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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on your twenty four to seven home of the Black

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Speaker 1: and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Drive.

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Speaker 3: It is a victory Monday here in Pittsburgh as the

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Speaker 3: Steelers take down the Washington Commanders twenty eight to twenty

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Speaker 3: seven on Sunday down in Landover, Mary, not exactly in Washington,

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Speaker 3: d C.

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Speaker 2: But Matt, great win, great win, come back win.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers overcame a ten point second half deficit. A

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Speaker 3: lot of things to unravel here. The first thing I

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Speaker 3: wanted to set talk about though, And I'm not talking

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Speaker 3: to our listeners.

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Speaker 2: I'm not talking to you.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking to the national media who basically slandered Russell

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Speaker 3: Wilson for the past I don't know, two seasons when

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Speaker 3: he was in Denver and then when the Steelers acquired him.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's washed up, he's done, blah blah blah, he's

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Speaker 3: a bad leader. Bat Like, where are these people? None

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Speaker 3: of that stuff is true.

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Speaker 4: Right, I mean, I don't know where it came from.

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Speaker 5: There.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't there.

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Speaker 2: There were some like Mark Schlereth and guys like that.

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Speaker 4: I'm not one to blame the organization or whatever. I

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Speaker 4: don't know. I didn't think we're going down this road

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Speaker 4: to start things off. But he's sure been a revelation

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Speaker 4: for the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't Maybe it wasn't him, Maybe it was you.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it was a team that is the longest playoff

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Speaker 4: drought in the league and could be that ownership.

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Speaker 3: Got a field goal blocked yesterday in the closing seconds

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Speaker 3: in a game that they were ready to win against

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Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: And if you think about it, I mean, Wilson was

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Speaker 4: a Bronco for two seasons, saw three head coaches like,

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Speaker 4: maybe it's not you, it's me. Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 4: said that all the time about the Bears. They even't

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Speaker 4: had a quarterback since Sid Luckman, Like, do you think

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Speaker 4: it's every one of the guys they've drafted fault not them?

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Speaker 4: And now they're going to ruin this guy.

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Speaker 3: I think the Browns are drawn twenty five quarterbacks and

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Speaker 3: they've been it might be twenty seven, right whatever, Wow,

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Speaker 3: Reminian is since they came back into Lake since nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety nine, because the quarterbacks have all been bad.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 4: Do you think there's drama around the Jets all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden.

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Speaker 3: So where I was going with that is, Yeah, where

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Speaker 3: you land matters, The team around you matters, The culture

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Speaker 3: that's in that locker room matters.

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Speaker 4: More so than maybe even the player. I like, especially

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Speaker 4: like draft, Yeah, you know, like where did you land? Okay,

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Speaker 4: I'll invest in them then or do you trust them?

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Speaker 4: You know, not even who the player is necessarily Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So I mean it's kind of the same position. It's

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Speaker 4: kind of the same conversations we were having about Justin Fields.

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Speaker 4: Justin Fields in Chicago. Oh, he was a mess. He

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Speaker 4: can't do this, he can't do that. He comes to Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 4: Darnold with the Jets. It was so much with Caroline. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of examples. Right, put me

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Speaker 4: in a decent spot Baker with the Browns, and we

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Speaker 4: keep bringing up the same teams. It's total coincidence. But

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Speaker 4: my eighteen year old is starting to really realize that.

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Speaker 4: He's like, can any of these teams ever win in

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Speaker 4: my lifetime? I'm like, not consistently. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: They may have a year here or there where they

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Speaker 3: you know, catch lightning in a bottle, but it's never consistent.

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Speaker 4: It's not I'm like Yeah, he might all line up

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Speaker 4: and maybe because I told him that the Lions used

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Speaker 4: to be that team and now I think they can win.

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Speaker 2: They've changed the culture.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've made drastic changes, but nine out of ten examples,

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Speaker 4: you're one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 3: It's really difficult to change the cultures. And I'll give

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Speaker 3: Washington credit. I think they are changing the culture.

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Speaker 4: I think that's I thought that was their own only

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Speaker 4: goal this offseason, change the culture. Hope you found a

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Speaker 4: quarterback with the second overall pick. I think they absolutely

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Speaker 4: did all that. That's a hard job to do, and

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Speaker 4: it looks like they've done it. That being said, yeah,

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Speaker 4: played a game yesterday.

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Speaker 3: They played a game yesterday and Jaden Daniels had his

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Speaker 3: worst game as a pro.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely did. But I didn't think he was bad. He wasn't.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that he was bad. He did some

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Speaker 3: really good things in that game, yep. But the Steelers

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Speaker 3: made him look as bad as he's looked all season.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So I've done a bunch of shows already today.

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Speaker 4: And I think this goes back to the Giant game too.

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Speaker 4: Why Tyrone Tracy run so much on them because they

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Speaker 4: don't Wan Daniel Jones to you know what I mean,

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Speaker 4: and people don't gonna quate him the same way they

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Speaker 4: do Lamar and Daniels. And there are different types of runners.

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Speaker 4: The quarterback rushing can really, really.

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Speaker 2: Really hurt you because you're not accounting for that unless.

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Speaker 4: You are, unless you are unless you are. And I

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Speaker 4: think a question I've been brought up several times to

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Speaker 4: me already today is just playing Daniels and then I

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Speaker 4: throw Jones and prepare you for Lamar And I'm like, no,

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Speaker 4: it's the other way around. They were good against those

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Speaker 4: two because they know how to prepare against Lamar. The

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Speaker 4: NFC doesn't know how to deal with Lamar. The Steelers do,

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Speaker 4: and they do the Lamar rules to Daniels yesterday. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: he has it with five rushing yards and you walk

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Speaker 4: out there were the win.

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Speaker 2: That was this thing that struck me.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: You get to the end of that game and I'm

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Speaker 2: looking through this.

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Speaker 3: I pour through all the stats and start looking at stuff,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, no tackles for TJ What no tackles

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Speaker 4: I won't talk about those two, but.

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Speaker 3: The Steelers limited Daniels to three carries for five yards

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Speaker 2: Came on one rush, right that.

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Speaker 3: I mean Patrick Queen looked like he was shot out

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Speaker 3: and they had sixty rushing yards. The running backs didn't

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Speaker 3: hurt them, no, but it was because Watt and Highsmith

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Speaker 3: are responsible for the quarterback in that situation. Yes, so

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Speaker 3: if the quarterback never runs the ball, they're not gonna

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Speaker 3: have any tackles because they're exactly they're crashing to keep

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Speaker 3: him contained in the pocket and the ball. And that

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Speaker 3: it deterred him from doing a lot of the read

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Speaker 3: option stuff. If the if, the if, the outside, if

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Speaker 2: At, He's not going to tuck the ball. He's not.

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Speaker 3: He's going to keep it himself and run. He didn't

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Speaker 4: In your ten thoughts, righteah, because I've been saying a

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Speaker 4: lot of the same thing today. That so his job

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Speaker 4: the defensive end outside linebacker calling whatever you want, but

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Speaker 4: they can play it so that he favors him to

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Speaker 4: hand the ball off, which is exactly what they're doing.

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Speaker 4: And therefore guess what Patrick Queen is also in those

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Speaker 4: defensive meetings. He's key in the running back right, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean? Like it's it's not the fool

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Speaker 4: proof planer. Everyone do it all the time, but the

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Speaker 4: Steelers execute it really, really well. And a huge thing

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Speaker 4: I've been saying about high Smith and Watt and I

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Speaker 4: guess we could put Preston Smith in there, but he's

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Speaker 4: new is they're such good football players, but they're really

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Speaker 4: smart players and they're really unselfish. Like if TJ. Watt

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Speaker 2: I want to do that. I want to go get

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Speaker 2: six sacks in this game.

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Speaker 4: I want to then hit get six sacks in the game,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Like he could set the

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Speaker 4: sack lee. If he played how he wanted to play,

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Speaker 4: only to get sacks, he'd have a million. But he's not.

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Speaker 4: I'll eat up lockers.

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Speaker 2: I'll do that.

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Speaker 4: I'll maybe get an extra hit on the quarterback and

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Speaker 4: we'll win.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought the defensive they gave up two drives

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Speaker 3: The was aided by a couple of penalties on Joey

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Speaker 3: Porter Junior, and you have to know that, as Joey

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Speaker 3: Porter junior going into that game, that that crew is

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Speaker 3: flag happy in the secondary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, we talked without that Friday and mclaurin's good.

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Speaker 2: And mclaurin's good.

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Speaker 3: They made a couple of plays and in the second

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Speaker 3: half they opened the second half, they hit a slant

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a big play. It was.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing.

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Speaker 4: I mean the fake punt set them up level.

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Speaker 3: They had one hundred and forty eight yards on those

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Speaker 4: So while we're talking defensive strategy, we talked about how

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Speaker 4: they dealt with Daniels and he made a lot of

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Speaker 4: contested throws too. I mean, he made some tight, tight windows. Question.

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Speaker 4: But I also thought something I've been a little critical

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Speaker 4: of the Steeler defense is I saw more coverage variety,

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Speaker 4: you know, like some of their safeties they weren't just

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Speaker 4: dropping into cover three. They the most blitzes of any

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Speaker 4: game this year, you know, I mean different levels of

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Speaker 4: blit blitzing too. Sometimes it's just like a slow playing blitz,

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Speaker 4: so he doesn't have a lane. But I mean they

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Speaker 4: varied things up for the rookie, and we talked about

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Speaker 4: all last week, like he's not the average rookie. But

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Speaker 4: there's a reason Tomlin beat tricky quarterbacks every time because

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Speaker 4: they're still rookies, right, you know they haven't seen that stuff.

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Speaker 2: No, they held a third.

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Speaker 3: They held the ball for over thirty six minutes against

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Speaker 3: the team that really wants to control the football. A right,

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Speaker 3: good offense, really good offense, and so let's get to it.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons why I thought they ran

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Speaker 3: the fake punt, because they knew they weren't going to

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Speaker 3: keep Washington from scoring the whole day.

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Speaker 2: That offense is too right.

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Speaker 4: I think they're trying to steal possession. Yeah, they probably

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Speaker 4: went into that game saying, we if we could steal

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Speaker 4: possession here, that would go a long way.

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Speaker 3: And if you look at it, Washington came into that game.

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Speaker 3: I got a final.

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Speaker 2: They had thirteen to three and outs all season long.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they had two quarters of football. They didn't score points.

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Speaker 4: Out of thirty six.

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Speaker 3: Forty six percent of their commanders drives this season had

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Speaker 3: gone into the red zone. Yeah, most easily emotional.

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Speaker 4: League, and they settled for a lot of field goals,

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Speaker 4: but they're still they moved the football better than anyone

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Speaker 4: of the league.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers held them.

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Speaker 3: They held them to six three and outs on twelve

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Speaker 3: meaningful possession on twelve possessions. Uh, they were two of

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Speaker 3: on the led to that, so two for eleven. Two

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Speaker 3: of the eleven possessions that they had went into the

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Speaker 3: red zone. Well, yeah, easily. I mean you you you

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Speaker 3: limited that offense than everybody else.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they played some decent teams. I mean

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Speaker 4: that's by far their toughest day at the offense. Two

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Speaker 4: That's something Washington has done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Pierre catches that to me nine out of ten times.

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Speaker 4: And again I've reiterated this all day. It's like, how

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Speaker 2: Put it out there and catch it.

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Speaker 4: And an athlete's gonna catch it. Most of the time,

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Speaker 4: he didn't in this instance. It wasn't the prettiest throw. Ever,

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Speaker 3: There's nobody playing in the NFL who has not, at

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Speaker 2: Right, there's nobody We've seen.

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Speaker 2: Just they're messing around doing it.

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Speaker 4: But they've been in the football field a lot, they've

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Speaker 2: They know what this is like. They've tried.

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Speaker 4: Both of our listeners, we've caught it football and many

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Speaker 2: Nobody within fifteen yards of him.

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Speaker 4: Right, He'll be the first to tell you I should

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Speaker 4: that's why they play the games. But in a way,

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Speaker 3: And you had a run play college, you check out

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Speaker 4: So I had no problem with the because the look.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's again, I can't we can't.

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Speaker 4: And if he catches it, we're talking about how smart.

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Speaker 3: It's the greatest playever. You can't say, oh, because it

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Speaker 3: And I've heard people say, well, you wouldn't do that

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Speaker 4: I don't know, it's a really easy play to execute.

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Speaker 3: You're not, but you're not gonna do it in a situationally,

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Speaker 4: There'll be not if you're trying to close out a game.

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Speaker 3: That's a that's a conversation that that Danny Smith has

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Speaker 3: Danny Smith will pull the two kick returners aside say hey,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. People need to realize Killer Brew is the quarterback, right,

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Speaker 4: but I wonder Danny may not even said a thing

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Speaker 3: They have a Special Teams meeting every Saturday morning. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean Danny's not in his headset agree dotting them

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Speaker 3: Because you see things so we can't you can't credit

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Speaker 3: the Special teams, which have been great this season. They've

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Speaker 3: So if you're going to be aggressive, be aggressive and

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Speaker 4: I mean. Weird little thing that we were talking about

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Speaker 3: And I had the conversation yesterday after the game was

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Speaker 2: Had they been muffing punts?

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Speaker 3: He goes, no, you know, I watched him in warm

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Speaker 4: Always got a lefty punter just for that reason.

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Speaker 3: He said, We've seen teams struggle catching the ball from him.

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Speaker 3: He said, and you know we saw we saw Hi

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Speaker 2: He said, so.

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Speaker 3: Peers peers in front of him or peer peers just

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Speaker 4: You're like slapshot behind the net? Yeah, your mom right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so once again your defense of special teams made

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Speaker 3: big plays. Now there's special teams also gave on up.

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Speaker 3: The defense gave up some play.

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Speaker 4: Special teams was a wash. Yeah, you know, but you'll

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Speaker 3: I mean, everything was there except for the final part

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Speaker 4: I hope they do it again.

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Speaker 3: If the Ravens give the same look, I would imagine.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that anybody would at this point anymore, No.

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Speaker 4: Why you would. But right, if you see that, throw

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Speaker 4: won't you just toss it out there?

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Speaker 2: You're gonna leave that guy?

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Speaker 4: It makes no sense to me too, Like the Rams

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Speaker 3: time in college once he completed it, but he threw

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Speaker 3: it one time. And I saw that play replayed over

441
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,359
Speaker 3: and over and over again clips and people talked about,

442
00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,960
Speaker 3: well again, I Pressley Harvin, throw you throw the ball?

443
00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,280
Speaker 3: Well that's when you do it. Yeah, you don't throw

444
00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,480
Speaker 3: when when the guy's covered. Yeah, all you gotta do

445
00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,479
Speaker 3: is just get it out there to beautiful. We're not

446
00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,040
Speaker 3: asking our punter to throw, you know, throw a fifteen

447
00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,159
Speaker 3: yard out. You just toss it out there for him

448
00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:41,560
Speaker 3: to catch it.

449
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,439
Speaker 4: And a big thing like, no one cares if your

450
00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,600
Speaker 4: kickers are necessarily a good athlete, but if your punter

451
00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,680
Speaker 4: is has a history typically has.

452
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Speaker 2: The second best hands on the team.

453
00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're the holder frozen balls coming in

454
00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,560
Speaker 4: that are wet and things like that behind the quarterbacks, folks.

455
00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,360
Speaker 4: But a lot of those guys are former quarterbacks. Yeah,

456
00:18:58,400 --> 00:18:59,200
Speaker 4: you know the punters.

457
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Speaker 2: So I have a problem with it.

458
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,359
Speaker 4: No, we haven't talked that. Look do it.

459
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,480
Speaker 3: We haven't talked about the offense much. We're gonna do

460
00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,320
Speaker 3: that when we come back, when we talk with Rob King.

461
00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,760
Speaker 3: He will join us here on the Justin Miller hot line.

462
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,600
Speaker 3: He's Matt Miller, Matt Williamson. I am Dale Lolly. You're

463
00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,200
Speaker 3: listening to the Drive here on the Steelers Audio Network.

464
00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,199
Speaker 3: Matt and now will be back with more right after this.

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Speaker 1: At least is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt

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Speaker 1: Williamson on your twenty four to seven home of the

467
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Speaker 1: Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I am Dale Lolly.

469
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,400
Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson and we're joined on the

470
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Speaker 3: Justin Miller Hotline. We just call it like the JM Hotline.

471
00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,480
Speaker 3: Then people think it's like sponsored or something. The Justin

472
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 3: should be sponsored. The Justin Miller hot Line should be sponsored.

473
00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 3: Let's get to this, folks. Somebody sponsored the Justin Miller

474
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,440
Speaker 3: hot Line. Anyways, we're joined now by Steelers play by

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Speaker 3: play announcer Rob King.

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Speaker 2: Rob down in Landover, Maryland with me uh in the

477
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Speaker 2: rest of us.

478
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 3: Yesterday apparently half a Steelers Nation was there yesterday, Robert

479
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 3: once again taking over a stadium. And I think I

480
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 3: thought I played a factor in that game. How about yourself?

481
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, first of all, it's Miller time.

482
00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:19,640
Speaker 2: There you go, It's mill of time.

483
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 5: I'm just showed it out there for Justin Miller in

484
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 5: the Miller Hotline.

485
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was impressive to see as it always is,

486
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,040
Speaker 6: and it always seems.

487
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Speaker 5: To come at the right time.

488
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Speaker 6: Like, you know, you're looking around and you're like, there's

489
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 6: a lot of Steelers fans here, and then all of

490
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 6: a sudden, it's the fourth quarter and it's like they've

491
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:42,920
Speaker 6: been beamed dead.

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Speaker 2: They've multiplied. Well, the game was going on.

493
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Speaker 5: Yeah, midnight, you know Norway.

494
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 6: Uh, you know, they're they're West Alley eighty, you know,

495
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,359
Speaker 6: they're they're all coming in from all over the Pittsburgh region.

496
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Speaker 6: And all of a sudden you look up and it's

497
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Speaker 6: like it looks like every second or third person has

498
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 6: a terrible talent a visiting stadium.

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00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 5: It's just it's unbelievable.

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00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 3: All they need to all they needed to do was

501
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 3: play Renegade in the fourth quarter that place might right right.

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Speaker 6: It was, Uh, it was wonderful to see and I think,

503
00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 6: you know, definitely a factor. And and I think the

504
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 6: thing that's cool too, is that free is that sorry

505
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 6: I let my dog outs, you will.

506
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 5: Go on unless I say free.

507
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 2: Of course, that's that's the code word.

508
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, that's the code word. You know.

509
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Speaker 7: I think it's a it's a good uh not lesson,

510
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 7: but a good welcome to Mike Williams and Preston Smith

511
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 7: and look, Press.

512
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 6: Smith is in you know, Green Bay and they've got

513
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 6: a great fan base. But there had to be a

514
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 6: WOA factor of Wow, this is what it's like to

515
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,120
Speaker 6: play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and go on the road

516
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 6: and see all these people at the hotel and all

517
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 6: these people wishing you well and all the people sharing

518
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,200
Speaker 6: the boss or if you're on the other team, saluting

519
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,119
Speaker 6: the bus in a different way. But it's it's just

520
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 6: different than any other fan base.

521
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 5: It's just different. And uh, it was on.

522
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Speaker 6: Display yesterday and and both those guys had big parts

523
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 6: of the game. But I just think that's got to

524
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,439
Speaker 6: be like, wow, I'm in, I'm in kind of football

525
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 6: in Nirvani here.

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Speaker 5: This is pretty good, Kinger.

527
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 3: We started the show by talking a little bit about

528
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson today and kind of the national narrative that

529
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Speaker 3: was out there when when he came here that he

530
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 3: was washed up, you know, the teammates didn't like him.

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Speaker 5: All.

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Speaker 3: That's all that stuff that you heard out there, and

533
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Speaker 3: we hear none of that now. I didn't think he

534
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 3: played his best game on Sunday. I looked at that

535
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 3: like it was a Ben Roethlisberger game. You didn't play

536
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 3: your best game, but you made the throws that mattered

537
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Speaker 3: at the in the big moments. And I saw I

538
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 3: saw every game of Ben Roethlisberger played, and there would

539
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Speaker 3: be games that he would have like that where he

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden they're down ten points and then

541
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Speaker 3: like the he just looks the switch and boom, there

542
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 3: it is and oh that's the guy number.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's a great point, you know, the narrative.

545
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,239
Speaker 6: And I always wonder, you know, kind of where that

546
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 6: narrative came from. I mean, I do think the play

547
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 6: on the field, you know, you have a bad and look.

548
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 5: You can either excuse it, it can be a reason,

549
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 5: it can be.

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Speaker 6: Whatever lens you're looking through to look at those two

551
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 6: years in Denver and say, okay, well you know it

552
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 6: didn't work out. Uh, but you had Hack at the

553
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 6: first year and he's just not even around anymore.

554
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 5: And then you know, you bring in another guy.

555
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 6: Who's going to clean house and get things done his way,

556
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 6: and you wind up as a quarterback and the high

557
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 6: profile quarterback having a solid season but winding up being

558
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 6: a scapegoat. And so you know, I was happy to

559
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 6: see guys like you know, Courtland Sutton came up and said, listen,

560
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,479
Speaker 6: I'll play with Ross. I'm happy to play with Ross.

561
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 6: And maybe some of that, maybe some of the stuff

562
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 6: that happened, you know, I'm sure some of it. You know,

563
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 6: there may be some stuff that Russell Wilson thinks, hey,

564
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 6: maybe I should have done that differently. Maybe a learning

565
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 6: experience for all. But when you come here and you

566
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 6: get a fresh start, and you do it with that

567
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 6: little bit of knowledge that, hey, you've just been kind

568
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 6: of nationally dissed for two years and never had any

569
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 6: of that prior to that, you know, maybe that you know,

570
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 6: the throw in the Super Bowl was about the closest

571
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 6: he came to it. But this gout super Bowl winning quarterback,

572
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 6: you know, nine time Pro bowler, Mary to a famous artist.

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00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 5: You know, it's got.

574
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 6: Everything going on, and now you're hearing some criticism. I

575
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 6: just can't help but think that that has got to

576
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 6: be a little bit of extra motivation for him. And

577
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 6: then you come here and again we're reminded now of

578
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,239
Speaker 6: what you know, like you said, Ben Roethlisberger, what what

579
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 6: a quarterback of that.

580
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 5: ILK looks like?

581
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Speaker 6: And how you know, Mike Tomlin has done an amazing

582
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 6: job manufacturing wins without the most important you know, a

583
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 6: star at the most important position in sports, and just

584
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 6: what it looks like when you have that player. It

585
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 6: looks completely different and feels completely different with Russell Wilson

586
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 6: at the.

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00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 4: Helm and you and I were talking on a different

588
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 4: show along those lines. And it's not all Russ, but

589
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 4: he has a lot to do with it that the

590
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 4: whole football team, not even just the offense, can now

591
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 4: play with so much more room for error. I mean,

592
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 4: it used to be they threw a pick, They're not

593
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 4: going to win this game, you know what I mean.

594
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 4: Like it was that cut and dry there for a while.

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00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think that, you know, there might have

596
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 6: been times in which you would have made a desperation

597
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 6: fourth down call, you know, from your own territory. Hey,

598
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 6: you know, we we got to try something here. They

599
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 6: made one, you know, they made that.

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00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 5: Decision to go for it. Ultimately, it was the drive

601
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 5: that Warren fumbled on, but you know, they made the

602
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:46,640
Speaker 5: decision to.

603
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 6: Go for it on fourth down in their own territory.

604
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 6: Right now, Dale, if you don't get that fourth down,

605
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 6: I'm not sure you win that game. Oh absolutely, one

606
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 6: first down, they take a field goal and you're down

607
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 6: two scores with what you know, five six minutes left

608
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 6: in the clock and one time out remaining. That's not

609
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 6: a good formula. I don't care who you have a quarterback.

610
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 6: That's that's not a good formula for winning. So just

611
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 6: the fact that you know, you have that faith that

612
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 6: your offense can do it, and that if it doesn't

613
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 6: work out, hey you can call it fake putt. And

614
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 6: you know what, we believe our defense is gonna stop,

615
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 6: and they did in this time. But we got the

616
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 6: offense and the kind of team that can come back.

617
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 6: So I think that, you know, like you said, it's

618
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 6: it's gonna have an effect. Guys, I think on everything

619
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 6: that the Steelers do. That one position we talk about,

620
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 6: you know TJ. Watt having a trickle down effect. Right,

621
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 6: he brings up you know, two offensive linemen after block

622
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 6: him and somebody has to chip. Well, that chip guy

623
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 6: now he has a harder time getting out in his

624
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 6: pass route.

625
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 5: So that helps, you know, the inside linebacker going out there.

626
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 6: Maybe you know, it helps somebody else in coverage as well.

627
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 6: It's gonna help the guy next to him who's gonna

628
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 6: get one blocker instead of two. Well, the quarterback does

629
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 6: that in an even greater aspect on your team, he can,

630
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 6: he can, you know, change a little bit of what

631
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 6: you do in all facets of the game, offensively, defensively,

632
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 6: special teams because you have faith that.

633
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 5: He can score points for you. He can lead you

634
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 5: down the field when you need it.

635
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 6: Going back to what you originally said, Dale making the

636
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 6: throws when you have to was that his best game?

637
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 5: No? Did the Steers score twenty eight points? Yeah?

638
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 6: I mean how often would we look at twenty eight

639
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 6: points and think it was Manna from Heaven.

640
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 4: Four touchdowns in the same game game, yeah.

641
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 5: Game with him a quarterback.

642
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 3: Three touchdown passes, Yeah, four trips into the red zone.

643
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 3: You know, Like these are things like if you got

644
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 3: there were games in the previous couple of seasons if

645
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 3: you made two trips into the red zone, I was like, wow,

646
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 3: I had a good game offensively, Like.

647
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 4: Bringing together two first downs was a chore.

648
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 3: And I thought, right the play that he made, the

649
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 3: one that Calvin Austin got hurt on, he rolled to

650
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: his left, got some pressure initially, and then ran back

651
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 3: across the field to his right and found I believe

652
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: at the time it was it was first in fifteen

653
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 3: or second and fifteen at that point, and he hit

654
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 3: Austin for a eleven yard game. Now, Austin ended up

655
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 3: getting hurt on the play, which then led to Mike

656
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 3: Williams being into the game, in the game out, but

657
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: watching that play as he scrambled around in the pocket

658
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 3: and moved around back there, I'm like, that looked like

659
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 3: vintage Russell.

660
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 2: Wilson, like he could. He's still capable of doing those

661
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: kind of things.

662
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 3: I know he's not the runner that he once was,

663
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 3: but he does move move around out of pressure and

664
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 3: things of that nature, and can still feels it.

665
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can still escape and do some things.

666
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 3: And the eyes are always downfield looking for the throws.

667
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,479
Speaker 6: Well, you know, there there is a you know, when

668
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 6: you get the great quarterbacks, whether it's Ben Roethlisberger especially,

669
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 6: you know, if you're talking about mobility, but really, I

670
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 6: think if you're talking about any town in general, even

671
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 6: if you said, hey, he's not as fast as he

672
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 6: used to be, or you know, quarterback acts his armies

673
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 6: and quat as strong as he used to be, there

674
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 6: is still the ability to put.

675
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 5: Up prime type of numbers, because you're just so smart.

676
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 6: You've just so you've you've been there and done that.

677
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 6: You know when to run, how to run, you know

678
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 6: how to get out of a play. You know enough

679
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 6: to tell Mike Williams, hey, you're running the hitch. You know,

680
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 6: this is probably not the first time something like that

681
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 6: has happened.

682
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 5: To Russell Wilson.

683
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 6: You can't replace that sort of experience, and so you

684
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 6: know the prime I think of the great ones linger

685
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 6: lingers beyond what their physical attributes say they should be

686
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 6: because of that game knowledge, that ability to make plays

687
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 6: even without you know, your maybe the skills you had

688
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 6: and the abilities you had at your absolute peak.

689
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 4: So we referenced the Broncos. I mean Peyton Manning's last

690
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 4: year in the league. He couldn't throw the football. I

691
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 4: mean like I mean he could throw Manning won the

692
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. He couldn't throw an out route. I mean

693
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 4: he had no arm strength whatsoever. And the thing about

694
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 4: Wilson that will never know, but I can promise you

695
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 4: is very true. As he just gets him in the

696
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 4: right place. I mean even just coming to the line

697
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 4: of scrimmage. He's not going to run into a nine

698
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 4: man box. With six blockers, you know, like things like that,

699
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 4: that just being around the block.

700
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 6: That's right, That's that's kind of what I'm what I'm

701
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 6: getting to is that you're gonna get you know, you're

702
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 6: going to get the point totals and the productivity, and

703
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 6: it's just going to come in a little bit, maybe

704
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 6: in a little bit different way. You know, there are

705
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 6: things that Russell Wilson you know, can't do now that

706
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 6: he could when he was younger. But there are also

707
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 6: things that Russell Wilson can do now that he couldn't

708
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 6: do when he was younger. And a lot of that

709
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 6: comes from just experience and being around the game. He's

710
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 6: always been an unbelievable student of the game, you know,

711
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 6: great great work ethic, and always been praised for that

712
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 6: in his preparation level. But there are some things where

713
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 6: you just needs experience to get through them.

714
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 5: And so Russell Wilson is at that.

715
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 6: Point where you know, he's marrying still very good skills

716
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 6: with that experience level that that literally can't be taught.

717
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 6: You just have to go through it, you know, I

718
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 6: don't care how much film said that you have.

719
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 5: There are things where you just have to be out

720
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 5: on the field, and Russell Wilson's been out on the.

721
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 6: Field and so you know, he's still able to perform

722
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 6: and has been able to perform at a high level. Again,

723
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 6: I do have to remind all of us, myself included,

724
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 6: that it is three games, right, but these are the things,

725
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 6: and so much of what you see is through the

726
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 6: lens of what you want to you know, perceive. But

727
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 6: he is performing in a way that makes you optimistic that.

728
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 5: This can continue.

729
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 6: And if this can continue, the kids are a different

730
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 6: level of contemper Oh.

731
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

732
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 3: And you know, just one last thing on Russ, I

733
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 3: mean drawing them off sides. Yeah, on that final you know,

734
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 3: just just knowing like they weren't going to run a place,

735
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 3: there was no play called. The only thing you were

736
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 3: going to do is try to draw them off sides,

737
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 3: and they all sold it, including Wilson, And you know

738
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 3: you do that with the voice inflection, and you know

739
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 3: it's really difficult to do that without you know, flinching

740
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 3: your head or something like that.

741
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: That's gonna, you know, draw you a penalty.

742
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 3: And I still don't know that Washington, you know, wins

743
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 3: that game if they do get the ball back, but they.

744
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 2: Would have had a chance, They would have.

745
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 3: Had a chance, and you took it away from him

746
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 3: with running a non play because your quarterback is you know,

747
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 3: he's wise beyond it.

748
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: You know he's just been there and done that.

749
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 3: It's probably I don't even know, but it's probably the

750
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 3: tenth time in his career that he's drawn a team

751
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: off side in that kind of situation.

752
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, such a good point. And that's that's the kind

753
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 6: of thing he brings. And again, you know, the confidence

754
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 6: not only in the in the huddle, but the confidence again, Matt,

755
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 6: He's going to get you in the right place. The

756
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 6: playbook starts to open up. We start to see, you

757
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 6: know why Arthur Smith is a highly regarded offensive coordinator,

758
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 6: why Mike Tomlin is a highly regarded head coach. Again,

759
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 6: like when I say, like one player can have an

760
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 6: effect on many different things, I think he does have.

761
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 5: That kind of fast.

762
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 6: Again, I can't speak for anybody, but I mean, do

763
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 6: you go for it? Do you call that a fake

764
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 6: punt on your own fifteen yard line? If you don't

765
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 6: have confidence in offense or defense and everything about your team,

766
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 6: do you just on a Wednesday shut that down and

767
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 6: say we're not doing that no way we can do that.

768
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 6: And if it fails and survive a victory, no way

769
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 6: can we go for it. You know, again going back

770
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 6: to that fourth down, no way can we go for

771
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 6: it there, because if it doesn't work out and they

772
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 6: kick a field goal, we're down nine with six minutes

773
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 6: left in one time out. We don't have the offensive

774
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 6: capability to come.

775
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 5: Back from that.

776
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 6: You know, there's only so much time on the clock,

777
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 6: and you haven't proven you can score a touchdown.

778
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 5: What you can do is kick three field goals and

779
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 5: six minutes.

780
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 6: I think all these things and it's not just Russell Wilson, obviously,

781
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 6: it's other assets in the team, other factors, other really

782
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 6: good players that.

783
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 5: You have on your team that allow you to do that.

784
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 6: But but he is, you know, he's the key that

785
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 6: fits in the door that helps you open up some

786
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 6: things that lead to success.

787
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 4: So I was really impressed with the defensive game plan.

788
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 4: I mean, they had two weeks to prepare, change some

789
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 4: things up. You know, Roberts was out there early in Nickel.

790
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 4: They blitzed a higher percentage than ever. From what I've seen,

791
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 4: it looks like they varied their coverage more than they

792
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 4: did before and frankly, they kept Jalen Daniels from killing

793
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 4: them with his legs. And that's just not as easy

794
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 4: as the sounds, you know, just to draw it up.

795
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 6: No, no, I agree, I think that, you know, And

796
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 6: and again there were times where the Steelers pass defense

797
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 6: I thought, especially in the middle of the field, was exploited.

798
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 6: But again, the other guys you're trying to make adjustments too.

799
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 6: You can't, you know, there's no way you can have

800
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 6: you know, enough enough fingers to plug the you know,

801
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 6: the water and the dike.

802
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: You just can't stop everything. You just can't.

803
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 4: Everybody wants everybody would run that defense.

804
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 5: That's exactly right, the thirteen man defense. That's who do that.

805
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 6: So, you know, I just I agree, man, I think

806
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 6: it was a look, they they minimized Washington's running game. Really,

807
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 6: they minimized their offense in a lot of ways. And

808
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 6: there were times, look, in the second half, the Commanders

809
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 6: had excellent field position on several occasions, and the Steelers,

810
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 6: you know, out of that, outside of that opening drive

811
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 6: in which they marched it down the field, the Steilers

812
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 6: did a great job with really poor field position and

813
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 6: the defense. You know, they gave up a touchdown after

814
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 6: that fake punt, So, uh.

815
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that I think the defense did a really.

816
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 6: Nice job, was a really good game plan, you know,

817
00:35:55,719 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 6: seeing Patrick Queen playing sideline the sideline, you know, I

818
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 6: think that we're beginning to see and we have, I

819
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 6: think for several weeks.

820
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 5: I think his game has just improved.

821
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 6: Every single week, playing faster, getting used to guys around.

822
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 6: I just think again, and then look, you know, I

823
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 6: would I want to throw this out there too. The

824
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 6: acquisitions by Omar Khan, I mean, could the timing be better?

825
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 6: You get a guy like Preston Smith who comes up

826
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 6: with a big play in the game, but now Heismith

827
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 6: could be out for a little while, and so here.

828
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 5: Comes a guy who's got sixty eight.

829
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 6: And a half sacks in the NFL, and he's your

830
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 6: you know, along with her big coming back, your next

831
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 6: guy up.

832
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 5: How many teams can say that?

833
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 6: So and then Mike Williams is that, you know, you know,

834
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 6: welcome to Pittsburgh on your first catch for a touchdown. So,

835
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 6: you know, I think there's a lot of things to

836
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 6: like about this team, from the way they're preparing for

837
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 6: opponents to just the personnel that they have. You know,

838
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 6: and I mentioned Queen with the others around him and

839
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 6: others around guys in the offense.

840
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 5: Again, it's it has.

841
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 6: A different feel to me, guys than it has maybe

842
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 6: the last few years when you're figured, you know, wondering

843
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 6: how you can win enough one score game to try

844
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 6: to squeeze into the playoffs.

845
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, Rob, We're gonna let you go. We

846
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 3: appreciate you coming on and well enjoy this win. You

847
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 3: get your first big Steelers Ravens matchup next week. Looking

848
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: forward to that one. I'm sure, yes, I.

849
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 5: Am looking forward to that one as well. Thanks, guys,

850
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Bet.

851
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 3: It was Rob King, Steeler's play by play announcer, and

852
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 3: well seven to two with Rob King at the helm.

853
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 3: There you go, There you go. Anyways, he is Matt Williamson.

854
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 3: I am Dale Lolly. You're listening to the Drive here

855
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network. Matt and I will be

856
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 3: back with more right after this.

857
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

858
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: your twenty four to seven Home of the Black and

859
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: Gold cast in r Steelers Nation Radio.

860
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 2: And we are back. I'm Dale LOLLI.

861
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 3: He is the Matt Williamson and this is the Drive

862
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 3: on the Steelers Audio Network, And of course you can

863
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 3: hear us every Monday through Friday from four to six

864
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 3: pm right here on the drive. Except you won't hear

865
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 3: us next Thursday because there's a game.

866
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 4: A right right, right right, So yeah, that'll work back

867
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 4: at you on Friday.

868
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 2: We'll be right back at it.

869
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 4: So a couple of those this month where we haven't

870
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 4: had shows because of Monday night.

871
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 2: Games a Monday night or a Thursday night or so.

872
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: Absolutely, but now looking at the standards, you can also

873
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 3: watch us on YouTube and you can download the Steelers

874
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 3: please do, yes, the Steelers app app.

875
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 2: Couldn't find the word.

876
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's always good stuff on there.

877
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 3: Absolutely any thought, all kinds of videos, ten thoughts of

878
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 3: download right to your phone.

879
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 5: Ye.

880
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 3: Looking at the AFC now, the Kansas City Chiefs are

881
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 3: now nine to oh seven of their victories have been

882
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 3: like are less than well, oh yeah, seven of their

883
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 3: nine wins less than a touchdown.

884
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 4: They that doesn't surprise me at all.

885
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 2: I mean they're Barnwell tells us.

886
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you live on that edge that long, now

887
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 3: you have a great coach and a great quarterback.

888
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 2: Right, we're going to lose some of those.

889
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 4: You're gonna lose some of those, there's no question. But

890
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 4: we we were in the Steelers camp that there's a reason.

891
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 3: More than they lose obvious, they've already got seven of them.

892
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 3: They're not going to lose their next seven games by

893
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 3: less than a touchdown.

894
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna block a lot of last minute,

895
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 4: last second field goals to win it, but they are.

896
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 4: Things are going their way, to say the least. I

897
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: still think they're a really good football team.

898
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,479
Speaker 2: They're good football team. They're not a great football team.

899
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any great ones. Yeah, to be

900
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 4: honest with even Detroit. I mean they all have warts.

901
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 4: They had some pass protection issues, and Benito and those

902
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 4: guys were getting after Mahomes. I think I have sacked

903
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 4: four or five under a lot.

904
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 3: We talked about that in our df when we put

905
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 3: our DFS line out because the Broncos were the cheapest defense.

906
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, they're gonna get some sacks, yeah, yeah, and

907
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 3: Mahomes will throw the ball to the other team.

908
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 5: Yeah.

909
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 4: It's They're an interesting team right now. The Chiefs, I mean,

910
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 4: they couldn't run the ball very well, but boy, like

911
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 4: their success rate is just so high. You know, every

912
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 4: play they get just enough, you know.

913
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, right now they are top the AFC standings. Buffalo

914
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 3: is in second right now because they're eight and two.

915
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 3: They got a game in hand against the Steelers. The

916
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 3: Steelers are right there at seven and two, they would

917
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 3: be the three seeds of the playoffs started today.

918
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 4: Bills handled their business in Indie. Yeah.

919
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, Houston's the four seed, and I thought Houston played

920
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 3: well last night.

921
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 4: I think they're better now than I thought they were

922
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 4: two days ago.

923
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, Baltimore is the five seed. That's what's kind of

924
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 3: at stake this weekend coming up. Then you get the

925
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 3: Chargers at six and three and the Broncos at five

926
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 3: and five.

927
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: The Colts and Bengal.

928
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 4: A little more faith in the Broncos now than I did,

929
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 4: yeah two days ago. You know, is that seven seed

930
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,479
Speaker 4: or six seed?

931
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 3: Or you know, the Colts and Bengals are both four

932
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 3: and six, and then you've got the Jets and Patriots

933
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 3: both at three and seven.

934
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 2: Everybody else is completely out of it. What if Miami wins,

935
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 2: they'd be three and six.

936
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 4: I know, I mean, can we at least talk about

937
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 4: them if they win, I suppose, but I mean.

938
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 3: They get a long, long, long way to drag themselves

939
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 3: back into that.

940
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look at the NFC, you get quick.

941
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 4: I don't have any faith in the Colts. No, I

942
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 4: know they're you know, no, just missed or whatever. I

943
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,720
Speaker 4: could still still see since he stringing some wins together

944
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 4: at least, but the rest jetterdine. Yeah.

945
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, Detroit is eight and one in the NFC. You

946
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 3: got Philadelphia now at seven and two.

947
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 4: They're playing really well too.

948
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 2: You got Atlanta at six and four. You've got Arizona

949
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: at six and four.

950
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 4: Turning to buy into Arizona a little bit.

951
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 3: Then you get the Vikings at seven and two in

952
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 3: the five spot. You've got the Commanders at seven and

953
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 3: three in the sixth spot. So right now Philadelphia is

954
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 3: a half game ahead of Washington in the standing. The

955
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: same situation coming up, they play each other, so somebody's

956
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 3: gonna get a lost, somebody's gonna So the Commanders could

957
00:41:56,239 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 3: pull back into the two seed like Steelers washing.

958
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 4: And it was great, but the next two games for

959
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 4: those their next game for those teams is more important.

960
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Packers are the seven seed right now at

961
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 3: six and three. Then you got San Francisco at five

962
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 3: and four. The Rams are four and four. They play Yeah.

963
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 5: Uh.

964
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 3: Then you got Chicago at four and five, Seattle at

965
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 3: four and five, Tampa Bay at four and six.

966
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 4: I'm out on Chicago.

967
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 5: Yeah.

968
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 4: Could Seattle save them? There's a lot of good teams

969
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 4: ahead of them. Yeah, that's the problem.

970
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 3: They're owing two in the division, one and four in

971
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 3: a conference. That's the problem. They have the same problem

972
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 3: that Cincinnati has. Cincinnati's two and four in the conference.

973
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 4: Like Seattle has a better chance of winning their division

974
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 4: at least.

975
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 5: But.

976
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 3: They're ow and two in the division right now. It's

977
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 3: not trending in the right direction.

978
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 4: Probably my fourth team in the West. Yeah, they're in trouble.

979
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the situation right now. We've really

980
00:42:53,520 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 3: seen some separation. You could almost say there's maybe there's

981
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 3: like seventeen teams. There's like seventeen teams or eighteen teams

982
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: for fourteen spots.

983
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 4: I would say, legitimately, if you're never down to AFC NFC,

984
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 4: I really only think there's two spots available for the AFC,

985
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 4: and you take five of those seventeen out of the equation.

986
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 4: I mean, I think all the division winners and Baltimore.

987
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Chargers at this point, they're pretty darn clubs.

988
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 3: They're in pretty good shape.

989
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they have a quarterback, they have an

990
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 4: easy schedule, all the tie breakers and stuff worked their

991
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 4: favor from whatever.

992
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: They're strength to victory is still to ninety eight.

993
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 4: I know.

994
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 2: But they but they play all the beat up the

995
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: bad they play all the bad teams.

996
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, they play all the fourth place schedule. They were

997
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 4: fourth place, right.

998
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they were Buffalo strength of victories three thirty eight.

999
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:47,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty surprising.

1000
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they lost their two losses are Houston and.

1001
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 4: Baltimore two good teams, all right. Yeah, So I'm not

1002
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 4: ready to pencil in the Charger or maybe pencil them

1003
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 4: in rate of chiseling in Stone quite yet. I'm chiseling

1004
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 4: in the Steelers and Ravens.

1005
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 2: Steelers and Ravens will be in the playoffs.

1006
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 4: Yeah. No one's catching Houston in the South too. That

1007
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 4: division is terrible all of a sudden, and I think

1008
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 4: that the Chiefs are in Yeah, you know.

1009
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 3: So do we think that will there be a ten

1010
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 3: win team in the AFC? That doesn't make it? No,

1011
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 3: I don't think so either no, I think if you

1012
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 3: get to ten, you're going to be in.

1013
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, because like I don't know, since he can get

1014
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 4: to ten or Colts, I mean I see a lot

1015
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 4: of them. Mean they're not very good.

1016
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 3: And the thing about it this year, even if you

1017
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 3: get in as a wild card, I don't know that

1018
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 3: I would fear going anywhere on the road.

1019
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 4: Not that it's impossible to overcome. Like the seventh seed

1020
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 4: might not be good. Maybe it's Denver, right, but Denver

1021
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 4: can just hung with the Chiefs, right, I mean, if

1022
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 4: you can play defense and not turn it over and

1023
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 4: you're well coached, could you give Buffalo a game and.

1024
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 2: Is the wrong way and you win the game.

1025
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 4: Come to Pittsburgh and Baltimore and give them a game.

1026
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, That's the thing to me that stands out. If

1027
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 2: you look at the.

1028
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 3: You look at the Chargers, you look at the Broncos,

1029
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 3: the same formula. Yeah they they and even throw the

1030
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 3: steel like the Steeler. If I'm looking at good defenses

1031
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 3: in the AFC, Kansas City's got a good defense, Buffalo's an.

1032
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 4: Average, Yeah they they haven't been tested a lot.

1033
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Steelers have a good defense. Houston has a

1034
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 3: good defense. Yeah, the Ravens don't.

1035
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 4: Nice thing about Houston is they're getting Nico and Will

1036
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 4: Anderson back. Yeah, they could have used them last night.

1037
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: They definitely could have used them last night. But the

1038
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 3: Ravens don't have a good defense. The Chargers do, the

1039
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 3: Broncos do, Indianapolis does not, the Bengals do not.

1040
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 4: Herbert's awesome and he's way better than Pickett and duck

1041
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 4: in those guys, but the Chargers and Broncos kind of

1042
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 4: have to play that formula. Yeah, you know where they

1043
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 4: just don't have They don't have a lot of weapons,

1044
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 4: they don't have their year away from that. Yeff.

1045
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 2: You know, like they could really use it. George Pickens, Yeah.

1046
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 4: Exactly, that'll be their first round. Picknicks a star, by

1047
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 4: the way, he's getting better and better every second.

1048
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 3: Anybody who questioned that guy, Yeah, like just look at

1049
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 3: look at the difference in numbers between when Fields was

1050
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: in there and I'm not ripping justin fields from that day.

1051
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 3: It's it's a thirty yard difference, and it's it's the

1052
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 3: catch numbers are the same, but the depth of target

1053
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 3: and the touchdowns are.

1054
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, a much different defending fields. But Pickens had a

1055
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 4: remarkable number of things that didn't count before Wilson showed it.

1056
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 2: Right, which would have showed up in those numbers.

1057
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 4: Exactly. He's been a stars, he's been great. What I'm

1058
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 4: saying is Wilson didn't make Pickens right. You know, Pickens

1059
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 4: has done this.

1060
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 2: This is what he's been who he is.

1061
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1062
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 3: But I mean, if you're looking at it from from

1063
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 3: complete team standpoint, the most complete teams are Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Houston, Buffalo, Buffalo's. Yeah,

1064
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 3: Buffalo's They're not terrible weakness, They're not terrible.

1065
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, right. I would say it's an above average defense,

1066
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 4: but it's not one of the best ones.

1067
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 2: But Baltimore is kind of kind of the outlier right now.

1068
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 4: Yes, because it doesn't matter that you have a great

1069
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 4: run defense because the pass defense is so just it's

1070
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 4: so easy to throw. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the problem

1071
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 4: is I think they have the best offense.

1072
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: That's the that's the rub.

1073
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So teams have and so I don't know

1074
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 3: because when they played Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay ran the

1075
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 3: ball on them effectively.

1076
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 5: They did.

1077
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: I'm not sure they were able to keep it, they

1078
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 2: were able to keep it close.

1079
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 4: I don't think it's Casey Hampton. No, I don't you

1080
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 4: know what I mean.

1081
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think because they play his modern NFL, they

1082
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 3: put so much pressure on you to score because their

1083
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 3: offense has been so good that you get away from

1084
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 3: the running game.

1085
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 4: Yes, now it is a great run defense, but I

1086
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 4: don't know that it's noticeably better than the Chargers or

1087
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 4: Steelers or Chargers run defense was impressive. Yeah, they were good.

1088
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 4: I think They're defense in general is quite good. Yeah,

1089
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 4: much better and expected.

1090
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 3: Anyways, that's where the AFC and the NFC stand right now,

1091
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 3: let's get through a break. He is, that's Matt Williamson.

1092
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: I am Dale, Lolly. This is the drive on the

1093
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 3: Steelers Audio Network, and that's going to do it for

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Speaker 3: our number one. Matt and I will be back with

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Speaker 3: our number two right after this