as money as Houston had but no.

962
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 3: But on the injury front, hypothetically, no one gets hurt

963
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 3: against the Ravens, you should be pretty healthy potentially coming out.

964
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 2: Of them, coming out of the by, you get a

965
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 2: chance to I would assume Deontay Johnson is back at

966
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 2: that point coming out of the by. We'll see about

967
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 2: Cam Hayward. Okay, I think he's definite. I think he's

968
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 2: getting well. I mean, so it's already been three weeks.

969
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 2: That'll make it four, That'll make it four five, and

970
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 2: then possibly that would be the sixth that would be

971
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 2: on the shorter end of the six to eight weeks.

972
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 2: There's a possibility that they could bring him back. He

973
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 2: does have the Wolverine blood.

974
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 3: And I'm not, you know, trying to make any excuses

975
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 3: for yesterday, but he was really missed in that game.

976
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been a game really really would

977
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: have liked to have had him.

978
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 3: I can't imagine in any play situation that Kendrick Green

979
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 3: and backup linemen are having success against him. Yeah, so

980
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 3: he was really missed in that one.

981
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to another break he is. Matt Williamson.

982
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,359
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983
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985
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